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Playa de las Tres Piedras, Chipiona (Cádiz - Andalucía)
Sony A900 + Tokina17mm + Cokin filter : X121S (GND8)
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This Hallow's Eve you DON'T want to miss the culprit of it all: Samhain. That's right, this year we have an amazing Pagan event undergoing with amazing creators and a gorgeous region - and i am SO honored to be a part of it with this new casting circle i made.
Book and photo included!
Check my picks for a TP to the main location so you can get this for yourself!
Modelo : Karla .( Comunidad de Canaima).
Pedí parar la lluvia, inclinó la cabeza con respeto y unió sus manos en señal de humildad…El gran silencio solo cesó al agitarse la achitó* para conectar con Wö Tüpü**…En breve dejó de llover y sonreimos…F.O.G.
*Brisa.
** Casa de los Espíritus.
I asked to stop the rain, he bowed his head with respect and joined his hands in a sign of humility...The great silence only ceased when the achitó* shook to connect with Wö Tüpü**..Shortly the rain stopped and we smiled...F.O.G.
*Breeze.
**House of Spirits.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys5xfdn5rlo
We are the stars which sing
We sing with our light
We are the birds of fire
We fly over the sky
Our light is a voice
We make a road for the spirit to pass over
For the spirit to pass over
[Algonquian Indian]
We are like the wind
Wrapped in lumious wings
We make a road for the spirit to pass over
For the spirit of pass over
Outò, ba mwen son ou,e
Outò, ba mwen son ou,e
Tanbouyè, o ba mwen son ou
Solèy lève
Outò, give me your sound
Outò, give me your sound
Drummer, give me your sound
The sun rises
[Vodun Invocation - Haiti]
"Die Anrufung" (The Invocation)
It's been a while since I've done anything with my Eden series so we're bringing that back with Die Anrufung! There's always similar elements involved with Eden and this lineup has me eager to share!
I must start my list off with Be My Mannequin? Pose Store! This pose is a popular, unisex singles pose called 'Come, Behold Me' which you can DEMO in the main store or find on Marketplace! I did adjust the head angle upwards for this shot.
Pariah is so awesome that I'm using two items by them: 'Marmoreal' (Lighter Body Tint) to make my skin pale and the new 'Celestial' (tinted teal). 'Celestial' comes in many variations and I love that you have the option to tint your own as well!
Nefekalum Tattoos is a go-to for my Eden character designs! This time I used the 'Ahriman Horns & Crown' which are absolutely wicked and were an excellent touch. I love the color variations that come with both!
Those pink aura effects you see flying around me is 'Spirit of Zara' by The Deadboy. and it comes in several color options!
Cerridwen's Cauldron is a MUST HAVE for anything involving my Eden series. And in this case I brought out my favorite of CC's creations: the 'Columnar Basalt (Crystal) Set' in white and blue which you can see in the background! Additionally I'm using their 'Gaia Underbrush' for all the lovely colorful grasses you see along the edge of the clearing.
Speaking of the clearing, it is Studio Skye's 'Enchanted Woods" (Summer) which I edited the colors to make it match the scenery!
Additional items I have on:
Noche: Auryn Sarong (white, loose) and Roman Accessories (silver)
Quills & Curiosities: Bestial Bands
Contraption: Teeth: The Sharps
Suicidal Unborn: Triple Ring Septum
The White Crow: Teras Nipple Piercing (silver)
The hawthorn is seen as a protection against evil spirits in folklore and is associated with fairies and May Day.
A Lamentation Prayer has five parts:
1. Invocation: Deborah
2. Complaint: Stephen
3. Trust: Tommy
4. Prayer for Deliverance: Luther
5. Promise of Praise: Luther
COVID-19 Lamentation
A Lamentation written by Deborah, Stephen, Tommy, and Luther (4.7.2020)
1 O Lord, You see our sadness. And You hear our cries for those we love.
Show us Your love and mercy.
2 Behold, Your people languish in confinement.
We are gripped in fear and loneliness.
We look out the window. How long O’ LORD?
3 We have trusted that You are the good Father,
You know Your sheep by name,
Know the number of their days,
See every tear they’ve shed,
And have not sat idly by,
But shone Your steadfast love.
4 Deliver us, O’ Lord.
Deliver us from this COVID-19 enemy.
Deliver us, O’ Lord from our fear and anxiety.
5 We praise You for keeping us,
We thank You for loving us.
COVID-19 Cases Reported as of April 8, 2020.
Worldwide Confirmed: 1,500,830
Recovered: 317,855
Deaths: 87,706
United States Confirmed: 428,901
Recovered: 23,229
Deaths: 14,600
What can I say.... it's raining outside and I'm a tad restless.
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This is a scene from Ipstones Edge (Blackheath NR to be precise). The image is full of possible interpretaitons I guess.
My own title. 'Invocation'. is not meant to suggest any kind of religious connotations (although there would nothing wrong with interpreting it that way) but of magical tales where nature is able to invoke forces of good and evil. Its a sense that you get just being in that special, remote and ancient site but here it's enhanced by a few post processing effects
Few days ago I went in our capital city Ljubljana and while driving there I saw that all the land was frozen. It looked quite surreal.
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Plaça Major - Manresa, Barcelona (Spain).
Dancing group "Cor de Catalunya" performing "Sàbat de Bruixes"
Grupo de danza "Cor de Catalunya" interpretando "Sàbat de Bruixes"
ENGLISH
The Sabbath or Sabbat is a supposed meeting of those who practice witchcraft, Satanism, or other rites.
European records tell of innumerable cases of persons being accused or tried for taking part in Sabbath gatherings, from the Middle Ages to the 17th century or later. However, there are no reliable reports on what actually happened during a Sabbath; and much of what was written about them may be the product of popular imagination or deliberate misinformation.
The Compendium Maleficarum (1608), by Francesco Maria Guazzo, aka Guaccio, Guaccius is a book published by an Italian priest with some illustrations of what he imagined could be a Sabbath, and gives a description of it; a brief summary can be cited as an example: "the attendants go riding flying goats, trample the cross, are made to be re-baptised in the name of the Devil, give their clothes to him, kiss the Devil's behind, and dance back to back forming a round".
The most common belief on which authors agreed is that Satan was present at the Sabbath, often as a goat or satyr, and many agreed that more demons were present. Another belief said that sometimes a person could offer his/her own body to be possessed by some demon serving as a medium. It was believed that the Sabbath commenced at midnight and ended at dawn, beginning with a procession, continuing with a banquet, then a Black Mass, and culminating with an orgy in which non-marital or sexual intercourse with demons in male or female form was practised. Consumption of hallucinogens and sometimes alcohol was often reported.
According to folklore, the Sabbath was most often celebrated in isolated places, preferably forests or mountains.
More info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath_(witchcraft)
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CASTELLANO
Un aquelarre (del euskera akelarre, "aker" = macho cabrío; "larre" = campo) es el lugar donde las brujas (sorgiñas en euskera) celebran sus reuniones y sus rituales. Aunque la palabra viene del euskera se ha asimilado en castellano y por extensión se refiere a cualquier reunión de brujas y brujos.
En estas celebraciones se solía venerar un macho cabrío negro al que se le ha asociado con el culto a Satán. Uno de los aquelarres más conocidos es el que se celebraba en la cueva de Zugarramurdi (Navarra) y de aquí es de donde le viene al ritual el nombre, del lugar donde se celebraba. Aquelarre es el nombre del campo que está delante de la mencionada cueva.
Más info: es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquelarre
This image, created with the help of artificial intelligence, arises from the ability to shape visions simply by describing what you desire. A woman wrapped in white veils, suspended on the surface of a deep blue sea, stands against the sun illuminating a sky filled with shades of blue, white, and black. Her hands reach upward, in a gesture of invocation or acceptance of an unseen energy. A visual experience that blends technology and art, exploring new expressive forms to convey emotions and atmospheres with simplicity and power.
View of one of the windows near the apse of the hermitage of San Juan in Riaza, Segovia, Spain.
As the hermitage follows the original orientation of the pre-Christian temples, placing the apse towards the East, this window is oriented towards the South.
In it you can see a cross on the triangular symbol of Mount Calvary and the representation of the Moon and the Sun, which has been inherited from the times when the Visigoths were in the Iberian Peninsula, currently Spain and Portugal. (Between the years 507 and 711).
Curiously, in German the Moon is masculine (der Mond) and the Sun feminine (die Sonne).
Also on the window lintel is written the "YEAR OF 1783", the year in which it is believed that a restoration of the hermitage was carried out. Year that many citizens of the United States of America remember with special affection.
Located to the north of the town, this hermitage is dedicated to the invocation of San Juan Bautista and has a small meadow with some trees.
In the meadow there is a stone cross, which is dated 1553.
Inside this hermitage there are several images, among them a beautiful carving of Santiago the Apostle, and others of San Roque, San Juan Bautista and San Juan Evangelista.
There are also some processional scenes that are exhibited in the Holy Thursday processions during Holy Week in Riaza, such as the Virgen de las Angustias image and the Prendimiento scene. (Source: Riaza City Council website).
UNA VENTANA SIMBOLICA, RIAZA, ESPAÑA, 2024
Vista de una de las ventanas cercanas al ábside de la ermita de San Juan en Riaza, Segovia, España.
Como la ermita sigue la orientación original de los templos precristianos situando el ábside hacia el Este, esta ventana está orientada hacia el Sur.
En ella se puede ver una cruz sobre el símbolo triangular del monte Calvario y la representación de la Luna y el Sol, que se ha heredado de los tiempos en los que los visigodos estuvieron en la Península Ibérica, actualmente España y Portugal. (Entre los años 507 y 711).
Curiosamente en idioma alemán la Luna es masculino (der Mond) y el Sol femenino (die Sonne).
También en el dintel de la ventana aparece escrito el "AÑO DE 1783", año en el que se cree que se hizo una restauración de la ermita. Año que muchos ciudadanos de Estados Unidos de América recuerdan con especial cariño.
Situada al norte del pueblo, esta ermita está dedicada a la advocación de San Juan Bautista y dispone por una praderita con algunos árboles.
En la praderita hay cruz de piedra, que está datada en 1553.
Dentro de esta ermita hay varias imágenes, entre ellas una bella talla de Santiago Apóstol, y otras de San Roque, San Juan Bautista y San Juan Evangelista.
También hay algunos pasos procesionales que se exhiben en las procesiones del Jueves Santo en la Semana Santa de Riaza, como son el paso de la Virgen de las Angustias y el paso del Prendimiento. (Fuente: Web del Ayuntamiento de Riaza).
Le petit garçon comprend que tout repose à présent sur lui. Il tremble mais il sait qu’il n’a pas le choix. Il se doute qu’il est arrivé malheur à leur mère et décide de jeter un sort à Oswald pour l’expulser hors de la vallée heureuse tout en refermant le portail. Il se concentre, tandis que le sorcier fouille sous les feuillages à sa recherche et parvient à trouver la formule qui d’un coup, projette le sorcier dans les airs et l’envoie assez brutalement hors du territoire de la vallée. Puis il prononce la fermeture du portail, au moment où Oswald se relève et tente de répliquer. Mais les plantes se saisissent de la baguette du sorcier et le frappent, provoquant sa colère.
- Petits misérables, vous croyez que vous pourrez m’échapper, mais vous vous trompez…
Il fouille à nouveau dans son manteau et sort la dernière fiole. Puis une fois débouchée, il la lance de toutes ses forces au centre du portail quasi refermé.
Angelo qui était en train de lancer un sort de protection pour lui et Jakob est touché.
Mais le petit garçon, avant de se figer a eu le temps d’invoquer les forces de la campanule bleue :
« Etoile bleue protectrice, protège-nous, moi et ma famille et donne à Jakob une forme que jamais Oswald ne reconnaîtra. Garde-lui ses pouvoirs, la mémoire de qui il est et permets-lui de survivre dans le vaste monde, jusqu’à ce qu’il puisse nous retrouver. »
Au moment où Angelo a prononcé ces paroles, Jakob se sent grandir, grandir, perdre ses ailes et ressembler de plus en plus à un humain...
Lara Cheng is a talented UX Researcher and dancer. Lara trained at the San Francisco Ballet School where she performed in The Nutcracker, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle and the annual Student Showcase. She has also studied ballet at the Academy of Ballet in San Francisco, UC San Diego and Western Ballet, and taught at Western Ballet and Google. Lara likes to fly over San Francisco's Bernal Heights on weekends.