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Greetings,

Chapter 1 of "A Century Is Nothing," is now available on Middle Kingdom podcast #49 for your listening pleasure.

Omar, a blind writer from the Sahara is your guide into the beginning of a long strange series of stories, some true, others a figment of his wild imagination.

There is an old fable about a bird and an ogre telling his daughter where his soul lived.

“Sixteen miles from here is a old gigantic tree. Around the tree are tigers, bears and scorpions. On top of the tree is a huge snake. On top of the snake’s head is a small cage and inside the cage is a bird. Inside the bird is my soul.”

I am the thorn and the bird. The wing, feather and air. My thorn is a claw, a sharp definitive talon for tearing meat from white bones. Satisfying my hunger along the path, the way.

I am also a cognitive psychoneurolinguist. My specialty is languages. Lost tongues.

“Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities,” according to Wade Davis, an anthropologist.

Wandering deep into the Tarim Basin along the Silk Road in Central Asia I was delighted to find the Tokharin language and Afansievo culture dating back 4,000 years. It was a proto-Indo European language with Celtic and Indian connections established by trade caravans and explorations. I suspect it is Qarasahr or IA, based on an Iranian dialect.

Mircea Eliade, a historian of religions, once stated, “Myths tell only of that which really happened.”

Myths suggests that behind the explanation there is a reality that cannot be seen and examined. Myth has been defined as truth trying to escape from reality. A myth is a story of unknown origins, sacred stories of religion based on belief, containing archetypical universal truths. They are in every place and no particular place.

Gift a copy to your friends and they will love you forever. As long as forever is.

Peace.