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The Temple of the Maker of the Earth
Pachacamac is located on the coast of Peru and 32 km south of Lima. It was an important sacred site, with an oracle, and burial sites, which was visited by pilgrims of many ancient Andean cultures for over 2,000 years. Pachacamac was sacred up through Incan Empire in the 1400s, and stopped being a site of pilgrimage only with the coming of the Spanish and their alien religion. The site was named after the god of the same name (Pacha Kamaq) who was considered the ‘Maker of the Earth’ by coastal peoples. The god’s sacred wooden statue was worshiped at the site, situated inside a large temple complex built on a stepped earthen platform. There was also likely an oracle on the site in the 1st millennium BCE.
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Slowly flowing
This is such a neat image it is going in my lectures on lava flows this year. Volcanic lava flows can be generally divided into three types: basaltic, andesitic, and rhyolitic, depending on their composition.
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Willibald Winck
Henry Meynell Rheam - Once Upon A Time
Twenty years ago today the first cloned animal in the world, Dolly the Sheep, was born.
She was a very special sheep. @bbsrc can tell you why!
This GIF was made using a 15th century Flemish Book of Hours.
”Day 1: The Creation of the Gravitational waves” by Illuanimated.
original image: Day 1: Separation of light and darkness. Horae ad usum romanum, c. 1401-1500, Latin 920, f. 2v, Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Jeanne de Clisson (1300-1359): the Lioness of Brittany
More historical details and footnotes up later today when I have more time. The short version is: we know she existed, that she led forces against France, that she became a pirate, and that she was protected by England. The extent of her feats varies greatly based on the telling – estimates of the length of her career as pirate range between five months and thirteen years! – but whatever the heck she actually did left quite an impression.
And here’s a quick link to buy the book!
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“We are not trapped by our thoughts. What we generally do, however, is create thoughts that trap us.” - Joshua David Stone
Untitled Goddess
Fenghua Zhong
“They ascended higher and higher in the divine life, and lived in the enjoyment of the Beatific Vision being filled with that interior peace and tranquillity known and experienced only by those who understand the mysteries of the higher and divine life.”
- Zohar
“Consciousness is the part of a person that can grow into something more. When it becomes continuous for him, then he rises up to another, higher and subtler state. He never ceases to rise higher.”
- Qushayri
“But the man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less cocksure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable Mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend.”
~Aldous Huxley: The Doors of Perception
Miniature Skeleton, Roman, 1st century, bronze, from Asia Minor.
In Petronius’ satirical novel, the Satyricon, written in the 60s A.D., Trimalchio, the crass, nouveau riche host of a dinner party, has a small silver skeleton brought out between courses. The skeleton in the novel had flexible joints and after posing it on the table in various ways, Trimalchio recited a poem to the effect that life was short and should be enjoyed before becoming a skeleton like the one he displayed.
This bronze skeleton, called a larva convivalis by the Romans, may have been used in just such a setting. Although now missing several limbs, it too is jointed in a way that allows it to be posed or to be shaken so that it jumps and dances. In the first century B.C and the first century A.D., the Romans frequently linked images of the banquet and death in both literature and the visual arts. This blending of imagery probably derived from the resurgence during this period in the popularity of Epicurean philosophy with its emphasis on the need to grasp the pleasures of life while one is still able. (Getty)
Courtesy of & can be viewed at The J. Paul Getty Museum, Villa Collection, Malibu, California. Via their online collections: 78.AB.307.
Crystal crouching Venus from the 1st century B.C.
Statuettes like this one can help preserve the original (now lost) large-scale sculpture’s appearance, and capture the trends in the depictions of popular goddesses from that time.
A somewhat peculiar archaeological phenomenon: the ‘Eye Idols’ from the ‘Eye Temple’.
The shown example dates to ca. 3700–3500 BC.
In Tell Brak, north-eastern Syria, there is a monumental building which has come to be known as the ‘Eye Temple’. This is due to the thousands of stone figures (‘eye idols’) excavated at the site. Not too dissimilar to some modern art today, these figures are simple, typically with flat trapezoidal bodies and large incised eyes. An ‘abstract’ human form is suggested. The MET further elaborates:
They were probably dedicated there as offerings. Many are incised with multiple sets of eyes, others with jewelry, and still others with representations of “children"—smaller eyes and body carved on the body of the larger idol. Wide eyes demonstrate attentiveness to the gods in much of Mesopotamian art.
A similar example can be seen at The British Museum.
The shown artefact is courtesy of & can be viewed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Via their online collections: 51.59.11.
Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming…
Made me chuckle
Lots of unconfirmed and confirmed reports of a military coup under way in Turkey. F-16s flying low, bridges blocked by APCs and tanks, police disarmed by military…
The wanker of Ankara’s days are numbered.
This 'Charity Page' for all intent and purposes in my opinion, is to fund the clergy residing in Israel.
(via RayEL is a cheater Rabbi Glazerson )
(via Lord RayEL- Invest in a Casino 1996)
Torus.
