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( nostos )
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I don't usually give context on stuff, but I feel it need to add a little here:
If you're not familiar with the idea of being taken 'under the hill' or why it's important to carry iron, well, there is a Wikipedia page for everything!
Medieval bread was probably quite a bit different from ours, too, and you can read an entertaining post about it here.
I wanted to do something about coming 'home' when home is not actually 'home'. I live far away from where I grew up, and home has not felt like home in over a decade. Standing in my kitchen Sunday night and making a dish that my grandma used to make when I was a child, I felt a sudden connection to where I grew up, that time and place, and found myself crying at the idea that there is no going back, only going forward. From there, the idea of Jane and her plight was born. While she doesn't come home by sea, the larger meaning of 'nostos' is homecoming, specifically arriving home after a long and difficult journey, and the word itself means, in Greek, 'to return home'.
Thank you for reading.
~*~
I don't usually give context on stuff, but I feel it need to add a little here:
If you're not familiar with the idea of being taken 'under the hill' or why it's important to carry iron, well, there is a Wikipedia page for everything!
Medieval bread was probably quite a bit different from ours, too, and you can read an entertaining post about it here.
I wanted to do something about coming 'home' when home is not actually 'home'. I live far away from where I grew up, and home has not felt like home in over a decade. Standing in my kitchen Sunday night and making a dish that my grandma used to make when I was a child, I felt a sudden connection to where I grew up, that time and place, and found myself crying at the idea that there is no going back, only going forward. From there, the idea of Jane and her plight was born. While she doesn't come home by sea, the larger meaning of 'nostos' is homecoming, specifically arriving home after a long and difficult journey, and the word itself means, in Greek, 'to return home'.
Thank you for reading.
