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chronarchy

Usas, Writing and Working

Feb 26, 2007 10:36

Yesterday, I sat at my computer. I'd gone to bed at gods-know-what hour after suffering through a major headache on Saturday, and woken up with suddenly nearly an enitre day to do two things:

Practice my ASL
Work on my book

The first thing I did was type up my ASL glossing for the test tesinth was going to help me record ( Read more... )

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singingwren February 26 2007, 16:53:18 UTC

Thinking about this topic makes me happy.

I should introduce myself to Usas, I think. *My* only experience with Usas is having a close online friend long ago who went by Usha or Ushas in the same spirit, and I don't think that is saying too much. ;)

I'm shy around Vedic deities, though, much as I am oddly shy around goddesses. Does it say something about me that I apparently don't trust the women up there? :P It's nice that people are rapturously in love with the various bath-dripping bossoms of female deities, but I think some part of me suspects that anything with a bossom is inherently dangerous.

Then again, I've never really courted a goddess who wasn't associated with something dangerous.

chronarchy February 26 2007, 17:02:35 UTC

I believe that worshiping the Vedic deities, in general, is playing with fire. But then, it's a fire religion.

But Usas has something different from so many others: she is beauty, she is light, and she uncovers those treasures that darkness has covered.

She's complicated, and beautiful in those complications.

singingwren February 26 2007, 17:11:04 UTC

Why is she complicated? She sounds remarkably straightforward.

chronarchy February 26 2007, 17:25:42 UTC

Some see sunrise as simple, easy, and uncomplicated.

I no longer can.

The colours, the constant changing of the rising sun, the revelation of light for only a moment before she blushes and hides it again behind a cloud. . .

There is nothing simple about the dawn, nothing straightforward.

For all her order, for all her maintenance of the laws of the world, she is complex in all her manners and all her ways.

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ariansdreams February 26 2007, 16:54:19 UTC

This is probably the most beautifully written entry I've read by you.

:)

chronarchy February 26 2007, 16:58:27 UTC

Thank you. :) It's still not enough. I find words lacking to describe Usas, and I always have. The Vedic poets couldn't do her justice, but they got closer than I can. That might be why I steal so much from them (the way I speak and write about her is very, very heavily influenced by the Rgveda).

! singingwren February 26 2007, 19:29:44 UTC

And hey! Just because you watch her get out of her bath every morning like a lecher doesn't mean she's not innocent. Them's YOUR naughty tendencies.

There also ain't nothing wrong with being naked in public. ;)

Re: ! chronarchy February 26 2007, 19:54:36 UTC

It is she who reveals, whether I watch or not.

viedansante February 26 2007, 21:06:27 UTC

I did a dawn rite the other day as I was walking to the train. It was impromptu, and I hadn't planned on it ... But it became necessary, or perhaps, I was just open enough to realize the necessity at the time. Or maybe I was just bored, but I don't think so.

And, afterwards, I think I got it... The 'it' being that the liminal time between night and day is a perfect time to worship, symbolically and actually ... And if it wasn't for my sleep schedule being so wack, I'd love to do it again and again.

Side note, sometimes when you write things like this it makes me happy.

chronarchy February 26 2007, 21:45:05 UTC

Making you happy is central to my life, babe.

*smiles*

And yeah, liminality is perfect for worship :) It's uncertain, a little weird, and sometimes frightening. But it's perfect.

viedansante February 26 2007, 22:05:33 UTC

Have I mentioned I am looking forward to seeing you in Greece? No? Well, consider it mentioned.

chronarchy February 27 2007, 04:13:37 UTC

I am certainly looking forward to seeing you there, as well.

I just picked up my tickets from FedEx today :)

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road_trip_judi February 27 2007, 16:57:22 UTC

You never really saw the sun rise until you were almost 19? That seems so late somehow, though I guess that shouldn't surprise me about you. You never seem to do things in a conventional manner.

As much as I prefer the night, I still revel in the dawn and the sunrise. In a way, I think I refuse to discriminate against any part of the day. Every part has the potential for greatness in some way, shape, or form.

chronarchy February 27 2007, 19:11:11 UTC

Nope. I'm not sure where I would have seen it rise, since I don't ever remember having been up that late/early. I'm really a city boy with the woods in my back yard, at heart. I'd sleep in, not wake up early, and watch cartoons. And I was more concerned about the cold than the sunrise if I was out waiting for a bus to go to school.

And my senior and junior years in high school, well, I never saw the sun: I was in school before it came up and didn't leave school until it was fully set.