Primordial Religion

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PRIMORDIAL RELIGION

“The uncanny is that out of which all that is ordinary emerges, that in which all that is ordinary is suspended without surmising it ever in the least, and that into which everything ordinary falls back. TO DAIMONION is the essence and essential ground of the uncanny.”- Martin Heidegger, “Parmenides”

PRIMORDIAL RELIGION

A light is vanished; so it should,

for named extortion men’s desire

to banish night, as though he could

maintain for more apportioned fire

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The fields are fallow, paddock bare,

the trouncing-hook and shears lie still,

but ever-wheeling, looks through air,

with countless eyes, the hearing Will