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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures:

Description: SCP-XXXX is a village located in Southern Siberia with an estimated population ranging from 30 to 70 individuals. Verification of this range is impossible due to the inability to successfully infiltrate SCP-XXXX’s society. The population is composed of a distinct ethnic group, with a unique genetic code that lacks a clear genealogical origin. Despite its clear isolation and small population, SCP-XXXX has been able to avoid the negative effects of inbreeding through flesh based rituals.

SCP-XXXX’s society is highly isolated, both in technological and cultural terms. The majority of clothing is produced either from domesticated animals or from animals hunted by members of SCP-XXXX. A lack of curiosity among the population is a noted characteristic, with the majority of the population lacking any desire to leave SCP-XXXX, or to interact with individuals outside of SCP-XXXX.

Despite this lack of curiosity, SCP-XXXX displays a notable lack of hostility towards outsiders. Individuals capable of speaking SCP-XXXX’s language (a hybrid of ancient Adytite and various Tungusic languages) are generally greeted warmly. This typically occurs regardless of ethnic or gender background. Despite this welcoming attitude towards outsiders, members of SCP-XXXX typically avoid discussions of their faith unless asked in a direct manner.

SCP-XXXX’s village is centered around a central structure, hereby referred to as SCP-XXXX-A. SCP-XXXX-A is a biological structure that is fashioned in the structure of churches from the 7th to 9th century. Biological testing by Foundation operatives has determined the composition of SCP-XXXX-A is human in nature, and has a similar genetic make up to the population of SCP-XXXX.

SCP-XXXX-A contains various forms of religious iconography, ranging from imagery associated with those of the Sarkic faith and the Eastern Orthodox Faith prior to the 17th century reforms of the Orthodox Church. SCP-XXXX-A acts as a central hub for community and religious activities. On rare occasions, it is used to hold something akin to an assembly for important discussions, typically during a crisis. It also acts as the hub for biological rituals, typically consecrated by SCP-XXXX-B.

SCP-XXXX-B is an adult male in its mid sixties. Aside from minor health problems relating to a wrist injury suffered as a child, it is biologically unremarkable and considered, by most standards, healthy. SCP-XXXX-B is consistently dressed in the standard garb of a Eastern Orthodox Priest, and acts as the priest of SCP-XXXX-A.

Rituals involving members of SCP-XXXX vary based on intent, with the majority relating to a specific social function. Often these involve the permanent transformation of either an individual or multiple individuals into objects considered necessary for the functioning of SCP-XXXX’s society. This can range from the process of reproduction to the defense of the village from perceived outside threats (See Addendum-XXXX.2 for further information on rituals involving SCP-XXXX).

These rituals typically end in the death of individuals involved. Despite this, there have been no recorded instances of members of SCP-XXXX attempting to either circumvent the ritual, or to leave SCP-XXXX to avoid participating in it.

SCP-XXXX was discovered in 1993, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the anomalous division of the Union’s security apparatus, the GRU-’P’. With various objects and human resources being assimilated into the Foundation, SCP-XXXX was discovered and put under containment.

Addendum-XXXX.1 — Preliminary Theological Analysis of SCP-XXXX

SCP-XXXX’s religious beliefs are an unusual collection of beliefs and viewpoints that are at odds with both of its original sources, that being Sarkicism and the Eastern Orthodoxy. To describe it in more coherent terms, SCP-XXXX has, at some point or another, fused together the two religions into something completely different and unseen before in prior studies of Sarkicism.

The largest manifestation of this is in the figure of Christ Himself. Christ, pronounced in proper pre-Nikonian reform, is not the son of God as it stands, but the manifestation of Ion as his literal, biological son. The Birth of Jesus is thus viewed as a ritual through which Ion implanted his seed in the Virgin Mary without the use of penetrational sex - something that has significant amount of impact upon the belief system of SCP-XXXX’s. Other rituals are taken more literal, such as the Euchaist being the consumption of SCP-XXXX-B’s flesh and blood, as it acts, through transubstantiation, as the flesh of Christ.

Christ’s teachings are more or less untouched, excepting major deviations in practice. One such deviation is in baptism, which relies instead on the three diseases replacing the three dunkings under water. The diseases in question change depending on the individual seeking baptism, but the outcome always ends in significant suffering on the part of the believer. Each disease, however, represents the three most important dieties in SCP-XXXX’s belief system: Ion, Christ and the Klavigar.

Unlike most Christian faiths, SCP-XXXX’s theology has room for multiple gods. The trinity as a concept is foreign to members of SCP-XXXX. Ion, Christ and the Klavigar are considered separate entities, all encompassing aspects of the religion that all members should strive for.

Christ is similar to his real life role as the sacrifice of humanity’s sinfulness, being traced back to the original myth of Adam and Eve. Ion plays a different role, wishing to redeem a doomed species after his predecessor, the Old Devourer, damned mankind to its suffering fate for its newfound knowledge. It is difficult to determine at what point Ion replaces the Old Devourer, but it can be assumed that it is Ion, and not the Old Devourer, that represents The Father. Ion is also presumed to, at one point, have been a rebelling angel who overthrew the Old Devourer, casting him in a similar light as the Devil in traditional Christian theology.

Klavigar is the most strange concept, and baffles most researchers on this topic. In simplest terms, it is the fusing together of both the mind, body, and soul of Ion’s loyal disciples prior to his consumption of the Old Devourer. It acts as the purest manifestation of faith in one whose power is completely and utterly beyond your understanding, and thus acts as a guiding spirit. There is no evidence to suggest that the Klavigar is either made up of separate personas of the original four disciples, or is indeed one entity.

There are, however, many uncertain questions regarding SCP-XXXX’s belief system. The nature of religious centralization is unknown, as is the justification for technophobia that generally pervades the entire community, as is how this particular combination of Christian-Sarkic ideals fused together in this manner.

— Penelope Anderson, Foundation Theologist, Site-93

Addendum-XXXX.2 — Descriptions of Rituals

Designation: R-03
Categorization: Baptism
Initiators: Requires SCP-XXXX-B to slather a subject with its hands as it recites various incantations. SCP-XXXX-B then slits opens up its wrist, and pours it on the subject’s head.
Effects: Within the coming six months, the subject will undergo diseases that range from dysentery, smallpox, or various unknown diseases that result in the necrosis of the body. Subject experiences three separate diseases, all ranging in intensity and pain. Upon the completion of six months, the subject is restored to full health.
Notes: Subjects that suffer either permanent bodily harm from the disease, including the loss of limbs, heal them back over the course of multiple months after the baptism’s completion.

Designation: R-15
Categorization: Healing
Initiators: Requires a subject to be experiencing either bodily decay or to have lost a body part in the past six months prior to the start of the ritual. SCP-XXXX-B takes a knife and opens the subject's veins, pouring them into a bucket. This continues until the subject completely lacks blood. SCP-XXXX-B then wraps its palms around the subject’s open vein, and through currently unknown means, replaces all the blood inside the subject.
Effects: Subject is restored to full health. Typically organs and lost limbs heal over the course of multiple days. Subjects do not complain of pain.
Notes: Blood samples of subjects reveal no genetic differences prior to the ritual.

Designation: R-23
Categorization: Agricultural
Initiators: Subjects must have fasted three days prior to the ritual. Subjects typically are given a week prior to the ritual to offer parting words with friends and family members. SCP-XXXX-B takes subjects, typically three of them at a time, and lays them down. It then sets subjects into a trance like state, and begins tearing the subject’s flesh apart and then placing them back together. Observation reveals SCP-XXXX-B does not strain itself when doing this. After approximately seven hours, a biological organism made entirely from the body parts of the subjects awakens. SCP-XXXX-B then provides an incantation, which then makes the organism leave the church, and begins (depending on the time of year) to either plant or harvest crops for the villagers.
Effects: The organism in question seems to lack sapience, and is typically at rest when not harvesting crops. Harvest or planting is typically completed within twenty four hours of the organism’s creation.
Notes: SCP-XXXX members typically consume the organism during a yearly harvest celebration. Typically the meal is consecrated, and the subjects are thanked for their sacrifice.

Designation: R-35
Categorization: Offensive/Defensive purposes
Initiators: An assembly is brought together after hostile outsiders are encountered, whereby all members of SCP-XXXX are given an opportunity to give their opinions on the matter. The assembly then turns the issue over to SCP-XXXX-B, who decides on whether R-35 should be started. When it does, thirty of the strongest men in the village are chosen to participate. The exact circumstances of the ritual are unknown, but at the end, an organism four meters in size is created, weighing 3000 kilograms in weight. Various biological weapons are attached to the subject, including the ability to use bones as makeshift ammunition.
Effects: Organism is functionally immune to traditional weaponry. Organism remains alive until either the hostile outsiders are eliminated or repealed.
Notes: Only occurred one time when armed GRU-’P’ members attempted to infiltrate the village through violent means. After action reports revealed that the GRU-’P’ division suffered 70% causality rates before retreating.

Designation: R-48
Categorization: Reproduction
Initiators: A man and woman decide to officiate a marriage, and to reproduce. The subjects are given a week to offer parting words with friends and family prior to the ritual. On the day of the ritual, both subjects are treated to a traditional Eastern Orthodox marriage ceremony. The difference results when the vows are taken, upon which SCP-XXXX-B pronounces them as “one flesh”.
Effects: Subjects begin to fuse as their lips touch, their bodies seemingly melting into one another as the crowd looks on. Typically the crowd, composed of extended family and foster parents, congratulate the subjects as their bodies completely morph into one another. After several hours, various newborn children (ranging in number from four to seven) morph from the conjoined bodies of the two subjects.
Notes: Typically one in three children will not survive this process, as some will end up suffocating on the flesh of their mothers. Genetically the subjects contain the genetic code of the parent subjects.

Addendum-XXXX.3 — Recording of SCP-XXXX-B’s Sermon

The following is a rough translation from SCP-XXXX-B’s native language into English:

Friends, I speak from something more substantial than the petty desires of the flesh. Our sin is not from the consumption of the fruits from the tree of knowledge, it was our weakness in submission to the Old Devourer, and our unwillingness to prostrate ourselves for a better, more whole future!

That is why Ion impregnated Mary of Nazareth, his insemination completely and totally lacking in the dirtiness that such activities entail. It was an act without pleasure, an act devoid of selfishness. It was done out of love, done to send his son, Jesus, to die as a sacrifice, to show us a better path than the one we blindly followed.

Flesh! That is the issue. All things are from the flesh. Flesh is sacred, and it can and should never be flaunted! To place one's flesh at the whims of temporarily worldly pleasures is a sin from which nothing can be forgiven. Cain was unforgiven by God not because he lied to God, but because he wasted the body of his fellow man and brother, Able. He was cursed, cursed to live seven generations, and to never learn the beauty of sacrifice for someone else!

We are but one flesh! To take and never give is a sin unforgivable in the eyes of the lord Ion! To waste flesh, whether man or animal, is something that can never be washed away. The baptism cleans away the sinly thoughts, but it cannot destroy the wastefulness inside our very bones! Only through vigilance can that happen!

Oh Lords, our Gods, may we be delivered to Your Hands, Your Body, and Your Flesh!