Epithalamium III

More brainstorming:

• 5 sacrificial women riding 5 snow white, pregnant mules, a sixth goes riderless

• Inside the ziggurat a lagoon of milk

• In that lagoon, an island with holy baboons (vicious)

• Wooden boats carved in the shape of tulips to traverse the milk-lake

• A hallway of censers -- so many that it is nearly impossible to walk down it without sending them clattering, burning oil splashing everywhere

• Piles of saffron, which reveal pit-traps

• Great White (vicious) apes chained to captives who are in turn chained to posts - - catching the attention of the savage beasts will cause them to rip the poor victims in two as they pursue

• Peacocks! (my grandparents actually owned peacocks -- in a wrecking yard no less-- so I'm quite familiar with the lovely devils-- their cry that sounds like "Help!" the buzz of the male's tail as he displays.) Maybe a giant peacock?

• Voluptuous women crying to be freed from rattan cages -- succubi ( or maybe just one of them)

• Caryatid columns hidden amongst the many statues of Mah-Kuss' wives