"While the exhausted Quetzalcóatl sleeps, his unprotected people, the Toltecs, fall easy prey to the evil magic of Tezcatlipoca. With enchanting music, he lures the Toltecs towards a cliff, while they dance in a trance. Many fall to their death, while others are transformed into stones."

You said the world was magic I was wide-eyed and laughing ( Read more... )

You carried the soul from (my) body - and yet,
You are still in the soul;
You have given pains - and are still the remedy;
Openly you split my breast -
Yet, you are still hidden in my heart.
You have destroyed the kingdom of my heart
With the sword of coquetry,
And are still a ruler in that place….

- Amir Khusrau

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Young Krishna and his brother, Balarama, happen to be playing by the sacred river Yamuna. The river had become infertile, overrun by poisonous waters because the great serpent lord Kaliya had nested there with his snake wives ( Read more... )

Apologies for disappearing. RL went tits up.

I'm broken-hearted with all that this entails ( Read more... )

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