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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: man, though one of narrow mind. Had I known it indeed, I should
have spoken more kindly to Otomie my wife even in that hour, and
thought more gently of her wickedness. It seems, so said my friend
the Rector, that from the most ancient times, those women who have
bent the knee to demon gods, such as were the gods of Anahuac, are
subject at any time to become possessed by them, even after they
have abandoned their worship, and to be driven in their frenzy to
the working of the greatest crimes. Thus, among other instances,
he told me that a Greek poet named Theocritus sets out in one of
his idyls how a woman called Agave, being engaged in a secret
religious orgie in honour of a demon named Dionysus, perceived her
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