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Sometimes you just don't know what u have captured until the download and editing like this lovely capture of 2 passerine birds on the Kent nature reserve at Bough Beech
Sometimes our cats vy for a certain spot or old pillow or cushion! There are always favorites!
Happy Caturday! - Faces
Sometimes you Feel Like A Nut Skippy loves peanuts and shows up every day to get some, he did not move when I stuck my camera out the door and took his picture, shot in North Carolina.
Dilmun is associated with ancient sites on the islands of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, the Cradle of Civilization.
Dilmun (sometimes transliterated Telmun) is associated with ancient sites on the islands of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf. Because of its location along the sea trade routes linking Mesopotamia with the Indus Valley Civilization, Dilmun developed in the Bronze Age, from ca. 3000 BC, into one of the greatest entrepots of trade of the ancient world.
There is both literary and archaeological evidence for the trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley (probably correctly identified with the land called Meluhha in Akkadian). Impressions of clay seals from the Indus Valley city of Harappa were evidently used to seal bundles of merchandise, as clay seal impressions with cord or sack marks on the reverse side testify.
A number of these Indus Valley seals have turned up at Ur and other Mesopotamian sites. "Persian Gulf" types of circular stamped rather than rolled seals, known from Dilmun, that appear at Lothal in Gujarat, India, and Faylahkah, as well as in Mesopotamia, are convincing corroboration of the long-distance sea trade. What the commerce consisted of is less sure: timber and precious woods, ivory, lapis lazuli, gold, and luxury goods such as carnelian and glazed stone beads, pearls from the Persian Gulf, shell and bone inlays, were among the goods sent to Mesopotamia in exchange for silver, tin, woolen textiles, olive oil and grains. Copper ingots, certainly, bitumen, which occurred naturally in Mesopotamia, may have been exchanged for cotton textiles and domestic fowl, major products of the Indus region that are not native to Mesopotamia - all these have been instanced.
Mesopotamian trade documents, lists of goods, and official inscriptions mentioning Meluhha supplement Harappan seals and archaeological finds. Literary references to Meluhhan trade date from the Akkadian, the Third Dynasty of Ur, and Isin - Larsa Periods (ca. 2350 - 1800 BC), but the trade probably started in the Early Dynastic Period (ca. 2600 BC). Some Meluhhan vessels may have sailed directly to Mesopotamian ports, but by the Isin - Larsa Period, Dilmun monopolized the trade. By the subsequent Old Babylonian period, trade between the two cultures evidently had ceased entirely.
The Bahrain National Museum assesses that its "Golden Age" lasted ca. 2200 - 1600 BC. Its decline dates from the time the Indus Valley civilization suddenly and mysteriously collapsed, in the middle of the 2nd millennium BC. This would of course have stripped Dilmun of its importance as a trading center between Mesopotamia and India. The decay of the great sea trade with the east may have affected the power shift northwards observed in Mesopotamia itself.
Evidence about Neolithic human cultures in Dilmun comes from flint tools and weapons. From later periods, cuneiform tablets, cylinder seals, pottery and even correspondence between rulers throw light on Dilmun. Written records mentioning the archipelago exist in Sumerian, Akkadian, Persian, Greek, and Latin sources.
Dilmun, sometimes described as "the place where the sun rises" and "the Land of the Living" is the scene of a Sumerian creation myth and the place where the deified Sumerian hero of the flood, Ziusudra (Utnapishtim), was taken by the gods to live for ever.
There is mention of Dilmun as a vassal of Assyria in the 8th century BC and by about 600 BC, it had been fully incorporated into the Neo-Babylonian Empire. Dilmun then falls into deep eclipse marked by the decline of the copper trade, so long controlled by Dilmun, and the switch to a less important role in the new trade of frankincense and spices. The discovery of an impressive palace at the Ras al Qalah site in Bahrain is promising to increase knowledge of this late period.
Otherwise, there is virtually no information until the passage of Nearchus, the admiral in charge of Alexander the Great's fleet on the return from the Indus Valley. Nearchus kept to the Iranian coast of the Gulf, however, and cannot have stopped at Dilmun. Nearchus established a colony on the island of Falaika off the coast of Kuwait in the late 4th century BC, and explored the Gulf perhaps least as far south as Dilmun/Bahrain.
From the time of Nearchus until the coming of Islam in the 7th century AD Dilmun/Bahrain was known by its Greek name of Tylos. The political history for this period is little known, but Tylos was at one point part of the Seleucid Empire, and of Characene and perhaps part of the Parthian Empire. Shapur II annexed it, together with eastern Arabia, into the Persian Sassanian empire in the 4th century.
Unlike Egyptian and Mesopotamian tablets and cylinders, the Dilmun legacy has been discovered on circular seals. The primitive forms of images carved on the seal indicate they were used as charms or talisman. Carved on wood, soapstone shells or metal, these images clearly define a complex society. Temples in the center of the agrarian village, towns, city-states, religious, and economic cultural life. All facets of the emergence of an evolutionary society are reflected in the inscriptions about the seals.
Impressions found on pottery and property is a probable usage of the seals. Burying them with the dead was probably to avoid misuse. Tiny fragments found impressed, suggest identifying property. Clearly there was an intrinsic value; each seal tells a story, has an identity.
Seals depict Enki, God of wisdom and sweet water. Gilgamesh as a massive and heroic figure, the 'Bull of heaven' hat. Ladies of the mountains 'Inanas' servants wearing her triangle signs depicting space for her power. 'Nana' is the moon god who was also named 'sin'. Symbol was the bull of heaven head. Inana, goddess of immortality.
From the dreams of Gilgamesh, to the philosophy of life. Seals depicting a harmonious life with nature and god are painted here in the colors and form I hope you enjoy. The colors naturally excite and stimulate, often sexually. Indisputably the ancient myths of immortality and resurrection influenced Dilmun beliefs and are abundantly supported in the seal designs, represented by gods of the sun and moon.
The Mesopotamian texts described Tilmun as situated at the 'mouth' of two bodies of water. The Sinai peninsula, shaped as an inverted triangle indeed begins where the Red Sea separates into two arms - the gulf of Suez on the west, and the Gulf of Elat (Gulf of Aqaba) on the east.
The texts spoke of mountainous Tilmun. The Sinai peninsula is indeed made up of a high mountainous southern part, a mountainous central plateau, and a northern plain (surrounded by mountains), which levels off via sandy hills to the Mediterranean coastline. Sargon of Akkad claimed that he reached as 'washed his weapons' in the Mediterranean; 'the sea lands' - the lands along the Mediterranean coast - 'three times I encircled; Tilmun my hand captured'. Sargon II, king of Assyria in the eighth century BC, asserted that he had conquered the area stretching 'from Bit-Yahkin on the shore of the salt Sea as far as the border of Tilmun'. The name 'Salt Sea' has survived to this day as a Hebrew name for the Dead Sea - another confirmation that Tilmun lay in proximity to the Dead Sea.
The cradle of civilization is sometimes referenced by the name Dilmun, or Tilmun. Here, it was said, the god Ea and his wife were placed to institute 'a sinless age of complete happiness'.
Here too animals lived in peace and harmony, man had no rival and the god Enlil `in one tongue gave praise'. It is also described as a pure, clean and `bright' `abode of the immortals' where death, disease and sorrow are unknown and some mortals have been given `life like a god', words reminiscent of the Airyana Vaejah, the realm of the immortals in Iranian myth and legend, and the Eden of Hebraic tradition
Although Dilmun is equated by most scholars with the island of Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, there is evidence to suggest that a much earlier mythical Dilmun was located in a mountainous region beyond the plains of Sumer.
But where exactly was it located Mesopotamian inscriptions do not say; however, the Zoroastrian Bundahishn text and the Christian records of Arbela in Iraqi Kurdistan both refer to a location named Dilamƒn as having existed around the head waters of the Tigris, south-west of Lake Van - the very area in which the biblical Eden is said to have been located.
Furthermore, Ea (the Akkadian Enki) was said to have presided over the concourse of Mesopotamia's two greatest rivers - the Tigris and Euphrates - which are shown in depictions as flowing from each of his shoulders.
This would have undoubtedly have meant that the head-waters, or sources, of these rivers would have been looked upon as sacred to Ea by the cultures of Mesopotamia's Fertile Crescent.
- Zecharia Sitchin The Stairway to Heaven
Dilmun was allegedly a magical land, the birthplace of the gods and the place where the arts of civilization where said first to have been transmitted to men. It was the subject of many legends told by the Sumerians, the people of southern Iraq; it was famed as a land where death and disease were unknown and men and animals lived at peace together.
It was the home of the Sumerian king who was the origin of the myth of Noah, the immortal survivor of the Great Flood, a story retold in the Qu'ran and the Bible.
The first great hero of world literature, Gilgamesh the king of Uruk, journeyed to Dilmun in search of the secret of eternal youth.
He found it deep in the waters of the Persian Gulf, off Bahrain, but lost it when the flower which restored the youth of those who sought it, was stolen by a snake, lurking in a pool as Gilgamesh returned to his kingdom; this is the reason why the snake sloughs his skin.
Symbolism - All is Myth and Metaphor in our reality
* water: flow of consciousness - creation
* restore to youth: move out of the physical body and return to higher frequency forms of sound, light, and color
* snake: DNA - the human bio-genetic experiment in time and emotion
* kingdom - Leo - Lion - King - Omega - closure
Dilmun was also the center of the most important trade routes of the third and second millennia BC. The most important commodity was copper for which Dilmun was famous and the dates for which Bahrain was always celebrated, from ancient times until the present day.
Because Dilmun was so sacred a land, there were many temples built there, the impressive remains of which can be seen today. The largest and most splendid temple surviving in Western Asia is at Barbar on Bahrain's northern shore.
The most famous of all Bahrain's rich archaeological heritage are the 200,000 grave mounds which are a feature of the landscape in the northern half of the island and which, by their size and quality of construction, show how prosperous Bahrain must have been in ancient times.
Dilmun continued to be the most important center of trade in the Gulf region throughout its history.
After the Sumerians, the Babylonians, Assyrians, even the Greeks, settled on the islands, because of their strategic importance in the movement of merchandise, north and south, east and west, by sea and by the land routes to which the seas gave access.
The records of their diplomatic relations with the kings of Dilmun, some of whose names are known from the records, testify to the importance of the islands throughout antiquity.
All left evidence of their presence, preserved today in the Bahrain National Museum and in the immense archaeological sites in which Bahrain is particularly rich.
Bahrain is an open-air treasure house of the past, a unique heritage from the earliest times when men first began to keep records of their hopes, fears and achievements.
It is the contemporary of ancient Egypt with Sumer and the peoples who succeeded them, of the great cities of the Indus Valley.
Source: www.crystalinks.com/dilmun.html
This is the Garfield Monument where several of his family and the former president James A. Garfield are entombed.
Sometimes the picture is a simple flower sitting in your own back yard. I sort of like the fact that the image goes from light to dark.
And you may ask yourself
What is that beautiful house?
And you may ask yourself
Where does that highway go?
And you may ask yourself
Am I right? ...am I wrong?
And you may tell yourself
My god!...what have I done?
Sometimes the shot just composes itself in front of you. This was one of those occasions that just required a little timing from me.
sometimes I like to do our grocery shopping
at this Fresh Street Market on Fraser Highway
as it has a wonderful view of Miss Baker
from the upper level on a clear day.
song - Theme from Twin Peaks
written by Angelo Badalamenti
performed by Martin Tallstrom on guitar
www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_06O8XnJQo&list=PLSSDzwDL2Dy...
rest in peace David Lynch
~Sometimes people have to cry out all their tears to make room for a heart full of smiles.~
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Bronica EC-TL / Nikkor O.C. 50/f2.8 / Fuji Provia 100F
2007/6/18
Tokyo, Roppongi
Selective exposure, lucky it was such a big area ... I want a Spot meter ...
Sometimes in the cold winter this could warm you up...
Camera: Leica IIIf
Lens: Leitz Summicron 50mm F 1/2.0
Negative: Fuji Velvia RVP 100
Developer: Tetenal E-6
Negative taken with my Sony A7II
Lr+Ps
'Synchronous Flight Back Home' - [Special Series: 'Sometimes The World Is Blue'.. ]
A wonderful winter day near a smal lake in Munich ends slowly.. Snow white swans flying in the dark blue sky with interesting flight formation over my head.. Although the animals are not easy and hardly any wind blowing, you just glide through the air. It was very nice savor the freedom to travel into the distance, the vastness of it, so it in the air and float by the wind. It´s time to say good bye and for 'Synchronous Flight Back Home' in Munich!
I watch the swans and there seems to me a thought in mind: It must be fantastic to be able to fly as! Learning to fly and you are free! - 'I wish you a wonderful day'! ;-))
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Sometimes you get that reward for waking up, getting out at the crack of sparrows, sweating your way up relentless seeming slopes, being chased by midges every time you stop for just a second....well, for a while today was the day.
Snowdonias ridges looking at thier best from Pen yr Ole Wen, left to right Glyder Fawr at the back Snowdon, shapely Y Garn, farthest away the "Rivals" down the Llyn Peninsular with Elidir Fawr on the right........worth it, oh yes.
There were days when it was almost possible to forget, that sometimes the wind, is the most petulant thing of all.
Sometimes they pile the straw even higher up, that's why they want us to cut the trees at the roads.
to do something new.. no matter how scary.. no matter how different.. no matter what people say.. no matter if it seems impossible.. the road ahead .. where does it lead??????
to all my friends..
i will be taking a break from focusing on the "me " shots.. because i enjoy the nature shots so much.. and because so much trauma in my life.. I am an honest person. I cannot post a picture with me with a big smile.. at the moment .. or a big tear, for that matter.
If you see the journey I will be in now. and you are at all interested in my pictures.. for they will be different for a while.. a little experiment.. I will be taking a walk every day .. in Florida .. and I see a lot.. let me know that you are interested.. thank you so much .
if you are interested in a greeting card.. or a postcard.. please let me know that, too :)
Sometimes its nice to show a little more of the scene than just close ups this is one such picture.
Peregrine falcon on the marvellous backdrop that is Chichester Cathedral.
Junk Food - "I really am an adult Meal" and who doesn't want the comfort of their childhood? Pizza, Dino Nuggets, Spaghetti rings, Cheese sticks, waffles, chicken nuggets and smiley tots! Call me pretentious, a Kardashian, whatever. But call me if you need some Ranch Dressing. Of corse holdable, shareable and carb free?
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Sometimes I am just amazed by Japan. To be honest I was just going to find the photography gallery. The park itself was beautiful too though. I just read that it is one of the 100 most beautiful sites in Tokyo. That is high praise, but it fits.
"Whistling in the dark" is an idiom that means to try to appear confident or brave in a difficult situation. It can also mean to pretend that a situation is not as bad as it seems.
After this weeks "Trump Zelensky" "dust up" I think we should be whistling all the time.
According to the BBC news; "European leaders are rallying around Ukraine after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy clashed with US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office.
During the Friday meeting, Trump bluntly accused Zelenskyy of "gambling with World War Three", while the Ukrainian president said there should be "no compromises" with Russia".
(There also seems to be some confusion on how his name is spelled Zelensky or Zelenskyy. in late May, when the presidential administration confounded everyone by adopting the previously unfancied “Zelenskyy” as the official English-language spelling of the new president’s name.).
Sidmouth, Devon, UK.
Sometimes, I need a break from "serious" photography, just to laid back and enjoy in magnificent mother nature colors.
AS of today I have never really put to tought about Jessica in the long term times.
Yes I had those plans as for 2007, for thats as far as it goes.
And by next year if Jessica still exist it would be probably the same.
But, should I be doing with Jessica some long term thinking and planning?
Something like "where is Jessica in 5, 10, 20 years???", or maybe "Whats the final purpose of this girly side??"
As of now, its more exciting, more surprising just do it like this, in short terms, to see what new things, to set goals that are no too far in time.
But if the boy side, has those long term plans and dreams, shouldn't Jessica have her owns, or have some that both sides share. Yet I don't put myself into really thinking about that.
Perhaps I am too scared of what I would thought.
Kisses
Jessica
A veces me pregunto
Hasta hoy, realmente nunca me he puesto en serio a pensar sobre Jessica en terminos de largo plazo.
Si ya se que hice eso de los propositos para el 2007, pero eso es lo mas lejano que va y realmente no es tan a largo plazo.
E igual, si aun para el año siguiente Jessica existe, se pondra nuevos planes para ese año.
Pero, deberia de empezar a pensar y planear en que ocurrira con Jessica a largo plazo??
Algo como "Y donde estara Jessica en 5,10,20 años???2, o quiza mas bien "Realmente tiene un proposito esto del lado niña??"
Y es que hasta ahora es mas interesante no pensar a tan lejos, mas sorpresivo el hacer todo en lapzos de tiemp pequeños, el hacer cosas nuevas, el ponerse posibles ojbjetivos no tan lejos en el tiempo.
Pero si el lado niño, tiene todos esos planes y sueños a largo plazo, No debiera Jessica tambien tener los suyos, o tener unos que sean en comun, de ambos, de mi como todo. Y aun asi cada vez evito el ponerme a pensar realmente en eso.
Quiza es que me da miedo lo que pueda llegar a pensar.
Kisses
Jessica