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this man make his living from transporting people crosses the river from one side to the other. Collecting about US$ 0.1 for each passenger, at the end of the day he could earn about 5-6 dollars...
Finalmente o recesso chegou \o/
Nessas duas semanas, espero rever alguns amigos, mudar meu cabelo de uma vez, estudar, fotografar e assistir a vários filmes que não pude ver... Agosto já começa cheio de compromissos e é bom dar uma recarregada né!? :)
Como estão? Voltando de férias, saindo das férias ou nem as tiveram? :S
Tenham todos uma ótima semana!
Beijos! ♥
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Victor, minha vida *-* acabamos de nos falar pelo celular e já sinto tanto a falta da sua voz! Estou morrendo de saudades de você! Eu te amo muito, muito mesmo! Perto de completarmos 9 meses de namoro, vejo que oque sinto hoje é imensamente mais forte que há meses atrás. Estamos crescendo juntos e nosso amor também tem amadurecido. Quero estar sempre ao seu lado ♥ Eu amo você!
So, to be clear, this was absolutely NOT the shot I wanted. In fact, when laying out my plans for each day, there were a few "must haves" on my list each of those days. Making the entrance into Texas crossing the iconic Red River was *definitely* on that list today. But, after the virtual bending over that was the traffic and construction situation in Durant, OK, I arrived with nowhere near enough time to get out on and prep for a shot from the paralleling US 69/75 crossing - and I would have needed to do a double back to boot.
So, moving not even a mile down track, this option for the tracks flying over US 69 as it cuts south and east away from both US 75 and the MKT line seemed like a decent consolation. Except...in order to get the shot I wanted meant standing out on the freshly spread asphalt with the midday sun beating down. Did I mention that the defect detector that I had recently heard on the scanner as part of its report out stated, "...temperatutre...1-0-5 degrees..." ?
After standing out there as long as I could, I took a quick respite from the sun and heat in the nearby shade. I thought that I would have a bit of warning/would hear the approach since I figured there'd be a heck of a racket of whistles and such as the train crossed over the Red River bridge, what with about (seemingly) half the county's population in, on, around, under, and about the tracks there. NOPE! The train snuck up without so much as a peep and I jumped out as much as I could to snap this (less than ideal) still...and had no chance at getting the video started.
Yep, that "good ol'" usual luck for me was certainly back with a vengence.
-Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy #4014
-UP (ex-MKT) Choctaw Sub, near MP U658
-Crossing US 69, Denison, TX
-August 13, 2021
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Catching the afternoon sunshine on the approach to Lichfield Trent Valley is 57002 Rail Express piloting a failed 88001 Revolution working the lengthy 6X43 Dagenham Dock to Garston Car Terminal.
Musandam Governorate (Arabic : محافظة مسندم) is a governorate of Oman.
Geographically, the Musandam peninsula juts into the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow entry into the Persian Gulf, from the Arabian Peninsula. The Musandam peninsula is an exclave of Oman, separated from the rest of the country by the United Arab Emirates. Its location gives Oman partial control, shared with Iran, of the strategic strait. In the northern section of Musandam, around Kumzar, the language is Kumzari, which is one of the south-western Iranian languages and related to Luri and Persian. The Musandam Peninsula has an area of 1,800 square kilometers (695 sq mi) and a population of 31,425 people.
Musandam is a picturesque region separated from the rest of Oman, with its scenery being quite attractive to tourists. Access to the peninsula was formerly rather difficult, with the only options being limited flights or a ten hour drive through four immigration posts. The world's fastest passenger ferry service between Muscat and Musandam was launched in August 2008 to alleviate this problem and make the region more accessible.
Não faça a mafiosa, põe rosa -N
enfim, pra você querids espero que goste.
brit com cara de cu.
e vou voltar a ver bad girls club.
e obg pelos coments na blend da ke$ha s2s2 *-*
"Only when one becomes exhausted of the person does it become possible to emerge as being." -Mooji
The sun kisses the famous Australian Byron Bay Lighthouse goodbye for another day. Whales migrating South along the coast stretch to pay homage to the giver of light as eagles circle above in dance.
a simple look because this dress from celoe at c88 is beautiful! I wore this to my Gatchatopia interview yesterday too, so nothing terribly new.
"Creativity is the Blue Heron within us waiting to fly; through her imagination, all things become possible. ~ Nadia Janice Brown
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Major decisions by Travis Berridge and Luke Wilson powered the Gold team to a 14-6 victory over the Green squad in Cal Poly wrestling's annual intrasquad meet on a warm and sunny Friday afternoon in the University Union plaza.
Berridge scored a 15-4 major decision over Ryan Anderson at 174 pounds, notching five takedowns, a two-point near fall and a reversal along with riding time.
Wilson wrestling in his first match as a Mustang after battling injuries for three years, earned a 13-5 major decision against Joe Granger at 165 pounds. Wilson, a Righetti High School graduate, recorded four takedowns, a reversal and an escape plus riding time for the win.
Wilson's final takedown with seven seconds left sealed the victory.
Also winning for the Gold team were Ty Schilling at 133 pounds and Glenn Farina at 141.
Trailing 2-0 after two periods, Schilling earned an escape and two takedowns for a 5-3 win over Yoshito Funakoshi while Farina scored two first-period takedowns on his way to an 8-5 triumph over Curtis Booth.
Victories for the Green squad were posted by Joshy Cortez at 149 pounds and Thomas Lane at 184.
Cortez notched an escape to start the second period and rode out Jason DeLaCruz in the final period for riding time and a 2-0 victory while Lane tallied an escape and penalty point in the first period, a takedown in the second period and a pair of escapes in the final period for a 6-5 win over Sohrab Movahedi.
"We thought the guys competed hard today," first-year Mustang head coach Jon Sioredas said of his coaching staff. "It was a great outdoor setup with great weather."
Gold 14, Green 6:
174 — Travis Berridge (Gold) maj. dec. Ryan Anderson (Green) 15-4
133 — Ty Schilling (Gold) dec. Yoshito Funakoshi (Green) 5-3
149 — Joshy Cortez (Green) dec. Jason DeLaCruz (Gold) 2-0
165 — Luke Wilson (Gold) maj. dec. Joe Granger (Green) 13-5
184 — Thomas Lane (Green) dec. Sohrab Movahedi (Gold) 6-5
141 — Glenn Farina (Gold) dec. Curtis Booth (Green) 8-5
On April 28, 2006, I rode a Speeder from Cordele to Plains, Georgia on a trip sponsored by NARCOA (aka North American Rail Car Owners Association). Since I don't own a Motor Car (aka: Speeder), I rode with a friend who owns two Motor Cars. These are some photos that I took during my trip on the Heart of Georgia Railroad.
These Eleven Photographs show the some of the Speeders which were left idle on the tracks while everyone went to the center of town for Lunch. After Lunch everyone returned to their respective Speeder for the Trip back to Cordele, Georgia from Plains, Georgia.
Ser encontrado
Tal vez por eso las personas, los humanos, nos entregamos al deseo y a la búsqueda de la liberación. Mientras lo veo desde acá arriba, me veo a mi mismo allá abajo. Mientras fotografío y encuadro, piezas de recuerdos se ensamblan en mi mente. Mientras edito y transformo, reorganizo mis pensamientos en perspectivas nuevas, puntos de vista distintos, un mundo de posibles respuestas.
Creo que no soy tan fuerte como pensaba. Creo que no podré soportar vivir sólo tanto tiempo. Me parece que no deseo lo que quería hace un tiempo atrás, aún así, avanzo con aparentes pasos firmes a un futuro envuelto en nieblas.
Tal vez si pueda soportarlo, quizá no tenga que vivir solo, quizá en mi camino encuentre aquello que me complemente, me parece que ahora estoy más seguro de lo que quiero, solo me tropecé con un par de piedras en el camino, aún puedo ver algunas más allá delante.
Me parece que he encontrado algo. A parte del hecho de que la vida está completa con el sol y las demás estrellas, la tierra y las partículas sobre y bajo ellas y la poesía y los sonidos...
Es el fin.
To be found
Maybe that's why people, human, give up to desire and the pursuit of release. As I see from up here, I see myself down there. While I photograph and I frame, memories in pieces are assembled in my mind. While I edit and transform, I reorganize my thoughts on new perspectives, different points of view, a world of possible answers.
I think I'm not as strong as I thought. I think I can not bear to live by myself for so long. I don't think I wanted what I wanted from a while ago, yet I go along with apparent firm steps to a future shrouded in mist.
Maybe I can handle it, maybe I don't have to live alone, maybe I'll find it on my way to compliment me; I think I'm more sure of what I wanted, I just ran into a few bumps in the road, I can still see some further ahead.
I think I found something. Besides the fact that life is full with the sun and other stars, the earth and particles above and below it and poetry and sounds ...
It's the end.
This image is chosen as my "first photo" of 2006 for flickr today. I had a rough night last night with a virus and a broken toe to keep me both company and awake late. But such a joy this morning to go out into my urban backyard and find so much beauty. Did I ever mention how much I enjoy having this little Point and Shoot Minolta DiMAGE x1?
A super crime fighter waits in view of Blackpool tower to spring into action
2014 10 04 163002 Blackpool 1HDR
Congratulations to Carol who's just been accepted on an MA course in art, media and design at Bristol, starting in autumn. Brilliant news, Carol! I am chuffed to bits for you. Go get 'em! :)
Similar to the Event Horizon only people will give you a ride home if you run out of gas. I can testify ;^). I did run out of gas and had started walking, but a guy at the farm was nice enough to give me a ride home, which saved me a 6-mile walk.
My sweet Leia. When I received my first dslr camera I was so ecstatic to capture my two felines. The last time Leia graced her presence on my photo feed was in September. Well, she's about to make a come back :)
"As from the house your mother sees
You playing round the garden trees,
So you may see, if you will look
Through the windows of this book,
Another child, far, far away,
And in another garden, play.
But do not think you can at all,
By knocking on the window, call
That child to hear you. He intent
Is all on his play-business bent.
He does not hear; he will not look,
Nor yet be lured out of this book.
For, long ago, the truth to say,
He has grown up and gone away,
And it is but a child of air
That lingers in the garden there."
by Robert Louis Stevenson
A mailbox that was in the middle of the forest, which belonged to no one, yet filled with mail. Letters and pictures filled the mailbox. So many stories to nobody, just a release for people to write and show what they saw or have felt.
back to where i left off this morning.
Finally managed to get the car recovered to my work.
So this is the outfit from Sunday without the hat I had planned to not wear one for a while had the weather been better. I am thankful i decided on the cardigan as that cam in handy while talking to a bunch of lost German mountain troops camped up track a little. I say lost because this part of the world has no mountains doesn't really even have hills. anyway while talking about how the poncho tent was put together the heavens opened, not good,
Had a funny photo taken here , i was chatting to the officer who showing his rifle to some of us, after the kids had handled it I was next up. shouldering the weapon and leaning into it I to aim at some imaginary targets. it was just then i noticed a guy with a nice camera taking a photo of me doing so.
What on earth that looked I can only imagine.
Various trees of life are recounted in folklore, culture and fiction, often relating to immortality or fertility. They had their origin in religious symbolism.
Ancient Iran
In pre-Islamic Persian mythology, the Gaokerena world tree is a large, sacred Haoma tree which bears all seeds. Ahriman (Ahreman, Angremainyu) created a frog to invade the tree and destroy it, aiming to prevent all trees from growing on the earth. As a reaction, God (Ahura Mazda) created two kar fish staring at the frog to guard the tree. The two fishes are always staring at the frog and stay ready to react to it. Because Ahriman is responsible for all evil including death, while Ahura Mazda is responsible for all good (including life) the concept of world tree in Persian Mythology is very closely related to the concept of Tree of Life.The sacred plant haoma and the drink made from it. The preparation of the drink from the plant by pounding and the drinking of it are central features of Zoroastrian ritual. Haoma is also personified as a divinity. It bestows essential vital qualities—health, fertility, husbands for maidens, even immortality. The source of the earthly haoma plant is a shining white tree that grows on a paradisiacal mountain. Sprigs of this white haoma were brought to earth by divine birds.Haoma is the Avestan form of the Sanskrit soma. The near identity of the two in ritual significance is considered by scholars to point to a salient feature of an Indo-Iranian religion antedating Zoroastrianism.
Another related issue in ancient mythology of Iran is the myth of Mashyа and Mashyane, two trees who were the ancestors of all living beings. This myth can be considered as a prototype for the creation myth where living beings are created by Gods (who have a human form).
Ancient Egypt
Worshipping Osiris, Isis, and Horus
To the Ancient Egyptians, the Tree of Life represented the hierarchical chain of events that brought every thing into existence. The spheres of the Tree of Life demonstrate the order, process, and method of creation.In Egyptian mythology, in the Ennead system of Heliopolis, the first couple, apart from Shu and Tefnut (moisture and dryness) are Geb and Nuit (earth and sky), are Isis and Osiris. They were said to have emerged from the acacia tree of Iusaaset, which the Egyptians considered the tree of life, referring to it as the "tree in which life and death are enclosed." Some acacia trees contain DMT, a psychedelic drug associated with spiritual experiences. The drug is not orally bio-available, however and there is no evidence the Egyptians had techniques for extracting or otherwise harnessing the drug. A much later myth relates how Set and 72 conspirators killed Osiris, putting him in a coffin, and throwing it into the Nile, the coffin becoming embedded in the base of a tamarisk tree.The Egyptians' Holy Sycamore also stood on the threshold of life and death, connecting the two worlds.
Assyria
Assyrian tree of life, from Nimrud panels.The Assyrian Tree of Life was represented by a series of nodes and criss-crossing lines. It was apparently an important religious symbol, often attended to in Assyrian palace reliefs by human or eagle-headed winged genies, or the King, and blessed or fertilized with bucket and cone. Assyriologists have not reached consensus as to the meaning of this symbol. The name "Tree of Life" has been attributed to it by modern scholarship; it is not used in the Assyrian sources. In fact, no textual evidence pertaining to the symbol is known to exist.
Baha'i Faith
The concept of the tree of life appears in the writings of the Baha'i Faith, where it can refer to the Manifestation of God, a great teacher who appears to humanity from age to age. An example of this can be found in the Hidden Words of Bahá'u'lláh:["Have ye forgotten that true and radiant morn, when in those hallowed and blessed surroundings ye were all gathered in My presence beneath the shade of the tree of life, which is planted in the all-glorious paradise? Awestruck ye listened as I gave utterance to these three most holy words: O friends! Prefer not your will to Mine, never desire that which I have not desired for you, and approach Me not with lifeless hearts, defiled with worldly desires and cravings. Would ye but sanctify your souls, ye would at this present hour recall that place and those surroundings, and the truth of My utterance should be made evident unto all of you."Also, in the Tablet of Ahmad [1], of Bahá'u'lláh:"Verily He is the Tree of Life, that bringeth forth the fruits of God, the Exalted, the Powerful, the Great".Bahá'u'lláh refers to his male descendents as branches (Aghsán) and calls women leaves.
A distinction has been made between the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The latter represents the physical world with its opposites, such as good and evil and light and dark. In a different context from the one above, the tree of life represents the spiritual realm, where this duality does not exist.
Buddhism
The Bo tree, also called Bodhi tree, according to Buddhist tradition, is the pipal (Ficus religiosa) under which the Buddha sat when he attained Enlightenment (Bodhi) at Bodh Gaya (near Gaya, west-central Bihar state, India). A living pipal at Anuradhapura, Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), is said to have grown from a cutting from the Bo tree sent to that city by King Ashoka in the 3rd century BCE.According to Tibetan tradition when Buddha went to the holy Lake Manasorovar along with 500 monks, he took with him the energy of Prayaga Raj. Upon his arrival, he installed the energy of Prayaga Raj near Lake Manasorovar, at a place now known as Prayang. Then he planted the seed of this eternal banyan tree next to Mt. Kailash on a mountain known as the "Palace of Medicine Buddha".
China
In Chinese mythology, a carving of a Tree of Life depicts a phoenix and a dragon; the dragon often represents immortality. A Taoist story tells of a tree that produces a peach every three thousand years. The one who eats the fruit receives immortality.An archaeological discovery in the 1990s was of a sacrificial pit at Sanxingdui in Sichuan, China. Dating from about 1200 BCE, it contained three bronze trees, one of them 4 meters high. At the base was a dragon, and fruit hanging from the lower branches. At the top is a strange bird-like (phoenix) creature with claws. Also found in Sichuan, from the late Han dynasty (c 25 – 220 CE), is another tree of life. The ceramic base is guarded by a horned beast with wings. The leaves of the tree are coins and people. At the apex is a bird with coins and the Sun.
Christianity
In Catholic Christianity, the Tree of Life represents the immaculate state of humanity free from corruption and Original Sin before the Fall. Pope Benedict XVI has said that "the Cross is the true tree of life." Saint Bonaventure taught that the medicinal fruit of the Tree of Life is Christ himself. Saint Albert the Great taught that the Eucharist, the Body and Blood of Christ, is the Fruit of the Tree of Life.[18] Augustine of Hippo said that the tree of life is Christ: "All these things stood for something other than what they were, but all the same they were themselves bodily realities. And when the narrator mentioned them he was not employing figurative language, but giving an explicit account of things which had a forward reference that was figurative. So then the tree of life also was Christ... and indeed God did not wish the man to live in Paradise without the mysteries of spiritual things being presented to him in bodily form. So then in the other trees he was provided with nourishment, in this one with a sacrament... He is rightly called whatever came before him in order to signify him."[19]
The tree first appeared in Genesis 2:9 and 3:22-24 as the source of eternal life in the Garden of Eden, from which access is revoked when man is driven from the garden. It then reappears in the last book of the Bible, the Book of Revelation, and most predominantly in the last chapter of that book (Chapter 22) as a part of the new garden of paradise. Access is then no longer forbidden, for those who "wash their robes" (or as the textual variant in the King James Version has it, "they that do his commandments") "have right to the tree of life" (v.14). A similar statement appears in Rev 2:7, where the tree of life is promised as a reward to those who overcome. Revelation 22 begins with a reference to the "pure river of water of life" which proceeds "out of the throne of God". The river seems to feed two trees of life, one "on either side of the river" which "bear twelve manner of fruits" "and the leaves of the tree were for healing of the nations" (v.1-2).[20] Or this may indicate that the tree of life is a vine that grows on both sides of the river, as John 15:1 would hint at.
In Eastern Christianity the tree of life is the love of God.The tree of life appears in the Book of Mormon in a revelation to Lehi (see 1 Nephi 8:10). It is symbolic of the love of God (see 1 Nephi 11:21-23). Its fruit is described as "most precious and most desirable above all other fruits," which "is the greatest of all the gifts of God" (see 1 Nephi 15:36). In another scriptural book, salvation is called "the greatest of all the gifts of God" (see Doctrine and Covenants 6:13). In the same book eternal life is also called the "greatest of all the gifts of God" (see Doctrine and Covenants 14:7). Because of these references, the tree of life and its fruit is sometimes understood to be symbolic of salvation and post-mortal existence in the presence of God and his love.
Europe
11th century Tree of Life sculpture at an ancient Swedish church
In Dictionnaire Mytho-Hermetique (Paris, 1737), Antoine-Joseph Pernety, a famous alchemist, identified the Tree of Life with the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone.
In Eden in the East (1998), Stephen Oppenheimer suggests that a tree-worshipping culture arose in Indonesia and was diffused by the so-called "Younger Dryas" event of c. 8000 BCE, when the sea level rose. This culture reached China (Szechuan), then India and the Middle East. Finally the Finno-Ugaritic strand of this diffusion spread through Russia to Finland where the Norse myth of Yggdrasil took root.
Georgia
The Borjgali (Georgian: ბორჯღალი) is an ancient Georgian Tree of Life symbol.
Germanic paganism and Norse mythology[
In Germanic paganism, trees played (and, in the form of reconstructive Heathenry and Germanic Neopaganism, continue to play) a prominent role, appearing in various aspects of surviving texts and possibly in the name of gods.
The tree of life appears in Norse religion as Yggdrasil, the world tree, a massive tree (sometimes considered a yew or ash tree) with extensive lore surrounding it. Perhaps related to Yggdrasil, accounts have survived of Germanic Tribes' honouring sacred trees within their societies. Examples include Thor's Oak, sacred groves, the Sacred tree at Uppsala, and the wooden Irminsul pillar. In Norse Mythology, the apples from Iðunn's ash box provide immortality for the gods.
Hinduism
The Eternal Banyan Tree (Akshaya Vata) is located on the bank of the Yamuna inside the courtyard of Allahabad Fort near the confluence of the Yamuna and Ganga Rivers in Allahabad. The eternal and divine nature of this tree has been documented at length in the scriptures.[citation needed]
During the cyclic destruction of creation when the whole earth was enveloped by waters, akshaya vata remained unaffected. It is on the leaves of this tree that Lord Krishna rested in the form of a baby when land was no longer visible. And it is here that the immortal sage, Markandeya, received the cosmic vision of the Lord. It is under this tree that Buddha meditates eternally. Legend also has it that the Bodi tree at Gaya is a manifestation of this tree.
Islam
Carpet Tree of Life
Main article: Quranic tree of life
See also: Sidrat al-Muntaha
The "Tree of Immortality" (Arabic: شجرة الخلود) is the tree of life motif as it appears in the Quran. It is also alluded to in hadiths and tafsir. Unlike the biblical account, the Quran mentions only one tree in Eden, also called the tree of immortality, which Allah specifically forbade to Adam and Eve. Satan, disguised as a serpent, repeatedly told Adam to eat from the tree, and eventually both Adam and Eve did so, thus disobeying Allah.] The hadiths also speak about other trees in heaven.
According to the Ahmadiyya movement, Quranic reference to the tree is symbolic; eating of the forbidden tree signifies that Adam disobeyed God.[
Jewish sources
Main articles: Etz Chaim and Biblical tree of life
Etz Chaim, Hebrew for "tree of life," is a common term used in Judaism. The expression, found in the Book of Proverbs, is figuratively applied to the Torah itself. Etz Chaim is also a common name for yeshivas and synagogues as well as for works of Rabbinic literature. It is also used to describe each of the wooden poles to which the parchment of a Sefer Torah is attached.The tree of life is mentioned in the Book of Genesis; it is distinct from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. After Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, they were driven out of the Garden of Eden. Remaining in the garden, however, was the tree of life. To prevent their access to this tree in the future, Cherubim with a flaming sword were placed at the east of the garden. (Genesis 3:22-24)
In the Book of Proverbs, the tree of life is associated with wisdom: "[Wisdom] is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her, and happy [is every one] that retaineth her." (Proverbs 3:13-18) In 15:4 the tree of life is associated with calmness: "A soothing tongue is a tree of life; but perverseness therein is a wound to the spirit."
The Book of Enoch, generally considered non-canonical, states that in the time of the great judgment God will give all those whose names are in the Book of Life fruit to eat from the Tree of Life.
Kathara grid
The esoteric bio-spiritual healing system of kathara which is presented on Earth by the official Speaker of the Guardian Alliance – E’Asha Ashayana,explains in detail the function of the code of the kathara grid] as the natural tree of life. Kathara reveals the anatomy of Creation, core structure, the blueprints & interconnectedness of all matter forms and in the center is the replication of the kathara grid everywhere.The kathara grid consists of 12 kathara centers and the relationships between them represent the true meaning of the phrase "As above, so below" and the correspondence between microcosmos and macrocosmos.
Kabbalah. Judaic Kabbalah Tree of Life 10 Sephirot, through which the Ein Sof unknowable Divine manifests Creation. The configuration relates to manJewish mysticism depicts the Tree of Life in the form of ten interconnected nodes, as the central symbol of the Kabbalah. It comprises the ten Sephirot powers in the Divine realm. The panentheistic and anthropomorphic emphasis of this emanationist theology interpreted the Torah, Jewish observance, and the purpose of Creation as the symbolic esoteric drama of unification in the Sephirot, restoring harmony to Creation. From the time of the Renaissance onwards, Jewish Kabbalah became incorporated as an important tradition in non-Jewish Western culture, first through its adoption by Christian Cabala, and continuing in Western esotericism occult Hermetic Qabalah. These adapted the Judaic Kabbalah Tree of Life syncretically by associating it with other religious traditions, esoteric theologies, and magical practices.
Mesoamerican
The concept of world trees is a prevalent motif in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cosmologies and iconography. World trees embodied the four cardinal directions, which represented also the fourfold nature of a central world tree, a symbolic axis mundi connecting the planes of the Underworld and the sky with that of the terrestrial world.Depictions of world trees, both in their directional and central aspects, are found in the art and mythological traditions of cultures such as the Maya, Aztec, Izapan, Mixtec, Olmec, and others, dating to at least the Mid/Late Formative periods of Mesoamerican chronology. Among the Maya, the central world tree was conceived as or represented by a ceiba tree, and is known variously as a wacah chan or yax imix che, depending on the Mayan language.[32] The trunk of the tree could also be represented by an upright caiman, whose skin evokes the tree's spiny trunk.Directional world trees are also associated with the four Yearbearers in Mesoamerican calendars, and the directional colors and deities. Mesoamerican codices which have this association outlined include the Dresden, Borgia and Fejérváry-Mayer codices.[31] It is supposed that Mesoamerican sites and ceremonial centers frequently had actual trees planted at each of the four cardinal directions, representing the quadripartite concept.World trees are frequently depicted with birds in their branches, and their roots extending into earth or water (sometimes atop a "water-monster," symbolic of the underworld). The central world tree has also been interpreted as a representation of the band of the Milky Way.
Middle East
The Epic of Gilgamesh is a similar quest for immortality. In Mesopotamian mythology, Etana searches for a 'plant of birth' to provide him with a son. This has a solid provenance of antiquity, being found in cylinder seals from Akkad (2390–2249 BCE).The Book of One Thousand and One Nights has a story, 'The Tale of Buluqiya', in which the hero searches for immortality and finds a paradise with jewel-encrusted trees. Nearby is a Fountain of Youth guarded by Al-Khidr. Unable to defeat the guard, Buluqiya has to return empty-handed.
North American
In a myth passed down among the Iroquois, The World on the Turtle's Back, explains the origin of the land in which a tree of life is described. According to the myth, it is found in the heavens, where the first humans lived, until a pregnant woman fell and landed in an endless sea. Saved by a giant turtle from drowning, she formed the world on its back by planting bark taken from the tree.The tree of life motif is present in the traditional Ojibway cosmology and traditions. It is sometimes described as Grandmother Cedar, or Nookomis Giizhig in Anishinaabemowin.In the book Black Elk Speaks, Black Elk, an Oglala Lakota (Sioux) wičháša wakȟáŋ (medicine man and holy man), describes his vision in which after dancing around a dying tree that has never bloomed he is transported to the other world (spirit world) where he meets wise elders, 12 men and 12 women. The elders tell Black Elk that they will bring him to meet "Our Father, the two-legged chief" and bring him to the center of a hoop where he sees the tree in full leaf and bloom and the "chief" standing against the tree. Coming out of his trance he hopes to see that the earthly tree has bloomed, but it is dead
Serer religion
In Serer religion, the tree of life as a religious concept forms the basis of Serer cosmogony. Trees were the first things created on Earth by the supreme being Roog (or Koox among the Cangin). In the competing versions of the Serer creation myth, the Somb (Prosopis africana) and the Saas tree (acacia albida) are both viewed as trees of life. However, the prevailing view is that, the Somb was the first tree on Earth and the progenitor of plant life. The Somb was also used in the Serer tumuli and burial chambers, many of which had survived for more than a thousand years.Thus, Somb is not only the Tree of Life in Serer society, but the symbol of immortality
Urartian Tree of Life
In ancient Urartu, the Tree of Life was a religious symbol and was drawn on walls of fortresses and carved on the armor of warriors. The branches of the tree were equally divided on the right and left sides of the stem, with each branch having one leaf, and one leaf on the apex of the tree. Servants stood on each side of the tree with one of their hands up as if they are taking care of the tree.
Turkic .The Tree of Life, as seen as in flag of Chuvashia, a Turkic state in the Russian FederationThe Tree of Life design on 0,05 Turkish lira (5 kuruş).
The World Tree or Tree of Life is a central symbol in Turkic mythology.[citation needed] It is a common motif in carpets.
It is also used as the main design of a common Turkish lira sub-unit 5 kuruş since 2009.
The Muker-to-Keld footpath and the River Swale
Swaledale, North Yorkshire, UK
©SWJuk (2019)
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Now here’s a little story that I’ve got to tell about three bad brothers you know so well...
I know I'm not being very original by saying that I'm a big Beastie Boys fan, but I'm a big Beastie Boys fan!
Ever since Beat Street played on First Choice and that I heard rap for the first time I was hooked onto that culture. RUN DMC's Raising Hell and Beastie Boys Licenced To Ill were the first LPs I bought for myself and kick started what is now a huge music collection. That was in 1986, 31 years ago as I write this, and although I'm a little late to the party, I thought I'd build this to pay homage and add to the celebration of this iconic album, band and cover art.
I won't bore you with how much Beastie Boys collectables and records I have, or how many times I've seen them live, but If your interested this is a fantastic article about the cover art of this Licensed To Ill album and another about the 30th anniversary.
diffuser.fm/cover-stories-beastie-boys-licensed-to-ill/
www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/30-years-today-li...
Thanks to Veronique for her graphic skills Geneviève for the hi def photos.
To the end!
Photographer Khalid Almasoud © All rights reserved
It's the life ... We walk in many ways ... in the end ... must we reach end ... To the goal ...
انها الحياة ... نسلك طرقاً عديدة ... في النهاية ... لا بد ان نصل ... الى نهاية ... الى هدف ...
This photo was taken on October 26, 2011 using a Leica D-LUX 5
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over-empowering heat and sight.. everything is happening so fast in this place.. so much to shoot, so much to absorb.. truly a street photographer's paradise..
Taken at Delhi market, kids squeezing onto trishaw to school! loved her expression!
I haven't photographed any waterdrops for ages now, but I am still editing old ones!
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Funny how a photography course can take up so much time, that I can't photograph as much as I used to!
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Closer to it ....
That is where I wish to be
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0AMnyU_RG0&feature=related
Closer to you - Cassandra Wilson
17 SD60s and SD60Ms sit at the CSX interchange waiting to be brought to the torch. I took some fly-overs with my drone to document every unit, check that video out here! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON3VWNaRgxQ
You find yourself alone, sometimes
Without a home, no protection
You don't know which way to go
You're lost, no direction
(then) Suddenly, out of the blue
Some kind of magic comes to you
You don't know how, you don't know why
But someday, gonna take off (and) fly
(wish, make a wish)
my wish would be...
To be free
To be wild
And to be
Just like a child
And if I get lost
I really don't mind
Cos I'm me
Doing just fine
Mike Oldfield (To Be Free)
Homage to Jodorowsky
"Il forte vento spazzò via tutte le donne dall'isola. Gli uomini terrorizzati, si rintanarono in profonde caverne e, con l'incubo dell'estinzione presero ad adorare una feroce Dea Madre che li spinse a combattere l'un l'altro in una lunga guerra santa"
.. the sea, the sea. It rolled and rolled and called to me. Come in, it said, come in.
Sharon Creech, The Wanderer