Salt Line Ceremony: Difference between revisions

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The Salt Line Ceremony is a Colonial military ceremony, typically taking place before the start of a major battle. A line of table salt is placed on the ground between two rows of personnel to be deployed in combat. A passage of scripture is read, and the two rows converge, spreading the salt line with their feet.

Lieutenant Margaret Edmondson conducts this ceremony on Galactica's hangar deck prior to the Battle of New Caprica.

The ceremony ends with an embrace by Galactica and Pegasus crew members, who realize the extreme danger of their mission, knowing that some of them may never return (Exodus, Part I).

Notes

The Morton Salt Company discusses salt's role in religious rituals of purification in real-world Earth history.

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 [[Image:Salt Line Ceremony.jpg|thumb|200px|''Pegasus'' on the left; ''Galactica'' on the right]]
-The '''Salt Line Ceremony''' is a [[Colonial Fleet|Colonial military]] ceremony, typically taking place before the start of a major battle.  A line of table salt is placed on the ground between two rows of personnel to be deployed in combat.  A passage of scripture is read, and the two rows converge, spreading the salt line with their feet.
+The '''Salt Line Ceremony''' is a [[Colonial Fleet|Colonial military]] ceremony, typically taking place before the start of a major battle.  A line of table salt is placed on the ground between two rows of personnel to be deployed in combat.  A [[Sacred Scrolls|passage of scripture]] is read, and the two rows converge, spreading the salt line with their feet.
-Lieutenant [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret Edmondson]] conducts this ceremony on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'''s hangar deck prior to the rescue mission for the humans remaining under [[Cylon]] occupation on [[New Caprica]]. The ceremony ends with an embrace by ''Galactica'' and ''[[Pegasus]]'' crew members, who know that they might never see each other again ([[Exodus, Part I]]).
+Lieutenant [[Margaret Edmondson|Margaret Edmondson]] conducts this ceremony on ''[[Galactica (RDM)|Galactica]]'''s [[hangar deck]] prior to the [[Battle of New Caprica]].
+The ceremony ends with an embrace by ''Galactica'' and ''[[Pegasus]]'' crew members, who realize the extreme danger of their mission, knowing that some of them may never return ([[Exodus, Part I]]).
 == Notes ==
-*Circles of salt are used in certain pagan rituals to fend of many kinds of spirits. Breaking the line of salt is thus a symbol of tearing down a protective barrier.
+*The [http://www.mortonsalt.com/consumer/about_us/history/ Morton Salt Company] discusses salt's role in religious rituals of purification in real-world Earth history.
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