“I learned landscape from wolves, mountains from the moon, and city from an acacia tree. Sunlight is my other half, the other half of night.”
— Negar Emrani, from ‘Exhaust’. Translated from the Farsi by Kaveh Akbar. Published in Blackbird.
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“what can i do when the night comes and i break into stars.”
— nayyirah waheed, from salt, osmosis
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The stars are in blossom, the moon is in flower,
And bright are the windows of Night in her tower.
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I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night
MYTHOLOGY MEME - [1/?] AFRICAN GODS/GODDESSES: OYA
“Oya
Preserver of links
Yet as wind
As hurricane
As tornado
As lightning
A destroyer
A woman to her core
Audacious
Feminine
Primary
In Africa
Venerated.”
THE WEIRD AND THE WONDERFUL | Conductors
the thing about some people is that you know they’re hiding a storm beneath their skin; rolling waves of thunder crashing on a stony shore and waking gods older than time and more vast than the edges of space. they’re conductors, pulling lightning down from the sky and wielding it at the tips of their fingers, and while you very may well be shocked and amazed, they are not here to impress you.
BENVOLIO MONTAGUE AESTHETIC
And to ’t they go like lightning, for, ere I
Could draw to part them, was stout Tybalt slain.
And, as he fell, did Romeo turn and fly.
This is the truth, or let Benvolio die.
Japanese Mythology series (1/?) : Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi & Susanoo
In Japanese mythology, Amaterasu, the goddess of the sun, is the sister of Susanoo, the god of storms and the sea, and of Tsukuyomi, the god of the moon. It was written that Amaterasu had painted the landscape with her siblings to create ancient Japan. All three were born from Izanagi when he was purifying himself after entering Yomi, the underworld, after failing to save Izanami. Amaterasu was born when Izanagi washed out his left eye, Tsukuyomi was born from the washing of the right eye, and Susanoo from the washing of the nose.
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