It's #InternationalCloudAppreciationDay! ☁️

For Pueblo people, ancestral cloud beings in the mountains are the bringers of rain. Many monumental roads are aligned with mountains, indicating the importance of water in structuring sacred landscapes.

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On #InternationalCloudAppreciationDay, noone has ever appreciated clouds as much as poor pregnant Alcmena, saved from the pyre by Zeus' instructions to the water-nymphs (Hyades) in the clouds to precipitate immediately & extinguish the flames. Bell krater made by south Italian Greeks now in BM

INTERNATIONAL CLOUD APPRECIATION DAY
Dark storm clouds warm Ol’ Turnip Head’s soul.
What little soul is left.

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