Apotheosis

Apotheosis begins with the illegal practice of a ritual in the backwoods of Indiana. Those responsible assert their cultural and religious rights when arrested for performing the ceremony in which a very young widow-merely a child-throws herself on a funeral pyre.

Apotheosis is set in the small rural village of Principia, Indiana. Two teenage deer hunters happen upon a bizarre ceremony deep in a local forest early one November morning. An investigation uncovers the debris of a funeral pyre i...