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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 |