
The Hands of Amfita
mittendi maleficorum
Native to wilderness and marsh, Amfita is sustained by virtuous
intentions and kinship cantatas. Planted with thunderous ceremony
by the Lok and Volk on the Eastern rising slope of the homecroft,
a new tendril shoot appears (it is said) at the Birth of each
and every of the kinfolk's Sentient Beings. The Hands of Amfita
will dispel, for all who dwell therein, not one but all twelve
known causes of human and creature suffering. So is the spoken
truth spoken.
The twelve known causes of suffering: eternal feelings of insufficiency,
inability to breathe a sigh of relief, confusion of cause and
effect, forgetting where to put one's feet, inability to separate
wheat from chaff, failure to cultivate one's jardin, unease
with the varieties of silence, confusion about it begins, belief
that a tree can be owned, unwillingness to face the musica,
belief that animals do not know suffering, believing that anything
is permanent.