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The Shape of Stories: How Myths Move Through Bodies and Worlds

The Emerald

CHAPTER

Do You Feel It?

Ractabija asks that every time a drop of his blood hits the ground, another carbon copy of himself will be borne. So with all that unchecked power, he goes on a killing rampage across the cosmos. What are the gods to do? Well, they need kali. They need the black, whole, black as the space from which no light escapes. The shape of this story is drawing inwards. All radiant worlds collapsing in towards an infinite, dimensionless centre. It's a story of how consciousness moves. Sometimes you need durga and sometimes you need coli.

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