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Former Cheese Factory,One of several around that area the closest being at Glutton Bridge on the Derbyshire side of the River Dove,Owned by Express Dairies they were closed and sold on in the 1960s,This one is now a small garage and home to Fox Country Furniture.
In recent Flickr posts I have speculated that some of the unrefined behaviours of the Little Owl may be due to their gene pool having been influenced by a process of domestication, concluding that, were this to be the case, there should be cultural artefacts reflecting an intimate proximity with man from over both time and geography.
Here, it can be argued that Little Owl behaviours that do not seem to favour survival become 'logical' when viewed as having been selected for an environment guided by the behaviours, rewards and needs of man: domestication.
Nature asks for a clean nest for chicks: man asks for a constant cadence of attack towards any rodents, small birds or even large insects near grain stores or food production. Regarding pest control, this is a requirement outside of issues like hunger and need.
Nature usually asks for a wary degree of nervosity: man asks for an ability to stay calm inside his 'adapted' environment.
Nature asks for an element of territory: man asks that domesticated animals cohabit in higher numbers in merged or compressed territories.
Nature asks that Owls, with their large eyes, adapt to night hunting - a time zone where rodents are openly relaxed; man asks for 24hr/7 vigilance.
The selection of traits out from a species gene pool was applied to dogs, cats, sheep, cows and maybe ... the Little Owl?
It can be argued that the traits of pest control, night vision and access to a 360° 'neck rotation' vista-of-vigilance are all assets adapted for man's prehistoric needs - certainly from the neolithic ages of deforestation when nests and chicks would appear from the bounce and crack of fallen trees, and maybe, at times, from earlier ages.
Having 'friendly' and reliable animals around habitation can also be pleasant, and the pleasure of young animals, 'pets' and even wide eyed 'Furbies' evokes very real emotions that must have deep roots for humans. Having large beady eyes and a 'squark' may also have been reassuring for new sedentary crofting settlements near to (previously stigmatized?) rugged zones that might hide 'shock animals', myths or bandits.
Today we associate the farm cat with pest control and the dog with guarding 'property' - during some, or many of the ages of prehistory, these roles may have been afforded to the owl - with or without the help of the domesticated cat or dog. The smallest and least glutton species of owl is perhaps the Little Owl – and the 'low calory' specification of this pigeon-sized bird may have made it best-fitted to man's needs. Here, all owls may have been subjected to occasional 'falconry-esque' training, with the Little Owl simply being more generalised and 'long-term' than other species of owl: simply a typical co-voyager with man, to the point of general pan geographical training and ultimately domestication?
Today we may from time to time see trained birds of prey and be amazed at how well they can adapt their behaviours to man's regimes of will. This hypothesis for the Little Owl is not that of training birds of prey, an action that does not necessarily procure changes in the species gene pool. Man's contact with the Little Owl may have started with adopted chicks, followed by 'bird of prey training' (applied Falconry) followed by selection between generations according to traits and thus the drive to domestication. Perhaps a similar process is occurring today with the pheasant, as generations of breeders and chicks pass again and again through the hunter's and breeder's cages?
In a past post (see below) I illustrated the degree to which abstraction can drawn into an animal's real form via schematic simplification. I illustrate this with examples of late neolithic and early bronze age abstractions for cows and bulls and then propose a first schematic for an owl - an anthomorphic owl. In keeping with this initial post, some of the images in the selection above may be deemed to be anthomorphic owl images, others pure owl images and others 'escaped schematic'.
Seeing an anthomorphic animal does not automatically trigger the word 'shamen' - 'shamen' being perhaps today's most fashionable word in prehisitory, but fashion can be fickle, over-sized, ill-fitting and gratuitous... Most of the statue menhirs around the Pic Saint Loup might be said to have owl-like eyes, and it may seem odd that they are all honouring a single projected role.
A people who see themselves as having the qualities of observation and patience witnessed in an owl may want to align their identity with that animal, in the same way that a people with a bull's 'force and perseverance' and a cow's 'milk of food and nurture' might want to associate with the bull or cow; and a people with an agility of mind, flexibility and omnipotent mobility may want to associate with a goat; the resounding beauty of birds of paradise and so on... Today, sports-clubs can associate with qualities of animals. Another avenue into an anthro-owl schematic that bypasses a direct shamanic interpretation is that of the cultural story with a link between ancestors and owls. Both of these topics - of a population's 'living' flesh and blood owl-like qualities and 'collective consciousness', and, an owl-like 'manifestation' of a people's dead also have the potential to coexist. Here a shaman may align to the horse, or 'abstract progenitor being' ... with the general population aligning with the owl, or many other cultural and spiritual appreciations that are simply not available to us today and must remain mysteries.
Of the artforms featured in the above montage, some may be judged by readers to not be influenced by owls; others from the examples may have had owl origins and experienced phase-changes over time. Likewise, the individual 'owl figures' may have been greatly different symbols, as each of the figures are taken from a wide geography and chronology. With many, many thousands of miles between some of the examples, and whole ages of time, differences of meaning are to be expected: remembering that here, with this montage, we are simply looking through squinted and imperfect minds-eyes to see if we might just be able to see evidence of owls and man in the sort of relationship that might correlate with an environment of proximity necessary for domestication – nothing more (and no need for scales).
The montage features copyright free images of an early domesticated cat (Felis silvestris lybica), an example of a public domain mouse, (here greedy to eat sweet-smelling food stores of next seasons seeds and this year's winter food storage), and then the same Little Owl (Athene noctua) modified for a past post. Thanks to all photographers. The question is, who guarded the grain from the mouse after the neolithic revolution? – a headstrong cat, or a hunter bird that can sit between a limited number of adjacent perches, above a target and have the aptitude to just wait?
We know that anti-vermin trenches were built in Tell Brak, Syria (5500 ybp) and that they were sprinkled with an early 'rat poison'; we know that secure grain pits were built and sealed; that the neolithic brought in new ceramic pot technologies - pots fired and sealed and even hung above the ground on cordes ... but we also know that grain spills when making bread, and that cracks form and inquisitive pesty minds find ways through; we also know that mice and rats can establish warrens and tunnels that were avoided when man was on the move – so, as the whole of the neolithic year rested on the management of production, it must be recognised that additional omnipotent protector eyes would certainly help to keep the environment in order during both the day and night. Were these eyes cats, owls, both or none?
The aim here is simply to show potential icons of owls abstracted by man with a credible distance and time to sustain an argument for domestication, and here we have 5000 years and 4000km. Some schematics may be deemed too spurious and others may be added, for example neolithic Algerian owls (alas I was unable to find public domain images).
Left: A stele found in the ancient city state of Mari in eastern Syria (4,900 ybp and 3,759 ybp). This stele is thought to be from the beginning of the third millennium BC. The site has suffered in recent years from theft and artefact death. The idea that the large round owl eyes can see both at night and in the day, and that this quality inducted to also represent the sun and the moon may be mused. Here is an article on the subject. I doubt its interpretation of the triangle and it seems to be a way to suggest plumage and even a darker triangle on the bird.
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/9a1e/546b387a539198da8526c9e208c...
Second left: Portugal slate owl. From between 5,500-4,750 ybp. As far as I understand this example is from Valencina de la Concepción and is on show at the Museo Arqueológico de Sevilla [MAS] in Spain. Details of this and other plaques appear in this article:
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone...
Centre left: Guadalquivir Valley alabaster idol from the Chalcolithic 3rd millennium BC
www.man.es/man/en/coleccion/catalogo-cronologico/prehisto...
Centre right: A protocorinthian aryballos in the form of an owl from around 2660 ybp, so a small Peloponnese Greek pot for holding perfumed oil.
www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/corinthian-aryballos-shap...
Near right: From the Perdigões site in the Evora region of Portugal with a museum in Reguengos de Monsaraz. The image is the head of a long and fascinating anthomorphic figure with owl-like features to the face.
Right: Athena Owl. Greek bowl or skyphos (deep drinking cup), from the Aléria Museum, 2700 ybp in Corsica. Taken from a Flickr post with permission and thanks to Andy Hammond.
www.ngv.vic.gov.au/essay/the-owls-of-athena-some-comments...
Lower left bowl: Los Millares bowl - 3200–2300 BC from a very important late neolithic village in Almeria in southern Spain. A Wiki commons image.
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Lower centre: Eye idol from the early city state of Tell Brak in Syria 5600 ybp (a few examples of these idols are also found outside the confines of the city, but when marriage and 'souvenir collection' is factored-out, the loci of Tell Brak and an adjacent town seems to resume its zone of influence. On saying that, both the eye idols and the spectacle idols were of extreme importance to this early city, its people, and temple. Do we see the element of attentiveness and watching with a hint of owl and a hint of landscape and astres?
Low right: spectacle idol, again Tell Brak so late Uruk period 5300-5000ybp Syria. These artefacts are from a unique site that will be looked at in more detail in a future post and there is obviously more to them than schematic description alone. These last two images are from my archive.
Was the owl a bird fleetingly glimpsed by hunters in trees and on branches, or was it an integral part of village life and culture helping to make early crofting conglomerates become functional ideas that could seed through populations? Do these images support the idea that to get to such a broad level of abstraction and integration within the culture of man, the owl, or even more specifically the Little Owl may have been following mankind from within his most intimate lifestyles rather than simply flying around outside? Certainly at some point the domestic cat took over the role of pest control, but was there a before? And if the Owl lived within and between man, it is hard to imagine that spooky, morbid or cryptic meanings would be attached to his schematics and abstractions, as the animal would more likely be a trusted and loved feature for all generations - perhaps a sublimation of ideas such as 'big man', 'wisdom', common sense, attentiveness and loyalty. Here, the dynamic "Athens" of "Athene noctua" was perhaps a first age after prehistory, and simply a city still been in contact with a deeper synchronicity, as the Little Owl lived its integrated urban life as a sacred and protected animal through the city streets symbolising a personification of wisdom: a last cry from a distance of age rather than a first symbol of civilisation.
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I thought I had better stress that this was a completely wild Wolverine because it looks like it was taken in a zoo. That's because it came incredibly close to the hide where we were sitting. Wolverines are rare and elusive mammals with massive home ranges so are very difficult to observe in the wild. This hide was placed not far from a regular den, and the animals are persuaded to appear near the hides by tempting them with meat. They are the largest terrestrial mustelid; members of the weasel family.
Proverbs 23:21
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty ... (KJV)
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I arrived here in Seoul in the rain and it rained still in the morning, and in the afternoon, and in the evening. Regardless I went out, of course. On my way to the dripping forests of Namsan Hill, I was walking along this street on to which open out countless alleyways with myriad often miniscule eateries from whence drift both known and unknown cooking aromas and vapors. Everyone always seems to be eating... Then suddenly Dante Alighieri, the greatest Medieval Poet, was thrust upon me, and the third circle of the Inferno of his Commedia. That's where the lovers of too much food, the gluttons, writhe in eternal, cursed, cold rain:
Io sono al terzo cerchio, de la piova /
etterna, maladetta, fredda e greve; /
regola e qualità mai non l'è nova.
(I am the third circle of eternal, cursed, cold and heavy rain; measure and quality are not 'innovation' [as we today might say...]).
There across the street hangs a picture of great sculptor Auguste Rodin's 'The Thinker' (his plaster version). Rodin had taken his inspiration for this 'thinking' man from his admiration for Dante Alighieri and the latter's vision of the human condition. Now rain and cold, then purification and finally Paradise, and at the end the love that moves the sun and the other stars.
There's a great retrospective exhibition here in the Seoul Museum of Art of a vast number of Rodin's (and his lover Camille Claudel's [1864-1943]) works. Hence many references in the streets and 'cultural' places of this most hospitable and friendly city to that French sculptor.
Guan Kee Kopitiam is a local coffee shop selling dim sum along Jalan Haji Abu, the street also name as Glutton Street or Muar Avenue 4.
This dim sum shop established ard 1950 in Muar, along the street u can found all famous local delight street foods. In front have 2 foods cart selling roasted duck/ chicken rice and cha siu bao.
This Creation was base on early 1940 pre-war building design, which have typical Asian wooden window, Europe influenced cornice and carving pillar at front facade.
Due to maintaining the shop owner had been renovated the shop house front facade into more modern types of design.
I enjoy having these beautiful birds visit the Apple Tree...a few years ago it didn't bear any fruit and they were so disappointed. They are starting to return in smaller flocks and didn't stay long so this is one of the few captures I have. Maybe next year!!!! Cedar Waxwings have been know to be such gluttons that they tumble to the ground from overeating!!! They sometimes stand in rows, passing a piece of fruit on down the line until one finally eats it!!!
Best on black... Chippy thoroughly enjoyed scarfing down and stowing away the peanuts I put out in an antique cup today. What a little glutton:)
I timed this seemingly inexhaustible pair of wrens for an hour. During that hour, on average, each parent delivered a bug approximately every 45 seconds.
If they stayed at that rate over a twelve-hour period, they will have fed their brood 1,920 bugs.
There are five chicks in the nest box. Assuming the parents don't play favorites, and every chick gets an equal number of bugs, these gluttons eat 384 bugs EACH in a twelve-hour day!
Here's the story… Miguel (Amigo) and I are gluttons for punishment.
We had been talking a while about going to this old abandoned Nike Missile Site under a full moon and do some light painting. Next Tuesday evening was looking promising weather wise according to the forecasts, but then Miguel took a look at his moon chart and realized it would not be rising till after midnight that evening. I looked outside, and saw it was only partly cloudy in my town, so I wrote him half joking "maybe we should try for it tonight"...
and so the adventure began….
While driving to our previously agreed to meetup area above Battery Spencer, I traveled through torrential rains and high winds. Miguel saw on his doppler that the skies were dry around the coast, so onward I continued.
When we met, the air was crisp and clear, and the rain had stopped and the clouds were quite broken up, showing stars and sky and most importantly, a nearly full moon. We had just seen a huge lightning flash, and were excited. We started our hour long hiking journey up the hills behind Fort Cronkite, and only got lost momentarily once along the way… a friendly coyote checked us out too.
When we finally reached the old fort, we found a newly made gate surrounding the place, and were sure we were locked out, but were very happy once we found it to be unlocked. There were some pretty big openings in the clouds when we first set up and began shooting, but they filled up quickly… as if on cue…
This was the first image I shot.
After a couple of hours, we decided to head back. The dark brooding clouds over the Pacific actually were what inspired us. By now it was nearly 3am and Mother Nature was telling us it was time to head home. Just before we packed up, two skunks decided to see what we were up to. Miguel nearly jumped out of his socks. They were pretty fearless, and didn't seem at all scared about approaching us.
That was our final clue, to leave….
But we didn't leave soon enough. About 1/4 of the way back we were met with torrential rains and gail force winds. I put my camera inside my jacket for protection, and we proceeded along the cold wet trail back to our cars in misery.
Now I'm home and warm and it's all a good memory. Many more images to come. It was a good night, with just enough moonlight to keep things nicely illuminated.
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update: no way in hell i'm finishing that chicken. looks like there will be some left over for dinner! two tiers of this box is a little too much for me.
Gluttony (Latin, gula) is the overindulgence and overconsumption of anything to the point of waste. The word derives from the Latin gluttire, meaning to gulp down or swallow
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No Leo that is not Glutton. It is stupidity and from a behavorial point of view... all the US is doing is rewarding a bunch of thugs and criminals on "both" sides. You've been fighting each others for years oh I get it.. let's spend some more money on people who live 3,000 miles away and still live in 3000 B.C.
So example, if me and Julio started fighting in the school yard, then great.... me and Julio should at least get $10 million each.
Well President Biden, I hope you are the President who put an end to the 60 year old ME Crisis. Looks like you got rid of Assad... but well ya know, I hope it was worth it.
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PERSONAL FUN FACT written by my sister: I am greedy. I am a dolly food glutton. Instead of being thankful for the dolly drinks Shelly found on Amazon Vine, I cruised the Vine items to see if I could fine MORE doll food. Because the three craft boxes, large organizer with six drawers, and separate drawer for big things like trays just isn't enough. (And that's not counting the Bratz, Moxie, and Monster High food, stored separately.) I saw this listed and told Shelly about it and, at first, she thought the scale looked off and that the tea set looked like it constituted a large portion of the lot and that it looked cheap. However, she zoomed in and saw that the tea set actually looked really pretty, the sort of thing we'd love to play with. Yes, it also included many dessert items which are similar to ones we already have and some, like the things that look like waffles but are in odd colors, aren't that versatile. But I could see it had some very versatile items like the jam jars and the eggs on bread. I thought, when looking at the images, that what turned out to be individual EGGS were some sort of dinner roll. We were totally wowed by the fact that we got two perfect, little doll-sized eggs. We were also really blown away by this tea set! It is BEAUTIFUL quality--it feels almost ceramic (coated in resin I think) and has such beautiful details. It is a work of art! And it has a lot of pieces. The silverware almost feels like real metal and has really beautiful detailing. I'm going to get so much use out of it! The coffee cups are really nice too and I love how it looks like they have coffee in them! The four cutting boards are made of a very thin wood! The two trays are really nice too. The pastries are similar to others we have, but I love the white frosted donut because it looks so real. The ones shaped like strawberries are different from anything else we have. And I love the big pastries that look sort of like big Swiss Cake Rolls. (I would eat them if they were real.) The oddly green pastry thing and the chocolate marble looking thing are a textural surprise--they feel like sponges! The blue tray with the yellow ribbon is a charming serving dish. I'm not sure why a lone cheeseburger was included. It seems a little out of place. Not that I'm complaining--our dolls love cheeseburgers!
The Suntron Glutton was designed during the first great clash with the Zorg. The 'cage' is filled with highly volatile, overly sunny material. When in range of enemy Zorg, the cage is set to detonate and released. Piloting a Glutton is dangerous business, clearing the blast radius in time is not always possible.
Given the volatile nature of the overly sunny material, Gluttons have no weapons besides the payload.
This, of course, is dedicated to Crimso Giger. Both Suntron and Zorg are his babies and he rocks.
Jack the chipmunk is demonstrating what a little glutton he is. You can clearly see the outline of a peanut in the shell stuffed in his cheek and possibly anoither peanut, and yet he's holding another one, getting reasdy to stuff that one, too.
Gannets are seabirds comprising the genus Morus, in the family Sulidae, closely related to boobies.
The gannets are large black and white birds with yellow heads; long, pointed wings; and long bills. Northern gannets are the largest seabirds in the North Atlantic, with a wingspan of up to 2 metres. The other two species occur in the temperate seas around southern Africa, southern Australia and New Zealand.
Gannets hunt fish by diving from a height into the sea and pursuing their prey underwater. Gannets have a number of adaptations which enable them to do this:
- they have no external nostrils, they are located inside the mouth instead;
- they have air sacs in their face and chest under their skin which act like bubble wrapping, cushioning the impact with the water;
- their eyes are positioned far enough forward on their face to give them binocular vision, allowing them to judge distances accurately.
Gannets can dive from a height of 30 metres, achieving speeds of 100 km/h as they strike the water, enabling them to catch fish much deeper than most airborne birds.
The gannet's supposed capacity for eating large quantities of fish has led to "gannet" becoming a disapproving description of somebody who eats excessively, similar to "glutton".
Gannets are colonial breeders on islands and coasts, normally laying one chalky, blue egg. It takes five years for gannets to reach maturity. First-year birds are completely black, and subsequent sub-adult plumages show increasing amounts of white.
The most important nesting ground for Northern gannets is the United Kingdom with about two thirds of the world's population. These live mainly in Scotland, including the Shetland Isles. The rest of the world's population is divided between Canada, Ireland, Faroe Islands and Iceland, with small numbers in France (they are often seen in the Bay of Biscay), the Channel Islands, Norway and a single colony in Germany on Heligoland. The biggest Northern gannet colony is in the Scottish islands of St Kilda; this colony alone comprises 20% of the entire world's population.
Captured at Bempton Cliffs at the East Coast, UK.
This build was a pain to complete! I tried to recreate Guzzlord's many wacky design details as well as possible. It may not be 100% accurate in proportions, but I think I was able to capture this Ultrabeast's essence pretty well. His whole mouth cavity glows in the dark, which is pretty cool.
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For every peanut these jerks find, 5 lbs of bird seed ends up on the ground.. (the bird feeder is just outside the picture frame)
View from the summit of the B5053 - Buxton Road - linking Glutton Bridge and Longnor in Staffordshire.
(Gulo is Latin for "glutton").
Also referred to as glutton, carcajou, skunk bear, or quickhatch. It is the largest land-dwelling species of the family Mustelidae (weasels). It is a stocky and muscular carnivore, more closely resembling a small bear than other mustelids. The wolverine, a solitary animal, has a reputation for ferocity and strength out of proportion to its size, with the documented ability to kill prey many times larger than itself.
Here’s a picture I’m pretty sure my mom took, though it could have been my dad, as my mom generally composed pictures better than this. It’s on 6x9 film, and would have been taken in the late 1930s, right after they got married, and when they were living in Alameda. The kittens are Butch and Glutton. One was a good hunter; the other was completely inept in cat arts. So one would catch something and the other would promptly lose it. They lived next to some tidal flats. The competent cat liked to snag fish out of the pools. The other one was good for playing with string beans. One (Butch, I believe) got sick and died at about a year old; the other lived with my grandparents (the war having intervened with my parents) to around 20, shortly before I was born. I don’t know which was which; I should have been taking notes when my parents told me these things.
Film wasn't cheap, and my parents weren't rich, but the cats meant a lot to them, enough that my mom wanted to preserve this memory. Now the cats are gone, my parents are gone, this house surely is gone, the tide flats are gone—filled in during the 1960s—and the now-digitized photo remains as a memory of a memory.