Euphrates

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Euphrates is a recurring place in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between June 10, 2022 and August 23, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “the lowland settlements in the Euphrates and Jordan valleys”; “Tyl Euphrates, that flode, dryveth me into Inde”. It most often appears alongside French, 50,000 BC, A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste.

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  • Category: Places
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: June 10, 2022
  • Last seen: August 23, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

June 10, 2022 · Original source
most clearly distinguished by the building of grand monuments in stone, and by a symbolism of male virility and predation. . . By contrast, the art and ritual of the lowland settlements in the Euphrates and Jordan valleys presents women as co-creators of a distinct form of society—learned through the productive routines of cultivation, herding and village life—and celebrated by modelling and binding soft materials, such as clay or fibres, into symbolic forms.
August 23, 2024 · Original source
My name is Parrot, a byrd of Paradyse, By Nature devised of a wonderowus kynde, Deyntely dyeted with dyvers dylycate spyce, Tyl Euphrates, that flode, dryveth me into Inde; Where men of that countrey by fortune me fynde, And send me to greate ladyes of estate; Then Parot must have an almon or a date.