[GSlob]

"wouldn't it be a whole lot easier for him to just bathe?"
Nah, it must be a religious duty. Remember Simeon the Stylite? He had been standing on his pillar for 40 years, and his pillar was not equipped with shower. Rains there [a desert] happened rarely. And the pile of Simeon's waste accumulating by the pillar was even more odoriferous than the Stylite himself.

[ItsForTheChildren]

Simeon the Stylite

The things you learn here. Interesting.