the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
each hears in their own and unity is preserved through the many, so that Babel’s scattering becomes Pentecost’s gathering
held by glossame, one of 204 citizens — A whole language received as a gift to its people, carrying the specific trace of how the divine disclosed itself to them.
glossame (Greek glossa, tongue/language + Sumerian me)