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Nella campagna dello Wiltshire c’è uno dei siti archeologici più importanti e conosciuti al mondo : Stonehenge …
Il famoso sito megalitico comprende una costruzione formata da un cerchio di 30 monoliti posizionati in verticale che racchiudono cinque triliti disposti a ferro di cavallo; costruita tra il 3000 e il 1600 a.C., forse come tempio per il culto di antiche divinità pagane , forse come osservatorio astronomico , forse come luogo sacro di sepoltura … (difficile dirlo).
E’ uno dei siti più misteriosi mai costruiti dall’ uomo , divenuto patrimonio dell’umanità Unesco nel 1986 .
Ogni anno migliaia di persone si riuniscono a Stonehenge tra il 20 e il 21 giugno in occasione del solstizio d’estate per ammirare l’alba del giorno con più ore di luce dell’anno in questo luogo suggestivo .
La festa si accende quando i raggi del sole iniziano a filtrare tra le antichissime pietre di Stonehenge, che letteralmente significa “pietre sospese”.
È anche una delle poche occasioni dell’anno in cui ai visitatori è concesso di toccare le pietre di Stonehenge. Alcuni sentono un contatto spirituale e un’energia particolare al contatto con queste pietre antichissime .
Ad oggi Stonehenge è un luogo magico e misterioso , considerato un sito preistorico ancora avvolto nel mistero .
Nella realtà la Stonehenge che vediamo adesso è un’OPERA DEL XX SECOLO !!!
Un ragazzo di Bristol, Brian Edwards, alle prese con una tesi di storia si è imbattuto nelle foto risalenti agli inizi del ‘900 che mostrano degli operai di epoca vittoriana intenti con cazzuola, gru, e funi, a COSTRUIRE il monumento di Stonehenge.
Nel 1901 hanno ricostruito, spostato, innalzato, sistemato, riallineato quei monoliti che milioni di “fedeli” presumono INTATTI, ne adorano la geometria, credendolo un computer preistorico, un orologio neolitico, o addirittura il regalo di una civiltà superiore sbarcata sulla Terra per consegnarci la Conoscenza !!! ( dal web )
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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.
井の頭線渋谷駅は盛りだくさんです。スクランブル交差点を見ることもできれば岡本太郎の傑作を見ることもできます。
Shibuya Station on the Inokashira Line has many viewpoints. You can see the Shibuya Scramble Crossing or see Taro Okamoto's masterpiece.
Visit this location in Second Life
My great-grandfather in my maternal side had two-colored eyes. It was very rare that he had one bright ocean blue and the other a medium light gray one. He was of Spanish descent. Family stories were told to us grandchildren that he had a third-eye and can see things ordinary normal folks cannot see. Superstitions I supposed...
"... Superstitions regarding eye colour are related to heterochromia, a rare condition that causes eyes to be different colours.
Some Native American cultures believe that people or animals (especially dogs) with different coloured eyes have the ability to see heaven and earth at the same time. This sounds like a blessing, but in the pagan traditions of Europe, having different coloured eyes was associated with witchcraft."
gp-optom.co.nz/eye-myths-superstitions-and-cultural-beliefs/
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“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.”
-Saint Augustine
Taken at scenic The Sim Quarterly
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Taken in Black Dragon using EEP, Winlight created by my lovely friend Poly. Go check out her fab feed.
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As they say, travels broadens the mind, be it on a motorbike or in my case, a panda....and I picked up some fun items from the Horror Carnivale event to help me with this endeavor. This animated bear has the odd tongue in cheek animation and from a Gatcha too. Bring companions with you for that explorer vibe, of which I have Hilted's Howler dog, and keep yourself protected from the 'known unknowns' that the grid could throw at you with the gorgeous mask and staff from Drunken Brokkr. I'm wearing the new skin and ears from Petrichor which easily adapts to different looks that your imagination could throw at it. In my case, a Drow. The Panda nuzzles you when you ground sit, so mind your hair...
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Positive Wavelength - Bear Mount Panda 22 @ Horror Carnivale
HILTED - Howler - Old Buck @ Horror Carnivale
[DB] HarabanaR - Mask ULTRARARE (bone) @ Horror Carnivale
[DB] HarabanaR - Staff ULTRARARE (bone) @ Horror Carnivale
All available at Horror Carnivale till 31st October 2020
:[P]: Shadowlaz Skin [M] - Sanguinna @ Necrotize
:[P]:- Shadowlaz Ears // Sanguinna (Included in pack) @ Necrotize
Available now at Necrotize - The Future || The Horror till Nov 20th 2020
I'm also wearing:
[Gauze&Trap] Ziva Horns @Mainstore
L'Emporio&PL::*Till*::-B.Jake
L'Emporio::*Damned Claws & Rings*::-Belleza Jake V2
Both @Mainstore
[CX] Aeshma's Reign (Belleza M+Black)
[CX] Monstrum Catena - Onyx
[CX] Filthy Beast Collar
[CX] Scarred Bridge (Gold) Group Gift
[CX] Yule Lord Cuff - (Obsidian)
All at @Mainstore
[NC] - Urban Ninja - Black Pants @Mainstore
[ContraptioN] Deck Crew Boots *???* Jake @Mainstore
LeLUTKA.Head Skyler 2.0 @Mainstore
-Belleza- Jake 2.1 Bento @Mainstore
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......It’s said that at the end of the rainbow, a leprechaun mines his gold from veins that pulse with a light no sun ever made. The treasure he extracts lies scattered carelessly across the blasted terrain—twisted stacks, half-melted coins, and small hills of raw gold pushed toward his ruined castle like offerings. The rutted, hidden track that leads to his crumbling keep winds through these mounds, half-swallowed by the shifting earth. He lives alone in the shadows, guarding his hoard with traps, whispers, and old, crawling curses. They say those who reach the rainbow’s end never leave whole—if they leave at all.
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!
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.
© All rights reserved Anna Kwa. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission
Under the Sea...Featuring Swank with Avada, Letituier, irrISIStible
Blog:
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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
some cars are famous, some cars are legendary, and then there are those rare few that become mythical to us gear heads
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.....legend has it that this distant cousin to the koala will drop from the trees on unsuspecting tourists caught staring up at them, ready to lash out with razor sharp claws, and hoping to to devour them as a tasty snack!
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“I did not choose to be a monster—a shell of a man—half-human, half-fiend. I am a tiefling. I am what I am.”
― Barbara T. Cerny, The Tiefling: Angel Kissed, Devil Touched
[Credits Below]
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This new body tattoo by Nefekalum is rather striking, is it not? I paired it up with Nefekalum's 'Temple' on my LeLutka Skyler head and found it sits quite nicely on both light and dark skins.
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Nefekalum Tattoos - Monochrome EXCLUSIVE - Blue Midnight @Imaginarium Event 1st June/30 June 2020
Nefekalum Tattoos - Temple @Main Store [New Location]
Raven Bell - Ethiel Hair [Dystopia] @Main Store
Petrichor - Verosh Horns - Dark RFL @Main Store
SEMPITERNAL [The Throne's Halo] @Main Store
Pirocious Enmity Eyes @Main Store
RealEvil Industries Tribal Dagger Necklace @Main Store
LeLUTKA.Head.Skyler.1.1 @Mainstore
-Belleza- Jake 2.1 Bento @Mainstore
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Pose and shape by myself.
Taken in Black Dragon using its dynamic lighting sliders.
No innocent villagers and passing travelers were harmed in the making of this photo, but the horse they rode in on was delicious.
Funerary figures are often surrounded by myths that say they accompany and protect the souls of the deceased in the afterlife. These figures symbolize the belief in life after death and the idea that they help the dead survive in the other world and fulfill their tasks.
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Grabfiguren sind oft von Mythen umgeben, die besagen, dass sie die Seelen der Verstorbenen im Jenseits begleiten und beschützen. Diese Figuren symbolisieren den Glauben an
ein Leben nach dem Tod und die
Vorstellung, dass sie den Toten helfen, in der anderen Welt zu bestehen und ihre Aufgaben zu erfüllen.
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MYTHS IN EVERYDAY LIFE is the topic for October 19th – 25th 2024, Group Our Daily Challenge
Following a question from Lynne Berry (Photographic Queen of Steetley Pier fame) regarding the location of an opening scene from a recent TV series, it prompted Horace and I to take a look at said location in Mid Cornwall.
Whilst I bagged a couple of shots of this outcrop, Horace wondered off into the village of Roche armed with his notebook, (he is very good at short trotter) where he would keep his snout to the ground and leave no rasher unturned.
Totally out of character Horace walked into the Pub in Roche with his little notebook to source local knowledge regarding this ruined 15th century hermitage and the myth and mystery that surrounds it.
Horace gleamed that the ruined chapel on top of this outcrop was built around 1409 and dedicated to St Michael.
According to local folklore, a hermit and his daughter lived within the rocky structure, another story suggests the hermitage was occupied by some people who contracted leprosy and stayed here to avoid infecting others in the village.
Horace kept probing with his own journalistic style (mines a pint mate) to discover other tales, one being that Jan Tregeagle (Cornwall’s own Faust) a tortured sinner made a pact with the devil then tried to find refuge in the chapel when being chased by demons. (And people think I make things up).
It’s also said that doomed lovers Tristan and Isolde, from a medieval legend, hid here when their love had been discovered by Isolde’s husband, King Mark. It was at this point Horace looked at his empty glass and thought it is time to quit while he was able.
Once again I was very fortunate that whilst preparing to take this shot it poured down with rain, however as it started to clear this sky appeared and the rest is history.
Thank you for viewing my images, the comments and banter are much appreciated. 🐎💨🐷💨🍺🍺🍺😎🍷🍷🍷😂😂😂
Nombre común: El nictibio urutaú, ave bruja, acudo, nictibio, guajojó, potoo, perosna, urutaú común, guaiguîgué, pájaro fantasma, pájaro bruja, kakuy, cacuy, pericoligero, pájaro estaca menor, ayaymama, bien parado, estaquero común.
Nombre cientifico: Nyctibius griseus
Nombre en ingles: Common Potoo
Nombre en alemán: Urutau Tagschläfer
Nombre en francés: Ibijau gris
Lugar de la Foto: El Rosario Condominio, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia.
This beauty of a species, considered in the past as the "bird of ill omen", is today the complete opposite. We will make this known in the text that is being edited, called MYTHS AND LEGENDS OF BIRDS, The new paradigm, which will be available to bird lovers very soon.
We have achieved the photograph thanks to the invitation to their home, made by our friend Antonio Upegui and his wife. For them, my public recognition and thank you very much.
Esta belleza de especie, considerada en el pasado como el “pájaro de mal agüero”, es hoy todo lo contrario. Esto lo daremos a conocer en el texto que se está editando, llamado MITOS Y LEYENDAS DE LAS AVES, El nuevo paradigma, que muy pronto estará disponible para los amantes de las aves.
La fotografía la hemos conseguido gracias a la invitación a su casa, realizada por nuestro amigo Antonio Upegui y su esposa. Para ellos mi reconocimiento público y muchas gracias.
The moment I saw this mallard I was reminded of the myth of Narcissus and of so many works of art that depict the young man who fell in love with his own reflection. The name Narcissus is, of course, the source of the word narcissist.
I have named this mallard Donald J. Trump.
Island in the middle of River Tejo. Santarém, Portugal
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Thanks to Lennabem for the texture
Its not Monsters that scare me, for Myths and Legends can't hurt me, its people and cruelty that make me afraid..... Thought of the week ~ KissThePixel2018
“I return to problems i can't solve, not because i am an idiot, but because the real problems can't be solved. The universe is expanding. The more we see, the more we discover there is to see. Always a new beginning, a different end.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles.
A couple of images that I made which explore “the Seeker” archetype, one that resonates deeply for me, as I feel most alive when my mind is on fire with the wonder of discovery.
Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 340. Das Wandgemälde „Aphrodite“, gestaltet vom Künstlerduo „PichiAvo“ (Pichi, *1977 und Avo, *1985) aus Valencia / Spanien. Auf ihrer Homepage (www.pichiavo.com/)
schreiben die Künstler zu dieser Arbeit: „Aphrodite-Wandbild in Wuppertal“. Das neueste für den 'Urbanen Kunstraum Wuppertal' (UKW) geschaffene Wandgemälde befindet sich in diesem Freilichtmuseum, das sich der Umgestaltung öffentlicher Räume durch eine Reihe temporärer internationaler Interventionen widmet. Von 2023 bis 2025 möchte UKW ein wiedererkennbares und einzigartiges Stadtbild schaffen, in dem lokale Umgebungen in internationale Wandkunst verwandelt werden. Dieses Wandgemälde ist vom Mythos der Aphrodite und dem Urteil des Paris inspiriert. Die Integration klassischer Themen mit urbanem Ausdruck bereichert die Wuppertaler Kulturlandschaft.“
English translation:
Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Friedrich-Ebert-Straße 340. The mural "Aphrodite" was created by the street art Duo "PichiAvo" (Pichi, *1977 and Avo, *1985) from Valencia / Spain. On their homepage (www.pichiavo.com/)
the artists write about this work: "Aphrodite mural in Wuppertal. The latest mural created for Urbaner Kunstraum Wuppertal (UKW) is located within this open-air museum dedicated to transforming public spaces through a series of temporary international interventions. From 2023 to 2025, UKW aims to establish a recognizable and unique cityscape, where local environments are transformed into international wall art. This mural draws inspiration from the myth of Aphrodite and the Judgement of Paris, integrating classical themes with urban expression to enrich Wuppertal’s cultural landscape."