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Posted on June 17, 2025

Maryam – Child Of Mothers

She looked out across the universe.

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Posted on May 11, 2025August 14, 2025

Maryam – Daughter Of Magdala

She walks on water’s shores.

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Posted on August 9, 2023

A Church Service At The Minster

Yesh’wa invoked ‘top heaps of plundered wealth…

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Posted on March 26, 2023

Valkyrie

Winged Chooser Of The Battle-Slain, who bears th’luminous spear ‘n shield of th’War Women.

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Posted on August 6, 2022

The Cross, The Star, & The Crescent Moon

Three men (dark-eyed) at th’fire’s edge.

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Posted on July 19, 2021

The Crossmaker

A crossmaker – Yesh’wa constructed th’means by which the legion stamped impeer’yul boots on his own people.

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Posted on December 22, 2019December 22, 2019

The Birth Day Of The Sun: Part III

Silent morning. Earthly peace. Servant girl re-swaddles.

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Posted on December 16, 2019December 17, 2020

The Birth Day Of The Sun: Part II

Soundless stands each stretch of houses.

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Posted on December 10, 2019

The Birth Day Of The Sun: Part I

Bayit-Lekhem in wintrous calm as coarsest night kills evening.

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Posted on December 13, 2015August 17, 2017

A Child Is Born

Sometime around two thousand years ago, somewhere within that place just beyond the northeast of Africa, to some family unknown and unnamed, a child is born.

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William Altoft

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