Past the fields where grows the grain to feed those gods
To the point where the Diyala melds with the Tigris, and it and the Euphrates come their closest on their way to the alluvial plains where civilisation found wings
Thursday 29 August 2019
Confluence
Follow me now down the Diyala river, past Tell Asmar, those twelve little souls, hidden away in the dark for millennia, their eyes gazing beseechingly in the house of their God
Past the fields where grows the grain to feed those gods
To the point where the Diyala melds with the Tigris, and it and the Euphrates come their closest on their way to the alluvial plains where civilisation found wings
Past the fields where grows the grain to feed those gods
To the point where the Diyala melds with the Tigris, and it and the Euphrates come their closest on their way to the alluvial plains where civilisation found wings
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I knew I recognised the landscape! Mary Chubb wrote about Eshnunna in "City in the Sand"! I'm so enjoying seeing this come together.
ReplyDeleteThank you Rachel - it's slow work, but in a good way, as I'm re-reading elements from a book by Gwendolyn Leick which focuses on the growth of cities in this region; it gives me a sense of the history as I stitch. Very inspiring.
DeleteLove to see all the needles with thread .... ready to use when the mood is for this or that part of the design ...
ReplyDeleterivers of thread
:-)
Hi Els,
Deleteit's all about getting the rivers to the same place at the same time so I can manage the thread that I am using to couch as well as the thread I am couching down. Trying to vary the couching colours as this affects the appearance of what is couched.
It's a thread journey in fact.