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For the Divine Mother of the Universe (w/ Nivedita Gunturi)

The Emerald

CHAPTER

To Speak of Her, I Had to Speak of Her

We know her through trance, light trance like a sweet hum of dragonflies on a summer day. She bends and squeezes her way into her devotees, forcing the shrieks and yelps of high trance out of quivering mouths. When one is in trance, they say, it is her. To speak of her, I had to first speak of hums and resonances and of nectars. And I had to speak of festivals that are infused with her plants and her songs.

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