A pagan, or neo-pagan festival.
There’s a symbolic connection between the Burning Man festival and stories of the Druid Wicker Man - a pagan ritual used to perform human sacrifice.
18th century engraving of a wicker man filled with people.
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Gematria is the ancient practice of coding numbers into letters, assigning numeric values to words. It existed as isopsephy in Ancient Greece; Hebrew Gematria and Biblical Gematria are actively practiced today.
English Gematria is a newer practice, and believed by those who decode events and news stories to reveal deeper meanings and hidden connections.
There are four base English ciphers - Ordinal, Reverse Ordinal, Reduction and Reverse Reduction.