There Is A Lake In Tanzania That Turns Everything It Touches Into Stone— Petrified Animals Washing

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In Aztec mythology, Coatlicue (”she with serpent skirts”) is the mother of the 400 stars in the sky, and one daughter, Coyolxauhqui (”she with bells on her cheeks”). When Coatlicue becomes pregnant illegitimately (by touching a tuft of hummingbird feathers - this sort of stuff happens a lot in Mesoamercan mythos), her children become both embarrassed and enraged. But none more so than her daughter, Coyolxauhqui. Together with her 400 brothers, she launches an attack on her mother, but it is foiled when her mother’s unborn son Huitzilopochtli (”the hummingbird on the left”) springs forth from her womb, armed for battle.

Huitzilopochtli dismembers Coyolxauhqui, and flings her head into the sky where it becomes the moon, so that her mother might look upon her always.

You’re a defiant act of creation.

Elisabeth Hewer, from “World Inside Expanding,” Wishing for Birds (via lifeinpoetry)

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They call them moon jellyfish: Those small little creatures With the flowers on their backs. And, tucked away, on a small island in Palau There’s a lake where they live with The golden jellies Who’ve been there so long That the poison is gone from their stingers. Who spin up towards the sun and Photosynthesize themselves alive. I think that’s what falling in love must be like: Forgetting how to hurt Following the sun Swimming In the cupped hands you’ve learned To call home.

Jellyfish, by Ashe Vernon (via latenightcornerstore)

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My bath looks like the night sky

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