@himmelszelt/gewoelk

gewoelk: German Gewölk, "gathering of clouds". A mass of many clouds. Middle High German, literary since the 16th century.

Clouds, from a clear-sky haze to a closed overcast.

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Clouds, the part of the sky that changes by the minute. They are lit by the Sun and the Moon, whose directions come from sternzeit, take their colors from the light that dunstkreis lets through the atmosphere, and hide the stars of sternenheer and the Moon of nachtgestirn behind them.

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Watch the clouds

A sky with clouds to play with. Not written yet.

Light in a cloud

How clouds take their light from the Sun, the Moon and the sky. Not written yet.

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