Dr. James Fitzsimmons

In the bowl, there is a blood letter, there is a whole bunch of blood, a whole bunch of bloody paper, and some of the things that are in there that are kind of like to let you know that she's done a whole bunch of penance and a whole bunch of bloodletting.

Now we know from another panel

This is going to blow your mind a little bit.

We know from another panel that the kinds of things that they were doing to do this bloodletting, in this case, we know that she was almost certainly drawing a thorny...

rope or string with either magase binds or potentially pieces of obsidian through her tongue.

Like boom.

Like punctured it through.

Like bloody.

There's another triptych that actually has her just like her mouth is just like, you know.

And the triptych, the three pieces are not actually from the same event, but they were arranged in such a way as to tell you kind of a story of like, this is what normally happens, right?

So she's got all this blood and she's basically let it into this bowl.

Now, we know that what you're seeing here is actually a conjuring event.

They're actually summoning a patron god of the city.

So that's what you're watching.

You're watching her conjure.

Like, that's what she's doing, right?

She's actually, like, a magical ritual, right?

We know from other contexts that the folks that are involved in this, it's usually a procreative act.

And so there's usually a male-female pair that does this.

And in the male pairing, what the men oftentimes do is they'll, what's the most painful place you could imagine cutting with a knife?