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Monday, January 13, 2020

cribology (2017)



born of ribs sun-cribbed, moon-fibbed,
manger-nibbed of wood hungry hipped
  four legged one world fellow folk
  beak-pawed two eyed same blood-yolk

same eye on every parcel, same blood only redder
mixed in coals first sun-thought tethers,
   one tailed one spine feather-haired snout,
   pack or herd or flock; gang intrinsic clout

the worm dirt cherish, old man in silage
from under a cabbage patch, his former mortgage
   same heart the hart hath, same raven jaw wrath
   same fox simple hunger and eagle dumb math

   odd tool, nest of wood, the crib birth hallows;
   offering bounty, with lessons, sunrise wallows



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criobolium

"Criobolium is the ritual sacrifice of a ram in the cult of Attis and the Great Mother of the Gods. It seems to have been a special ceremony instituted after the rise, and on the analogy of the taurobolium, which was performed in honor of the Great Mother, for the purpose of giving fuller recognition to Attis in the duality which he formed with the Mother."

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