Sometimes many of us so often do not have enough money not only for some delights, but also simply for the most necessary things. How to increase your income so that you don’t need anything? Each person solves his money problem in his own way: someone is looking for a part-time job or a more profitable job, while others resort to magic, in particular runes, thanks to which you can find a new job and increase your income, and from the most unexpected sources. The runic talisman Money Mill is a unique combination of runes that will help you quickly and easily attract money energy into a person’s life and improve his well-being.
Origin story
According to ancient legend, in ancient times the ruler of Denmark was one of the descendants of the god Odin named Frodi. The people in the country in those days did not need anything - people even began to forget about the importance of gold and money, which they took for granted. The state was so rich that there were neither poor nor thieves in it. And it happened in the following way - one day the gods presented ruler Frodi as a gift of two giantess slaves, in addition to which they also presented millstones, which only these two giantesses were able to rotate. The slaves ground stones and thus received gold, and Frodi at first thanked them for their faithful service and was content with little. The country began to flourish quickly, and its ruler became more and more greedy. He forced the unfortunate slaves to turn the millstones day and night, without giving them time to rest, sleep or eat. Then the women at work began to sing a song:
“We have a lot of riches for Frodi, we have a lot of treasures on the millstone of happiness, he can sit in contentment, sleep on the fluff, wake up happy - we are grinding nicely!”
Dissatisfied with Frodi's hard life, they thrashed the enemy's golden army to the tune of this song, which ruined Denmark. One of the giantesses smashed the millstone against a huge stone boulder, on which an imprint remained, which became the symbol of the Money Mill or the Grotti Mill, as it was also called. The unfortunate inhabitants of the country came to bow to the giantesses and begged them to return the millstones to their former power, but the mill was broken, and the good slaves had mercy on the people and gave them the sign left by the millstones on the boulder, into which their magical power passed. This is the Magic or Money Mill rune.
Angels, roads and books
On April 28, the Melnitsa group will release their fifth studio album, Angelophrenia, on the Navigator Records label. On the same day, the record will be presented at a concert in the capital's Arena Moscow club. On the eve of the release, Melnitsa vocalist Natalya O'Shea, aka Khelavisa, told Lenta.ru in detail about the history of the creation of each of the songs on the new disc.
Roads
All authors have cities or other places where they write especially well. My place is New York, Manhattan. I was there three times and each time I brought a fresh song, and the last time, in the spring of 2010, “Roads” was written there. The text of the verses came from my dear co-author Olga Lishina, and I did the choruses. The volcanic eruption in Iceland, which affected the travels of many people that spring, including mine, could not help but be mentioned in the song, so the heroes of “Roads”, potential angels, also suffer from the ash hanging in the air.
I wanted this track to be on the one hand a subtle reference to our very first song, “Road of Sleep”, but on the other hand, the arrangement would reflect our modern sound. Therefore, we decided to take the country genre, which was hinted at back in “Road of Sleep,” as a basis in this track and emphasize this, among other things, by using an accordion.
Part-time angel
One of the defining songs for the album is completely “non-mill”, which I consider a plus in this case. The theme of “part-time angel” had been in my head for a long time, ever since one of my friends called me that, but I couldn’t figure out how to build a song around it until my friend, poet and co-author Ivan Malyutin did not send me a draft of the first lines: “At the head of the bed the heart will catch an insinuating step...” - and in these lines there was a hypnotic 5/4 rhythm, and a hint of the werewolf theme that has always fascinated me, and everything became crystal clear, and I started writing. Olga Lishina provided the text with an invaluable image of a gas station, the constellation Auriga turned into the constellation Taxi Driver, and the result was a truly angelophrenic song.
When the group sat down to arrange the arrangement, the greatest pleasure, in my opinion, was received by Sergei Vishnyakov, who remembered everything for which he loves the Edge from U2, and successfully applied the lessons of the great Irishman to our material.
Smuggling
Probably not a single song I wrote while working at Melnitsa has been waiting in the wings for as long as this one - I wrote it back in 2006! For our lineup at that time, it was generally unclear how, with what and, most importantly, why to play this, so the track went into storage for several years. Then there was a period of reggae-Contraband, which was played at concerts, but it was clear that this was not how the song should sound on record, especially since it did not fit into the concept and sound of previous records at all. As a result, we have now returned to the Latin rhythm, or rather, we tried to give a reference to the charming “ragaton” genre, and finally the song fits perfectly into the concept of “Angelophrenia”.
I wrote it, of course, under the great influence of the first reading of “Queen of the South” by Arturo Perez-Reverte - this is one of my favorite books, since then I have re-read it five times... So now I can give an indication - “Queen of the South” is recommended read to the soundtrack from our song “Contraband”!
One Blood
In general, I really love big cats, I even have a snow leopard on my LiveJournal avatar. I support WWF, specifically their programs to protect Far Eastern and Central Asian leopards and snow leopards. And it was even somehow strange that at the same time, “Mill” did not have a single song about cats, there were some solid birds, horses and wolves in the lyrics. As always, inspiration rarely comes without an external reason, and in this case it came along with two wonderful guys - the Zapashny brothers. When I saw “from the inside” how they live with each other and with their animals, it became clear to me that this is magic built on absolute honesty, that cats do not tolerate lies, and that, again, my favorite werewolf should be present in the song . So the result was such a positive blues about animals and their people, in which I even allowed myself to play a harp solo, and the arrangement included a small shout-out to our beloved Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Non-migratory
It all started with this song - everything, that is, writing album tracks in the “just have time to record” genre. I had a rather long period of creative silence associated with my first pregnancy and the birth of Nina; inspiration really kicked in only about a year and a half after giving birth, and it kicked in right on “Nepereletnaya.” Of course, there was a magic kick from the wonderful Olga Lishina, who provided me with the magic phrase “you are my bird of flight,” around which a harp riff was built and the main theme arose. And the whole song continued around the impressions of a trip to New Zealand, the land of birds, which happened just two years before. “Nepereletnaya” is one of those songs on the record that is at least more or less similar to the work of “Melnitsa” that fans are accustomed to, since it features solo harp and flutes, but here we managed to cram in a complex driving rhythm section. By the way, in this track Sergei Zaslavsky plays a very unusual instrument - the Chinese Hulusi bagpipe. Hulusi has such a sad, gentle voice that she fit the song perfectly.
River
I really like to walk and run - alone in the park, and even more I like to write songs while doing it. They come out with strange but dynamic rhythms, like this track, whose 11/8 time signature drove the whole team, including me, crazy at first. Moreover, the main harp theme contains accents that are completely inconsistent with the actual size of the song, which should further disorient the listener.
In general, every record should have a powerful ballad, or even better, two - a dark one and a light one. Here “The River” performs in “Angelophrenia” the function of a heavy, dark ballad, in which for some reason a heavy rock rhythm section, an Irish harp and a Russian pitiful song play simultaneously - a typical mill vinaigrette.
Gori, Moscow
Group "Melnitsa". Photo courtesy of Navigator Records
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In August 2010, forests around Moscow were burning, my relatives were suffocating in their South-West, and I was sitting in Geneva and re-read Felix Maximov’s completely crazy novel “Cavalier, or the Day of the Spirits” for the third time. And this book is so terrible and beautiful in its horror, and so it corresponds to my own bad schizophrenic hallucinations that overcome me every autumn, that it was necessary to pour out all these ideas in a song, to get rid of them so as not to torment me. So it turned out to be deliberately Russian-folk, but in fact very tough “Gori-Moscow”, where again Ivan Malyutin helped a lot with the wonderful word “outskirts”.
From an arrangement point of view, this is the toughest song on the record, even the owner of the drums, Dmitry Frolov, notes this - and he loves to knock! And I played with vocalizations on the recording, recorded all the verses with folk vocals, and the choruses with pop vocals, for which I had to take a long break in the recording to move the entire vocal apparatus to a different position.
What do you know
This is another opus of ours with Olga Lishina. We once read the modern British Gothic detective story “The Time of the Witch” as a couple - the fact that from the first page it was clear who the killer was did not interfere with enjoying the text. And so Olga came up with a text that was full of references to the novel, very interesting, but completely incomprehensible to anyone except the two of us. Nevertheless, I wrote music for that text, but didn’t show the song to anyone... until I realized that I actually wanted to continue the story begun in the song “Jug” on the “Wild Herbs” record, and then I remembered Holguin, very long ago a text inspired, in turn, by the great novel “The Name of the Rose,” and from that text came the line “what do you know?”, and in such a complex way the song was woven. If in “Jug” there was a romantic and tender Magdalene, then in this track she is ironic and even cynical, but still in love.
The arrangement was built around a bass riff in the chorus, proposed by Alexei Kozhanov, and our arranger Alexander Samoilov suggested that Sergei Zaslavsky also use a saxophone.
Train to Memphis
I started writing in New York, finished it in Geneva, and there was such a crazy drive of inspiration that even a child plucking at the strings of the guitar didn’t stop me from playing. For some reason, in the spring of 2010, I was simultaneously fascinated by angels, birds, cats and Elvis (besides him, Freddie also appears in the song, because I have been fascinated by him throughout my life). And I once again re-read selected passages from Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series and remembered that I always wanted to write a song about a train. Naturally, all these initial data - the train, Elvis, Stephen King - should have ultimately resulted in classic rock, well, in fact, it turned out that way, even a completely authentic guitar lick was composed, although I don’t really know how to play the guitar. As is usually the case with good songs, the musicians have to increase their skill level in order to perform them. Sergey Vishnyakov, for example, mastered playing slide for this track, and Alexey Orlov learned how to play wind instruments with a cello.
I don't have time
I must say that during the writing process, I broadcast most of the songs in this cycle to my new friend Maggie from Chicago, a young harpist with Irish and Georgian roots. I won’t go into the details of this amazing friendship (they are on my blog), but the fact is that the little man was very dear to me, and I chatted with her almost every evening via email, made interlinear translations of new texts, even gave her raw demo versions to listen to from rehearsals... And Maggie was dying of leukemia, and we had almost no time. First I wrote “Black Sheep” - for her, and then “I Don’t Have Time” - rather for myself.
This song in the album occupies the position of a “light ballad”; its verses have quite traditional Celtic harmony, but I wanted to make the choruses and bridges as rocky as possible and finally thank my favorite band Queen in this way. And in the text, in addition to harps and runes, a helicopter and a zeppelin appeared - because Maggie’s favorite band was Led Zeppelin.
How does the Money Mill work?
This talisman has enormous cosmic energy, thanks to which it attracts material wealth to its owner. At the same time, the person’s energy shell opens for cash flow. At the same time, the poverty channel is closing.
The runes begin to work literally a few days after you start wearing the amulet with you.
The talisman must not only be carried with you, but also taken out once a week, placed with its edge on a smooth hard surface and twisted clockwise, while the object must make no more than three turns. If you perform such a ritual more often, you can not only lose the operation of the Money Mill, but also incur unexpected expenses. When promoting an amulet, you need to talk about how money flows into your life from any source.
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In the same way, the talisman is activated before wearing it. The activation of a magical item is carried out exclusively on the waxing moon. Experienced runologists recommend that the money that comes from the work of this amulet should not be put aside for a “rainy day”, but spent for joy, for example, on pleasant purchases or travel.
You can buy the Money Mill talisman in a special store or make it yourself. When ordering an amulet, for example, in the ethnic shop “Rada” from Natalya Dobrolyubova, you can be absolutely sure that the magical item will work, since all the talismans sold there are handmade according to all the rules and traditions from a unique material and consecrated in Arkaim, an ancient place force, located in the Chelyabinsk region.
The meaning of the word "mill"
Mill
(millstone; Exodus 11:5). Mills for grinding grain bread are a very ancient invention. The first time we meet them is back in the days of the Exodus, when the custom of forcing women to turn millstones prevailed in Egypt, as is customary in the East even to this day. The Israelites ground manna in millstones (Num. 11:8), and the millstone was such an important household item that it was not even allowed to be taken as collateral (Deut. 24:6). References to millstones in general, millstones and their use, are not uncommon in the Holy Scriptures. Scripture, and some of the indicated instructions are very remarkable. So, for example, in Judges 11:53, 16:21, Isaiah 47:2, Jeremiah 5:13, Matthew 24:41, etc. One woman threw a piece of a millstone on Abimelech’s head and broke his skull. The Philistines took Samson, gouged out his eyes... and he ground in the house of the prisoners (Judges 17:21). “Take the millstone,” says St. Isaiah, “and grind the flour.” “The young men are taken to the millstones,” says St. Jeremiah in the description of the disasters of Jerusalem, “and the youths fall under the load of wood.” “And I will stop from them,” says the same prophet in another place, “the voice of joy and the voice of joy... and the noise of the millstones will not be heard from them” (25:10), which means not only the cessation of joy, but also the absence of the necessary and essential for daily subsistence in Judah under the yoke of the king of Babylon. The same is foreshadowed about the fate of Babylon itself (Rev. 18:22). “Whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in Me,” says the Savior, “it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were drowned in the depths of the sea” (Matthew 18:6). The type of execution indicated in the Gospel was often used in Syria, and was at one time introduced in Rome on the orders of Augustus Caesar. Hand mills, as noted above, constitute one of the most necessary household utensils in the East, and usually consist of two round millstones or stones lying on top of each other, which, by quickly rotating the upper one, rub against each other and, thus, grind those located between them grains The lower millstone stands firmly in its base, and the upper one is driven into rotation on it by animals, machines, or even human hands. That is why the Savior says: “There are two grinders: one is taken, the other is left” (Matthew 24:41). Since this work was very hard, it was often entrusted to slaves, captives and female slaves, as can be seen from the history of Samson, Zedekiah and others. Two women were usually engaged in grinding grain bread in mills - one of them threw grain into the mill, and the other turned the top millstone (Luke 17:35). The daily threshing of bread in houses sometimes made such noise that it could be heard even on the streets. Since it reminded of work, activity and the contentment and well-being of life associated with them, then, of course, it was always pleasant to hear this noise. This is the power of Jeremiah’s prophecy: “And I will stop the sound of the millstones among them” (Jeremiah 25:10).
What is it used for?
The amulet is used to attract material wealth in various ways. He helps:
- find a better paying job;
- get rid of debts;
- improve your financial condition by increasing your income;
- win money, for example, in the lottery;
- resolve all existing financial issues;
- find additional sources of money;
- achieve financial independence.
With the help of an amulet, you can quickly and permanently improve your financial well-being in a positive direction and gain confidence in the future. Thanks to it, the money channel will open, all blockages that impede the passage of money energy will be removed, and the opportunity to work at a profitable job will appear, fears associated with poverty will disappear, an unprecedented rise and thirst for life will arise, and thoughts of the uselessness of a hateful existence will be abandoned.
What runes does it consist of?
The Money Mill consists of four runes - one Scandinavian and three Turkic:
- Fehu runes, which attracts money from all sources;
- the Ch symbol, which blocks the flow of negativity associated with money, helps to establish strong contact with money energy, allows you to get rid of all debts and gives you the desire to get everything at once;
- rune Z, which carries harvest energy, allowing you to collect maximum profit;
- sign N, which is responsible for any undertaking that brings material wealth.
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The talisman is usually carried in a wallet or placed in a place where money is stored.
There is a simplified version of the Money Mill, which consists of three Fehu runes. This option is classic and also no less effective.
How to make a talisman with your own hands
Not everyone has the opportunity to purchase a Money Mill in a store. And this is not a problem. You can make a money amulet with your own hands.
To do this you need to prepare:
- a piece of durable cardboard, plywood or round wood cut from a thick tree branch;
- red or green paint, maybe a marker.
An even circle of small diameter is cut out of plywood or cardboard to fit in a wallet. One side of the circle is covered with red paint, and then runes are applied in green. The finished amulet is varnished. Why are these colors used? Yes, everything is very simple - the red color enhances any energy and at the same time activates the talisman, and the green color attracts monetary energy.
An amulet made with one’s own hands is initially imbued with the energy of the person it will serve, so such a thing will work most effectively for its owner.
They make a magic item exclusively for the waxing moon.
Some magicians claim that runic signs can be applied to a simple sheet of paper, and then folded and placed in a wallet, but this is not entirely true. In order for the amulet to really bring benefits, it is activated by twisting, as described above, and it is simply impossible to do such manipulations with a sheet of paper.
Smooth motifs of folk rock, songs filled with many elegant allusions and reminiscences and a full hall of the Nizhny Novgorod Philharmonic - all this is about the concert that took place on January 14, without exaggeration, of the Queen of Russian rock, Helavisa.
The concert program was called “Blood of the Chimera” and was dedicated to the recently released album “Chimera” and the anniversary of “Call of the Blood,” a collection by the Melnitsa group, released 10 years ago. Our publication was able to communicate with the band’s vocalist Natalia O’Shea personally and ask a few questions.
HOW DO YOU LIKE NIZHNY NOVGOROD?
Fine. We used to come to you in November, when it is much darker than now. Therefore, we are glad that this year the concert fell in January, when it is already brighter. So it’s very beautiful.
RENAISSANCE PEOPLE WERE INTERESTED IN ANTIQUE. DO YOU CONSIDER YOURSELF AS A MAN OF A NEW RENAISSANCE?
Good question. I wouldn’t say that I’m a person of the New Age... But if we talk about the Renaissance, then the interest in constant knowledge is close to me.
ARE YOUR SONGS BASED ON A CELTIC EPIC?
No, my songs are not based on Celtic epic and folklore. Why do you think so? Yes, I have songs “To the North”, “Fire”, “Lord of the Mountain Roads”, which is based on the mountains, so to speak, presumably on the Caucasus mountains, but this does not mean that my songs are not stories from the Scandinavian epic.
These are my personal stories, another point is that I have allusions, for example, in the song “Farewell” I use once a quote from Byron (“Farewell, and if forever, then forever farewell”), twice a quote from Shakespeare – “Farewell , farewell and remember me!”, and then I insert such a thing, a reference really to the plot of the “Elder Edda”, turning it in my own way: “I am imprisoned like an idol in the ring of its lights.” But these are my stories one way or another, I came up with them myself.
YOU HAVE SONGS SUCH AS “THE BALLAD OF BEREN AND LUTHIEN,” “NIMRODEL,” BASED ON TOLKIEN’S LEGENDARIUM. IS IT WORTH WAITING FOR MORE SONGS, AND MAYBE A WHOLE ALBUM?
I have many more songs based on Tolkien than you mentioned. Yes, I’m thinking about making such an acoustic album, but in this case it will no longer be “Melnitsa”, but my solo project. You use a huge number of different instruments, both in the studio versions of the song and in the live ones.
DOES THE SET OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS REFLECT THE SPECIFICITY OF THE TEXT?
Most likely yes. In the song “Rite,” for example, we wanted to create an atmosphere on the one hand of mysticism, on the other hand of ringing emptiness. We have drums that sound low and scary, and then we have guitar that sounds very folky and high-pitched. And it turns out that we don’t have a middle, it’s empty. In other words, there is a dragon flying high in the sky, and there is an earth that God knows where, and between them there is emptiness.
DO YOU CONSIDER FOLK ROCK, SO TO SAY, GOOD ROCK?
If we talk about the sound, folk really sounds very easy. In terms of text, no. I recently read a discussion about the album “The Key to the Cipher,” which I really liked, by the way, where many wrote something like: “What are these funny songs about love, where is our good old depressive Vasiliev?” Yes, these are really songs about love, but there is also enough depressive stuff in there. These are songs about love and death, about how everything is interconnected.
For example, the song “Mom won’t call again” (“Requiem”, A. Vasiliev, “The Key to the Code” - author’s note), if you think about what it’s singing about, it’s so scary! So we do, we talk to our listeners about death, but not in order to plunge them into some kind of crap and scare them.
AND FINALLY, WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE ALBUM?
Most likely the last diptych “Alchemy” and “Chimera”.
INTERVIEWED BY ELIZAVETA SMIRNOVA
Charging the Money Mill amulet
Whether the talisman is purchased or made with your own hands, you need to charge it for yourself. The Money Mill is also charged on the waxing moon. They do this as follows:
- they take the thing in their hands and squeeze it, warming it with its warmth;
- after the amulet heats up, pronounce the words of slander in any form.
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You can pronounce the following clause:
“Grind for me (name), Mill, there is a lot of wealth, grind treasures on the millstone of happiness. I can sit in contentment, sleep on the fluff, and wake up happy. Have a great time!”
What do the mills of the gods grind?
“The connecting thread has been broken for days. How can I connect their fragments?”
"Hamlet"
An ancient Scandinavian legend tells of a giant mill. In normal times, she grinds the grain, turning it into good flour. But sometimes the sea rises, flooding the cape, and the flour turns into salt, and then into stones and sand. And then peace and prosperity are replaced by death, destruction and chaos.
The ancient god Amlodi, lord of the mill, is very similar to the Danish prince: he is smart and melancholic, his mysterious and ambiguous speeches reveal a bitter but inevitable truth, and his mission is to avenge the death of his father. Having completed the task, he disappears again into the abyss of time, returning to the Golden Age and acquiring his true title: King for all times.
Legends about the Golden Age, a time of peace and harmony, followed by disasters and cataclysms, are found among almost all peoples of the Earth. They talk about the waters that overflowed their banks and flooded the Earth, about the battle of gods and titans, about the expulsion from paradise and the separation of Father Sky from Mother Earth.
These legends describe the cosmic cycle - the great year of the gods. It lasts 24,000 years, and every two thousand years the vernal equinox moves to the previous sign of the Zodiac. This year is divided into two halves: the Age of Light and the Age of Darkness, the Golden Age and the Age of Decline. Each of these halves is in turn divided into four seasons: summer, autumn, winter and spring.
The change of eras is accompanied by terrible disasters and catastrophes. The Flood and the destruction of Atlantis occurred precisely at the end of the Golden Age.
In these same legends one can find a prophecy that the cause of the next catastrophe will be fire. A nuclear explosion, global warming, a fire that engulfs reservoirs poisoned by oil - this is what the coming Apocalypse could become.
In Greek myths, the ruler of the Golden Age is called Saturn, the god of fertility and agriculture, dressed in the golden color of ripe grain. This color also accompanies other kings - legends speak of the golden color of the beards of King Arthur and King Solomon.
When Jupiter killed his father Saturn and took his throne, the world gave way to war, order to chaos, and summer to winter.
Gold gives way to snowy whiteness. Mad Ophelia sings about a dead man with a beard as white as snow. Who is he - her father or a dead god?
A complete revolution of Saturn around the Sun lasts from 29 to 30 years. Therefore, the number 29 symbolized a journey in search of perfection, and the number 30 symbolized peace and harmony. In Chaucer's famous poem The Canterbury Tales, the number of pilgrims is 29.
In The Mousetrap it is repeated three times that the king and queen have been married for 30 years.
The gravedigger says that he has been digging graves for 30 years - from the very day Hamlet was born.
However, the Golden Age is coming to an end. The king falls asleep in the Garden of Eden, and his brother creeps up on him, like a tempting serpent, and pours poison into his ear, carrying the king’s soul straight into the flames of purgatory. Jupiter-Claudius kills Saturn-Hamlet, and great disasters occur - an ominous star appears in the sky, and water and fire threaten the living with death and madness.
Water is mentioned several times in the play. Hamlet speaks of "confronting a sea of troubles." At sea, he substitutes deadly letters and falls into the hands of pirates, from where he emerges “naked” (born again). And at this very time, the water absorbs Ophelia - a nymph, a muse, beloved, hated and crazy. The soul, deprived of reason and connections with the world of the living, hides in the abyss of water, and the lifeless body is accepted by the earth.
Hamlet is destined not for water and earth, but for fire and air. The Prince talks about how he has been in the sun too long, the Phantom talks about the searing flames in which he is doomed to suffer until his sins are burned to ashes, Polonius warns Ophelia against the prince's love, because it contains more light than heat. Troy is engulfed in flames, in which the maddened Hecuba rushes about, and in a conversation with Gertrude, Hamlet bitterly says that her virtue has melted like wax in the flame of unholy passion - and this is reminiscent of Icarus, who flew to the sky on wax wings. The sun melted them, and he fell into the sea, dying simultaneously from fire and water.
Hamlet is killed by a poisoned sword, symbolizing the male elements - fire and air. The cosmic cycle is completed - later the heroes of Lear will talk about “the end of the world, the fulfillment of deadlines, the end of times and the end of days.” Hamlet's body is carried away amid the roar of cannon fire - and a long, cold winter sets in. Everything is shackled by mortal cold, and only the coming spring can restore life and hope.
Seven years later, “Sonnets” was released. In them, the author no longer denounces female duplicity and deceit, does not try to drive away his muse and imprison her in a monastery, driving her to madness and death. He defeated the demons that separated him from his muse and plunged his soul into cold and darkness. He accepts the danger and duality of the dark lady, killing and life-giving, beautiful and vicious, ruthless and merciful. And the dark goddess, united in three persons - a maiden, a mother and an old woman - awarded him power over fire and water and great wisdom, allowing him to unite masculine and feminine, fire and water, light and darkness. The sonnets end with the lines:
Water is capable of defeating fire, but it cannot cool love.
In 1623, the wheel of Fortune made another revolution, and the second cycle of Saturn ended for the poet. This year the First Folio was published under the name of William Shakespeare.
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