Saw a post that triggered a wild spirit journey of remembrance.

To make a covenant anciently they parted certain animals and 'passed through' the parts, then they partook of [consumed] their part. This was a ritual of purification and of covenant.

See here esp. v. 9-10, 17-18

Jeremiah explicitly supports this too; as do many other accounts in the scripture and in history all over the world, they attest to this tradition of parting a sacrificial animal [body] and passing through the parts and blood as a covenantal and a purification ritual.
This connected the dots to the Covenant with Israel as the Waters of the Red Sea [and various bodies of water later] parting and the purified 'passing through' - or back it up and transpose this idea to the marking of the door posts with the blood of the Lamb at 'passover'
Look now to the Baptismal covenant, a purification covenant [for the remission of sins], a symbolic "passing through" to our 3rd Estate and future resurrected life full of the purifying Holy Spirit of the Celestial Kingdom (as the Gift of the Holy Ghost).
The Priesthood 'parts' the bread and 'divides' the water, 'passing it to' the Saints to renew their Baptismal covenants by 'partaking' (consuming) the symbolic body and passing through the symbolic blood of the Lamb of God. The Divine Body and eternal atoning sacrifice.
Notice how we 'pass through' the bodies of divine oxen at the Temple?
I could go on a cosmic tangent... you can always go back to the original meaning of these things, why part a divine lamb and pass through and partake of its blood and body?
Mayhaps an echo of the dissolution of the cosmic Lamb of God or Bull of Heaven [Dividing of the 'Earth'] and the passing of Earth to a new cosmic blood/spirit state.

Think of the dividing of Osiris. The fall of Adam/Atum/Saturn. A new covenant with Father Noah - before Abram...
These earlier archetypes and shadows would have pointed forward to the coming Mortal incarnation of Jehova - the creator of the planets - and the chosen Messiah to overcome the Fall of Adam and redeem all mankind.

The ultimate symbolic template - the Atonement of Jesus Christ
P.s.

Robertson Smith supposed that:

"the persons who stood or passed between the pieces of the victim were thought to be thereby united with each other by the bond of a common blood;"

I love to ponder on this and our bond of common blood through Christ
P.s.s.

Did Adam part and pass through his blood covenant sacrifices?

Why wasn't Jesus' body parted?

Though the forerunner John's body was parted and passed through on a platter was...

By one Divine Man, Adam - all men fell.
By one Divine Man, Christ - all men will rise
P.s.s.s.
This is the reason we "cut a deal" or why garments are "rent" (divided) when oaths or covenants are made/sworn.

We are required and asked by Christ to "rend" or offer a "broken heart" and contrite spirit as our blood sacrifice today. To write His covenants on our hearts

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