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    SmedleyButler (smedleybutler@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Aug-2023 22:48:36 JST SmedleyButler SmedleyButler

    I've been really into etymology since early clown era when I first learned that pharmaceutical comes from pharmakea, meaning sorcery, spell, magic, poison, potion, drug.

    Somehow I never came across the word pharmakos, from which pharmakea and pharmaceutical derive.

    pharmākos: a human scapegoat used in certain state rituals🤔

    https://www.britannica.com/topic/pharmakos

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      Pharmākos | Sacrifice, Rituals & Cults
      Pharmākos, in Greek religion, a human scapegoat used in certain state rituals. In Athens, for example, a man and a woman who were considered ugly were selected as scapegoats each year. At the festival of the Thargelia in May or June, they were feasted, led round the town, beaten with green twigs,
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