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[image error] in the Eatern desert there is a mountain, lush and misted, and having its very own breeds... Gebel Elba. Who knew, and yet I have been close to its location.

Hassan a Shazli: the tomb of the Sufi saint who died on the old Mecca route through the Red Sea Hills in the twelfth century.

Dendera

The Trojans went forth with a cry and a shout, like cranes,
like the cry of cranes when they fly towards heaven
fleeing winter and the winter rain.

Book III Illiad

The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise, 1445
Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) (Italian, Sienese, ca. 1400–1482)
Tempera on panel

The Finger Lakes, a low rolling glacial terrain south of Ontario where the God of the Iroqois had pressed his hand upon the earth.

[image error] The saddlebill stork, now rarely seen north of Khartoum, is the picture that defines the word for soul.