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CIT_ARA_AL_UZZA_HDT,ENT_ARA_AL_UZZA,SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES,"Herodotus, Histories",Book 3.8,"Now the Arabians have respect for pledges of friendship as much as those men in all the world who regard them most; and they give them in the following manner:-A man different from those who desire to give the pledges to one another, standing in the midst between the two, cuts with a sharp stone the inner parts of the hands, along by the thumbs, of those who are giving the pledges to one another, and then he takes a thread from the cloak of each one and",G. C. Macaulay,1890,https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2707,primary-verbatim,"Herodotus reports foreign cults via Greek interpretatio (a Greek observer, not an insider source).",2026-06-17,deterministic verbatim extraction by book.chapter + substring gate (Gutenberg #2707/#2456),1,0,,