有一天，他问我能不能在他的膜拜仪式中帮忙。
One day he asked me if I'd help him with the youth group's worship service.
让雕像朝前看、并能观看到前方发生的事情是有意义的，这样，现场的仪式表演者就可以与受膜拜的神灵或逝去的人们互动。
It made sense to show the statue looking ahead at what was happening in front of it, so that the living performer of the ritual could interact with the divine or deceased recipient.
他们目睹了老年人搞的那一套摧残身体的野蛮仪式，那种对木雕泥塑偶像的顶礼膜拜。他们过去从未见过这种场面。
As the drought grew worse, they had witnessed the barbarous rites of their elders, which they had never seen before, the mutilation of their bodies, and their prostration before wood and clay idols.
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