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This scene depicts Jesus sitting on a magnificent celestial throne. His right hand is raised in a gesture of blessing, and in His left hand He holds an open book bearing the inscription: "Peace be with you. I am the Light of the World." On either side of Jesus, there are roundels. The one on the left portrays the Virgin Mary, and that on the right portrays the angel Gabriel. Jesus, potrayed here as the Pantocrator (King of the World), is dressed in white hiton and himation, and his features resemble Zeus, the king of gods.
The latest research revealed that the bearded emperor prostrate on Jesus' lower left represents Emperor Leon VI. Although the scene is uncharacteristic of Byzantine iconography, the emperor is depicted imploring Christ's forgiveness.
The subject of the scene is the three marriages of Leo VI, a situation contrary to the doctrine of the Orthodox church. Since the emperor was still without a male heir even after three marriages, he was allowed to marry his mistress Zoe, the mother of his illegitimate son, after a long dispute.
Thus, his son Porphyrogenitus became the legal heir to the throne. Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus is famous for his "Book of Ceremonies': which describes the religious ceremonies per- formed in Hagia Sophia. The mosaic is dated after the death of the emperor, around 920 AD.
Jewelry-making is my new obsession! Learning some new things with this. The leftmost hanging on the pendant is a wire-wrapped marble. And I'm still trying to get good at making those wire spirals.
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This photograph is from early light painting efforts. I swung Christmas lights around in every direction on my driveway to make an globe shape. This orb is meant to visualize a planetary or celestial body to remind people of the ever infinite universe around them. The purpose of this photo is to make the extreme unknown of our universe more tangible and perceptible.
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Sunset on Friday The 13th. The sky looked like it was on fire. One lonely birdie on top of the tree.
名稱 : Celestial Planisphere
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尺寸 : 97.5 x 66.8 cm / 2000 pcs
製造商 : Clementoni ( made in Italy )
切割型式 : grid type
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
~Hamlet, scene v
Old-timers will recall the hullabaloo over the reentry of SkyLab into the Earth's atmosphere in July, 1979. I think it was scheduled for reentry on July 9 (today), though it actually happened a couple of days later
My grandma was in her place near Guntur and joked with her friends that it would fall on them. She died the next day (on Guru Purnima, Monday 9th July 1979)
I can still see my Mom crying in a chair at the end of the hall, when we got back from play that evening
My grandma was some lady. She used to test for her blood-sugar levels with a very involved process. Heat a test-tube along with some solution, put the drops of blood in it, and do some sort of litmus test. Can't imagine doing any of that now; the mind balks at a 5-second test! Anyway, she was one tough cookie
Some years later, my Mom told me a very unusual thing. When my grandpa died sometime in the early 1960s, my grandma saw a celestial chariot waiting outside the house
My grandpa did a yajna in those days. There are quite a few who say that the general well-being of his descendants is due to his austerities. What can one say, except that i was named after him
I wouldn't have believed that celestial chariot bit if i hadn't read about it in other contexts
In the mid-1930s, the impending Second World War was announced to Edgar Cayce by a divine being in a celestial chariot
This year, i read a detailed account of one arriving to take away the soul of Balaram Basu, a very humble devotee of Sri Ramakrishna.
Swami Shivananda narrates: (How to Live with God, pages 78-79)
| At the last moment, we were seated around him, while his wife, stricken with unspeakable grief, was in the inner apartment with Golap-ma, Yogin-ma, and others. Just then she noticed something like a piece of black cloud in the sky, which became denser by stages and began to descend. Soon it assumed the shape of a chariot and alighted on the roof of Balaram Basu's house. The Master came out of that chariot and proceeded towards the room where Balaram Babu lay. Soon after, he issued forth, taking Balaram Babu by the hand, and entered the chariot again, which then ascended and vanished in the sky. This vision raised her mind to a very high plane where there could be no touch of grief or sorrow. When she returned to normal she related this to Golap-ma, who came to apprise us of the fact. Balaram Babu had passed away just a little while before
A very cool globe showing the consteallations and their figurative representations in the Vatican Museum.
A celestial globe by Giovanni Antonio Vanosino in1567, showing the main Ptolemaic constellations in convex representation
An early Italian copy of Jodocus Hondius' celestial globe from the early 1600s at Christie's Auction House. It ended up selling for well over $50,000. I daren't get closer than this.
This is the "Celestial" Princess Jasmine. She has glass eyes and pretty eyelashes! The stars in the box light up!
90 mins of stacked star trails showing the celestial equator & saturated to show the colours normally invisable to the naked eye. It was taken on a very dark night with no moon.
Sandwiched with the Shephard's Lookout photographed & lightpainted recently when the moon was a bit too bright for good trails.
Silver flakes in a linear holographic silver base. Three thin coats.
It's All Happening Collection
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Blog review: thepolishedhippy.blogspot.com/2015/07/celestial-cosmetics...
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