TE16 Turkish Delight
Zeynep Çolakğlu they love.Wonder how she appears to women? Perhaps like a witch or a close friend who knows the secrets of nature?” She asked me to spend the weekend with her. She offered me special herbal mixtures she had prepared. After insistently asking for the ingredients, she told me that there were sixteen items in it among which were honey, wine, raisin, myrrh, juniper, calamus, cardamom, sorrel and a little bit of ololiuqui seeds. She said that it was her own receipt of a kyphi 2 mixture. That night we talked at length. Occasionally, I read passages from the book I was working on and we discussed them. In the end of two days, she interpreted all her observations based on the map that bore influences of lunar cycles she had developed. According to her, the reason behind all that was happening was the anxiety that I had a little all my life getting out of hand. She told me that my mind had created a Medusa existence to take revenge for the frustration. I had caused, or perhaps, I had internalized her mythological story too much, but that everything would go back to normal after I completed my work. Then gave me a jar of her special herbal mixture. “After Poseidon forcefully layswithMedusa, Athena transforms the breathtakingly beautiful daughter of Gorgon to an ugly monster and banishes her to unknown northern lands.With her golden hair that used to flutter anyone’s heart who laid eyes on her, Medusa now has snakes for hair, bronze hands, long teeth and a purple tongue hanging out of her misshapen mouth. Her neck is covered 2. Kyphi: a compound incense which can also be consumed as a liquid that was used in Ancient Egypt temples. 254
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