{"id":520,"date":"2018-09-22T03:02:04","date_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/a-comforting-thought\/"},"modified":"2018-09-22T03:02:04","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T03:02:04","slug":"a-comforting-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/a-comforting-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"A comforting thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sisterofiris.tumblr.com\/post\/163866145694\/a-comforting-thought\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">sisterofiris<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians called the night <i>ngi<\/i>, the stars <i>mul<\/i>, and the moon Nanna.<\/p>\n<p>Four thousand years ago, the Akkadians called the night <i>m\u016b\u0161u<\/i>, the stars <i>kakkab\u016b<\/i>, and the moon S\u00een.<\/p>\n<p>Three thousand years ago, the Hittites called the night <i>i\u0161panza<\/i>, the stars <i>ha\u0161tere\u0161<\/i>, and the moon Arma.<\/p>\n<p>Two and a half thousand years ago, the Greeks called the night <i>nux<\/i>, the stars <i>astra<\/i>, and the moon Sel\u00ean\u00ea.<\/p>\n<p>Two thousand years ago, the Romans called the night <i>nox<\/i>, the stars <i>stellae<\/i>, and the moon Luna.<\/p>\n<p>Kings and queens and heroes looked up at them. So did travelers coming home, and little children who sneaked out of bed. So did slaves, and mothers and soldiers and old shepherds, and Sappho and Mur\u0161ili and Enheduanna and Socrates and Hatshepsut and Cyrus and Cicero. In this darkness it didn\u2019t matter who they were, or where they stood. Only that they were human.<\/p>\n<p>Think of that tonight, when you close your window. You are not alone. You share this night sky with centuries of dreamers and stargazers, and people who longed for quiet. Are you anxious? The Hittites were too: they called it <i>pittuliya\u0161<\/i>. Does your heart ache? The Greeks felt it too: they called it <i>akhos<\/i>. Those who look up to the stars for comfort are a family, and you belong to them. Your ancestors have stood under Nanna, S\u00een, Arma, Sel\u00ean\u00ea and Luna for five thousand years. Now its light is yours.<\/p>\n<p>May it soothe you well.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sisterofiris: Five thousand years ago, the Sumerians called the night ngi, the stars mul, and the moon Nanna. Four thousand years ago, the Akkadians called the night m\u016b\u0161u, the stars kakkab\u016b, and the moon S\u00een. Three thousand years ago, the Hittites called the night i\u0161panza, the stars ha\u0161tere\u0161, and the moon Arma. Two and a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/22\/a-comforting-thought\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A comforting thought&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tumblr.scrollofthoth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}