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  • Only the God Changed (4.5)

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    K. L. Homme
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    The life of a god is but a mythical parting of the eternal dark.  About fourteen centuries before Christ’s eastern star pierced Pagan skies, a goat fell into a chasm, and began to bleat strangely.  This perplexed its shepherd.  Having got his goat safely out, he climbed back in, and down, to inhale the vapors…

  • The Oracle at Dolphin (4.4)

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    A dragoness born of mud—a child of Gaia named Python—guarded this cave from which her mother’s oracle spoke, at Pytho. Legend tells that the dragoness was drawn into the jealousy of Zeus’s sister-wife, Hera. Gentle Leto carried the faithless Zeus’s twins—Artemis and Apollo—in her womb. In her jealousy, Hera set the serpent upon the Titaness.

  • Field Note 2.1: The Wind Has No Papers

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    K. L. Homme
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    Not long after, we found ourselves witness to the tail end of the annual migration of California tortoiseshell butterflies, lifted upslope on Lassen’s invisible updrafts. Many had journeyed from northern Mexico and Baja California — without proper papers, their wings notwithstanding. And yet we do not call them “illegal.”