candle of lokening 🕯️culture, tilth, growth
The word culture comes from latin pointing to the image of growing. This image is grounded because it mirrors the touchable world. In other words to do cultural work mirrors to grow something together. Being aware of the connection between the word culture and the image of growing makes us appreciate this word more.
However the word culture doesn't make us thinking about growing unless we have explained it's origin in latin. That makes the word culture less meltable than it could be. The image is hidden away from most english speakers.
In the name of transparancy, we should strive to make language more open, more meltable. In this spirit, let's move on.
In farming the term tilth means the quality of soil. The balance of minerals and organic stuff that makes the soil thrive, and gives rise to plantal growth. The stuff of tilth are beewise braided together to make the wholeness, which gives rise to the plants.
What I did with the word tilth right now, is called to paint. To connect a word to something touchable. To connect the cultural world to the touchable world. Or shortly, to make a word feel real.
With the same process of painting, we can reframe culture to tilth by grounding the images of tilth towards the touchables of culture.
Lets see...
The souls of tilths are beewise braided together to make a wholeness which gives rise to the tilthworks. The tilthworks are like the plants, the most visible, but originating from the masses of the tilths. The souls gives to the tilth, which strengthens the tilth, but also strengthen the soul in return. Thus strengthening both. A beewise relation.
We can see this in action when a brass band tilth are seeking new souls. When a new soul arrives and gives their energy, this might greaten the energy of the wholeness in such a way that it greatens it's capacity to sprout and maintain tilthworks.
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