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CC Summer 1995: The Scythians - High Plains Drifters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | The fierce horseback-riding raiders in the scene at the beginning of macho director John Milius', Conan the Barbarian, who rape and pillage the young Conan's tribe, are meant to depict the ancient Scythians. |
 | | Cannabis was an integral part of the Scythian cult of the dead, wherein homage was paid to the memory of their departed leaders. |
 | | The separation of soul from body, determined by ecstacy, revealed on the one hand the fundamental duality of man, on the other, the possibility of a purely spiritual post-experience, the consequence of 'divinization'. |
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