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    Pasaya
    Pasaya
    Pasaya
    Ebook72 pages18 minutes

    Pasaya

    By Lasa Limpin

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    This is a book of poetry dedicated to Pasaya, the Snake Goddess of Knossos who has her arms upraised, as well as to the Snake Goddess of Knossos who holds her arms down at her sides. During the writing of these poems I learned about a total of seven goddesses (most in fragments) found in the temple repositories at Knossos. I also read an article with a very convincing argument for divine names found in Linear A, also at Knossos. These, as well as inspiration from what are known as ‘bell goddesses’ from Crete (clay goddesses thrown on a wheel, hence the ‘bell’ shape, with arms upraised and feet that swing), are the inspiration for these poems.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLasa Limpin
    Release dateDec 12, 2018
    ISBN9780463308844
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      Book preview

      Pasaya - Lasa Limpin

      PASAYA

      Lasa Limpin

      Blue Monkeys Press

      Copyright © 2018 Lasa Limpin

      All rights reserved.

      Sing, Muses, of the Unknown Goddess found in the ruins of Knossos

      Hermes help me create a precious gift for this Goddess

      (Dance the sing

      Song the sing

      Look see I sky

      It’s the overture

      Crescendo falling

      Tumbling down the hill

      An apple

      landing

      at Our feet

      Kick it away!)

      ~

      Adorn

      their dresses

      embroidered magic

      Pictures?

      Toss them into the sea

      Inflate a boat

      Growing into a lyre

      ~

      Hand holds the snake tail

      up

      Head wanting

      Embrace

      SEVEN FLOUNCES

      SEVEN GODDESSES

      Head wanting

      For the Rite

      Initiate

      Me

      Tresses of hair

      falling down back to hips

      Initiate me

      ~

      It is

      a living

      Goddess

      She who is capable

      of creating

      sacred space

      She is the builder

      The builder

      of all good things

      She is the cutter

      The cutter of strings

      to measure

      space

      To place Us

      in Spaces

      to Be in

      and

      We are all seen in

      the Places and spaces

      she cuts

      Altars and palaces and temples and roadsides

      building with piles of stone

      She is the measure

      fraction or inches

      She is the cutter of stone

      ~

      Throne

      Waves on

      Starlight

      Dreaming

      in the dark

      I see the cosmic

      expanse

      in the apron

      of a statue

      I

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