(urth) Babbiehorn?: Was: a sincere question mostly for roy

[James Wynn]

>
>> It is inconceivable that Silk, who has
>> performed dozens if not hundreds of sacrifices by this time, would 
>> not know
>> the difference between a dead bird and a fainted one or a faking one. 
>> Oreb
>> was possessed (most likely) by Pas.
>
> António Pedro Marques wrote:
> By dead Pas, who was where?, and what's possession got to do with 
> looking dead or resurrecting? 

Possessed creatures have capabilities beyond those possible for 
non-possessed creatures. When Chenille is possessed by Scylla she leaps 
out of the water like a dolphin. When she is possessed by Kyrpris, she 
throws a knife twice hitting precisely the same spot. Marble possessed 
by Echidna summons all the snakes from the neighborhood. Since I do not 
believe that a "normal" night chough can play dead sufficiently to fool 
an augur (particularly one very motivated for the animal NOT to have 
died during sacrifice), I assume he was possessed. Since black birds are 
sacred to Pas, Hierax, and Tartaros but only one of these has "died", I 
consider the death a signal that it is Pas possessing Oreb.