ancient wisdom

[theancientwisdom]

But a single drop of wet can spoil the dry

–Book of Soils 16:9

[theancientwisdom]

Guck and froth is all that was found in the sea snail shells that were brought in by the tides of the arid sea—until one day—a snailing man happened upon a simple shell caked to the brim with a slime of pearlescent wonder

Treasures 4:19

[theancientwisdom]

And from the fragrant pepperfruit of zested bush, Salt Workers across the bounded flats emashed them into a sour jam upon the ghourds of the woodlon quarry

Pslam 8:88, Book of Toils 

[theancientwisdom]

In the time of the first crossings, the river steamed away its waters and revealed [fragment lost]. The villagers were so distraught it was their tears that refilled its banks.

Crossings, bk. 5, vrs. 21

[theancientwisdom]

Salves, balms, oils, and such things. These are the enchantments of slather.

Book of Old Magics, 40:391

[theancientwisdom]

The metal-tinker smelts new formes, formes of which no one had ever seen, and when they were seen, were utterly dire and incomprehensible.

Smithing, bk 43 vrs 281

[theancientwisdom]

And how the gentle waters of the river that seems as if it is an ocean, laps gently across the shores of the laplands, which seem as if they, in turne, are an endless expanse of pebbled sands.

Lands, bk. 3 vrs. 32

[theancientwisdom]

Ominous the dust rises to reveal the screaming sun of the after-winter, a purple gleam that erupts foliage across long tawny branch and convince bee to squeeze from the holes of their thawing nests.

Seasons, bk. 8, vrs. 12

[theancientwisdom]

We are but moist packets of soil, bescreamed father Hole! Animated from soppy mud we rise as yeaste, he moaned.

Book of Truthes, 5:31

[theancientwisdom]

In the dark plague hall, a ray of light fell from a rotted shingle. The sickly took turns squinting admist the beam

Book of End Days, vol. 9 vrs. 831

[theancientwisdom]

Ponder the dance of light in the waves, and the stoney gems of the earth. There you will find the glints of truth.

Book of Soils, 90:90

[theancientwisdom]

The scrund minister circle'd round the gathering stone's sandy basin a deep, sweeping mark. Inside here, she decried, none shall ponder upon the spheres!

Works and Trials, vol 6 vrs 291

[theancientwisdom]

To feague a horse; to put ginger up a horse's fundament, and formerly, as it is said, a live eel, to make him pert and carry his tail well

Book of Husbandry, vol. 5 vrs. 531

[theancientwisdom]

For when they were sick, I dressed in a sackcloth

Menders bk 8 vrs 112

[theancientwisdom]

What is a wetland? The young man asked his elder, and lo the wise man swaddled him, blind-folded him, and after a fortnight of bound travel, revealed to him a secret land of endless marsh

The Book of Waters, vol 2 verse 20

[theancientwisdom]

From his hut to his hovel he spanned a long thatched tube which he benamed 'hallway'

Architectures 8:31

[theancientwisdom]

Farro, Emmer, and Spelt Barley: these are the chitlins of the land.

Grains 9:21