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The King Playing with the Queen, 1944
Bronze
Max Ernst, born Germany, active Germany, France, USA, 1891-1976
In 1944, Ernst developed an important body of sculptural work related to the game of the chess.
Using cones, cylinders, and other geometric shapes, he created this work, one of hist best-known. The horned king reveals the influence of the Hopi Kachina dolls, which the artist collected, while the geometric , schematized arms resemble anthropomorphic flutes made by the Mossi people of West Africa. The king is presented both as a literal chess player and as stand-in for the artist himself, transmuting forms through the creative act.
Israel Museum
Recreating Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) Challenge - June 2020
Enter and participate in our new Challenge - Recreating Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) in our group Recreating Masters :
* Recreating Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) Challenge - June 2020 - LINK HERE
In this challenge we pay tribute to the tremendous contribution that Russian artists have made to impressionist and realist art.
For this month we choose one of the most iconic Russian landscape painters Isaac Ilyich Levitan (1860-1900) who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".
Isaac Levitan (Исаа́к Ильи́ч Левита́н) work was a profound response to the lyrical charm of the Russian landscape, created the special variant of the "landscape of mood", in which the shape and condition of nature are spiritualized, transmuting the states of the human soul.
For details see the discussion below in our group Recreating Masters :
www.flickr.com/groups/recreatingmasters/discuss/721577145...
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Work based in images of paintings (*) of Isaac Levitan (1860-1900) in Wikipedia in Public Domain :
* Self Portrait (1880)
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Isaac_Levitan...
* Bridge. Savvinskaya sloboda near Zvenigorod (1884)
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Zbvenigorod_S...
For decades my conservation Bible has been Aldo Leopold's Sand County Almanac. Leopold mentioned the prothonotary as "the jewel of my disease-ridden woodlot", "as proof that dead trees are transmuted into living animals, and vice versa. When you doubt the wisdom of this arrangement, take a look at the prothonotary." Our beautiful world, pass it on.
One roads leads to two and suddenly there is a junction for traffic and the scope for decision, revision and division til contemplation arrives at cognition and transmigration induced by transmutation, we can somewhat transmogrified continue our transportation.
The metamorphosis that awaits at the cross roads, or the junction of ways gives us a chance to look at the roads not chosen as different fates, or potential we have the chance to transmogrify into the pupa and to transfigure through the imago and transmute into the butterfly that flutters down the right road, or the best road, or the only road beating our wind evoking wings as we proceed and progress in due procession to our ultimate goal.
The Chthonic Hekate is underwhelmed in the underworld by the sparkle of the above and the dark intentions from below that make some of the sparkle. She knows the outcome of each of the ways ways available to us. She might like to be acknowledged, but that does not mean that she will share her knowledge, unfortunately she is happy to leave us in self-knowledge that is mis-knowledge. The Triple Form of Hekate is full within the three phases and yet there is also a Forth Form. Her light in the darkness includes sparking, lighting, spluttering and also none igniting. Her symbol of three Moon in reflected illumination is also a symbol brightly obscuring her other form within the Dark, or New Moon. She is happy in the dark with her unilluminated vision and her brightness in the Full Moon also knows the New Moon visible on the horizon for just a few moments. Called for and sought at the Trivia Three Ways and crossroads also asked for and answered within the home where all junctions are started and ended and where insight and protection are often most required. From the ignition of Fresh Flame to Full Light through Dying Embers and within Extinguished Ashes she is never absent always available if you call on her without subconscious desire, rather with intent to take her hand with resolve to lead you on towards where you aspire.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
But then apparently I might be a witch so might explain a few things. [Like talking to the animals and plants I live with? Helping scobies transmute sugary tea into an amazing probiotic drink that has many uses. e.g left for longer to make vinegar that is great in salad dressings and as a hair rinse. At 20 cents a litre a LOT cheaper than the crazily packaged alternatives! I digress].
Here's a photo I took of the sky last night. We had a frost yesterday and I'd heard my existing camera would allow me to capture some pretty sky action. Took this at F2.8, ISO3200 and shutter 30 seconds.
I have yet to indulge in detailed post processing to really bring out what is there. Gonna do that once I've captured crisper images. So exciting to have this night world open up. A gadget to capture star trails is also rather enticing!
Happy Thursday xx
For over 700 years Muslims have performed a devotional worship, a form of sema, whirling in continual remembrance of Allah.
This tradition of whirling became commonly known through the Sufi Mystic Poet Maulana Jalal’ud-din Rumi. The word sema, which is arabic for “sound” is described best by Shamsi Tabriz, Maulana Jalal’ud-din’s master and shaykh saying,
“There comes a Sound, from neither within nor without,
From neither right nor left, from neither behind nor in front,
From neither below nor above, from neither East nor West,
Nor is it of the elements: water, air, fire, earth, and the like;
From where then? It is from that place thou art in search of;
Turn ye toward the place where from the Lord makes His appearance.
From where a restless fish out of water gets water to live in,
From the place where the prophet Moses saw the divine Light,
From the place where the fruits get their ripening influence,
From the place where the stones get transmuted to gems,
From the place which even an infidel turns in distress,
From the place to which all men turn when they find this world a vale of tears.
It is not given to us to describe such a blessed place;
It is a place where even the heretics would leave off their heresies.”
Este año venían como alquimistas. “Con el lema de la vida eterna y la transmutación de los metales, sentando las bases en la vida moderna”.
Comparsa Vaivén 3º position
This year they came as alchemists. “With the motto of eternal life and the transmutation of metals, laying the foundations for modern life.”
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其中一位盂蘭勝會的 “雜工”在烈日當空下工作， 賺取每日港幣500 的收入。
One of the many ground support curator at the event, earning a daily wages of HK$500.
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The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, or Yu Lan is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in southern China).
In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm.
Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in spring) and Chung Yeung Festival (in autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, on Ghost Day, the deceased are believed to visit the living.
On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased. Intrinsic to the Ghost Month is ancestor worship, where traditionally the filial piety of descendants extends to their ancestors even after their deaths.
Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper, a papier-mâché form of material items such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors
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For my past visits to the Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival here:
Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival
More Chinese Temples images here:
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A buddhadog Haiku:
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Let the past be gone,
the future is not here yet;
be in the moment.
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"When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings."
~The Buddha~
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................. From the Sayings of Buddha ...............
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest qualities is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
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Pink camellia with white picotee, transmuted with LightRoom, Pixlr textures and frames, and Flickr Android app. The person who just bought the house with this garden delight had no idea what was growing in her yard, but she found it all very exciting and offered to cut a few for me. So sweet.
Transmutation by Arturo Gonzales and Maria Izaguirre, based on Mexican folk art
Chatsworth Park, Derbyshire
猶如燈塔，這燈籠可以說是普渡燈，用意在於指引好兄弟方向，讓鬼魂能夠靠著燈篙找到方位，來到祭典會場。
This lantern is called the Light of Summon, day and night, sending invitation to the spiritual "good brothers" from far to join this salvation ceremony, the higher it hangs on the bamboo, the further it will summon and relatively, more oblation materials are to be prepared.
Therefore, the scale of the ceremony can be seen through the height of this lantern.
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The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, or Yu Lan is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in southern China).
In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm.
Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in spring) and Chung Yeung Festival (in autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, on Ghost Day, the deceased are believed to visit the living.
On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased. Intrinsic to the Ghost Month is ancestor worship, where traditionally the filial piety of descendants extends to their ancestors even after their deaths.
Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper, a papier-mâché form of material items such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors
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Follow my rediscovery of the Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival here:
七月盂蘭 Mid Summer Ghost Story
For my past visits to the Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival here:
Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival
More Chinese Temples images here:
Caves & Temples
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from the series "transmuting news" which endeavours to find the optimum context for news to evolve. Maybe in this shape?
Outrenoir de Soulages - En hommage à Léonard Cohen.
"Un jour je peignais, les différences de textures réfléchissaient plus ou moins faiblement la lumière et du sombre émanait une clarté, une lumière picturale dont le pouvoir émotionnel particulier animait mon désir de peindre. Mon instrument n'était plus le noir mais cette lumière secrète venue du noir. Pour ne pas la limiter à un phénomène optique j'ai inventé le mot Outrenoir, au-delà du noir, une lumière transmutée par le noir et, comme Outre-Rhin et Outre-Manche désignent un autre pays, Outrenoir désigne aussi un autre pays, un autre champ mental que celui du simple noir."
Dolan Springs, Arizona
Cinestill 50Daylight (Pushed 2 Stops)
Nikon F3
Nikkor 50mm 1.4
Processed @ Oscar's Photo Lab
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The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, or Yu Lan is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in southern China).
In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm.
Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in spring) and Chung Yeung Festival (in autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, on Ghost Day, the deceased are believed to visit the living.
On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased. Intrinsic to the Ghost Month is ancestor worship, where traditionally the filial piety of descendants extends to their ancestors even after their deaths.
Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper, a papier-mâché form of material items such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors
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Follow my rediscovery of the Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival here:
For my past visits to the Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival here:
Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival
More Chinese Temples images here:
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And transmuted or not, this is still my Staff!
Visit this location at Shambhala Sanctuary, Realm of Muses, Mystery & Magic in Second Life
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Self-portrait; Transmutations, Inc.
Continuing my series about the connection between man and nature.
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Today is my birthday so I want to show my personal project which I worked from time to time just for fun. This is work in process and will be developed much more.
70cm tall, Ladoll Premix mixed with Darwi Roc.
Magister of Transformations (Transmutations)
All photo by Alexey Geets
The Painter of Black ~ Soulages ~ Musée d'Art Moderne ~ Paris ~ MjYj
Born in Rodez, 1919, Soulages is known as "the painter of black".
When light is reflected on black, it transforms and transmutes.
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Ion Mystical Principles - The Spiritual Transmutation of Forms by Daniel Arrhakis (2022)
With the music : Atom Music Audio - Spirit | Epic Beautiful Hybrid Vocal Music
Ion Mystical Principles - The Spiritual Transmutation of Forms
The term transmutation can have several symbolisms, in Alchemy, Transmutation is the conversion of base elements such as lead into precious metals, such as gold or silver.
The artificial production of gold, chrysopoeia, was a goal of alchemists, who sough to develop a Philosopher's Stone , a mythic alchemical substance that would be capable of the transmutation. It is also called the elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation and for achieving immortality.
Today we recognize alchemy as a pseudoscience, and give chemistry its rightful place as a serious scientific field, but the two terms initially overlapped in meaning before separating by the 17th century, just as astrology and astronomy did during the same period.
In particle physics, dimensional transmutation is a physical mechanism providing a linkage between a dimensionless parameter and a dimensionful parameter. The nuclear transmutation, the conversion of one chemical element or isotope into another through nuclear reaction.
Transmutation was also one of the names commonly used for evolutionary ideas in the 19th century before Charles Darwin published On The Origin of Species (1859).
In the case of the Mystic World of Ion, spiritual transmutation assumes a force of creative transformation initially potentiated by the knowledge that extends to the forms that surround us but also to the physical transformation in ourselves.
The search for knowledge, observation and experimentation lead to discovery and rediscovery, creation and recreation, which ultimately is a powerful instrument for transforming objects, ideas and concepts.
Ultimately, knowledge and spiritual recognition about ourselves allows us to evolve in the search for more evolutionary stages of consciousness and transform our attitudes towards others and the world around us.
This spiritual transmutation will influence our diet, the way we sleep and rest, the way we solve problems, socialize and the way we work. It is thus a force for transforming the physical world and ourselves, being able to shape not only the world around us but our habits and even our own body if we adopt healthier habits.
One roads leads to two and suddenly there is a junction for traffic and the scope for decision, revision and division til contemplation arrives at cognition and transmigration induced by transmutation, we can somewhat transmogrified continue our transportation.
The metamorphosis that awaits at the cross roads, or the junction of ways gives us a chance to look at the roads not chosen as different fates, or potential we have the chance to transmogrify into the pupa and to transfigure through the imago and transmute into the butterfly that flutters down the right road, or the best road, or the only road beating our wind evoking wings as we proceed and progress in due procession to our ultimate goal.
The Chthonic Hekate is underwhelmed in the underworld by the sparkle of the above and the dark intentions from below that make some of the sparkle. She knows the outcome of each of the ways ways available to us. She might like to be acknowledged, but that does not mean that she will share her knowledge, unfortunately she is happy to leave us in self-knowledge that is mis-knowledge. The Triple Form of Hekate is full within the three phases and yet there is also a Forth Form. Her light in the darkness includes sparking, lighting, spluttering and also none igniting. Her symbol of three Moon in reflected illumination is also a symbol brightly obscuring her other form within the Dark, or New Moon. She is happy in the dark with her unilluminated vision and her brightness in the Full Moon also knows the New Moon visible on the horizon for just a few moments. Called for and sought at the Trivia Three Ways and crossroads also asked for and answered within the home where all junctions are started and ended and where insight and protection are often most required. From the ignition of Fresh Flame to Full Light through Dying Embers and within Extinguished Ashes she is never absent always available if you call on her without subconscious desire, rather with intent to take her hand with resolve to lead you on towards where you aspire.
© PHH Sykes 2022
phhsykes@gmail.com
"PURPLE is the innermost colour of the spectrum of light and is the master colour. It also has the highest vibration and arouses soul qualities, spiritual initiation and idealism. It helps nature to fulfill its divine goal, as it knows what it means to sacrifice.
Purple is useful for restoring the mental equilibrium and lack of balance which is blamed on the rush of modern life. It is not a colour for the masses but it appeals to the soul-conscious type of person. Its two divisions, the purple amethyst, correspond to material and spiritual aspects of man. It is the infinite consciousness of God.
It is the seventh colour ray, denoting transmutation. Seven is also the principal number of our Mother Earth.
Negative qualities are pain and sorrow.
Purple is the colour of our crown chakra and is linked to pituitary gland, the master gland."
Dont know why but purple just makes me happy :)
ive been trying to get this pic to work for a week now lol ive tried allsorts til i ended up inverting it , then make it b/w and then it got a tint of purple and YAY finally i was done :D
Elan that lifts me above the clouds
into pure space, timeless, yea eternal
Breath transmuted into words
Transmuted back to breath
in one hundred two hundred years
nearly Immortal, Sappho's 26 centuries
of cadenced breathing -- beyond time, clocks, empires, bodies, cars,
chariots, rocket ships skyscrapers, Nation empires
brass walls, polished marble, Inca Artwork
of the mind -- but where's it come from?
Inspiration? The muses drawing breath for you? God?
Nah, don't believe it, you'll get entangled in Heaven or Hell --
Guilt power, that makes the heart beat wake all night
flooding mind with space, echoing through future cities, Megalopolis or
Cretan village, Zeus' birth
cave Lassithi Plains -- Otsego County
farmhouse, Kansas front porch?
Buddha's a help, promises ordinary mind no nirvana --
coffee, alcohol, cocaine, mushrooms, marijuana, laughing gas?
Nope, too heavy for this lightness lifts the brain into blue sky
at May dawn when birds start singing on East 12th street --
Where does it come from, where does it go forever?
Time is a machine; it will convert your pain into experience. Raw date will be complied, will be translated into a more comprehensible language. The individual events of your life will be transmuted into another substance called memory and in the mechanism something will be lost and you will never be able to reverse it, you will never again have the original moment back in its uncategorised, preprocessed state. It will force you to move on and you will not have a choice in the matter.
- Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
Old picture before I got my hair cut.
Raw shot
Location: PRAVDA
Windlight: Orac Black fog 1.
Crucible: A severe test, as of patience or belief; a trial...of life.
Alchemy: A philosophy of transmuting a common substance, usually of little value, into a substance of great value. ..the elixir of life.
prototype 9. transmutation in process with the local news from 25 sept 2017, day after the German election.
transmuting news.
Prototyp 9. Teile der SZ vom 25.9.2017, Pflanzenteile
Blue Zircon Crystal from Ratanakiri, Cambodia.
Zircon Crystals and the age of Earth:
Zircon Crystals in a Nutshell - the simplified story of Zircon Crystals.
How tiny Zircon Crystals - Zirconium silicate (ZrSiO4) helped determine the age of Earth (at approximately 4.5 Billion years since the crust cooled) with Radiometric U-Pb (Uranium-Lead) dating.
Zircon Crystals trap Uranium Atoms in its crystal structure and naturally repels Lead. Once the crystal structure is formed, nothing is able to get out. Over time the isotopes of Uranium starts to transmutate into other elements in what is referred to as a decay chain. An Uranium Atom first transmutates to a Thorium Atom (which takes a few billion years). Thorium is far more unstable, and in less than a month it turns into Protactinium. Within a minute Protactinium atoms transmute again, and so on. At the end of the chain, the Uranium atoms finally decay into the stable element Lead (Pb), and will then remain Lead forever. As the decay rate and times of the transmutation are constant in the Universe, it is possible to calculate the age of the crystal with Radiometric dating. As Zircon Crystals are tough, it is the oldest geological time-capsules that survived in Earth's dynamic crust since it cooled. As nothing can get in or out of the Zircon Crystal structure, it is the most accurate way of geological dating. By comparing the dating of Zircon silicate crystals on Earth, from Moon samples and visiting Meteorites, Scientists have been able to calculate that Earth is 4.54 billion years old. The error margin is 50 million years, which is small considering the time-scale.
The spin-off from trying to date the Earth, was that the Scientist Clair Patterson discovered the high amount of toxic Lead in the environment, due to the use of Lead-based fuel, paint, etc. The body needs metals like Iron in the blood to transfer Oxygen through the body. The body assumes that Lead is a good metal, but Lead not only destroys cells, but blocks the signals of Neuroreceptors in the Brain (leading to madness). After a lifetime of persistence, Clair Patterson eventually won the case and the widespread use of Lead in everyday products were banned (which is why we now use unleaded fuel).
More interesting reading:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_lead_dating
earthsky.org/earth/this-zircon-crystal-is-the-oldest-piec...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decay_chain
Thank you to Sumarie for letting photograph her beautiful Zircon Crystal.
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The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, or Yu Lan is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in southern China).
In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm.
Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in spring) and Chung Yeung Festival (in autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, on Ghost Day, the deceased are believed to visit the living.
On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased. Intrinsic to the Ghost Month is ancestor worship, where traditionally the filial piety of descendants extends to their ancestors even after their deaths.
Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper, a papier-mâché form of material items such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors
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Follow my rediscovery of the Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival here:
For my past visits to the Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival here:
Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival
More Chinese Temples images here:
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A Turaga of Plantlife, as twisted in spirit as in body. After a mishap with a Mask of Elemental Transmutation that resulted in much of Kensigh's body becoming wood and bark, he was forced to retire as a Toa and take up residence in a small Bo-Matoran trading settlement as their Turaga. Time has only added to his bitterness. He now wears a noble Mask of Paralysis that has been mostly fused with his plant-like body.
Turaga Onewa was cool and all (he actually passed Onuku as the third most popular MOC in my gallery), but I wanted to do something a bit more original with Rey's cloth, and I just really, really like Umarak's mask. I'm just having so much fun with all these new 2016 parts.
Headpiece - Keystone - Lynthia's Jewel
Dress - .Enfant Terrible. - Ivy Dress Champagne ( Seasons Story)
Drape - {Junbug} - Electra
Sleeves - GizzA - Lysistrata Fantasy Costume ( TFC )
Boots - -Pixiecat- Freja - White
Hair - little bones. - Transmute
Ears - [Mandala] - Steking Ears Season 5
Body - Maitreya - Lara
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The Ghost Festival, also known as the Hungry Ghost Festival, or Yu Lan is a traditional Chinese festival and holiday celebrated by Chinese in many countries. In the Chinese calendar (a lunisolar calendar), the Ghost Festival is on the 15th night of the seventh month (14th in southern China).
In Chinese tradition, the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar is called Ghost Day and the seventh month in general is regarded as the Ghost Month (鬼月), in which ghosts and spirits, including those of the deceased ancestors, come out from the lower realm.
Distinct from both the Qingming Festival (in spring) and Chung Yeung Festival (in autumn) in which living descendants pay homage to their deceased ancestors, on Ghost Day, the deceased are believed to visit the living.
On the fifteenth day the realms of Heaven and Hell and the realm of the living are open and both Taoists and Buddhists would perform rituals to transmute and absolve the sufferings of the deceased. Intrinsic to the Ghost Month is ancestor worship, where traditionally the filial piety of descendants extends to their ancestors even after their deaths.
Activities during the month would include preparing ritualistic food offerings, burning incense, and burning joss paper, a papier-mâché form of material items such as clothes, gold and other fine goods for the visiting spirits of the ancestors
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Follow my rediscovery of the Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival here:
For my past visits to the Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival here:
Hungry Ghosts "Yu Lan" Festival
More Chinese Temples images here:
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What is poetry? Is it a mosaic
Of coloured stones which curiously are wrought
Into a pattern? Rather glass that's taught
By patient labor any hue to take
And glowing with a sumptuous splendor, make
Beauty a thing of awe; where sunbeams caught,
Transmuted fall in sheafs of rainbows fraught
With storied meaning for religion's sake.
Amy Lowell