"form is emptiness,

emptiness is form;

emptiness is not separate from form,

form is not separate from emptiness;

whatever is form is emptiness,

whatever is emptiness is form."

"In Tibet, the leftward-moving swastika is a sign of the Bon religion, of black magic.

Stupas and chortens must therefore be circumambulated clockwise.

The leftward-spinning eddies spin into the unconscious;

the rightward-spinning ones spin out of the unconscious chaos.

The rightward-moving swastika in Tibet is therefore a Buddhist emblem."

"the essence of the mythological canon of

the hero-redeemer is that he is fatherless or motherless,

that one of the parents is often divine, and

that the hero’s mother is frequently the Mother Goddess herself or else betrothed to a god.

These mothers are virgin mothers, which is not to say that what psychoanalysis has attempted to read into this fact is necessarily correct.

As everywhere in the ancient world, virginity simply means not belonging to any man personally;"

Frog 'saunas' help endangered frogs survive the devastating impacts of a deadly fungal disease.

"In collaboration with the University of Melbourne, researchers homed in on the fungal disease chytridiomycosis, which has already driven at least six amphibian species to extinction in Australia and threatens dozens more worldwide."

https://phys.org/news/2024-06-frog-saunas-endangered-frogs-survive.html

today i am thinking about my Lhasa Apso companion of many years.

i keep a place for him.

the scent of a deity. recognizing the gods by aroma.

FRANCESCA IANNARILLI
The Scent as mark of Divinity and Otherness

"Spell 346:

Horus himself will cleanse you in the pool of cold water;

Anubis will enwrap you in his best embalming; Thot will make clean for you the fair paths of the West to Osiris;

Dedwen will make his perfume of what is in you. He will open up to you the fair paths of vindication;

Nu will convey you; it is

Wepwawet who will guide you to the fair paths of the West."

"This light, the symbol of consciousness and illumination,

is the prime object of the cosmogonies of all peoples.

Accordingly, “in the creation legends of nearly all peoples and religions, the process of creation merges with the coming of the light.”

As the Maori text says:

“The light, the light,
the seeking,
the searching,
in chaos, in chaos.”

Only in the light of consciousness can man know."

it's warming up here again. hazy. maybe more rain?🙏🏻the wind really dried up the last lot quickly. that, and plants sucked it up and out, staying hydrated.

bee balm in bloom.

the great Mother. fertility goddesses.

the kilts were short in those days.

the power of the female in ancient myths.

"On an Etruscan bronze relief, the Great Mother is depicted

in her original form as Gorgo,

strangling lions with both arms

and spreading her legs wide in

the attitude of ritual exhibitionism."

in the garden
birds feeding, flying, chirping
squirrels munching.

suddenly, quiet
squirrels up trees, nervously watching.

i look around
a long yellow feline form crosses the back path into the lemon balm patch, dense cover.

i get a long stick
poke around inside the lemon balm patch

cat emerges, miffed, how did you know i was there?😿

i walk towards it, who makes an exit through the back fence.

i like cats, but they're not allowed here. earlier i found a dead fledgling. now i know who😑

re: Fortune 500 says tfg would tank the economy, will not support him.

so,

"We know from prehistoric times the role played by the divine kings,

who had either to kill themselves or be killed when their powers failed and

they could no longer personally guarantee fertility."

what now?

#politics

they stayed for about an hour, the usual.

last year, she had 4😳

they are adorable. one is quite shy.

this morning, after a 3 day absence, Molly showed up, with 2 kits🩷

videos to follow.

garden update.

bee balms, milkweed flowering.

gardenview scarlet (this year)and purple rooster (3rd year) bee balm.
volunteer milkweed makes its home among the goldenrod.

"Food is a phase of Brahma:

From food all creatures are produced,"

🔻

Tree medicine. Cinnamon.

the oil rubbed into the soles of my sandals, keeps them and my feet deodorized, and stimulates warmth in them too.

"In addition to being an antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antidiabetic, antimicrobial, anticancer, lipid-lowering, and cardiovascular-disease-lowering compound, cinnamon has also been reported to have activities against neurological disorders, such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4003790/