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In a small village tucked into the foothills of the Caucasus, lived an old man named Elman. He had spent his entire life watching the same mountain peak from his window.

That song title, (Time ages us, but the world itself does not grow old), touches on a very deep, bittersweet theme in Azerbaijani music and poetry: the relentless march of time versus the eternal nature of the earth . In a small village tucked into the foothills

"It’s true," he whispered to his grandson, who was playing nearby. "Look at that mountain. When I was your age, it looked exactly as it does today. The snow melts and returns; the trees shed their leaves and bloom again. The world stays young. It is only we who carry the weight of the years." "It’s true," he whispered to his grandson, who