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Daisy Duck is the girlfriend of Donald Duck, she is an anthropomorphic white duck. Created in 1940 by Walt Disney Productions. Daisy Duck Donald Duck's girlfriend had her debut as Donna Duck in Don Donald (1937), but was first known as Daisy in Mr. Duck Steps Out (1940). She made 14 film appearances.
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Character: Helena
Helena changed many times her looks. but she started off as the koberu. and she returned to her first appearance.
Anthropomorphic paper rollers with buckteeth faces. The Shartle Bros. were a manufacturer based in Middletown, Ohio in the early 20th century.
Prompt: Create a detailed, whimsical illustration of an anthropomorphic West Highland White Terrier as the fifth member of the Fantastic Four. The Westie is standing confidently among the iconic superhero team--Mr. Fantastic, Invisible Woman, The Thing, and Human Torch--each wearing their classic blue and white uniforms with the "4" emblem. The Westie is also dressed in a miniature version of the Fantastic Four suit, complete with a utility belt and boots, standing upright like a human with a proud superhero pose. The Thing towers behind the group, massive and rocky; Human Torch blazes with flames in the air above, casting a fiery glow; Invisible Woman reaches forward with her hand aglow from a force field; Mr. Fantastic stands with arms crossed, looking serious. The Westie stands in the foreground, fur neatly groomed, ears perked up, eyes determined, with a small heroic cape fluttering slightly in the air. The background includes the iconic "4" logo and circular sci-fi design motifs. Style: Comic book illustration, vibrant colors, stylized realism Mood: Heroic, energetic, fun Lighting: Bold, comic-style shading with dynamic highlights Resolution: High-resolution, aspect ratio vertical
ᴛʜɪs ɪs ᴛʜᴇ sᴏᴜɴᴅ ᴡᴇ ᴍᴀᴋᴇ
ᴡʜᴇɴ ɪɴ ʙᴇᴛᴡᴇᴇɴ ᴛᴡᴏ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇs
ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴡᴇ ᴜsᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʙʟᴇᴇᴅ
ᴀɴᴅ ᴡʜᴇʀᴇ ᴏᴜʀ ʙʟᴏᴏᴅ ɴᴇᴇᴅs ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ
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I've been feeling very low motivation lately with exams and final projects on the near horizon, a lot of my looks in SL have reflected on that in monotone colours, black and whites, and simple accents.
When I got this cute little mod I knew I had to use it as it mirrored a lot of my own moods so perfectly well, and I'll always take any excuse to use the old Paws Feline head honestly.
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Woody Woodpecker an anthropomorphic red-headed woodpecker gets in on the graff game with Shinequest on Allen Gardens.
La iglesia rupestre de Santa María de Valverde en Cantabria (Spain), es una joya del eremitismo datada entre los siglos VII al XII.
La parte exterior está protegida por un tejado y vemos tumbas antropomórficas excavadas en la roca.
Algunos sitúan a esta iglesia en la época visigótica sobre el siglo X; estando al lado el Centro de Interpretación de la Arquitectura Rupestre.
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The rock church of Santa María de Valverde in Cantabria (Spain), it is a jewel of hermitism dated between the 7th and 12th centuries.
The outer part is protected by a roof and we see anthropomorphic tombs carved out of the rock.
Some place this church in the Visigothic period around the 10th century; being next to the Interpretation Center of the Rupestrian Architecture.
I thought of many anthropomorphic captions for this shot. Since they all involved foul language, I decided to just label the species.
I recently posted a shot of a Red-winged Blackbird taking on a Bald Eagle. Many who commented added anecdotes of their observations of the feisty nature of these guys. The aggro in this case was directed at a Grackle that he had just successfully chased off. He had to have the last squawk.
Sturgeon County, Alberta. May 15 2014.
Member of the Flickr Bird Brigade
Activists for birds and wildlife
Killer Croc, Suicide Squad.
Supanova Expo, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia (Saturday 17 June 2017)
Fragment of an anthropomorphic coffin
Limestone
Late Period
Egypt of Glory exhibition, Amos Rex Art Museum, Helsinki
From the collection of Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy
9.10.2020-21.3.2021
This little fella scared the nuts off us while heading home from some west end shopping.
If I were doing a 13 secrets series, my number 5 would be that I'm mortally afraid of anthropomorphic animals. (and no.4 would be spiders!)
#DoodlewashOctober2025 prompts: Basket & Needle.
#Inktober prompt: Weave.
Did you know the largest basket (shaped building) is the 7-story Longaberger Basket building at 208 ft long and 142 ft wide with 180,000 sq ft of floor space? Built in 1997, as the headquarters of the Longaberger Basket company (now out-of-business) it is now empty, though plans have been discussed to turn it into a hotel, condo, or mixed-use development.
Hand drawn with Sharpie pens and painted with Daniel Smith Watercolor on Arches Cold Press.
@danielsmithartistsmaterials @danielsmithwatercolors @sharpie @archespapers
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Sphinx of Bucegi is an anthropomorphic megalith located at 2,216 m altitude. Sphinx origin of the name is due to its resemblance to a human head, namely the similarities Egyptian Sphinx, its formation is due to wind erosion (wind). Consisting of a large block of stone that has taken shape today in a very long time, Sphinx of Bucegi on the Bucegi plateau before measures 8 meters in height and 12 meters in width.
Bugs Bunny is an animated cartoon character, created in the late 1930s
Bugs Bunny is an anthropomorphic gray and white hare or rabbit who is famous for his flippant, insouciant personality. He is also characterized by a Brooklyn accent, his portrayal as a trickster, and his catch phrase "Eh... What's up, doc?" Due to Bugs' popularity during the golden age of American animation, he became an American cultural icon and the official mascot of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Wikipedia
Every morning I look out my windows and I see cute bunnies hoping around, playing, and having fun… They always brighten my morning..
Smiles my Friends :-))
Alternative outfit for my model of Judy Hopps.
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→ Joint photo of Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde
'Non gioco più'
- Peinture de Lumière - peint et éclairée par la lumière des bougies dans l'obscurité.
- Candlelit Light Painting Still Life-
Shot in darkness and painted by highlighting portions of the composition moving a handheld candle. Monochrome rendering.
I've been gifted some amazing callas. While shooting them via my newly appointed Candlelit Light Painting technique,
in their different shapes & positions, they started whispering a story and I truly saw them as they were personified,
dialoguing with each other.
This photo is the step 4: After a couple hugged (step 1), a third element enters the ménage...Captivating, trasgressive thoughts...A timid approach (step 2 called "Wonderful thought" where a calla touches the 'third'). Step 3: "I wish, I wish not, but...If you want..."
But, then, one walks away, -arms folded- expressing his will to not play with them anymore. The central element gives him the shoulders.
I didn't arrange the flowers to act a part, they just suggested me their anthropomorphic look & feel while I was shooting and especially when I watched the photos. What a Pareidolia! ( Have some fun in my PAREIDOLIA Album :-)
More in my Candlelight Painting Album and in the Callas & Amaryllis Studies.
A similar shot but in colour has received the Anthropomorphism 'Found in Nature' *EXTRA Challenge* recognition on 52frames.com/photographer/33141/photo/791443
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🎵 Tunes: 'Non gioco più'...(Me ne vado) La divina Mina (Swing song, author Gianni Ferrio. Lyrics by Roberto Lerici)
Cool Vintage Monochrome video directed by Sergio Tombolini. youtu.be/AAyUVnwiJKM?si=jI1yoXKIGOPg2sRK
Ref.5.Non gioco più_render 2_DSCF5799 OKK B&W VM DEFF Light painted in darkness by handhandling a candle in a long exposure.
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Thasos or Thassos (Greek: Θάσος) is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, close to the coast of Thrace and the plain of the river Nestos but geographically part of Macedonia. It is the northernmost Greek island, and 12th largest by area. Thasos is also the name of the largest town of the island (also known as Limenas Thasou, "Harbour of Thasos"), situated at the northern side, opposite the mainland and about 10 kilometres (6 mi) from Keramoti. Thassos island is a known from the ancient times for its termae making it a climatic and balneoclimateric resort area.
Prehistory
Lying close to the coast of Eastern Macedonia, Thasos was inhabited from the Palaeolithic period onwards,[1] but the earliest settlement to have been explored in detail is that at Limenaria, where remains from the Middle and Late Neolithic relate closely to those found at the mainland's Drama plain. In contrast, Early Bronze Age remains on the island align it with the Aegean culture of the Cyclades and Sporades, to the south; at Skala Sotiros[2] for example, a small settlement was encircled by a strongly built defensive wall. Even earlier activity is demonstrated by the presence of large pieces of 'megalithic' anthropomorphic stelai built into these walls, which, so far, have no parallels in the Aegean area.
There is then a gap in the archaeological record until the end of the Bronze Age c 1100 BC, when the first burials took place at the large cemetery of Kastri in the interior of the island.[3][4] Here built tombs covered with small mound of earth were typical until the end of the Iron Age. In the earliest tombs were a small number of locally imitated Mycenaean pottery vessels, but the majority of the hand-made pottery with incised decoration reflects connections eastwards with Thrace and beyond.
Antiquity
The island was colonized at an early date by Phoenicians, attracted probably by its gold mines; they founded a temple to the god Melqart, whom the Greeks identified as "Tyrian Heracles", and whose cult was merged with Heracles in the course of the island's Hellenization.[5] The temple still existed in the time of Herodotus.[6] An eponymous Thasos, son of Phoenix (or of Agenor, as Pausanias reported) was said to have been the leader of the Phoenicians, and to have given his name to the island.
Around 650 BC, or a little earlier, Greeks from Paros founded a colony on Thasos.[7] A generation or so later, the poet Archilochus, a descendant of these colonists, wrote of casting away his shield during a minor war against an indigenous Thracian tribe, the Saians.[8] Thasian power, and sources of its wealth, extended to the mainland, where the Thasians owned gold mines even more valuable than those of the island; their combined annual revenues amounted to between 200 and 300 talents. Herodotus says that the best mines on the island were those opened by the Phoenicians on the east side of the island, facing Samothrace.. Archilochus described Thasos as "an ass's backbone crowned with wild wood." The island's capital, Thasos, had two harbors. Besides its gold mines, the wine, nuts and marble of Thasos were well known in antiquity. Thasian wine was quite famous. Thasian coins had the head of the wine god Dionysos on one side and bunches of grape of the other.[9]
Thasos was important during the Ionian Revolt against Persia. After the capture of Miletus (494 BC) Histiaeus, the Ionian leader, laid siege. The attack failed, but, warned by the danger, the Thasians employed their revenues to build war ships [10] and strengthen their fortifications. This excited the suspicions of the Persians, and Darius compelled them to surrender their ships and pull down their walls. After the defeat of Xerxes the Thasians joined the Delian confederacy; but afterwards, on account of a difference about the mines and marts on the mainland, they revolted.
The Athenians defeated them by sea, and, after a siege that lasted more than two years, took the capital, Thasos, probably in 463 BC, and compelled the Thasians to destroy their walls, surrender their ships, pay an indemnity and an annual contribution (in 449 BC this was 21 talents, from 445 BC about 30 talents), and resign their possessions on the mainland. In 411 BC, at the time of the oligarchical revolution at Athens, Thasos again revolted from Athens and received a Lacedaemonian governor; but in 407 BC the partisans of Lacedaemon were expelled, and the Athenians under Thrasybulus were admitted.
After the Battle of Aegospotami (405 BC), Thasos again fell into the hands of the Lacedaemonians under Lysander who formed a decarchy there; but the Athenians must have recovered it, for it formed one of the subjects of dispute between them and Philip II of Macedonia. In the embroilment between Philip V of Macedonia and the Romans, Thasos submitted to Philip, but received its freedom at the hands of the Romans after the Battle of Cynoscephalae (197 BC), and it was still a "free" state in the time of Pliny.
Byzantine Era
Thasos was part of the Eastern Roman Empire, now known as the Byzantine Empire, from 395 on. According to the 6th-century Synecdemus, it belonged to the province of Macedonia Prima, although the 10th-century De thematibus claims that it was part of Thracia.[11] The island was a major source of marble until the disruption of the Slavic invasions in the late 6th/7th centuries, and several churches from Late Antiquity have been found on it.[11] The island remained in Byzantine hands for most of the Middle Ages. It functioned as a naval base in the 13th century, under its own doux, and came briefly under the rule of the Genoese Tedisio Zaccaria in 1307–13. Returning to Byzantine control, its bishopric was raised to an archdiocese by Manuel II Palaiologos. Thasos was captured by the Genoese Gattilusi family ca. 1434, who surrendered it to the Ottoman Empire in 1455.[11] Following the Ottoman conquest of the Despotate of the Morea in 1460, the former Despot Demetrios Palaiologos received lands on the island.[11]
It is related that the Byzantine Greek Saint Joannicius the Great (752–846) in one of his miracles freed the island of Thasos from a multitude of snakes.
Ottoman Era
Thassos joined the Ottoman Empire in 1456.[12] Under the Ottoman rule, the island was known as Ottoman Turkish: طاشوز Taşöz. Between 1770 and 1774, the island was briefly occupied by a Russian fleet. By this time the population of Thassos had gravitated to the inland villages as a protective measure.[13] Nearly 50 years later, a revolt against Ottoman rule arose in 1821, at the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence, led by Hatzigiorgis Metaxas, but it failed. The island was given by the Sultan Mahmud II to Muhammad Ali of Egypt as a personal fiefdom in the late 1820s, as a reward for Egyptian intervention in the War of Greek Independence (which failed to prevent the creation of the modern Greek state). Egyptian rule was relatively benign (by some accounts Muhammad Ali had either been born or spent his infancy on Thasos) and the island became prosperous, until 1908, when the New Turk regime asserted Turkish control. The island was a kaza (sub-province), lastly of the Sanjak of Drama in the Salonica Vilayet, until the Balkan Wars. On October 20, 1912 during the First Balkan War, a Greek naval detachment claimed Thasos as part of Greece. From the day it reunited with Greece, it has remained so ever since.
Archaeological Discovery
On the November 23rd, 1902 issue of the New York Times (p. 5), it was reported that on the island of Thassos, archaeologist Theodore Bent discovered the tomb of Cassius, the one who slew himself after the disastrous defeat at the Battle of Philippi in 42 B.C. Cassius was buried by Brutus at Thassos, where the army of the patriots of the Republic had established its base of supplies.[14][15]
Modern era
During the Axis occupation (1941–1944) Thasos, along with the rest of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, came under Bulgarian control. The Bulgarian government renamed the island "Tasos" and closed its schools as a first step towards forced Bulgarization. The island's mountainous terrain facilitated small-scale resistance activity. With the end of the war and the withdrawal of Axis troops, the island was caught up in the Greek Civil War. Skirmishes and Communist guerilla attacks continued on Thasos until 1950, almost a year after the main hostilities were over on the mainland.
Thasos, the capital, is now informally known as Limenas, or "the port". It is served by a ferry route to and from Keramoti a port close to Kavala International Airport, and has the shortest possible crossing to the island. Scala Prinos 20 km south of Thassos town is served by a ferry route to and from Kavala
Administration
Thasos is a separate regional unit of the East Macedonia and Thrace region, and the only municipality of the regional unit.[16] As a part of the 2011 Kallikratis government reform, the regional unit Thasos was created out of part of the former Kavala Prefecture. The municipality, unchanged at the Kallikratis reform, includes a few uninhabited islets besides the main island Thasos. The province of Thasos (Greek: Επαρχία Θάσου) was one of the provinces of the Kavala Prefecture. It had the same territory as the present municipality.[17] It was abolished in 2006.
Geography
Thasos island is located in the northern Aegean sea approximately 7 km (4 mi) from the northern mainland and 20 kilometres (12 miles) south-east of Kavala, and is of generally rounded shape, without deep bays or significant peninsulas. The terrain is mountainous but not particularly rugged, rising gradually from coast to centre. The highest peak is Ypsario (Ipsario), at 1,205 metres (3,953 feet), somewhat east of centre. Pine forest covers much of the island's eastern slopes.
Historically, the island's population was chiefly engaged in agriculture and stockbreeding, and established villages inland, some of them connected via stairways (known as skalas) to harbors at the shore. The local population gradually migrated towards these shoreline settlements as tourism began to develop as an important source of income. Thus, there are several "paired villages" such as Marion–Skala Maries, with the former inland and the latter on the coast.
Geology
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The Island is formed mainly by gneisses, schists and marbles of the Rhodope Massif. Marble sequences corresponding to the Falacron Marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses, are up to 500m thick and are separated from the underlying gneisses by a transition zone about 300 m thick termed the T-zone consisting of alternances of dolomitic and calcitic marbles intercalated by schists and gneisses.
The rocks have undergone several periods of regional metamorphism, to at least upper amphibolite facies, and there was a subsequent phase of retrograde metamorphism. At least three periods of regional deformation have been identified, the most important being large scale isoclinal folding with axes aligned north-west. The T-zone is deformed and is interpreted by some authors as a regional thrust of pre-major folding age. There are two major high angle fault systems aligned north-west and north-east respectively. A large low-angle thrust cuts the gneiss, schist and marble sequence at the south-west corner of the island, probably indicating an overthrusting of the Serbomacedonian Massif onto the Rodope Massif.
The Late Miocene oil-producing Nestos-Prinos basin is located between Thassos island and the mainland. The floor of the basin is around 1,500 m deep off the Thassos coast (South Kavala ridge; Proedrou, 1988) and up to 4.000–5.000 m in the axial sector between Thassos and the mainland. The basin is filled with Late Miocene-Pliocene sediments, including ubiquitously repeated evaporite layers of rock salt and anhydrite-dolomite that alternate with sandstones, conglomerates, black shales, and uraniferous coal measures (Proedrou, 1979, 1988; Taupitz, 1985). Stratigraphically equivalent rocks on the mainland are clastic sediments with coal beds, marine to brackish fluvial units and travertines.
Mining history
The earliest mining on the island has been dated to around 13,000 BC, when paleolithic miners dug a shaft at the site of the modern-era Tzines iron mine for the extraction of limonitic ochre.[18] Mining for base and precious metals started around the 7th century BC with the Phoenicians, followed in the 4th century by the Greeks, then the Romans. These later mines were both open-cast and underground., mostly to exploit the island's numerous karst hosted calamine deposits for their lead and silver. Gold, copper and iron were also found; the Byzantines quarried marble on the island.
In the early 20th century, mining companies exploited the island's Zinc-lead rich calamine ores, with a yield of around 2 million tonnes, and a processing plant at Limenaria produced zinc oxide. Iron ore was mined on a significant scale from 1954 to 1964, with a yield of around 3 million tonnes. Since 1964, surveys have established the existence of a deep-level zinc-lead deposit, but the only mining activity on the island has been marble quarrying.
Economy
By far the most important economic activity is tourism. The main agricultural products on the island are honey, almonds, olives (famously Throuba olives) and olive oil, as well as wine, sheep, goat herding and fishing. Other industries are lumber and mining which includes lead, zinc and marble, especially in the Panagia area where one of the mountains near the Thracian Sea has a large marble quarry. The marble quarries in the south (in the area of Aliki), now abandoned, were mined during ancient times.
Communities
Towns and villages with over 100 inhabitants are:
Agios Georgios (149)
Astris (129)
Kallirachi (651)
Kinyra (104)
Limenaria (2,441)
Maries (182)
Ormos Prinou (122)
Panagia (820)
Potamia (1,216)
Potos (688)
Prinos (1,185)
Rachoni (365)
Skala Kallirachis (631)
Skala Marion (377)
Skala Rachoniou (206)
Sotiras (368)
Thassos (Limenas Thasou) (3,130)
Theologos (731)
Historical population[edit]
YearTownMunicipality
19812,312–
19912,600–
20013,14013,765
20113,24013,770
Beaches
Skala Prinos,with lots of pines, lying at a several kilometres length. This wonderful beach is ideal for swimming, clean and sandy. In 2004 it became a Blue Flag beach.
Pachis, with clear water and a lot of visitors
Rachoni, long beach with a forest
Glyadi, with golden sand and shallow sea
Skala Potamia and Golden Beach, one of the most clean beaches on the island. Also has a camping site, lots of restaurants, bars, and nightclubs.
Giola is a natural swimming pool with crystal clear turquoise waters! Giola is located in the village of Astris, a few kilometers from Limenaria and Potos, on the south side of the island.[19]
Saliara, with white sand (also known as Marble beach).[20]
Paradise, Paradise Beach is approximately 23 km from Thassos town via the coastal road that circles the Island. Although not signposted itself there is a signpost for the “Paradise Bar on the Beach” which is visible from the anticlockwise direction (keep an eye in the rear view mirror if travelling clockwise). There is space for a few cars by the main road (5-10mins walk).[21]
Metalia Beach Thassos: Metalia beach is situated on the foot of a villa at Limenaria. It is a fine sandy beach ideal for children and lies 39 km south west of Limenas, the capital of Thassos.[22]
Glykadi Beach Thassos: Just 4.5 km north-west of Port Thassos beach is Glikadi. Overlooking Thasopoula, this sandy beach of 150 meters with the blue waters offers relaxation in a lush natural environment. It is organized into umbrellas and sunbeds from a beach bar but no other infrastructure.[23]
Sights
Polygnotos Vagis Municipal Museum in Potamia
Archaeological Museum of Thasos in Thasos town
Polygnotos Vagis Municipal Museum in Potamia
Folklore Museum of Limenaria
Archangel Michael's Monastery
Saint Panteleimon Monastery:it was built in 1843 and became monastery in 1987. According to inhabitants of Thassos, someone wanted to built it in favor of Saint Panteleimon. The workers started the building at a location, but next day when they wanted to continue with the construction, the part they had built was destroyed and their tools were missing. It had happened on following days. One day they saw footprints on the ground and followed them until they founded their tools. Finally they built the monastery at that spot.
Monastery of the Assumption
Kastro: its foundation year is unknown. This village must have been created during the years of Frankish domination.
Krambousa Isle: it can be found across the coast of Skala Potamia. The thick vegetation make it impossible to explore all parts of it. It is full with spacial wild vegetable called "Krambi". The little church of Saint Daniel is located at the top of the hill. The inhabitants visit this church on the day of the Saint every year.
Notable people
Archilochos (7th century BC) warrior and poet. "You led us a thousand strong at Thasos, fields fattened by corpses."
Aglaophon (6th–5th century BC) painter, teacher and father of Polygnotus and Aristophon.[24]
Hegemon of Thasos comedian, inventor of parody
Leodamas (4th century BC) mathematician
Neseus of Thasos, painter
Polygnotos Vagis (1892–1965) Thasos-born US sculptor
Polygnotus (mid-5th century BC), painter
Stesimbrotos (c. 470 BC - c. 420 BC) sophist
Theagenes of Thasos Olympic boxer (480 BC), Pankratiast (476 BC) and runner.[25]
Vassilis Vassilikos (1934) poet and author
Demetrios Vassiliades (1958) Indologist scholar and author
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Detailed digital painting. Medium shot. A grotesque, anthropomorphic beetle judge wearing spectacles and a powdered wig, banging his gavel in a bizarre courtroom filled with melting clocks and chattering shadows. Inspired by Bosch and Bogomil. Intricate details, vibrant colors, psychedelic, melting, dripping, chaotic, a masterpiece, 8k resolution, trending on Artstation.
Vessel of Mother and Child:
Paccha, a ritual implement for pouring chicha on the earth. The analysis of residue has confirmed the presence of corn inside an Inka-style vessel similar to this one.
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For the time being, the Incas will use this artifact to water *chicha la tierra, thus offering it to Pachamama and ensuring abundance of water.
*Chicha is a fermented (alcoholic) or non-fermented beverage of Latin America, emerging from the Andes and Amazonia regions. In both the pre- and post-Spanish conquest periods, corn beer (chicha de jora) made from a variety of maize landraces has been the most common form of chicha. However, chicha is also made from a variety of other cultigens and wild plants, including, among others, quinoa (Chenopodium quinia), kañiwa (Chenopodium pallidicaule), peanut, manioc (also called yuca or cassava), palm fruit, potato, oca (Oxalis tuberosa), and chañar (Geoffroea decorticans). There are many regional variations of chicha. In the Inca Empire, chicha had ceremonial and ritual uses.
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The Carchi Pasto culture was located in northern Ecuador in the province of Carchi, in the inter-Andean region between the Mira and Chota rivers. It extended as far as the Nariño Department of Colombia. Most of the population settled in the territories of Ipiales, Túquerres (Colombia) and Carchi (Ecuador).
It was characterized as being a peaceful, sedentary trading culture. The Carchi Pasto traded Spondylus mollusc shells, coca leaves, salt and jade with other coastal and Amazonian peoples. They were expert hunters of deer, which had a strong symbolic value.
This culture is renowned for its pottery and metallurgy. Many of their pieces feature “coqueros” – human figures in a sitting position with a bulge in their cheeks representing the rite of chewing coca leaves—along with interpretations of sacred animals such as jaguars and monkeys. They specialized in the negative painting technique to decorate their pottery, which was a dark red color. They also made use of positive-space painting, modelling, stone carving and gold-copper alloys. They also used Spondylus shells as beads and collars, which they obtained through trade with other regions.
Here we go again. After the infamous Benkiman, who is an anthropomorphic urinal with poo on his head,* we now have a second, more elderly Benkiman who is an anthropomorphic urinal with a spigot on his head.
A very small improvement, to be sure.
This Benkiman is also capable of rolling his opponents up into little spheres and flushing them... er... down himself.
"I want a match with Benkiman!" Said no one. Ever.
💪M💪U💪S💪C💪L💪E💪
A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
M.U.S.C.L.E. # 169, "Benkiman B"
Painted by CM, thus losing all collectible value forever.
* Benkiman, as seen in BP 2019 Day 148:
www.flickr.com/photos/paprihaven/47951805658/
Seeing is believing:
#DoodlewashOctober2025 prompt: Grouch.
#Inktober prompt: Ragged.
October 15 is National Grouch Day!
Did you know, both the word ‘grouch’ and ‘ragged (in the context of scolding)’ are believed to have come from college slang of the 1800’s, though grouch came from the U.S. and ragged came from Britain?
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Monasterboice monastery, County Louth - National Monument of Ireland
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_Louth
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mit ebenmäßiger* Abstufung ...
oder amöbenförmige Gestaltung, da die Zylinder nahtlos ineinanderfließen, dadurch Innen- wie Außenradien wechseln ... Amöben sind Wechseltierchen die ihre Zellmembran, je nach Bedarf, nach innen und außen stülpen können. Das Muster ist zurückweichend in jeder Etage neu, in der Zurücktreppung gestaltet, was zu einem schönen Licht und Schattenspiel führen kann, durch das Weiß, den Himmel, das Himmelsblau spiegelnd ...
* pro Ebene ... ;-
Bildbeschreibungen waren meine Lieblingsklassenarbeiten in der Schule - es fasziniert mich Architektur in Bild und Wort zu gestalten, wie mit Hammer und Schlegel eine Wortskulptur zu erschaffen, oder mit sanften Händen eine Ton-Form zu erzeugen (Ambiguität) die hörbar ist ... lasst euch auf das Wechselspiel ein und überlegt, unabhängig von dem Gebäude, was ihr euch nach der Beschreibung vorstellen würdet ... ;-) ...
Cylindrical design in white with stepping per level ...
or amoeba-shaped design, as the cylinders flow seamlessly into each other, thus changing inner and outer radii ... Amoebae are alternating animals that can turn their cell membrane inside and outside, as needed. The pattern is receding in each floor new, designed in the back-stepping, which can lead to a beautiful play of light and shadow ...
* pro Ebene ... ;-)
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From the Minoan peak sanctuary at Agios Georgios sto Vouno (St. George on the Mountain), Kythera (MM III - LM I).
ιερό κορυφή, Άγιος Γεώργιος στο Βουνό, Κύθηρα
Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Greece.
"Do you know praying mantis?"
"You're looking at him!"
Won fourth place in BZP's BBC Contest 64, the goal of which was to build an anthropomorphic creature.
I actually had to rush horrendously to finish and photograph this MOC today, as it's the only day I had available to do so. Fun! However, it came together pretty well in the end, I'd say.
The head is a modified version of a nifty little design by BioRays, so many thanks to him for that.
From the Minoan peak sanctuary at Agios Georgios sto Vouno (St. George on the Mountain), Kythera (MM III - LM I).
ιερό κορυφή, Άγιος Γεώργιος στο Βουνό, Κύθηρα
Archaeological Museum of Piraeus, Greece.
Message on the back of this postcard: "Wish you a Merry Halloween from Isabelle."
Addressed to: Howard Knicley, Brookville, Pa., R.F.D. No. 2.
Postmarked: Punxsutawney, Pa., Oct. 27, 1909.
Printed on the back: "Raphael Tuck & Sons' 'Hallowe'en' Post Cards, Series No. 160."
In the scene on the front of this Raphael Tuck & Sons postcard, anthropomorphic apples jump into a wooden wash tub filled with water to initiate bobbing for apples on Halloween.
Originally posted on Ipernity: Apples for Bobbing.
Chorrera
(900 – 300 a.C.)
Chorrera is the most widespread culture in Ecuador. It represents the antecedent of later culture that flourished during the Period of Regional Development.
It was a markedly hierarchical society with specific specialization’s as evidenced by the extraordinary technical and artistical quality of Chorrera pottery. Fruits, animals and human beings were represented with numberless details, which makes this ceramic tradition unique in the native archaeology of Ecuador.
The most interesting piece is the whistle-bottle that reproduces the sounds of different animals when water is poured into it and the air contained in the bottle moves through a resonant box. Not less extraordinary is the decorative technique of iridescence whose quality has not been surpassed by any other native culture in Ecuador.
You Like Me, You Really Like Me Agate - heh
A second anthropomorphic smile I've seen in an agate slice, Tucson Rock and Gem Show 2013. I just can't help smiling back at this delightful specimen. Captured with my iPhone 4S on the bottom shelf in low light. Here is the first "smile" agate I found several years ago at the same show: www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/3280176707/