Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
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Monday, June 15, 2020
Thursday, July 27, 2017
Temple of Artemis: The Sacred Temple of the Proto-European Tradition - Part 1
Just as Christians, Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, and other important religions have one place more holy than all others; the Proto-European religion, in historical hindsight, has its primary sacred place. However, true to our tragic tradition since its heyday, everything relating to it today is nothing short of a grand fustercluck.
As covered here before, the tradition of what I call the Almother predated the Olympian pantheon in Greece. This ancient spiritual tradition has roots, at the least, in the Europe of the last glacial movement of nine or ten thousand years ago when about one-third of the continent was covered in a mile high sheet of of ice. Southern Europe was the much more habitable region. The people were not distinctly "Mediterranean" then, but Proto-European.
It's highly likely that this religion existed long before this glacial period, but little is known about it. What is very clear is that there was a Great Mother and a Horned God going back forty thousand years. This spiritual tradition has both conflated and existed separately with all of the incoming traditions of ancient migrating Mediterranean and Teutonic peoples. It has existed in every corner of the continent!
"Witchcraft has no origin, it has always been with us." -- Leo Ruickbie, 'Witchcraft Out of the Shadows'
'Things to Know about Temple of Artemis Wonder of Ancient World'
Posted by Spiritual Guru - SpiritTourism.com - Jul 9, 2013
The temple of Artemis was one of the first buildings to be constructed in marble.
Temple of Artemis was built and rebuilt several times in history. The temple was the centre of activity with priests, court members etc always present there in its good days. Following is the historical record of this one among the seven wonders of the ancient world birth and death.
History
800 BC
The first building of the temple of Artemis was built in and around 800 BC near the bank of the river Ephesus. The Ephesus Artemis was a goddess of fertility and was often pictured as draped with eggs or multiple breasts, symbols of fertility, from her waist to her shoulders.
650 BCIn around 650 BC, King Croesus of Lydia conquered Ephesus and the other Greek cities of Asia Minor and during the fighting; the temple of Artemis was destroyed. This king brought the architect Theodorus to build the temple.
This temple of Artemis was the centre of wonderful pieces of art and architecture. Wealthy citizens of those times donated gold, silver, jewelry from their side to beautify this temple. One unusual feature of the temple was that a number of columns had bases that were carved with figures in relief.
350 BC
This magnificent work of art was burnt down in 356 BC by a psychopath Herostratus who wanted to become famous in history. The citizens of Ephesus were so furious by this act that after torturing Herostratus to death, they issued a decree that anyone who even spoke of his name would be put to death.
Temple of Artemis
This was the same time in history when the Great Alexander was born too.
Twenty-two years later, during his sweep through Asia Minor, Alexander the Great offered to reconstruct the temple of Artemis. In the famous refusal recorded by Strabo, the Ephesians said it would not be right for one god to build a temple to another god.
Construction of Great templeThe Temple of Artemis was rebuilt in the same wet location as before and on a raised platform once again. By this point Ephesus was one of the greatest cities in Asia Minor and no expense was spared in the reconstruction. The wet locations were selected for the building of temple was due to the fact that it would help protect the structure from the earthquakes which plagued the region.
Modern excavation
The Temple of Artemis was discovered for the British Museum in 1869 by the English railroad engineer J. T. Wood after a seven year search, during which he suffered badly from malaria. His successor on behalf of the British Museum, the Englishman D. G. Hogarth recommenced excavations in 1904/05. Not only did he investigate the temple of Artemis, but also the older foundations within the court of the temple. New excavations, initiated by the Australian museum of Archeology are still in progress. Today a 13 feet lone structure stands at that place as a reminder to the magnificence of this temple.
Christianity Brings an End to Artemis Worship
St Paul came to the city of Ephesus to propagate the new religion of Christianity in and around 57 AD. He was successful in his endeavor. Demitrius who was die hard supporter of Artemis religion gave tough fight to St Paul in expanding his religion. In the later years it was Christianity only that won.
By 263 AD, the temple had been plundered by Nero and destroyed by the Goths. Both the city and the religion of Artemis were in decline. The temple was rebuilt again, but in 391 it was closed by the Roman Emperor Theodosius the Great after he made Christianity the state religion. The temple itself was destroyed by a Christian mob in 401 and the stoned was recycled into other buildings.
When the Roman Emperor Constantine rebuilt much of Ephesus a century later, he declined to restore the temple. He too had become a Christian and had little interest in pagan religions.The Temple of Artemis was surrounded by priests and priestesses, musicians, dancers, and acrobats. The temple had its own mounted police and the city became rich from the silver statues and ex-votes offered to Diana. Unfortunately, all that remains of the Wonder of the World is a single column and some rubble on the ground. Some of the stone is believed to have been used for the nearby mosque and most of the archaeological remains have been removed to the British Museum.
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Wednesday, June 22, 2016
Strawberry Moon Wanderings 3
I Wanna Be Loved By You
theclassicculture
"I Wanna Be Loved By You" (Betty Boop version)
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Darkly artistic scene from 'House of 1000 Corpses' (2003). Rob Zombie is a genius. I'm still waiting for him to equal this very creative grindhouse film. Much of the darkness and violence was put with unusual music, so it was almost like some dark/demented music videos. I mean who would have thought to put a disturbing massacre with Slim Whitman's 'I Remember You'!
"Art is not always pretty." -- Rob Zombie
I believe that the version used here was sung by Helen Kane. I think part of the idea behind this scene was the popular comic book character Lady Death.
Helen Kane - I Wanna Be Loved By You (1928)
'Lady Death: The Movie' (2004); full animated movie can be seen here)
One guy I used to hang around with had a somewhat aloof younger brother who was obsessed with Lady Death. He had all the memorabilia; comics, books, posters, etc. He was in his mid-20s, and a few of us used to joke on him. He wasn't the least bit shy about showing us all of this collection either. I guess one could say that this was his religion.
Daniel Bubbeo - NewsDay.com - June 21, 2016
Highlights
- Two-time Oscar winner also played Melanie in “Gone With the Wind”
- Errol Flynn her co-star in eight movies; she’s also an author
One of Hollywood’s true survivors, Olivia de Havilland, celebrates her 100th birthday on Friday, July 1, but it’s her fans who will receive the gifts of her talents as an actress and a writer.
Turner Classic Movies will screen de Havilland’s movies — 39 in all — Friday nights in July, including her eight pairings with Errol Flynn and her Oscar-winning turns in “To Each His Own” (1946) and “The Heiress” (1949). Also on tap will be three other Oscar-nominated performances: as Melanie Hamilton in “Gone With the Wind” (1939); “Hold Back the Dawn” (1941), for which she lost the best actress award to her sister, Joan Fontaine, for “Suspicion”; and the gripping “The Snake Pit” (1948), in which she played a mental patient.
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Ninja Cat Kills Rabbit
mahBenPhelps
I filmed this out of my window for about 6 minutes so I cut it up into just it moving. Keep watching for the slow mo's at the end.
It gets the rabbit at 1.38 .
The Curse Of The 27 Club
Alltime Conspiracies
Over the last few decades, dozens of musical superstars have died - often dramatically - at the early age of 27. 'The 27 Club' has gained much infamy, its members including household names such as Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse. But is there any truth to the idea? Could there really be some sinister, supernatural force linking the deaths of these icons?
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27 Club
Saturn Return
In horoscopic astrology, a Saturn return is an astrological transit that occurs when the planet Saturn returns to the same place in the sky that it occupied at the moment of a person's birth. While the planet may not reach the exact spot until the person is 29 or 30 years old, the influence of the Saturn return is considered to start in the person's late twenties, notably the age of 27.
Psychologically, the first Saturn return is seen as the time of reaching full adulthood, and being faced, perhaps for the first time, with adult challenges and responsibilities
George Baird and Erica Obey - MountainHikingSite.com
The legend of the Catskill Witch is as old as the gnomes playing at ninepins or the Headless Horseman, having made her first appearance as a postscript to Washington Irving’s tale of Rip van Winkle, where she is described as dwelling on the highest peak of the Catskills, and had charge of the doors of day and night to open and shut them at the proper hour. She hung up the new moon in the skies, and cut up the old ones into stars. In times of drought, if properly propitiated, she would spin light summer clouds out of cobwebs and morning dew, and send them off from the crest of the mountain, flake after flake, like flakes of carded cotton, to float in the air; until, dissolved by the heat of the sun, they would fall in gentle showers, causing the grass to spring, the fruits to ripen, and the corn to grow an inch an hour. If displeased, however, she would brew up clouds black as ink, sitting in the midst of them like a bottle-bellied spider in the midst of its web; and when these clouds broke, woe betide the valleys!
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Bon Jovi - Bad Medicine
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Music video by Bon Jovi performing Bad Medicine. (C) 1988 The Island Def Jam Music Group
The Antikythera Mechanism - 2D
Antikythera - Anticythère
More than 21 centuries ago, a mechanism of fabulous ingenuity was created in Greece, a device capable of indicating exactly how the sky would look for decades to come -- the position of the moon and sun, lunar phases and even eclipses. But this incredible invention would be drowned in the sea and its secret forgotten for two thousand years.
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Antikythera mechanism
Excerpt from 'The Meaning of Feathers' by Nicole Suzanne Brown
Black Feather
Physical Meaning
A healing is taking place. Your body has felt depleted of energy the last few days, and this gifting is to show you that your thoughts and prayers are being answered. Have faith and trust that you have been heard. A new adventure is on the horizon. You are being guided to let go of past hurts from an old friend. The energy of forgiveness is needed for you to move on. Forgive and let go. Allow the energy of healing to surround you. Breathe in new energy. Breathe out the past.
Affirmation: “I am surrounded each day with positive energy. Positive energy surrounds me and permeates from me. I give out good vibes and I get back good vibes. My body and mind are completely healed”.
Spiritual Healing
You are being healed on every level of the body, mind and soul. Your energy is being heightened and a much needed healing has taken place. You are being asked to let go and let God, Universe, Spirit to lead you now where you need to be. You have done enough. It is time now for you to be looked after. Have faith that that is happening. Let go of the need to control life. Be at peace.
Affirmation: “I am filled with a peaceful energy. With every breath I take I trust and have faith in the Universe, God, Spirit. The Universe, God, Spirit guides me to the place of love and healing. I love my life and am so blessed and grateful for each and every day. I am alive with life and life is alive through me”.
To find out how you can tell if it is a spiritual meaning or a physical meaning click here.
What does it mean when you find a Feather?
What does it mean when you see a Feather falling in front of you?
Do Feathers have healing powers?
Whether you have been walking on your spiritual path for eons of time or just stepped forward, the information received was out of a need, and urge to learn more about what feathers mean, and why they sometimes magically appear.
Are they here to teach us something about ourselves?
Can feathers hold messages for us, that can unlock healing and change?
Can they help with creativity and bring messages from beyond time and space?
I believe they can.
I believe they do.
And by the end of this book, you will too.
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The other day a black feather just made itself known to me by just being right there in my path. An interesting game to play is to find the synchronistic symbols that you may observe during the day. Most would be coincidence, but I believe that some are elemental symbols. This black feather was to my left...
"If the feather appeared on your LEFT:
This indicates a very strong SPIRITUAL message for you. Your higher self has brought you to this very moment to receive the message you are about to receive. Understand that this message is for your SOUL, your spiritual self, the shadow side of your nature, the dreamer and the lover within you."
2.02-The Man Who Would Not Die-In Search Of...
In Search Of
In Search Of...The Man Who Would Not Die: The fascinating saga of the Count of Saint-Germain, who dazzled the courts of Europe for over 100 years, leading some to believe he was immortal. Narrated by Leonard Nimoy.
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St. Germain
Alchemist, Hermetisist, Magickian, Occultist, and forerunner of Theosophy. Some believe that by consuming or injecting small amounts of monoatomic gold, that one can "increase the current carrying capacity of the nervous system by ten thousand times" and live a very long time.
'The Comte de St. Germain - by Isabel Cooper-Oakley - 1912 (full book online)
Themes: Lombard heritage; folk neopaganism; spiritual traditions; occult; other
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'Encounter with two mountain lions was double the thrill'
Tom Stienstra - San Francisco Chronicle - June 20, 2016
[Above image: Photo: John Richards - Trail cam set up above Foothills Park near Skyline on Peninsula captured this shot of mountain lion meandering down trail]
At age 89, a hiker on the Peninsula encountered two mountain lions last week inside of 10 feet. Warren Storkman of Palo Alto then walked away without a scratch and with the thrill of a lifetime.
Storkman was hiking at Foothills Park in Palo Alto, where a trail is cut into the edge of a steep slope above a valley. At this spot, the landscape is grassland and chaparral.
“To my surprise, coming around a curve, a beautiful, youthful lion, running at top speed,” Storkman said. “It was being chased by another lion of the same stature.
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George Harrison-My Sweet Lord (Studio Version) Original
wirytangent19
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Great song. I think one should be able to associate any music to whatever they wish. This song doesn't have to be for the Lord, or for Hare Krishna. It can be a tribute to a person, a place, a time, a dream, a concept, or whatever you wish. This would be a good example of that idea.
This song reminds of an old girlfriend named Francesca... a long time ago. We just weren't really on the same page. Oddly, over the years she became a little more like I was then; and I have become a little more like she was then. I suppose that means that it was never meant to be..
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