I had actually wanted to get this out, with a lot more content, before Xmas.... but I just didn't get to it. On the subject of Krampus.... Krampus is not just from German mythology, but from surrounding countries and regions as well. According to Wikipedia... "Krampus appears in the folklore of Austria, Bavaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Northern Italy, Autonomous Province of Trento and South Tyrol, Slovakia, and Slovenia." [Book: 'Celebrating Life Customs around the World: From Baby Showers to Funerals' by Victoria Williams; 2016]. Although German in origin, it ultimately comes from Norse mythology, and likely traveled within the folklore of Germanic tribes and bands such as Goths, Cimbrians, etc.
It seems strongest in the eastern Alps. However, although it's fun to be able to lay some sort've ancestral tie-in to the Krampus legend, the Italian Alps is ripe with many other mythological legends that I'll cover at some other time. On one video, someone suggested that the Krampus legend "migrated" to Trento, the Dolomites, etc. from the Austrian-Hapsburg Empire. This, of course, is absolute nonsense, as the Austrian occupiers were hated in Trento, Lombardy, and the Tri-Veneto! I didn't want to argue the point since it was just all just in fun. Clearly, this cultural migration was due to several small soft migrations of Germanic peoples over the centuries.
From the moment we are born as human beings, the people around us prepare us to fit the herd. We start out as being part of a family, and then we expand our social life with friends, acquaintances, colleagues, and, in many cases, a significant other. People tend to work together and spend time with each other, and thus, they form a well-oiled machine called society.
Living among the herd has many benefits, like safety, security, access to other people including potential mates, and a shared identity that creates a sense of self. But in some cases, the herd doesn’t want you anymore, and you become an outcast. Or you don’t want the herd anymore, and you become a recluse. Or, perhaps, a little bit of both.
No matter what the reason is: some people just don’t seem to belong. And when you don’t belong, you’re an outsider; an outcast. So, how do we handle being an outsider? What about those that don't belong?
This video explores the fate of those outsiders and outcasts that live outside the herd.
Somebody sure needed to state what's on the above image! Sometimes some closed minded right or left wing ideologue is presented with some fool-proof fact(s) that stops them in their tracks, and they immediately do a cowardly "quick google search" in order to justify their position with some scant counter argument, and they use it as justification for some destructive belief that they just can't exorcise from their minds. A real critical thinker---at least in their own mind!---challenges their beliefs by looking at it from the opposite camp, or a whole assortment of other checks to test it's validity. The main point that I wanted to make is that we all need to start physically going to the library again! Also, in our library systems are special research rooms, where records and other information can be found that we should all know about. Maybe we all need to make note that 2023 would be a good time to start using our library system a lot more!
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I came across the Tarot card image to the right this evening, and it reminded me of Maddalena Taluti, the woman who dispensed so many of the mysteries of Stregheria to researcher and author Charles Godfrey Leland for his works. I can picture is being her perhaps when she was younger, as she was thought of as having an "Etruscan look."
Then I came across a long biography, and I wanted to post them. The story of Charles Leland and Maddalena would make a great film if they did it right; not try to sensationalize or trivialize it, or add anything silly to it, or make any type of "grand" unrelated "statement." It could be perfect. In any case, we should never forget her. Also, of course, Charles Leland. Where would be be without him!?
Back when I was living on the edge of the Santa Cruz Mountains, I named a lot of things over years; not intending to "name everything," but it just occurred naturally. I named part of a trail on a lower meadow of sorts, as "Maddy's Grove." Now I'm living far away from there. I wonder if anyone there thinks of that name I gave when on that trail?
You can always just take a smooth stone, paint it, and paint someone's name who's passed away as something of a marker, and place it in a garden or anywhere. You might paint on a symbol or numbers and letters, anything that reminds you of them, or a symbol of how you may perceive them if you never knew them. Also, you could carve or have something made to put on the front of a flower box, or just make something to sink into the soil with "In Loving Memory of...".. or something else if the person was just a hero of yours and you didn't know them.
It's curious to me that Maddalena lived in Genoa during her latter days. A city which had such a long profound link to San Francisco, which in turn would be perhaps something of an invisible bridge to "Maddy's Grove."
Birth: unknown Rocca San Casciano, Provincia di Forli, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Death: unknown Genoa, Città Metropolitana di Genova, Liguria, Italy
Burial: Burial Details Unknown
In the history of Witchcraft there is perhaps no figure more mysterious than the Witch known as Maddalena. As described by folklorist Charles Leland in several of his books, Maddalena was an Italian fortune teller and Witch. She supplied Leland with a great deal of Italian Witch lore including the text Leland later published as the Gospel of the Witches in 1899. Maddalena was also known to folklorists Roma Lister and Lady de Vere (to who she was introduced as "Margherita").
New findings related to Maddalena have recently come to light through some research I conducted at the Library of Congress. At the Pantheacon conference, on February 17th, 2008, I presented a copy of a page from The International Folklore Congress: Papers and Transactions, 1891. On page 454, Maddalena's name appears as a contributor to an exhibit presented by Charles Leland. Her name is given as Maddalena Taluti. In the modern Pazzaglini translation of Aradia, contributing writer professor Robert Mathiesen wrote that he believed Maddalena's last name to be Talenti. In light of new findings he is incorrect, but he does state that her name was almost illegible in the document he examined.
According to Leland, in his book Etruscan Roman Remains, Maddalena was originally from the town of Rocca Casciano, which is now called Rocca San Casciano. It is located in the Province of Forli-Cesena in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna. She reportedly traveled a great deal, making a living telling fortunes and selling charms. According to Leland, Maddalena claimed to have been trained in a family tradition of Italian Witchcraft, which was passed on to her by aunts and by her step-mother.
The Aradia material obtained for Leland differs greatly from the material that Maddalena had previously supplied to him. In the book Etruscan Roman Remains, Leland describes the Witches of Italy as being both good and bad. By contrast the Aradia material portrays Witches in a negative light. It is noteworthy that he describes a group that he calls the "beautiful witches of Benevento." Concerning Maddalena herself, Leland describes her as:
"a young woman who would have been taken for a Gypsy in England, but in whose face, in Italy, I soon learned to know the antique Etruscan, with its strange mysteries, to which was added the indefinable glance of the Witch. She was from the Romagna Toscana, born in the heart of its unsurpassingly wild and romantic scenery, amid cliffs, headlong torrents, forests, and old legendary castles. I did not gather all the facts for a long time, but gradually found that she was of a Witch family, or one whose members had, from time to immemorial, told fortunes, repeated ancient legends, gathered incantations, and learned how to intone them, prepared enchanted medicines, philtres, or spells. As a girl, her Witch grandmother, aunt, and especially her stepmother brought her up to believe in her destiny as a sorceress, and taught her in the forests, afar from human ear, to chant in strange prescribed tones, incantations or evocations to the ancient gods of Italy, under names but little changed, who are now known as folletti, spiriti, fate, or lari - the Lares or household goblins of the ancient Etruscans."
After receiving material from Maddalena, which became the foundation for the books Legends of Florence and Etruscan Roman Remains, Leland made another request. In 1886, Leland asked Maddalena to try and locate a text that he had heard of that was a type of Witches gospel. Eleven years later she sent him some material that Leland published as Aradia; or the Gospel of the Witches. It is noteworthy that Maddalena had fulfilled Leland's previous requests for material within a short period of time. The fact that it took her ten years to present the Aradia material strongly suggests that she was originally unaware of it. This further suggests that the tradition it represented was not the one she personally practiced.
The tradition that Maddalena most likely practiced is reflected in Leland's books Etruscan Roman Remains, Legends of Florence, and Legends of Virgil. The portrayal of Witches and Witchcraft in Leland's Gospel of Aradia does not reflect the same image as his earlier works. This is another indication that the material came from a system outside of Maddalena's own knowledge and experience.
A letter from Leland to his niece, which I presented a copy of at the Pantheacon conference, describes Maddalena performing a ritual in which she invokes a goddess and a god. During the invocation, Maddalena reportedly went into convulsions, and Leland had to send out for two pints of brandy in order to restore her back to normal. This speaks to Maddalena as a genuine practitioner of the Old Religion. Leland goes on in the letter to say that if ever there was a true depiction of the witch, Maddalena demonstrated it through her magic.
In the book Aradia, Leland notes that he lost touch with Maddalena after receiving a letter from her that she was marrying her shoemaker (Lorenzo Bruciatelli) and immigrating to America. As a result of this comment, the view has been held that Leland never heard from Maddalena again, and what became of her is unknown. Fortunately, another recent discovered by me came in the form of a letter found in the archives of the Library of Congress (buried in a stack of old letters). The letter, written by Leland to his niece, mentions that Maddalena did not move to America, but left her husband and went to Genoa to make a living there on her own. She wrote to Leland letting him know what happened, and she asked him if he could send her ten francs as she was in a difficult financial situation. He complied, but it seems that the two never met again after this communication.
Gravesite Details
Maddelna, not giving much of her information out, more than likely had a formal burial, but the where abouts are unknown.
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Another's sentiment
"Amore mio, grazie per la tua conoscenza, sempre nella memoria."
Is learning the Tarot too complicated? Let me teach you Tarot!
In these videos we will break down the Tarot step by step, starting at the Basics. This video is perfect for the beginner Tarot reader!
This first Tarot lesson is all about the structure of your Tarot deck: What is the difference between the Major Arcana and the Minor Arcana? What is the meaning of the 4 Suits?
I like to link the tarot to several other spiritual tools, like Astrology, Numerology, Mythology, and so on. If you want to join me on this adventure, please don't forget to subscribe to my channel and follow me on Instagram!
There are a lot of Tarot channels on YouTube. This is just one of them. It's an ongoing study, and this was the first program. I think to really understand how to use them, you would have to seek instruction or from a book. What struck me here is that Anne Vos is very knowledgeable and thorough, and incorporates other disciplines such as numerology or astrology.
I think it's interesting that there is an indirect Brescian Tarot-Camunian pentagram link. The likely oldest pentagrams have been discovered in the Val Camonica. They showed up in the "mainstrem" so to speak, about 3,000 years ago. Ultimately, there had to be a pentagram first, before the pentacle. The pentagram is an earth symbol, and I interpret the circle surrounding a symbol as a circle of nature... making the pentacle a very powerful sigil. The Fibonacci tie-in was very interesting, and new to me.
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PENTACLES EXPLAINED: What is the meaning of the Pentacle suit?
PENTACLES EXPLAINED! Everyone has seen the Pentacle before, but what is the meaning of this mysterious symbol?
In this video I explain the meaning of the Pentacle in general, but I also walk through the pentacle cards one by one. Let me teach you everything about the Pentacle suit!
Val Camonica ends where the Oglio River pours into Lake Iseo. Lovere, which is right along the lake, is usually considered a part of the valley that ended up administratively on the Bergamasque side. Bossico is located on slopes of Mt. Colombina, along Lake Iseo; therefore right on the edge of the valley as well. I remember my father telling me of his grandparents telling him stories about "the big lake," which had to be Lake Iseo; although my father didn't know which lake at that time.
A few people consider the possibility that Mt. Colombina is a pyramid, such as the main "Bosnian pyramid." I don't believe that, even though I think clearly that the one in Bosnia was carved, and has portions of it's side flat with very ancient mortar, and deep carved out tunnels.
In Italian, within the Stregheria tradition, this means "The Winter Festival." I was thinking that my fondest memories of winter was when it was cold, and when the sky was dark, or even those cold clear night skies. I can even remember something I was pondering during the winter eleven years ago, walking through a wooded trail, amid the cold, under a dark sky, in between the rains. I remember it like it was a few months ago, rather than years. I can remember when I was a child, being out beyond our backyard fence on the hillside, in the darkness of the early evening, in the cold, and looking up through the darkness at my family's large back window shining golden bright. My parents had a few relatives and friends over. My father had the Michigan football game on. My sister Katherine was there.
To me then, it was just another day, but just a little more special as Christmas was approaching. To me now, I wish I could go back and enjoy it again, and maybe change the fate of my family. I guess I would have to have my mind, consciousness, and experience as it is today to accomplish that. Sometimes I think of the oldie 'We'll Sing in the Sunshine' by Gale Garnett. Somehow, although it's more of a summer song about a romance, it defines us in at least spirit as it told a tale of a great short-lived period and an unexpected ending. It could be very applicable to winter, as that is the time of the year that we most remember family, on those winter nights during the holidays. For us, we didn't have much time in the sunshine, so to speak. That's just the way it went for us in this incarnation.
I don't want to think of those times, and even recent years when my mother was alive, with sorrow. I remember after my cat Fred died from leukemia, many years ago, and I was in pain from the loss. My mother told me that after the pain subsides, I would just think of him and it will just be a good memory. My father, my sister, my grandmother, my fiance.... but the loss of my mother last year was the most difficult loss of all for me. It could have been so different for us, which is so difficult to accept. It never gets easier. I remember very few of my dreams, but I had one maybe close to ten years ago which was vivid, in bright colors, and everything was good. Everyone was there, a place where everything was perfect, and time and place were no object. Privately, in my mind, I've named it "A Dream Like No Other." Maybe that is what Heaven is like...
Goddess gives birth to the new Sun God, the child of the Holy Union of ShadowFest. The Watchers, known to the Streghe as the Grigori, come to see this new child, but are surprised to see Janus there presenting his new-born child. It is here that we see Dis and Janus are the two faces of the Great God. The Grigori then proceed to the world of man, bringing the new Lord of the Sun. Lupercus, the Sun, once again begins his growth.
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"I’ve come to the realization: We don’t get energy, we GENERATE our energy. This helps me take that first action step in the cycle." -- Courtney Kathleen
We live in a world filled with occult symbols and the signs are all around us. Jordan Maxwell takes us on a journey through time and the human mind to reveal his understanding of the secrets behind many of the symbols we see in our world. From astrology to alchemy, free masonry and secret sciences, these emblems have emblazoned coins and flags in many ancient cultures, including Rome and Egypt. We still see these powerful images, which represent powerful civilizations, projecting the agenda of secret societies communicating their power to the world.
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"I Have always understood that I have questions in myself that others can't answer." -- Jordan Maxwell [quote recited by Teddygramatron BMX]
Too many more good quotes from the comment section to add here
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“The mind has a mind of its own”
-- Taric Alani, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Ancient Greece is considered as one of the oldest civilizations of the world and truly so. The ancient Greek civilization is a treasure trove of uber-cool facts, surprising factoids, and astonishing nuggets of information that can baffle even the staunchest history professors. Here’s looking at such facts that can take us back to the glory of ancient Greece.
This is a very interesting article--not very long--with a lot of images. Lots of unknown facts about ancient Greece.
Sappho - greek poet: Sappho was an incredibly popular poet at the time — she was famously declared by Plato the “Tenth Muse.” Her romantic poetry toward a woman lover is still studied and read to this day. She’s also the origin of the term “sapphic love.”
"The thing I love about Mr. Ballen's storytelling is that you are not even consciously aware you are being told a story. It's like you are actually there and it is happening to you. That is a rare quality." -- Sean Baskett
"The woods are one of the most spooky and terrifying places to be. They can be so peaceful and serene, but once your mind goes into caution mode, or whatever, it can very quickly feel like you're an animal in the Wild." -- Matt Rasmussen
"The amount of anxiety I had after 27 mins in, just from hearing a story was unreal! 🤣 " -- Robert Vaughn
"I’m 72 years young and I anxiously await mr ballens stories every day" -- Joseph
"As an experienced backpacker, I can confirm that the scariest creatures you will ever encounter in the wilderness are other people. This story really freaks me out lol." -- Maria
"Does anyone else get kinda stressed watching these videos only because he’s such an amazing story teller?" -- treston vitelle
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"This was my first video on this channel.... I wasn't at all expecting it to be so riveting. If I hadn't had some really strange experiences hiking, maybe I would've been more at ease with it." -- Joseph (my comment)
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My thoughts on genuine fur coats
I came across this online.... a very luxurious bobcat fur coat...
"According to a new study, the global fur trade has now been valued at more than $40 Billion worldwide – roughly the same as the global Wi-Fi industry."
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A new high end bobcat fur coat is approximately $7,000, a new lynx coat is approximately $20,000, and a new mink coat is approximately $21,000. Needless to say, this industry has been under siege in recent years, with the trade in mink fur declining by 45% in the last twenty years, for one example. As a critical thinker, and more importantly a Free-Thinker, that maybe I disagree with other issues brought up by those who are against this industry should not come into play... although it can be difficult to separate the two. One thing, I would never oppose faux fur coats. Animals hides, skins, fur, etc. is a huge part of human history, and it was entirely proper when humans were in low populations and struggling to survive. One of the big problems is that the best fur comes from the most beautiful animals.
Also, somehow waiting for an animal to die of natural causes is totally impractical for numerous reasons. Canine fur apparently is not luxurious, as it's greasy and odorous, and more like sheep fur. Since 2000, the importation of dog or cat fur is illegal. Apparently bear fur is similar, although there are still the full body bear fur rugs. Beaver and otter fur is also "good" for clothing, and rabbit fur is used as well, but just not nearly as expensive. A beaver coat goes for about $1,200. Faux fur of any type goes for in-and-around three or four hundred dollars, with "Viking-style" shoulder capes going for about $100.
I like rabbits and lambs, but a dedication to rabbit or lamb rights would be setting one up a staggering amount of disappointment. They're hearty, but small prey animals by nature. Yes, lots of people have them around as pets, and they can be compatible with domestic cats and dogs, but they will forever be vulnerable. In east Asia, all animals are used as meat--maybe not in the full mainstream of society--but it still goes on in massive numbers. I could post videos of dogs and cats being skinned and even cooked alive, but you can just take my word for it.. there are lots of them. That's still separate from the fur issue. Dog and cat loving Americans still have no collective problem with coyotes and bobcats being hunted.
There are strong American laws on the books which protect pets and animals in general. However, laws regulating the damage done by large and/or aggressive dogs are not very strong. This fur industry is based on harvested animals, and not hunted animals. Hunting is an entirely separate issue, although some of those animals can be used for products. The real question is "should animals be harvested for fur products?" Even the leather industry is really a separate issue. Also, it's a question of not just "if" fur harvesting is proper, but if so, how much? It could just go in the general direction it is going, with less demand, and higher prices. If it was somehow banned, just for the sake of discussion, a strong black market for fur would quickly develop.
I would favor the current direction, with a slowing of the industry, and moving further towards the faux fur industry. Also, maybe an emphasis towards more of a generational way of looking at this? An expensive mink coat will continue to be luxurious generation after generation. There is simply no way to stop a very wealthy person to want to own--to use a horrifying example, a snow leopard coat--although there can be stronger laws against that. In other words, someone supporting moderation would need to look at the dark side of "banning" everything that some unelected bureaucrat (with massive funding) decides for you. There are too many people in the world who would be in full support of a Wall Street war profiteer's activities, while at the same time seek to ban the culling of rats in the big cities. I would be more in support for international laws with teeth against poaching.
Filmed on location on the Pacific Coast region of Washington State, United States in 2020 Directed by Nader Sadek Camera by Karim Ek Edit by Joe Dillingham Graded by ASAP VFX by Mohamed Abd ElGhany
The Modern African savanna existed in the ancient tundra of Eurasia
Today, leopard species--whom are all very similar--exist from the southern tip of Africa, to the Caucasus, to the easternmost part of Russia, down to Sri Lanka, and down to the island of Java in southern Indonesia. Amazing, their range once included all of Africa and Arabia except the remote deserts, all of Turkey and the Middle East, as well as almost all of the far east portions of Asia including Korea and even further north. However, they also very much existed all across Eurasia. I suppose it's likely that perhaps a century ago, the leopards who still exist today in just a few small patches in southern Turkey, also were present in a couple of remote spots in nearby Europe.
However, I'm speaking of a very widespread Eurasian species at one time in the very deep past. I'm guessing that this European leopard may have been similar to the amur leopard of east Russia and northern China (see image above). They have a heavy coat in the winter, which sheds in the summer. The fossil record for this European species goes back to about 600,000 years ago in France, and became extinct 24,000 years ago. It's assumed that snow leopards probably migrated to Europe during the ice ages, but there's no definite proof of that.
During these glacial movements, the Eurasian tundra apparently looked like a frozen African savanna, with very hairy mammoths, wholly rhinos, lions which probably had a thick mane covering their whole upper body, hyenas, leopards, and all sorts of stagged/hooved species just like on the African savanna! So along with huge cave bears and wolves, this would have been a very dangerous time for those people who lived there. Also there were wild horses, yaks buffaloes, and I suppose huge saber-toothed cats. Another curiosity is that those lions and hyenas may have had a similar struggle on those icy plains as they do today on the hot savanna.
Pleistocene Park is a nature reserve on the Kolyma River south of Chersky in the Sakha Republic, Russia, in northeastern Siberia, where an attempt is being made to re-create the northern subarctic steppe grassland ecosystem that flourished in the area during the last glacial period.
"Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind." -- Nikola Tesla
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How many times have we run an idea to someone, only to have the person be negative about it? We have some of the most common tools that we usually don't make full use of, such as a simple Word program. There are no whistles and bells there; nothing but your own mind working. YOU bring the ideas, accumulated knowledge, possibilities, application, goals, and LIFE into it. The perfect self-brainstorming tool right there in black and white!
Ingapirca (Kichwa: Inka Pirka, "Inca wall") is a town in Cañar Province, Ecuador, and the name of the older Inca ruins and archeological site nearby.
These are the largest known Inca ruins in Ecuador. The most significant building is the Temple of the Sun, an elliptically shaped building constructed around a large rock.
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'The Eye of the Law' (Justitia)
Carl Spitzweg, 1857
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Notice the detail. It's looks like a photograph. Powerful image.
A big hit for The Impressions in 1963, "It's All Right" remains a favorite among Northern Soul music fans. It was written by Curtis Mayfield and was on ABC Paramount Records 45-10487
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Organic imparted wisdom
We all partake, in one manner or another, of the age old process of both learning from or imparting wisdom. Often it's learning from elders, and imparting your own wisdom to those younger. It may not always follow that exact pattern, but overall it tends to. In today's world, often it's a learned person of your choice, probably at least as much as elders in your family. "Elder" was once a term of deep respect, much more so when people lived in smaller clans. The word comes from the Saturnian god El, a god of time and wisdom, whose learned teachers were referred to as Elders. It wasn't specifically or necessarily about "age."
When I find myself taking everything that I know, focusing it onto a particular subject, and processing it onto what I want to say in completion, I see the faces of those whom I have learned some of these things from. Many have now passed on, but I think of each one for split seconds as I process the knowledge and information. Sometimes I feel like I should give them a mention, but that wouldn't be practical as there could be a dozen of them. Also, each one is coming from a particular principle, if even just an organic principle... a parent or grandparent for example.
Some of those principles I may not have been in total agreement with, or reflected certain trains of thought which I'm not really a part of, but they were still teachers. Sometimes I can think of two random teachers within this context, whom each would not get along ideologically had they actually met, because they were of two different principles... two different disciplines. In MY mind, I believe that I can "keep it straight." I don't want to miss out on the knowledge, so I decided in these instances to open my mind and rely on my own filter.
I remember recently of watching a Jordan Maxwell video, and in the comments were people who had written how Jordan was their teacher. In Jordan Maxwell's case, this makes more sense since he was not any type of political pundit. However, even he had his biases. We all do. Those people clearly had chosen him to be their teacher. In the old village life, the youth followed their own parents and family, and the established local Elders. In those days, those people could be counted on more reliably to dispense good knowledge as they truly cared about their little societies. Where my family came from, it was a grouping of small villages, and the next grouping of small villages were five or six miles away down through the mountain trail.
Nurse and Captain Joyce Riley
In a society like that one, trust was important. They could really count on their families and Elders. Today that is not at all the case. As painful and frustrating as it might be, even some of the most trusted individuals may have something important wrong... or even "wrong" from someone's perspective. This is why communication is even more important today, rather than individuals being essentially required to speak in "political layers".... to speak differently to different people. Someone extremely close to us, we can trust with virtually everything; someone still quite close, we can trust with a lot of things, and so forth. We naturally form these "layers of trust." This socio-political dynamic is relatively new to humankind.
I wish I could adequately thank my various teachers, but I probably couldn't because of this layered system: "YOU listen to that guy!?" I may disagree with half of what that person says, and could probably debate them in a manner that would be anything but friendly. However, they may be good on a particular subject, or they may be on "the other side" on any particular subject, and I might learn something from them. Of course, if they're totally hostile to your concern(s), then you probably wouldn't be listening to them at all. However, if someone wants to be a knit-picky ideologue, then they will just dismiss and/or prejudge anyone who they disagree with on even just one thing!
Just this morning I came across 'The Power Hour' website and podcast, which was founded by retired Nurse and Air Force Captain Joyce Riley, who passed away in 2017. Someone could prejudge this program as "right wing Christian," although I could almost laugh as I recall her husband making a few truthful statements that sounded very old school "left wing." When she ran for President as a write-in candidate, I actually voted for her! I indeed marked the write-in circle and wrote in "Joyce Riley." Of course her running for that office, and traveling and campaigning, was an attempt to raise the alarm for numerous issues not commonly brought up in mainstream politics. I would consider her a teacher. When we impart wisdom, those various tidbits of knowledge carry the energy of all of those various teachers. It's almost like an occultic tribute to them though your words, and how you affected someone else's understanding continues to live on, and those whom they teach, and so on, far past your lifetime... maybe forever.
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"The inspiration you seek is already within you. Be silent and listen."
It's interesting that Fleetwood Mac is still active, as they're schedule for a concert in January 2023. They were one of the bands that really defined music during particularly the latter half of the '70s.
The Barbary lions once inhabited North Africa - they were said to have magnificent manes and were supposedly the largest of all lion species. So, what happened to them?
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"The interesting thing is that Barbary lions were not the only lions to look like that, there was various lion populations throughout Africa that looked similar. They were generally found in the colder mountainous regions, with the exception of the Cape region of South Africa, due to it's Southern location it already had a cool climate. Anyway, these unique looking lions were mostly found in the most prominent mountain ranges in Africa, from Mount Kenya, the Aberdare range to the Ethiopian Highlands in East Africa and then the mountain ranges throughout Southern Africa.
"Lions once lived in the coldest and snowiest country in Africa, the small mountainous country called Lesotho. This southern African country has frosty, sub zero winters even in the lower altitudes, at higher altitudes snowy conditions occur frequently in winter and natives have lived there for centuries despite the harsh conditions. So lions would've experienced very cold and snowy conditions in this region, they would've preyed mostly on the huge mountain dwelling elands, can you imagine lions chasing such huge prey in a snowfield? That would be an awesome sight. Leopards also roamed Lesotho, so they would've looked similar to the Amur leopards in appearance and likely larger in body size too. Lions were confirmed extinct in Lesotho by the late 19th century, the last verified Lesotho lion was killed by a missionary.
"Most of the unique African lion populations I mentioned have been killed off, with the exception of the very elusive Ethiopian lions. Lions still grow similar sized manes in the wild, although not as impressive as those unique African lion populations, they're still impressive nevertheless. You'll still see a good amount of lions with long impressive manes in Ngorongoro Crater and occasionally in the Serengeti plains, both regions are quite high in altitudes especially in the Ngorongoro Crater. Southern Africa has the occasional impressive manes too, especially in the plateaus or the southernmost regions.
"Thank you for your patience whoever got this far, because I know this was quite a read, I can't help myself sometimes."
-- The Panther
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"The Atlas Mountains must have been an interesting place with Barbary Lions, Leopards and Striped Hyenas living alongside Brown Bears, Red Deer and Barbary Sheep."
An extremely rare white bald eagle was spotted in Oklahoma by a college student returning home for Thanksgiving last week.
Justin Briley said he noticed the bird feasting on an armadillo carcass alongside some turkey vultures and grabbed his phone to nab a few photos.
“At first I thought it was an albino turkey vulture,” Briley told USA TODAY. “When I was looking at the pictures, I zoomed in on them and I could see its distinct white head and yellow beak.”
The bird perched itself on a tree after it finished eating. Briley captured more photos and videos of the iconic American bird with his phone using a spotting scope.
Actually I didn't search out Autumn, but something else; but these images came up. I can remember hiking with my mother through the Santa Cruz Mountains, her reddish hair against the reddish-brownish fall background. I always wish that I am the Max Corkle at the end of 'Heaven Can Wait', who despite all the confusion of devastating loss... everything is actually perfectly okay. There's always a plan.
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