Hebrews Chapter 9 verse 22
22 And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission.
FROM THE RAVINGS OF UNHOLY HOWARD OF PROVIDENCE:
1 And having made his sacrifices, Talongast the ghoul knew he must purge the shrine with blood. Nothing else would Morddoth, the Great Old One, find acceptable. The offering of one child would merely wet the god's lips. 2 Accordingly, he slipped by hidden alleyways and passages unknown to most of that town until he stood by the harbour in the city of Ashdod. There, in a hidden corner, he waited until that sinister galley with black sails put in.
3 These galleys had long been banned from the great ports of Tyre and Sidon yet still did business at Ashdod. Talongast stepped out of his hidden alcove and approached the merchants. 4 They had done business many times before and the merchants waxed exceedingly glad to see him again. On the quayside they offered him sweet wine from bottles carven from rubies.
5 Many were the traders who refused to have any dealings with the merchants who sailed in ships with black sails but Talongast had no such scruples. 6 The reluctant traders of Ashdod said the ship came from beyond the curves of the world and no good would come to those who dealt with such as came from those ships.
7 For the crew were exceedingly strange and looked like no other men in the world. For they had unnaturally wide mouths that smiled too much and wore turbans with strange horns in the front where no such horns should be. 8 Also, the merchants wondered why the rowers never came on deck. And why did they require such large numbers of slaves? Truly, these were questions the merchants of Ashdod did not want to know the answers.
9 After drinking with the merchants, Talongast spoke with them and purchased from them a number of slaves. The merchants were mostly interested in the fat black men of Punt and Nubia so they had a number of slaves they had little use for and wished to dispose of cheaply. 10 These were the slaves that Talongast purchased to the number of forty. 11 The merchants were pleased with what Talongast offered in trade for they were items of great antiquity coming as they did from unhallowed tombs lost beneath the shifting sands of the Egyptian deserts. For by trade, Talongast the ghoul was a grave-robber.
12 The merchants stowed the jewelled and gilded items on board. Yet it was scrolls of papyrus that they coveted most for the merchants desired to learn the lost secrets of the Pharaohs that the Pharaohs had learned in turn from Atlantis, that impious land sunk beneath the rushing waves beyond the Pillars of Hercules. 13 Talongast watched from the quayside as the galley left the harbour for the open sea, the oars rising and falling with an uncanny precision. No drum beat time nor did any rower miss a beat. Talongast himself was glad that he did not know the identities of these hidden rowers.
14 Taking his slaves by forced marches, Talongast led them to his villa on the foothills of Golgotha, the mountain of skulls. There he locked them within a disused granary, for Talongast had no use for bread, and summoned the rest of his kin. 15 To his summons they came out from their tombs, catacombs, sepulchres, mausoleums and graves where they dwelt with and fed upon the dead. The oldest ghoul, a creature long steeped in evil ways, looked at Talongast with his crimson eyes.
16 "You called and we came," the old ghoul said, gnawing on a century-old thighbone. "We must atone to the Great Old Ones for we are sorely oppressed by the humans of the upper world. They are guarding their dead against our nocturnal foraging and it is becoming harder to feast in the manner we were accustomed to in ages past. Worse, they are sending out hunting parties to persecute and kill us. We have lost many of our tribe."
17 Talongast spoke. "The time is ripe. The stars are in alignment. Our lord, Morddoth, the Great Old One, awakens and demands sacrifice to hide us from the persecution of the humans of the upper world."
18 The ghouls glibbered and meeped agreement. Then they opened the granary and dragged the affrighted slaves to Talongast's cellar where was kept hidden from prying eyes a horrid altar made of bones draped with human skin. 19 Then, with suitable supplications and chants they made their offerings to Morddoth and other deities which cannot be mentioned until the cellar was awash with blood and no slave was alive.
20 And Morddoth and the other Great Old Ones looked down and were pleased with what they saw and, for as long as they continued making due obeisance, granted the ghouls remission from their enemies.
21 "Iä! Shub-Niggurath! The Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young!"
The Ravings of Unholy Howard of Providence Chapter 3 verses 1 – 23.