BTZ42Read: it has happened before

[ish mailian]

It's not quite a universal, the idea that celestial divine being(s),
creator(s) of the world, drop neither bombs nor rockets on our heads,
but raindrops, and that there seems to be no use in worrying about it,
or about who will stop the rain, and that rain is needed, and better
than either fire or ice, to make fecund our Good Earth. The fire, the
ice, the lightening, the screaming, the rages and wages of wars, the
wrath of the celestial divinities, who are wise and have knowledge,
foreknowledge even, and who are often law givers who visited Earth,
and are, in rituals and rites, in remembrances, called upon to protect
the sacred and punish the profane. We find it difficult to imagine the
sky in a sacred relationship with the Earth and people, but anyone who
has stood under the stars and felt the mysterious and sublime power of
the sky knows something of the power of of the most high Sky. A
screaming comes across the sky and the source of the scream, if it be
a man made revelation of power, then the Sky, as Nietzsche says of
God, is Dead.
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