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On swastikas (17)
My beautiful wife gifted me a very nice saucer for my coffee mug, made of fuse beads.
Thank you, honey!
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My beautiful wife gifted me a very nice saucer for my coffee mug, made of fuse beads.
Thank you, honey!
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'Kranzwerfende Viktoria'
Christian Daniel Rauch, 1854
Can be seen in the Old National Galery Berlin, Germany.
#art
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Christian Daniel Rauch, 1854
Can be seen in the Old National Galery Berlin, Germany.
#art
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I built my children a small coat rack out of an old fence picket.
It's attached to the wall via two dowels with screws at the back.
#diy
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It's attached to the wall via two dowels with screws at the back.
#diy
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On the Cosmic Ocean
Many cultures share a myth, which refers to something which resembles an otherworldly ocean, the waters above.
Examples are the Egyptian 'Duat', the Mayan 'House of the Nine Bushes', the Sumerian 'Absu' or the Vedic 'Cosmic Ocean'. The Bible mentions the 'Abyss'. Even in Norse mythology we find traces of this phenomenon as the 'Nine Worlds'.
So what could this ominous myth be? Well let us think about how the Egyptian Gods moved: they travel by boat on the ocean through the sky, like Ra who travels on his barge on the ocean where he evades the evil serpent Apophis every day.
When we count things together, it will become apparent that our planet once might have had a set of equatorial rings, when it was more electrically active, just like Jupiter or Saturn today.
There are very strong traditions of the sky looking like a sea. A "sea" would be instantly suggested from the wave patterns seen in the rings, despite the fact that this sea was located in the sky. This is especially so because rings at different distances from the Earth would move at rates different from the rotation of the Earth -- some might even move backwards.
Each night the shadow of the Earth would sweep across the rings from east to west. In effect a portion of the rings would not be seen, leaving only the left and right (and top) edges. The effect looked like a portal or gate. This became the gateway to the "other world" of the Egyptians, located in the western sky -- the direction in which the doorway rotated each night.
#history #mythology
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Many cultures share a myth, which refers to something which resembles an otherworldly ocean, the waters above.
Examples are the Egyptian 'Duat', the Mayan 'House of the Nine Bushes', the Sumerian 'Absu' or the Vedic 'Cosmic Ocean'. The Bible mentions the 'Abyss'. Even in Norse mythology we find traces of this phenomenon as the 'Nine Worlds'.
So what could this ominous myth be? Well let us think about how the Egyptian Gods moved: they travel by boat on the ocean through the sky, like Ra who travels on his barge on the ocean where he evades the evil serpent Apophis every day.
When we count things together, it will become apparent that our planet once might have had a set of equatorial rings, when it was more electrically active, just like Jupiter or Saturn today.
There are very strong traditions of the sky looking like a sea. A "sea" would be instantly suggested from the wave patterns seen in the rings, despite the fact that this sea was located in the sky. This is especially so because rings at different distances from the Earth would move at rates different from the rotation of the Earth -- some might even move backwards.
Each night the shadow of the Earth would sweep across the rings from east to west. In effect a portion of the rings would not be seen, leaving only the left and right (and top) edges. The effect looked like a portal or gate. This became the gateway to the "other world" of the Egyptians, located in the western sky -- the direction in which the doorway rotated each night.
#history #mythology
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The back of an ancient Greek mirror (2nd-1st Century BC) depicting the Goddess Aphrodite preparing to hit Eros with a sandal as punishment for breaking a vase.
#artifacts
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#artifacts
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On dragons
The dragon Smej Gorynytsch was terrorizing the region around Kiev during the 11th century.
The hero Dobrynja vanquished the dragon ultimately.
This story follows the same pattern as Zeus defeating Typhon or Perun destroying Veles.
#dragon #myth
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The dragon Smej Gorynytsch was terrorizing the region around Kiev during the 11th century.
The hero Dobrynja vanquished the dragon ultimately.
This story follows the same pattern as Zeus defeating Typhon or Perun destroying Veles.
#dragon #myth
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On friar Georges Lemaitre
Friar Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian priest and astrophysicist, published a paper in 1927 in the Annals of the Scientific Society of Brussel that first presented the idea of an expanding cosmos. In 1931, Lemaitre proposed what later became known as the 🔗Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
The Catholic Church honoured Lemaitre's work: he was elected to the Pontificial Academy of Sciences (sic!) in 1936 and named prelate in 1960.
By contrast, in 1948, astronomers in the atheist Soviet Union were urged to condemn the Big Bang as a reactionary theory helping clericalism, a hostility shared by many scientists and philosophers until the 1960s.
Besides showing the compatibility of faith and science, the case of Lemaitre illustrates the way in which minds and cultures shaped by the belief that (the Abrahamic) God is a Trinity of reason and love have proved fruitful in perceiving order in the universe.
Moreover, it is arguable that belief in (the Abrahamic) God who is beyond creation has freed us to theorise about the causation and change of the cosmos as a whole, rather than simply accepting the totality of material reality as an eternal, unchanging given.
#physics #history
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Friar Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian priest and astrophysicist, published a paper in 1927 in the Annals of the Scientific Society of Brussel that first presented the idea of an expanding cosmos. In 1931, Lemaitre proposed what later became known as the 🔗Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
The Catholic Church honoured Lemaitre's work: he was elected to the Pontificial Academy of Sciences (sic!) in 1936 and named prelate in 1960.
By contrast, in 1948, astronomers in the atheist Soviet Union were urged to condemn the Big Bang as a reactionary theory helping clericalism, a hostility shared by many scientists and philosophers until the 1960s.
Besides showing the compatibility of faith and science, the case of Lemaitre illustrates the way in which minds and cultures shaped by the belief that (the Abrahamic) God is a Trinity of reason and love have proved fruitful in perceiving order in the universe.
Moreover, it is arguable that belief in (the Abrahamic) God who is beyond creation has freed us to theorise about the causation and change of the cosmos as a whole, rather than simply accepting the totality of material reality as an eternal, unchanging given.
#physics #history
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It's 'Telegram Thursday' and I want to recommend interesting channels.
Today I want to point out a channel dedicated to Germanic topics with lots of own content:
https://www.tg-me.com/s/oakwhispers
@oakwhispers
Give the creator a chance and check it out! It's important that we have channels like this, which add own content instead of plain forwarding.
#TelegramThursday
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Today I want to point out a channel dedicated to Germanic topics with lots of own content:
https://www.tg-me.com/s/oakwhispers
@oakwhispers
Give the creator a chance and check it out! It's important that we have channels like this, which add own content instead of plain forwarding.
#TelegramThursday
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Arkadiko Bridge was built between 1300-1190 BC, dating back to the Greek Bronze Age.
It is one of oldest arch bridges still standing and in use today, and the oldest preserved bridge in Europe.
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It is one of oldest arch bridges still standing and in use today, and the oldest preserved bridge in Europe.
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Venus of Laussel, c. 23-25,000 years old, found in Marquay, Dordogne, France.
Low relief on limestone block, height 18⅛ "
Museum of Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.
#artifacts
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Low relief on limestone block, height 18⅛ "
Museum of Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France.
#artifacts
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On Capitalism and Collectivism
What the left (and many on the right) will never understand is that Capitalism is not an ideology, which can be introduced or abolished by the ruling political system.
Capitalism is a tool respectively a state which appears, when human civilizations come to be.
Collectivism however will always block this development by placing restrictions on the free individual. Collectivist systems will ultimately fail by their own weight: surveillance, poverty, force and oppression will eat these systems from the inside.
#politics
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What the left (and many on the right) will never understand is that Capitalism is not an ideology, which can be introduced or abolished by the ruling political system.
Capitalism is a tool respectively a state which appears, when human civilizations come to be.
Collectivism however will always block this development by placing restrictions on the free individual. Collectivist systems will ultimately fail by their own weight: surveillance, poverty, force and oppression will eat these systems from the inside.
#politics
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On megaliths (4)
The Mên-an-Tol (Cornish: Men an Toll) is a small formation of standing stones in Cornwall, England. It is about three miles northwest of Madron. It is also known locally as the "Crick Stone".
The name Men an Toll in Cornish means "the stone of the hole".
The Mên-an-Tol is thought to date to either the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The holed stone could originally have been a natural occurrence rather than deliberately sculpted.
Mên-an-Tol is supposed to have a fairy or piskie guardian who can make miraculous cures. In one story, a changeling baby was put through the stone in order for the mother to get the real child back. Evil piskies had changed her child, and the ancient stones were able to reverse their evil spell.
A local legend claims that if at full moon a woman passes through the holed stone seven times backwards, she will soon become pregnant.
Another legend is that a passage through the stone will cure a child of rickets (osteomalacia). For centuries, children with rickets were passed naked through the hole in the middle stone nine times.
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The Mên-an-Tol (Cornish: Men an Toll) is a small formation of standing stones in Cornwall, England. It is about three miles northwest of Madron. It is also known locally as the "Crick Stone".
The name Men an Toll in Cornish means "the stone of the hole".
The Mên-an-Tol is thought to date to either the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age. The holed stone could originally have been a natural occurrence rather than deliberately sculpted.
Mên-an-Tol is supposed to have a fairy or piskie guardian who can make miraculous cures. In one story, a changeling baby was put through the stone in order for the mother to get the real child back. Evil piskies had changed her child, and the ancient stones were able to reverse their evil spell.
A local legend claims that if at full moon a woman passes through the holed stone seven times backwards, she will soon become pregnant.
Another legend is that a passage through the stone will cure a child of rickets (osteomalacia). For centuries, children with rickets were passed naked through the hole in the middle stone nine times.
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