Word: echinus
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...Mediterranean shoal, Sturly pricked his nose against a crawling globe with reddish spines. The globe chuckled, softly. It was old Echinus, the Sea-Urchin, the malefemale, ancestor of the oceans, in whom are all the joys of love and all human knowledge. Sturly was respectful of his counsel...
...wise have no need of movement," Echinus would say. "Their active thought supplies its place." Or: "The world was chaos; suddenly there shone a great golden egg; it whirled in space. . . . And then there came the first dew upon the first morning of the world, which was the benediction of God and filled the hollows of the egg with heavenly water...
...Echinus told Sturly also of Love; but after Sturly had mated for several years, even that illusion was manifest. It was not communion with God, but merely Life's ruse for perpetuating the species. Sturly grew...
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