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We started off from the Jewish Quarter, walking through the shops located next to the Roman Colonnade. You have to walk through a brief stretch of the Arab Quarter which for someone who has never been there, brings a chill and a thrill. I magined someone lunging and kidnapping me at ever corner. I wanted to get out of there really bad, so my friend and I managed to get onto the roof, where we then walked over to the Christian Quarter. Unfortunately, you can't get there from the rooftops. So, we had to turn around and go back down into the Arab street. I couldn't wait to get through to the other side.
This purports to be the very exact spot that MOSES stood and was shown the Promised Land. The landmark indicator shows the various cities of the Holy Land most now in occupied West Bank. Lake Tiberias is the other name for the Sea of Galilee and can only be seen from the northern town of Umm-Qais.
The rays of the Sun shining thru the clouds add to the drama of the place and the lengend of Moses and the Promised Land.
The Mt. Nebo basilica houses some of the best (and best presented) mosaics in Jordan, dating from around 530. The masterpiece is a hunting and herding scene interspersed with an assortment of African fauna, including a zebu (humped ox), lions, tigers, bears, boars, zebras, an ostrich on a leash and a camel-shaped giraffe.
In the 3rd or 4th century monks from Egypt built a small church on one of its peaks, Siyagha (a name meaning monastery), to commemorate the end of Moses’ life.
The monks’ church was expanded in the 5th and 6th centuries into a large basilica with a stunning collection of Byzantine mosaics and an elaborate baptistery. Though little remains of the early buildings, the mosaics can be seen inside the present-day shrine.
"Mooom? When can I get off these rocks? I am bored!"
"Not yet! Another picture!"
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Photo from the camping trip to Promised Land Lake, PA, 2005.
In the 3rd or 4th century monks from Egypt built a small church on one of its peaks, Siyagha (a name meaning monastery), to commemorate the end of Moses’ life.
The monks’ church was expanded in the 5th and 6th centuries into a large basilica with a stunning collection of Byzantine mosaics and an elaborate baptistery. Though little remains of the early buildings, the mosaics can be seen inside the present-day shrine.
Illustration from "La Sainte Bible : Ancien Testament . . . / Compositions par J.-James Tissot"; with preface by Antonin Gilbert Sertillanges (1863-1948), introduction by Maurice de Brunoff (1861-1937) and the translation into French of Isaac-Louis Lemaistre de Saci (1613-1684). 2 volumes. Paris: M. de Brunoff & Cie, 1904. The illustrations were originated by James Tissot (1836-1902) who sketched as he read Scripture.
The edition, of which 561 copies were printed, contains 360 mounted colour, black-and-white and duo-tone illustrations in the text and 40 plates in three states: sepia-tone, partly hand-coloured, and finished coloured state. The plates are protected with captioned tissue-guards. The paper size is 15.75 x 13 ins; image size varies (circa 8.5 x 5.5 ins).
The paintings for all 400 Illustrations were based exclusively on the complete sketches (the inspiration being entirely Tissot's). The first 200 illustrations covering the Book of Genesis through to the story of Jephthah's daughter in the Book of Judges were painted by Tissot. The last remaining 200 illustrations were painted after Tissot's death in 1902 by Henri Bellery-Desfontaines, Auguste François Gorguet, Charles Hoffbauer, Louis van Parys, Michel Simonidy and Georges Bertin Scott.
Photos by Philip De Vere: Tissot's Last Oblation
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Der Mensch ist unerlässlich zur Vollendung der Schöpfung, ja er ist der zweite Weltschöpfer selber, welcher der Welt erst das objektive Sein gibt, ohne das sie ungehört, ungesehen, lautlos fressend, gebärend, sterbend, köpfenickend durch Hunderte von Jahrmillionen in der tiefsten Nacht des Nicht-Seins zu einem unbestimmten Ende hin ablaufen würde. Menschliches Bewusstsein erst hat objektives Sein und den Sinn geschaffen, und dadurch hat der Mensch seine im grossen Seinsprozess unerlässliche Stellung gefunden.
The human being is indispensable for the completion of the creation, he himself is the second world-creator who gives the world its objective existence without which it would go on in the deep night of not-being, unheard, unseen, soundless eating, giving birth, dying, nodding, through hundreds of millions of years to an uncertain end. Only human consciousness has created objective existence, and sense, and thereby the human being has found his essential position within the great process of being.
~ Memories, Dreams and Reflections by C. G. Jung ~
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Day six: »The Sun« was completed and the "eyes" of »The Moon« were changed.
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