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We be of one kin, you and I.

The chemical formulas for chlorophyll and for hemoglobin are virtually identical, differing by only a single atom:

C55H72FeN4O6 (hemoglobin)

C55H72MgN4O6 (chlorophyll)

Greenblood, redblood: We be of one kin, you and I.

Long ago in the Dawn of Days, Earth took the Sky Twins to be her husbands: Sun, her right-hand husband, and Thunder, her left-hand husband.

From their love also came forth twins: first the Green and then the Red, him that we call the Horned, father of witches.

Christianity’s triumph in the West profoundly shaped how Westerners view their world and their place in it. Protestant Christianity, in particular, desacralized the material world, emphasizing the distinction between human beings and everything else. Even if we considered ourselves secular before embracing a Pagan path, we were raised to accept Christian rooted assumptions about reality, assumptions often so deeply rooted as to appear obvious.

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