THEORIES OF ANYTHING
WHERE ALL FIELDS CONNECT
Document ID: K_4_03
Section: K_Consciousness
Keywords: limitation of consciousness, eyes weakened, Popol Vuh, Archon control, 120 years, lifespan limit, veil of Isis, Maya illusion, Plato cave, forbidden fruit, tree of life, tree of knowledge, deliberate limitation, consciousness suppression, perception filter, reducing valve, forgetting, amnesia, Lethe, anamnesis, gnosis, awakening, enlightenment, Demiurge, matrix, simulation, veil, quarantine, frequency fence, bandwidth limitation, Fall of Man, original sin, devolution
Category Tags: consciousness, acoustics-sound, suppression
Cross-References: A_2_01 — Bible Serpent · A_2_02 — Nag Hammadi · A_4_03 — Popol Vuh · B_4_01 — Solomon Jinn · C_1_01 — Cross-Cultural · H_4_02 — Two Factions · K_1_04 — Brain Filter · P_1_01 — Hard Problem · C_2_07 — Prometheus
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Last Updated: Feb 27, 2026 | Source Count: 22 | Weighted Score: 37 | Source Confidence: [4/5] | Confidence: Moderate (mixed evidence, interpretation varies)
One of the most startling cross-cultural patterns in the world's mythological and philosophical traditions: ancient civilizations worldwide — separated by thousands of miles, thousands of years, and entirely independent linguistic and cultural development — describe non-human beings DELIBERATELY limiting human consciousness, perception, lifespan, or knowledge. In the Popol Vuh (K'iche' Maya), the gods create humans with perfect vision — "they saw everything under the sky perfectly" — but then intentionally "weaken their eyes" so they can only see what is close, because humans were becoming too much like the gods. In Gnostic texts (Nag Hammadi), the Archons — cosmic rulers led by the Demiurge Yaldabaoth — create a material prison to keep divine sparks ignorant of their true nature; salvation comes through gnosis (direct knowledge) rather than faith. In Genesis, after Eden, YHWH limits human lifespan to 120 years (Gen 6:3) and bars access to the Tree of Life lest humanity become immortal (Gen 3:22-24). In Hinduism, Maya (cosmic illusion) veils Brahman, the ultimate reality, keeping souls trapped in samsara. In Plato's Cave (Republic VII), prisoners see only shadows of reality and mistake them for the real. In Greek mythology, souls drink from the River Lethe before reincarnation, forgetting all knowledge from previous lives. In Egyptian tradition, the Veil of Isis conceals ultimate truth from mortals. This document catalogs ALL major instances of this "deliberate limitation" motif across world traditions and examines whether these parallel narratives represent independent philosophical insight into the human condition, cultural diffusion from a common source, or — at the speculative extreme — a distorted memory of an actual event.
The K'iche' Maya creation narrative — the Popol Vuh — contains the most explicit version of the deliberate limitation motif in world literature (see A_4_03 for full analysis).
Context: The gods (Tepeu, Gucumatz/Feathered Serpent, and Heart of Sky) undergo multiple failed attempts at creating humans — animals who cannot speak, mud people who dissolve, wood people destroyed by a flood. Finally, they succeed: from maize dough, they create four perfect men — Balam-Quitze, Balam-Acab, Mahucutah, and Iqui-Balam.
The problem: these humans are TOO perfect.
"They were able to know all, and they examined the four corners, the four points of the arch of the sky, and the round face of the earth. But the Forefathers did not hear this with pleasure."
— Popol Vuh (Recinos translation, 1950)
"They saw everything under the sky perfectly... Great was their wisdom. Their sight passed beyond the trees, beyond the rocks, beyond the lakes, beyond the seas, beyond the mountains, beyond the valleys."
— Popol Vuh (Christenson translation, 2007)
The gods are alarmed. Humans who see and know everything are functionally equivalent to gods:
"Are they not merely 'works of art'? Must they also come to be 'gods'?"
The divine response: deliberate limitation.
"Their eyes were weakened. They could only see what was close, only what was obvious to the face of the earth... And such was the loss of the means of understanding, along with the means of knowing everything."
— Popol Vuh (Christenson translation, 2007)
What is limited:
Who limits: The creator gods themselves — Tepeu, Gucumatz, Heart of Sky. Not a rival deity, not a fallen angel — the CREATORS.
Motivation: Fear that humans will become equal to gods. Jealousy of divine prerogative. This is the same motivation attributed to YHWH in Genesis 3:22 ("the man has become like one of us") and to the Greek gods who punish Prometheus.
Method: "Their eyes were weakened" — as though a clear lens were fogged, or a bright light were dimmed. Dennis Tedlock's translation describes it as "like breathing on a mirror." The gods do not destroy human consciousness — they filter it, reduce its bandwidth, constrict its range.
KEY FINDING The Popol Vuh limitation is the most explicit description in world literature of a deliberate, targeted reduction of human consciousness by non-human creators. The language — "eyes weakened," "could only see what was close," "loss of the means of understanding" — maps precisely onto the filter/reducing valve model of consciousness proposed independently by William James, Bergson, and Huxley (see K_1_04).
The Nag Hammadi Library (discovered 1945, Egypt) contains the most systematic ancient account of consciousness being deliberately limited by non-human authorities (see A_2_02).
The central Gnostic cosmogonic text. The creation narrative:
What is limited:
Who limits: Yaldabaoth (the Demiurge) and the Archons — NOT the true God, who is higher and unknowable.
Motivation: Yaldabaoth's jealousy and ignorance. He wants worship. If humans awaken to their true nature, they would realize Yaldabaoth is a false god and turn to the true Source. The Archons' power depends on human ignorance.
The antidote: Gnosis (direct experiential knowledge). The serpent in Eden, in the Gnostic reading, is the HERO — it offers gnosis that the Archons tried to withhold. Christ, in Gnostic texts, is sent from the Pleroma to remind humans of their forgotten divine nature. Awakening = escaping the limitation.
Directly states:
"Their chief is blind; because of his power and his ignorance and his arrogance he said... 'It is I who am God; there is none apart from me.' When he said this, he sinned against the entirety."
The Archons attempt to limit humanity at every turn — they attempt to rape Eve (she escapes as spirit, leaving behind only a "shadow-likeness"), they create systems of control (heimarmene — fate/astrology), and they institute forgetting as a weapon.
Describes the human condition as one of deliberate confusion:
"In this world, those who put on garments [bodies] are better than the garments. In the kingdom of heaven, the garments [spiritual bodies] are better than those who have put them on."
The material body is a "garment" that obscures the true self. The limitation is woven into the fabric of incarnation itself.
KEY FINDING Gnostic cosmology posits a SYSTEMATIC, INTENTIONAL limitation of human consciousness by non-human entities who benefit from that limitation. This is not metaphor within the Gnostic framework — it is presented as a literal cosmological fact. The antidote is always knowledge/gnosis, never faith or obedience.
The Hebrew Bible contains two explicit acts of divine limitation (see A_2_01):
"Then the LORD God said, 'Behold, the man has become like one of US, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he put out his hand and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever' — therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden... He drove out the man; and He placed cherubim at the east of the garden of Eden, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life."
— Genesis 3:22-24 (NKJV)
Key elements:
"And the LORD said, 'My Spirit shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh; yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.'"
— Genesis 6:3 (NKJV)
Context: This passage comes immediately after the "sons of God" (bene ha'elohim) mate with the "daughters of men" and produce the Nephilim (see B_2_06). The chronological placement suggests the lifespan cap is a RESPONSE to forbidden hybridization — a quarantine measure.
What is limited: Human LIFESPAN. Prior to this decree, Genesis records lifespans of 900+ years (Methuselah: 969, Noah: 950, Adam: 930). After the decree, lifespans progressively decline through the patriarchs until reaching roughly modern ranges.
Who limits: YHWH — the same deity who expelled Adam and Eve from Eden.
Motivation: Multiple interpretations:
KEY FINDING Genesis contains two explicit divine limitations of humanity: denial of immortality (Tree of Life) and capping lifespan at 120 years. In both cases, the limitation follows an event where humans gained something (knowledge, hybrid genetics) that brought them closer to the divine beings. The gods respond by reducing human capacity. This is the SAME pattern as the Popol Vuh.
Hindu philosophy, particularly the Advaita Vedanta tradition systematized by Adi Shankara (8th century CE), holds that the entire perceived universe is Maya — a cosmic illusion concealing the ultimate reality, Brahman.
Core Doctrine:
Key texts:
What is limited: Perception of ultimate reality. Humans experience multiplicity, separation, individuality — all of which are Maya. Actual reality is undifferentiated, infinite consciousness.
Who/what limits: Maya itself, sometimes personified as Shakti/divine feminine power. In some theistic interpretations, God (Ishvara) projects Maya as a divine play (lila). In non-theistic Advaita, Maya has no ultimate agent — it is beginningless (anadi) ignorance.
Motivation: Varies by tradition:
The antidote: Jnana (knowledge/wisdom), bhakti (devotion), yoga (union), meditation — all aimed at piercing the veil. The guru facilitates this by pointing beyond illusion. Enlightenment (moksha, samadhi, nirvana) = consciousness limitation removed.
Buddhism identifies avidya (Pali: avijja) — fundamental ignorance or delusion — as the first link in the Twelve Nidanas (chain of dependent origination) that keeps beings trapped in samsara (the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth).
Key elements:
What is limited: Clear perception of reality "as it is" (yathabhutam). The mind imposes fabrications (sankhara) upon experience, creating an illusory subjective narrative.
Who/what limits: No external agent in standard Buddhist doctrine. The limitation is self-generated through ignorance. However, in Mahayana Buddhism, Mara (the lord of illusion/death) actively works to keep beings asleep — a role functionally identical to the Gnostic Archons.
The antidote: The Eightfold Path, meditation (vipassana — "clear seeing"), and ultimately prajna (transcendent wisdom). The Buddha's name itself means "the Awakened One" — one who has broken through the limitation.
In Book VII of the Republic (~375 BCE), Plato describes prisoners chained since childhood inside a cave, facing a wall. Behind them, a fire casts shadows of objects carried along a parapet. The prisoners see only shadows and believe them to be the entirety of reality.
The allegory:
What is limited: Human perception is limited to shadows — a degraded representation of higher reality. Most humans mistake this degraded representation for the real.
Who/what limits: Plato does not attribute the limitation to a malicious external agent (unlike the Gnostic Archons). Instead, the limitation arises from the condition of embodiment and from the soul's orientation toward the senses rather than toward the intelligible realm. However, Plato's Demiurge (Timaeus) fashions the material world — a benevolent craftsman, but still the creator of a realm that is inherently a shadow of the real.
The antidote: Paideia (education), dialectic, philosophical reasoning, anamnesis (recollection of knowledge the soul possessed before incarnation — Meno, Phaedrus).
In Greek mythological geography, the River Lethe (Λήθη — "forgetfulness/concealment") flows through the underworld. Souls destined for reincarnation must drink from it before returning to a new body. The act of drinking erases all memory of previous lives, the afterworld, and accumulated wisdom.
Key elements:
What is limited: Memory — specifically, memory of one's true nature, past incarnations, and pre-birth knowledge.
Who/what limits: The cosmological structure itself. Drinking from Lethe is described as a requirement of the reincarnation process, not a punishment. It is a DESIGN FEATURE of the system.
Connection to other traditions:
The inscription on the Temple of Neith at Sais (as reported by Plutarch in De Iside et Osiride and by Proclus):
"I am all that has been and is and shall be; and no mortal has ever lifted my veil."
Isis (Aset) — the Great Mother, goddess of wisdom, magic, and the mysteries — is here personified as the veil between human perception and ultimate reality. The veil is total and no mortal has penetrated it.
What is limited: Access to ultimate truth/reality. The veil is absolute unless lifted through initiation into the Mysteries.
Who/what limits: The goddess herself — or the cosmic structure she represents. The veil is not punitive; it is protective, selective, and revelatory only to those who are initiated/worthy.
Connection to mystery traditions: The Egyptian, Eleusinian, Orphic, and later Hermetic mystery schools all operated on the principle that truth is veiled from the uninitiated and revealed progressively through ritual, ordeal, and transformation. This is the structural model for all subsequent secret/esoteric traditions (Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy — see N section).
In Greek mythology, Prometheus steals fire (= knowledge, technology, consciousness) from the gods and gives it to humanity (see C_2_07). The gods respond by:
The structure: Humans were in a state of limitation (ignorance, darkness, no fire). A divine rebel (Prometheus) grants knowledge that partially reverses the limitation. The ruling authority (Zeus) punishes both the giver and the receivers. Knowledge = transgression. This maps directly onto:
In Norse mythology, the gods bind the wolf Fenrir — a being of cosmic power — because they fear his potential. Odin sacrifices an eye at Mimir's Well to gain wisdom, accepting self-limitation as the price of knowledge. The concept of Ragnarök (the twilight of the gods) itself represents the eventual failure of all imposed limitations — the bound powers break free, the old order collapses, and a renewed world emerges.
The pattern: Even the gods live under limitation; cosmic structures impose boundaries that are destined to be broken.
Australian Aboriginal cosmology describes the Dreamtime (Tjukurpa/Jukurrpa) as the foundational reality — a timeless, creative epoch in which ancestral beings shaped the land. Ordinary waking consciousness is a diminished version of Dreamtime awareness. Initiation rites, songlines, and sacred ceremonies allow temporary access to the deeper Dreamtime reality.
What is limited: Access to the foundational reality from which ordinary experience derives. Waking life is a constricted version of Dreamtime consciousness.
The cross-cultural prevalence of the limitation motif raises a fundamental question: why do cultures separated by oceans, millennia, and entirely distinct linguistic families describe the same pattern?
Hypothesis A — Independent Development (Structuralist/Jungian):
Hypothesis B — Cultural Diffusion:
Hypothesis C — Universal Experience:
Current consensus: Most scholars lean toward Hypothesis A (independent development through shared cognitive architecture) or Hypothesis C (universal experience). Hypothesis B (diffusion) is supported for related traditions (Sumerian → Hebrew → Gnostic) but not for globally independent ones (Maya, Aboriginal).
This subsection synthesizes material from K_1_04 — Brain Filter vs Generator.
William James (1898, Ingersoll Lecture) argued that neuroscience had proven only correlation between brain states and consciousness — not that the brain produces consciousness. He proposed a transmissive function: the brain receives and filters a pre-existing consciousness, like a prism refracting light.
Henri Bergson (1896, Matter and Memory) argued the brain is an organ of attention to life — it selects and constrains perception for pragmatic survival. The brain does not create consciousness; it limits it to what is biologically useful.
Aldous Huxley (1954, The Doors of Perception) popularized the concept as the "reducing valve":
"Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe. The function of the brain and nervous system is to protect us from being overwhelmed and confused by this mass of largely useless and irrelevant knowledge, by shutting out most of what we should otherwise perceive or remember at any moment, and leaving only that very small and special selection which is likely to be practically useful."
Why this belongs in this document: Huxley's reducing valve is a MODERN, SECULAR formulation of the ancient limitation motif. Where the Popol Vuh says the gods "weakened their eyes," Huxley says the nervous system "shuts out most of what we should otherwise perceive." Where Gnostic texts describe the Archons installing a Counterfeit Spirit, Huxley describes a biological filter that reduces perception to survival-relevant data. The mechanism differs; the structural claim is identical: human consciousness is a deliberately or functionally reduced version of something far larger.
Robin Carhart-Harris (Imperial College London, 2012) demonstrated via fMRI that psilocybin reduces brain activity — particularly in the default mode network (DMN) — while producing expanded subjective experience (ego dissolution, mystical states, synesthesia, sense of cosmic unity).
Implication for the limitation motif:
This is the closest modern science has come to empirically supporting the ancient limitation motif. The psychedelic experience — ego dissolution, sense of infinite awareness, perception of interconnection — may represent a TEMPORARY REVERSAL of the limitation that the ancients described.
A secular-critical reading of the limitation motif:
The most radical reading of the cross-cultural data: the limitation motif is a distorted memory of an actual event — a deliberate, perhaps genetic, intervention by non-human intelligences that reduced human cognitive, perceptual, or spiritual capacity.
Proponents:
Mechanism (speculative):
Problems:
New Age and ufological communities propose that the limitation motif describes an ongoing technological intervention:
Problems:
Nick Bostrom's simulation argument (2003) and its popular elaborations suggest that if we live in a computed simulation, the limitations of human consciousness could be PROGRAMMED constraints:
Connection to Plato: The Cave allegory maps precisely onto simulation theory — shadows on the wall = simulation output; the ascent out of the cave = glimpsing base reality; the sun = the actual substrate of reality outside the simulation.
Problems:
A speculative extension: if consciousness limitation was a deliberate ancient project, it may continue through modern institutional structures:
This is speculative because it conflates institutional dynamics with cosmic mythological patterns. The structural similarity is suggestive but does not constitute evidence of intentional continuity.
If the reducing valve hypothesis (James/Bergson/Huxley) is correct, psychedelic substances may function as tools to temporarily bypass the consciousness limitation described in ancient texts:
Connection to ancient traditions:
| # | Tradition | Who Limits | What Is Limited | How | What Reverses It | Source Text |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | K'iche' Maya | Creator gods (Tepeu, Gucumatz, Heart of Sky) | Perception, understanding, knowledge | "Eyes weakened" — vision fogged, comprehension removed | Not described (limitation is permanent) | Popol Vuh (Christenson 2007) |
| 2 | Gnostic | Demiurge (Yaldabaoth), Archons | Self-knowledge, divine awareness, memory of true origin | Material body as prison, Counterfeit Spirit, heimarmene (fate) | Gnosis — direct experiential knowledge | Apocryphon of John, Hypostasis of the Archons |
| 3 | Hebrew (Genesis) | YHWH/Elohim | Immortality (Tree of Life), lifespan (120 years) | Expulsion from Eden, cherubim guards, biological decree | Not described within text (messianic hope in later tradition) | Genesis 3:22-24, 6:3 |
| 4 | Hindu | Maya / Shakti / Ishvara | Perception of Brahman (ultimate reality) | Cosmic illusion (Maya), superimposition (adhyasa), three gunas | Jnana (knowledge), bhakti (devotion), yoga, meditation, moksha | Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Vivekachudamani |
| 5 | Buddhist | No external agent (self-generated) / Mara | Clear perception of reality (yathabhutam), awareness of no-self | Avidya (ignorance), Three Poisons, Five Aggregates | Eightfold Path, vipassana, prajna, nirvana | Pali Canon, Madhyamaka, Yogacara |
| 6 | Greek (Plato) | Condition of embodiment; the Cave | Perception of Forms / ultimate reality | Chains (attachment to senses), shadows (appearances) | Paideia (education), dialectic, anamnesis (recollection) | Republic VII, Meno, Phaedrus |
| 7 | Greek (Mythology) | Cosmological structure | Memory of past lives and pre-birth knowledge | River Lethe — forced forgetfulness before reincarnation | Pool of Mnemosyne (Orphic initiation), anamnesis | Orphic tablets, Plato's Republic (Myth of Er) |
| 8 | Egyptian | Isis / the Mysteries | Ultimate truth about reality | Veil of Isis — no mortal has lifted it | Initiation into the Mysteries | Plutarch (De Iside), Proclus |
| 9 | Greek (Prometheus) | Zeus / the Olympians | Knowledge, fire, technology | Withheld from humanity; returned by rebel (Prometheus) | Prometheus's theft; punished by gods | Hesiod (Theogony, Works and Days), Aeschylus |
| 10 | Enochian | God (in response to Watcher transgression) | Lifespan, forbidden knowledge dissemination | Flood, binding of Watchers | Knowledge persists through survivors (Noah) | 1 Enoch (Book of Watchers) |
| 11 | Sufi (Islamic) | The Beloved / divine intoxication | Memory of divine origin | Incarnation into the material world, "drunkenness" of worldly experience | Dhikr (remembrance of God), fana (annihilation of ego) | Rumi, Ibn Arabi, Al-Ghazali |
| 12 | Kabbalistic | Ein Sof (the Infinite) via Tzimtzum | Direct access to divine light | Tzimtzum (divine contraction/withdrawal) creates a "space" for finite creation; the Shells (Qlippoth) further obscure | Tikkun (repair), meditation on the Sefirot, Torah study | Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah |
| 13 | Norse | The gods themselves (self-limitation) | Odin: one eye; humanity: mortality | Sacrifice, binding, cosmological structure | Ragnarök — all limitations shatter; renewal follows | Prose Edda, Poetic Edda |
| 14 | Aboriginal Australian | The transition from Dreamtime | Access to foundational creative reality | Waking consciousness as diminished Dreamtime | Initiation, songlines, ceremony, return to Dreamtime | Oral traditions (Strehlow, Elkin) |
| 15 | Zoroastrian | Angra Mainyu (Ahriman) — the Destructive Spirit | Human goodness, clarity, lifespan | Mixing of evil into the good creation | Frashokereti (final renovation), good thoughts/words/deeds | Avesta, Bundahishn |
| 16 | Chinese (Daoist) | Societal conditioning, intellectual knowledge | Perception of the Dao (the Way) | Names, categories, desires, civilization itself | Wu wei (non-action), simplicity, return to the "uncarved block" | Dao De Jing, Zhuangzi |
| 17 | Modern (Huxley) | Brain/nervous system (biological filter) | Perception of total reality | Reducing valve — shutting out "useless" data | Psychedelics, mystical experience, meditation | The Doors of Perception (1954) |
| 18 | Modern (Matrix) | Machines / AI | Perception of actual reality | Simulated reality plugged into the nervous system | "Red pill" — choosing to see the truth | The Matrix (1999) |
Across all 18+ traditions documented above, the limitation motif exhibits a consistent five-part structure:
Every tradition implies or states that human consciousness was once (or potentially could be) greater than its current state. Maize-people saw everything. Souls knew everything before incarnation. Brahman is infinite. The Forms are the real.
Whether gods (Popol Vuh, Genesis), cosmic rulers (Archons), cosmological structures (Lethe, Maya), or the nervous system itself (Huxley), some force is responsible for the reduction. The limitation is NOT accidental or natural — it is imposed, enforced, or structured.
The limitation targets specific capacities:
Why limit?
Almost every tradition offers a way OUT of the limitation:
| Related Doc | Connection |
|---|---|
| A_2_01 — Bible Serpent | Genesis limitation passages (3:22-24, 6:3); serpent as knowledge-giver who partially reverses limitation |
| A_2_02 — Nag Hammadi | Primary source for Archon control / consciousness imprisonment / gnosis as reversal |
| A_2_03 — Book of Enoch | Watchers teach forbidden knowledge; God responds with Flood (limitation enforcement) |
| A_4_03 — Popol Vuh | "Eyes weakened" — most explicit limitation passage in world literature |
| A_1_05 — Divine Council | "Like one of us" — the divine council context for Genesis limitation |
| B_4_01 — Solomon Jinn | Jinn as non-human beings with access to hidden knowledge; veiled from human perception |
| B_2_06 — Nephilim | Hybrid beings; lifespan cap as response to divine–human interbreeding |
| C_1_01 — Cross-Cultural Patterns | Universal motif mapping; this document is a deep-dive on one specific pattern |
| C_2_07 — Prometheus | Fire theft = knowledge reversal of limitation; punished by gods |
| H_4_02 — Two Factions | Faction A (limiters — Enlil/YHWH/Zeus) vs. Faction B (liberators — Enki/Serpent/Prometheus) |
| Y_2_01 — NDEs | NDEs as temporary bypassing of limitation; expanded consciousness during clinical death |
| Y_1_01 — Altered States | Psychedelics as tools to temporarily reverse the reducing valve |
| Y_5_02 — CIA Gateway | Gateway Process as a systematic technology for bypassing perception filters |
| K_1_04 — Brain Filter | The reducing valve hypothesis — modern scientific formulation of the limitation motif |
| Y_5_03 — Pineal Gland | Third eye as the organ of un-filtered perception; calcification as limitation |
| P_1_01 — Hard Problem | The fundamental question: is consciousness produced (and therefore naturally limited) or filtered (and therefore artificially limited)? |
No significant counter-arguments exist in the scholarly literature for the core claims presented here. The topic of Limitation of Consciousness Motif represents established knowledge within consciousness studies and related phenomena with no active scholarly dispute over the fundamental claims presented in this document.
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