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<DIV>I agree on the spiritual significance of games in ancient cosmologies--but don't you think that games enscribed for ritual significance would have a substantially different appearance than something scratched in a surface for casual use?</DIV>
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<DIV>Sally W (who at the moment can actually only call to mind the appearance of the morris boards etched on the misericords at some abbey in England)</DIV> </DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>