Sublime

It would be dollaro di sabbia, she thought. An animal named for grounding and coinage. A living pentacle.

child, often the smallest or weakest of the flock, as I was, is named after the most despicable things: demon, ghost child, pig snout, monkey-born, buffalo head, bastard—little dog being the more tender one. Because evil spirits, roaming the land for healthy, beautiful children, would hear the name of something hideous and ghastly being called in

In Indian mythology, one of the nava-ratnas (nine jewels) is a seven-headed, flying, white horse that transports angelic beings. In Tibetan tradition, this wind horse carries a wish-fulfilling jewel and brings peace, wealth and harmony, while reducing suffering and unhappiness. In the shamanic tradition of eastern and central Asia, the wind horse