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The Sacred Sanctuary contains a small altar and in its rear niche (left to right) are the four statues of Ptah, Amun-Re, the deified Ramesses and Re-Horakhty. While the horizontal rays of the rising sun did illuminate these statues twice each year (and still do through the careful orientation of the relocated temple), the specific dates of these occurrences are not as important as it often thought, as the phenomenon would occur with any south-facing structure of this type at some point or points of the year.

Nevertheless, the occurrence itself was important as it achieved the symbolic fusion of solar and chthonic forces celebrated in this great temple.

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Four statues of divinities in sanctuary.

This hall gives access to a transverse vestibule in the middle of which is the entrance to the sanctuary.

Here, on a black wall, are rock cut sculptures of four seated figures:

Ra-Horakhty, the deified king Ramesses, and the gods Amun Ra and Ptah.

Ra-Horakhty, Amun Ra and Ptah were the main divinities in that period and their cult centers were at Heliopolis, Thebes and Memphis respectively.

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Chthonic by AZOURY at FaMESHed

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PENDULUM – Chthonic Snake Mask – Rust Steel by ąҡïɱïŧşų Ṩᾄвʀᾄ

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Eating earth. by Micheal Desimone

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WARNING. The following writing contains content, that is of an adult nature.

I am a fan of the movie Pan’s Labyrinth, and for those of you who don’t know it, here is a link to its trailer.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVZRnnVSQ8k

It is a haunting movie, that is both childlike in its fantasy, and extremely adult, in the bleakness of its reality, and a warning should be given, as the content of the movie is at times brutal. It is one of over 700 movies I watched after 9 11, as I gave up watching TV, after that event. No doubt a little inspired by Pan’s Labyrinth I started to or tried to recently, read up on Basque folk law, and disappointingly, I found not much of anything, except a description of a female deity’s influence over the weather. This lack of easily accessible recorded history of Basque folk law, seemed to me to be a shame, and as always and not surprisingly, there was a reference to the Church as to why it did not survive. Strangely it was backed up in the wiki entry, that the deities name helped acclimatized the Basque people to the church.

As the story would go, or have it, the deity and her lover would influence the weather based on their actions. And it seemed like they had the upmost power, as they influenced life and or death. They had control over water, fire, earth and the sun, which I presume would have been the main influences on man and woman, pre-Basque conversion to Christianity.

Did the Spanish experience of the Basque, effect the spread of Spanish Catholicism? Was it a contributary factor in the failure of Catholicism to extinguish tribal, native or indigenous spirituality in its entirety. Had this event in Basque country, effected the tribes and cultures of the Spanish new world? With the official university narrative, (and if you don’t know, a narrative, is a story). The story is that it was the church, as in the Catholic church, had caused as part of colonialism the genocide of indigenous religions, and or peoples. And it must be stated here, before l go on, that they did play a significant role in colonisation. And at times that colonisation was brutal. The destruction of Chthonic religions, or their history was a loss. The loss of our belief systems based on as the Greeks would say of the earth or soil. But this article or consideration is not about loss. In this extension of my diary entry, I celebrate the failure of the Catholics. Yes, I celebrate, that pretty much everywhere they went, when it came to cultural genocide, that despite the best attempts by some groups to implement the act in its totality, if there was a significant Catholic influence it had failed.

What had happened in Basque country? Why had it failed to happen in other places? What made it so that it, cultural genocide had not happened, in other societies around the world? What happened where the Church, or to be more specific Catholicism had miraculously failed to exterminate, folk law, and the indigenous spiritualities and or religions, in their entirety. Had the Basques surrendered part of themselves and effected the world? Maybe they didn’t surrender anything at all, because that does not seem like a Basque quality. Maybe the entropy of their pre-Christianity existence pushed back, on the thing that influenced them. And maybe that event had altered at least in part, that vector of change forever.

My respect is just not lip service, as once, when l was presented with an extremely difficult situation, someone suggested I smells the earth, as it was. I thought they were referencing that I would be joining it soon. I doubled down, on what I presume was and ancient saying, and process, one that I presume had been tested repeatedly. One of acclimatization as to where I would hopefully rest. Like most humans one way or another do. An event, like everyone, except those that cast their bodies from the Earth into space will experience.

These considerations of death, and or genocide, led me to study it in the arts. As a result, of that intellectual journey, I found myself talking to an Australian Aboriginal woman at university, we talked about Truganini. This wonderful person informed me, that Truganini had wanted to be burnt after her death or to be cremated. We spoke a little more about her. We spoke about her corpse exhibited like a taxidermized animal, cursed to be gazed upon. We discussed the topic a little, and I expressed, that what she had asked to have done, would have been a very heavy spiritual thing to do. She would spread through the air, through the water, then back into the earth, and her entropy would affect everything. And everything would react to her entropy for ever. To me, it seemed like she would never rest, and I wept a little, in front of my new friend. I wept a little, as the thought of eternal work is not, and never should be taken lightly. I wondered, I wondered about the people who would do such a thing, and how she, Truganini would, or could, have been condemned to have her imaged used as a spectacle, for what must seem like an eternity. It appeared to me that even without burning her body, she had hexed those through her fate. A karma of sorts, not for her, but for those that did not consider her human enough to be left alone after death. All that would look at her, or upon her, would suffer a fate. She had cast a spell on those that gazed on her, to look a little into themselves, changing something in all who saw her. And despite the offer to look at her, it was a visual, I never wanted, or want to see. I said to her, my confidant of the briefest time, that “...Some things should not be looked at….”

And soon after, instead of smelling the earth, I tasted it.

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Northern Line

The Northern Line was designed in 33 BCE by a sadistic and chthonic troll who wished to inflict long-term suffering on all creatures who dared to enter the Dark Realm of which he deemed himself to be the sole ruler and only legitimate inhabitant.

Subsequent modernisations have done little to alleviate the trials and tribulations of those commuting on The Misery Line.

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Tholos of Athena Pronaia 2 Delfi UNESCO world heritage by Dimitrios Tilis

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Η Θόλος είναι, ίσως, το πιο χαρακτηριστικό μνημείο των Δελφών, που δεσπόζει στο ιερό της Αθηνάς Προναίας ανάμεσα στο νεότερο ναό της Αθηνάς και στο θησαυρό των Μασσαλιωτών. Πρόκειται για αριστούργημα της κλασικής αρχιτεκτονικής, του οποίου, όμως, αγνοούμε τη χρήση. Έχει συσχετισθεί με χθόνια λατρεία, ωστόσο, ο περιηγητής Παυσανίας, που είδε τα ερείπιά του το 2ο αι. μ.Χ. δεν το μνημονεύει ως ναό. Το εντυπωσιακό κυκλικό κτήριο χρονολογείται στο 380 π.Χ. Όπως μαθαίνουμε από το Βιτρούβιο, υπεύθυνος αρχιτέκτονας για την κατασκευή της Θόλου ήταν ο Θεόδωρος από τη Φώκαια ή τη Φωκίδα, ο οποίος, μάλιστα, είχε γράψει και βιβλίο για τον τρόπο οικοδόμησής της.

Tholos is perhaps the most characteristic monument of Delphi, which dominates the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia between the newest temple of Athena and the treasure of Massalioton. This masterpiece of classical architecture, which, however, ignore the use. Has been associated with chthonic cult, however, Pausanias, who saw the ruins of the 2nd century. A.D. not to mention as a temple. The impressive circular building dating to 380 BC As we learn from Vitruvius, the architect responsible for the construction of the dome was Theodore from Phocea or Phocis, who, indeed, had written a book on how it was built.

Πρόκειται για το σημαντικότερο μνημείο που σώζεται από το ιερό του Απόλλωνα που βρίσκεται στους Δελφούς. Σύμφωνα με τον θρύλο ανεγέρθηκε στο ίδιο σημείο που βρισκόταν κατά το παρελθόν οι μυθικοί ναοί του Απόλλωνα που ανάλογα με την περίοδο ήταν κατασκευασμένοι από κλαδιά δάφνης, κερί μελισσών και χαλκό.

Χτίστηκε το 510π.Χ. με τις χορηγίες πολλών Ελλήνων και ξένων ηγεμόνων, αλλά και την καταλυτική συνδρομή της αθηναϊκής οικογένειας των Αλκμαιωνιδών. Από αρχιτεκτονικής άποψης ήταν δωρικού ρυθμού με 6 κίονες στην πρόσοψη και 15 στις πλευρές. Φιλοξενούσε εξαιρετικό γλυπτό διάκοσμο που αποδίδονταν στον Αντηναγόρα και τα αετώματά του παρουσίαζαν σκηνές που απεικόνιζαν τον ίδιο το θεό Απόλλωνα και τη γιγαντομαχία.

Το 373 π.Χ. το ιερό κατέφυγε σε έρανο με σκοπό τη συγκέντρωση χρημάτων για την ανοικοδόμηση του ναού καθώς ένας μεγάλος σεισμός τον κατέστρεψε σχεδόν ολοκληρωτικά. Αρχιτέκτονες του νέου κτίσματος που ήταν επίσης δωρικού ρυθμού και θαυμάζουμε μέχρι σήμερα ήταν οι Σπινθαγόρας ο Κορίνθιος ο Ξενόδορος και ο Αγάθων. Παρόμοια με τον προηγούμενο και αυτός ο ναός διέθετε 6 στήλες στην πρόσοψη και 15 στις πλευρές ενώ τα αετώματα του, που φιλοτέχνησαν ο Πραξίας και ο Ανδροσθένης φιλοξενούσαν σκηνές που απεικόνιζαν τον Απόλλωνα, τις Μούσες και τον Διόνυσο.

This is the most important monument surviving from the sanctuary of Apollo is at Delphi. According to legend it was built in the same place it was in the past the mythical temples of Apollo, depending on the period was made of laurel branches, bees wax and copper.

Built in 510p.Ch. with the sponsorship of many Greek and foreign rulers, but also the catalytic contribution of Athenian family Alkmaionidon. From an architectural point of view it was with 6 Doric columns on the front and 15 on the sides. Hosted excellent sculptures ascribed to Antinagora and pediments were scenes depicting the god Apollo and the same giants.

In 373 BC the Sanctuary resorted to a fundraiser to collect money for the rebuilding of the temple as a major earthquake destroyed him almost completely. Architects of the new building was also Doric and we admire today were Spinthagoras of Corinth the Xenodoros and Agathon. Similar to the previous one and this temple had six columns on the front and 15 on the sides and gables, who painted the acts and Androsthenes hosted scenes depicting Apollo, the Muses and Dionysus.

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98.2% Water… by g.efthymiadis

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Mythology...

Medusa (Altgriechisch Μέδουσα Médousa) ist in der griechischen eine Gorgone, die Tochter der Meeresgottheiten Phorkys und Keto sowie die Schwester von Stheno und Euryale.

Sie besaß als einzige der drei Gorgonen eine sterbliche Natur.

Mythos…Die drei Schwestern Medusa, Stheno und Euryale, auch Gorgonen genannt, waren Kinder der Chthonischen Götter Phorkys und seiner Schwester Keto und wurden in der griechischen Kunst ursprünglich als von Geburt an missgestaltet angesehen.

Ohrenquallen (Aurelia aurita) Bild zeigt Quallen unter UV licht.

Die Ohrenquallen Bestehen bis zu 98,2 % aus Wasser.

Übrigens, es sind die gleichen Qualen die Spongebob Schwammkopf fängt, um Marmelade zu ernten…

In the Greek mythology, Medusa (Ancient Greek: Μέδουσα Médousa) was a Gorgon, the daughter of the sea deities Phorkys and Keto, and the sister of Stheno and Euryale.

She was the only one of the three Gorgons to possess a mortal nature.

Myth... The three sisters Medusa, Stheno and Euryale, also called Gorgons, were children of the chthonic gods Phorkys and his Sisters Keto and were originally considered to be deformed from birth in Greek art.

Aurelia aurita the jellyfish consist up to 98.2% of water. (also called the common jellyfish, moon jellyfish, moon jelly or saucer jelly)

Image shows jellyfish under UV light.

By the way, it's the same Jellyfish that SpongeBob SquarePants catches, to harvest jam...

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Tholos of Athena Pronaia panorama UNESCO world heritage by Dimitrios Tilis

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