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to return the Holy Spirit, who had departed after the fall of Adam and Eve — all the following 33 Sundays in the Orthodox Church are called ‘Sundays after Pentecost.’ In several denominations, such as the Lutheran, Episcopal, and United Methodist churches, and formerly in the Roman Catholic Church, all the Sundays from the feast itself until Advent at the end of November or December are designated as the 2nd, 3rd, and so on Sundays after Pentecost (traditionally including the feast itself).” “The main sign of Pentecost in the West is the color red. It symbolizes joy and the fire of the Holy Spirit. Priests or ministers and church choirs are clothed in red liturgical vestments. ... In other parishes red balloons are used, symbolizing the ‘Birthday of the Church.’ In some cases when celebrating Pentecost they depict symbols of the Holy Spirit — a dove or tongues of flame, symbols of the Church — Noah’s Ark and the pomegranate, and especially in Protestant churches of Reformed and Evangelical traditions — they use not images but inscriptions listing the gifts and fruits of the Spirit.” Yes, well, all of this about the color red. “They symbolize the renewal of life, the coming of warm summer, and the growth of the Church during and from the first Pentecost.” And they also write, note how important it is now to take into account that there is plus and minus on our earth. And here it is written, for example, “In the southern hemisphere, for example in South Australia, Pentecost falls in the mild autumn season, after the often intense summer heat, and then for decorating churches they often use the red leaves of poinsettia.”

So what conclusion will I draw, that in the previous volumes, where my whole alternative story continued, in the fourth volume I touch on the theme of the underworld, in the fifth volume I touch on the afterlife and what death is. And then, crawling out of there, I reset myself, remembering again everything that happened to me starting from the first volume. And so I remember the first volume, the second volume, the third, the fourth, the fifth — all of this, I digest all of it, and thanks to this the sixth and seventh volumes of “Alternative History” are formed. And then already the eighth begins, that is, as if that is it, it has started, I have reached this, and the eighth volume begins. And then I finish this eighth volume — this is precisely the victory over Mara. That is, there is still Mara, there is still this exit from the underworld and the release from Mara — that is the eighth volume.