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A la luz de un relámpago vi en su cara la expresión de un horror sagrado.
A flash of lightning suddenly revealed the expression of sacred horror on his face.
Todos nos reímos, menos la Menou. Tiene el horror sagrado de la campesina por la desnudez.
We all laughed, except La Menou, with her peasant’s sacred horror of nudity.
Era esta cámara de horrores sagrados lo que el padre Sevich creyó que atraería mi atención e interés.
It was this chamber of sacred horrors that Father Sevich believed would catch my eye and my interest.
Bautismo, conversión, arrepentimiento, penitencia, remisión y, lo peor de todo, pecado: a nosotros, que pretendíamos dar un sentido más puro a las palabras de la tribu, cada uno de estos vocablos, con su carga de unción eclesiástica y de terrorismo culpabilizante, nos inspiraba un horror sagrado.
Baptism, penance, repentance, penitence, remission, and, worst of all, sin: to us, who believed we could give a more pure meaning to the words of the tribe, each of these terms was burdened with ecclesiastical unction and guilt-inducing terror, and inspired a sacred horror.
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