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Dabei habe ich den Anden Kondor nur gefragt, wie Deutschland heute spielen wird ?
These three pilgrims consult the Oracle at Senso-Ji Buddhist temple, Tokyo's oldest.
A lady participating, was kind enough to explain to me, though I may have garbled some details:
To the left of the picture is what she called a stick, that is rattled after you pose a question, and this then tells you which drawer to take your answer from. The lady on the right is just getting hers.
After reading the answer, the answer is either tied to a wire frame (picture here) or burned (picture here).
Das Flächendenkmal Kap Arkona gehört neben dem Fischerdorf Vitt zur Gemeinde Putgarten und ist eines der beliebtesten Ausflugsziele auf Rügen.
Cape Arkona (German: Kap Arkona) is a cape on the island of Rügen in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. Cape Arkona is the tip of the Wittow peninsula, just a few kilometres north of the Jasmund National Park.
The temple fortress of Arkona, today called Jaromarsburg, was the religious centre of the Slavic Rani in the Early Middle Ages. The temple was dedicated to the deity Svantevit, who was depicted with four heads. The temple housed an important horse oracle in Slavic times, where the behaviour of a white stallion could decide peace or war (horse oracles have a long history in this region, being already attested in the writings of Tacitus).
Today, only about a quarter of the old fortress is left, as the chalk-promontory it was built on is slowly eroded by the Baltic. Rescue excavations are in progress.
The fortress at Arkona was destroyed in 1168 by Danish invaders (see Absalon). The sanctuary of Slavic god Svantevid was also destroyed. This event preceded the forced Christianization of the region's inhabitants.
There are two old lighthouses at the cape, one constructed in 1827, the other one in 1902. The former is one of the oldest still existing lighthouses of the Baltic Sea. It was constructed by the famous architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel.
I had an appointment nearby and decided to swing by the very imposing Oracle complex of blue glass buildings since there was a sultry, cloudy sky to set them off. Usually when I'm here, there is bright blue sky, which isn't particularly interesting to photograph. I decided to go with a more dramatic HDR treatment to show off the textured sky.
You really have to watch where you step around here - the lagoon is overrun with aggressive geese and ducks and their droppings are everywhere !
By the way, scenes from Robin Williams’ 1999 movie, “Bicentennial Man” were filmed here since it has such a futuristic vibe.
The Legend.
There are many legends about the construction of the tower and its location. According to the most popular Turkish legend, an emperor had a much beloved daughter and one day, an oracle prophesied that she would be killed by a venomous snake on her 18th birthday. The emperor, in an effort to thwart his daughter's early demise by placing her away from land so as to keep her away from any snakes, had the tower built in the middle of the Bosphorus to protect his daughter until her 18th birthday. The princess was placed in the tower, where she was frequently visited only by her father.
On the 18th birthday of the princess, the emperor brought her a basket of exotic sumptuous fruits as a birthday gift, delighted that he was able to prevent the prophecy. Upon reaching into the basket, however, an asp that had been hiding among the fruit bit the young princess and she died in her father's arms, just as the oracle had predicted. Hence the name Maiden's Tower.
A Lenda da Torre:
Há muitas lendas acerca da construção da torre e da sua localização.
Uma das lendas turcas mais populares conta que um sultão tinha uma filha que adorava. Um dia , um oráculo profetizou que ela seria morta por uma cobra venenosa no seu 18º aniversário. Num esforço para evitar a perda prematura da filha, o sultão colocou-a longe da terra, para que ficasse longe de cobras, e mandou construir a torre, no meio do Estreito de Bósforo, onde somente o pai a visitava frequentemente. No 18º aniversário da princesa, o sultão levou um cesto de frutos exóticos como presente, contente por ter conseguido quebrar a profecia,. Porém, assim que a princesa estendeu a mão para pegar uma fruta, foi mordida por uma áspide que havia se escondido dentro do cesto. A princesa acabou por morrer nos braços do seu desgostoso pai, que assim viu concretizada a profecia. Supostamente o nome de Torre da Donzela tem origem nesta lenda.
( Fonte : Wikipedia )
The drawing:
MIcron 01 and watercolor on paper ( 20x30cm)
Based on this view
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Very "high tech" looking buildings in Silicon Valley. They appeared in quite a few movies if you can think of any. Another HDR auto-bracketing with seven exposures around sunset time.
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the secret chamber under the oracle...
The Necromandio near Ammoudia, north of Nicopolis, is where the living were said to be able to communicate with the dead. According to mythology, where the river emerges from the narrows near Glyki was where the souls of dead dwelled. The river was the channel over which Charon (Death) carried the souls of the dead into the realm of Hades, located in the depths of Lake Acheron.
The Necromandia was built on top of a cave on the northwestern shore of the lake. This oracle was visited by numerous pilgrims, who were placed on a diet of beans and lupins for a few days to prepare them for communication with their beloved deceased ones in the sacred crypt. Remains of a crane device thought to have been used to lower figures of the dead into the chamber have been found. Also the walls of the crypt are over three meters (10 feet) thick, making it possible to disguise secret passages – it appears there was a bit of ancient jiggery-pokery.
The full moon is tomorrow, but we thought we'd try shooting the moon rise around Oracle the other night. My hope was to get some moon reflections in the buildings and still be able to see some detail in the moon. While I did get what I wanted there, eventually we got to see the moon rising over the buildings during the blue hour.
Maybe I'm a bit greedy here with the moon, it's reflection in the water and on the building. Do you think the reflection in the water is distracting?
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The first from “Faces of the unreal III - Trascendental”
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Took a walk today with my brother to try out the wide angle on Oracle. This is one of the shots. There'll be more - I just couldn't control myself.
Another photo from our camping trip a week ago. We were driving around looking for birds but didn't see any. We saw lots of cattle though! A lot of cattle are allowed to graze in the national forests in this area! How peculiar! I wonder how farmers round them up when they need their cows. I mean, the forests are huge, and the cows are huge....
This is around the Salmon Creek Meadows Campground, by Tiffany Mountain.