Beyond Blue Zone Diet and Exercise: The Hidden Influence of Ritualistic Animal Sacrifice to 𒀭𒀫𒌓

Thaddeus M. Mortal¹, Dorian Off-White², and B. McGraw³

¹ College of Ritual Gerontogastronomy, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA 

² Head of Aging Excellence in Arts and Sciences, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

³ Department of Chronoelastic Human Biology, Cranberry-Lemon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Abstract

There’s nothing hotter in the science of aging than blue zones. Many research lovers enjoy the previous blue zone conclusions which suggest you can live longer by living in close nit walkable communities and drinking wine every day at happy hour instead of in sprawling suburbs and dangerously unwalkable stroads. Unfortunately for the fad, Newman’s Ignobel Prize winning paper found a strong link between so called “Blue Zone”s and pension fraud. It so happens that the happy hours were funded using suspiciously early state retirement paychecks. Using these new findings, we were as determined to unlocking the key to a long and happy life as an ancient Chinese emperor about to die from mercury poisoning. In this paper, villages and towns across the world are analyzed and adjusted for their ability to keep reliable birth certificates. According to our findings, it’s not happy hours and multi-generational housing that will produce the most super-centenarians but a monthly to quarterly ritualistic animal sacrifice to the Babylonian god 𒀭𒀫𒌓, commonly known as Marduk. 

Keywords:  Blue Zone, Aging Science, Ritualistic Animal Sacrifice,  𒀭𒀫𒌓 (Marduk)

1. Introduction

It has long been established that living into your hundreds is 16% genetics, 74% environment/lifestyle and 8% survival instinct [1]. Because it’s so difficult to force humans to permanently change their own lifestyles, habits, and diets, the only option is to discover Blue Zones by accumulating a large csv of data and saying “Big Data” three times into a mirror until a predictive model magically appears behind you [2]. 

When the resulting models described a lifestyle more wholesome than the Andy Griffith Show, no one questioned the results. Years of papers, podcasts, and TED talks have squeezed every ounce of juice from the resulting Blue Zone papers only to evaporate overnight upon the discovery that many of the Blue Zones were fraudulently lying about their age but in the opposite direction than most actors, actresses, and Trevor’s mom [3]. A new model would be required, a model open to the idea of 𒀭𒀫𒌓 bringer of the storm. 

2. Background

According to prior debunked research, the key to living longer includes purpose, moving naturally, downshifting life, the 80% rule, eating more plants, happy hour deals, putting your loved ones first, and community [4]. Unfortunately, this has been only confirmed by alcohol lobbyists and alcoholic researchers who put their thumbs on the scales to justify personal decisions, longer weekends, and family bbqs. 

2.1 The Newman Shift

After Newman’s notorious paper [5], the science of aging community had to rethink the entire field. Once the uncertainty of pension fraud entered the equation, all of the cozy conclusions turned out to be noise. The increase in happy hour particularly turned out to be caused by the pension fraud as adults who retire earlier with a disposable income are more likely to day drink to make their money last until the end of the month. Subsequent blue zone research must account for this fraud and treat everyone’s age as an uncertain variable. 

2.2 𒀭𒀫𒌓

Starting as the war and weather god, 𒀭𒀫𒌓 quickly climbed the corporate ladder of the bronze age pantheon of Babylonian polytheism in a similar way to Zeus in the Greco-Roman pantheon. Taking that can-do attitude in a world of monotheism, atheism, and confusingly vague spiritualism, 𒀭𒀫𒌓 appears to have become the god of old age, or health or something. As the world ages due to modern technology, many have determined that this was a great business decision for a Bronze Age god like 𒀭𒀫𒌓 [6]. As thousands sacrifice, chickens, goats, lambs, and even cows in his name, he grows more powerful by the day. 

3. Data

Blue zone data sets don’t grow on trees. They are the combined work of demographers, national statistics, census data, death and birth registries, and compiled journal notes from college students taking a gap year to see the world. At least, they are in our case. In order to get around the Newman effect, each nation’s birth and death statistics were collected twice, once in an email, and again by covert operation. Using the DOGE method [7], if the email data does not closely match the covertly obtained data set, we assume social security fraud and a induce a bias on the data set. We promised all our Cranberry-Lemon students taking gap years they could get credit hours if they agreed to the espionage plan. This data was collected in the summer of 2024.

Next a dietary dataset is developed by observing the imports and agricultural products of each region and then we deduct by how many fresh food is thrown out by grocery stores or how much stored food becomes sentenced to life imprisonment in the local church’s food pantry. 

Finally, the covert operative gap year students convinced the locals to all wear fit bits. From there, each student could track the physical activity of each community and solve for the social network to see if that’s really what makes us live longer. Further notes were gathered with an empty promise that we would read everything in their travel journals and clean the data. 

4. Results and Analysis

With 6,421 communities measured and endless metadata for each community, we P-hacked the hell out of our data. Eventually we landed on a collection of factors that appeared to have some significant correlation and were publishable shown in the table below in order of remembering them.

Variable	Correlation with Age 90+	p-value
Weekly ritual animal sacrifice to 𒀭𒀫𒌓	+87%	0.0003
Family Fig Trees	+12%	0.0016
Cats per Household	+17%	0.0061
Plant Slant	+16%	0.0008
Plant Slant Smugness	-43%	0.004
Percentage of named chickens	+15%	0.008
Irrational fear of WiFi RF Exposure	+9%	0.02
Alcohol Consumption (happy hour)	-32%	0.007
China Cabinets per Capita	+73%	0.0019
Use of phrase “back in my day”	+63%	0.004

While the plant slant result remains, plant slant smugness undid any significant benefit of a primarily plant-based diet. Additionally, some factors appeared to be correlative but not causal, as the China cabinets per capita and uses of the phrase “Back in my day” naturally occur with an older population. Happy hours do appear to be a negative factor which agrees with the new conventional wisdom that all alcohol is bad for you. Luckily it was not that much so have that beer if you want it. Some other miscellaneous factors appeared to affect longevity, but the results were small and not as significant as the primary finding that ritual animal sacrifices to 𒀭𒀫𒌓 most certainly will extend your age; something we didn’t even tell our students to measure. It must be a TikTok trend or something.

5. Discussion

No prior modelling or longevity research even had sacrifices to 𒀭𒀫𒌓 on their bingo cards. There may be some logical explanation for the connection. At first, we assumed sacrificing livestock decreased the amount of meat consumed but even when that variable was accounted for, the 𒀭𒀫𒌓 connection remained. 

5.1 Community Togetherness

Highschool football games bring the community together but only on Fridays during home games in the Fall. A ritual sacrifice occurs weekly year-round and daily near solstices, equinox’s, full moons, and during significant planetary alignments. Additionally, the coordination required to acquire and sacrifice a new animal fairly across the community every week forces discussion between all households to avoid the wrath of angering 𒀭𒀫𒌓. 

5.2 Alters are always on top of Hills

Similar to the theory of Sardinian locals walking up and down hills, not everyone gets to live in mountainous terrain. However, there’s almost always a hill somewhere or at least a burial mound and the highest natural point in any community will always be the location of the sacrificial altar to 𒀭𒀫𒌓. For example, the peoples of the flat plains of Stratton Nebraska constructed a 400ft high Ziggurat to raise the Alter of 𒀭𒀫𒌓 up above the city. According to the student notes, with the sole exception of debilitating and contagious illness, everyone comes to the weekly sacrifice. Walking up and down sacrificial hills is built in cardio into daily life and perhaps that’s all that’s causing these health outcomes. 

5.3 Maybe 𒀭𒀫𒌓 is Real

It would be biased if we did not consider the proposition that 𒀭𒀫𒌓 is actually real and that by expressing thanks for good weather or mediating between other gods of the Babylonian pantheon he would grant favors. 𒀭𒀫𒌓 is considered a god of anger and mercy. Perhaps the ailments of old age in non-blue zones are a result of his wrath. Treat him well with the sweet aroma of a burnt animal offering and he will show mercy. Babylon did pretty well for an ancient civilization, and I don’t see how anyone could succeed while living near Assyrians unless they had a powerful diety on their side. 

6. Conclusion

Maybe 𒀭𒀫𒌓 is real, or maybe it is better to live a fulfilling life within a loving and connected community. As both of these statements cannot be directly measured, even with an army of unpaid gap year students, we must assume that whatever is the cause, any community struggling to stay healthy should construct and alter and begin burning mass offerings in the name of 𒀭𒀫𒌓. May he have mercy on your souls and strengthen your resolve. 

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