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Monday, May 25, 2015

Mammatus

By Craig Lindsay (own work), via Wikimedia Commons

The multiplicity of succor within a storm, if you remember how to
tip your gaze up and back into the rain. Artemis Ephesus of clouds:
not the Untouched Huntress but the All-Mother, many-breasted,
pendulous, thirst-slaker. Those who study the surface things say
she was born in steep gradients in moisture, temperature, wind
shear across anvil cloud boundaries. An unfortunate reduction of
complexity, I think. Are they afraid to name her fecundity spanning
time, her bronze and marble idols, her uncanny gray-green skies?

1 comment:

Lori Witzel said...

And this (although I'm still not persuaded by Gerard Seiterle's argument):

http://albertis-window.com/2011/02/diana-of-ephesus-keeping-abreast-with-iconography/