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Hermes

Nile stretches towards the horizon In the Valley of the Kings pyramids have arisen But before pyramids were at the Nile basin And even before Ra had head of a falcon The Egyptian Hermes divine scribe The Gods themselves would describe And spawn their tribe And flesh and blood copy of world’s soul he would transcribe The spider web of intricacies is full Same can be said of writing as a tool It is important because it can express ideas in full But writing is linear for which our limited minds are thankful But as Hermes’s orb cascades like waterfall The cascades create nonlinear and beyond soul And unlike everything on Earth not from down up but top down the soul will fall And Hermes knows high end nonlinear philosophically largest number of all

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