Word of the Week:
matutinal
/muh-toot-n-l, muh-tyoot-n-l/
adjective.
pertaining to or occurring in the morning; early in the day
Today was (more or less) the one year anniversary of Aural Aurora! Thank you for tuning in for whatever fraction of that you have. [The preceding sentence should receive a nomination for most awkward syntax ever. Sorry.]
Today, despite not playing the song, we kept things easy like Sunday morning, enjoying a variety of matutinal music. By the way, matutinal derives from Mater Matuta, an Italic goddess of the dawn. While Matuta does not count among the lucky ladies, there are about 5 million dawn goddesses whose names all derive from the word/reconstruction HausÅs, the name given to the dawn goddess in Proto-Indo-European religion.
Not to be overdramatic, but the discovery of Proto-Indo-European religion kind of makes me reconsider my whole imaginarium of the ancient world. It shouldn't (I probably should have realized that something like it existed before), but it does.
Many peoples came from the same source. The same place. Had the same culture. Wild. Revolutionary.
A sculpture of Mater Matuta; I'm not sure if she's holding babies or loaves of bread.
