from the Zoroastrian Vendidad 2: Yima and the Flood Overpopulation and expansion of the earth: V.2.8 When Yima had ruled for three hundred winters, then this earth became full of animals, small and large, and men, of dogs, birds, and red and blazing fires. They found no place to be(?), animals, small and large, and men. V.2.9 Then I informed Yima: O beautiful Yima [...]
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Blood and Flowers: The Aztecs
April 22, 2011
“Will I have to go like the flowers that perish? Will nothing remain of my name? Nothing of my fame here on earth? At least my flowers, at least my songs! Earth is the region of the fleeting moment. Is it also thus in the place where in some way one lives? Is there joy [...]
Self-Sacrifice and Sustainability: The Hero Twins of the Popol Vuh
April 16, 2011
“Then again they sacrificed themselves. One of them would die, surely throwing himself down in death. Then having been killed, he would immediately be revived. And the Xibalbans simply watched them while they did it. Now all of this was merely the groundwork for the defeat of the Xibalbans at their hands.” Chris Hedges: Throw Out The Money [...]
In The Beginning, There Was Eros.
April 15, 2011
“These things declare to me from the beginning, you Muses who dwell in the house of Olympus, [115] and tell me which of them first came to be. In truth at first Chaos came to be, but next wide-bosomed Earth, the ever-sure foundation of all1the deathless ones who hold the peaks of snowy Olympus, and dim Tartarus [...]
