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This is one piece from a series of illustrations representing the dynastic combs of the 5 sovereign birds; Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou.
This particular comb represents Tang, a strict and militant commander.
The colouring is reminiscent of the Rooster (Gallus gallus).
This delicious fungus was picked on several fallen oak trees in Essex, NY. The comb tooth mushroom (Hericium americanum) is known for it's great taste and known immune enhancing ability.
Sarkidionis melanotos
The strange knob on its bill is of unknown function, but probably involved in courtship since it shrinks after breeding season.
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.
I rarely wear this one. I may have to remedy that.
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today's random fact: My very first word was "boys."
It loses some of its funny when you know I have 2 older brothers who were referred to as "the boys" whenever we picked them up, shopped for them, played with them, etc.
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
Palenque, also anciently known in the Itza Language as Lakamha (literally 'Flat-Place-River'), was a Maya city state in southern Mexico that perished in the 8th century. The Palenque ruins date from ca. 226 BC to ca. 799 AD. After its decline, it was overgrown by the jungle of cedar, mahogany, and sapodilla trees, but has since been excavated and restored. It is located near the Usumacinta River in the Mexican state of Chiapas, about 130 km (81 mi) south of Ciudad del Carmen, 150 meters (490 ft) above sea level. It averages a humid 26°C (79°F) with roughly 2,160 millimeters (85 in) of rain a year.
Palenque is a medium-sized site, smaller than Tikal, Chichen Itza, or Copán, but it contains some of the finest architecture, sculpture, roof comb and bas-relief carvings that the Mayas produced. Much of the history of Palenque has been reconstructed from reading the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the many monuments; historians now have a long sequence of the ruling dynasty of Palenque in the 5th century and extensive knowledge of the city-state's rivalry with other states such as Calakmul and Toniná. The most famous ruler of Palenque was K'inich Janaab Pakal, or Pacal the Great, whose tomb has been found and excavated in the Temple of the Inscriptions.
By 2005, the discovered area covered up to 2.5 km2, but it is estimated that less than 10% of the total area of the city is explored, leaving more than a thousand structures still covered by jungle.
The famous structures that we know today probably represent a rebuilding effort in response to the attacks by the city of Calakmul and its client states in 599 and 611. One of the main figures responsible for rebuilding Palenque and for a renaissance in the city's art and architecture is also one of the best-known Maya Ajaw, Kʼinich Janaabʼ Pakal (Pacal the Great), who ruled from 615 to 683. He is known through his funerary monument dubbed the Temple of Inscriptions, after the lengthy text preserved in the temple's superstructure. At the time Alberto Ruz Lhuillier excavated Pakal's tomb, it was the richest and best preserved of any scientifically excavated burial then known from the ancient Americas. It held this position until the discovery of the rich Moche burials at Sipan, Peru and the recent discoveries at Copan and Calakmul.
The grandson of Janaab Pakal is the most famous of the Mayan kings, K'inich Janaab' Pakal, also known as Pakal the Great. He began rule at the age of 12 years after his mother Sak Kuk resigned as queen after three years, thus passing power on to him. Pakal the Great reigned in Palenque from 615 to 683, and his mother remained an important force for the first 25 years of his rule. She may have ruled jointly with him. Known as the favorite of the gods, he carried Palenque to new levels of splendor, in spite of having come to power when the city was at a low point. Pakal married the princess of Oktán, Lady Tzakbu Ajaw (also known as Ahpo-Hel) in 624 and had at least three children.
Most of the palaces and temples of Palenque were constructed during his government; the city flourished as never before, eclipsing Tikal. The central complex, known as The Palace, was enlarged and remodeled on various occasions, notably in the years 654, 661, and 668. In this structure, is a text describing how in that epoch Palenque was newly allied with Tikal, and also with Yaxchilan, and that they were able to capture the six enemy kings of the alliance. Not much more had been translated from the text. Pakal's sarcophagus, built for a very tall man, held the richest collection of jade seen in a Mayan tomb. A jade mosaic mask was placed over his face, and a suit made of jade adorned his body, with each piece hand-carved and held together by gold wire.
During the 8th century, B'aakal came under increasing stress, in concert with most other Classic Mayan city-states, and there was no new elite construction in the ceremonial center sometime after 800. An agricultural population continued to live here for a few generations, then the site was abandoned and was slowly grown over by the forest. The district was very sparsely populated when the Spanish first arrived in the 1520's.