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8 metres high and 15 metres long, the artwork rotates and with its 13 red neon letters it forms a clear message: Understanding.
The initial plan was to present the work last summer at the cancelled Roskilde Festival no. 50. Now, it lights up the darkness in Copenhagen as an artistic gesture to the public spirit we all show at the moment.
The piece is created by the world-famous and award-winning British artist Martin Creed, and it has previously been raised in Brooklyn, New York, with Manhattan's skyline as a backdrop.
Physics has always been of interest to me. That may be because I know how many things work, and physics gives the understanding of how everything in nature works. I can repair most anything, from cars, to computers, to plumbing, to electrical systems, and even air conditioners… my wife is quite happy about that. Likely more because of a touch of ADD than straight out insanity, I’ve never had a fear of trying new things… a sense of wonder has always drawn me further into many things that others have dreaded to tread… “dread”, “tread”, it’s a gift, I don’t talk about it much.
Have you ever truly watched young children at play? They dwell in wonder! Yet, as they grow older, that sense of wonder tapers, sometimes to the point that it disappears altogether to a jaded disposition of adulthood. Someone once humorously quipped that life consists of four stages. In the first stage, we believe in Santa Claus. At the second stage, we no longer believe in Santa Claus. The third stage is when we find out that we are Santa Claus. The fourth and final stage has arrived when we look like Santa Claus. Some years ago, I was in a church choir in Cedar Grove, North Carolina, and sat next to a local farmer who not only was a professional Santa Claus, but was also the spitting image of the classic Coca-Cola Santa Claus… so I am still in that first stage in life! Occasionally, “Santa” would fall asleep during the sermon and start to snore, understandably so at that particular church. I always woke him gently, so as not to be on the “naughty list”.
Have you wondered about wonder? Wonder is that place of the mind that charms the emotions while never conceding reason. It is a grasp on reality that does not need constant highs to be preserved, nor is it weakened by the low points of life’s struggle. It sees in the ordinary the extraordinary, and it finds in the extraordinary the reaffirmations for what it already knows. Wonder interprets life through the eyes of eternity while enjoying the moment, but never lets the momentary vision exhaust the eternal. Wonder makes life’s enchantment real and knows when and where enchantment must lie. Wonder knows how to read the shadows because it knows the nature of light. Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light you cannot look at anything else without it. It is not exhausted by childhood but finds its key there. It is a journey like a walk through the woods, over the usual obstacles, and around the common distractions while the voice of direction leads, saying, “This is the way, walk ye in it” (Isaiah 30:21 KJV). Wonder cannot help but sing… even nature recognizes that.
Here, from an image taken in 2015, some favorite familiar objects stand out in wonderful ways… the extraordinary in the ordinary, yet to me, it’s never ordinary. That’s a bit of Second Falls there as seen directly from the Blue Ridge Parkway at Milepost 418.5… it's a good bet I'll make a stop here every fall and frame a shot with these three brilliant maples in the foreground. Just beyond the falls is Graveyard Fields, where the first of autumn colors are most prevalent in early October. I know how this works, too… the sun no longer beats down on this landscape as it did throughout summer and the nights become longer and much cooler. Eventually, the ground temperatures drop, triggering the autumnal effects on the leaves of a myriad of flora. The color that first appears at Graveyard Fields (elevation 5120 feet, or 1560 meters) drops in elevation about 100 feet per day. Knowing, however, only deepens my sense of wonder at this beautiful wall of fall (as I said, it’s a gift).
Fall colors have been slow in coming this year with warmer nights in the mountains. Hurricane Michael is bearing down to this region from the gulf as well, so many here are hoping the leaves won’t soon be gone with the wind. By the way, this year has seen Hurricanes with my mother’s name, Florence, my wife’s name, Joyce, and now one with my name. What’s up with that? I wonder.
Struggling with understanding Blender's user-interface. Blender is not the most intuitive monster to control.
Bleh, never-ever liked it.
I love that it's free and seems pretty powerful and extremely stable. I haven't had a single crash, sputter, or file-corruption in Blender, since i started using it a couple of weeks ago.
Most 3D programs can be twitchy half the time. Even the major programs used by major film and game studios.
In the middle of this build, Autodesk discontinued all student lifetime Maya licenses and charging everyone their exorbitant "subscription fees".
What a load of...molasses.
So, in a mad rush, I'm learning Blender and Avastar at the same time for the September event.
I don't want to give anything away. But I'm hoping this will be ready in Fitted, Slink, Maitreya, Legacy, and possibly Kupra. I'm guessing on most of these shapes, by taking an extreme amount of screenshots of friends on pose stands, then correcting perspective for patterns in Pixelmator Pro as backdrops in Blender.
Modern understanding of progress frequently equates to the expectation of increase. We aim for increasing assets or appreciation to satisfy our fear of loss. Hence, things speed up, which is why there is steadily more to achieve, earn, or optimize. As growth is on everyone’s lips, fast motion seems unquestionable.
When there is no enough, the setting has to adapt to the prevailing dogma. As a result, humans seek to squeeze the world into a suit that is many sizes too small. However, without a doubt, pulling in the belly is insufficient because what is not supposed to fit cannot fit.
But when the idea of exceptional guides us, everything has to become more outstanding. On this fast ride, we don’t stop at ourselves. Accordingly, we are seeking for more, personal growth – the perfect me. As priorities shift, something got to give way. Thus, reality feels heavy when one puts too much strain on it.
And while standing on this bridge, the pace of the daily grid runs underneath my feet. Within all of these actions, the expectation of growth has given way to the indifference. A moment of standstill in the tugging speed of the time in which we live.
This one's for anyone else who watched Horizon last night.
"Dark flow is the latest in a long line of phenomena that have threatened to re-write the textbooks. Does it herald a new era of understanding, or does it simply mean that everything we know about the universe is wrong?"
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Starter image from Midjourney.
And you thought I was a pussycat?
Siberian Domestic cat morphing into a Siberian Tiger roaring.
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Astronomers have used data from three of NASA's Great Observatories to make the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster. This rare cluster, which is located 10 billion light years from Earth, weighs as much as 500 trillion Suns. This object has important implications for understanding how these megastructures formed and evolved early in the Universe.
The galaxy cluster called IDCS J1426.5+3508 (IDCS 1426 for short), is so far away that the light detected is from when the universe was roughly a quarter of its current age. It is the most massive galaxy cluster detected at such an early age.
First discovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2012, IDCS 1426 was observed using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory to determine its distance. Observations from the Combined Array for Millimeter Wave Astronomy indicated it was extremely massive. New data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory confirm the galaxy cluster mass and show that about 90% of the mass of the cluster is in the form of dark matter, a mysterious substance detected so far only through its gravitational pull on normal matter composed of atoms.
“We are really pushing the boundaries with this discovery,” said Mark Brodwin of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, who led the study. “As one of the earliest massive structures to form in the Universe, this cluster sets a high bar for theories that attempt to explain how clusters and galaxies evolve.”
Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the Universe bound together by gravity. Because of their sheer size, scientists think it should take several billion years for them to form. The distance of IDCS J1426 means astronomers are observing it when the Universe was only 3.8 billion years old, implying that the cluster is seen at a very young age.
The data from Chandra reveal a bright knot of X-rays near the middle of the cluster, but not exactly at its center. This overdense core has been dislodged from the cluster center, possibly by a merger with another developing cluster 500 million years prior. Such a merger would cause the X-ray emitting, hot gas to slosh around like wine in a glass that is tipped from side to side.
“Mergers with other groups and clusters of galaxies should have been more common so early in the history of the Universe,” said co-author Michael McDonald of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. “That appears to have played an important part in this young cluster’s rapid formation.”
Aside from this cool core, the hot gas in the rest of the cluster is very smooth and symmetric. This is another indication that IDCS 1426 formed very rapidly. In addition, astronomers found possible evidence that the amount of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium in the hot gas is unusually low. This suggests that this galaxy cluster might still be in the process of enriching its hot gas with these elements as supernovae create heavier elements and blast them out of individual galaxies.
“The presence of this massive galaxy cluster in the early Universe doesn’t upset our current understanding of cosmology,” said co-author of Anthony Gonzalez of University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida. “It does, however, give us more information to work with as we refine our models.”
Evidence for other massive galaxy clusters at early times has been found, but none of these matches IDCS 1426 with its combination of mass and youth. The mass determination used three independent methods: a measurement of the mass needed to confine the hot X-ray emitting gas to the cluster, the imprint of the cluster's gaseous mass on the cosmic microwave background radiation, and the observed distortions in the shapes of galaxies behind the cluster, which are caused by the bending of light from the galaxies by the gravity of the cluster.
These results were presented at the 227th meeting of the American Astronomical Society meeting being held in Kissimmee, Florida. A paper describing these results has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and is available online. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the Chandra program for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
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Bangkok is one of the world’s most congested cities, with severe traffic problems that can make it a challenge to get around the city during peak rush hours. Whether you’re visiting Bangkok or planning to stay long term, understanding the traffic is key to getting around quickly.
Understanding the misunderstood SD Quattro.
This is what my full size files look like before I size them for printing and web display. Before I knock them out of focus, add grain and sharpen them. I left this one clean so that all the imaging power of the SD Quattro + 35/1.4 could be illustrated in the rendering of all those droplets.
"Ms. Understood"
©2006 kelly angard
seek first to understand, then to be understood...
Stephen Covey
i've found myself contemplating the many aspects and problems of communication lately, both verbal and written. Communication is the main artery in which to connect with another human being, which is in itself, innate...and what we desire and fear the most.
To speak and be spoken to...to hear and be heard. The latter is so much harder to do...
June 8. My attempt at a formal, straightforward portrait.
I can believe I've done this for 365 days, but I have a hard time understanding how a year could have passed in the interim.
Thanks for tuning in.
Introduction
It's Such a Joy to Be an Honest Person
Understanding the truth frees one’s spirit and makes one happy. (That’s true!)
I am filled with confidence in God’s word and harbor no doubts. (How could we have any doubts?)
I am without negativity, I do not retreat, and never despair. (Look!)
I uphold my duty with all my heart and mind, and I have no concerns for the flesh.
I’m not bad, either!
Though my caliber is low, I have an honest heart. (Really?)
I am utterly devoted in all things to satisfy God’s will. (Ah, that’s right!)
I practice the truth, obey God, and try to be an honest person. (Great!)
I’m open and upright, without deceit, living in the light.
Very good!
Honest people, come quickly, let’s talk heart to heart.
All God-loving people, come gather and join as good friends.
One, two, three, we’re all true friends.
All truth-loving people are brothers and sisters. (Family!)
O happy people, come sing and dance in praise of God.
Sing! Dance!
It’s such a joy to be an honest person!
It’s such a joy to be an honest person!
Being an honest person is truly joyful!
Understanding the truth frees one’s spirit and makes one happy. (A blessed person!)
I am filled with confidence in God’s word and harbor no doubts.
We are clear on the vision!
I am without negativity, I do not retreat, and never despair. (It’s so good to understand the truth!)
I uphold my duty with all my heart and mind, and I have no concerns for the flesh.
We live like human beings!
Though my caliber is low, I have an honest heart.
Ah, an honest heart is so precious!
I am utterly devoted in all things to satisfy God’s will.
Isn’t this a path for practice?
I practice the truth, obey God, and try to be an honest person. (God does not ask much of us.)
I’m open and upright, without deceit, living in the light.
Give the glory to God!
Honest people, come quickly, let’s talk heart to heart.
No one dislikes honest people, right?
All God-loving people, come gather and join as good friends.
Deceitful people are so disgusting! Eww!
All truth-loving people are brothers and sisters.
O happy people, come sing and dance in praise of God.
Only honest people have true happiness. (True happiness!)
Honest people, come quickly, let’s talk heart to heart.
All God-loving people, come gather and join as good friends.
All truth-loving people are brothers and sisters.
O happy people, come sing and dance in praise of God.
Sing! Dance!
Honest people, come quickly, let’s talk heart to heart.
All God-loving people, come gather and join as good friends.
All truth-loving people are brothers and sisters.
O happy people, come sing and dance in praise of God.
Honest people, come quickly, let’s talk heart to heart.
All God-loving people, come gather and join as good friends.
All truth-loving people are brothers and sisters.
O happy people, come sing and dance in praise of God.
Honest people, come quickly, let’s talk heart to heart.
All God-loving people, come gather and join as good friends.
All truth-loving people are brothers and sisters.
O happy people, come sing and dance in praise of God.
from Follow the Lamb and Sing New Songs
#smalltowninertia Shared a few hours with David this morning. I’d purchased and taken with me a memo recording device, designed for use by people enduring blindness, a device, I hoped, that might aid in lessening the immense strain and stress of having to memorise one hundred percent of every element of David’s day to day life, now, when a thought, a need, an item or chore was thought of, David could record it, save it and replay it, at will. Another step towards greater independence.
Introducing new equipment to David takes time, patience and empathy. It’s a scary, frustrating endeavour, learning, memorising and understanding anything that you can’t see. Especially electronic devices. It’s a necessarily slow process of explaining, informing, describing and cannot be rushed.
After many attempts and learning, tracing the buttons, making a visual map within his mind, David began to understand the memo recorder and was able to use it to record his voice. The first ten messages recorded, face etched with concentration, self doubt and tension, he whispered ‘Help’ into the recorder, played it back, heard his voice, then erased.
Carefully, as we progressed, I suggested he try a longer list of items, as though making a shopping list, which he did and then learned to scroll through the recordings, erasing them, re-recording, playing them, listening, learning, gaining confidence every time.
Then, without prompting, David launched into a song, then another and another. Playing them back, a broad smile awoke upon David’s face “I don’t mean to sound big headed but I sound better than I expected, don’t I?”, “Yes!” I encouraged, truthfully, as David has a beautiful singing voice.
Together in his kitchen, cold, dark but now both singing along to the recordings he had made, we smiled, laughed, together.
As I write this, now, I am amazed at David’s memory, singing songs he’d heard as a child, from cinema and radio, recalling every lyric and phrase, melody and timing, never missing a beat nor forsaking a word. I am equally aware of the great privilege it was and is, to hear David sing.
Music, it has transpired, is a key to happiness for David, a momentary escape and joy, non reliant upon sight, transporting him out of the blackness, into the light of song, of singing and of being alive.
Today, was a good day.
* Also, a chance to try some more out of date Kodak BW400CN, developed at the local Boots. Looking forwards, in January, to finally start developing TriX and Tmax, myself.
#film #Kodak #leicaM6 #BW400CN
Full story : smalltowninertia.co.uk/tag/david
With a tug, the slack is taken out of the tow-line and the Grob G103a Twin II sailplane aligns for takeoff. There is no radio aboard, but a signal by cycling the tail rudder from side to side alerts the pilot of the Pawnee AgCat tug that you’re ready to go. 260 horses from the tug’s engine is more than adequate to pull both aircraft to the separation point at around 3000 feet AGL (Above Ground Level). The Grob’s efficient design actually has it airborne within seconds, way faster than the powerful AgCat tow plane as it claws for speed down the narrow runway at the Whitsett, North Carolina, glider park... it’s that efficiency that you count on as you cut away from the tug. The tow pilot angles down and left, while you rise up and right. The air smooths out and so does the ride out from behind the backwash of the tug’s propeller, but it’s not time to sit back just yet. The first order of business is situational awareness... to take note of where you’re at and what’s around you. Next, trim the aircraft for best rate of climb... then look for some rising air. There is no electrical system aboard the Grob, but its instrument panel is complete with artificial horizon, altimeter, airspeed indicator, clock, compass, and vertical airspeed indicator... that’s the instrument that glider pilots rely on to find the rising air that takes them to their ultimate destination... up!
There is yet another important instrument that helps to get you up there, but it’s not in the panel... it’s a three-inch string attached to the front center of the canopy. If you’ve trimmed the craft properly, that string flows straight back from the canopy... if it flows left or right from center, you’re side-slipping, which is an excellent way to lose altitude. After trimming the aircraft to its most efficient profile, I look to another indicator for “best flight” that isn’t to be found in the cockpit... circling buzzards. Buzzards have an innate ability to find thermals, shafts of rising air that keep them aloft for hours. Some of the best lifts I ever got were from taking cues from some of nature’s most prolific flyers. The airframe of a sailplane like the Grob is so effectual that they will easily go to the upper limits of thermals. Around these parts, that’s usually around 10,000 feet AGL, though there are areas here in the states where thermals can reach 20,000 feet or better... and that can be dangerous.
Thermals not only rise... they also track across the landscape, and sometimes pretty fast. The highest I flew in these parts was around 9,000 feet. I often had to hop from thermal to thermal to stay within sight of Whitsett. You didn’t want to be too far away, especially in conditions of sinking air. The destination was always up, but journey’s end was always safely stopped at the park... “journey’s end” is critical in an unpowered aircraft... part of the skill in flying it was putting it back where you found it. That was always on my mind, but so was going up, and it never seemed high enough. My question to myself on nearly every drive home after a flight was how high is high enough?
There are many conditions in life where people accept poor standards of belief, especially when it’s just within themselves, where they strive and claw to the stratosphere only to find there’s nothing there... their expectations let them down. I've listened to skeptics who rely on their place in life as a random collocation of atoms... that's an even worse condition, as it leaves one with no understanding to even reach for the top, much less knowing when they have.
Even while flying the Grob, I realized the joy was in the journey, not in the heights. This image was taken the same morning as that of my last post. It gives a better view of the overall wildness of Linville Gorge from the tip rocky ledge of Hawksbill Mountain. Where I’m standing is about 4,000 feet (1220 meters) above sea level, looking over a remote landscape that stretches to the coming morning... and it makes me appreciate that there are times that the highest you need to go may be exactly where you are... particularly if it takes you to a beautiful place. After a night of rain, mist retreats to morning... there's hope in that.
The pink flowers here are Carolina rhododendron separated by blueberry bushes that are also in bloom... you can see them here, a pinkish white and rather small bell-shape.
Dedicated to careth@2012 (Carlin - www.flickr.com/photos/c_desouza/) to thank her for her understanding
- Vagues lisses
~ The most beautiful thing in life is
when you have understanding
with your love ones.
Have to be brave in taking risk in life.... ~
Nuclear Caesar -
Bio: Billionaire business man Julian Rome was child genius and millionaire before his 16th birthday. His 'empire' is involved in most of the building projects throughout Brickhaven. It was during one of these projects that they unearthed some some alien artifacts. Julian's obsession with understanding this technology led to prolonged exposure to its 'radioactive' elements giving Julian great, but unstable power.
Skills/Powers: Varied, still being discovered. Mostly energy blasts and the ability to kill through radiation.
Vine -
Bio: Vincent Vincenzo was a low-level mafia enforcer until he fell into a vat of sentient plant gunk at the Brickhaven Botanical Gardens. Bonding with his body, Vincent became the villain 'Vine'. Vine has to consume a large amount of plant matter to maintain his strength.
Skills/Powers: Able to use his plant-like appendages to climbs walls or incapacitate his enemies, either through constriction, or through his poisonous thorns.
Ibis -
Bio: Fashion designer by day, evil super-villainess by night, Ibis draws her power from an ancient egyptian staff.
Skills/Powers: Flight, magic, illusion.
Magentor -
Bio: Prof Ruzova was working on an experimental lightwave technology when it blew up in his face, literally. He is now able to manipulate light on the pink spectrum.
Skills/Powers: Flight, energy blasts, light manipulation.
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Bullet Point -
Bio: Bullet Point is a low-level criminal operating as a thug-for-hire in the Tri-City Bricklyn Bay Area. Specialises in 'smash and grab' robbery
Skills/Powers: Impervious skull and ability to break through walls with his head.
eViL PaTriOt -
Bio: an alternate evil version of Eagle Patriot.
Alley Gator -
Bio: The Alley Gator stalks the sewers and dark alleyways of BrickHaven preying on those unfortunate enough to cross his path. A brutal beast - his origin is unknown. Mutated creature or science experiment gone wrong? No-one knows, or rather has lived to tell the tale.
Skills/Powers: Superhuman strength, super-tough skin, can bite through steel.
Herculena -
Bio: Demi-goddess or juiced up body-builder? No-one quite knows, or dares to ask. Herculena has the strength of ten men, and the attitude to match. She now terroises the law-abiding citizens of BrickHaven, acting as protection or enforcement for any villain or gangster willing to pay her price, and risk her wrath.
Skills/Powers: Super-strength.
Mutt Master -
Bio: A former BrickHaven dog pound employee before he turned to a life of crime, "Mutt Master" began using the stray dogs he caught to commit robberies around the Bricklyn Bay area. Saxon the Thunderhound uncovered his plot and incarcerated him in Bricklyn Bay Penitentiary. Will Mutt Master rise again?
Skills/Powers: Ability to control dogs.
Velocita -
Bio: When your parents are both supervillains a life of crime seems inevitable, and so was the case for Velocita. Capable of running at incredible speed, she saw the opportunity to commit crimes in Brickhaven as more of a game than with any real evil intent.
Skills/Powers: Super-speed.
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Lacul Morii-Bucharest city-Konica 40mm F1,8
*Not the brand or technique is important in photographic art, but the understanding of the things behind the photographed subjects, the emotion, the composition, the joy or the sadness, the life itself that is mysteriously coming unrepeatable as a gift.
(Horia Stanicel)
* I have seen a large part of the most popular or devoted photographers' photographs over time and of course I can say that most of them have speculated on different situations, angles of photography, shadows, different brightness, feelings, human tragedies, all kinds of paradoxical situations that of course make them noticed. I do not want to bring any name into question for the simple reason that each photographic artist has a unique value. However, I regard the photographic art as a simple spectator that is difficult to be convince most of the times. I contemplate the creation of God and every time I photograph I do not forget how grateful we should be for all the beauty that our Creator gave it to us! People who forget this do nothing but hate themselves and the world they live in and photography is nothing but a mirror of this beautiful or crooked world.(Horia Stanicel)
*Nu aparatul foto sau tehnica este importantă în arta fotografică, ci înțelegerea lucrurilor care stau în spatele subiectelor fotografiate,emoția, compoziția, bucuria sau tristețea, viața însăși care vine tainic irepetabil ca un dar.
(Horia Stanicel)
*Am văzut o mare parte a fotografiilor celor mai populari sau consacrați artiști fotografi de-a lungul timpului și desigur pot spune că majoritatea dintre ei au speculat diversele situații,unghiuri de fotografiere, umbre, luminozitati diferite,sentimente,tragedii umane chiar,tot felul de situații paradoxale care desigur să-i facă remarcați.Nu vreau să aduc vreun nume în discuție pentru simplul motiv că fiecare artist fotograf are o valoare unică. Totuși eu privesc arta fotografică ca un simplu spectator greu de convins de cele mai multe ori.Eu contemplu creația lui Dumnezeu și de fiecare dată când fotografiez nu uit cât de recunoscători ar trebui să fim pentru toată frumusețea pe care Creatorul nostru ne-a daruit-o! Oamenii care uită aceasta nu fac decât să se urâțească pe ei înșiși dar și lumea în care trăiesc iar fotografia nu este decât o oglindă a acestei lumi frumoase sau urâțite.
(Horia Stanicel)
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Mephala / T3Z (___) 169858 as Zatanna Zatara from DC Comics
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Today the Hereios of the We’re Here! Group are visiting Car Parks. Car parks can be a bit dull, and this was a quiet day at our local country store, so I used PS Elements to add interest.
The genesis of modern understanding of Greek mythology is regarded by some scholars as a double reaction at the end of the 18th century against "the traditional attitude of Christian animosity mixed with disdain, which had prevailed for centuries", in which the Christian reinterpretation of myth as a "lie" or fable had been retained.[1] In Germany, by about 1795, there was a growing interest in Homer and Greek mythology. In Göttingen Johann Matthias Gesner began to revive Greek studies and a new humanistic spirit. His successor, Christian Gottlob Heyne, worked with Johann Joachim Winckelmann, and laid the foundations for mythological research both in Germany and elsewhere. Heyne approached the myth as a philologist and shaped the educated Germans' conception of antiquity for nearly half a century, during which ancient Greece exerted an intense influence on intellectual life in Germany.The development of comparative philology in the 19th century, together with ethnological discoveries in the 20th century, established the science of myth. Since the Romantics, all study of myth has been comparative. Wilhelm Mannhardt, Sir James Frazer, and Stith Thompson employed the comparative approach to collect and classify the themes of folklore and mythology.In 1871 Edward Burnett Tylor published his Primitive Culture, in which he applied the comparative method and tried to explain the origin and evolution of religion.] Tylor's procedure of drawing together material culture, ritual and myth of widely separated cultures influenced both Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell. According to Robert Segal, however, Campbell’s "romantic view of myth is the opposite of a rationalist view, one epitomized by the Victorian anthropologists Edward Tylor and James Frazer".J.F. del Giorgio has added a new turn to the comparative approach, insisting in The Oldest Europeans about present Greek myths being generated by the clash between a Paleolithic European population and the incoming Indo-European tribes.Max Müller applied the new science of comparative mythology to the study of myth, in which he detected the distorted remains of Aryan nature worship. Bronisław Malinowski emphasized the ways myth fulfills common social functions. Claude Lévi-Strauss and other structuralists have compared the formal relations and patterns in myths throughout the world.Evans himself, while studying the Minoan world, drew regularly on Egyptian and Near Eastern evidence for comparison, and the discovery of the Hittite and Ugaritic civilizations has uncovered texts as well as monuments which offer comparative material for ritual and mythology.Sigmund Freud put forward the idea that symbolic communication does not depend on cultural history alone but also on the workings of the psyche. Thus Freud introduced a transhistorical and biological conception of man and a view of myth as an expression of repressed ideas. Dream interpretation is the basis of Freudian myth interpretation and Freud's concept of dreamwork recognizes the importance of contextual relationships for the interpretation of any individual element in a dream. This suggestion would find an important point of rapprochment between the structuralist and psychoanalytic approaches to myth in Freud's thought.Carl Jung extended the transhistorical, psychological approach with his theory of the "collective unconscious" and the archetypes (inherited "archaic" patterns), often encoded in myth, that arise out of it.According to Jung, "myth-forming structural elements must be present in the unconscious psyche".[10] Comparing Jung's methodology with Campbell's theory, Segal concludes that "to interpret a myth Campbell simply identifies the archetypes in it. An interpretation of the Odyssey, for example, would show how Odysseus’s life conforms to a heroic pattern. Jung, by contrast, considers the identification of archetypes merely the first step in the interpretation of a myth".[5] For Jung, myth is no more about gods than about the physical world; it is about the human mind and must be read symbolically. Karl Kerenyi, one of the founders of modern studies in Greek mythology, gave up his early views of myth, in order to apply Jung's theories of archetypes to Greek myth.The origins of Greek mythology are an open question. In antiquity, historians such as Herodotus theorized that the Greek gods had been stolen directly from the Egyptians. Later on, Christian writers tried to explain Hellenic paganism through degeneration of Biblical religion. According to the Scriptural theory, all mythological legends (including Greek mythology) are derived from the narratives of the Scriptures, though the real facts have been disguised and altered. Thus Deucalion is another name for Noah, Hercules for Samson, Arion for Jonah etc.] According to the Historical Theory all the persons mentioned in mythology were once real human beings, and the legends relating to them are merely the additions of later times. Thus the story of Aeolus is supposed to have risen from the fact that Aeolus was the ruler of some islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea.The Allegorical theory supposes that all the ancient myths were allegorical and symbolical. According to the Physical theory the elements of air, fire, and water were originally the objects of religious adoration, and the principal deities were personifications of the powers of nature.The sciences of archaeology and linguistics have been applied to the origins of Greek mythology with some interesting results. Historical linguistics indicates that particular aspects of the Greek pantheon were inherited from Indo-European society (or perhaps both cultures borrowed from another earlier source), as were the roots of the Greek language. Prominent Sanskritist Max Müller attempted to understand an Indo-European religious form by tracing it back to its Aryan, Vedic, "original" manifestation. In 1891, he claimed that "the most important discovery which has been made during the nineteenth century with respect to the ancient history of mankind [...] was this sample equation: Sanskrit Dyaus-pitar = Greek Zeus = Latin Jupiter = Old Norse Tyr".[16] Philologist Georges Dumezil draws a comparison between the Greek Uranus and the Sanskrit Varuna, although there is no hint that he believes them to be originally connected.In other cases, close parallels in character and function suggest a common heritage, yet lack of linguistic evidence makes it difficult to prove, as in the case of the Greek Moirai and the Norns of Norse mythology.Archaeology and mythography, on the other hand, has revealed that the Greeks were inspired by some of the civilizations of Asia Minor and the Near East. Adonis seems to be the Greek counterpart — more clearly in cult than in myth — of a Near Eastern dying god. His name is related to the Semitic invocation "adon" (Lord) and appears in other cultures as Dumuzi, Tammuz or Attis. Cybele is rooted in Anatolian culture, and much of Aphrodite's iconography springs from the Semitic goddesses Inanna, Ishtar and Astarte. The theogonic myths current in the Near East in the second millennium BC, such as the myth of Anu, Kumarbi, and Teshub, contain significant stories of generational conflict. Meyer Reinhold argues that "such Near Eastern theogonic concepts, involving divine succession through violence and generational conflicts for power, found their way — the route is not certain — into Greek mythology. Our prime source is the great theogonic poem of Hesiod".Parallels between the earliest divine generations (Chaos and its children) and Tiamat in the Enuma Elish are also possible.In addition to Indo-European and Near Eastern origins, some scholars have speculated on the debts of Greek mythology to the still poorly understood pre-Hellenic societies of Greece, such as the Minoans and so-called Pelasgians. This is especially true in the case of chthonic deities and mother goddesses. Historians of religion were fascinated by a number of apparently ancient configurations of myth connencted with Crete: the god as bull — Zeus and Europa; Pasiphaë who yields to the bull and gives birth to the Minotaur; agrarian mysteries with a sacred marriage (Demeter's union with Iasion) etc. Crete, Mycenae, Pylos, Thebes and Orchomenus figure so large in later Greek mythology.For some, the three main generations of gods in Hesiod's Theogony (Uranus, Gaia, etc.; the Titans and then the Olympians) suggest a distant echo of a struggle between social groups, mirroring the three major high cultures of Greek civilization: Minoan, Mycenaean and Hellenic. Martin P. Nilsson, Professor of Classical Archaeology, worked on the structure, origins and relationships of the Indo-European languages, and concluded that all great classical Greek myths were tied to Mycenaen centres and were anchored in prehistoric times.Nevertheless, according to Walter Burkert, the iconography of the Cretan Palace Period has provided almost no confirmation of all these theories; nothing points to a bull, sexual symbols are absent and a single seal impression from Knossos showing a boy beneath a sheep is regarded as a scant evidence for the myth of Zeus' childhood.
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MKSG The X-Men: Survival - Issue #5
Boston, Massachusetts - 3 Days Ago
“Sean! Grab your sh*t, we’re leaving! 1 minute!” Tom shouts as he storms through the door of the Cassidy house, leaving his car half-parked and still running on the driveway.
Sitting up quickly from the couch, “What do you mean?!” Sean Cassidy questions woefully.
“I mean that they’ve found us, and that means we have to leave, now!” Tom snaps at his younger brother as he rushes upstairs.
Understanding exactly what this means, Sean reacts quickly. His homework will have to wait. He’s going on the run. It was only a matter of time until someone found out that he and his brother were mutants, and the time seemed to have come. He raced upstairs, slid into his room and yanked the backpack from under his bed that he’d had packed for the last 12 months. He runs back downstairs and out the door.
“Where are we headed?” the 14 year old asks his older brother, quizzically.
X-Mansion Lawn - Today
“Help me!!” yells Sean, desperate and afraid. Once they’d got his brother Tom, he started towards the only place he could think of: Xavier’s School for Gifted Mutants. His mother’s friend, who he always called Aunt Moira, had told him if he was ever in any trouble, to come here, and the people here would help him.
“Help! Please!!” he yelps. Hot on his heel - a military-style truck following him up the lawn, filled with ‘Purifiers’. Mutant-hunters for hire. Ruthless and terrifying, with their thoughts poisoned by bigoted TV personalities such as William Stryker, spreading mutant-hatred and fear.
Sean realises there is no way that he can outrun the truck before he gets to the grand mansion itself. Putting on a brave face, he does the only thing he can do: try to stand his ground.
He stops running and tries to turn around and face his oppressors, but his knees are weak and give way. He still has one trick up his sleeve though…
The truck pulls up, about 20 feet away. He’s feeling faint and almost breathless, but he doesn’t hesitate to defend himself.
“EEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeEEE!”
He screams with his sonic abilities! The forceful blast flips the truck sideways several times and the Purifiers inside shout in dismay as they are tosses around violently. The truck lands back on it’s 6 wheels and several of the soldiers pile out, a couple throwing up.
Then, behind him, he hears an unfamiliar sound
BAMF!
He looks behind him in desperation to see 4 colourful figures, all with an X logo on their belt.
‘It’s the X-Men!’
The Purifier soldiers from the truck scramble and flee in all different directions from the X-Men. Storm flies up above the lawn and hovers on the winds she can control. Her eyes turn white and the skies quickly turn from blue to a dark, cloudy grey. With great might, she summons down a powerful lightning bolt. It strikes the overturned truck and then, KABBOOM! It explodes into a million pieces.
One of the doors from the truck hurtles towards him, flaming and fast. Sean covers his head with his hands as he feels the intense warmth from Cyclops’ optic beam over him, hearing the PZZZRKKTT! of it as it slices the door in half, so the pieces land either side of the team.
Sean reveals himself from under his arms to see Iceman covering the flaming wreck with snow and ice. Storm stands over him, and offers Sean a hand up. He goes to accept and pull himself up, but he’s so exhausted. Sean gently collapses onto the green grass of Xavier’s Mansion, home to the X-Men.
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