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Universe, Adorned: Ornament in Culture, Cosmos, and Consciousness

The Emerald

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How to Survive the Underworld Journeys

How would your life be different if there were a ritual to mark every step of it? The vast, wide world is navigated through adornment. If the myths tell us something, it's that spirit help is vital. It's vital to be adored. How many today are left to confront the abyss of existence bearing no sacred patterns, no sacred talismans, no songs, no community, no help, nothing? Nothing but the weight of their own psychology.

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