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  • Rāvaṇa’s Dance

    So I watched Rāmāyaṇa yesterday. Not being Indian, I didn’t grow up with the stories and legends of this magnificent epic, so I’m on a journey to discover them as I go, in anticipation of…

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  • Anksti rytą rytužį

    In 1745, the German Lutheran pastor Philipp Ruhig included three traditional songs in his book about the Lithuanian language, among the earliest examples of the country’s folk poetry to appear in print.

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  • On Friendship

    Ընկերովի մահը հարսանիք է։ Ənkerovi mahə harsanikʿ ē. A shared death is [like] a wedding.

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  • On Disappointment

    أصوم أصوم وأفطر على بصلة [aṣūm, aṣūm, w-afṭar ʿala baṣala] I fast and fast, only to break my fast with an onion.

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