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It’s 1966. The whole world is changing

I think I’m giving up on this book. I just don’t understand it. And I’m not sure if it’s Me or the book.

Starting over and listening to it this time.

“History haunts him who does not honor it”

Theme? Why the apple or hard grows with abundance?

“The great fertilizer” for the thieves-the Flud family who steal the Osborne Wonder apple grafts. I re-read it twice. Aha!

Circe turns the rapist men into pigs!!!!!!!!!!🐷
😝

Circe summoned by her sister to come back to the family. Immortal man sales to see her to tell her the caveat is that they have to sale across the streets Cilla.- the goddess that Cercy transformed into a sea monster. In order to get through the streets, she transforms herself into her brother and they are able to sail through without death. It’s really cool!

Hermes comes to visit circe…. One of the Olympian, gods, brother to Zeus.. he is the one that tells Searcy she has immortal‘s voice, and that she can sing. They become lovers.

Circe is banished to the forest, alienated all of her family, but they do not break her. She realizes her Pharmaca. She sees herself as a witch, the greatest power is transformation. She realizes this changing an acorn into a strawberry. After that, she makes friends with a wild lion and finds ways to merge with her true self.

Circe admits how she used the yellow flowers to turn Glaucus into a God, and Cilla into an ugly sea witch. By admitting that she has done this and defying her grandmother, her father-Helious, the sun god- exiles her from their world alone.

Circe meets with her brother Ietes, and he reveals to her that they both possess Pharmica” powers and that she is a pharmicus, a witch.

Circe turns Glaucous into a god…a sea god and hopes to spend eternity with him. Sadly, he falls in love with another sea nymph, Cilla.

Circe falls in love with a mortal Glaucus(?) and she goes to see her grandmother Tethys-and refers to her as “great nurse of the world’s waters. Born like her husband from the Dawn of ages from mother earth herself” to help this mortal. In exchange for blessing him, Circe’s grandmother 👵🏼 makes her swear that she will not lie with him….

Circe raises her younger brother IETES? And he grows up to be her best friend. He asks a wonderful questions like “how does iypur divinity feel to you? Circe answers the question…”a shell…a conch,…nothing. Air.”
“ those are not the same. Nothing is empty void and air. is what fills all else. It is breath and life and spirit. The words we speak.” my brother, the philosopher..

“I was nothing. A stone. One more nympho child among the thousands and thousands. A strange feeling was rising in me. A sort of humming in my chest. like bees at Winter thaw “
search, she starts to realize that she is part of the gods, she calls herself “a creature swimming in the murk”

Prometheus is circe’s uncle… starts chapter 2?
defied the will of Zeus and brought mankind the gift of fire

Complicated anti-hero for our complicated times

“Maria Rocha had said it hadn’t she? Time moved in a spiral, not a mine, spiral meaning Romeo could be following Jamie in Mexico City 1964 AND at the same time could be following Antonio decades before.”

scorpions are mentioned again! Antonio gets bit by a scorpion, and a Mockingbird marks him saying “you had them, you had them”

As Jaime continues to read the family history, he reflects on his family “ I knew, but I didn’t know the scope of it. they stole 180 tons of gold from the New World.. they obliterated an entire mountain in Bolivia, that was basically made of silver. And the Indians I killed millions.MILLIONS of Indians!’
‘’I’ killed?’’ ….’ you mean Sonoros?” (Romerio asks)

As Jaime continues to learn about his ancestry, he reads how Maria Rocha is no longer retelling history, but inserting herself first person into the family. She refers to often a “darkness” and the darkness begins to take human form.
“It is a documentation of the Genesis of evil in our world….,
The shadow man flitted through the narrative for thousands of years, cleave to the Sonoros in perpetuity.”

reoccurring images of a scorpion in this book.
“sympathy of a scorpion 🦂 “ this is how the range refers to Antonio Sonato when he’s addressing the men, devastated that his younger patriot ranger was murdered by him, just a child.”

Hell, he thought looked a lot like Texas 😆

“No one is too wicked for Grace.”. these are the words that abuelita/ciielita says to Antonio as he’s getting ready to leave her care. This may be the moral of the story?

The old lady says to him “kindness is its own reward, but cruelty is a self-inflicted wound”