Fondly remembering the long-ass facebook convo I had like 8 years ago about the concept of the mellified man, where I was like "yeah it's gross but as a notion of self-sacrifice it's kinda beautiful" and someone else was like "here are bible verses about how you're wrong"
(Mellification is where you decide to become a honey-mummy, so you stop eating anything but honey until you die, and then you get put in a coffin full of honey until you're preserved in it, and then your honey-soaked flesh is used to cure horrible wounds)
(AFAIK there aren't any records of this actually happening; it's the kind of thing that gets reported about Foreign Lands by historians.)
I mean yeah, it's gross, and it's cannibalism, but this notion of generosity so extreme that you decide to make yourself into medicine for your community is appealing on the same mystical level as the Eucharist. To me, anyway.
Being raised Pentecostal is a TRIP, man
