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Minolta Maxxum 400si
Kodak Gold 200
I have absolutely no luck with Minolta cameras. This one kept on rewinding after 6 photos, so it was basically a waste of a roll. I own at least 7 Minolta cameras and every single one has some sort of mechanical/battery related problem. Dang Minolta, retrospectively get your shit together.
Damn miniature people! I was having a bitch of a time trying to get them to STAND and stay standing up! They just kept falling down on me so instead of running AWAY from Godzilla, THEY GOT STOMPED ON!
Hehe, SERVES THEM RIGHT! :-P Thank you to PJ for sending me some! These are 1/75 scale, I think!
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I hate getting dirty. I am sort of a priss.... :P
I have no idea why, but today I just felt like having fun with my girl and being a kid an stomping in the mud and getting muddy and having fun!!
PS. I had had enough after about a minute and a half. It was all squidgy in my toes...ew!
A day of making new friends and losing old ones, Brisbane Darkie.
This photo is part of the set G'day cobber.
Until a few years ago, I never knew that the Virgin Mary was often depicted with her foot on the snake - now that I've seen it, I see it quite often -
catholicjules.net/2010/09/02/statue-of-mary-stepping-on-a...
In the Book of Genesis 3:15 God speaks to the serpent after the fall of Adam and Eve into sin, “I will put enmity between you and the woman, between your seed and her seed; He shall crush your head and you shall lie in wait for his heel.” This is a correct translation of the original Hebrew text and the traditional text of the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament. But two ancient translations, the Latin Vulgate (revised by St. Jerome) and the ancient Coptic version (Coptic is the Egyptian language used prior to the Arab Muslim invasions), read, “She shall crush your head.” But current editions of the Bible in modern languages, translations from the original languages, all follow the translation “He shall crush.”
Now, in order to understand why Our Lady is depicted crushing the serpent, you need to know that the whole of Christian tradition in any language of East or West interprets that passage as a prophecy of the coming of the Messiah or Savior, Jesus Christ, the “seed of the woman.” He is the Second or New Adam, and His Mother Mary, because she was completely free from sin, both original and actual, is the new Eve, the only woman who has a perfect enmity with the devil. This passage, sometimes referred to as the Protoevangelium (Greek = “first Gospel”) is the first announcement of the Good News of Salvation after the Bad News of Sin and Death. Many popes, including the Pope John Paul II, have repeatedly interpreted this passage in a prophetic sense, referring to Christ and Mary.
Some Scripture scholars deny that this passage refers to Jesus or Mary. They see the literal sense of this verse only as a popular folk tale, written as a way to explain why humans are afraid of snakes!
Naturally in the Latin tradition, because of the translation “she shall crush,” the passage has had a more vivid Marian meaning. That’s where the tradition of depicting Mary crushing the head of the serpent arose. But it’s a very apt and theologically precise image, nonetheless, since it’s a perfect image of her Immaculate Conception, her lifelong immunity from sin, won for her by Christ’s saving passion and death on the cross (cf. Luke 1:47). This is one reason why the new liturgy of the Roman Rite, promulgated at Vatican II, retains the reading “she will crush your head.” It is part of the antiphon (a short thematic verse) used for Mass on the Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception. It’s part of the Church’s tradition, a witness to the Blessed Virgin Mary’s special role in her Divine Son’s plan of salvation.
(Question Answered by FR. HUGH BARBOUR, O.PRAEM)
www.templeofthesacredfeminine.com/articles/article_36.html
Who is Snake? For the patriarchy, snake has been associated with Eve, and both have been the symbols of evil and the “Fall of Man.” Eve was identified with the Snake by the “church fathers,” and they both have received the fearful projections of all that isn't known or understood about the Feminine, the Great Mystery, and that which lies beyond the comprehension of the rational, egoic, mind. The snake was one of the most widely used symbols associated with the goddess in many cultures of the Near East, where the Eve mythology had its roots. Ancient maps often depicted great serpents at the outer edges of the oceans, warning men not to dare to sail their ships beyond the known, lest they meet with a terrible serpent and succumb to certain death. It is interesting that ancient men used the same symbol as the symbol for the goddess to depict death, the unknown, and the uncharted.
In The Women’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (1983 ), Barbara Walker points out that practically every culture has a snake in its mythology, and most often it is seen as a symbol of wisdom, healing, initiation, and secret knowledge, or it is associated with eternal life and ongoing renewal.
Snakes were kept in the healing temples of Aesklepius, the god of medicine. When people came to the temple for a healing, they were invited to ask for a healing dream. If they were lucky, they would dream of a snake, which they believed to be Aesklepius himself, offering a healing. The caduceus, two snakes intertwined, is the symbol of the medical profession today. It was the symbol of Aesklepius, and according to Barbara Walker in The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects (1988), the symbol goes back to 2000 BC Mesopotamia, where the “intertwined snakes represented the healing god Ningishzida, one of the lovers of the Goddess Ishtar.” The Greek god Hermes, messenger of the gods, had a magic staff entwined with snakes and surmounted by wings, which was said to be so powerful that it could raise the dead from Hades. Hermes’ job was to conduct the souls of the dead to the underworld and he was believed to possess magical powers over sleep and dreams.
The Snake Dance ceremony of the Hopi or Moqui people of northeastern Arizona, includes the skilled handling of live snakes. The ceremony is held every two years near August 20. The celebrants are the Snake and Antelope fraternities of the Hopi tribe. The dance, which is performed in public after eight days of secret ceremonies, is a petition to the nature gods to bring rain. The Hopi believe that snakes are their brothers, the children of their ancestors the Snake Maid and the Snake Hero, who were changed into snakes, and that they therefore have special powers of intercession.
In the Catholic Church, there are statues and paintings of the Blessed Mother, Mary, shown with one foot upon the head of a snake. We were told in Catholic school that she was crushing the snake, symbol of evil.
With the New Year just turning the corner, I felt that 2019 ought to be pursued with conviction and earnestness for all the exciting possibilities that should come! So let 2019 be everyone’s Stomping Ground!
Smooth, precision turned bases are juxtaposed with facetted and forged shafts to create a candlestick with strength and grace.
Hand forged by Artist Blacksmith, Adrian Stapleton at Trinity Forge.