The pale yellow Moon looked drowsy, but New Moon (Amavasya) was still ten days away.
The birds did not chirp, and the cock did not announce dawn.
Neither did the bells in the temple ring, nor the muezzin gave a call to devotees.
Some people swore that they had seen Dhanvantari (the mythic doctor) rush through the sky, in a chariot pulled by a large bird.
The Sun had reported sick, and refused to rise today.
The doctor needed to re-engineer the links in the universe.
Image: timeanddate.com
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To wake up and find no sunrise…that would be a strange and terrifying situation.
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Guess how do people on the Poles live, with six-month nights….
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This is very powerful and perhaps a warning of things to come. The photograph is stunning too. Your writing almost has a poetic style. Lovely.
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Thank you so much, Pat B
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Got us all pondering there – brill x
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Thanks!
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Well told! If the sun were to not rise tomorrow, how undone we would be!
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We will invent an artificial sun 🙂
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smiled throughout, excellent imagery and (underlying) concept… the celestial forces re-claim their place in the sky.
(Imagine life back hundreds, even thousands of years ago… such tales were of a manner literal that most of us (in modern times) cannot comprehend. It does not need there to be a chariot and a large bird for the world/the reality of those looking up to feel it’s presence.)
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Dhanvantari (the therapist) and the chariot are part of Indian mythology. The Sun God is supposed to ride a chariot driven be seven horses.
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A powerful and well-told tale, you painted the picture of strange occurrence beautifully and left us wondering what it would be like to wake up to that situation!
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Thanks! It was about how we link up our lives to nature, without realizing the extent of our dependence.
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Very true! Imagine if one day things didn’t go according to what we are used to!
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Very classis
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Classy
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Thank you!
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I can just imagine the sun, moon and stars all having a bad day and people on earth searching the sky in vain! Very funny indeed.
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Loved it. Especially the last two lines were awesome
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Wow, what a tale Mam 🙂
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