Was the running of a "Marathon" a ritual to achieve desired ends? 26 (XXVI) miles (M isles?)
The word's construction makes me suspicious.
The same way "Malaria" does. (M to/2 all R i A/ai)
Parsing your words enables me 2c P-arsing of wards.
expanded thinking:
think of "AK" as "Also Known"
47 = 2U (a "2nd him") fore (fore head) sieve (filter) en (in) in tri ball/tri bull at tire (ty re)
1 of "MAN Y" (Y-head projection)
Thelma and Louise (Thelma number is 93 - rush the cockpit/headrush, 4O (fore pot/can) 93=2 in E/iX “I forward-slash backward-slash (ass sill-ash/shit) overlap”
stamp: LC/5/v 33=spine steal 34=2H etch/goal/score
Louise = loo is E = shit is E = shit I see
In lieu of means instead of = in street E add (in ly E you) Louise (Low you I see)
“In shit” is in place of man