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Rouen (Seine-Maritime) - Cathédrale de lumière 2015.
Suite de deux spectacles son et lumière :.
- La projection « Jeanne(s) » qui revisite le mythe de l’héroïne médiévale.
- La nouvelle création « Vikings »
Todays upload comes from the land of myths and trolls: Norway.
Hardangervidda Lake was shown before by Jack the Flipper. This time we present you a colored image from that beautiful piece of nature.
Driving hundreds of kilometers through stunning landscapes in Norway, looking through the window while driving, is like watching a captivating nature documentary on BBC.
Norway is a country with vast uninhabited regions, you can go for hours without seeing any population or urbanization. A great country for photographers!
A norwegian proverb says:
The real voyage of discovery does not seek a new country, but then to see things with new eyes.
Le régalec ou ruban de mer (dessin en haut à droite) est le plus long poisson du monde. Les plus grands spécimens peuvent dépasser la dizaine de mètres. Le régalec a nourri de nombreux récits de marins et contribué à alimenter le mythe du serpent de mer.
Exposition "Océan une plongée insolite" :
www.jardindesplantesdeparis.fr/fr/programme/galeries-jard...
Rewriting Myths by Daniel Arrhakis (2021)
With the music : Ólafur Arnalds - Only The Winds
A Creative Mythic Intriguing Art collage in a wall wide vision made with stock images and images of mine.
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Ancient Myths by Daniel Arrhakis (2018)
With the music : Audiomachine - I Will Find You
- Unfortunately the news are not the best but we can not give up Timekeeper. Sometimes I feel trapped in a labyrinth of doubts Athena ... without being able to help myself - Says Lady Of Elche with an air of apprehension as she stares at that strange old statue in the corner of the room.
- Not quite, Lady of Elche, my dear Hannya your coming here has a purpose, just like that statue of the Sphinx of Argus on your right side - Says Athena to her mystic sister in order to comfort her and goes on :
- Incidentally, on this mission, she can be a strong ally in this odyssey!
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I will close the challenges and open the voting time during the next days, so sorry for the delay in catching up dear friends !
On 15 of June will be new challenges on our Challenges Community Group !!
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I love decorating my SL home with tidbits collected over the years and things that reflect myself and my mood. And this little trinket collection is perfect for an autumn home decor!
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build: dust bunny - maple cottage.
fireplace: what next - madison fireplace
skeleton frame: floorplan - leaning chalkboard skeleton
plant: myth - hyacinth pitcher
clock: what next - vintage alarm clock
bookends: vespertine - poetic autumn - bibliophile bookends
pumpkins: apple fall - pumpkin clotch (colour)
hanging print: floorplan - bee diageram print
sign: what next - copper fall sign
garland: half-deer - tassel garland (halloween)
flowers: myth - hyacinth pitcher
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Shot with an 8mm fisheye lens.
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Benched in Southern California
Whatever you believe about unicorns, they hold a magical place in history. This is another pic taken the day I took "knight rider", just another angle of the same horse. I couldn't help but think he would make a beautiful unicorn so I played with it and this is the finished product! A lot of fun to create this mystical look! Textures by alicepopkorn - thanks!!!
Sister 1 Keres
Disruption
Ownership of activity
Prescribed by acceptable transactions
All is in flux
Resulting in frustration and error
And redefining a fully functioning person
New base-line violations and agreements
To deal with unconscious reaction and reasoned response
Every interaction is observed
To satisfy the needs of commercial interest
There is no snap-back
This is a new socio-economic order
Of artificial intelligence, automation, and surveillance
Those who are left behind
Will be punished by poverty
By systems that are impenetrable and dehumanizing
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Deutschland / Sachsen-Anhalt - Harz
Teufelsmauer (Devil's Wall) near Weddersleben
Teufelsmauer (Adlersklippen) bei Weddersleben
The Teufelsmauer (Devil's Wall) is a rock formation made of hard sandstones of the Upper Cretaceous in the northern part of the Harz Foreland in central Germany. This wall of rock runs from Blankenburg (Harz) via Weddersleben and Rieder to Ballenstedt. The most prominent individual rocks of the Teufelsmauer have their own names. The Teufelsmauer near Weddersleben is also called the Adlersklippen ("Eagle Crags").
Many legends and myths have been woven in order to try to explain the unusual rock formation. It was placed under protection as early as 1833 and, in 1852, by the head of the district authority in order to prevent quarrying of the much sought-after sandstone. The Teufelsmauer near Weddersleben has been protected since 1935 as a nature reserve and is thus one of the oldest nature reserves in Germany.
The band of rock that forms the Teufelsmauer outcrops at three places between Ballenstedt in the southeast and Blankenburg (Harz) in the northwest, over a distance of 20 km. It begins with an outcrop known as the Gegensteine northwest of Ballenstedt and is continued in the shape of the Teufelsmauer which runs from south of Weddersleben to Warnstedt. Here, the formations of the Königstein, the Mittelsteine and the Papensteine rear up from a line of rock about 2 km long running from southeast to northwest. Away to the northwest it continues as a ridge between Timmenrode and Blankenburg (Harz) which includes the Hamburger Wappen, the Heidelberg (331.5 m above NN) and the crags of the Großvater and Großmutter (317 m above NN).
The rock formations of the Teufelsmauer are all accessible by footpath. They are among the attractions of the towns of Thale and Blankenburg. In order to conserve protected plant species, it has become necessary to implement measures for visitor management in the Teufelsmauer nature reserve. The rocks may be reached from hiking trails and vantage points are protected by safety railings. Several of the rocks in the Teufelsmauer at Blankenburg may be climbed.
There are checkpoints in the Harzer Wandernadel hiking system at various points along the Teufelsmauer: at Gasthaus Großvater, the inn below the Großvater rocks, (no. 76), by the Hamburger Wappen (no. 74) and on the south side of the ridge at Teufelsmauer Weddersleben (no. 188).
The formations feature in the film "Frantz" by François Ozon.
(Wikipedia)
Die Teufelsmauer im Landkreis Harz in Sachsen-Anhalt ist eine aus harten Sandsteinen der oberen Kreide bestehende Felsformation im nördlichen Harzvorland, die auf etwa 20 km Länge von Ballenstedt über Rieder und Weddersleben bis nach Blankenburg (Harz) verläuft. Zahlreiche herausragende Einzelfelsen tragen Eigennamen. Die Teufelsmauer bei Weddersleben wird auch Adlersklippen genannt.
Viele Sagen und Mythen haben sich gebildet, um die Besonderheit dieses Ortes erklärbar zu machen. Er wurde daher bereits 1833 sowie 1852 durch den Landrat unter Schutz gestellt, um den Abbau des begehrten Bausandsteins zu unterbinden. Die Teufelsmauer bei Weddersleben ist seit 1935 als Naturschutzgebiet Teufelsmauer und Bode nordöstlich Thale ausgewiesen und zählt damit zu den ältesten Naturschutzgebieten Deutschlands.
Der Harznordrand mit der Teufelsmauer wurde 2006 in die Liste der 77 ausgezeichneten Nationalen Geotope aufgenommen.
Die Felsrippe der Teufelsmauer tritt im Naturpark Harz/Sachsen-Anhalt zwischen Ballenstedt im Südosten und Blankenburg (Harz) im Nordwesten auf 20 km Länge an drei Stellen zu Tage. Sie beginnt mit den Gegensteinen nordwestlich von Ballenstedt. Ihre Fortsetzung findet sich in der Teufelsmauer nördlich Neinstedts und südlich Wedderslebens, wo sich auf zwei Kilometer Länge von Südosten nach Nordwesten der Königstein, die Mittelsteine und die Papensteine aneinanderreihen; zwischen Neinstedt und Weddersleben fließt die Bode als weithin größter Fluss der Gegend durch die Felsformation. Nach Nordwesten hin, vorbei an Warnstedt, setzt sich der felsige Höhenzug zwischen Timmenrode und Blankenburg mit dem Hamburger Wappen, der Gewittergrotte, dem Froschfelsen und dem Heidelberg (331,5 m ü. NHN), Großvaterfelsen (317,1 m ü. NHN) und Großmutterfelsen fort.
Die Felsbänder der Teufelsmauer sind jeweils durch Wanderwege erschlossen. Sie gehören zu den Attraktionen der Städte Thale und Blankenburg. Den Kammweg vom Hamburger Wappen bis zum Großvaterfelsen ließ 1853 der Blankenburger Bürgermeister Carl Löbbecke anlegen, zu dessen Andenken am Löbbecke-Felsen eine gusseiserne Gedenktafel errichtet wurde; dieser Wegabschnitt trägt auch den Beinamen Löbbeckestieg. Der Abschnitt Timmenrode–Blankenburg des Europäischen Fernwanderwegs E11 verläuft entlang der Felsformation.
Zum Schutz geschützter Pflanzenarten sind im Naturschutzgebiet Teufelsmauer Maßnahmen zur Besucherlenkung notwendig geworden. Die Felsbereiche sind von den Wanderwegen aus zu erleben, die vielerorts mit Barrieren gesichert sind.
An einer Stelle der Teufelsmauer zwischen Neinstedt und Weddersleben gibt es mit Nr. 188 (♁⊙) eine Stempelstelle im System der Harzer Wandernadel; weitere Stempelstellen entlang der Mauer befinden sich bei Timmenrode am Hamburger Wappen (Nr. 74) und bei Blankenburg unterhalb des Großvaterfelsen am Gasthaus Großvater (Nr. 76; ♁⊙).
An allen Felserhebungen der Teufelsmauer entlang führt zwischen Ballenstedt und Blankenburg der Teufelsmauerstieg, der im August 2009 als 35 km langer Wanderweg eingeweiht wurde.
Mehrere der Felsen der Teufelsmauer bei Blankenburg sind zum Klettern freigegeben.
Die eigentümliche Felsformation ist seit den 1960er Jahren eine beliebte Kulisse für zahlreiche – insbesondere im Mittelalter angesiedelte – Filme. Zu DDR-Zeiten drehte die DEFA hier zahlreiche Filme wie:
Fünf Patronenhülsen (1960)
Die Söhne der großen Bärin (1966)
Hans Röckle und der Teufel (1974)
Der lange Ritt zur Schule (1982)
Nach der Deutschen Wiedervereinigung diente die Teufelsmauer für nationale und internationale Filmproduktionen als Motiv:
1½ Ritter – Auf der Suche nach der hinreißenden Herzelinde mit Til Schweiger (2008)
Die Päpstin (2009)
Black Death (2010)
Der Medicus (2013)
Bibi & Tina: Voll verhext (2014)
Frantz (2016)
Das singende, klingende Bäumchen (2016)
(Wikipedia)
Myth & Mystery
The legend of the Schwedagon Pagoda begins with two Burmese merchant brothers who met the Buddha himself. The Buddha gave them eight of his hairs to be enshrined in Burma. With the help of several nat (spirits) and the king of this region of, the brothers discovered the hill where relics of previous Buddhas had been enshrined.
Legend has it that the Shwedagon Pagoda is 2,500 years old, but archaeologists estimate it was first built by the Mon sometime between the 6th and 10th centuries (i.e. during the Bagan period). The pagoda emerges from legend into history in 1485, which is the date of an incription near the top of the eastern stairway that tells the story of Shwedagon in three languages (Pali, Mon, and Burmese).
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Of the sarcophagi, the most impressive is the sarcophagus illustrating the myth of Athena, Marsyas, and Apollo (Rome, ca. AD200). Athena invents the aulos (double-reed flute) but playing it distorts her beauty. The satyr Marsyas found it and played it well but lost in a play-off against the god Apollo, who played the lyre (as may still be seen on the left), ending with Marsyas being skinned alive (far right).
In the Sculpture Collection (Skulpturensammlung) of the Liebieghaus Museum in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Mysteries from Middle Earth:
The idea of standing with one foot in each hemisphere is an intriguing one, and the closer you get to the equator, the more you hear about the equator’s mysterious energy. But what is fact and what is fiction?
There’s no point in starting softly, so let’s debunk the biggest myth first: La Mitad del Mundo is not on the equator – but it’s close. Global Positioning System (GPS) devices show that it’s only about 240m off the mark. And no one who sees the photos of you straddling the equator has to know this, right?
Another tough one to swallow is the myth of the flushing toilet. One of the highlights of the Museo Solar Inti Ñan is the demonstration of water draining counterclockwise north of the equator and clockwise 3m away, south of the equator. Researchers claim it’s a crock. The Coriolis Force – which causes weather systems to veer right in the northern hemisphere and left in the southern hemisphere – has no effect on small bodies of water like those in a sink or a toilet. Draining water spins the way it does due to plumbing, eddies in the water, the shape of the basin and other factors.
How about some truth: you do weigh less on the equator. This is due to greater centrifugal force on the equator than at the poles. But the difference between here and at the poles is only about 0.3%, not the 1.5% to 2% the scales at the monument imply.
It is true that the spring and autumn equinoxes are the only days when the sun shines directly overhead at the equator. In fact, that’s what defines an equinox. But that doesn’t mean the days and nights are equal in length, as many would have you believe – this happens just before the spring equinox and just after the autumn equinox, and the day depends on where you are on the planet.
More fascinating than any of the myths perpetuated by Inti Ñan and the Mitad del Mundo, however, is the fact that the true equator (0º0'0'' degrees, according to GPS readings) resides on a sacred indigenous site constructed more than 1,000 years ago. The name of the site is Catequilla, and it sits on a hilltop on the opposite side of the highway from the Mitad del Mundo.