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idea
The mouth as the only weapon
correspondences
nature
The worm fells the cedar with its mouth. Solomon cut the Temple stones with a creature's bite because iron was forbidden. The world, in this tradition's own account, was spoken into being — and the Sefer Yetzirah has it engraved, hewn and combined out of twenty-two letters, which is to say out of noises made in a mouth.
This is the spine that holds the three rooms together. The body is the instrument, and the mouth is the actual tool. Not the hand, which is what every other tradition of power reaches for. The blessing, the name, the permutation, the argument, the prayer, the vow — all of them are mouth-work, and all of them are held to do something. Which is also why this app's letter rooms sort the alphabet by where in the mouth each sound is made. The anatomy was never decoration.
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