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CIT_THRA_GEBELEIZIS_HDT ENT_THRA_GEBELEIZIS SRC_HERODOTUS_HISTORIES Herodotus, Histories Book 4.94 And their belief in immortality is of this kind, that is to say, they hold that they do not die, but that he who is killed goes to Salmoxis, 91 a divinity, 92 whom some of them call Gebeleizis; and at intervals of four years 93 they send one of themselves, whomsoever the lot may select, as a messenger to Salmoxis, charging him with such requests as they have to make on each occasion; and they send him thus:-certain of them who are appointed for this have 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    
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