Author: Gibran

Flicking candlelight, Windy moonless night, Terse as a firefly but not as bright.
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Indo-European Language-Tree

French Dieu
Spanish Dios from
Latin Deus from 
Ancient Greek Zeus from
Proto-Hellenic *dzéus from
Proto-Indo-European *deiwos meaning "celestial" or "shining"

Iuppiter or Jūpiter from
Roman Diespiter (deus + Latin: pater = English: father) from 
Proto-Italic *djous patēr from
Proto-Indo-European root *Dyḗws*Pahtḗr 
	literally meaning "Sky Father"
Whence is also derived the name of the Hindu sky god Dyáuṣ Pitṛ́ (Vedic Sanskrit: Dyáuṣpitṛ́)
and Proto-Germanic *Tīwaz or Tius hence Old Norse Týr 

English mother from 
Middle English moder from 
Old English mōdor from 
Proto-Germanic *mōdēr from 
Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr 
Other cognates include 
  Spanish madre
  Latin māter
  Greek mā́tēr/mā́tar 
  Slavic *mati 
  Persian madar
  Sanskrit mātṛ 

English Sin from
Old English synn "moral wrongdoing" from 
Proto-Germanic *sundiō probably "it is true" from 
Proto-Indo-European *snt-ya-, a collective form from 
*es-ont- "becoming" 
  present participle of root *es- "to be"

Sanskrit Bodhisattva "one whose essence is perfect knowledge," from 
bodhi "perfect knowledge" + sattva "reality, being" from 
sat-, sant- "existing, true, virtuous" from 
Proto-Indo-European root *es- "to be"
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Laniakea (Hawaiian: Immense Heaven)

Superclusters, the biggest structures in the Universe, are regions of space that are densely packed with galaxies. This image maps Laniakea according to the flow of galaxies across space.
Map of superclusters of galaxies and voids in a distance of one billion light years from the milky way. The supercluster Laniakea is marked in yellow.
The Local Group’s location within the Virgo Supercluster as part of the larger Laniakea Supercluster.
Local Group and nearest galaxies (not to scale).
The Milky Way
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Idle stones

Intent was just, if you would judge, we pray you do thus. 

Laws some free,
Other some bind,
Should you find
Laws enslave thee
By unjust chains
Of self proclaimed
Reign, 
Exclaim, by any means, 
Law applies to all,
Its walls and beams 
And sacred halls,
The innocent
And the guilty.
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Guardian of the Threshold

Dhamma wheel 
Prayer to Ganesha

We pray to you Ganesha, 
    Father of the Gods

Your mother is Lady Paravati,
    your father Mahadeva

We pray to you Ganesha, 
    Father of the Gods

You, with two kinds of teeth
    and four strong arms

You have vermillion on your forehead
And ride on a rat

We pray to you Ganesha,
    Father of the Gods

from: Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas

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Either/or or nor

“Don Quixote” sketch by Pablo Picasso (1955)
Fool to Knight seems Fool
Fool to Fool seems Knight
Fool so Fool so Fool
So full
So full
So full
True Knight to Knight seems Knight
When he a fool would Knight