Afro Magick

They are similar in the way they value knowledge and hold it in such high regards but that makes the tension between all the more interesting. Sorghaghtani ultimately has noble goals for the knowledge and she clearly values the cultures that brought it to her. We know that because because she talks about how they tracked stars and measured the size of the earth, she’s clearly done her homework. Which makes it all the more powerful that there is no way she doesn’t know this book didn’t come into her possession peacefully, she understands that the mongols would raid those people to get the book for her and was still willing to send her husband out to get it. That huger for knowledge and willingness to chase after what you want is something Sitara can absolutely understand which makes even more fascinating that Sitara loathes her. And that makes the forced, “I admire your mind,” even more powerful. I could see them getting along swimmingly if they had met under different circumstances but alas they cannot.

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Druidical Circle. Mona the druidess or, The astral science of old Britain. 1904.

Because my mouth Is wide with laughter And my throat Is deep with song, You do not think I suffer after I have held my pain So long? Because my mouth Is wide with laughter You do not hear My inner cry? Because my feet Are gay with dancing You do not know I die?