we realized we were looking at the solar system
in an earlier stage of its life
in fact
a time before it was really
much of a regular and ordered system
at all
It was clear that we had traveled back thro time
to the west
tangled tresses of star-streams spread
abroad on the darkness
to the north
two long whirling tassels
like spinning tops swayed
their currents sometimes
interpenetrated
neonhot filaments of noonlight
interweaving
streams crossing one another's paths
pulled one another
moving in great sweeping curves
as they pass from one to the other
each from each
swung round away
or more rarely
came together
and together
united
. . .
"Merkelbach began from such passages
to form his theory that all ancient novels
were intended by their authors as coded ritual
texts for use in Mystery Religions"
. . .
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