“The lightn’ings on which they rode were bent with talon’d lash,
An’ few there were that rode ahead and batter’d out their path,
But others reach’d with grasping hands to pluck fools from the fray,
An’ best as known them sorry souls are ridden to this day.”
– Folk rhyme
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Woe be he that mistakes the rider for the steed
“Them that’s young and well and free and yearn to do their part,
is tenth as worse as them that’s old with hunger in their hearts.”
-Folk saying, attributed to upper Shades
“Do not jest with the laughing god, for his mirth is more brittle than a fingernail”
-Folk Saying
“Only an insect expects a giant to watch his step.”
-Folk saying
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Mottom is an appellation of 'Mother Om', Nadia Om being the wife of the late God-King HASTET-OM
“When striking iron, it’s better to break the hammer than the arm that swings it.”
– Old folk saying, Red City circa 500 B.S.C.
“When man is young and bares his teeth and holds his head held high,
He stands astride the mountaintop and lays claim to the sky;
I am god, proclaimeth he, the lord of all I see,
And every beast and fish on earth shall bow and scrape to me;
But when man is old and cold of bone and grey and long of hair,
His flesh shall feed the rich black soil
The mountains do not care.”
-Old Uvur Rhyme
“Heavy purse, heavy conscience.”
-Folk saying