Ashvamedha – By Gabriel Rosenstock
Introductory note:
Ashvamedha, a poem in Irish and English by Gabriel Rosenstock, awakens a very distant memory of a ritual which is associated not only with...
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1.
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Gabriel Rosenstock’s Tanka Series – 7
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1.
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