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/ His followers called him Mahasamatman and said he \
| was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and the |
| -atman, however, and called himself Sam. He never |
| claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed   |
| not to be a god. Circum- stances being what they  |
| were, neither admission could be of any benefit.  |
| Silence, though, could. It was in the days of the |
| rains that their prayers went up, not from the    |
| fingering of knotted prayer cords or the spinning |
| of prayer wheels, but from the great pray-machine |
| in the monastery of Ratri, goddess of the Night.  |
| The high-frequency prayers were directed upward   |
| through the atmosphere and out beyond it, passing |
| into that golden cloud called the Bridge of the   |
| Gods, which circles the entire world, is seen as  |
| a bronze rainbow at night and is the place where  |
| the red sun becomes orange at midday. Some of the |
| monks doubted the orthodoxy of this prayer        |
| technique...                                      |
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\ -- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light"                 /
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