Adoption

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Also: adopting children, adopted little ones, adopted.

in antiquity it was the custom to kill all strangers; to gain friendship you need to obtain adoption into the clan 70:3.6

ancient ceremonies of adoption mean blood drinking or saliva exchange 70:3.6-8

this custom made sure that someone be available after death for doing offerings 87:3.3

Prince’s staff kept five hundred adopted children in homes 66:7.5

To sojourn in the Garden a Urantian had to be “adopted.” 74:7.11