“Then your tail will divide and shrink until it becomes what the people on earth call a pair of shapely legs. But it will hurt; it will feel as if a sharp sword slashed through you.
Everyone who sees you will say that you are the most graceful human being they have ever laid eyes on, for you will keep your gliding movement and no dancer will be able to tread as lightly as you. But every step you take will feel as if you were treading upon knife blades so sharp that blood must flow. I am willing to help you, but are you willing to suffer all this?"
Hans Christian Andersen, The Little Mermaid
So the thing about not taking yourself to seriously can actually spark creativity… When there’s less pressure, you start seeing things differently and taking risks without overthinking. Without the fear of failure you are more likely to create, express and dress like a clown sometimes.
#clowns #styling #costume #secondhand
They knew the stars well, yet when the eclipse came the Mayans still grew uneasy. They feared that a celestial jaguar was climbing the sky to devour the moon. She was damned, shadows crept across her face. To save her from his terrible jaws, they clanged drums, shouted incantations, and offered sacred blood; hoping their yelling would frighten the beast away.
The moon, after all, was no distant body, but instead, a radiant goddess of the delicate balance of life itself. When the jaguar took a bite of her light, it was said that pregnancies faltered and the world’s natural rhythms stumbled, as though all creation paused to see if the moon would survive the night.
“Do you suppose that you alone have had this experience? Are you surprised, as if it were a novelty, that after such long travel and so many changes of scene you have not been able to shake off the gloom and heaviness of your mind? You need a change of soul rather than a change of climate. Though you may cross vast spaces of sea, and though, as our Vergil remarks, Lands and cities are left astern, your faults will follow you whithersoever you travel.“
On Travel as a Cure for Discontent, Seneca
It is said, once upon a time, the demon-mother Hariti stole away the children of men. To soften her hunger, the Buddha placed in her hand a pomegranate, red as dawn, filled with seeds beyond counting. From that day she turned keeper instead of taker, and the fruit came to stand for life unending. Pomegranates are now a symbol of a future that must be celebrated.
The iconic Red light district but why red … the red light makes skin look smoother, making prostitutes look more attractive.
Historically, red light was used to obscure marks of sexual transmitted diseases, making them less visible.
“Chaos” was the primordial Greek goddess of the empty space or chasm before creation, representing the void from which everything originated. - she was the goddess of the great “before.” A shadowy, swirling realm where nothing had a name yet, but everything was waiting to be born.
