PART III

Is there any greater than the Homeland? Any who could rise above perfection? Nay. For if it were so, the blessed Homeland would be vanquished.

—Wayfarist Voyage, vol. 2

All that we have, and all that we are, is given by the Moon. If it gives again, we will stand with our faces upturned and our minds aglow.

Ancient Agrodite poem