Dr. James Fitzsimmons

Interesting.

It's pain plus drugs, essentially, is what's doing it.

There's a...

there's almost a sense that, um, if it's a sacrifice, it needs to hurt, right.

It needs to, it needs to actually not just be like, Oh, what'd you do?

Oh, I gave up chocolate for Lent or something like that.

No, it's like, no, it actually has to like really hurt.

Right.

Um, and so I think, um, there's that access there.

Now I should say that it's, um, it's a bit restrictive.

So the way that it worked at least at this point for these, for these guys is that, um,

the rulers and the sort of the royal family was largely descended from these patron gods.

So they essentially had god blood.

So when they're shedding blood for these sorts of things, it's because it's already kind of magical god blood that they're using.

Yes, you need god blood to actually make this stuff work.

So your average person can't just be like doing this.

They can't just go to their house and like, you know, it's not going to work.

I think it's kind of both.

I don't know whether, you know, who knows what you see in these kinds of scenarios, right?

But I think they conceptualized those centipedes.