The subject leaves his sleeping chamber, bleerily looking around him with eyes half open. He seems to have trouble seeing very well as he trudges down the hall. He enters the room if have heard these creatures refer to as the bathroom and begins the oddest ritual I have ever witnessed.
He first goes to a shelf with a bowl in the middle of it. A pipe of some sort juts out over the bowl. He turns a handle and a clear liquid flows from the pipe. He touches this frequently for a few moments seemingly testing something. Once satisfied with the results he cups his hands under the pipe to catch some of the fluid. This he splashes on his face several times, rubbing his hands over his eyes vigorously. He dries his face and hands on a cloth kept near the bowl, for such a purpose. Then he opens a door in the wall in front of him. Reaching inside he pulles out a bottle with a tapered nozzle, and a small bi-colored container. The container has two compartments side by side. First he opens one, which appears to contain just another clear liquid. He dips one finger in the liquid, sometimes he does this only once but often he repeats it several times. I found his next act to be the most bizarre. He places the finger next to the wet one on his lower right eyelid, while raising his upper eyelid with the thumb of his other hand. Slowly he presses the wet finger against his eyeball. This step is also often repeated followed by rapid blinking and occasionally ranting. He then takes the lid off the other side of the container and repeats this ritual of wetting his finger and inserting it in his left eye. Surprisingly there does seem to be some benifit to this bizzare behavior. As I have studied this creature his vision seems to improve remarkably after he finishes, though I have noticed he frequently blinks and rubs his eyes. Sometimes even using a small bottle he keeps with him to drop more clear liquid into them.
What social or religious implications this routine has are still unknown.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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