This steam oven symbolizes
the womb of Mother Earth, and the spiritual part of the ritual works with the four elements: fire, water, earth and wind.
And he says he had no reason to believe the structure he was consulted on and his nephew built, one meant to represent the nurturing «
womb of Mother Earth,» would go on to become a crime scene.
For instance, consider these remarkable examples
of scientific knowledge: the sphericity
of the
earth (XXXIX, 5), the formation
of rain (XXX, 48), fertilization by the wind (XV, 22), the aquatic origin
of all living creatures (XXI, 30), the duality in the sex
of plants and other creatures, then unknown (XXXVI, 35), the collective life
of animals (VI, 38), the mode
of life
of the bees (XVI, 69), the successive phases
of the child in his
mother's
womb (XXII, 5; XXIII, 14).