A meditative death rite wherein a quibian water sage sits in a penance garden and meditates unmoving until death. The body is left to nourish the trees and plants of the garden, which in most cases the sage has lived off of and tended from a young age.

Thoughout the 1750's the Parallax Miserorum was thought to be an archaic, perhaps mythic rite. The 1761 documentary film by Marcus Jilebrot 'In the Garden' thoroughly destroyed that view by filming a water sage undergoing the Parallax Miserorum with state of the art time-lapse photography. The film was an international hit and, despite being banned in several Novantium cities, became the highest grossing documentary film ever made.*

* This claim is often disputed as the 1772 film 'Dog-feet and Pig-man: The source of the river' outgrossed 'In the Garden' by three million tentrums. The controversy being whether the 1772 film is an actual documentary or rather a staged neo-hoax comedy. With the majority of opinion siding with the latter, the Society of Motion Picture and Allied Industries voted the film the year's best comedy, which led to the most censored SMPAI awards ceremony television broadcast** ever. The film's star and director Idge Mite (a noted prankster and anarchist) accepted the award and said the following words before doing a shit on the statuette and setting it on fire: "Thanks for this, but it's in the wrong fucking category you cocksucking manderjays."

** The infamous eighth SMPAI awards ceremony (wherein Jack Colanth won best actor, said he would never deliver a better performance, accused everyone in the hall of being hacks, urinated on people in the front row, and finished by shooting himself in the head) was filmed for the newsreels but not broadcast, as television was still in its infancy.