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About 10 minutes into watching our A-League (football, i.e. soccer) team Perth Glory take on (and get royally outplayed 2-0 by) Queensland Roar, this beautiful backdrop popped up. (Possibly the highlight of the game)
De meest folkloristische staten. De Maharajas hebben hier veel invloed gehad. Later na het terugtrekken van de Engelsen is het land geevolueerd, maar achter gesloten muren. Het casten systeem is sterker dan ooit. Verboden, ja, zoals corruptie en sati. De rijkdom en de armoede komen op. Een reis naar India laat niemand koud. Hier is cultuur en verbazing. Delhi wordt moderner dan het westen, De taj mahal is eindelijk een wereld wonder en de Goden blijven opper machtig.
Iedereen hoe vrijgevochten ook, grijpt hier ooit wel eens naar zijn fotoapparaat. Er is geen dag zonder verbazing mogelijk. Een synomiem van het huidige Rajasthan zou kunnen zijn chaotistan. Alles is er anders en niets gebeurd in onze logica, maar uiteindelijk komt alles weer op zijn pootjes terecht.
De paleizen en de forten, de grandioze verhalen maken ieders verbazing nog groter. Een straat oversteken is een avontuur op zich, een locale bus nemen een uitdaging voor velen, en een lokale eettent uitproberen een wens naar krampen vervullen.
Tempels en goden in overvloed, ieder dorp heeft weer nieuwe goden. Maar Ganesha blijft de geliefde van alle hindoes. Ganesh de god van geluk, en wijsheid. tevens de god van en voor alle kinderen. Hoe lieftalig is het niet een klein meisje op haar knieen Ganesh te zien aanbieden. Hoe vreemd is een land waar een apengod zijn eigen tempels heeft.
Het land van de geloven en sadhus, 6 religies komen er samen, met bijna geen conficten. De ene helpen de andere soms, en respect voor de koe komt er van allen. Gandhi zei: " men kan zijn gelovigheid meten aan de verering(respect) die men voor de heilige koe heeft".
India is kinderen, overal komen er kinderen wel een groetje brengen, sommige in de vorm van 'one pen' of ' one roepie', maar de meeste gewoon om iets te beleven, om de buitenlanders te zien.
sorry for the graphic detail but some friends and family were interested in seeing her progress - which is awesome, no swelling, incision is healing well, plate & screws doing their job so they put her in a nice purple cast for the next 4 weeks...
All Saints, Middleton, Essex
From Great Henny in the remote hills of north Essex I could see all of the Suffolk market town of Sudbury spread out in the river valley below. Sudbury is bordered on two sides by the most intensely rural part of the neighbouring county of Essex. Here, remote from the bureaucrats at County Hall in Chelmsford, the narrow lanes are unspoiled, the villages untouched. It is like stepping back in time.
Middleton, is less than a mile to the south of Sudbury, and I headed down to the Stour and then north through Henny Street before climbing up into the hills one last time for Middleton. The pretty church here had been locked with a keyholder notice when I'd visited on a walk on Boxing Day 2006, but now it was open, and is clearly open every day. Here we are in the grounds of the Hall, and this is a delicious little Norman church, very much in the style of Wissington just across the Stour but without the wall paintings. A large amount of pre-ecclesiological early 19th Century glass, but overwhelmingly an early 20th Century Anglo-catholic feel which called to mind that this church has rather a remarkable, not to say controversial and even shameful, place in Anglo-catholic history.
Middleton was the scene of extraordinary events in the early 1930s. The Rector of the Anglican church in this parish of less than a hundred people, Father Clive Luget, reported a series of visions of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
An unmarried man, he arrived at Middleton from east London in 1931. On the evening of 11th December 1932, Luget witnessed the Crucifixion floating in light for five minutes above the graveyard, and the Blessed Virgin kneeling before it. Two days later, a seven year old boy called Francis Thornber had a vision of the church as it would have been in the Middle Ages. The Virgin Mary appeared to him, and gave him messages, but told him not to repeat them yet.
As the weeks went by, Luget and the Thornber boy had many more visions of the Virgin Mary. Sometimes the figure appears to be dazzling white, reported Luget. At other times, it is blue and about five feet six inches in height. The figure is of a young woman in a long flowing robe. Her hair is covered, but she has a most beautiful face. You cannot see her feet. With the appearance I had a distinct feeling of warm rays just as you feel when the sun strikes you.
The visions were publicised widely, and curious visitors flocked to Middleton. Luget hoped that the village would become the English Lourdes. He was probably partly motivated by the ghostly events attracting visitors to neighbouring Borley Rectory, a mile or so off, but also by the unprecedented success of Alfred Hope Patten's Marian shrine at Walsingham in Norfolk.
Luget's services became more and more extreme. He gave up all Anglican liturgies in favour of the Latin Mass, which was celebrated daily with clouds of incense. Congregations were rarely above 25 people, but hundreds of others would gather outside to see what would happen, including large crowds from the Ipswich-based Protestant Truth Society, who came to picket the Mass. Luget was reported to the Bishop of Chelmsford as a Papist.
Gradually, people lost interest, but Luget continued to have visions. Five clairvoyants saw Mary at the foot of the Cross in the Summer of 1933, and several extreme and bizarre people joined Luget's congregation. A hymn was written in honour of the visions. Luget obtained written statements from people who saw the visions, and were spoken to by the Blessed Virgin. Many were children, but one was a magistrate.
By the late 1930s, Luget was seeing angels on a daily basis. As his parishioners and acolytes lost patience, the congregations gradually fell away, until no one came to the services anymore. Luget claimed to be receiving written messages from a medieval monk, Brother Bramarte, which he had found written in pencil on the wall of the Rectory cellar.
With the parish moribund, and the church falling into an advanced state of decay, the Bishop intervened. Luget was quietly retired, and died on the 28 April 1952 in hospital in Sudbury.
Today, no trace of Luget's incumbency at Middleton survives. No mention of him, or the extraordinary events of those times, is to be found in the church guide, which appears to have been written shortly after Luget's departure. Only the sunlit reredos, the same one as that used by Luget to celebrate the Roman Mass, allowed me to imagine his presence.
The strangest memory the unsuspecting visitor took away from the church at the time of my first visit was the large, tame black swan which patrolled the graveyard, but even he has now gone. I headed down the hill into Ballingdon, crossed the Stour and caught the 1630 train back to Ipswich from Sudbury station.
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Winner of the www.coastalretreats.co.uk/Photo-Competition.htm coastal retreats photo competition. Won myself a sweet little break in a sweet coastal retreat!
Corvid, 2016
Cast bronze
11” wide x 4” deep x 7” tall
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Cast of one of the west metopes of the Parthenon showing a mounted Amazon showing the mutilated state most of the metopes (excepting those on the south side) were reduced to by Christian iconolasts in the 4th century AD. This is actually the least damaged of the mutilated metopes in that parts of the horse's body are untouched, most are mere shapes (and still in situ on the temple),
The sculpted metopes of the Parthenon (square reliefs set at regular interval above the colonnade, 32 on each long side, 12 on each main facade) must have formed a magnificent sequence when complete. They followed a different narrative on each of the four sides of the temple, the battle of Gods & Giants to the east, Greeks & Amazons to the west, the Trojan War to the north and the battle of the Lapiths & Centaurs to the south.
Tragically the majority of these fine works were brutally hacked away when the Parhenon was cinverted unto a church in the 4th century AD; all but those on the south side (and one on the north) were systematically mutilated so that only ghostly shapes of the figures remain. Clearly their pagan content caused offence, but it is odd that they were so severly treated when the frieze and pediment sculptures (except the central eastern group) remained untouched.
Jacques Carrey drew the surviving 32 metopes in 1674, which is fortunate as only thirteen years later the explosion that ripped through the Parthenon in 1687 destroyed roughly half of them, mainly those that portrayed an undetermined narrative, the surviving pieces all represent centaurs in combat with young men or abducting women.
These sculptures, havin survived the explosion of 1687 that tore the Parthenon apart, and were removed by Lord Elgin's agents in the 1800s and sent to London where they currently remain. 18 survive of the original 32 of which 15 are in the British Museum; another is in the Louvre, one is in the Acropolis Museum and another remains in situ on the Parthenon (as do the mutilated east, west and north metopes).
The sculptures of the Parthenon (pediments, metopes and frieze)remain generally recognised as the most accomplished (both in terms of technical mastery and beauty of design) scheme of architectural sculpture ever realised. That so much of it has been lost (particulaly as the building remained substantially intact and in use continuously until 1687) is a tragedy, judging by what remains.
The cast and executive producers of the TV series, The Walking Dead, talk about the upcoming Season 3 and what to expect.
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Guillermo del Toro with Edgar Wright, Satya Bhabha (Matthew Patel), Johnny Simmons (Young Neil), and Mary Elizabeth Winstead (Ramona Flowers)
Mountain Valley Methodist Church, Barnardsville.
A plain, but lovely, little building. Built of a simple material, concrete block cast to resemble cut stone and often used for modest churches and commercial buildings in the early-20th century. It's fun to see how many repeats you can find. See note above to get started.
Also frequently used in house construction, I now discover. . . from browsing around on Flickr~