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The Quran describes the oppressor or tyrant as "deaf, dumb and blind", which is essentially the spiritual reality of the tyrant. He cannot hear the cries of his victims; he cannot communicate with those he oppresses because he imperiously views them as representatives of a lower order of being than himself, and thus as mere commodities to be exploited or, even worse, as plagues to be cleansed; and he cannot see the harm he does. Aristotle (d. 322 BC) reminds us that all tyrants invariably surround themselves with sycophants because they cannot bear the truth. But the tyrant also needs these sycophants because he demands tacit approval of his beliefs and actions, and most of all he fears an honest and critical view of himself. The more the tyrant's power grows, the less he tolerates dissent. What is true of the tyrant is also true of the tyrannical nation. He demands that everyone agree with him and affirm his position because he cannot see, hear or speak to anyone but himself. He believes that his vision is clear, his understanding is unsurpassed, and his words, and only his words, are worthy of utterance or consideration. As human beings, only through others can we truly see ourselves, hear ourselves and talk to ourselves; but in his fixation on himself the tyrant is totally incapable of such reflection.
(Hamza Yusuf. Introduction to the "The prayer of the oppressed")
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Soak up the sun
Affirm life’s magic
Be graceful in the wind
Stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it rains
Grow strong without notice
Be prepared for each season
Provide shelter to strangers
Hang tough through a cold spell
Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring
Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky
Be still long enough to
hear your own leaves rustling.
["Think Like a Tree" by Karen Shrag]
a walk into a thin place for Andrew
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Je pense à l'arbre qui pense à moi, oui, je l'affirme.
De son immense tronc, large comme un fleuve, il recueille tout ce qui s'offre à lui.
En premier lieu les vents, les oiseaux, les neiges, les pluies, les visages assombris d'indifférence.
j'entends la musique des choses qu'il reçoit, toutes merveilles dispersées dans l'univers. Il les accueille, branches ouvertes, les serre contre lui, les soigne, les guérit, en prend soin.
Sinon, comment expliquer que les oiseaux aillent sans terreur trouver un abri dans ses feuillages.
Il écoute les enfants qui chahutent sous lui. Il écoute l'ombre du soir qui vient.
Il plaint j'en suis sûr, ceux qui ont tout perdu en l'espace d'un instant. Il prie pour celui qui s'en va, qui n'a aucun nom dans l'Histoire.
J. Vernet - Marcher est ma plus belle façon de vivre
@ Black Bayou Lake
un vendredi 13 mai 2022
Affirmer sa solitude revient à aborder sa peur, surtout la peur de mourir, et à mesurer sa propre puissance.
Jacqueline Kelen
Petit-duc maculé | Eastern Screech Owl | Megascops asio
Le retour de Bobby?
Un rouquin similaire à Roméo et à notre Bobby, que nous n’avons plus revu depuis mars 2020, qui partage avec ce dernier quelques points et caractéristiques nous amenant à penser qu’il s’agirait de lui, mais bien franchement je demeure à ce jour incapable d'en être suffisamment certain pour l'affirmer. Une identification à suivre. Avant de le retrouver au no 4 récemment le temps d'une journée, ce spécimen s’est présenté à quelques reprises au cours du mois d'avril à une nouvelle cavité. Tout comme la cavité no 4 cette dernière se situe le long de la frontière des territoires connus d’Amandine et d’Odi. Au moment où j’ai capté cette image peu de temps avant le couvre-feu de 20h il poussait la note. Semble-t-il sans réponse. Lorsque je l’ai observé au no 4 il a aucunement chanté, comme si il avait abandonné l’idée de se trouver une compagne. Il serait bien étonnant d’ailleurs qu’Edgar et Philémon laisserait un nouveau couple s’établir dans ce secteur. Bien sûr tout ceci n’est qu’hypothèse, il faut reconnaître que depuis quelques années nos Petits-ducs maculés du parc n’ont cessé de nous étonner en bousculant à l'occasion certaines de nos certitudes.
“The mermaid is an archetypal image that represents a woman who is at ease in the great waters of life, the waters of emotion and sexuality. She shows us how to embrace our instinctive sexuality and sensuality so that we can affirm the essence of our feminine nature, the wisdom of our bodies, and the playfulness of our spirits. She symbolizes our connection with our deepest instinctive feelings, our wild and untamed animal nature that exists below the surface of outward personalities. She is able to respond to her mysterious sexual impulses without abandoning her more human, conscious side.
Qui l'aurait cru ? Un piéton menacé par des voitures...
En vérité, tout piéton un tant soit peu affirmé vous le dira : les voitures sont des menaces quotidiennes.
Mais les voir ainsi, c'est une toute autre chose.
Trrrremble, piéton ! Les voitures ont conquis le monde !
Another archive shot of a typical beach day, a sky full of happy clouds being puffed along on a playful wind. Days at the coast can be so bright and are always happy and life affirming. Ride like the wind is by Frank Zappa
His facial expression is a fact. The face is grotesquely disfigured. What does it mean? Why is it here, fixed to a gatepost of the Stables at Waddesdon Manor (Buckinghamshire)? All I can say is that Manor and Stables go back to the 1870s/80s and that this marble sculpture is of Italian origin, probably 18th century (and it has not yet been treated with fungicide as most of the other statues have been). The architecture here is generally playful, life-affirming perhaps - and now this! Is it a reminder of our fear, when examining the ground we think we are standing on, that there might be none? Fuji X-E2 plus Helios 44M-7 at approx. F5.6.
Which Way to Happy is by the Magic Numbers. It's often very hard to know which way will bring happiness. To me a beach visit always guarantees happiness , and wonderful memories. The ever changing light, clouds and tide mean every visit and every minute is different and life affirming.
When I wake up each morning I feel so privileged to be able to spend another day enjoying our beautiful world. So many people don't have that privilege.
L'hôtel de ville de Liège, surnommé La Violette, est un bâtiment de la place du Marché à Liège construit dès 1714.
C’est en fait au XIIIe siècle que les magistrats chargés de l'administration communale, désireux d'affirmer leur indépendance à l'égard du prince-évêque, choisissent pour y tenir leurs réunions une maison bourgeoise de la place du Marché, désignée par son enseigne « La Violette ».
La Violette était le lieu de l'élection des bourgmestres et de la publication des règlements communaux.
C'est la première Maison de ville, sise non loin du palais princier et face au Perron, le fier symbole des libertés liégeoises. Détruite et reconstruite à plusieurs reprises, elle va cependant rester fidèle à cet emplacement privilégié.
C'est en effet le 14 août 1714 que l'on voit enfin la pose de la première pierre de l'hôtel de ville actuel. D'Auberat, l'architecte officiel du prince-évêque Joseph-Clément de Bavière, l'ingénieur Sarta et le frère dominicain Colomban délaissent le style gothique régional de l'ancienne bâtisse pour une construction classique aux lignes strictes et rationnelles, basée sur un plan en « U » et s'appuyant sur des substructions voûtées. Une médaille en bronze datée de 1714 attribuée à Gondolphe Duvivier commémore cet événement : sur la face avant se trouvent les armoiries du prince-évêque et les deux armoiries des bourgmestres de l'année et sur l'autre face, la Violette surmontée de la statue de Saint Lambert, saint patron de la ville, suivie d'un long texte.
The town hall of Liège, nicknamed La Violette, is a building on the Place du Marché in Liège built in 1714.
It was in fact in the thirteenth century that the magistrates in charge of municipal administration, wishing to assert their independence with regard to the prince-bishop, chose to hold their meetings a bourgeois house on the Place du Marché, designated by its sign "La Violette".
La Violette was the place for the election of mayors and the publication of municipal regulations.
It is the first town hall, located not far from the princely palace and opposite the Perron, the proud symbol of Liège freedoms. Destroyed and rebuilt several times, it will however remain faithful to this privileged location.
It is indeed on August 14, 1714 that we finally see the laying of the first stone of the current town hall. D'Auberat, the official architect of Prince-Bishop Joseph-Clément of Bavaria, the engineer Sarta and the Dominican brother Colomban abandon the regional Gothic style of the old building for a classic construction with strict and rational lines, based on a U-shaped plan based on arched substructures. A bronze medal dated 1714 attributed to Gondolphe Duvivier commemorates this event: on the front side are the coat of arms of the prince-bishop and the two coats of arms of the mayors of the year and on the other side, the Violet surmounted by the statue of Saint Lambert, patron saint of the city, followed by a long text.
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Think like a Tree
Soak up the sun
Affirm life's magic
Be graceful in the wind
Stand tall after a storm
Feel refreshed after it rains
Grow strong without notice
Be prepared for each season
Provide shelter to strangers
Hang tough through a cold spell
Emerge renewed at the first signs of spring
Stay deeply rooted while reaching for the sky
Be still long enough to
hear your own leaves rustling.
Karen I. Shragg
Genesis 2:17 King James Version (KJV)
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.
affirmation:
i have no body
i have no mind
i have no spirit
i am just the breath of God
the breath of life
breath of life
breath of God
in spanish
afirmación:
no tengo cuerpo, no tengo mente, no tengo espíritu
soy solo el aliento de Dios, aliento de vida
aliento de Dios, aliento de vida
my favorite affirmation given by my yoga teacher; yogi bhajan
AFFIRMATION
May an Angel’s love surround you
Each and every day
May an Angel’s breath keep you warm
And tempt you to stay
May an Angel’s wings protect you always
When your life becomes difficult and hard
When the light seems increasingly dark
And you need help to find your way
May an Angel’s love surround you
Each and every day
*****
Blessings to you all,
Shelley.
Thank you to each and every one of you who has supported and shared your lives and thoughts with me this year.
I cannot thank you enough, as you have kept a light burning for me as well in difficult times.
Even semi-human Angels need love to know they are needed...
I write often of spiritual love, but some days we need to feel real tangible love.
I seek ways out of the darkness, and I hope you will continue to fly with me into the New Year.
Forgive my lateness in replying to comments and faves from my last batch of work, I will get to you...life is demanding and even Angels have to sleep....sometimes..haha!
Angels drive cars and have to get them fixed and sort out dodgy freezers right before Xmas. Angels have family and they sometimes need your surety.
But Angels also have friends on Flickr who have supported them and commented, faved and viewed with astounding generosity.
Thank you, thank you, with all my heart.
*****
This image is a detail from a stained glass window in St. Mary's, Eastbourne, East Sussex, UK.
Angels like it here a lot.
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Completely unlike the fleur-de-lys, the lush dark red lily in the silver field of the coat of arms is a proud emblem of beautiful Florence. The presence of such a lily in the coat of arms explains the magnificent motto: «A flower in full bloom - so flourishes the blooming Florence.»
Anatole France used the image of the "red lily" as the title of his novel. "Red Lily" is a novel about love in the world of politicians and prudent businessmen.
The play based on this novel made a huge impression on the young Marcel Proust. The red lily, which gave the title of the novel, is not just a flower, but a symbol of Florence, where the love of the social beauty Countess Marten-Bellemm and the talented sculptor Jacques Deschartre blossomed.
Зовсім не схожа на fleur-de-lys пишна темно-червона лілія у срібному полі герба — горда емблема прекрасної Флоренції. Наявність у гербі такої лілії пояснює чудовий девіз: «Квітка у повному кольорі – так процвітає квітуча Флоренція».
Анатоль Франс використав образ «червона лілія» як назву для свого роману. "Червона лілія" - роман про кохання у світі політиків та розважливих ділків.
Поставлена за цим романом п'єса справила величезне враження на юного Марселя Пруста. Червона лілія, що дала назву роману, - це не просто квітка, а символ Флоренції, де розквітла любов світської красуні графині Мартен-Беллем та талановитого скульптора Жака Дешартра.
Герб Флоренції є овальним геральдичним щитом срібного кольору, на щиті зображена червона лілія. Лілія є старовинним символом Флоренції. Зображення геральдичної лілії карбувалося на аверсі флорентійських золотих флоринів з 1252 року.
Спочатку герб прикрашала біла лілія на червоному тлі. Однак у 1251 році гвельфи, вигнавши з Флоренції гібеллінів, змінили забарвлення герба, зробивши квітку червоною, а фон білим.
I am very beautiful.
I am very cute.
I am very adorable.
I am very smart.
I deserve lots of love.
I deserve many more treats.
And everybody loves me.
"I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”
–Stuart Smalley (Al Franken)
Saturday Night Live, 1991 debut
Happy Caturday!
This is the title of the latest exhibition by the Leicester Society of Artists at the Sock Gallery in Loughborough.
It was great to meet some of the other artists and there was a vibrant and inspiring atmosphere in a very welcoming and peaceful gallery setting..
This is artist Tazim Hamid who reminded me of a workshop that she'd attended many years ago that I ran at Leicester Adult Education College in Leicester. It was a papermaking workshop that I'd completely forgotten about and apparently we used the banana peels from our lunches which we reduced to pulp and made paper with.
I'm amazed that we managed that in a day as it's quite a lengthy process and must've involved the use of a lot of fans and hairdryers!
What a wonderful memory and affirmation of a working life full of interactions and shared moments that we hold forever.
I didn’t become who I am alone.
The people I’ve let close - the rare few - have shaped my architecture. Some challenged me and forced me to grow sharper; some offered quiet stability and taught me how to rest without vanishing; some widened the inner horizon I didn’t know could hold so much light.
And others, in their own ways, taught me refinement through fracture; not because they intended harm - though sometimes they did - but because not everyone is capable of seeing someone clearly, even when standing right in front of them. Every bond - tender, volatile, brief, or breathtaking - has become part of my design.
I still believe in beauty, not as decoration, but as something constructed with intention, protected with discernment, and chosen again and again in spite of everything that may try to dismantle it.
Particular entity
Existence affirmed
Web of belief
The image's aesthetic qualities—its colors, textures, and composition—are part of one set of beliefs, while the flower's biological properties—its species, its life cycle—are part of another.
"To be is to be the value of a bound variable." - Willard van Orman Quine
Nikon Nikkor 55mm f1.2 Reversed
I may not be the pretty skinny girl who has her picture gawked at, but I am me. I am a human being, and I am happy with myself. I have curves, and I don't wear a size 2. Call me what you want, I know I truly am.
I believe the sun should never set upon an argument
I believe we place our happiness in other people's hands
I believe that junk food tastes so good because it's bad for you
I believe your parents did the best job they knew how to do
I believe that beauty magazines promote low self esteem
I believe I'm loved when I'm completely by myself alone
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality
I believe that trust is more important than monogamy
I believe your most attractive features are your heart and soul
I believe that family is worth more than money or gold
I believe the struggle for financial freedom is unfair
I believe the only ones who disagree are millionaires
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
I believe forgiveness is the key to your own happiness
I believe that wedded bliss negates the need to be undressed
I believe that God does not endorse tv evangelists
I believe in love surviving death into eternity
I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love 'til you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye
Until you say goodbye
-Savage Garden "Affirmation"
Affirmation solennelle d'attester l'engagement et la sincérité d'une promesse.
A solemn affirmation attesting to the commitment and sincerity of a promise.
EVERY DAY
You can leave me in the light
And not worry about finding me
You must surely know
That I will always seek you out
When you feel your sanity
Might be in doubt
When your heart feels sore
And you can’t take anymore
When you hide in dark corners
Shunning the current conversation
All so trite and full of spite
Come and find me
Where you left me
Just look for the light
Because that is me calling you
Every moment of the day
From the light
Look it’s alright
From the light
I love you
From the light
Day and night
*****
Thank you to my Friends and Followers,
an Affirmation for Every Day.
Dear friends and followers, and those who have viewed and faved recently on my last batch of work. I have been thinking of you all and wanting to get back to you before now.
The past few days I have been unwell however, but recovering now.
So this was just a little offering to keep you all going until I can cast my eyes over your lovely work and thank you all for supporting me.
Grail Keepers do not forget their friends. Grail Keepers are people who do not forget and have loyalty as their middle name.
Behind the scenes I have been working, thinking. Seems to me we need beauty and decency back in this world. We need the sort of values that anybody, regardless of who or what they are, or what faith they follow, can have.
A Grail Keeper in my mind is someone who will help in this way, even if its only in small ways, it all adds up to something bigger.
Martin Luther King was a Grail Keeper. John Lennon was a Grail Keeper. Mother Teresa was a Grail Keeper. Alexei Navalny was a Grail Keeper. There are so many, the list could go on.
These are courageous well known examples. But there are also Grail Keepers who work diligently in their own communities. There are Grail Keepers who perform small acts of kindness every day.
I want to start to expand on this idea, and the work I do I hope will bring some light into this dark uncertain world of ours. It doesn’t have to be this way, and Grail Keepers even if its only in a simple, small way, need to find their courage and continue to hold up a light.
This work is from Glynde Church, in Sussex in the UK. I take my Grails out into the area I know and have lived in all my life. With them I seek to find a connection to the spiritual world that will heal and enlighten.
Short of having you there with me, the least I can do is share my work in images and words.
And as always, if you would like to see more of my work, have a look at my website at:
March 13th, 2024. Dear Friends...I am still catching up...if I haven't got to you yet, I will.
Meanwhile...The Grail is obsessing me again, when does it not you might ask. Fair point. I really think there is going to be more written as I think upon it. I mean, I have thought about it pretty much all my life, but I think it has a poignant relevance now. I can see some Blogs might get written in the future, especially on the Grail Keeper theme. Modern Grail Keepers are also our future.
Think of any? Might be somebody in your local community.
Like the Post Master in mine, who helped me sort out the right postage to get my new Driving License there and back safely. He got it in the right envelopes and everything for me.
My notes are expanding. But then so is love for the Grail.
All my love everybody, Shell x
One day an affirmed photographer told me: if you want to become a photographer you never have to photograph poppies, the photographs of poppies are trivial.
That same day, I decided that I never wanted to be a photographer.
of a coldness to the touch with the fingers
of hurting and healing simultaneously
in the familiarity of a warm heart
Kaya Project ft.Randolph Matthews ~ Playful New World
You are amazing! Yes - You :-).
I just love this video by the Duirwaigh team.
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"When inspiration knocks - open the door."
“Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.” - Ansel Adams
Esta fotografia é dedicada ao amigo Carlos " Samaval " de Madrid com amizade e simpatia.
Bem-haja.
Saludos
Ricardo.
GENÈVE - La "chaise cassée" (ou Broken Chair), symbole des victimes des mines antipersonnel, a repris sa place devant l'entrée du Palais des Nations à Genève. Elle avait été démontée en mars 2005 pour faire place aux travaux de réaménagement de la place.
"Cette chaise est un symbole vivant de l'engagement de la société civile contre les mines", a affirmé devant les médias Cornelio Sommaruga. Le président du Centre de déminage humanitaire a souligné l'impact visuel très fort de la sculpture, qui est devenue l'emblème de la Genève internationale.
Propriétaire de la fameuse chaise géante au pied cassé, Handicap International s'est réjoui du retour de la sculpture haute de 12 mètres. Sa réinstallation n'allait pas de soi. Elle avait été remise en cause par certaines voix au sein de l'ONU.
Certains ne goûtaient guère la présence d'un monument boiteux devant l'entrée des Nations unies, craignant que le public assimile ce symbole au fonctionnement de l'institution. Handicap International soupçonne aussi les Etats-Unis, la Russie et la Chine, qui n'ont pas ratifié le traité d'Ottawa d'interdiction des mines, de s'être montrés hostiles à l'oeuvre en coulisse.
Our distinctive, velvety Rosa Gallica have already produced their first blooms; they bring us so much joy and flower three times a year!
[Porst Color Reflex Auto 55mm / 1.4]
~~Le long des quais, l’identité maritime s’affirme : criée, chantiers de constructions navales, pontons accueillant des bateaux de toute nature y compris des voiliers de course le temps d’un départ de transat.
~~Ce port, peu profond, abrita toutefois jusqu'à 600 chaloupes pendant la saison de la sardine et, par la suite, les thoniers vinrent s'y ajouter. Des maisons bourgeoises sont édifiées le long des quais hors de la « Ville close ». Cette dernière devient, en cette période, un quartier populaire abritant matelots et sardinières. La Station de biologie marine de Concarneau est fondée par Victor Coste en 1859. Il s'agit de la plus ancienne station marine du monde.
~~À partir de 1851, les premières conserveries, remplaçant progressivement les fritures et les presses à sardines, apparaissent. Elles sont spécialisées dans la sardine et le thon. Elles feront la fortune de quelques négociants et permettront une élévation du niveau de vie de la population.
~~ En 1877, la ville compte 20 usines dont l'usine Béziers et en 1900 30 usines employant 2 000 ouvrières (qui portent la coiffe penn sardin) sur une population de 7 000 habitants. ~~À partir de 1902, la disparition des grands bancs de sardines plonge Concarneau dans la misère.
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"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." Augustus.
Of all the temples of the Roman Empire that have survived to this day, none has been preserved in such good conditions as the spectacular Pantheon in Rome. Although the first Pantheon was built in the year 27 b.C. in this same place by the general Agrippa, right hand of the emperor Augustus, and whose name is in the frieze of the portico, that first temple was destroyed by a fire. For what the architectural jewel that has arrived until our days is a posterior reconstruction commissioned by the emperor Hadrian, almost 150 years after the first temple was inaugurated.
The name of its architect is not totally clear, but many historians attribute its construction to the work of the great master Apollodorus of Damascus. When you enter the building, the first thing that leaves you astonished is its immense dome, which was the largest in the world until Brunelleschi raised the one in the Cathedral of Florence in 1436. In the center of it, the oculus will not go unnoticed by anyone, it lets the light pass during the day and through it the rain falls inside the temple, leaving through some strategically placed holes in the ground. And as we look down, the fascination continues with the brightly colored walls and marble floors, with the columns and their perfect capitals, with the niches that now house statues of saints as they once did with the Roman deities and with every detail of the decoration.
The Pantheon, unlike most Roman pagan temples, has reached our days almost intact due to its conversion into a church in 608. A twist of fate that allows us to marvel even today with its almost supernatural perfection, with which believers and atheists will surely agree to affirm that it honors their initial consecration as a place of worship for all the gods.
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"Encontré Roma como una ciudad de ladrillo y la dejé como una ciudad de mármol." Augusto.
De entre todos los templos del Imperio Romano que han llegado hasta nuestros días, ninguno se ha conservado en tan buenas condiciones como el espectacular Panteón de Roma. A pesar de que el primer Panteón fue construido en el año 27 a.C. en este mismo lugar por el general Agripa, mano derecha del emperador Augusto, y cuyo nombre se encuentra en el friso del pórtico, ese primer templo fue destruido por un incendio. Por lo que la joya arquitectónica que ha llegado hasta nuestros días es una reconstrucción posterior encargada por el emperador Adriano, casi 150 años después de que el primer templo se inaugurara.
No se sabe a ciencia cierta el nombre del arquitecto, pero muchos historiadores atribuyen su construcción al trabajo del gran maestro Apolodoro de Damasco. Cuando se entra en el edificio lo primero que nos deja estupefactos es su inmensa cúpula, que fue la más grande del mundo hasta que Brunelleschi levantó la de la Catedral de Florencia en 1436. En el centro de ella, para nadie pasará desapercibido el óculo, que deja pasar la luz durante el día y a través del cual la lluvia cae dentro del templo, marchándose por unos agujeros estratégicamente situados en el suelo. Y al bajar la vista, la fascinación continúa con las paredes y el suelo de mármol de vivos colores, con las columnas y sus perfectos capiteles, con los nichos que hoy albergan estatuas de santos como en su día hicieron con las deidades romanas y con cada detalle de la decoración.
El Panteón, a diferencia de la mayoría de templos paganos romanos, ha llegado a nuestros días casi intacto debido a su conversión en iglesia en el año 608. Un giro del destino que nos permite aún hoy maravillarnos con su casi sobrenatural perfección, la cual tanto creyentes como ateos seguramente estarán de acuerdo en afirmar, que hace honor a su consagración inicial como lugar de culto para todos los dioses.