Nephelococcygia is the practice of doing what?
Nephelococcygia is a term used when people find familiar objects within the shape of a cloud. The word comes from the play "The Birds" by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It is about an imaginary city built in the clouds by the birds at the instigation of two Athenians, and represented both as a fantastic caricature of Athens in the poet's day and as a sort of Philistine Utopia full of gross enjoyments.
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Fred Keogh
We've all done it.
Ilias Tsiabardas
love Greek related trivia💙
shootit
I never can see shapes or anything in clouds. I do keep trying. If someone points one out I sort of see it.
Paulette Arnold
I like to do that. In fact, I look for shapes, faces, animals in other things too, besides clouds. 😊
fdeisner
Has Joni Mitchell one sang
I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all
Pat Wells
My neck hurts.