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Saint Margaret   w/ the dragon
Saint Barbara   .   w/ the tower
Saint Catherine    w/ the wheel
those are the three  holy maids.

Saint Margaret              w/ the                                 dragon
Saint                                            Barbara
                                                 w/ the tower
                  Saint                          Catherine ­                                        w/ the wheel
          those are the                       .                          three holy maids.

Ruins of a hero-shrine b      
                  or heroon at Sagalassos,                       Turkey

Hero cults                                               were one of the most distinctive
features                of ancient                                                          ­   Greek religion.
In Homeric Greek, "hero"                       (ἥρως, hḗrōs)
         refers to a man who                                      was fighting on either side
during the already                  archaic                          Trojan War.                             By the historical                                          period,      ­            
h
owever, the word came to mean specifically
a dead man,                                venerated & propitiated at his tomb
                                 or at a designated shrine,
                            because his fame during life
                  or unusual manner                                of death gave him power
to support & protect the living.
A hero                                   was more
than human but less than a god,
& various kinds
                                                   of supernatural figures
came to be assimilated          to the class of heroes; the        distinction between a        
                              hero & a god was less than certain,
especially in the case of Heracles,
            the most prominent,
                                              but atypical hero.

                                                          ­   The grand ruins      & tumuli remaining
                      from the Bronze Age                                                        gave the pre-literate
       Greeks of the 10th & 9th centuries BC
                                       a sense of a
                  grand & vanished                                   pre-Bronze Golden Age
reflected in                             .                 the oral epic tradition,
which would be                                         crystallized in the Iliad.
Copious renewed offerings begin to be
represented, after a hiatus, at                                     sites like
                                                           Lefkandi,    even though the names of the
grandly buried dead were hardly remembered.

"Stories began to be told to individuate the
persons who were now believed to be buried
in these old and imposing sites," observes
                                              Robin Lane Fox /

The term                                 cult identifies                    a pattern of ritual
                 behavior in
                                 connection w/                                      specific objects,
w/in a                             framework of spatial and temporal
coordinates. Rituals would include
                                                       (but not necessarily be limited to)         prayer,
                                                   sacrifice, votive offerings,        
                           competitions,
processions                                     & construction of monuments.
Some degree of recurrence in place &
   repetition over time of                                  ritual action is necessary  
for a cult to be enacted,                                                  
                                                                ­                         to be practiced
u will never   have to ask me
why I love u     b/c u'd be the
answer    to ur  own question
no one can
describe what a wom        .            an smells like;
.                     every woman s                              mells d
ifferently
.                                  but they all smell
                          faintly                          ­                            of
                        snooch;   ­                                                 .               ­ the re
should
be a
               .                          perfume called                        'woman'                     
 or
'f­aintly
.          of                   .                    snooch'
                                    ­                                                        .
 May 2018 Blakbuttafly89
jb
glory to the winds, golden smile full of sin,
running miles in the wild, like a child made of tin
left, i’m broken hearted,
the ship has just departed,
but this time it’s not windy,
the heavens must be busy,
rowing to the end of this world that i invented,
pretended you were into me, alas i see the ending,
you found somebody else, i hope you know i think that’s splendid,
i wrote an album for you but you’ve never even read it,
although i never showed you, that’s the one thing i’m regretting,
i’m betting you’re so happy, ‘cause before this you were melting,
this is what you needed, please enjoy your antidote,
got a poem of this day i wrote about a year ago,
as i said before, i’ll say it now,
“apart we’ll have to grow.”
i’ve been trapped within a fantasy i created for a girl for a bit over a year.
her finding another has returned me to reality, so i give my thanks and support.
 May 2018 Blakbuttafly89
Midnight
You wear leather
As dark as your heart
You speak words
As sharp as a knife

You smell of cigarettes
And sometimes cologne
You wreak of Jack Daniel's
But mostly depravity

You lurk in the shadows
And prey on the young
You desire a girl
But only one night

You tell her your lies
To trick her to stay
And then like a coward
You run away
I've been there, done that.
I was once that girl, but not  anymore.
 May 2018 Blakbuttafly89
r
We, lost Africans
left the savanna
to follow the stars
leaving the ground
to stride with arms
down by our sides
to inherit the earth
and dirt of other lands
following the caravan
of sacred elephants
taking off our black
helmets to discover
other atmospheres
learning to breathe
here as well as there
drinking and singing
like blood thirsty
tigers the dangerous
songs of maps drawn
and long forgotten.
Warmer than the last time


I need a warm blooded woman,
Not another snake in the grass.
I need a loving woman,
Not a pain in the ***.


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