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In his quest for power, Azelius the Winter Wizard has stolen the Book of Elemental Secrets from the sacred Temple of Tatvon. However, he was unaware that Neriya the Summer Sorceress had been scrying on him all along and plans to take the book for herself.
This diorama was created in collaboration with my wife for "Elemental Emergency" category of Brickscalibur 2024.
The use of crystal balls continued past the Druidic tradition. Dr. John Dee (1527-1608), a royal advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, was a scientist, astronomer, mathematician, and geographer who was also a hermetic philosopher involved in alchemical studies.Crystal balls have been used for at least four thousand years for divination. The art of gaining information for looking into crystal is called “scrying.” Most people associate a gypsy reading crystal ball as a symbol of mystical power. Other people may remember the scene in the Wizard of Oz movie showing the witch watching live action scenes of Dorothy trying to get to Emerald City. The reality is that crystal balls do not possess actual power, nor do they show scenes like you would see on a television foretelling the future.However, a psychic, while in a trance, may see different images in his or her brain while in a light trance. These images can be concrete pictures, symbols or vague impressions. What these images convey are information about situations you are facing and guidance of how to resolve your problems.There are three types of clear crystal balls. There is natural quartz crystal, laboratory-grown crystal and glass. Natural quartz crystal balls are cut from naturally occurring veins of crystal. These can have inclusions, cracks in the crystal and veils, cloudy wisps within the crystal. These “faults” in the crystal aid the reader in divination.Other crystals balls have their uses as well. Amethyst balls channel spiritual energy, and are effective in communicating with spirit guides. They are also helpful in interpreting dreams. Rose quartz balls are helpful in issues of emotions and the heart. Rose quartz can help in healing of emotional hurts and fosters forgiveness. Smoky quartz helps in grounding and clearing negativity. Obsidian is a power crystal that aids in reflecting what is in the souls of self and others. Malachite is useful in revealing past-life connections. Lapis, Sodalite and Dumotierite energize psychic attunement. Yellow stones, tiger-eye, yellow citrine, topaz, ametrine and amber reveal the brighter side of an issue and warms the heart. All of these stones are available as balls, though some are more expensive than others.The History of Crystal Ball Reading The use of crystal balls continued past the Druidic tradition. Dr. John Dee (1527-1608), a royal advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, was a scientist, astronomer, mathematician, and geographer who was also a hermetic philosopher involved in alchemical studies. He used crystal balls in his work, which he believed would aid in communication with angels. A quartz ball that once belonged to Dee now resides in the British Museum.The ancient Greeks used reflective surfaces such a pools of waters to help with divination. Two thousand years before the birth of Christ, British Druids used crystal balls for divination. Transparent Beryl, a natural gemstone that comes in all colors was used as an early crystal ball but In the Middle Ages crystal balls shifted from being shaped in beryl to crystal which is more reflective.Crystal balls were used in other areas of the world as well. The third largest crystal ball in the world, now housed in the Penn Museum, weighs fifty-five pounds. It was created for the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) during the Quing Dynasty in the 19th century.Reading Work?Some readers claim that nothing can be seen in a crystal ball and believe they act as a focus for meditation. Others, such as Alexandra Chauran, the author of Crystal Ball Reading for Beginners, tells us that occlusions in the crystals can form symbols when you are in are in a light trance. Some people have describe the experience of being “drawn into” the orb, feeling a bending of time while gazing into the ball. However the crystal ball is used, it is clear that it is a tool to focus and direct the intuitive and psychic abilities of the reader. Regardless, seeing things in crystal balls may not be as mystic as some people believe. Crystals carry an electric charge called piezoelectricity that can be converted into electrical signals. This electric charge is the very reason that cut crystals are used watches, TV and radio transmitters. Crystals can also provide oscillations that can drive very accurate clocks. A quartz crystal clock will not vary more than a thousandth of a second per day.The size of ball preferred varies greatly among those who read crystal balls. Some use a "palm ball" of a few inches in diameter that is held in the hand. Other readers prefer a larger ball mounted on a stand.Is A Crystal Ball Reading Right For You?Crystal balls are fascinating. Their structure and piezoelectric properties make them great tools for looking into life’s secrets. The psychic who reads crystal balls do tap into some mysterious energies than can provide guidance for many of the questions you have.
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Crystal balls have been used for at least four thousand years for divination. The art of gaining information for looking into crystal is called “scrying.” Most people associate a gypsy reading crystal ball as a symbol of mystical power. Other people may remember the scene in the Wizard of Oz movie showing the witch watching live action scenes of Dorothy trying to get to Emerald City. The reality is that crystal balls do not possess actual power, nor do they show scenes like you would see on a television foretelling the future.However, a psychic, while in a trance, may see different images in his or her brain while in a light trance. These images can be concrete pictures, symbols or vague impressions. What these images convey are information about situations you are facing and guidance of how to resolve your problems.There are three types of clear crystal balls. There is natural quartz crystal, laboratory-grown crystal and glass. Natural quartz crystal balls are cut from naturally occurring veins of crystal. These can have inclusions, cracks in the crystal and veils, cloudy wisps within the crystal. These “faults” in the crystal aid the reader in divination.Other crystals balls have their uses as well. Amethyst balls channel spiritual energy, and are effective in communicating with spirit guides. They are also helpful in interpreting dreams. Rose quartz balls are helpful in issues of emotions and the heart. Rose quartz can help in healing of emotional hurts and fosters forgiveness. Smoky quartz helps in grounding and clearing negativity. Obsidian is a power crystal that aids in reflecting what is in the souls of self and others. Malachite is useful in revealing past-life connections. Lapis, Sodalite and Dumotierite energize psychic attunement. Yellow stones, tiger-eye, yellow citrine, topaz, ametrine and amber reveal the brighter side of an issue and warms the heart. All of these stones are available as balls, though some are more expensive than others.The History of Crystal Ball Reading The use of crystal balls continued past the Druidic tradition. Dr. John Dee (1527-1608), a royal advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, was a scientist, astronomer, mathematician, and geographer who was also a hermetic philosopher involved in alchemical studies. He used crystal balls in his work, which he believed would aid in communication with angels. A quartz ball that once belonged to Dee now resides in the British Museum.The ancient Greeks used reflective surfaces such a pools of waters to help with divination. Two thousand years before the birth of Christ, British Druids used crystal balls for divination. Transparent Beryl, a natural gemstone that comes in all colors was used as an early crystal ball but In the Middle Ages crystal balls shifted from being shaped in beryl to crystal which is more reflective.Crystal balls were used in other areas of the world as well. The third largest crystal ball in the world, now housed in the Penn Museum, weighs fifty-five pounds. It was created for the Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908) during the Quing Dynasty in the 19th century.Reading Work?Some readers claim that nothing can be seen in a crystal ball and believe they act as a focus for meditation. Others, such as Alexandra Chauran, the author of Crystal Ball Reading for Beginners, tells us that occlusions in the crystals can form symbols when you are in are in a light trance. Some people have describe the experience of being “drawn into” the orb, feeling a bending of time while gazing into the ball. However the crystal ball is used, it is clear that it is a tool to focus and direct the intuitive and psychic abilities of the reader. Regardless, seeing things in crystal balls may not be as mystic as some people believe. Crystals carry an electric charge called piezoelectricity that can be converted into electrical signals. This electric charge is the very reason that cut crystals are used watches, TV and radio transmitters. Crystals can also provide oscillations that can drive very accurate clocks. A quartz crystal clock will not vary more than a thousandth of a second per day.The size of ball preferred varies greatly among those who read crystal balls. Some use a "palm ball" of a few inches in diameter that is held in the hand. Other readers prefer a larger ball mounted on a stand.Is A Crystal Ball Reading Right For You?Crystal balls are fascinating. Their structure and piezoelectric properties make them great tools for looking into life’s secrets. The psychic who reads crystal balls do tap into some mysterious energies than can provide guidance for many of the questions you have.
Abyssian; perched atop craggy rocks amongst the Moruth Swamplands of Nocturnus, this is a most inhospitable place and home to Lord Ssilyrrlith, current leader of the Nocturnus Guild. He is surrounded by his loyal Reptrians and mystics who use the strange Orion sphere to scrye.
I was looking to create my first full castle build and wanted to achieve a remote, isolated yet claustrophobic feel with many tall spires and towers crammed in together. Hope you guys like the look and feel free to comment and critique.
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I do not want to say what I saw and so leave such images to be found. This is your choice and chance to view and to decide what you see. Surely there is an App for Nephelomancy? If not then we are on own using the symbol structure we have in place and ready for use.
I offered no idea of what I could see when I posted the film version to the internet. I still do not wish to influence what anyone else can see. In no particular order I would like to just leave these here.
Isis
Nephthys
Vulture
Fertile Expanding Cosmic Egg(s)
Venus of Willendorf
Fox – Cat – Kitten
Winged Serpent
Fenris Wolf
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Nephomancy and Nephelomancy from the web
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Nephomancy or Nephelomancy is divination by studying clouds. This involves observing and interpreting the color, shape and position of clouds in the sky. The Celtic Druids made extensive use of nephomancy, which they called neladoracht.
Celtic shamans sometimes practiced a form of Nephomancy that was closely related to Hydromancy and Scrying. After finding a hollowed stone or other depression that was filled with rain water, priests would look into it studying the cloud formations reflected on the water’s surface.
To practice Nephomancy today, one should ask specific questions and then observe the shape and disposition of the clouds. This is easy enough to do in most parts of the world and requires only a basic understanding of the forces involved.
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Nephomancy
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nephomancy
nephomancy
1. Divination by use of the movement of clouds.
Hypernyms
• Aeromancy [Divination by use of atmospheric conditions.]
• austromancy [Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.]
Spiritual Unite Articles, a place to find your pleiadian, sirian, arcturian starseed, spiritual awakening and numerology predictions.Nostradamus: original portrait like a pleiadian-starseed in The Starry Night from Vincent Van Gogh an other pleiadian guy....
Born14 or 21 December 1503 (Julian calendar)
Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, Kingdom of France
Michel de Nostredame (depending on the source, 14 or 21 December 1503 – 1 or 2 July 1566), usually Latinised as Nostradamus,[a] was a French astrologer, physician and reputed seer, who is best known for his book Les Prophéties, a collection of 942 poetic quatrains[b] allegedly predicting future events. The book was first published in 1555.
Nostradamus's family was originally Jewish, but had converted to Catholic Christianity before he was born. He studied at the University of Avignon, but was forced to leave after just over a year when the university closed due to an outbreak of the plague. He worked as an apothecary for several years before entering the University of Montpellier, hoping to earn a doctorate, but was almost immediately expelled after his work as an apothecary (a manual trade forbidden by university statutes) was discovered. He first married in 1531, but his wife and two children died in 1534 during another plague outbreak. He fought alongside doctors against the plague before remarrying to Anne Ponsarde, with whom he had six children. He wrote an almanac for 1550 and, as a result of its success, continued writing them for future years as he began working as an astrologer for various wealthy patrons. Catherine de' Medici became one of his foremost supporters. His Les Prophéties, published in 1555, relied heavily on historical and literary precedent, and initially received mixed reception. He suffered from severe gout toward the end of his life, which eventually developed into edema. He died on 2 July 1566. Many popular authors have retold apocryphal legends about his life.
In the years since the publication of his Les Prophéties, Nostradamus has attracted many supporters, who, along with much of the popular press, credit him with having accurately predicted many major world events.[6][7] Most academic sources reject the notion that Nostradamus had any genuine supernatural prophetic abilities and maintain that the associations made between world events and Nostradamus's quatrains are the result of misinterpretations or mistranslations (sometimes deliberate).[8] These academics argue that Nostradamus's predictions are characteristically vague, meaning they could be applied to virtually anything, and are useless for determining whether their author had any real prophetic powers. They also point out that English translations of his quatrains are almost always of extremely poor quality, based on later manuscripts, produced by authors with little knowledge of sixteenth-century French, and often deliberately mistranslated to make the prophecies fit whatever events the translator believed they were supposed to have predicted.
Contents
1Life
1.1Childhood
1.2Student years
1.3Marriage and healing work
1.4Occultism
1.5Final years and death
2Works
3Origins of The Prophecies
4Interpretations
4.1Content of the quatrains
4.2Popular claims
4.3Scholarly rebuttal
5In popular culture
6See also
7Notes
8References
8.1Citations
8.2Sources
9Further reading
10External links
Life[edit]
Childhood[edit]
Nostradamus's claimed birthplace before its recent renovation, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
Municipal plaque on the claimed birthplace of Nostradamus in St-Rémy, France, describing him as an 'astrologer' and giving his birth-date as 14 December 1503 (Julian Calendar)
Nostradamus was born on either 14 or 21 December 1503 in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Provence, France,[9] where his claimed birthplace still exists, and baptized Michel.[9] He was one of at least nine children of notary Jaume (or Jacques) de Nostredame and Reynière, granddaughter of Pierre de Saint-Rémy who worked as a physician in Saint-Rémy.[9] Jaume's family had originally been Jewish, but his father, Cresquas, a grain and money dealer based in Avignon, had converted to Catholicism around 1459–60, taking the Christian name "Pierre" and the surname "Nostredame" (Our Lady), the saint on whose day his conversion was solemnised.[9] The earliest ancestor who can be identified on the paternal side is Astruge of Carcassonne, who died about 1420. Michel's known siblings included Delphine, Jean (c. 1507–1577), Pierre, Hector, Louis, Bertrand, Jean II (born 1522) and Antoine (born 1523).[10][11][12] Little else is known about his childhood, although there is a persistent tradition that he was educated by his maternal great-grandfather Jean de St. Rémy[13]—a tradition which is somewhat undermined by the fact that the latter disappears from the historical record after 1504 when the child was only one year old.[14]
Student years[edit]
At the age of 14[6] Nostradamus entered the University of Avignon to study for his baccalaureate. After little more than a year (when he would have studied the regular trivium of grammar, rhetoric and logic rather than the later quadrivium of geometry, arithmetic, music, and astronomy/astrology), he was forced to leave Avignon when the university closed its doors during an outbreak of the plague. After leaving Avignon, Nostradamus, by his own account, traveled the countryside for eight years from 1521 researching herbal remedies. In 1529, after some years as an apothecary, he entered the University of Montpellier to study for a doctorate in medicine. He was expelled shortly afterwards by the student procurator, Guillaume Rondelet, when it was discovered that he had been an apothecary, a "manual trade" expressly banned by the university statutes, and had been slandering doctors.[15] The expulsion document, BIU Montpellier, Register S 2 folio 87, still exists in the faculty library.[16] However, some of his publishers and correspondents would later call him "Doctor". After his expulsion, Nostradamus continued working, presumably still as an apothecary, and became famous for creating a "rose pill" that purportedly protected against the plague.[17]
Marriage and healing work[edit]
Nostradamus's house at Salon-de-Provence, as reconstructed after the 1909 Provence earthquake
In 1531 Nostradamus was invited by Jules-César Scaliger, a leading Renaissance scholar, to come to Agen.[18] There he married a woman of uncertain name (possibly Henriette d'Encausse), who bore him two children.[19] In 1534 his wife and children died, presumably from the plague. After their deaths, he continued to travel, passing through France and possibly Italy.[20]
On his return in 1545, he assisted the prominent physician Louis Serre in his fight against a major plague outbreak in Marseille, and then tackled further outbreaks of disease on his own in Salon-de-Provence and in the regional capital, Aix-en-Provence. Finally, in 1547, he settled in Salon-de-Provence in the house which exists today, where he married a rich widow named Anne Ponsarde, with whom he had six children—three daughters and three sons.[21] Between 1556 and 1567 he and his wife acquired a one-thirteenth share in a huge canal project, organised by Adam de Craponne, to create the Canal de Craponne to irrigate the largely waterless Salon-de-Provence and the nearby Désert de la Crau from the river Durance.[22]
Occultism[edit]
After another visit to Italy, Nostradamus began to move away from medicine and toward the "occult". Following popular trends, he wrote an almanac for 1550, for the first time in print Latinising his name to Nostradamus. He was so encouraged by the almanac's success that he decided to write one or more annually. Taken together, they are known to have contained at least 6,338 prophecies,[23][24] as well as at least eleven annual calendars, all of them starting on 1 January and not, as is sometimes supposed, in March. It was mainly in response to the almanacs that the nobility and other prominent persons from far away soon started asking for horoscopes and "psychic" advice from him, though he generally expected his clients to supply the birth charts on which these would be based, rather than calculating them himself as a professional astrologer would have done. When obliged to attempt this himself on the basis of the published tables of the day, he frequently made errors and failed to adjust the figures for his clients' place or time of birth.[25][26][c][27]
He then began his project of writing a book of one thousand mainly French quatrains, which constitute the largely undated prophecies for which he is most famous today. Feeling vulnerable to opposition on religious grounds,[28] however, he devised a method of obscuring his meaning by using "Virgilianised" syntax, word games and a mixture of other languages such as Greek, Italian, Latin, and Provençal.[29] For technical reasons connected with their publication in three installments (the publisher of the third and last installment seems to have been unwilling to start it in the middle of a "Century," or book of 100 verses), the last fifty-eight quatrains of the seventh "Century" have not survived in any extant edition.
Century I, Quatrain 1 in the 1555 Lyon Bonhomme edition
The quatrains, published in a book titled Les Prophéties (The Prophecies), received a mixed reaction when they were published. Some people thought Nostradamus was a servant of evil, a fake, or insane, while many of the elite evidently thought otherwise. Catherine de' Medici, wife of King Henry II of France, was one of Nostradamus's greatest admirers. After reading his almanacs for 1555, which hinted at unnamed threats to the royal family, she summoned him to Paris to explain them and to draw up horoscopes for her children. At the time, he feared that he would be beheaded,[30] but by the time of his death in 1566, Queen Catherine had made him Counselor and Physician-in-Ordinary to her son, the young King Charles IX of France.
Some accounts of Nostradamus's life state that he was afraid of being persecuted for heresy by the Inquisition, but neither prophecy nor astrology fell in this bracket, and he would have been in danger only if he had practised magic to support them. In 1538 he came into conflict with the Church in Agen after an Inquisitor visited the area looking for anti-Catholic views.[31] His brief imprisonment at Marignane in late 1561 was solely because he had violated a recent royal decree by publishing his 1562 almanac without the prior permission of a bishop.[32]
Final years and death[edit]
Nostradamus's current tomb in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent in Salon-de-Provence in the south of France, into which his scattered remains were transferred after 1789.
Nostradamus statue in Salon-de-Provence
By 1566, Nostradamus's gout, which had plagued him painfully for many years and made movement very difficult, turned into edema. In late June he summoned his lawyer to draw up an extensive will bequeathing his property plus 3,444 crowns (around US$300,000 today), minus a few debts, to his wife pending her remarriage, in trust for her sons pending their twenty-fifth birthdays and her daughters pending their marriages. This was followed by a much shorter codicil.[33] On the evening of 1 July, he is alleged to have told his secretary Jean de Chavigny, "You will not find me alive at sunrise." The next morning he was reportedly found dead, lying on the floor next to his bed and a bench (Presage 141 [originally 152] for November 1567, as posthumously edited by Chavigny to fit what happened).[34][24] He was buried in the local Franciscan chapel in Salon (part of it now incorporated into the restaurant La Brocherie) but re-interred during the French Revolution in the Collégiale Saint-Laurent, where his tomb remains to this day.[35]
Works[edit]
Copy of Garencières' 1672 English translation of the Prophecies, located in The P.I. Nixon Medical History Library of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
In The Prophecies Nostradamus compiled his collection of major, long-term predictions. The first installment was published in 1555 and contained 353 quatrains. The third edition, with three hundred new quatrains, was reportedly printed in 1558, but now survives as only part of the omnibus edition that was published after his death in 1568. This version contains one unrhymed and 941 rhymed quatrains, grouped into nine sets of 100 and one of 42, called "Centuries".
Given printing practices at the time (which included type-setting from dictation), no two editions turned out to be identical, and it is relatively rare to find even two copies that are exactly the same. Certainly there is no warrant for assuming—as would-be "code-breakers" are prone to do—that either the spellings or the punctuation of any edition are Nostradamus's originals.[5]
The Almanacs, by far the most popular of his works,[36] were published annually from 1550 until his death. He often published two or three in a year, entitled either Almanachs (detailed predictions), Prognostications or Presages (more generalised predictions).
Nostradamus was not only a diviner, but a professional healer. It is known that he wrote at least two books on medical science. One was an extremely free translation (or rather a paraphrase) of The Protreptic of Galen (Paraphrase de C. GALIEN, sus l'Exhortation de Menodote aux estudes des bonnes Artz, mesmement Medicine), and in his so-called Traité des fardemens (basically a medical cookbook containing, once again, materials borrowed mainly from others), he included a description of the methods he used to treat the plague, including bloodletting, none of which apparently worked.[37] The same book also describes the preparation of cosmetics.
A manuscript normally known as the Orus Apollo also exists in the Lyon municipal library, where upwards of 2,000 original documents relating to Nostradamus are stored under the aegis of Michel Chomarat. It is a purported translation of an ancient Greek work on Egyptian hieroglyphs based on later Latin versions, all of them unfortunately ignorant of the true meanings of the ancient Egyptian script, which was not correctly deciphered until Champollion in the 19th century.[38]
Since his death, only the Prophecies have continued to be popular, but in this case they have been quite extraordinarily so. Over two hundred editions of them have appeared in that time, together with over 2,000 commentaries. Their persistence in popular culture seems to be partly because their vagueness and lack of dating make it easy to quote them selectively after every major dramatic event and retrospectively claim them as "hits".[39]
Origins of The Prophecies[edit]
Theophilus de Garencières, the first English translator of the Prophecies[40]
Nostradamus claimed to base his published predictions on judicial astrology—the astrological 'judgment', or assessment, of the 'quality' (and thus potential) of events such as births, weddings, coronations etc.—but was heavily criticised by professional astrologers of the day such as Laurens Videl[41] for incompetence and for assuming that "comparative horoscopy" (the comparison of future planetary configurations with those accompanying known past events) could actually predict what would happen in the future.[42]
Research suggests that much of his prophetic work paraphrases collections of ancient end-of-the-world prophecies (mainly Bible-based), supplemented with references to historical events and anthologies of omen reports, and then projects those into the future in part with the aid of comparative horoscopy. Hence the many predictions involving ancient figures such as Sulla, Gaius Marius, Nero, and others, as well as his descriptions of "battles in the clouds" and "frogs falling from the sky".[43] Astrology itself is mentioned only twice in Nostradamus's Preface and 41 times in the Centuries themselves, but more frequently in his dedicatory Letter to King Henry II. In the last quatrain of his sixth century he specifically attacks astrologers.
His historical sources include easily identifiable passages from Livy, Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars, Plutarch and other classical historians, as well as from medieval chroniclers such as Geoffrey of Villehardouin and Jean Froissart. Many of his astrological references are taken almost word for word from Richard Roussat's Livre de l'estat et mutations des temps of 1549–50.
One of his major prophetic sources was evidently the Mirabilis Liber of 1522, which contained a range of prophecies by Pseudo-Methodius, the Tiburtine Sibyl, Joachim of Fiore, Savonarola and others (his Preface contains 24 biblical quotations, all but two in the order used by Savonarola). This book had enjoyed considerable success in the 1520s, when it went through half a dozen editions, but did not sustain its influence, perhaps owing to its mostly Latin text, Gothic script and many difficult abbreviations. Nostradamus was one of the first to re-paraphrase these prophecies in French, which may explain why they are credited to him. Modern views of plagiarism did not apply in the 16th century; authors frequently copied and paraphrased passages without acknowledgement, especially from the classics. The latest research suggests that he may in fact have used bibliomancy for this—randomly selecting a book of history or prophecy and taking his cue from whatever page it happened to fall open at.[6]
Further material was gleaned from the De honesta disciplina of 1504 by Petrus Crinitus,[44] which included extracts from Michael Psellos's De daemonibus, and the De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum (Concerning the mysteries of Egypt), a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus, a 4th-century Neo-Platonist. Latin versions of both had recently been published in Lyon, and extracts from both are paraphrased (in the second case almost literally) in his first two verses, the first of which is appended to this article. While it is true that Nostradamus claimed in 1555 to have burned all of the occult works in his library, no one can say exactly what books were destroyed in this fire.
Only in the 17th century did people start to notice his reliance on earlier, mainly classical sources.[d]
Nostradamus's reliance on historical precedent is reflected in the fact that he explicitly rejected the label "prophet" (i.e. a person having prophetic powers of his own) on several occasions:[45]
Although, my son, I have used the word prophet, I would not attribute to myself a title of such lofty sublimity.
— Preface to César, 1555[46]
Not that I would attribute to myself either the name or the role of a prophet.
— Preface to César, 1555[46]
[S]ome of [the prophets] predicted great and marvelous things to come: [though] for me, I in no way attribute to myself such a title here.
— Letter to King Henry II, 1558[47]
Not that I am foolish enough to claim to be a prophet.
— Open letter to Privy Councillor (later Chancellor) Birague, 15 June 1566[45]
Detail from title-page of the original 1555 (Albi) edition of Nostradamus's Les Prophéties
Given this reliance on literary sources, it is unlikely that Nostradamus used any particular methods for entering a trance state, other than contemplation, meditation and incubation.[48] His sole description of this process is contained in 'letter 41' of his collected Latin correspondence.[49] The popular legend that he attempted the ancient methods of flame gazing, water gazing or both simultaneously is based on a naive reading of his first two verses, which merely liken his efforts to those of the Delphic and Branchidic oracles. The first of these is reproduced at the bottom of this article and the second can be seen by visiting the relevant facsimile site (see External Links). In his dedication to King Henry II, Nostradamus describes "emptying my soul, mind and heart of all care, worry and unease through mental calm and tranquility", but his frequent references to the "bronze tripod" of the Delphic rite are usually preceded by the words "as though" (compare, once again, External References to the original texts).
Interpretations[edit]
Content of the quatrains[edit]
Most of the quatrains deal with disasters, such as plagues, earthquakes, wars, floods, invasions, murders, droughts, and battles—all undated and based on foreshadowings by the Mirabilis Liber. Some quatrains cover these disasters in overall terms; others concern a single person or small group of people. Some cover a single town, others several towns in several countries.[50] A major, underlying theme is an impending invasion of Europe by Muslim forces from farther east and south headed by the expected Antichrist, directly reflecting the then-current Ottoman invasions and the earlier Saracen equivalents, as well as the prior expectations of the Mirabilis Liber.[51] All of this is presented in the context of the supposedly imminent end of the world—even though this is not in fact mentioned[52]—a conviction that sparked numerous collections of end-time prophecies at the time, including an unpublished collection by Christopher Columbus.[53] [54] Views on Nostradamus have varied widely throughout history.[55] Academic views such as those of Jacques Halbronn regard Nostradamus's Prophecies as antedated forgeries written by later hands with a political axe to grind.[55]
Popular claims[edit]
Nostradamus's supporters have retrospectively claimed that he predicted major world events, including the Great Fire of London, the French Revolution, the rises of Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and September 11 attacks.[55][27]
Many of Nostradamus's supporters believe his prophecies are genuine.[55] Owing to the subjective nature of these interpretations, however, no two of them completely agree on what Nostradamus predicted, whether for the past or for the future.[55] Many supporters, however, do agree, for example, that he predicted the Great Fire of London, the French Revolution, the rises of Napoleon and Adolf Hitler,[56][e] both world wars, and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.[55][27] Popular authors frequently claim that he predicted whatever major event had just happened at the time of each book's publication, such as the Apollo moon landings in 1969, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in 1997, and the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.[27][57] This 'movable feast' aspect appears to be characteristic of the genre.[55]
Possibly the first of these books to become popular in English was Henry C. Roberts' The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus of 1947, reprinted at least seven times during the next forty years, which contained both transcriptions and translations, with brief commentaries. This was followed in 1961 (reprinted in 1982) by Edgar Leoni's Nostradamus and His Prophecies. After that came Erika Cheetham's The Prophecies of Nostradamus, incorporating a reprint of the posthumous 1568 edition, which was reprinted, revised and republished several times from 1973 onwards, latterly as The Final Prophecies of Nostradamus. This served as the basis for the documentary The Man Who Saw Tomorrow and both did indeed mention possible generalised future attacks on New York (via nuclear weapons), though not specifically on the World Trade Center or on any particular date.[58]
A two-part translation of Jean-Charles de Fontbrune's Nostradamus: historien et prophète was published in 1980, and John Hogue has published a number of books on Nostradamus from about 1987, including Nostradamus and the Millennium: Predictions of the Future, Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies (1999) and Nostradamus: A Life and Myth (2003). In 1992 one commentator who claimed to be able to contact Nostradamus under hypnosis even had him "interpreting" his own verse X.6 (a prediction specifically about floods in southern France around the city of Nîmes and people taking refuge in its collosse, or Colosseum, a Roman amphitheatre now known as the Arènes) as a prediction of an undated attack on the Pentagon, despite the historical seer's clear statement in his dedicatory letter to King Henri II that his prophecies were about Europe, North Africa and part of Asia Minor.[59]
With the exception of Roberts, these books and their many popular imitators were almost unanimous not merely about Nostradamus's powers of prophecy but also in inventing intriguing aspects of his purported biography: that he had been a descendant of the Israelite tribe of Issachar; he had been educated by his grandfathers, who had both been physicians to the court of Good King René of Provence; he had attended Montpellier University in 1525 to gain his first degree; after returning there in 1529, he had successfully taken his medical doctorate; he had gone on to lecture in the Medical Faculty there, until his views became too unpopular; he had supported the heliocentric view of the universe; he had travelled to the Habsburg Netherlands, where he had composed prophecies at the abbey of Orval; in the course of his travels, he had performed a variety of prodigies, including identifying future Pope, Sixtus V, who was then only a seminary monk. He is credited with having successfully cured the Plague at Aix-en-Provence and elsewhere; he had engaged in scrying, using either a magic mirror or a bowl of water; he had been joined by his secretary Chavigny at Easter 1554; having published the first installment of his Prophéties, he had been summoned by Queen Catherine de' Medici to Paris in 1556 to discuss with her his prophecy at quatrain I.35 that her husband King Henri II would be killed in a duel; he had examined the royal children at Blois; he had bequeathed to his son a "lost book" of his own prophetic paintings;[f] he had been buried standing up; and he had been found, when dug up at the French Revolution, to be wearing a medallion bearing the exact date of his disinterment.[60] This was first recorded by Samuel Pepys as early as 1667, long before the French Revolution. Pepys records in his celebrated diary a legend that, before his death, Nostradamus made the townsfolk swear that his grave would never be disturbed; but that 60 years later his body was exhumed, whereupon a brass plaque was found on his chest correctly stating the date and time when his grave would be opened and cursing the exhumers.[61]
In 2000, Li Hongzhi claimed that the 1999 prophecy at X.72 was a prediction of the Chinese Falun Gong persecution which began in July 1999, leading to an increased interest in Nostradamus among Falun Gong members.[62]
Scholarly rebuttal[edit]
From the 1980s onward, however, an academic reaction set in, especially in France. The publication in 1983 of Nostradamus's private correspondence[63] and, during succeeding years, of the original editions of 1555 and 1557 discovered by Chomarat and Benazra, together with the unearthing of much original archival material[35][26] revealed that much that was claimed about Nostradamus did not fit the documented facts. The academics[35][60][26][64] revealed that not one of the claims just listed was backed up by any known contemporary documentary evidence. Most of them had evidently been based on unsourced rumours relayed as fact by much later commentators, such as Jaubert (1656), Guynaud (1693) and Bareste (1840), on modern misunderstandings of the 16th-century French texts, or on pure invention. Even the often-advanced suggestion that quatrain I.35 had successfully prophesied King Henry II's death did not actually appear in print for the first time until 1614, 55 years after the event.[65][66]
Skeptics such as James Randi suggest that his reputation as a prophet is largely manufactured by modern-day supporters who fit his words to events that have either already occurred or are so imminent as to be inevitable, a process sometimes known as "retroactive clairvoyance" (postdiction). No Nostradamus quatrain is known to have been interpreted as predicting a specific event before it occurred, other than in vague, general terms that could equally apply to any number of other events.[67] This even applies to quatrains that contain specific dates, such as III.77, which predicts "in 1727, in October, the king of Persia [shall be] captured by those of Egypt"—a prophecy that has, as ever, been interpreted retrospectively in the light of later events, in this case as though it presaged the known peace treaty between the Ottoman Empire and Persia of that year;[68] Egypt was also an important Ottoman territory at this time.[69] Similarly, Nostradamus's notorious "1999" prophecy at X.72 (see Nostradamus in popular culture) describes no event that commentators have succeeded in identifying either before or since, other than by twisting the words to fit whichever of the many contradictory happenings they claim as "hits".[70] Moreover, no quatrain suggests, as is often claimed by books and films on the alleged Mayan Prophecy, that the world would end in December 2012.[71] In his preface to the Prophecies, Nostradamus himself stated that his prophecies extend "from now to the year 3797"[72]—an extraordinary date which, given that the preface was written in 1555, may have more than a little to do with the fact that 2242 (3797–1555) had recently been proposed by his major astrological source Richard Roussat as a possible date for the end of the world.[73][74]
Additionally, scholars have pointed out that almost all English translations of Nostradamus's quatrains are of extremely poor quality, seem to display little or no knowledge of 16th-century French, are tendentious, and are sometimes intentionally altered in order to make them fit whatever events the translator believed they were supposed to refer (or vice versa).[75][64][76] None of them were based on the original editions: Roberts had based his writings on that of 1672, Cheetham and Hogue on the posthumous edition of 1568. Even Leoni accepted on page 115 that he had never seen an original edition, and on earlier pages, he indicated that much of his biographical material was unsourced.[77]
None of this research and criticism was originally known to most of the English-language commentators, by dint of the dates when they were writing and, to some extent, the language in which it was written.[78] Hogue was in a position to take advantage of it, but it was only in 2003 that he accepted that some of his earlier biographical material had in fact been apocryphal. Meanwhile, some of the more recent sources listed (Lemesurier, Gruber, Wilson) have been particularly scathing about later attempts by some lesser-known authors and Internet enthusiasts to extract alleged hidden meanings from the texts, whether with the aid of anagrams, numerical codes, graphs or otherwise.[55]
In popular culture[edit]
Main article: Nostradamus in popular culture
The prophecies retold and expanded by Nostradamus figured largely in popular culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. As well as being the subject of hundreds of books (both fiction and nonfiction), Nostradamus's life has been depicted in several films and videos, and his life and writings continue to be a subject of media interest.
There have also been several well-known Internet hoaxes, where quatrains in the style of Nostradamus have been circulated by e-mail as the real thing. The best-known examples concern the collapse of the World Trade Center in the 11 September attacks.[79]
With the arrival of the year 2012, Nostradamus's prophecies started to be co-opted (especially by the History Channel) as evidence suggesting that the end of the world was imminent, notwithstanding the fact that his book never mentions the end of the world, let alone the year 2012.[80]
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Here is a divination tool: the water mirror. It makes it possible to see, through our third eye, images of the future, but also, even if this use is less popular, past or future lives, entities... and many other things that you will discover during your practice if you try the experiment. To limit the mirror of water to a mere divinatory tool would be to amputate it from much of its use and mystery. However, as with any esoteric practice, you must feel ready to use it, it is not a question of going blindly, as this experience can be shocking for some people depending on how the session unfolds. You don't need a particular water level, no, you just have to feel ready and approach this tool and this experience with a lot of respect.
The Aztec god of night, Tzcatlipoca, is even supposed to have carried a magic mirror that enveloped his enemies in clouds of smoke. ... The first recorded case of mirror divination (known as catoptromancy) can be traced back to ancient China, India, Persia and Roma, where small metal mirrors were used to predict the life expectancy of the sick.CATOPTROMANCY. AND. THE. MAGIC. MIRROR. Cataptromancy is a form of divination using reflective surfaces, such as a mirror, water or some other suitable surface. Both the Magic Mirror and the Mandala may be used individually, by themselves as separate tools for externalising the consciousness.
Practice: To begin with, you need to find a water mirror, or if you don't have one, a normal mirror that you will use in the half-light, lit by one or two candles if you wish, or nothing at all if you see enough, it's up to you to judge when the time comes. Anyway, you will only have to use this mirror ONLY for this practice, it is extremely important (whether you dedicate it or not). And when you don't use it I advise you to cover it with a cloth, because once it has been used it becomes a kind of door, a link, and you will see, you will feel its power, the energy that will come out of it. Sit in front of your mirror, comfortably, and meditate for a few minutes on what you are going to do, your goal... When you feel ready, fix your third eye, or your eyes, through the mirror. After a while your eyes will sting you, which is normal, over time this sensation will fade. You can burn incense and arrange some crystals to help you during this exercise. Of course the crystals will vary according to your purpose and your affinities with them. Then the first phase will slowly set in place, you will see your orbits become black and your face unravel to become a skull before disappearing. This step can be frightening if you're not ready enough and I think it may be partly done to push some back, but not just that of course. When your skull disappears from the mirror everything can begin, take your time and observe! You have been able to read various experiments on the Internet, some of them do not fix their reflection, and therefore do not go through the "skull"stage. It's up to you to see what appeals to you the most, and therefore, what's best for you. As with all esoteric practices, there are always several ways to achieve the same result:) This is Catoptromancy (Gk. κάτοπτρον, katoptron, "mirror," and μαντεία, manteia, "divination"), also known as captromancy or enoptromancy, is divination using a mirror.Catoptromancy is a word you do not hear very often. Its meaning, however, is something which just about everyone knows about. Catoptromancy is a word derived from Greek which basically means “Mirrors in Divination”. The Evil Queen in Snow White asking for information by saying “Mirror, mirror on the wall” and old folk games of looking into a mirror to see the image of a future spouse are two example of catoptromancy. Another example – albeit a rather indirect one –is the mirror in Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Lady of Shalott: this mirror is not magical from the standpoint that it, like any other mirror, simply reflects what is happening. However, the mirror crack’d from side to side the moment the Lady of Shalott fell under the curse, thus foretelling her imminent death. Therefore, this can be considered an example of catoptromancy or the use of a magical mirror.
An ancient Mesoamerican artifact is seen along its own reflection in an ancient Mesoamerican mirror with a carved wooden frame. While authorities on the subject of ancient Mesoamerican culture don't yet acknowledge these things, they are in no way restrained, ironically, from offering every praise short of it. Regarding the mirrors in general, Valliant, in "The Aztecs of Mexico, writes (pg. 116): "The making of the mirrors called much ingenuity into play... Blocks of obsidian were sometimes polished to produce an eerie and mysterious reflection. However, iron pyrites, burnished and shaped, were more common; and rarer examples had thin pyrite flakes laid in a mosaic and glued to a background of wood or shell. In another technique used on the coast the artisan detached a surface of pyrites in its matrix of slate, burnishing one side and carving the other to fashion a mirror with a carved back. One example, at least, is known of a mirror with marcasite with its surface ground as to produce a magnified reflection". Such praise reveals at the very least mundane sophistication like that which is also freely given regarding the optics marvels of the ancient orient. Similarly, Michael D. Coe, in "Mexico", writes: Certain Olmec sculptures and figurines show persons wearing pectorals of concave shape around the neck, and such have actually come to light in offerings, These oddly enough turned out to be concave mirrors of magnetite and ilmenite, the reflecting surfaces polished to optical specifications. What were they used for? Experiments have shown that they can not only start fires, but also throw images on flat surfaces like a camera lucida. They were pierced for suspension, and one can imagine the hocus-pocus which some mighty Olmec preist was able to perform with one of these. Imagine, indeed. Whether or not the priest could have impressed anyone, however, when the underlying principles are captured by every artist and given away to every citizen with nearly every gesture of the cultures in question, every artwork or every holiday, is another story altogether. Still, these fabulous optical properties, while certainly making solid testimony that these ancient people had a remarkably advanced grasp of sophisticated optics, may only be ideographic markers- outward superficial properties acting as labels for the even more incredible powers that these devices were made to possess. Tezcatlipoca, an Aztec deity whose name literally means, "Smoking Mirror", may be a fictitious contrivance used to label literature that allegorically describes the making, use, and principles of these mirrors. While the phrase "smoking mirrors" has even found its way into modern politics, no one seems to have a substantial clue to its origin. In the case of Tezcatlipoca, the "smoke" may have been a smudge or incense used to activate the mirrors; Mexican mugwort or a closely related specie is very probable.
This may yet prove to be another viable alternative to Trans-Atlantic and Trans-Pacific crossing to explaining the extreme degree of cultural parallels between peoples normally spoken of as isolated from one another; with the aid of such devices, they may have in fact been in constant communication. Here's another twist or two: ancient Egyptian mirrors often contain the same familiar birds as magick mirrors of Greece and elsewhere (left), but sometimes they don't (right), which remarkably either evokes the crescent as a magnetic symbols, or reduces the symbol of artificial intelligence to the universal feature of a face of a body of a human, rather suggestive of the artificial intelligence labeling of Crystal Skulls and Skull Oracles.The symbols are simple, but the rules do tend to vary somewhat.
This picture above in Alsace remain, "Sobek, god of a city called Crocodilopolis" (Lionel Casson, "Ancient Egypt", pg. 73), has strong elements of both magick mirrors and oracular skulls and points in the direction of the Egyptian and Vedic "mystical" Solar science .It also shows another variation on the frog symbol that remains within the reptilian.;The peculiar details of the window to other worlds may also encode details about the harmonic physics used in its creation or operation, like the designs on the Celtic magick mirrors, above. The harmonic science of magick mirrors and time cameras (the counter magnetic amplifier, shown below, could easily classify as a harmonic device, perhaps a magnetic harmonic resonator) brings us to an interesting place in the burgeoning science of hyperdimensional physics because we have all the pieces of how the ancients would have utilized the harmonic energy grid of the earth, but we may not yet be able to account for the absence of hundreds of pages of equations governing every detail and alignment of the ancient landmarks that appear on the predicted nodal points of world grid maps. The harmonic markings and symbols on many magick mirror devices may be telling us that these devices not only run on the same principles that are relevant to this planetary grid science, but implying they had a purpose as tools to abbreviate hard work of calculating such incredible aspects. One other trend or common denominator in various literature on the subject resembles what may be equivalent applications of Howard Wachpress' Unpaired Magnetic Pole Levitation design, comprised of odd/even poles made when irregular carvings or geometries are magnetized (The actual example on the cover of Tyson's book is one example, although he does not seem to be aware that this principle may be at work; other examples might be found in Lewis Spence's "Encyclopedia of Occultism"; the subject is also treated in De Givry's book). This design for a magnetic ship by Hughes can be found in George Frederick Kunz, "Curious Lore of Precious Stones", pg. 53. It originates from Valentini, "Museum Museorum," pt. III, Franckfurt am Mayn, 1714, pg. 35. Kunz's caption tells us that coral-agates were to be set in the network above the pilot, which was "supposed to possess such magnetic powers as to keep the craft aloft". Magnetic levitation designs have beeen, and remain contemporary with magnetic magic mirrors. The cover of Tyson's remarkable book. Whether or not the author is consciously aware of it, the mirror which is shown and which the book contains instructions for making, is one of a class of a great many of at least the last five centuries, whose number of engravings or the number of characters in cardinal points recalls the odd-even magnetic polar pairing of Howard Wachpress' magnetic levitation design. While the exact mechanism may be difficult to ascertain, mostly because the possibilities are particular numerous and some are inevitably complex, the connection in both form and function is immediately obvious. There may be little difference in many applications between the unpaired magnetic pole levitation system and the counter magnetic amplifier of Active Reseach and Development's time camera, or between the methods that Ernetti uses. Here, astrological glyphs are set against sides of the mirror frame. It is likewise a trend to use Mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris) with crystal balls and magic mirrors; Mugwort is also known as "Compass Plant" or here on the picture like a "Compass Boat" because it is one of those plants which aligns its leaves along a north/south magnetic axis as if it were magnetized. It may also affect human endocrine systems which interact with magnetism and or gravity. At left is Howard Wachpress' invention depicted in it's patent diagram. At right below, the counter magnetic amplifier in the Time Cameras offered by Active Research and Development. Note that the latter, intriguingly, is said to rely on Hieronymous' "Eloptics", and energy he named that has both the properties of ELectricity and OPTIC energy, or light.
Descriptions of superconducted electricity accelerating to light-like velocities certainly comes to mind; the device might also rely on various principles of symmetry as well as its magnetic attributes. The actual tuning system of one of ARD's more advanced models relies on skin electricity translating thought patterns for its tuning mode. Rather than being preposterous, this may be both a logical extension of the latest in physics and biology when the two fields are effectively joined, and such technology could become part of an amazing genera of devices. Whatever the individual believes about the artifacts gathered from the "Roswell Crash", the footage shows technology that may be astonishingly similar. This principle of translation may be intrinsic to how a great deal of true magick that involves mental processes is accomplished. Also helping to render plausibility is the fact that certain superconducting magnetic devices, known as SQUIDs, are said to amongst, if not the only, devices thus known capable of imaging energies that come from the hands of physic healers who perform "laying on of hands". If such technologies can interact with such forces, they can perhaps also modulate or even simulate them. Such technology, besides having tremendous potential in medical diagnostics, also has potentials in even more futuristic medicine and biology. Time cameras may be employed to retrieve biological pattern data for varied applications from identifying and reconstituting lost and even unknown species, to providing data about structure prior to disease states for reconstruction of biological systems. Such far-flung notions are precisely what some of the markings on the ancient Mesoamerican mirrors directly imply. Not at all surprisingly, T.G. Hieronymous' scientific achievements not only include his eloptics technology and patents, but his amazing Cosmiculture" wherein he succeeded in growing plants without sunlight, but rather with some mysterious force carried by electrical conductors from a solar plate. Robert Pavlita's amazing "Psychotronic" motor or generator (left), featured in Ostrander and Schroeder's classic, "Handbook of Psychic Discoveries" (Photo 28), created with a five part structure which may pit against two energetic poles, may turn out to be largely motivated by the same effect of unpaired poles as Howard Wachpress' levitator. Its structure perhaps not coincidentally recalls the features of hyperdimensional signatures on planetary magnetic poles in the solar system (see above).
At right, the well-known levitating stone raised by 11 people chanting "Qamar Ali Dervish", noted in Andrew Tomas' "We Are Not the First" and by many others, including KeelyNet files, may inevitably be primarily accomplished the same way, through the Wachpressian technology that may simply be another spin on the familiar theme of unipolar or homopolar dynamos, since the singular pole, real or contrived, most likely also serves as an "odd pole out". The Vimaanika-Shastra, an ancient Sanskrit text which describes in detail the making and operation of flying machine or "flying saucers", details the construction and use of a number of mirrors with unusual properties. While any of the many formulas in this vast collection whose ingredients can be successfully translated and identified could be thusly explained, or by following the instructions and analyzing the results, any eventual similarity between the workings of these mirrors and other ancient magick mirrors could help serve as a bridge toward linking the peculiar and complex science of this ancient Vedic text to the appropriate modern, if unusual, concepts and terminology.
From the Vimaanika-Shastra, found in 1908 in the Royal Baroda Library, translated by G. R. Joyser, and found in its entirety in "Vimana Aircraft of Ancient India and Atlantis" by David Hatcher Childress: "Darpanaadhikaranam: Mirrors and Lenses Mahrishi Bharadwaaja: "Darpanaashcha" Sootra 1
"Lenses": Bodhaananda Vritti: This chapter deals with the mirrors and lenses which are required to be installed in the vimaana. There are seven different ones. Their names are given by Lalla in "Mukura-kalpa" as Vishwakriyaa darpanana, or television mirror, Shaktyaakarshana darpana or power-capturing-mirror, Vyroopya darpana or appearance changing mirror, Kuntinee darpana, Pinjulaa darpana, Guhaagarbha darpana, and Rowdree darpana or terrifying darpana. Vishwakriyaa darpana is to be fixed on a revolving stand near the pilot so that he cold observe whatever is happening outside on all sides. Its manufacture is thus described in Kriyaasaara: Two parts of stava, 2 parts of shundilaka, one part of eagle bone, 5 parts of mercury, 2 parts of the foot-nails of the sinchoranee, 6 parts of mica, 5 parts of red lead, 8 parts of pearl dust, 18 parts of the eyeballs of sowmyaka fish, one part burning coal, 8 parts of snake’s slough, 3 parts of eye pigment, 6 parts of maatrunna, 10 parts of granite sand, 8 parts of salt, 4 of lead, 2 parts of sea foam, 3 parts white throated eagle’s skin, 7 parts of bamboo salt, 5 parts of vyraajya or white keg tree bark, these ingreedients should be purified, and weighed, and filled in a beaked crucible and placed in the furnace called chandodara and subjected to a 800 degree heat, and when duly liquified, should be poured into the funnel of the kara-darpana yantra or hand-mirror mold. The result will be an excellent mirror in which will be reproduced minature details of the world outside." Those familiar with ancient formulas, however peculiar their ingredients, know far better than to dismiss them. Information in "The Curious Lore of Precious Stones" by George Frederick Kunz gives more instances of applying minerals containing iron being applied to such magickal contrivances. (interestingly, this book makes detailed mention of a design for a flying craft by a Brazilian priest in the 1700's that may be also very much in essence like Wachpress's design mentioned above!). (Magic Screens of Ancient Asia are also mentioned in some of the above texts, a possibly closely related principle, where screens were made that show images inside the human body, probably equal to or greater than out own modern medical imaging.) What doesn't tie in to this topic? This photo, also appearing on Richard Hoagland's "Enterprise Mission" site on his pages on Hyperdimesional Physics , of one of Saturn's magnetic poles shows the hexagonal polar region that has been found on planets throughout the solar system, including Uranus and Mars, and most recently, the sun itself. Note that there's not only a hexagon (6 sides) but a 5-armed "star" shape, our familiar unpaired numerical matching, occurring on the magnetic poles of celestial bodies. (It certainly thereby makes some implications about the nature and purposes of pentagrams as well; they could scarcely be Satan's playthings and yet God's own signature as creator!)
Just as Hoagland implies how hyperdimensional physics was encoded by ancient peoples on earth and possibly elsewhere, the method of sending information through hyperspace may already be at work in magick mirrors, possibly due to angular momentum effects of the magnetic fields rotating due to unpaired pole effects. The theory behind magick mirrors may not just be a communications utility, it may shed light on celestial mechanics, and the same technology may provide sane amounts of free energy for human use. And that may only be the beginning... As to the traditions of Ancient Wisdom... amongst the other enlightenment that can be found amongst them, as meaning layers over meaning, upheld and facilitated by the science of Correspondences, we might find significant details of these devices and rites labeled with allusions that fall under the motif of reflection: Echo and Narcissus, Perseus and Medusa... just as we may find them under the theme of closeness to the waterside, since it is part of Pausanius' account of Catoptromancy: Romulus and Remus, Temperance in the Tarot, The Star in the Tarot, Echo and Narcissus once again, etc., etc.... Someday, even if the phone company has shut you off, you may be able to summon help in an emergency, "As the crow flies", and never be obstructed from communion with those whom you love... but the technology also promises to be of inestimable value in medicine and healing as well.
Catoptromancy should not be confused with crystal gazing, although both divinatory methods fall under the category of “scrying” – looking into water, a mirror, a crystal or any other transparent object in order to see the future or contact a supernatural entity.Pausanias, an ancient Greek traveler, described as follows: Before the Temple of Ceres at Patras, there was a fountain, separated from the temple by a wall, and there was an oracle, very truthful, not for all events, but for the sick only. The sick person let down a mirror, suspended by a thread till its base touched the surface of the water, having first prayed to the goddess and offered incense. Then looking in the mirror, he saw the presage of death or recovery, according as the face appeared fresh and healthy, or of a ghastly aspect.This method of divination has been frequently used in various forms since ancient times on mirrors made of polished metal: copper, bronze, iron, silver or gold. There are traces of it in Chaldea and Mesopotamia. Of course, the surface of water or any other reflective surface was also suitable2. The Sagas of Thessaly traced on mirrors their sibylline formulas with blood: immediately the moon - another mirror - reflected these bloody characters, then the answer was imprinted on its silver crescent. This is how the oracle was rendered "3. In his Description of Greece (around 174) Pausanias le Périégète writes in his Description of Greece:
In front of this temple there is a fountain which on the side of the temple itself is closed by a wall of dry stones; outside there is a path that goes down. It is claimed that this fountain makes oracles that never deceive; it is consulted not on all kinds of affairs, but only on the state of the sick. A mirror is attached to the end of a string and held suspended above the fountain so that only the end touches the water. Then prayers are made to the Goddess, perfumes are burned in her honour, and as soon as we look in the mirror we see if the sick person will return to health or die; this kind of divination does not extend further. ».The Roman Emperor Didius Julianus (193) had similar practices as Spartianus relates: Julianus even resorted to this kind of divination, which is done with the help of a mirror, in which, it is said, children see the future, after their eyes and heads have been subjected to certain enchantments. It is claimed that, in this circumstance, the child lives in the mirror when Severus arrives and Julianus leaves.
The Renaissance also had its share of divinations by mirrors, the doctor Jean Fernel 1497-1558 relates: The gestures of these figures were so expressive that each of the assistants, who saw like him in the mirror, could well understand their mimicry. One evening in 1559, Cosme Ruggieri, the magician of Catherine de Médicis, used it at the Château de Chaumont-sur-Loire to predict to the Queen Mother Queen the duration of the reign of her sons, who had to make as many turns on themselves as they had spent years on the throne. Francis II made a tour, Charles IX fourteen, Henry III fifteen and the Prince of Navarre (the future Henry IV) twenty-one8. In November 1582 John Dee, the Magician of Elizabeth I of England, saw the Uriel Angel appear at his window one evening. He gave her a polished black stone which, when fixed with insistence, showed up beings capable of telling the future. This strange dark mirror is currently on display in the British Museum. Catoptromancy is quite common in the folk magic of nearly every country. For centuries, mirrors were considered powerful tools: if they could capture physical images of the world, perhaps they could also capture the supernatural. To this day, it is not uncommon in many Eastern European countries for surviving family members to cover the mirrors or turn them to face the wall after a person in the household has died, for fear the recently released soul may become caught inside the mirror. Mirrors have often been used as a tool in folk magic. One of the most common applications of catoptromancy is the old ritual, which every culture seems to have a variation of, that involves a young woman looking into a mirror in the hopes that the face of her future husband will be revealed. Sometimes, this game would be taken quite seriously and there would be other rules regarding the age of the girl and what she may or may not have been wearing, as well as what day of the year was the best for performing the ritual.
Many young women may have been scared away from playing this game by the possibility that she may in fact see an image of the Golden House in the mirror. This would mean that manor would be full kindness to accept holistic's students. Frederick II was the first Germanic and Italian Emperor, he had brought the divinatory sciences back to Alsace and his Sicilian doctors who of course spoke Arabic. The Egyptians' divination and secrets were part of the Moorish culture, they had assimilated the Persian culture with Zarathustra as well as the Greek culture with Plato, or the Egyptians with Hermes-Thot. The golden manor is reflected in this boat asleep in the waves of a regenerating winter, it reminds us of the memory of the last Germanic Emperor William II and his golden eagle floating between two waters in the gable which traces its extended wings, we are ready for a flight to the hidden dimension of a reversible World. Wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?
Nearer to us, J. T Reinaud (1795-1867), Orientalist commenting at the beginning of the 19th century on the museum of the Duke of Blacas, writes: The Orientals also have magical mirrors in which they imagine themselves to be able to reveal the angels, the archangels; by perfuming the mirror, by fasting for seven days and keeping the most severe retreat, one becomes able to see, either with one's own eyes or those of a virgin or a child, the angels that one desires to evoke.
Today, catoptromancery is still widely used in sub-Saharan Africa.Interpretations[edit | modify code] One can give two kinds of interpretations to visions obtained in mirrors. First of all, these visions are of dreamlike, hypnotic or hallucinatory nature, provoked by the atmosphere and rituals frequently involving semi-darkness, a long period of concentration sometimes preceded by fasting and the use of fumigations that can be hallucinogenic (see above). As psychologist Pierre Janet writes: People who have seen in these mirrors will certainly say,"I knew nothing of all this. Well, I have to tell you that your statement is inaccurate. You knew very well what you saw appearing. They are memories acquired, at fixed dates, recorded knowledge, daydreams and reasoning already done. » From the Renaissance onwards, the use of techniques to obtain all sorts of illusions using semitransparent or judiciously arranged mirrors was added to this, and Jean-Baptiste Porta, like this one, described in great detail at that time: How can we make a mirror out of several full mirrors, to which, at the same time, several effigies will appear "12, techniques still used today by illusionists.
Vision of her future husband on Halloween night. According to Anglo-Saxon tradition, a young girl presenting herself in front of a mirror with a candle lit by hand during Halloween night would see the face of her future husband pass by... or a skull if she had to die before her marriage! A legend has it that by performing a certain ritual in front of a mirror on the night of Epiphany we could see ourselves as we were at the time of his death. There is also the urban legend of Bloody-Mary, which has many variations. If you place yourself in front of a mirror in a dark room (a bathroom for example), lit only by a candle, and you pronounce thirteen times in a row the name "Bloody Mary" it appears the bloody face of a woman who attacks you...With the exception of the Magic Mirror in Snow White, the best example of catoptromancy is the old Halloween party game “Bloody Mary”. The tradition developed out of the old fashioned attempt to see the face of your future spouse. The idea of calling on “Bloody Mary” started during the Elizabethan Era: A young, Protestant woman, hopeful for a good life with a future husband and lots of children, would look into the mirror and taunt the ghost of the Catholic queen Bloody Mary, a woman who had been physically unable to produce an heir. As the years went by, the religious tensions which created the Bloody Mary game were forgotten. Eventually, the game was somehow combined with the urban legend of Bloody Mary, a horrifying and perhaps vengeful specter (again, with variations from different eras and cultures). After this happened, the idea of it being a ritual for the discovery your future spouse was jettisoned as well. Anytime Bloody Mary is called on now, it is just a simple dare or Halloween prank, usually played by young children, in order to cause a good scare.
A type of divination with a mirror which the second century AD Greek traveler Pausanius described as follows: "Before the Temple of Ceres at Patras, there was a fountain, separated from the temple by a wall, and there was an oracle, very truthful, not for all events, but for the sick only. The sick person let down a mirror, suspended by a thread till its based touched the surface of the water, having first prayed to the goddess and offered incense. Then looking in the mirror, he saw the presage of death or recovery, according as the face appeared fresh and healthy, or of a ghastly aspect." Another divinatory method of using a mirror was to place it at the back of a boy's or girl's head when their eyes were bandaged shut. In Thessaly the responses appeared in characters of blood on the face of the moon, probably projected in the mirror. This practiced was derived by the Thessalian sorceresses from the Persians who wanted to establish their religion and mystical rituals in the countries which they invaded. A.G.H.
Catoptromancy is the technique used by Snow White's evil mother-in-law in Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's famous tale:"Little mirror, little mirror on the wall, which is the most beautiful of the whole country? ». In Lewis Carol's tale, Alice in Wonderland passes through the fantastic universe on the other side of the mirror.Grimms’ Schneewittchen or Snow White is one of the oldest and most famous stories in the world. Catoptromancy is a very important part of this tale – in fact, one could easily say that the entire story centers around catptromancy. The action all starts when the Evil Queen asks “Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”
The Mirror or the Queen’s use of catoptromancy in the story is what causes her to want to kill Snow White. And, in turn, it is what leads the heroine into home of the Seven Dwarfs. The Mirror carries the story further by refusing to answer the Queen’s question – “Who is the fairest of them all?” – in a way she would like. Through the Mirror, the Queen knows that her first two attempts to murder Snow White have failed, and she eventually uses the seemingly effective poisoned apple to rid herself of her rival.Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand,- The Evil Queen’s invocation of the mirror in the Grimms’ original German. A magical mirror, in some form, has played a part in probably every adaptation of Snow White that has ever been made. This is not only because of the importance of catoptromancy in folklore, but also because this story expounds on the difference between vanity and beauty.
I do not want to say what I saw and so leave such images to be found. This is your choice and chance to view and to decide what you see. Surely there is an App for nephelomancy? If not then we are on own using the symbol structure we have in place and ready for use.
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Nephomancy and Nephelomancy from the web
Nephelomancy Shirleytwofeathers.com link below
Nephomancy or Nephelomancy is divination by studying clouds. This involves observing and interpreting the color, shape and position of clouds in the sky. The Celtic Druids made extensive use of Nephomancy, which they called neladoracht.
Celtic shamans sometimes practiced a form of Nephomancy that was closely related to Hydromancy and Scrying. After finding a hollowed stone or other depression that was filled with rain water, priests would look into it studying the cloud formations reflected on the water’s surface.
To practice Nephomancy today, one should ask specific questions and then observe the shape and disposition of the clouds. This is easy enough to do in most parts of the world and requires only a basic understanding of the forces involved.
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Nephomancy
en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nephomancy
nephomancy
1. Divination by use of the movement of clouds.
Hypernyms
• Aeromancy [Divination by use of atmospheric conditions.]
• austromancy [Soothsaying, or prediction of events, from observation of the winds or cloud formations.]
Clouds, Nephomancy, Nephelomancy, animals, birds, images, features, faces, symbols, icons,
Another magitech frame! I have no fluff, because I'm too lazy/tired to come up with anything coherent, but the idea is that the frame is equipped with a thruster pack to help reach proper firing positions so the pilot can use their magical abilities to rain down artillery on the enemy and summon the two scrying orbs.
The air in the lounge around the shimmering circle vibrates with energy. Two witches dance on the edge of the undulating pool at the center, intently focused on it's bubbling, murky surface. They wave their arms and sway their hips in time with the bass, smiling, mouths slightly parted, an incantation endlessly flowing across their lips. Their eyes flicker up to meet yours for a moment and they smile at you briefly, before returning to stare at whatever they're seeing in the pool.
The ritual rings emanate a warmth that surrounds the lounge and everyone in it. You're welcome here. The ether undulates hypnotically and beckons you to step into the ritual space where you see the beautiful ether trails that shimmer, leaving sparkling trails in the air from the graceful dancers hands. It seems like everything is caught up in the music, and soon you begin to feel the music trying fill your mind, it's energy swelling and trying to flow within you.
Do you feel the vibe? Will you let it take you? Will you dance? If you look into the pool, what will you see? Love? Passion? Bittersweet memories?
In making this miniature dollhouse scale (1:12) pine hutch, I applied five coats of paint, sanded, brushed, and damp washed each layer before applying the next one. The resultant color is deep green with bits of glitter to signify magical ability.
I make my hutches one at a time… from start to finish. There is no assembly line in my workshop. No elves either. For this reason, this is truly one-of a-kind. I keep no written “recipes” for the color or instructions for the items I create to put into/on my hutches. Pieces on this hutch are from nature or created at the time I was working on it from materials at hand at that time.
Abyssian; perched atop craggy rocks amongst the Moruth Swamplands of Nocturnus, this is a most inhospitable place and home to Lord Ssilyrrlith, current leader of the Nocturnus Guild. He is surrounded by his loyal Reptrians and mystics who use the strange Orion sphere to scrye.
I was looking to create my first full castle build and wanted to achieve a remote, isolated yet claustrophobic feel with many tall spires and towers crammed in together. Hope you guys like the look and feel free to comment and critique.
Cheers
ISC.
I enjoyed Yodamann's Moon Platform so much I decided to do my own classic space build after scrying my bag of minifigs, starting with Space Police II. The 1969 Mini Robot set is one of the first sets I vividly remember building.
Abyssian; perched atop craggy rocks amongst the Moruth Swamplands of Nocturnus, this is a most inhospitable place and home to Lord Ssilyrrlith, current leader of the Nocturnus Guild. He is surrounded by his loyal Reptrians and mystics who use the strange Orion sphere to scrye.
I was looking to create my first full castle build and wanted to achieve a remote, isolated yet claustrophobic feel with many tall spires and towers crammed in together. Hope you guys like the look and feel free to comment and critique.
Cheers
ISC.
Top 200 of 2018 @ deepskyobject
традиционный список лучших альбомов — места и теги как всегда условны, забытые герои найдутся чуть позже
всем удачи в Новом году! 💟
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#shoegaze #reverb
1. Nothing — Dance On The Blacktop
2. 93MillionMilesFromTheSun — Echo Delay Fuzz Reverb
3. Air Formation — Near Miss
4. Ride — Tomorrow's Shore EP
5. Castlebeat — VHS
6. Grivo — Elude
7. Swervedriver — Future Ruins
8. Ovlov — Tru
9. Slow Crush — Aurora
10. Cosmic Child — Blue
11. Drowse — Cold Air
12. Indoor Voices — Gaslight Ephemera
13. The Beremy Jets — Careless
14. Kraus — Path
15. A Place To Bury Strangers — Pinned
16. Ceremony — East Coast
17. Yuragi — Still Dreaming, Still Deafening
18. Chatham Rise — Meadowsweet
19. Tape Deck Mountain — Echo Chamber Blues
20. Tender Age — Becoming Real Forever
Nothing — помимо шугейза не побоялись скататься этой зимой в #Murmansk!
93MillionMilesFromTheSun — pure reverb
Air Formation — долгожданное возвращение
Ride и Swervedriver — отцы держат отличную форму!
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#dreampop #ethereal
1. Beach House — 7
2. Holy Motors — Slow Sundown
3. Still Corners — Slow Air
4. Seasurfer — Vampires EP
5. Lake Ruth — Birds of America
6. The Voices — Dark Waters
7. Sobrenadar — Y
8. Autumn's Grey Solace — Eocene
9. Sugar Plant — Headlights
10. Tape Waves — Distant Light
11. Sales — Forever & Ever
12. Evening Gown — Lakes of Harmony
13. Tanukichan — Sundays
14. Night Flowers — Wild Notion
15. Endless White — Flow West to You
16. Death and the Maiden — Wisteria
17. Airport — Canary Island Breakfast
18. Them Are Us Too — Amends
19. Lowtide — Southern Mind
20. Hater — Siesta
Beach House — мечтательные синты уносящие прочь
Holy Motors — сначала Pia Fraus, теперь вот моторы в том же духе (и в честь фильма Leos Carax)
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#indie
1. Heathers — Midnight Is A Place
2. Winter — Ethereality
3. Blush Response — Hearts Grow Dull
4. Bound — No Beyond
5. Echo Ladies — Pink Noise
6. The Beths — Future Me Hates Me
7. No Age — Snares Like A Haircut
8. Jonathan Bree — Sleepwalking
9. Forever Home — Forever Home
10. Princess Chelsea — The Loneliest Girl
11. Gliss — Strange Heaven
12. Astronauts, etc. — Living In Symbol
13. Exploded View — Obey
14. Molly Nilsson — 2020
15. Dream System 8 — We Sleep Again
16. A Beacon School — Cola
17. Shinowa — Flowerdelic
18. Soft Science — Maps
19. Spirits of Leo — Equinox
20. Skating Polly — The Make It All Show
Heathers — post-grunge дебютантки из Монреаля, назвавшиеся в честь того самого фильма
Echo Ladies — многообещающие шведки (Robin Guthrie их тоже заметил)
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#postpunk #darkwave
1. Kælan Mikla — Nótt Eftir Nótt
2. Trashlight — Honey Insulation EP
3. Lebanon Hanover — Let Them Be Alien
4. Soft Kill — Savior
5. Wax Idols — Happy Ending
6. Modern Heaven — Midnight Cowboy EP
7. Actors — It Will Come To You
8. Silver Dapple — Moody Boots
9. Shame — Songs of Praise
10. Deth Crux — Mutant Flesh
11. Lycia — In Flickers
12. The Hex Waves — Canine Rising EP
13. Idles — Joy as an Act of Resistance
14. Penance Stare — Scrying
15. Senketsu No Night Club — Shikkoku
16. Whispering Sons — Image
17. The Soft Moon — Criminal
18. Bloody Knives — White Light Black Moon
19. Iceage — Beyondless
20. Girls Names — Stains on Silence
Kælan Mikla — шаманские завывания одичалых исландок тонущие в post-punk synthwave запилах
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#psychedelic #kraut #jazz
1. Anna von Hausswolff — Dead Magic
2. Pram — Across The Meridian
3. Barst — The Endeavour
4. Deerhunter — Double Dream Of Spring
5. The Necks — Body
6. The Holydrug Couple — Hyper Super Mega
7. Die Wilde Jagd — Uhrwald Orange
8. Minami Deutsch — With Dim Light
9. Vox Low — Vox Low
10. Kamasi Washington — Heaven And Earth
11. John Maus — Addendum
12. Lonker See — One Eye Sees Red
13. Oh Sees — Smote Reverser
14. Carlton Melton — Mind Minerals
15. Holy — All These Worlds Are Yours
16. Cavern of Anti-Matter — Hormone Lemonade
17. Psychic Lemon — Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay
18. Nicklas Sørensen — Solo 2
19. GoGo Penguin — A Humdrum Start
20. Kosmose — First Time Out @ The Old St. Joseph Chapel, Charleroi, Belgium, March 22, 1975 [2018]
Anna von Hausswolff — древний трубный орган сливается с мистическим вокалом
Pram — музыка полузабытых героев всё ещё полна психоделии и прекрасных гармоний
Barst — космический поток сознания ломающий стереотипы
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#drone #doom #postmetal #postblack #heavypsych
1. Holy Fawn — Death Spells
2. Messa — Feast For Water
3. Windhand — Eternal Return
4. Deafheaven — Ordinary Corrupt Human Love
5. Thou — Magus
6. Wrekmeister Harmonies — The Alone Rush
7. Haunted — Dayburner
8. Møl — Jord
9. Nécropole - Solarité
10. Sleep — The Sciences
11. Svartidauði — Revelations of the Red Sword
12. Chrch — Light Will Consume Us All
13. Boris — Eternity, Live album
14. Sylvaine — Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone
15. Heads. — Collider
16. Hooded Menace — Ossuarium Silhouettes Unhallowed
17. Monolithe — Nebula Septem
18. Abstract Void — Back to Reality
19. Trautonist — Ember
20. Aîn — Stance I
Holy Fawn — дебют на стыке post-metal shoegaze от неизвестных аризонских мечтателей
Messa — пучины итальянского психоделического дума
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#rock #avantgarde
1. Low — Double Negative
2. Nine Inch Nails — Bad Witch
3. Django Django — Marble Skies
4. Death & Vanilla — The Tenant
5. Flasher — Constant Image
6. Dead Vibrations — Dead Vibrations
7. God Is An Astronaut — Epitaph
8. Sigur Rós — Route One
9. Body/Head — The Switch
10. King Dude — Music To Make War To
11. Spiritualized — And Nothing Hurt
12. The Sea and Cake — Any Day
13. Dark Times — Tell Me What I Need
14. The Smashing Pumpkins — Shiny And Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 LP No Past. No Future. No Sun
15. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks — Sparkle Hard
16. Ty Segall & White Fence — Joy
17. Crystale — Crystales
18. The Breeders — All Nerve
19. Yo La Tengo — There's a Riot Going On
20. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club — Wrong Creatures
Low — текстура здесь так же важна как и мелодия, создание и разрушение переплетаются в процессе звучания — отцы slowcore сумели как никто другой всех удивить
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#electronic #lofi #ambient
1. Jóhann Jóhannsson — Mandy
2. Jon Hopkins — Singularity
3. Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood
4. Sarah Davachi — Let Night Come On Bells End The Day
5. Lisa Stenberg — Monument
6. Julia Holter — Aviary
7. Marie Davidson — Working Class Woman
8. Cremation Lily — In England Now, Underwater
9. Puce Mary — The Drought
10. Sophie — Oil of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides
11. H ø R D — Parallels
12. Hammock — Universalis
13. The Field — Infinite Moment
14. Dakota Suite, Dag Rosenqvist, Emanuele Errante — What Matters Most
15. Lucrecia Dalt — Anticlines
16. Grouper — Grid of Points
17. Deena Abdelwahed — Khonnar
18. William Basinski and Lawrence English — Selva Oscura
19. Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
20. Helena Hauff — Qualm
Jóhann Jóhannsson /RIP — ныне покойный исландский композитор погружается в глубины drone ambient — релиз вышел после его гибели, в записи приняли участие Stephen O'Malley, Randall Dunn, Skúli Sverrisson, Matt Chamberlain, Úlfur Eldjárn и др.
Laurel Halo — Лорел вновь генерирует таинственные электроакустические текстуры
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#pop #synthwave
1. Let's Eat Grandma — I'm All Ears
2. Melody's Echo Chamber (w/ The Amazing, Dungen, Pond) — Bon Voyage
3. Robyn — Honey
4. Ariana Grande — Sweetener
5. Kali Uchis — Isolation
6. Aurora — Infections Of A Different Kind - Step 1
7. Ex:Re — Ex:Re
8. Dita Von Teese (w/ Sébastien Tellier) — Dita Von Teese
9. Halo Maud — Je Suis Une Ile
10. Superorganism — Superorganism
11. Tess Roby — Beacon
12. Hooverphonic — Looking For Stars
13. Steady Holiday — Nobody's Watching
14. Corine — Fille De Ta Région EP
15. Mitski — Be the Cowboy
16. The Orielles — Silver Dollar Moment
17. Jean-Benoît Dunckel — H+
18. Nightmare Air — Fade Out
19. Virginia Wing — Ecstatic Arrow
20. Rosalía — El Mal Querer
Let's Eat Grandma — калейдоскопический lo-fi future-pop от teen grls
Melody — dream pop с психоделическим саундом от шведов и вокалом француженки
Ex:Re — X-Ray дебют Elena Tonra из Daughter
Robyn — это и есть идеальная поп-музыка
Dita — всё на этом альбоме сочинил Sébastien Tellier, но именно Dita стала его украшением
Aurora — восходящая норвежская звезда, начинавшая с каверов на Bowie и Oasis, теперь её можно увидеть в эпичных шоу с Wardruna!
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#russia
1. Самцы Дронта — Самцы Дронта (1990-1995) [2018 reissue]
2. Архитектурный Оркестр Благодетели — Слово
3. Rosemary Loves A Blackberry — Snowfake
4. Pinkshinyultrablast — Miserable Miracles
5. ГШ / Glintshake — Польза
6. Isa — Небо в солёных колодцах
7. IC3PEAK — Сказка
8. Арсений Креститель — 31
9. Supervitesse — NorNor
10. Акульи Слёзы — В Музее Моей Памяти EP
11. Kate NV — для FOR
12. Vy Pole — Like You Say
13. Clouds Electric — Blush
14. Стефа и шугейз колдуны — Оставили в прошлом EP
15. Mooptheband — Pinky
16. Love Fade — Придуманных страхов призраки
17. Supernova 1006 — Blackout
18. Secrets Of The Third Planet — Birds Station
19. Double Trouble Pill — Lizzy's Demons
20. Автоспорт — Береги себя EP
21. Dooby Douglas — Webwave
22. Endless Sleeper — Ocean Locked in the Room
23. Trna — Earthcult
24. Menk — Волны EP
25. Буерак — Репост Модерн
26. Невидимый Робот — Самый Теплый Свитер EP
27. Park17 — Когда дни уходят спиралью вниз
28. Забыл повзрослеть — Простые сложности
29. COSme — Lost Generation
30. Motorama — Many Nights
31. Roots In Fever — Flower EP
32. Рыцари Диких Яблок — Дворец EP
33. Ploho — Куда птицы улетают умирать
34. Дождливый гражданин — Игра в жмурки
35. Сруб — Скорбь
36. Пустая Электричка — Родные Края EP
37. Деревянные киты — Под воду
38. Rape Tape — Прочь EP
39. Sonic Death — Punks Against Mafia vol. 1,2
40. Путь — Песни смерти
41. uSSSy — Voyage
42. Parks, Squares and Alleys — Cold Blood Magic
43. Inverse — S/T
44. Grave Disgrace — Sabbatharium
45. Комсомольск — Дорогие Москвичи
46. Shoe Shine Six — Sunday EP
47. L own — Rave Mission
48. Låska — Låska
49. ТЭЦ — А
50. Поспишь Потом — Не Приходить в Себя
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Sea(r)hing — various tracks
Самцы Дронта — получили наконец физическое воплощение, как раз те самые забытые герои
Архитектурный Оркестр — «стихи и музыка», по сумме факторов один из лучших релизов на русском языке в 2018
Rosemary — аудиовизуальное исследование тёмных сторон девичьего подсознания
Pinkshiny — изучая новые способы воздействия углубились в электронику
ГШ — море драйва
Isa — ambient-drone проект из Новосибирска и Орла с зашифрованной в названии руной «|» (лёд, остывший ручей)
Ic3peak — умело используют в видеоклипах актуальный контент и вокалистка смутно напоминающая Grimes
Арсений — Ben Horn навсегда!
Supervitesse — адепты Stereolab etc из Петербурга
Акульи Слёзы — меланохоличные dream pop grls из Уфы
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#festivals
1. Roadburn D3: Boris & Stephen O’Malley — Absolutego, Hugsjá — Ivar Bjørnson (Enslaved) & Einar Selvik (Wardruna), NYIÞ & Wormlust — Hieros Gamos, Earthess & Kikagaku Moyo, Zola Jesus, Mizmor (Yodh), Maggot Heart, Godspeed You! Black Emperor (vol I), Occvlta, Panopticon, The Heads, All Pigs Must Die @ Tilburg, 21.04.2018
2. Roadburn D4: Godspeed You! Black Emperor (vol II), Alda, Spotlights, Vánagandr: Sól án varma (Misþyrming, Naðra, Svartidauði, Wormlust), Wiegedood, Watter, Bell Witch, Vampillia, GosT, Zuriaake, Hell (Salem) @ Tilburg, 22.04.2018
3. Sideways D1: Bardo Pond, James Holden & The Animal Spirits, Dopplereffekt, Apparat, Teksti-TV 666, A Perfect Circle, Yamantaka feat Sonic Titan, Joni Ekman & Koira @ Helsinki, 08.06.2018
4. Roadburn D2: Minami Deutsch, Motorpsycho, Godflesh, Jarboe ft. Father Murphy, Kairon; Irse!, Planning For Burial, Converge, Kikagaku Moyo, Worship, Joy, Grave Pleasures @ Tilburg, 20.04.2018
5. Roadburn D1: Årabrot, Kælan Mikla, Future Occultism (Bong-Ra, Servants Of The Apocalyptic Goat Rave, Phurpha), Earthless, Horte, Wreck and Reference, Harsh Toke, Weedeater, Stomach Earth @ Tilburg, 19.04.2018
6. Sideways D3: Ben Frost, K-X-P, Preoccupations, MØ @ Helsinki, 10.06.2018
7. Sideways D2: Deerhunter, Oranssi Pazuzu, Cigarettes After Sex, Kaukolampi, Jane Weaver, Siinai, Visible Cloaks, The National, The Comet Is Coming @ Helsinki, 09.06.2018
8. PPF 2018 D2: Broken English Club, Nina Kraviz, Lena Willikens, Imatran Voima, Superficial Random Knowledge Porridge, Ron Morelli, Anastasia Kristensen, Aux 88 @ Sevcabel, 28.07.2018
9. Электромеханика: Sobranie 8 18, Eva Geist, Les Trucs, Luceria Dalt, Amnesia Scanner, Alexander Robotnick, GhostNoir, Петроградское Гудельное Собрание, LVRIN, Måla, Wolffflow, Илья Артемов @ Alexandrinsky Theatre, 03.11.2018
10. Innocence: Kedr Livanskiy, Maceo Plex, Rødhåd, DJ Koze, Monika Kruse, Lena Popova, Fatima Yamaha, Magda @ Street Art Museum, 02.06.2018
11. Stereoleto D2: Chkbns, Спасибо, Franz Ferdinand, Cigarettes After Sex, Увула, Tequilajazzz, Комсомольск @ Artplay, 11.06.2018
12. SKIF XXII: Holy Motors, Motorpsycho, T'ien Lai, Tangerine Dream, Andrea Belfi, ДК Посторонних, Фивы @ Alexandrinsky Theatre, 18.05.2018
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#seenlive
1. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ A2, 25.07.2018
2. Roger Waters @ SKK, 29.08.2018
3. Lebanon Hanover, Soft Kill @ Mod, 02.11.2018
4. Dead Meadow, Grave Disgrace @ Zoccolo, 17.10.2018
5. The Jesus & Mary Chain @ Kosmonavt, 16.05.2018
6. Cold Cave, Ash Code @ Opera, 18.11.2018
7. Chkbns, Архитектурный оркестр благодетели, Bananafish @ Opera, 02.09.2018
8. Adult., Supernova 1006 @ Mosaique, 25.11.2018
9. Drab Majesty, Supernova 1006, Рыцарь диких яблок @ Serdce, 12.01.2018
10. LA Witch, Angelic Milk @ Mod, 02.06.2018
11. Big Brave @ Zoccolo 2.0, 04.05.2018
12. Philip Jeck, Automotrice @ New Holland, 05.09.2018
13. John Duncan, Alexei Borisov @ Club, 13.08.2018
14. ГШ / Glintshake @ Erarta, 22.06.2018
15. Jean Sibelius — Kalevala @ Capella, 22.12.2018
16. :Of The Wand & The Moon: @ Opera, 18.02.2018
17. Trisomie 21 @ The Place, 23.09.2018
18. Zola Jesus @ Mod, 06.11.2018
19. Gnaw Their Tongues @ The Place, 06.04.2018
20. Laibach @ Opera, 09.10.2018
21. Black Rebel Motorcycle Club @ Kosmonavt, 12.06.2018
22. Darkwood, Agnivolok @ Serdce, 12.10.2018
23. Tim Hecker @ Mosaique, 01.06.2018
24. Trna, Show Me A Dinosaur @ Fish, 23.03.2018
25. Author & Punisher, Trepaneringsritualen @ Serdce, 03.06.2018
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#films
1. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017, прокат в 2018) / Три билборда на границе Эббинга, Миссури @ Martin McDonagh, 9/10
2. Loro (2018) / Лоро @ Paolo Sorrentino 9/10
3. Лето (2018) / Leto @ Kirill Serebrennikov, 9/10
4. Mortal Engines (2018) / Хроники хищных городов @ Christian Rivers, 9/10
5. Jem Cohen shorts @ Film Festival «Message to Man», St Petersburg, Russia, 9/10
6. Unsane (2018) / Не в себе @ Steven Soderbergh, 9/10
7. You Were Never Really Here (2017, прокат в 2018) / Тебя никогда здесь не было @ Lynne Ramsay, 8/10
8. Joueurs / Нас не догонят @ Marie Monge, 8/10
9. Bohemian Rhapsody / Богемская рапсодия (2018) @ Bryan Singer, 8/10
10. Green Book / Зелёная книга @ Peter Farrelly, 8/10
11. How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2018) / Как разговаривать с девушками на вечеринках @ John Cameron Mitchell, 8/10
12. A Star Is Born (2018) / Звезда родилась @ Bradley Cooper, 8/10
13. Aquaman (2018) / Аквамен @ James Wan, 8/10
14. Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) / Хан Соло: Звёздные войны. Истории @ Ron Howard, 7/10
15. Mission: Impossible — Fallout (2018) / Миссия невыполнима: Последствия @ Christopher McQuarrie, 7/10
16. Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald / Фантастические твари: Преступления Грин-де-Вальда @ David Yates, 7/10
17. Ready Player One (2018) / Первому игроку приготовиться @ Steven Spielberg, 7/10
18. Avengers: Infinity War (2018) / Мстители: Война бесконечности @ Anthony Russo, 7/10
19. Adrift (2018) / Во власти стихии @ Baltasar Kormákur, 6/10
20. Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018) / Бегущий в лабиринте: Лекарство от смерти @ Wes Ball, 6/10
21. Submergence (2017) / Погружение @ Wim Wenders, 6/10
22. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) / Мир Юрского периода 2 @ Juan Antonio Bayona, 5/10
— провал года: Siberia (2018) / Профессионал @ Matthew Ross, 1/10 [Keanu, wtf?!]
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films [planned, alphabetical]:
22 июля / 22 July @ Paul Greengrass
Апгрейд / Upgrade @ Leigh Whannell
Баллада Бастера Скраггса / The Ballad of Buster Scruggs @ Coen brothers
Братья Систерс / The Sisters Brothers @ Jacques Audiard
Всем парням, которых я любила раньше / To All the Boys I've Loved Before @ Susan Johnson
Двойные жизни / Doubles vies @ Olivier Assayas
Догмэн / Dogman @ Matteo Garrone
Дом, который построил Джек / The House that Jack Built @ Lars von Trier
Другая сторона ветра / The Other Side of the Wind (1970-76, 2018) @ Orson Welles
Закат / Napszállta @ László Nemes
Магазинные воришки / Manbiki kazoku @ Hirokazu Koreeda
Мэнди / Mandy (2017) @ Panos Cosmatos
На границе миров / Gräns (Border) @ Ali Abbasi
Не волнуйся, он далеко не уйдёт / Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot @ Gus Van Sant
Ничего хорошего в отеле «Эль рояль» / Bad Times at the El Royale @ Drew Goddard
Операция «Финал» / Operation Finale @ Chris Weitz
Остров собак / Isle of Dogs @ Wes Anderson
Пепел — самый чистый белый / Jiang hu er nv @ Zhangke Jia
Под Сильвер-Лэйк / Under the Silver Lake @ David Robert Mitchell
Призрачная нить / Phantom Thread (2017) @ Paul Thomas Anderson
Простая просьба / A Simple Favor @ Paul Feig
Пылающий / Burning @ Chang-dong Lee
Рассказ / The Tale @ Jennifer Fox
Рим / Roma @ Alfonso Cuarón
Тихое место / A Quiet Place @ Paul Feig
Холодная война / Zimna wojna @ Paweł Pawlikowski
Человек на Луне / First Man @ Damien Chazelle
Экстаз / Climax @ Gaspar Noé
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tv series [planned, alphabetical]:
Американцы / The Americans
Барри / Barry
Блеск / Glow
Затерянные в космосе / Lost in Space
Касл-Рок / Castle Rock
Маньяк / Maniac
Мозаика / Mosaic
Озарк / Ozark
Острые предметы / Sharp Objects
Побег из тюрьмы Даннемора / Escape at Dannemora
Рассказ служанки / The Handmaid’s Tale
Террор / The Terror
Трагедия в Уэйко / Waco
Тьма / Dark
Убивая Еву / Killing Eve
Удивительная миссис Мейзел / The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Человек в высоком замке / The Man in the High Castle
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best_of_2018 (all in one) @ The Wire, Resident Advisor, CVLT Nation, Pitchfork, Uncut, Mojo, Noisey, Stereogum, gorilla vs. bear, The Line of Best Fit, Q, Echoes And Dust, Under the Radar, PopMatters, Tiny Mix Tapes, XLR8R, Irregular Crates, DJ Mag, arcticdrones, bandcamp, Decibel, Rolling Stone, Consequence of Sound, Kerrang!, The A.V. Club, AllMusic
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total recall:
Albums of the Year:
flickr:
2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017
last - blogspot:
livejournal:
2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006
shoegazers:
2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018
2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012
2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007
#best_of_2018 #top2018 #deepskyobject
Abyssian; perched atop craggy rocks amongst the Moruth Swamplands of Nocturnus, this is a most inhospitable place and home to Lord Ssilyrrlith, current leader of the Nocturnus Guild. He is surrounded by his loyal Reptrians and mystics who use the strange Orion sphere to scrye.
I was looking to create my first full castle build and wanted to achieve a remote, isolated yet claustrophobic feel with many tall spires and towers crammed in together. Hope you guys like the look and feel free to comment and critique.
Cheers
ISC.
Abyssian; perched atop craggy rocks amongst the Moruth Swamplands of Nocturnus, this is a most inhospitable place and home to Lord Ssilyrrlith, current leader of the Nocturnus Guild. He is surrounded by his loyal Reptrians and mystics who use the strange Orion sphere to scrye.
I was looking to create my first full castle build and wanted to achieve a remote, isolated yet claustrophobic feel with many tall spires and towers crammed in together. Hope you guys like the look and feel free to comment and critique.
Cheers
ISC.
Taking a break from my crystal ball captures. :D
Don't start heaving a sigh of relief. :D :D :D
I am not done with the crystal ball series yet. Am just giving my dear friends here a break from scrying. :) :) In any case my hands are hurting with carrying the sky with one hand and taking pictures with the other. LOL...
So here I am... with some fresh baked tacos and ready filling.
Enjoy!!! :)
She rotates the wrist of her left hand ever so slightly, opening a connection to the weave, stretching her hands over the water of the scrying pool. She begins to paint them in the air with sweeping motions, intoning; "Ex hic ut illic. Sic mote is exsisto. Patefacio a fenestra sic EGO can animadverto." (From here to there. So mote it be. Open a window so I can see.) Blue lines of energy follow the motion of her hands. Then making a spreading motion over the water, the blue energy sinks and settles onto the surface. She nods to Bear and reaches her fingers toward him so he knows she needs him to move and place her fingers on the scar the drow had given him. She does not look at him however, keeping her focus on the waters of the pool and the gathering spell.
“Fortune-telling was quantum betting, a competitive scrying of variably likely outcomes.”
―(China Miéville: Kraken)―
Wondering what the future may hold for me, I come back to Zoltar... my own form of quantum betting. But... what are the stakes?
Drakk had spent months searching through books in search of ways to expand his ever growing thirst for power. It was only recently that he stumbled across a handwritten note in a tome on chemical properties detailing the creation of a potion capable of unlocking “hidden potential.” The results were vague, but the ingredients were clear. The majority of the reagents were easily obtainable given Drakk’s ever growing treasure horde, but one item would prove to be elusive. The formulae called for a glowing chartreuse crystal, rare and found only in the deserts of loreos. It only took Drakk a moment to decide to venture for the crystal himself after being in the cramped library of the monastery for so long.
After completing a scrying spell to locate the nearest source of crystal, Drakk ventured to Loreos with a handful of his warriors. It wasn’t long before he stood at the very place his spell had guided him, an unsuspecting rock formation in an oasis deep in sandy desert. He and his men searched everywhere, but to no avail. The sun, sand, and frustration was more than enough for the sorcerer to lose his temper.
“Blast this Loressi wasteland!” He yelled as he conjured a fireball and threw it into the ground. As the smoke cleared, a small opening appeared in the rock. An underground cavern! “Quickly, give me your rope,” Drakk ordered to the nearest warrior monk. Grasping the secured line, he climbed through the hole into the cavern. The walls were covered in the glowing crystals, filling the cave with soft light. Still, the bottom could not be seen. Drakk reached for the nearest shard and ripped it free from the outcrop with his taloned hand.
Back on the surface, Drakk admired the crystal. Turning it over in his hands he felt its dormant magical properties trapped within. He couldn’t wait to bring it back to his lab...
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Decided to try to do an inverted build, wish I had more rock pieces!
That the sperm of a man be putrefied by itself in a sealed cucurbit for forty days with the highest degree of putrefaction in a horse’s womb, or at least so long that it comes to life and moves itself, and stirs, which is easily observed. After this time, it will look somewhat like a man, but transparent, without a body. If, after this, it be fed wisely with the Arcanum of human blood, and be nourished for up to forty weeks, and be kept in the even heat of the horse’s womb, a living human child grows therefrom, with all its members like another child, which is born of a woman, but much smaller.Comparisons have been made with several similar concepts in the writings of earlier alchemists. Although the actual word "homunculus" was never used, Carl Jung believed that the concept first appeared in the Visions of Zosimos, written in the third century AD. In the visions, Zosimos encounters a priest who changes into "the opposite of himself, into a mutilated anthroparion".The Greek word "anthroparion" is similar to "homunculus" – a diminutive form of "man". Zosimos subsequently encounters other anthroparion in his dream but there is no mention of the creation of artificial life. In his commentary, Jung equates the homunculus with the Philosopher’s Stone, and the "inner man" in parallel with ChristIn Islamic alchemy, Takwin (Arabic: تكوين) was a goal of certain Muslim alchemists, a notable one being Jābir ibn Hayyān. In the alchemical context, Takwin refers to the artificial creation of life in the laboratory, up to and including human lifeThe homunculus continued to appear in alchemical writings after Paracelsus' time. The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (1616) for example, concludes with the creation of a male and female form identified as Homunculi duo. The allegorical text suggests to the reader that the ultimate goal of alchemy is not chrysopoeia, but it is instead the artificial generation of man. Here, the creation of homunculi symbolically represents spiritual regeneration and Christian soteriology In 1775, Count Johann Ferdinand von Kufstein, together with Abbé Geloni, an Italian cleric, are reputed to have created ten homunculi with the ability to foresee the future, which von Kufstein kept in glass containers at his Masonic lodge in Vienna. Dr. Emil Besetzny's Masonic handbook, Die Sphinx, devoted an entire chapter to the wahrsagenden Geister (scrying ghosts). These are reputed to have been seen by several people, including local dignitaries The homunculus is commonly used today in scientific disciplines such as psychology as a teaching or memory tool to describe the distorted scale model of a human drawn or sculpted to reflect the relative space human body parts occupy on the somatosensory cortex (the "sensory homunculus") and the motor cortex (the "motor homunculus"). Both the motor and sensory homonculi usually appear as small men superimposed over the top of precentral or postcentral gyri for motor and sensory cortices respectively. The homunculus is oriented with feet medial and shoulders lateral on top of both the precentral and the postcentral gyrus (for both motor and sensory). The man's head is depicted upside down in relation to the rest of the body such that the forehead is closest to the shoulders. The lips, hands, feet and sex organs have more sensory neurons than other parts of the body, so the homunculus has correspondingly large lips, hands, feet, and genitals. The motor homunculus is very similar to the sensory homunculus, but differs in several ways. Specifically, the motor homunculus has a portion for the tongue most lateral while the sensory homunculus has an area for genitalia most medial and an area for visceral organs most lateral.[11][12] Well known in the field of neurology, this is also commonly called "the little man inside the brain." This scientific model is known as the cortical homunculus.In medical science, the term homunculus is sometimes applied to certain fetus-like ovarian cystic teratomae. These will sometimes contain hair, sebaceous material and in some cases cartilagous or bony structures
Homunculi can be found in centuries worth of literature. These fictions are primarily centred around imaginative speculations on the quest for artificial life associated with Paracelsian alchemy. One of the very earliest literary references occurs in Thomas Browne's Religio Medici (1643), in which the author states:I am not of Paracelsus minde that boldly delivers a receipt to make a man without conjunction,.The fable of the alchemically-created homunculus may have been central in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (1818). Professor Radu Florescu suggests that Johann Conrad Dippel, an alchemist born in Castle Frankenstein, might have been the inspiration for the fictional Victor Frankenstein. German playwright Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust, Part Two (1832) famously features an alchemically-created homunculus.[15] Here, the character of Homunculus embodies the quest of a pure spirit to be born into mortal form, contrasting Faust's desire to shed his mortal body to become pure spirit. The alchemical idea that the soul is not imprisoned in the body, but instead may find its brightest state as it passes through the material plane is central to the character.The homunculus legend, Frankenstein and Faust have continued to influence works in the twentieth and twenty-first century. The theme has been used not only in fantasy literature, but also to illuminate social topics. For instance, the British children's writers Mary Norton and Rumer Godden used homunculus motifs in their work, expressing various post-war anxieties about refugees, persecution of minorities in war, and the adaptation of these minorities to a "big" world.[17] W. Somerset Maugham's 1908 novel The Magician utilises the concept of the homunculus as an important plot element. David H. Keller’s short story "A Twentieth-Century Homunculus" (1930) describes the creation of homunculi on an industrial scale by a pair of misogynists. Likewise, Sven Delblanc’s The Homunculus: A Magic Tale (1965) addresses misogyny and the Cold War industrial-military complexes of the Soviet Union and NATO.The eye listens to the green rays which draw its peripheries bright of life, the electric energy resembles this lighting yet only due to a green filter and an under exposure of the edges of the image.The homunsculus and the metallic embryon is the fairy Tale of the Green Snacke
Abyssian; perched atop craggy rocks amongst the Moruth Swamplands of Nocturnus, this is a most inhospitable place and home to Lord Ssilyrrlith, current leader of the Nocturnus Guild. He is surrounded by his loyal Reptrians and mystics who use the strange Orion sphere to scrye.
I was looking to create my first full castle build and wanted to achieve a remote, isolated yet claustrophobic feel with many tall spires and towers crammed in together. Hope you guys like the look and feel free to comment and critique.
Cheers
ISC.
"Well, well, well what do we have here? Man will you look at the ass on... oh! Hello there. As you can see I'm busy checking up on the next contestant on 'Who wants to track down a magic man?' Granted there's a bit more to it than just magic but we'll leave that particular bit for later. So as we can see here through the handy dandy scrying portal, a spy hole if you will, our little heroine Chloe is hot on the trail of.... well me I guess but so far she's coming up empty handed.
Here you can see her talking to none other than Silus 'Smelly Dick' Sampson. I'm not quite sure where he got that nick name from, but I've heard rumors about a troll and a pair of goats.... Anyway, Silus knows quite a bit about what goes on in the streets of Old Towne and just happens to owe Chloe a few favors.
Not that street level informants ever have an agenda of their own, I mean... ever seen any cop movie ever right? Let's see where this gets little miss Arbiter Wonder Buns here...."
There's a certain amount of artifice in most of my photos. It's generally driven by a creative intent. A desire to manipulate images to tell a story, to present a vision. It begins in the viewfinder. Even though I'm seeing an actual place, thing or person through my lens, there's always a way to alter the viewpoint to advance there storyline. That's not really deception, but more like putting a spin on the image. Post processing is where the raw image is shaped into the images you see here. It's always a two-stage process, often separated by days or weeks from image capture to final result. My very limited experience with the Lensbaby has shifted that paradigm. The distortion, the departure from reality is happening in the viewfinder rather than post processing. It's a realtime event; much more fluid and dynamic than I'm accustomed to. This presents a weird sort of collision of worlds for me as I'm forced to carry some of that post processing mentality with me during the photo session. Like many things however, different is necessarily bad, it's just different. I love when creativity gets jolted like this. What I'm really discovering here is the ability to tell the (visual) story with a bare minimum on clarity...to the point where detail is more of an abstraction. This is a big jump for me, being an f8, sharp focus kind pf guy. But even then, the goal is always to create images the convey feeling as much as depictions. I think these lessons will stay with me even after the Lensbaby goes back to its rightful owner.
The warlock is scrying on the Lion Knights in his crystal ball. "What warlock?" you may ask. The Brickscalibur warlock- you can win him as a prize for this year's Medieval Micro, which is what this is an entry for. In this build I tried to keep as many details from the Lion Knight's Castle set, and downsize them into this roughly 800 piece digital model. I wasn't originally going to do a digital entry, but a few days in bed with the flu and not much else to do changed my mind :)
Thanks for checking it out,
Math Wizard
Kamera: Ondu 6x6 Rise
Film: Ilford FP4
Kjemi: Rodinal (Stand 1:100 / 60 min. @ 20°C)
No cropping, no post-processing, film has not been pushed or pulled. No alterations, no bullshit.
KK Eye: How to use a crystal ball to scry (2017) [BALLS]
“A Little Tale”…
Elisbeth had been a witch since birth. She was born into a family that consisted of a long line of powerful, highly regarded, and knowledgeable witches. So, it was only natural for her to be raised as what she was, a witch. And, fortunately for her, she was born at a time when witches, the occult, and the like was very popular...the Victorian Era,
Her childhood, during this era was magical; not only in what she was taught and could do, but by wonder, enchantment, and the contact she had with nature, the elements, elementals, and animals. Her days were spent, in great part, simply wandering in the woods and forests, playing with elementals, and studying the Heavens and the moon phases.
Her favorite moon phase was the full moon. For with the full moon came the rituals, but, best of all, the moon was huge and Elisbeth felt she could talk directly to the Goddess. She would bend her little head back as far as it would go, look up at the big round orb with eyes wide and mouth slightly opened in awe, and mentally send her messages to the Goddess. And, she knew for certain that the Goddess heard her and answered her. She heard the Goddess’ voice clearly in her head.
…During her full moon discussions with the Goddess, the Goddess empowered little Elisbeth with even greater knowledge, wisdom, and imparted long held secrets. The Goddess adored the child…. So, the Goddess enhanced Elisbeth’s abilities, powers, psychic vision, and gifts even more and…[she] grew and became one of the wisest, most knowledgeable, and powerful witches among all witches who ever lived.
Her communications with the Goddess, as well as the time period in which she was born made Elisbeth love the Victorian Era and never wanted to see it end. Sadly, though, one night, in her scrying bowl, she saw the future and did not like what she saw. All the hussle and bustle, the wars, the hate, the loss of manners and etiquette, lack of people caring for one another, and most of all, the disregard, which would be even greater than that in the Victorian Era, for animals and nature...
So, she put a spell on herself. She made it so that, to her, it would always be the Victorian Era. She saw no planes, iPods, TVs, cell phones and the like. She continued to wander in the woods and forests with no fear of being harmed and practiced her craft, helping others, nature, and animals. She dressed and conducted herself like a grand Victorian lady, following the traditions and customs she was taught during that time.
People saw her as eccentric or a bit batty, but she did not care. She was happy and content. She spent every full moon outside with her head bent way back, eyes wide, and her mouth slightly opened. She would talk to the Goddess and the Goddess would answer her.
She was happy. “Life”, she thought, “is what you make it. The power is in each of us to create the life we want and to choose to be happy or sad.”
~Marsha J. West~ Author and Owner of this original “A Little Tale” * Edited for Flickr.
“The Little Tale” is my original idea, story idea, and the story itself is written by me, Marsha J. West. It is my property and cannot be copied, reproduced, reprinted or used.
This is currently the table I have selected for doing Tarot and Oracle readings. It did NOT come with the script for the Tarot Deck, that is from another item. This is by far one of the better Tarot table set-ups I have found as I have multi-choice of spreads, different styles of decks, I have control of which cards are turned over or I can leave it random. I only wish more creators that actually made Tarot tables put this much work into them. I have seen quite a few Tarot Tables on the SL Marketplace, but none have proven to be this in-depth. If they were I would have bought a few more because there are some nice Tarot Tables on the MP...they just lack the control this does.
Week 6 in 52 Weeks for Dogs and here is my late submission for last week's group challenge ~ something red / a scarf / a piece of paper.
As you can see, Tasku has a new talent and using her crystal ball she will tell your future for just five cookies - what a bargain!
Processing: removed title and added new title text to book, added pawprints to sign, cloned in more red cloth to fill part of the background on the right. Adjusted levels and brightness, then used an overlay by Isabelle Lafrance
This crystal ball is one that really can trigger your imagination, if you let it. Imagine this, for example…
In a dark room with only candles for light sit six people around a large round table draped in a black silk cloth. They are holding hands. Some of them are holding hands with sweaty palms.
One of the people at the table is the reason the other five are there. She is a gypsy with strong physic and medium abilities and from her they hope to get something from someone who has recently passed over to the Other Side.
The room smells of incense, old wood, candles, and dead things…like flowers or leaves. The air in the room is heavy which makes it hard to breathe. There is, not only magic in the air, but fear, energy, anticipation, greed, and something else…the unknown, perhaps?
Each person gathered there has a vested interest of some sort; their own agenda. They hope the gypsy will get them what they desire; a chance to speak with the “deceased”. The gypsy is old, very old, and has long grey hair around which she has tied a scarf of bright colors. The gypsy can “see” into the hearts of each of those around the table and can also see their auras. The energy emanating from these people is mixed – some good and some very much the opposite.
Only two of the five have bright green auras and their energy is good, but the other three, well, she sees darkness, ill intent, and evil in them and around them. It makes her shutter. But, given her years of experience, she is not worried about the dark souls. Universal Law will take care of them.
She has no doubt she will contact this spirit whom they wish to communicate with. Her powers are so great she can contact the Other Side with ease. She is filled with her own energy and anxious to hear with what the spirit will respond and how it will react to each of the person’s questions and comments.
She knows the ones with black souls and hearts want something, whereas, the other two, good souls, want to give something to the spirit. They want to say goodbye, give their love, and the like. But, the other three, well… that is where the fun is going to come in. She, not only feels it, but knows it. Magic is high tonight and things will fly and those will evil intent are in for big surprise… a surprise far beyond the confines of this room.
She wants to laugh out loud as she slowly raises her eyes to gaze briefly on these evil ones, but, she is anxious to start and tells the group not to utter a word or sound until she tells them to. On this she is firm.
As she goes into her meditative state, she thinks to herself, “Such fools. Be careful what you ask for…you may just get it and it is nothing like your expectations. You get back what you give out. Evil begets evil.”
Gazing into her clear crystal ball on its tall unique stand, a white spiral shaped form begins to take shape…the spirit is coming and the fate of those in the room is going to change forever…
~Marsha J. West, Author
(This is my original “A Little Tale” and crystal ball. They are my personal creative property and are not to be stolen, copied, reproduced or used in any medium of any sort without my written prior approval.)
Melchar the Mage had seen many things in his scrying pool - the secrets and wonders of countless realms. But tonight he made his most terrible discovery. Tonight he realized that something was staring back.
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I always loved the old black and white reruns of the 1950’s sci fi TV shows like Flash Gorgon and his nemesis Dr. Zarkov. The technology in those shows is really rather funny. It was considered high tech then too. Even the first Star Trek’s weapons, equipment and other technology are so silly. But, one day, I guess, future generations will be laughing at our cell phones and pads.
In The Enchanted Woods, time is different than as it is here for us humans. Time is a continuum. The past co-exists with the present and the present with the future. So, old and current are, well, the same. So, this retro looking, but really magical, scrying ball fits right in.
Just looking at it, my imagination goes into high gear… This scrying ball with its ringed collar could have belonged to Dr. Zarkov. But, that circular collar could also be there for the wizard’s use for many different purposes or a specific purpose… maybe it revolves constantly or at certain times of the day, week or year. Maybe it is tied into the tides or the planets. Or the weather... You never know with wizards about this sort of thing.
What I do know, though, is that one’s imagination can make it anything they wish and give it any abilities or powers one can dream up. It is ideal for dollhouses, scenes, room boxes, dioramas, wizards, witches, and elementals.
This quick portrait in the elements is set to record the atmosphere of the reflecting horizon of the setting Sun. The perception of light and sacred geometry squaring the circle of life and mapping all energy upon the illuminated compass rose that details the directions where the triangle points to the angle of available spirit both divided and united.
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These are micro (macro) photographs of the deep interiors of my roses.
If you ever wanted to know what was going on underneath all of those beautiful petals, now you know.
The colors, as bright and saturated as they appear, are authentic, and the textures are natural; nothing has been added or altered in post-processing.
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More micro (macro) shots of the interior of my roses in my new set, "The Rose Universe:"
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