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Yorùbá people believe that a person’s destiny is determined by their Orí (head).
“Ori is not a divinity. The Ori is what holds an individual destiny. The Ori is in control of one’s daily ups and downs. Ori could be considered as personal god or guardian angel who will accompany each of us for life. Even the gods have their Ori which directs their personal lives. Ori is human consciousness.”- Iyalorisa Omitonade Ifawemimo (priestess and role model to young Yorùbá girls).
Although some Yorùbá people use straightening chemicals and weaves, many people still do use natural soaps, oils, butters and wooden combs. Some combs are elaborately carved or decorated, but this one is simple, with the word ‘love’ written on it. What do you use to treat or style your hair?
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This is a sampling of the colors of combs but might not be a complete selection of colors. Most where the see through colors but the beauty salon came with one like the blue one on top.
Left:
Bone, France, 12th or 13th century
Right:
Ivory, southern Italy, 11th or 12th century
Liturgical combs were decorated combs, usually of ivory or bone, used in preparing the priest for the Mass. The ritual combing of priests' hair may have begun when Christianity became the Roman state religion early in the 4th century AD. They were still being made in the 12th century; and references to their use appear in ecclesiastical rituals until the 16th century.
The Cloisters Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art
NYC
Ukiyo-e image of a girl and her comb run through a dreamscape filter.
Google recently released software (source code so far, and so far as I can tell, running only on Linux without some changes) that uses AI to "understand" images then apply a set of pre-understood images to the first image, making for some really bizarre results (as you can see here). Today I found two program (one on Android and one on iOS) that appear to implement Google's algorithms for mobile (which means a really long processing time since the images are sent to servers, processed, then returned to the mobile device) so naturally enough I had to play around with the programs. Each program needs work but the results are pretty good (if low resolution).
One interesting thing about these images is when viewed as a thumbnail, the image looks "relatively" normal but when viewed full size, looks like something out of a nightmare.
We enjoyed seeing the Comb-crested Jacana or Lotus birds walking on the Lotus leaves on the South Alligator River, Kakadu.
The tour operator was very excited to see this interaction between a Jacana and a Water Dragon as it was the first time he had observed this behaviour.
The Water Dragon was hoping for a feed of eggs or chicks but the adult bird approached the Dragon with its wings wide spread and head down. It walked around for quite a while opening closing its wings while approaching the Dragon from different angles. The Dragon responded by opening its mouth at the bird until it moved away allowing the bird to sit on his eggs again.
Photo: Jean
At the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
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Tri-colored Heron Chick ~ still in the nest
Florida Wetlands ~ Saint Augustine, Florida U.S.A.
In the Wild ~ Summer 2016 ~ Northeast Florida
*[taken at distance: he was not disrupted or disturbed]*
(three more 'nest photos' in the comments)
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The Tricolored or Louisiana Heron does not swim but wades in deep water. Audubon called this bird "Lady of the Water" because of its grace and beauty. It resembles the Great Blue Heron but is much smaller and more delicate. Its white belly clearly distinguishes it from all other Herons. It strides briskly through the water, sometimes running after fish and catching them with a thrust of the bill. This action is so fast that it can only be caught with a shutter speed of 1/4000th of a second! Their chicks have a reddish coat but turn blue with age.
The name Louisiana Heron is very misleading because it also lives in coastal states from North Carolina to Texas, and especially in Florida.