the moon's favors: prayer

2011/07/31

prayer

Listen, Moirai (Fates) ... hear our prayers ...
send us rose-bloomed Eunomia ( Good Order in civic government)
and her bright-throned sisters Dike (Justice)
and garland-wearing Eirana (Peace),
and make this city forget its heavy-hearted misfortunes.
- Greek Lyric V Anonymous Fragments 1018 (from Stobaeus, Anthology)

Words whisper, carrying more than one might know, hypostases, rather than mere understanding. Words grow from roots, spawn families, travel and mingle, get lost, get found, and often marry the strangest bedfellows. Like our bodies, our ideas, and our culture, words evolve, handed down to us from a place beyond memory. As the warp and woof of language, words possess the magic to shape the immaterial into the solid things of psyche ~From my intro to AO's The Archives of the Heart

The Platonic tradition may be likened to an underground river that from time to time sends up a spring; wherever its waters flow, the soul is reborn, and with it the conception of intellectual form, the beautiful, and true art.~ Kathleen Raine