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Khepera: that which creates self out of the waters of existence takes flight with a sweet golden butterflies to bring sunshine to our lives.
Classic elegance takes the stage to form the cuff of this enchanting bracelet as frosted metallic olive size 11 seed beads are spider weaved to capture dazzling amber size 8 beads.
A copper bangle within the beaded rope forms the adjustable frame and is accented with two pearlized beads, golden bead caps and frosted metallic size 6 seed beads towards the coiled copper borders.
The compliment extends along the posterior of the hand with a lovely Hand beaded butterfly weaved in lustered amber seed beads with a Golden frame. The center of which features an embellished cowrie shell with beaded antenna and a copper ankh charm dangling from below.
The bottom ring is a handmade adjustable copper ring embellished with a beaded web in olive, amber and gold. Another beaded web joins the top ring which is beaded over memory wire for a comfortable fit. Duo rings are both fully adjustable.
Perfect adornment for a special rendezvous, or any time is a great time to be adorned in butterflies.
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Clementinum; dates from the existence of a chapel dedicated to Saint Clement in the 11th century. A Dominican monastery was founded in the medieval period, which was transformed in 1556 to a Jesuit college. In 1622 the Jesuits transferred the library of Charles University to the Klementinum, and the college was merged with the University in 1654. The Jesuits remained until 1773, when the Klementinum was established as an observatory, library, and university by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria.
Located int Wawa, Nasugbo, Batangas
Exposure 87
Aperture f/16.0
Focal Length 10 mm
ISO Speed 100
"Now to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravitation before going for a walk. Such rules and laws are deduced from the accomplished fact; they are the products of reflection . . ." -Edward Weston
TIBET: TRANSMIGRATORY EXISTENCE
WHEEL OF TRANSMIGRATORY EXISTENCE
Belief in reincarnation is basic to Buddhism. It is thought that all sentient beings move forever in a cycle of deaths and rebirths unless liberated by spiritual enlightenment. The Wheel of Existence depicts the six realms into which the individual may be born according to the merit or evil of his past lives. This accumulation of past deeds is one's karma.
At the hub of the wheel are shown the three root poisons which bind one to existence and rebirth: ignorance, symbolized as a pig; desire, as a cock; and hatred, as a snake. The band around this circle shows humans moving up to happy rebirths on the left, and being chased down to woeful ones on the right.
The six realms go from the lowest, the hells, hot and cold, through the tortured spirits, animals, humans, demigods, to the highest, that of gods.
The outer circle depicts the twelve conditions in life linking the individual to rebirth.
THE LAST THEOCRATIC GOVERNMNET
THE DALAI LAMA
The Dalai Lama traditionally headed the Tibetan government and embodies Avalokitesvara, Lord of Mercy and guardian spirit of Tibet. Each new Dalai lama was chosen by a search committee aided by an oracle. Because the death of a Dalai Lama was considered simply a movement toward reincarnation into another body, the search committee looked for a young boy who would be revealed as that reincarnation by showing appropriate signs. This boy might be found at any level of society, rich or poor. Once chosen, he came under the tutelage of the assembly of monks, who raised him accordingly. The government meanwhile was headed by an elected regent who ruled until the Dalai Lama reached the age to assume leadership.
'Jam-dPal rGya-mTS'o
THE EIGHTH DALAI LAMA (1758-1805)
Dalai is the Mongolian word for rGya-mTS'o (vast ocean), the name of the Yellow Hat hierarch who converted Altan Khan, Prince of the Turned Mongols, to Buddhism in 1578. The actual first Dalai Lama, Sonam rGya-mTS'o, was at the same time the third Pan-c'en Lama and the incarnation of his two predecessors. He therefore designated the first two Pan-c'en Lamas retroactively as Dalai Lamas, making himself the third.
Under continuing Mongol, and later Manchu, protection the Dalai Lamas held temporal as well as spiritual power in Tibet. Each Dalai Lama is the incarnation of his immediate predecessor and of a long line of spiritual ancestors tracing their lineage back to Avalokitesvara. In the portrait (above) the eighth Dalai Lama is surrounded by spiritual ancestors.
TIBET: MEDITATION
Meditation is at the core of Tibetan Buddhist practice. The meditator seeks to become one with the Buddha-quality personified in the form of a deity. Visualization and concentration to this end are aided by sculptures and paintings of the ideal.
Wherever Buddhism spread, its art went with it. A standardized language of symbols arose, overcoming ordinary language barriers. Forms and styles intended to induce identification and communion with the deities have powerful spiritual and psychic effects on the observer.
Paintings and sculptures serving as temporary abodes of deities confer blessing and protection.
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས
bKra-sis-bDe-legs (pronounced Tashi delek)
"May you have good fortune, happiness, and all blessings."
MANI STONE
Stones inscribed with prayers, piled into cairns or forming walls, are found all over Tibet. The most popular of these prayers is the mantra of Avalokitesvara, Om mani padme Hum--Hail to the jewel in the lotus. Hence the common reference to these stones as mani (jewel) stones. The mantra is repeated as many times as space permits.
ཨོཾ་མ་ཎི་པདྨེ་ཧཱུྃ
Day 19/51
It does exist some where in the depth.
Canon Powershot SX30 IS, f5.6, shutterspeed 1/100, ISO200.
The Bell AH-1 Cobra (also called HueyCobra) owes its existence to the Vietnam War. While the proof of the air cavalry concept was being proven every day, the US Army was also losing huge amounts of helicopters to ground fire. Equipping the troop-carrying “slicks” with door guns helped, and arming the UH-1 Iroquois/Huey with weapons was another interim solution. Clearly, however, the solution lay with a dedicated attack helicopter that could defend the troop carriers.
Bell, the manufacturer of the UH-1, had been also experimenting with a concept of a heavily armed, turreted, and thin fuselage helicopter. The US Army awarded a proof-of-concept contract to Bell, which replied in a heavily modified Model 47 called the Sioux Scout. It failed to win any orders, but Bell kept at it even as the Army pursued the far more complicated and expensive AH-56 Cheyenne. This resulted in the Model 209, based on components of the UH-1 and the original conceptual design.
With the Vietnam War intensifying and the Cheyenne going nowhere, the Army issued a requirement for an interim solution, which the Model 209—built and tested in only eight months—won easily. The Army ordered 110 AH-1Gs in April 1966 and the type was in action in Vietnam a year later. It was highly successful there, and successive marks of the Cobra would continue to fight in America’s wars since—Grenada and both Gulf Wars. US Army Cobras were upgraded continually in the 1980s, resulting in a dizzying number of variants: the AH-1S (with upgraded engine), AH-1P (with flat glass windscreen), AH-1Q (with TOW missile system), AH-1E (with 20mm gatling cannon in nose turret), and AH-1F (with laser rangefinder and countermeasures). In 1988, the Army finally gave up and redesignated the whole lot as AH-1S.
US Army Cobras were finally retired in 2001, but USMC Cobras remain in service, with the fleet being converted to AH-1Z Kingcobras. Israel, Iran, and Pakistan likewise have used and continue to use their Cobra fleet, and it is generally considered to be the most successful and prototypical attack helicopter.
As is usual with most helicopters, very little can be found of the career of this AH-1F, 68-17063. Given its delivery date, it probably was originally built as an AH-1G and was later upgraded to an AH-1F in the 1970s; as such, 68-17063 might have seen combat in Vietnam. It is known that the helicopter's last assignment was with the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Tennessee National Guard), and it was retired sometime after 2000. It was then donated to the Veterans Memorial Museum at Chehalis, Washington.
68-17063 retains the older overall olive drab finish of US Army helicopters, along with the markings of the 1st Cavalry Division and the 7th Cavalry Regiment; the infamous 7th Cavalry was attached to the 1st during the Vietnam War, though the 7th may not have gotten Cobras until after Vietnam. The elaborate sharkmouth was probably not Army regulation, but some AH-1Gs did carry sharkmouths this large--plus it looks cool. I got this picture on a cloudy Washington morning in May 2024...the clouds having just robbed me of a chance to see Mount St. Helens.