Rock-Rain Reflections

Petrichor Rises

senses awaken divine petrichor rises drip drop drizzle falls

drizzle falls drip drop petrichor rises — divine senses awaken

This haiku reflection continues my exploration of interdependence through the reflected lens of nature. Rain and petrichor are symbiotically connected. Yet petrichor, etymologically defined as the rock blood of the gods, also requires our senses to in order to be known — and through that knowing, that awakening, we connect to the old gods of nature and experience our unity with the earth.

The olfactory sense is also special in that it has a direct line to our emotions (limbic system) and perhaps also activates genetic memory or archetypal memory of our connection to nature and the divine.

Here is an earlier reflection:

and the story from which these haiku arose:

Petrichor (/ˈpɛtrɪkɔːr/) is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil. The word is constructed from Greek petra (πέτρα), “rock”, or petros (πέτρος), “stone”; and īchōr (ἰχώρ), the fluid that flows in the veins of the gods in Greek mythology.