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It has to be owned…
The Temple Space has never looked finer.
Mind you, we say that every year!
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Even Coyote, a late, somewhat incongruous
addition to proceedings looks well:
‘How will people know what not to do, unless I show them?’
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Our Veil of the Beyond,
stumbled upon during ‘Leaf and Flame’ for the oath-takings,
and finding its feet in ‘Feathered Seer’ for the walk-of-fear,
seems now, almost perfected!
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Is a veil also a mask?
Are there deeper significancies to ‘dressing the temple’?
What did our face look like before we were born?
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In waking life our roles, which for many, define us
are the masks behind which our true selves cower and tremble.
Yet, get the player to put on a mask for a drama and watch them unfurl!
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After slaying Hu-Wa-Wa, whose mask is an intestinal tract,
Gilgamesh finds himself embroiled in the labrynthine like coils
of his own mind, deep within the bowels of the Temple of Ishtar…
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Gilgamesh spectacularly fails this test as he has done so many others,
and again strides forth to meet his destiny…
As must we all.
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I love the part “what did our faces look like before we were born.” We don’t often think about that.
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Thanks for sharing, Alethea… 😉
You’re welcome 🙂
And it is never easy 💜
Never… 😉
Maybe but not now.🤭
😉
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I like the last line, Stuart. We all have to continuously stride forward to meet our destiny.
Indeed! Some of us, though, are, perhaps, better equipped than others… 😉