SONNET FOR A DESERT DEITY - ART CORPS

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LYRICS & CREDITS below: Late at night she glides with you, gently chanting riddles, too, When she lifts her soft white veil, the knife she holds, glistens in the sun. Noble is this lioness, who dresses you in heaven's gifts, A judge of travelers' arguments, protecting all the good, from wrong. Casting all her spells with charm, mystifyiny the desert dawn, as sands of time run through her hands, your decisions are her commands. CHORUS: On the way, strangers meet, mirages of their defeat, Phantoms pass, on the street, through mirrors of time without retreat. She's called out your name and grants you wishes, when they're not in vain, touched by this in your dreams, you've begun to act in unknown scenes. So you've reached the passage, to your journey's end, read the meanings on the walls, as she fades into the desert wind. CHORUS: On the way, strangers meet, mirages of their defeat, Phantoms pass, on the street, through mirrors of time without retreat. * words and music by CLAUDE ARTO & Lonnie Scott Severson ART CORPS #2: [32-track recording by ART CORP in PARIS circa 1986] * COPYRIGHTED by CLAUDE ARTO & Lonnie Scott Severson To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake A short slave story: The Earliest Cinderella Story: Rhodopis was a celebrated 6th-century Greek hetaera, of Thracian origin. One of two hetaerae mentioned by name in Herodotus's discussion of the profession. She was a fellow-slave with the fable teller Aesop, with whom, in one version of her story, she had a secret love affair with, both of them belonging to the Samian Iadmon. She afterwards became the property of Xanthes, another Samian, who took her to Naucratis in Egypt, during the reign of Amasis II, where she continued to work as an hetaera for the benefit of her master. This led to her meeting Charaxus, brother of the poetess Sappho, who had come to Naucratis as a merchant. Charaxus fell in love with her, and ransomed her from slavery for a large sum of money. Sappho later wrote a poem accusing Rhodopis of robbing Charaxus of his property. Rhodopis continued to live at Naucratis after her liberation from slavery, and tithed a tenth part of her income to the temple at Delphi, where ten iron spits were dedicated in her name; these spits were seen by Herodotus. There was a tale current in Greece that Rhodopis built the third pyramid. Another tale related by Strabo and Aelian makes Rhodopis a queen of Egypt, and renders the supposition of her being the same as the Egyptian queen Nitocris and heroine of many an Egyptian legend. Rhodopis was one day bathing at Naucratis, an eagle took up one of her sandals, flew away with it, and dropped it in the lap of the Egyptian king, as he was administering justice at Memphis. Struck by the strange occurrence and the beauty of the sandal, he did not rest till he had found out the fair owner of the beautiful sandal, and as soon as he had discovered her made her his queen. This is the Rhodopis story, famed for being the earliest Cinderella story. Synonyms: hetaerae Greek ἑταῖραι hetairai courtesans Bagno di Cleopatra: Cleopatra killed herself by inducing an Egyptian cobra to bite her. Strabo, alive at the time of the event, and might have been in Alexandria, says there are two stories: she applied a toxic ointment, or she was bitten by an asp. Roman poets, writing within ten years of the event mention bites by two asps. Plutarch states that she was found dead. Her handmaiden, Iras, dying at her feet, and another handmaiden, Charmion, adjusting her crown before she herself falls. He goes on that an asp was concealed in a basket of figs brought to her by a rustic, and, finding it after eating a few figs, she held out her arm for it to bite. Other stories state that it was hidden in a vase, and she poked it with a spindle until it got angry enough to bite her. POSEIDIA: Real People of Ancient Egyptian Art and Architecture And Their Forgotten History From Atlantis Aphrodite Venus NOCTURNAL river goddess MUSA Divine spiritual exotic exotique Greece sun god Mid-eastern dance softly Desert Love Song: Cities In Dust The Beauty of Xiahoe Desert Rose Mystery of the Sphinx [eolian secret HIEROGLYPH]