Daily Signet

Without the worship, even the most sacred, the god himself, loses sacrality and returns to that which is ordinary. The god denied the food of communion, the living sacrifice, eventually starves to death. The burning globe to which people used to point as it passed overhead and exclaim, "Oh! That's Varuna making his daily trip through the sky, bringing light and warmth to the earth!" becomes a reference in a science book as a "body of gases about which the earth and other planets revolve and which furnishes light, heat and energy for the solar system." Another case of deus otios, the god who, rather than starve to death, takes an early retirement and moves to the Western Slope. 

Teri Martin

On This Day…

Mary Renault born Sept 4, 1905 in Forest Gate, England: historic novelist, died 1983
Works: Last of the Wine, Persian Boy, The King Must Die
Quotes: “Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places.” “Money buys many things…the best of which is freedom.” “It is bitter to lose a friend to evil before one loses him to death.”