The Foretelling by Alice Hoffman

Author:Alice Hoffman [HOFFMAN, ALICE]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV014000
ISBN: 9780316055772
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2008-12-20T16:00:00+00:00

Io and I watched the women get ready. Our sisters bathed in the stream, then covered themselves with cinnabar and chalk. They combed their hair with honey. They wore bone jewelry, and the few who had beads wore them as well. Every girl who had recently become a woman and was at the festival for the first time was given more koumiss to drink than the others. The priestesses had their needles ready: Each girl, now turned a woman, was honored by a tattoo at the base of her neck, the blue line of our people.

They let the men view the ritual bath. The fools were entranced by what they'd drank and what they'd smoked and what they saw. Did they not think that there were few men alive who would go on living after being allowed to witness such things? Did they think these women who'd fought so hard were about to become their wives? To cook their meals and sew their clothing and take them into their arms at night?

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