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---- Angels & Demons (devil tries to tempt Saint Lucia, August 2018, Savoca - Sicily) ----
---- Angeli & Demoni (il demonio tenta Santa Lucia, agosto 2018, Savoca - Sicilia) ----
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this is a photographic narration that speaks of the eternal struggle that takes place between good and evil, which speaks of a dark period of history, speaks of the violence suffered by women but also by those who belonged to the poorest social classes, historical facts that have been handed down to us in the form of a story and associated-transmuted in the martyrdom of Saint Lucia, this is what happens in the town of Savoca (Sicily). This is a short and long report, I did in Savoca on August 2018 about the living representation of the martyrdom of Saint Lucia (patron saint of the city of Savoca); the cult of the young Saint of Syracuse seems to date back to the fifteenth century, under the influence of Spanish traditions. The commemoration of the history of St. Lucia occurs in two consecutive days, Saturday and Sunday: here I try to tell some times of the day on Sunday, a day during which the festival is held at the height of her beauty. And 'This is a historical event which speaks of Demons and Angels: Saint Lucy refused to marry a rich and powerful suitor (Lucy declared She was married in Christ), which reported the Christian faith of Lucia to prefect Pascasio that ordered his Praetorian Guard to drag Lucia with a rope to a place of prostitution; legend has it that the Holy became heavy, they then tried to drag it with the help of oxen, but it was impossible to move it from where he stood; failing in this, it was then given the order to cavarle eyes, but the young martyr (native of Syracuse) her eyes reappeared.
In the village of Savoca a young girl, affectionately called the "Lucy" is carried on the shoulder of a porter along the streets of the country (sitting on a pillow tied on the shoulder of a man, but in fact men are two); the young Saint remains impassive in the face of demonic temptations: the Devil, called in Sicilian dialect "u Diavulazzu, shake, shakes, turns his pitchfork in an attempt to "distract" the Saint.
The first day of this representation, on Saturday, in an old church in Savoca, the two girls who impersonate the Lucia, of the current year and the previous year, meet with the delivery of palm; the traditional event which we witness on Saturday, has all the appearance of an important rehearsal for the next day, on Sunday when the traditional festival will take place in all its beauty.
Sunday: on top of the procession there are the "Jews" (the emissaries of the prefect Pascasio) along with some Angels, is located immediately after the wagon drawn by two cows from which branches off a rope that will arrive to Saint Lucia (a girl of six years); between her and the cows there are Roman soldiers, who make their way through the crowd squirming like crazy; to hold the rope there are also male figures; the job of Devil (his mask is made of wood, whose invoice is dated, it seems, of the 400') is to distract the little Saint with the help of a long stick equipped of curved points, called "u 'croccu": Lucia hardly is deceived by the promises of the evil one, she will not abandon the state of her property concentration, aided in this by staring, almost in a trance, a small palm branch in silver , she brings devoutly in her hands.It's very important to mention the Baron Baldassarre (nicknamed Baron Altadonna), who applied without any hesitation the practice of Jus de seigneur: using this law the Baron obliged the young brides to spend the wedding night in his alcove. It 'very possible that in the representation of Saint Lucia of Savoca the character of the Devil tempting young Santa with his pitchfork, in reality is nothing but himself, Baron Altadonna, so allegorically described in this traditional Sicilian feast: the figure of the Devil if one takes into account what historians relate, does not belong more to the legend, but sadly to actual event happened. Post scriptum: the photographs, realized both on Saturday and Sunday, were organized and posted without taking into account the temporal chronology of what happened during the two days of the event; two photos of the mummy of Baron Altadonna have been included, which is located in the crypt of the Capuchin Fathers of Savoca; the portraits of two "Lucie" from previous editions, grandfather and great-grandfather of the "DIAVOLI" dynasty were included; the "silver palm" was delivered by Lucia of 2016 (Valentina), to the current Lucia (Miriana), in 2017 the event was not performed.
Ezio Famà.
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questa è una narrazione fotografica che parla dell'eterna lotta che avviene tra il bene ed il male, che parla di un periodo buio della storia, che parla delle violenze subite dalle donne ma anche da coloro che appartenevano alle classi sociali più povere, fatti storici che sono stati tramandati fino a noi in forma di racconto ed associati-trasmutati nel martirio di Santa Lucia, questo è quanto accade nel paese di Savoca (Sicilia). Questo è un report corto e lungo, che ho realizzato in quel di Savoca lo scorso mese di Agosto 2018, su quella che è la rappresentazione vivente del martirio di Santa Lucia (Santa patrona della città di Savoca); il culto della giovane Santa di Siracusa sembra risalire al XV secolo, sotto l'influenza delle tradizioni spagnole. La rievocazione vivente della storia di S.Lucia avviene in due giornate consecutive, il sabato e la domenica: qui tento di raccontare alcuni momenti della giornata della domenica, giorno durante il quale la festa si svolge nel pieno della sua bellezza. E' questa una rievocazione storica che parla di Demoni ed Angeli: la storia rievoca di quando la Santa, si rifiutò di andare in sposa ad un suo ricco e potente pretendente (essendosi dichiarata Cristiana e sposa in Cristo), il quale per vendetta riferì della fede Cristiana di Lucia al prefetto Pascasio; costui diede ordine ai suoi pretoriani di trascinare Lucia con una corda fino ad un lupanare, un luogo di prostituzione; la leggenda narra che la Santa divenne pesantissima, si tentò allora di trascinarla con l'ausilio dei buoi, ma fu impossibile smuoverla da dove si trovava; non riuscendo in ciò, fu allora dato l'ordine di cavarle gli occhi, ma alla giovane martire (nativa di Siracusa) gli occhi le rispuntarono. Nel paese di Savoca una giovane ragazza, chiamata con affetto "la Lucia" viene portata in spalla lungo le vie del paese (seduta su di un cuscino legato sulla spalla di un uomo; in realtà gli uomini portatori sono due, dandosi il cambio l'un l'altro); la giovane Santa rimane impassibile di fronte alle tentazioni demoniache: il Diavolo, chiamato in dialetto siciliano "u Diavulazzu, agita, scuote, fa ruotare il suo forcone nel tentativo di "distrarre" la Santa ma, vani saranno i suoi tentativi. Il primo giorno di questa rappresentazione, il sabato, in una vecchia chiesa di Savoca, le due bambine che impersonano la Lucia, dell'anno in corso e dell'anno precedente, si incontrano con la consegna della palma da una bimba all'altra; l'evento tradizionale al quale si assiste il sabato, ha tutto l'aspetto di una importante prova generale per il giorno dopo, quando la domenica la festa tradizionale avverrà in tutta la sua bellezza.La domenica: in cima alla processione ci sono i "Giudei" (gli emissari del prefetto Pascasio) insieme ad alcuni Angeli, subito dopo si trova il carro tirato da due giumente dalle quali si diparte una corda che giungerà fino a cingere il fianco della bimba che impersona Santa Lucia (una bambina di sei anni); tra lei e le giumente ci sono i soldati Romani, che si fanno largo tra la folla dimenandosi a più non posso; a tenere la corda ci sono anche delle figure maschili che evitano che gli strattonamenti dei soldati romani possano giungere fino alla Santa (ricordiamolo, che è legata a quella corda); davanti alla Santa piroetta il diavolo tentatore, u' Diavulazzu (la maschera è in legno, la cui fattura è datata, sembra, del 400'), il cui compito è quello di distrarre la piccola Santa con l'aiuto di un lungo bastone dotato di punte ricurve, chiamto dialettalmente "u' croccu": Lucia difficilmente si lascerà ingannare dalle promesse del Maligno, non abbandonerà quel suo stato di immobile concentrazione, aiutata in ciò dal fissare, quasi in stato di trance, un piccolo ramo di palma in argento, che lei strige devotamente tra le sue mani. E’ fondamentale menzionare tra i vari personaggi storici della tradizione, il barone Baldassarre, vissuto in Savoca in epoca medioevale, soprannominato barone Altadonna, che applicava senza remora alcuna la pratica della Jus primae noctis: avvalendosi di questa legge il barone obbligava le giovani spose a trascorrere la prima notte di nozze nella sua alcova. E’ fortemente ipotizzabile che nella rappresentazione di Santa Lucia di Savoca il personaggio del Diavolo che tenta la giovane Santa col suo forcone, in realtà non sia altro che egli stesso, il barone Altadonna, così allegoricamente descritto nella festa tradizionale siciliana: la figura del Diavolo, se si tiene conto di quanto narrano gli storici, non apparterrebbe più alla leggenda, ma a questo tristo personaggio realmente vissuto, che usava quotidianamente la moneta della prepotenza. Post scriptum: le fotografie, realizzate sia il sabato che la domenica, sono state organizzate e postate senza tenere conto della cronologia temporale di quanto avvenuto nei due giorni della manifestazione; sono state inserite due foto della mummia del barone Altadonna, che si trova nella cripta dei Padri Cappuccini di Savoca; sono stati inseriti i ritratti di due "Lucie" delle precedenti edizioni, del nonno e del bisnonno della dinastia dei "DIAVOLI"; la "palma d'argento" è stata consegnata dalla Lucia del 2016 (Valentina), alla attuale Lucia (Miriana); nel 2017 la manifestazione non è stata eseguita.
Ezio Famà.
Yes, Joni was tempted to break from one's usual restroom etiquette and pick up her skirt and relieve herself in one of these trump-faced urinals in an all-gender restroom in lieu of a stall, . . but she didn't.
Of course, this brings to mind the allegations that were rumored to be part of a private dossier compiled by a once very credible British Secret Service Agent, Chrstopher Steele , on Citizen trump before he became president of the USA sometime prior to 2016. At the time, trump had traveled to Moscow to meet with his future boyfriend Vladimir Putin to discuss the building of another of his gold-plated, high-rise trump tower hotels in Moscow. The contemplated monstrosity would have dominated the Moscow skyline and made the Kremlin look like the former East Wing of the White House.
According to the "Steele dossier", Putin had rolled out his red carpet to entertain trump and accommodated him by providing a Russian prostitute, who among other things, supposedly gave trump a "Golden Shower". This, of course, has been strenuously denied by trump, who of course denies every thing or labels it as 'fake news", who also had at one time reportedly bragged to some of his closest friends that he had urinated all over a bed while Putin's guest in a ritzy Moscow hotel, when he was informed that it was the same bed that the Obamas had slept in on an earlier state visit to Russia, not that it was necessarily true.
It must be emphasized in all fairness, not that trump deserves any, that these revelations by Steele are only part of the overall dossier relating to suspicious dealings between the trump campaign and Russia leading into the 2016 election, which was provided to Hillary Clinton's campaign because Steele feared that trump would be vulnerable to blackmail by Putin. The Steele Dossier became part of the investigation conducted by James Comey, the former FBI Director and his Special Counsel, Robert Mueller, into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 election. The dossier and the British agent were subsequently "discredited" in Comey's investigation, but the actual contents of the dossier have never been made fully public, so it is difficult to know how much of the dossier was redacted. But, of course, where there is smoke, there may be urine! . . . Besides who are you going to believe?? A former impeccable British Secret Service agent, or trump??
Nevertheless, the dossier remains as the most interesting secret document about trump this side of the epstein/trump files. In America, it is often said that what happens in Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas. Perhaps, the same thing can be said of Putin's Moscow, . . . unless of course, Putin took the precaution of preserving any of trump's alleged perversions on video for his own amusement and future use, as one would expect a former KGB agent to normally do . It would also go a long way toward explaining the otherwise inexplicable bromance that exists between trump and Putin.
Meanwhile, overlooking issues like blackmail, pedophilia, and a proposed taxpayer-funded slush fund for criminal cronies of trump, it must be admitted that America's toughest talking draft dodging commandant-in-chief has backed himself into a corner from which there appears to be no honorable exit ramp or easy escape. Overlooking the fact that he initiated a sneak attack in conjunction with his fellow war criminal, Netanyahu, which was intended to bring about regime change in Iran and prevent Iran from ever using its stockpile of high grade military uranium, he has failed miserably. He has failed despite the fact that he succeeded in decapitating Iran's government leaders at the outset of his attack; despite the fact that the U.S. obliterated the Iranian Air Force and sank Iran's bathtub Navy within hours, and generally bombed Iran at will back to the Stone Age as the U.S allegedly destroyed all of it's missile launching sites. . . .Well, most of them.
Despite the fact that he declared the war was won within the first hour and took several victory laps to that effect, and indicated that the mop-up operation would only last for another three weeks, and that there would only be a temporary disruption of the U.S. economy, he now finds himself three months down the road with no honorable end in sight with virtually the entire world's economy being held hostage and on the brink; not just the American economy, where the price of gas has nearly doubled.
To underscore the extent of the catastrophe trump has inflicted upon America and the rest of the world, it is to be noted that he has failed to accomplish any of the stated goals that he set forth at the outset of the trump War. The Iranian Government is still in control and is still run by Islamic militants who refuse to surrender. The Iranians still have control of their enriched uranium and have no intention of giving it up. The Iranian military is still formidable, especially the Revolutionary Guard, and they still keep managing to find missiles to fire at ships and other neighboring nations, especially those with American military bases, where unexpected damage has been done as American anti-missile defense systems have been exposed as porous and less than effective, leading to American casualties; a circumstance that was undoubtedly noticed by the Chinese and the Russians. Finally, the Iranians have discovered a new weapon they didn't even know they had that allows them to gain leverage over the world's economy and neutralize American's vast military advantage by closing off the Strait of Hormuz. Not to be overlooked is the alarming depletion of America's once vast stockpile of high tech weaponry, that cannot be replenished for several years and only at great expense, when a conflict over Taiwan with China seems inevitable, if not imminent.
Consequently, even though trump has won virtually all the battles, he appears to have lost the war and now finds himself groveling in negotiations with the Iranians, as he has vainly tried to enlist the aid of former allies to assist the U.S. Navy in its effort to re-open the Strait of Hormuz, even imploring China, an Iranian ally, to help out to no avail. He never had an exit strategy, or any strategy for that matter, and he has been searching for a non-existent exit ramp. He just wants to leave and declare victory, but the Iranians won't let him. They are willing to fight forever.
What trump has slowly discovered is that Iran is now "holding all the cards", to use one of his favorite expressions. They aren't surrendering, because they realize they are winning the war!! Instead of surrendering or negotiating on America's terms, the Iranians are setting forth their own demands:
1. Iran will continue to be governed as an Islamic Republic and the present government will remain in power, and it will elect its own leaders; not selected by trump. The United States must recognize the sovereignty of Iran and cease and desist from all efforts to overthrow its government and remove all economic sanctions against Iran.
2.Iran will keep all of its stockpile of enriched uranium and will continue to develop its nuclear program without any oversight or outside interference from the United States or anyone else..
3. The United States must pay Iran war reparations for the damage it caused to Iran's infrastructure, military installations and equipment, and private and government property. (You destroyed it. You pay for it!)
4 The United States will recognize and agree that Iran has sole possession and sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz, and shall impose tolls as it sees fit.
Iran's demands may seem unreasonable, and don't leave much room for negotiation. In truth. Iran is demanding unconditional surrender by the United States! It's not likely to happen, It will leave trump with really only two choices: Either he embarks on what will be a bloody and ultimately foolhardy "boots" on the ground" campaign to locate and capture Iran's enriched uranium deposits, where Iran will likely employ a variation of Ali's "Rope-A-Dope" strategy. Alternatively, trump can simply have the United States pull out and slink home as a humiliated and diminished super power that will be difficult to spin as a great triumph for Trump the Conquerer, not that he won't try. Indeed, the United States military will have to quickly reboot for a likely armed confrontation with China over Taiwan where China will not only have a distinct homefield advantage, but the United States will be fighting a war where it won't have an overwhelming advantage in fire power over its foe. . . .
Maybe things will go easier in Cuba in Marco Rubio's War of Lilberation, but no one should be surprised if a liberated Cuba breaks out in a civil war. . . .
We were on a trying-out-uber-high-heels spree during the holidays! (it was december i think)
Nah, not planning on getting them. They really ruin your feet!
AlanDejecacion: My sentiments!
tara.smith39: Well, to keep safe, I shan't wear them :)
Admiring the lovely cakes in a shop window in Cannes - South Of France.
I wanted to eat it all but not at 15 euros !
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One of the more unusual buses we stumbled upon whilst scouring the Portuguese countryside was this (presumably) ex Lisbon Daimler Fleetline. The bus was parked outside a car sales lot about a mile or so from the town of Lamego and was itself advertised for sale. A subsequent visit was made on our next trip, but the bus had gone. I wonder what was it's fate?
EXPLORED! Highest position: 477 on Wednesday, June 10, 2009
the forbidden fruit tastes the sweetest....
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My new model.. you'll be seeing more of the apple.. Oh and more of my themed shots. I may go somewhere with this..
my love has bewitched me..
& one of my loves is photography. Hopefully she'll love me back.
A favorite song of mine...
Learning lots so things this week & super excited. So I may be popping in & out but I will keep in touch & stop in as often as I can, I'll visit all of you this week!!
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Aaron Nace provide a really cool tutorial on how to do smoke by the way. His stream is here.. aknacer His photoshop work & camera skills are out of this world... I have much to learn Obi-Wan
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Oh & word I learned a lot about yesterday was... Kelvin. & how our lights burn at different ones :-)
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Enchanting on black..
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In my white blouse, I stand with grace,
A red skirt swaying, in its perfect embrace,
The animal print belt, bold and fine,
I hold my glass, feel the sun’s soft shine.
With auburn hair, in layered fall,
Pearls at my neck, I take it all,
A sip of wine, a gentle tease,
I catch your eye, and aim to please.
Surrounded by green, in nature’s glow,
I feel the warmth, let desire show,
A playful glance, a knowing ease,
I wonder if I’ve tempted you to seize?
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I love wearing this short skirt and Natalia and I are just about to go and do some retail therapy! 😍❤
My sweetooth was tempted by Amy Abrew's wild berry shortcake. I was inspired to make this with berries from my garden, although it was really hot to bake, so I made one of those microwave mug cakes. Next time I should let the cake cool down completely and macerate the berries to release some juices, but I just wanted to eat it right away.
Another of my persimmon pictures, because the light that November day was so very special, golden, autumnal ....
This is a pipe my friends and I used to explore as kids. It is about 4 feet in diameter. Not sure I would trust it 37 years on?
A couple of people tempt fate as they await the next wave. Over the years numerous people have been swept to sea doing this same thing.
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Nice panel van of the early 1950s for sale outside Tubby’s Custom Inc. auto workshop along 49th Street N, St. Pete.
respect to all who check my stream from wherever you from, but l.a. county is were i'm from and aint nothing like catching shit like this from your neck of the woods. easily one of my many all time favorite catches. 99 for that ass!
George is so tempted by the smell of the sugary cake. He gets close to smell it and tries to swipe a bit of frosting. Peppa sees what he is up to.
Peppa Pig family - my son's toys
Calico Critters Cabin and furnishings - flea market find
Purple flowers: Michael's
Wine and cake: Ebay
These two are sitting right at the edge of a precipice. A small slip would result in a sheer drop of several hundred feet.
In fact, this very spot is used by hand gliders to jump off the cliff. See below.
Above: Sony A7R + Leica 28-90mm f/2.8-4.5 Vario Elmar-R
Below: Leica S2 + Leica 70mm f/2.5 Summarit-S
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