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Gaia, Kronos, Uranus; Asclepius, Orpheus, Gordias

No nettles within the gardens, No ¹needles within the haystacks. Who made for them new navels And showered with salted-wine what would not leave us. Who thrushed through every grain of every chaff, Picking out & crushing that which was rotten. We who made the meadows free! Who liberated they who were encased in ²amber; Rain, Lightning, Thunder. Who slayed the ³Fearsome Hydra. Slew the ⁴Slithering Gorgon. They who silenced the speaking weeds And the whispering flagons. Companions of the ⁵Dragon. Who caused the Titans to bleed. Who stitched the wound, Who cauterized it, Who bandaged it. The first of us to understand, What was the seed.
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manx-kronos-pragna
24 / M
Published
Jul 9, 2025
Lines·Words
30·107
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1 - Pine needles, pine snakes.

2 - Those who evolved or changed.

3 - Parasites, disease, pestilence, sickness, et cetera.

4 - "Satyrs of Cybele" - Ignorance & arrogance, especially that of which is brought on by things like psychotropics.

5 - Electric, in the context of thought and expression by that of the body's muscles. Science. Communication or illustration of one's consciousness.

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#mythology#philosophy#science#governance#meditation#mediation#individual#collective#within#outside
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