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A Tree, a Snake, a Bull, an Ear of Corn.

+.post rock x 2 +.haunted +.post punk Jupiter (25th Anniversary Reissue) by Cave In + Jupiter (25th Anniversary Reissue) by Cave In + Dejame Dormir by Starflyer 59 + Jupiter (25th Anniversary Reissue) by Cave In + Moonlight Concessions by Throwing Muses I have wandered, in pursuit of Totems and the Eucharist, some way from the astronomical thread of Chapters II and III, and now it would appear that in order to understand religious origins we must wander still farther. The chapters mentioned were largely occupied with Sungods and astronomical phenomena, but now we have to consider an earlier period when there were no definite forms of gods, and when none but the vaguest astronomical knowledge existed. Sometimes in historical matters it is best and safest to move thus backwards in Time, from the things recent and fairly well known to things more ancient and less known. In this way we approach more securely to some understanding of the dim and remote past. It i...

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The distance between the ideal and the actual must not be so great as to demoralize, nor so small as to trivialize.

they had changed into objects like flesh-coloured cabbages, obscene and distilling a dense almost indecent scent.

“I want to tell you one thing,” he said.

She wore a metal foil dress and cape with a red and black stripe on the sleeve, the emblem of the A-Class.

they had wings like eagles, were nimble-footed as gazelles.

Now that you understand the intricacies of reality testing.

when the new potatoes are dug all the family must taste them, otherwise “the spirits in them take offence...."

The reduction of the past to dry facts yields the salt of wisdom.

In the evening I was shown a piece of embroidery with fish-like sea-monsters in it.

Do you remember how the sun came out on our last evening just as it has done today?