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Thumberol Gongquod

“making love with the soles of your feet”’ – John Cowper Powys, from his novel Porius, page 465, where in his imagined language of the aboriginal Cewri of Cader Idris, “Gongquod” means “the earth”, and “thumberol” means “to tread amorously”.

Submitted by: Jane Harwood

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