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Also read the following paean to The Great Mother:<br />

Hymn For Her On Finding The Rabbit’s Horn or<br />

Is Your Uvula The Mythic Jackalope? 25<br />

O Ma, first-manifest from the Unborn,<br />

Your thirsting children, lost in forgetfulness,<br />

Roam the desert caverns of mirror worlds<br />

In search of dimly remembered infant bliss<br />

Obscured ‘neath moldering piles of sacred texts.<br />

Nuzzling your flank, they cannot find the source,<br />

Or recognize your sacred musky scent.<br />

Great Isis (“Eesees”), Mother, Ray Cow, Vak!<br />

O Aditi, Kosmos-creator, guide them<br />

With your radiance to your effervescent<br />

Breast’s love-nectar, filling empty hearts.<br />

With infinite compassion, you placed<br />

Your nipple permanently behind their tongues,<br />

But no one seizes it except in dreams.<br />

The rabbit’s horn that Patriarch Wean Ing 26 scorns<br />

Exists! Nurse on your uvula, oh waifs!<br />

Weaning yourselves no more, awake!<br />

25<br />

More than you want to know about horned rabbits at<br />

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackalope<br />

26<br />

“To seek enlightenment by separating from this world<br />

Is as absurd as to search for a rabbit’s horn.”<br />

Hui Neng, (Wean Ing) The Last Zen Patriarch<br />

The Platform Sutra<br />

24

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