Just an aside about crucifixion: It wasn't pain that killed people (although it was plenty painful), it was hypovolemic shock. Legend has it that Jesus was unique in being nailed up there, as, normally, people were just tied up there, with their arms stretched across the top of the Tau cross (most of the crosses were just a beam across the top, with no vertical continuing above, as in a Latin cross.
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Date: 2010-04-05 06:45 pm (UTC)