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1. Some Vedic rituals like those lasting 1,000 years or requiring all ritual details to be completed in one day seem impossible to perform and were likely fictitious constructs. 2. Peculiar rituals involving animal sacrifice, incest, or obscene acts were probably not actually performed given societal norms and were meant to demonstrate an idealized ritual system rather than a realistic one. 3. Fictitious or imagined rituals served to systematically organize and institutionalize the sacrificial tradition
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