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<\/a>Untitled work in progress:\u00a0 machine piecing (left)\u00a0 machine quilting (right)<\/h5>\n<\/p>\n
Progress has been intermittent, but apparently like a phone app, my mind has been quietly working on in the background looking for a good title for this.\u00a0 My custom is to start a list of words and phrases that could become titles, and add to it as I go along.\u00a0 The list for this piece already includes\u00a0Moonlight Sonata<\/em> and Dark Side of The Moon<\/em> (both really famous musical works already, so not hot contenders for this) but there’s L<\/em>unar Eclipse<\/em>, N<\/em>ight Light,<\/em>\u00a0Lunar Grids<\/em>… and about 20 more.\u00a0 As I got into the shower this morning, the phrase “…Tears of the Moon” popped into my head, and I knew it followed something about the sun, but couldn’t remember the other part of the metaphor.\u00a0 So I had to look it up – and where else but Wikipedia, that excellent starting point or, in this case, aide memoire ?\u00a0 <\/em>\u00a0I quickly found what I’d forgotten – that the Incas referred to gold as Sweat of the Sun and silver as Tears of The Moon,<\/span>\u00a0and remembered that was the title of an outstanding tv doco series I saw years ago (before I ever came to South America) and I will look for it now to watch again.\u00a0\u00a0A<\/em>s you can see by this extract from the Wiki page, this section of text alone could take me off on a full day at the computer, following interesting links and having a fascinating time learning new things, but I really want to finish the quilting on this piece while I consider a possible companion piece, plus, I’m listening to a fascinating audio book “Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire, A 500-year History” by Kurt Andersen.<\/p>\n “Mama Killa<\/b>\u00a0(Quechua<\/a>\u00a0mama\u00a0mother,\u00a0killa\u00a0moon, “Mother Moon”,[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0hispanicized spelling\u00a0Mama Quilla), in\u00a0Inca mythology<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0religion<\/a>, was the third power and\u00a0goddess of the moon<\/a>. She was the sister and wife of\u00a0Inti<\/a>, daughter of\u00a0Viracocha<\/a>\u00a0and mother of\u00a0Manco C\u00e1pac<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Mama Uqllu<\/a>\u00a0(Mama Ocllo), mythical founders of the\u00a0Inca<\/a>\u00a0empire and culture. She was the goddess of marriage and the menstrual cycle, and considered a defender of women. She was also important for the Inca\u00a0calendar<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n