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Linguists say the word for dawn is among the oldest in the Indo-European languages; she’s a goddess, whose reconstructed original name, Ausōs, gives us Easter. Ancient humans must have felt what we can feel now: dawn is so beautiful, she must be holy. The animals are so beautiful too, so akin to us and so unlike, that their beauty must mean something. What?
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Continue ReadingEighteen years among Somali Muslims in the Horn of Africa taught me much about prayer.. I had expected mornings in Borama to be quiet. No traffic...
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