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Just a little Quote I saw.... Describes us humans perfectly. We are constantly searching for our other half to compliment and complete us. Thank goodness I have found mine :)
Nature gives us an amazing amount of wonders and within her bounty we find similarities upon which we decide to have reflections and those can lead us on to further investigation with wondrous revelations. The figure created by the silhouette of The Pentland Hills is an amazing sight and she can transform her image from different positions even appearing as if she is pregnant from one vantage. Here Mono and Colour are used to give a further insight into the Sleep Skyline Figure that may have been seen as a Goddess, as Geology in transition and also held so many regards that have been given and lost even as she is found in the landscape today and will with weathering and other developments over many, many years be seen as something vastly different than she appears today.
The Pentland Hills are magnificent and here is a share of their beauty.
I have been mentioning the weather lore of, “Red sky at night, shepherd’s delight,” and now the mention is still reaching into the links below.
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Pentland Hills Regional Park
Red sky at night and other weather lore
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Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version
2 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
3 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
Gospel of Matthew 16:2-3, King James Version.
Inspired by this painting:
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In a late version of the Medusa myth, related by the Roman poet Ovid (Metamorphoses 4.770), Medusa was originally a beautiful maiden, "the jealous aspiration of many suitors," priestess in Athena's temple, but when she was raped, or seduced, by the "Lord of the Sea" Poseidon in Athena's temple, the enraged virgin goddess transformed her beautiful hair to serpents and made her face so terrible to behold that the mere sight of it would turn a man to stone. In Ovid's telling, Perseus describes Medusa's punishment by Athena as just and well-deserved.
The biggest sculture survived from the Classic World. It represents the myth of the punishment of Dirce. She was guilty of maltreating Antiope. As punishiment Antiopes's sons, Zetus and Anthion, tied Dirce to a bull. Originally the sculpture was in Rome where it was found in the Caracalla Baths in the XVI century. Archeological Museum of Naples
The tent pegging competition at Taxila
The specific game of tent pegging has a mounted horseman
riding at a gallop and using a sword or a lance to pierce, pick up,
and carry away a small ground target (a symbolic tent peg) or a
series of small ground targets.
Cesare Mussini (1804-1878) Raphael undressing the Fornarina for the first time (1837) - Exhibition Raphael and the echo of the Myth - GAMeC Bergamo
Apologies. No clue whatsoever what this character is.
Supanova Expo, Sydney Olympic Park, Sydney, Australia (Saturday 18 June 2016)
"Every part of this soil is sacred in the estimation of my people. Every hillside, every valley, every plain and grove, has been hallowed by some sad or happy event in days long vanished. Even the rocks, which seem to be dumb and dead as the swelter in the sun along the silent shore, thrill with memories of stirring events connected with the lives of my people, and the very dust upon which you now stand responds more lovingly to their footsteps than yours, because it is rich with the blood of our ancestors, and our bare feet are conscious of the sympathetic touch. Our departed braves, fond mothers, glad, happy hearted maidens, and even the little children who lived here and rejoiced here for a brief season, will love these somber solitudes and at eventide they greet shadowy returning spirits. And when the last Red Man shall have perished, and the memory of my tribe shall have become a myth among the White Men, these shores will swarm with the invisible dead of my tribe, and when your children's children think themselves alone in the field, the store, the shop, upon the highway, or in the silence of the pathless woods, they will not be alone. In all the earth there is no place dedicated to solitude. At night when the streets of your cities and villages are silent and you think them deserted, they will throng with the returning hosts that once filled them and still love this beautiful land."
~Chief Seattle~
(leader of the Suquamish and Duwamish Native American tribes)
Rütli, Seelisberg UR, Switzerland
Der "Rütlischwur" ist ein Element einer Geschichtserzählung des ausgehenden 15. Jahrhunderts, die während der Frühmoderne als Gründungslegende der Alten Eidgenossenschaft eine wichtige Rolle spielte und seit dem 19. Jahrhundert als Nationalmythos der modernen Schweiz ausgebaut wurde.
"Wir wollen sein ein einzig Volk von Brüdern, in keiner Not uns trennen und Gefahr. Wir wollen frei sein, wie die Väter waren, eher den Tod, als in der Knechtschaft leben. Wir wollen trauen auf den höchsten Gott und uns nicht fürchten vor der Macht der Menschen."
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The "Rütlischwur" (oath of Rütli) is an element of a story from the end of the 15th century, which played an important role during the early modern period as the founding legend of the Old Confederation and has been developed as the national myth of modern Switzerland since the 19th century.
"We want to be a unique folk of brothers, in no need separate us and be in danger. We want to be free as the fathers were, rather death than living in slavery. We want to trust in the highest God and not fear the power of men."
... I always thought that they were stories made up by the tourist guides ... 'look this way and you can see' ... but when I got home and came across this one, I began to think twice. There had been no guide, I had been alone down there or had I?
Antelope Canyon.
Merry Christmas one and all.
New @ Mainstore and Marketplace
Beehives surrounded with flowers and bees (static).
You also get a table with flowers, jars and honey-bowl and a basket with jars
Marketplace: marketplace.secondlife.com/p/Myth-Beehive/14733959
The first half of a book review of Michael J. Sullivan's Age of Myth. The full review here: is youtu.be/4aU6JY6Nbs8
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By far the most common myth about Violette is that she lives in a tower of ice built by the gods themselves, with creatures not born of this world. The sacred ice is said to preserve her for eternity...
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Pullip Seila
Ramsay Garden is a block of sixteen private apartment buildings in the Castlehill area of Edinburgh, Scotland. They stand out for their red ashlar and white harled exteriors, and for their prominent position, most visible from Princes Street.
Developed into its current form between 1890 and 1893 by the biologist, botanist and urban planner Patrick Geddes, Ramsay Garden started out as Ramsay Lodge, an octagonal house built by the poet and wig-maker Allan Ramsay the Elder in 1733. The house was also known variously as Ramsay Hut and Goosepie House (due to the roof shape). It was complemented by the addition of Ramsay Street, a short row of simple Georgian Houses in 1760. The latter (in revamped form) stand on the north side of the access to the inner courtyard.
Geddes' work on Ramsay Garden began in the context of an urban renewal project that he had embarked on in Edinburgh’s Old Town. The area had fallen into disrepair, and Geddes hoped both to improve the living conditions of the working class, and to increase the number of wealthier residents. He was also involved in improving buildings for use as student accommodation. To these purposes Geddes rehabilitated a significant number of tenement buildings in slums along the Royal Mile, including Abbey Cottages, Whitehorse Close and Riddle’s Court.
The Ramsay Garden development also served these aims. It was partly financed by the prospective buyers of the apartments, and partly by £2000 that Geddes's wife, Anna Morton, had inherited from her father. Geddes engaged the architect Stewart Henbest Capper to remodel Ramsay Lodge, and to build six large new blocks onto it at right angles to each other. By this time Geddes had acquired a position at a university in London, but he continued to supervise the design of Ramsay Garden on his frequent trips to Edinburgh. The final year of building work was overseen by Sydney Mitchell, who had taken over as architect, due to Capper's poor health. and was also permitted to add some additional detailing. The result of these partnerships was a combination of traditional Scottish domestic architecture and a rather fanciful proliferation of balconies, towers and eaves. Geddes referred to Ramsay Garden in later years as the "seven-towered castle I built for my beloved".
As a result of his own experiences in universities, and inspired by the better student facilities he had seen in Europe, Geddes was also concerned with the provision of quality accommodation for students. By the time Ramsay Garden was being built he had already established other student Halls of Residence in partnership with the Town and Gown Association. By the end of the 19th century he had managed to provide enough housing for more than 200 university students and staff. The Halls of Residence were intended to be self-governing, with responsibility for drawing up house rules left to the students themselves. The Ramsay Lodge section of the Ramsay Garden development was used for this purpose. Murals painted by John Duncan on the walls of the dining and common rooms depicted images from Celtic myth and history. Lectures and seminars were sometimes held on the premises.
Other parts of Ramsay Garden were available to the public. The Geddes family lived in number 14, a twelve-room apartment on the fourth storey. By all accounts it was an impressive residence. The drawing-room was two rooms connected by an archway, with the whole measuring 20 by 40 feet. The sweeping views, which reached as far as the old Kingdom of Fife, could be admired through the bay and turret window spaces at each end. This room was regularly used for large gatherings. Frescoes by Charles Mackie graced the master bedroom. The lease of the apartment was eventually sold to the Town and Gown Association due to Geddes's financial difficulties. Although he later wished to repurchase it, his desire for the apartment to remain in the family was not fulfilled.
Ramsay Lodge was the last of the University Halls to be sold off by the Town and Gown Association. When it was purchased in 1945 by the Commercial Bank of Scotland, it was a condition of sale that the murals be retained. The Bank went on to use the Lodge as a residential hostel and training centre. [Wikipedia]
Ad Astra
Il s'agit de la deuxième version de l'oeuvre symboliste "Ad Astra" de Gallen-Kallela dans laquelle la jeune fille porte les stigmates alors que ce n'est pas le cas dans la première version de 1896.
Oeuvre d'Akseli Gallen-Kallela (Finlande, 1865-1931)
1907
Huile sur toile, cadre avec volets en bois doré
Villa Gyllenberg, Fondation Signe et Ane Gyllenberg, Helsinki
Oeuvre présentée dans l'exposition : "Gallen-Kallela. Mythes et Nature", Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris
Commissaires : Laura Gutman, Pierre Curie
A travers près de soixante-dix œuvres issues de collections publiques et privées, comptant notamment des prêts exceptionnels du Musée Gallen-Kallela d’Espoo, l’exposition investit un aspect dominant de son œuvre et traversant l’ensemble de sa carrière, à savoir le thème de la nature et du paysage finlandais.... Extrait du site de l'exposition Gallen-Kallela, musée Jacquemart-André, Paris