Myths and Legends
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“To be human, that's what most of us long for. It is the human which has become myth to us.”
Anne Rice
Lily legends - many stories, myths and legends have been composed about these beautiful flowers. Since ancient times, people have worshiped the lily as one of the most beautiful creatures on earth. Even the wish for well-being sounded like this: "May your path be strewn with roses and lilies." A symbol of hope in Ancient Greece, peace and purity in Rus', and in France these flowers meant mercy, compassion and justice.
The rose is rightfully called the queen of the flower world, since ancient times it has become an object of reverence and admiration.
The flower was already known in ancient Egypt. During the meeting of Cleopatra and the commander Mark Antony, the floors of the hall in her palace were covered with a layer of rose petals almost half a meter thick. In ancient Greece, this flower was considered a gift from the gods. And it was the rose petals that enveloped the beautiful Aphrodite emerging from the sea. The Olympian gods, being in admiration, sprinkled their nectar on the flower, and since then the rose has received its pleasant smell.
Exposition Anselme Kiefer
Du 26 mars au 29 octobre 2022, l’art contemporain entre au Palais des Doges, pour l’exposition qui sera le pivot de la cinquième édition de MUVE Contemporaneo, une exposition biennale de la Fondation des musées civiques de Venise qui a pour clé la réflexion sur la relation de l’art d’aujourd’hui avec les musées.
From March 26 to October 29, 2022, contemporary art enters the Doge's Palace, for the exhibition that will be the pivot of the fifth edition of MUVE Contemporaneo, a biennial exhibition of the Venice Civic Museums Foundation that has as its key the reflection on the relationship of today's art with museums.
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The story of the Red Thread of Fate above.
Maybe it's not a coincidence that I chose to upload this foto today (not knowing about the story) on our wedding anniversary and title it "The Red Thread" although there is a lot more iron to see.
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(For my wonderful husband)
Created for Art Museion Contest 13 - Mystic Faces: www.flickr.com/groups/artmuseion/discuss/72157649274042609/
View of the mansion at Nymans Gardens, West Sussex. You will have noticed that the frontal part of the building has been preserved as a ruin and that only one of the side wings is still occupied. This is a result of a fire in 1947, a calamity the owners, the Messel family, never really recovered from. In the early 1950s, the whole estate was acquired by the National Trust. The point of the estate had always been to create an alternative world of beauty - far away from noisy cities and dirty industries. The building may look medieval, but it was built in the first half of the 19th century. When the Messels (stock brokers from Germany who had made their fortune in Britain and, later, liaised with nobility) purchased the place in the 1890s, they followed this trajectory and turned the gardens into a horticultural paradise. Consequently, when the National Trust preserves the estate, it also preserves a dream.
"Que le meilleur gagne" est non seulement une piètre interprétation de la théorie de l'évolution, mais surtout une très mauvaise idéologie pour maintenir la cohésion d'un groupe, et a fortiori la vie sur terre.
Pourquoi vouloir écraser l'autre ? Pourquoi chercher à ce point la solitude, la division et l'aliénation ? Ce mythe ne serait-il pas en réalité un puissant instrument de domination ?
La victoire culturelle de cette idéologie ne s'est pas faite en un claquement de doigts; elle a mobilisé pendant des décennies des forces et des sommes d'argent considérables.
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Texte : Pablo Servigne & Gauthier Chapelle.
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Lieu : Leukerbad, Suisse.
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Pour qui se sent solidaire du destin de ce monde, le choc des civilisations a quelque chose d’angoissant.
Le Mythe de Sisyphe - Albert Camus
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AvaGirl - Kaya Outfit (Sweater + Sweatpants)
[lf design] Pretty Belly chain
Pose - M&T Color Lights Bento Poses
All items are available @ Swank Event
Event runs from Jan 7th till 31st
This Milky Way photo was taken close to a popular beach with hundreds of visitors and cars by day and yet having an excellent night sky after the onset of astronomical twilight. The foreground was illuminated by the rotating lighthouse beam a few hundred meters away, thus providing a means of light painting of the scene.
Some of the most beautiful stories of ancient times refer to the silvery band of the Milky Way - a celestial river comprised by the light of billions of stars, that has traveled for thousands of years to reach our eyes. This majestic arc of light is more clearly visible on summer nights, when our gaze is towards the center of the Milky Way, which lies at about 25 thousand light years away - the brightest part of the band just above the tree and to left of the “Dark Horse” silhouette.
This band is bisected by obscuring clouds of interstellar dust, thus forming the “Great Galactic Rift”. The interstellar gas and dust gave birth to everything else in the Universe, including us - we are all made of stardust after all.
My deepest thanks and warmest wishes to everyone for 2025 - stay healthy and keep looking up!
And though the course may change sometimes
Rivers always reach the sea ....
The River Severn, the longest river in the UK, takes its rise nine miles to the west of Llanidloes high up on the slopes of Pumlumon, the highest point in the central range of the Cambrian Mountains. The Roman name for the Severn (the Hafren in Welsh) was Sabrina, and ancient myth tells Sabrina was one of three sisters, all water nymphs, who met on Pen Pumlumon to discuss how they might wend their way to the sea. Each sister took a different route, Ystwyth to the west and Varga (the Wye) away to the south, while Sabrina who loved the land, set out on a slow meandering course that led her far into the east. The spirit of Sabrina still resides in the sparkling waters of the river and nowhere is her benevolent presence more apparent than here, where she first set forth upon her long journey to the sea.
~ Ten Years Gone ~
The vibrant dancheong of the main temple, showcasing intricate paintings, vivid colors, and a striking dragon head detail.
Haedong Yonggungsa (해동용궁사, Hanja 海東龍宮寺) stands strikingly on the seaside cliffs of Gijang-gun (기장군), Busan (부산), making it one of the rare Korean Buddhist temples built along the coast. According to legend, the monk Naong Hyegeun (나옹 혜근, 1320–1376) dreamed that the Sea God of the East would bring rain if a temple were constructed atop Mount Bongnae (봉래산). In response, Bomun Temple (보문사) was established in 1376 but was later destroyed during the Imjin War of 1592. The site was revived in the 1930s by the monk Ungang (운강), who renamed it Haedong Yonggungsa. The temple complex, anchored by its Daeungjeon Main Hall (대웅전) completed in 2005, now venerates Haesu Gwaneum Daebul (해수관음대불), the Sea-Water Bodhisattva of Compassion.
A hallmark of Haedong Yonggungsa is its dancheong (단청)—the traditional Korean decorative painting applied to wooden structures using five symbolic colors (blue, red, white, black, and yellow), intended both to embellish and to shield from the elements and insects. Throughout the Daeungjeon, visitors can find numerous dragon-head carvings (용두, yongdu) adorning beam ends and roof eaves, their manes and scales highlighted with layers of mineral pigments and gilded accents.
Haedong Yonggungsa, Gijang-gun, Busan, South Korea
"The most simple things can bring the most happiness." Izabella Scorupco
Someone has made a nice series of skins for male bodies in a variety of colours, and works both in water or land based fantasy RP. She has also made matching body skins. Both are entirely hand-painted from scratch and worth checking out (she's even included different belly types). For fantasy/Mer accessories I recommend you check out the stores Floro and Auro, both of whom have a large variety of items you'll love. For fantasy materials drop into Blaxium to add scales, shine or sparkles. Available now at Camp Syndicate, closing soon.
Featuring:
⦿ [KRR] - Kiara hair and horns (OMBRES PACK)
At the Camp Syndicate Event
Creator's Flickr.
⦿ SOMEONE - Stillwater Triton: Skin Bundle (includes tattoos for skin affects) shown on the Kris head.
At the Camp Syndicate Event
Creator's Flickr.
⦿ [AURO] - Lux In Tenebris : Eye Wisps
At the Camp Syndicate Event
Creator's Flickr.
⦿ Mana. // Plague Eyes (full set in pack)
At the Camp Syndicate Event
Creator's Flickr.
⦿ Orphic + Nightmare + Eyeballs on a chain
Creator's Flickr.
⦿ SFU - AASB Earrings
Creator's Flickr.
In addition:
+ Bleeding Heart Cuff Set (Legacy M Athletic) + {Aii&Ego}
+ Webbed Hands + {aii}
Air - Amaho halo_CM
CAT&CO - Vampiric Elf Ears
UNHOLY MALEVOLENT HANDS LEGACY [ATHLETIC] cryptid
K-Pax | Man Of No Ego
youtu.be/THqSnekZZKU?si=kFJVFT03bGL6HsbM
But we have this hostility to the external world
Because of the superstition, the myth
The absolutely unfounded theory
That you yourself exist only inside your skin
Now I wanna propose another idea
You're not something that is the result of the Big Bang
Or the end of the process
You are still the process
You are the Big Bang
The original force of the Universe
Coming on as whoever you are
See when I meet you
I see not just what you define yourself as
This is so and so and this is so and so and this is so and so
I see everyone of you as the primordial energy of the Universe
Coming on at me in this particular way
And I know I'm that too.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTFZVZTSA9E
They say dragons never truly die. No matter how many times you kill them.
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And I return!! Life has taken an awful covid-related turn and I needed a break, but now I feel recovered.
And finally got around to decorating my home a little with all these pretty decor items <3
credits. //
FEATURED:
what next - Bramley Rocking Chair
what next - Sunflowers Pitcher
Your Dreams - French Romance Deck - coffee pot
Trompe Loeil - Moosehead Lake Cabin Brown
BROKEN ARROWS - Tire Table - Coffee Stain - Black
LOVE - Hedera Vine Wall Covering
LOVE - Filler Bushes
LOVE - Wych Elm Tree
KAZZA - TimeRoomSet - mat
Apple Fall - Hartley Fencing (Wood)
TUFF - Nature Screen1 - Curved
Myth - Umbrella Stand
Wrought wall is a modified tarte screen
The agony of a werewolf transformation..
*Credit* :
[piXit] : (Pose+Chains) Unchained Melody - Pose Pack (Slightly modified) @ Sabbath Jan Round ---> piXit Mainstore
SIGNATURE :(Mesh Body) Davis Body at Signature Mainstore
The last biplane fighter to enter service with the RAF in the late 1930s, the Gloster Gladiator was already obsolescent and ordered as a stop gap in case of delays to the much more capable Spitfires and Hurricanes then in development.
The Gladiator had a very sprightly performance for a biplane, and despite being so outdated, many hundreds were built and saw much service during WW2 with a wide variety of Air Forces. They generally acquitted themselves surprisingly well - notably in the defence of Malta, where they attained a legendary status. A myth formed that three Gladiators, respectively named Faith, Hope and Charity, provided the Island's entire air cover during the Siege of Malta in 1940. It's not entirely true, but a good story is better than the reality!
One of only two remaining airworthy, this example is owned by The Shuttleworth Collection and seen here displaying at its home base of Old Warden.
Partial view of Reine as seen from Hamnoy on a day of very moody weather which is a scenario I like a lot since it sems to echo more with the myth of the North than bright sunshine and magazine cover landscapes :)
Assos, in the Canakkale Province of Turkey, is said to have been founded by immigrants from the nearby island of Lesbos in the 7th Century BC. The Temple of Athena, dedicated to the Goddess Athena, the protector of the city, has been dated to the 6th Century BC. It is the only example of Doric-style architecture from the Archaic period in Anatolia, and originally featured 34 columns and a statue of Athena. What remains is beautifully atmospheric, and its elevated position offers stunning views of Lesbos and the Aegean Sea.
“The uncritical civilization bears witness to its own decline in accepting myths as fact while dismissing facts as myth.”
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::GB:: SP3G suit /set @ Engine Room
⛧ Comes with Suit/boots, Hat, Necklace, & Shoulder belt
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Taking pictures a tool (camera), not a photographer.
The choice of tool limits the possibilities.
Experience allows him (instrument) less and less to limit their capabilities.
The ability to see is given only when the observer allows ...
The moment of observation is the real find ...
Training and mastering it defies. Training leads to poor imitations of the original.
Often the result should ripen, like wine. Although time is the understanding of the mind, therefore it is very speculative.
The meaning of all this is the process!
Find someone who inspires shooting the camera!
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Often we are visited by thoughts that may reveal something unknown ... Our mind many times tries to solve a problem with known methods ... This is its main mistake! The path of the heart opens the doors that appear in our path. It is a pity that not everyone has the courage to insert the keys that are always with us ...
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