Or Perhaps He Knows Not

National Geographic: The Story of Earth

Grateful Dead: 4/17/72

who knows for certain?
who shall here declare it?
whence was it born,
whence came creation?
the gods are later than
this world's formation;
who then can know
the origins of the world?
none knows
whence creation arose;
and whether he has
or has not made it;
he who surveys it
from the lofty skies.
only he knows--
or perhaps he knows not.
--the rigveda

THE LIP OF THE VAST BOWL
THAT HOLDS THE SEA


IN BETWEEN IT MAY GO STRAIGHT DOWN