Apotheoses
(from 26v26)

Instructions to the Cook:

*watch for
*seek
and
*record

moments of clarity and insight

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Apotheoses are where you find them. They happen to you, often as surprises. They change your life. They aren't necessarily transitive: you may not succeed in passing their effects on to others. Some are ineffable: beyond speech and even language.

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Google's AI Overview:

...the elevation or exaltation of someone or something to a divine or godlike level. It is also commonly used in modern English to describe the absolute pinnacle, the highest point in the development of something, or the perfect example of an archetype.

Wikipedia article

Apotheosis Dynamic Tabletop Roleplaying Game

Apotheosis of Cats

(Theophile Steinlein, 1890)

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And how fares my Catalog of Apotheoses? This image was especially Apotheosical for me, in November 2024:

Quiltography is next explains how it happened, and I realized that I had reached the acme of the pareidolia I've been collecting as a photographer for at least the last decade, with an image that had been in my keeping for 50+ years, though I hadn't seen Glooscap in all those years...

Photographic examples of apotheosis happen frequently: I'm transfixed by an image and it enters my personal Pantheon. Aunt Kate is a potent example:

(see Abandoned Ancestors for an under-construction gallery)