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“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.”

— H. P. Lovecraft (via thelaughingodradek)

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In time of drought the Serbians strip a girl to her skin and clothe her from head to foot in grass, herbs, and flowers, even her face being hidden behind a veil of living green. Thus disguised she is called the Dodola and goes through the village with a troop of girls. They stop before every house; the Dodola keeps turning herself round and dancing, while the other girls form a ring about her singing one of the Dodola songs, and the housewife pours a pail of water over her. One of the songs they sing runs thus: “ We go through the village; The clouds go in the sky; We go faster. Faster go the clouds; They have overtaken us. And wetted the corn and the vine.”

James George Frazer - “The Golden Bough”, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1925, pp.69-70.

Picture: Урош Предић - “Поливање додоле” Uroš Predić - “Watering of Dodola”