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Among the Cheremi and Udmurt peoples of Russia, a sacred grove where people of several villages gathered periodically to hold religious festivals and sacrifice animals to nature gods. The groves where the mer festivals were held were not fenced ( lud) and did not have permanent altars. Mer festivals were infrequent; five years or more might elapse between them.
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[MEHR] French for "sea". Fruits de mer means "fruits of the sea," referring to a seafood combination.
The smallest repetitive unit in the structure of a high polymer.
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