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Dmitriy's avatar

Here's an anthropologist's take on why men's cults were so prevalent: https://traditionsofconflic...

He makes no mention of ritual murder as described in the post (except, perhaps, as punishment for women who viewed the sacred instruments). This makes me think that masked murder is a non-central example of these secret societies' activities.

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Oops:"literally" -> "to refer only to death causation rather than as a euphemism" in my comment above.

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