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To cleanse and purify the statue so that it might become a suitable and permanent dwelling-place for the was the object of the first ceremony. The priest took up a vessel filled with clean water,

in which salt or soda had been dissolved, and poured it into a bowl which was held in the hands of an assistant. He next walked round the statue four times, sprinkling the salted water on it on all sides, or perhaps washing portions of it, and meanwhile the Kher ḥeb said four times:-- 