myth
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A link to a page I posted about mythical locations given topographical ones in modern times.
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another unrelated tweet:
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MaryDivine Mother MaryI just cannot carryThese burdens I bear. ScaryThe world, it is scaryAnd I cannot buryThe wounds that I wear.
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The lovely maiden Maia—Forlorn and lost at sea.Daughter of lovely Pleione—And somehow lost to me.Her father, Atlas, held the HeavensOn his great shoulders, believe.In the land there by the Sea.They named it after He. Once were Seven Sisters.Now Six. Can you believeThat 100,000-years-agoWas the last time you could seeSeven Sister StarsIn the bright Pleiades?It sort…
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Myths aren’t meant to be interpreted literally.What is wrong with y’all?They’re not meant to be historicDocuments at all!These stories are all allegories.Read them now as such.Else their wisdom will be lost on you!You’ll never feel their touch!
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I lost my marbles yesterday,There’re bats all in my attic.I tried to look the other way.The cat would just not have it.The circle is a prison cell.(I mean the rings of Saturn.)They’re bending him to evil wills.I hope it’s not a pattern.
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He flew on wingèd sandals near the shoreAnd saw her naked there bound tight to stoneAs beautiful a maiden naught before,Had Perseus, the hero, ever known. He carried the decapitated headOf the Gorgon sister who was widely knownAs Medusa—who was definitely deadBut whose stare still could turn a man to stone. He came up with a proffer…