Invariance implying careful choreography. This is less an appeal to traditionalism than a striving for timeless repetition. The key to invariance is bodily discipline, as in monastic prayer and meditation meant to mold dispositions and moods.
Rule Governance - Rules impose norms on the chaos of behavior, either defining the outer limits of what is acceptable or choreographing each move. Individuals are held to communally approved customs that evoke a legitimate communal authority that can constrain the possible outcomes
Sacral Symbolism - either expressed through totem, reliefs, idols
Performance- The performance of ritual creates a theatrical-like frame around the activities, symbols and events that shape participant's experience and cognitive ordering of the world,
Types
Right of Passage
Calendar of commemorative rites
Rites of Exchange and communion- forms of sacrifice and offering meant to praise, please or placate divine powers.
Rites of Affliction - exorcism seeking to purge illness or bad spirits
Ivory is a
hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally elephants') and teeth of
animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical structures of
teeth and tusks. The chemical structure of the teeth and tusks of mammals is
the same, regardless of the species of origin. The trade in certain teeth and
tusks other than elephant is well established and widespread; therefore,
"ivory" can correctly be used to describe any mammalian teeth or
tusks of commercial interest which are large enough to be carved or scrimshawed.
Ivory has
been valued since ancient times in art or manufacturing for making a range of
items from ivory carvings to false teeth, piano keys, fans, and dominoes. Elephant ivory is the most important source,
but ivory from mammoth, walrus, hippopotamus, sperm whale, killer whale,
narwhal and warthog are used as well. Elk also have two ivory teeth, which are
believed to be the remnants of tusks from their ancestors.
Roman writer
in the 3rd century claimed that the Celtic peoples in Ireland would decorate
their sword-hilts with the 'teeth of beasts that swim in the sea'. Adomnan of
Iona wrote a story about St Columba giving a sword decorated with carved ivory
as a gift that a penitent would bring to his master so he could redeem himself
from slavery.
he Chinese
have long valued ivory for both art and utilitarian objects. Southeast Asian kingdoms included tusks of the
Indian elephant in their annual tribute caravans to China. Chinese craftsmen
carved ivory to make everything from images of deities to the pipe stems and
end pieces of opium pipes.
The Buddhist
cultures of Southeast Asia, including Myanmar, Thailand, Laos and Cambodia,
traditionally harvested ivory from their domesticated elephants. Ivory was
prized for containers due to its ability to keep an airtight seal. It was also
commonly carved into elaborate seals utilized by officials to "sign"
documents and decrees by stamping them with their unique official seal
Ivory A
symbol of incorruptibility purity rank and protection.
The
symbolism of aloofness example the ivory top tower probably derives from the
high status of ivory at almost all ancient cultures. Elephant or walrus ivory
was credited with healing powers of East. It's Christian Association with
purity and in particular with the Virgin Mary are linked to its whiteness.
Ivory is
linked to trade in many areas of the world
In the
ancient Kingdom of Beninthe artist were
world renown for the skill and craft with ivory.
In Greek myth
Ivory represented the idea of false dreams, or fancies that would not come
true. Versusthe gate of horn which was
truth.
Socrates:
"Listen then," I said, "to my dream, to see whether it comes
through horn or through ivory."
(c. AD 400)
epic poet Nonnus:
As Morpheus
slept, the vision of a dream cajoled him,
beguiling
his mind after flitting through the gates of ivory.
Habsburg Monarchy (German: Habsburgermonarchie) or Habsburg
Empire is an umbrella term coined by historians to denote the numerous lands
and kingdoms of the Habsburg dynasty, especially for those of the Austrian
line. Although from 1438 to 1806 (with the exception of 1742 to 1745), a member
of the House of Habsburg was also Holy Roman Emperor, the Holy Roman Empire
itself, over which the emperor exercised only very limited authority, was not
considered to be part of the Habsburg Monarchy.
Eswatini,officially the Kingdom of Eswatini, and also known as Swaziland, is a
landlocked country in Southern Africa. It is bordered by Mozambique to its
northeast and South Africa to its north, west and south. At no more than 200
kilometres (120 miles) north to south and 130 kilometres (81 miles) east to
west, Eswatini is one of the smallest countries in Africa; despite this, its
climate and topography are diverse, ranging from a cool and mountainous
highveld to a hot and dry lowveld.
The population is primarily ethnic Swazis. The language is
Swazi (siSwati in native form). The Swazis established their kingdom in the
mid-18th century under the leadership of Ngwane the 3rd.The country and the Swazi take their names
from Mswati the 2nd, the 19th-century king under whose rule Swazi territory was
expanded and unified; the present boundaries were drawn up in 1881 in the midst
of the Scramble for Africa. After the Second Boer War, the kingdom, under the
name of Swaziland, was a British protectorate from 1903 until it regained its
independence on 6 September 1968. In April 2018 the official name was changed
from Kingdom of Swaziland to Kingdom of Eswatini, mirroring the name commonly
used in Swazi.
The government is an absolute diarchy, ruled jointly by
Ngwenyama ("King") Mswati III and Ndlovukati ("Queen
Mother") Ntfombi Tfwala since 1986. The former is the administrative head
of state and appoints the country's prime ministers and a number of
representatives of both chambers (the Senate and House of Assembly) in the
country's parliament, while the latter is the national head of state, serving
as keeper of the ritual fetishes of the nation and presiding during the annual
Umhlanga rite. Elections are held every five years to determine the House of
Assembly and the Senate majority. The current constitution was adopted in 2005.
Umhlanga, held in August/September, and incwala, the kingship dance held in
December/January, are the nation's most important events.
Eswatini is a developing country with a small economy.
With a GDP per capita of $9,714, it is classified as a country with a
lower-middle income. As a member of the Southern African Customs Union (SACU)
and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), its main local
trading partner is South Africa; in order to ensure economic stability,
Eswatini's currency, the lilangeni, is pegged to the South African rand.
Eswatini's major overseas trading partners are the United States and the
European Union. The majority of the country's employment is provided by its
agricultural and manufacturing sectors. Eswatini is a member of the Southern
African Development Community (SADC), the African Union, the Commonwealth of
Nations and the United Nations.
The Swazi population faces major health issues. It is
estimated that 26% of the adult population is HIV-positive. As of 2018,
Eswatini has the 12th lowest life expectancy in the world, at 58 years. The
population of Eswatini is fairly young, with a median age of 20.5 years and
people aged 14 years or younger constituting 37.5% of the country's total
population. The present population growth rate is 1.2%.
Name: Zeus King of Kings
Pantheon: Greek
Gender: Male
Known Aliases: King of Kings, The Father, King of Heaven
Associated: Lightening, sky, weather
Classification: Patron God
Period of Worship: 3500 B.C.E-Current
Discipline: E Particle
Height: unconfirmed
Weight: unconfirmed
Hair: Brown (variable)
Eyes: Green
Unusual Features:
Occupation: Ruler
Martial Status: Married
Known Affiliations: The Greek Gods
Known Relatives: Kronos (father), Hera (wife), Herkules (son)
Strength Class: 10
Weapons: the thunderbolt
Accessories
History: in ancient Greek religion, chief deity of the pantheon, a sky and weather god who was identical with the Roman god Jupiter (q.v.). Zeus was regarded as the sender of thunder and lightning, rain, and winds, and his traditional weapon was the thunderbolt. He was called the father (i.e., the ruler and protector) of both gods and men.
According to a Cretan myth that was later adopted by the Greeks, Cronus, king of the Titans, upon learning that one of his children was fated to dethrone him, swallowed his children as soon as they were born. But Rhea, his wife, saved the infant Zeus by substituting a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes for Cronus to swallow and hiding Zeus in a cave on Crete. There he was nursed by the nymph (or female goat) Amalthaea and guarded by the Curetes (young warriors), who clashed their weapons to disguise the baby's cries. After Zeus grew to manhood he led a revolt against the Titans and succeeded in dethroning Cronus, perhaps with the assistance of his brothers Hades and Poseidon, with whom he then divided dominion over the world.
As ruler of heaven Zeus led the gods to victory against the Giants (offspring of Gaea and Tartarus) and successfully crushed several revolts against him by his fellow gods. According to the Greek poet Homer, heaven was located on the summit of Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece and the logical home for a weather god. The other members of the pantheon resided there with Zeus and were subject to his will. From his exalted position atop Mount Olympus Zeus was thought to omnisciently observe the affairs of men, seeing everything, governing all, and rewarding good conduct and punishing evil. Besides dispensing justice, Zeus was the protector of cities, the home, property, strangers, guests, and supplicants.
Zeus was well known for his amorousness—a source of perpetual discord with his wife, Hera—and he had many love affairs with both mortal and immortal women. In order to achieve his amorous designs, Zeus frequently assumed animal forms, such as that of a cuckoo when he ravished Hera, a swan when he ravished Leda, or a bull when he carried off Europa. Notable among his offspring were the twins Apollo and Artemis, by the Titaness Leto; Helen and the Dioscuri, by Leda of Sparta; Persephone, by the goddess Demeter; Athena, born from his head after he had swallowed the Titaness Metis; Hephaestus, Hebe, Ares, and Eileithyia, by his wife, Hera; Dionysus, by the goddess Semele; and many others.
Though regarded by Greek religionists everywhere as omnipotent and the head of the pantheon, Zeus's very universality tended to reduce his importance compared to that of powerful local divinities like Athena and Hera. Although statues of Zeus Herkeios (Guardian of the House) and altars of Zeus Xenios (Hospitable) graced the forecourts of houses, and though his mountaintop shrines were visited by pilgrims, Zeus did not have a temple at Athens until the late 6th century BC, and even his temple at Olympia postdated that of Hera.
In art Zeus was represented as a bearded, dignified, and mature man of stalwart build; his most prominent symbols were the thunderbolt and the eagle.
Aerokinesis
is the psychic ability to manipulate, control, alter or create air molecules,
wind currents, and control air with the mind. The specific region of the brain
where this ability resides has not been successfully mapped.
Observations
of practitioners of Aerokinesis have shown the ability to control and amplify
ambient air currents.
The user can
create, shape and manipulate air, the common name given to the layer of
atmospheric gases and various compounds (mostly oxygen and nitrogen)
surrounding the planet Earth that is retained by Earth's gravity, and possibly
wind, movement of air relative to the surface of the planet. It is an important
factor in determining and controlling climate and weather, and the generating
force of most ocean and freshwater waves. Wind occurs because of horizontal and
vertical differences in atmospheric pressure, and include breezes, squalls,
gusts, whirlwinds, zephyrs, gales, tempests, and hurricanes.
Aerokinesis
is the elemental ability to create, control and manipulate the air and wind in
a variety of offensive or
In Mythology
This ability
is attributed to deities associated with the weather or wind.
in order to talk about the nature of the
universe and to discuss such questions as whether it has a beginning or an end
you have to be clear about what a scientific
theory is
we shall take the simple minded view that a
theory is just a model of the universe or a restricted part of it and a set of
rules that relate quantities in the model
to observations that we make it
exists only in our minds and does not have any
other reality whatever that might mean
a theory is a good theory if it satisfies two
requirements
it must
accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that
contains only a few arbitrary elements
and it must make definite predictions about
their results of future observations
for example Aristotle believed empedocles's
theory that everything was made out of four elements earth air fire and water
this was simple enough but did not make any
definite predictions
on the other hand Newton's theory of gravity
was based on an even simpler model in which bodies attracted each other with a
force that was proportional to a quantity called their mass and inversely
proportional to the square of the distance between them
yet it predicts the motions of the sun the
moon and the planets to a high degree of accuracy
any physical theory is always provisional in
the sense that it is only a hypothesis you can never prove it no matter how
many times the results of experiments agree with some theory you can never be
sure that the next time a result will not contradict the theory
on the other hand you can disprove the theory
by finding even a single observation that disagrees with the predictions of the
theory
a good
theory is characterized by the fact that it makes a number of predictions that
could in principle be disproved or falsified by observation
each time new experiments are observed to
agree with the predictions the theory survives and our confidence in it is
increased
but if ever a new observation is found to
disagree we have to abandon or modify the theory at least that is what is
supposed to happen but you can always question the competence of the person who
carried out the observation in practice what often happens is that a new theory
is devised that is really an extension of the previous theory for example very
accurate observations of the planet Mercury revealed a small difference between
its motion and the predictions of Newton's theory of gravity Einstein's general
theory of relativity predicted a slightly different motion than Newton's theory
did the fact that Einstein's predictions matched what was seen while Newton's
did not was one of the crucial confirmations of the new theory however we still
use Newton's theory for most practical purposes because the difference between
its predictions and those of general relativity is very small in the situations
that we normally deal with Newton's theory also has the great advantage that it
is much simpler to work with than Einstein's the eventual goal of science is to
provide a single theory that describes the whole universe
Was it that
I just didn't like this process was it not fast enough what was the deal with
this particular segment that I decided to not go with
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria.Algeria is a North African country with a Mediterranean coastline and a Saharan desert interior. Many empires have left legacies here, such as the ancient Roman ruins in seaside Tipaza. In the capital, Algiers, Ottoman landmarks like circa, 1612 Ketchaoua Mosque line the hillside Casbah quarter, with its narrow alleys and stairways. The city’s Neo-Byzantine basilica Notre Dame d’Afrique dates to French colonial rule.The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, the world's largest Arab country, and the largest in Africa.
The Lotus flower in some versions of Egyptian creation story the sun God was born from a blue Lotus that emerged from the primeval waters. The flower itself could be identified with the great goddess who gave birth to the sun. The blue Lotus came to be a general symbol of rebirth. It is also the emblem of the God Nefertem. The sweetly scented blue Lotus grows in still water. It's flowered buds only rise above the water and open their petals when the sun is shining. This Lotus is pollinated by beetles which links it to khepri the beetle God of dawn. The image of the sunrise as a Lotus emerging from the dark waters and opening to reveal its ghosts staman seems to be an ancient image.
From around the 14th century BC on the newly risen sun could be pictured as a naked child sitting inside the Lotus and holding one finger to his lips. In hymns intended to be sung at dawn the sun God Ra is the child of gold who issues from the Lotus. RA was thought to age during the course of the day so the infant God became an old man by sunset
.
In some account to Lotus comes into being after the eight primeval beings known as the Ogdoad of Hermopolis fertilized the waters of chaos. These fertile waters were thought of as a great primeval goddess who in the form of a cow or Lotus gives birth to the creator son God. This goddess can be named as man hat where at Hathor or Neith.
Various child God such Horace the child Ihy an Nefertem could be identified with the solar child in the Lotus. Ihy a child of Hathor was called the child who shines in the Lotus .
Nefertem was occasionally shown as a child seated on the Lotus but more often as a man or a lion headed man wearing a Lotus headdress. His epithets such as the great Lotus and the Lotus flower at the nose of Ra. identify him with the Lotus itself. a sweet Set was a distinguishing characteristic of Egyptian deities and effort him was the God who presided over perfume making. In Egyptian funerary art the dead were often show holding a blue Lotus to their nose breathing in the perfume of the Lotus gave them new life as followers of RA
In Hinduism the sacred Lotus grew from the navel of Vishnu as he rested on the waters giving birth to Brahma. The Lotus is a symbol of what is divine or immortal in humanity and the symbol of perfection.
Indian derived iconography both Hindu and Buddhist is full of deities or buddhas sitting cross legged in the center of flame like Lotus petals . The Lotus is the attribute of sun and fire gods an the leading symbol of padma the consort of the great vishnu. It symbolizes the realization of internal potential tantric yoga traditions, the ability to harness the flow of energy moving through the chakra's . Flowering at the thousand petaled Lotus of enlightenment at the top of the skull. A parallel concept is the Golden blossom of Chinese Taoism a Buddhist inspired tradition in which the Lotus is again a symbol of spiritual unfolding
In Tibet and Chinese Buddhism the Lotus is one of the eight auspicious signs. I
In Japanese it is an emblem of incorruptible morality. It also appears in my end iconography apparently with rebirth symbolism
Medew Netjer – The Language of Nature
Classification: Sacred Knowledge
Culture: Kemetic Nile Valley
Is a cultural expression The Medew. Netjer was a powerful visual system of signs that functioned as an effective way of graphically representing thought and speech. Removing ambiguity and certainty uninterpreted truth
Medew Netcher is defined as sacred speech that is measured principle an ordered.
It carries the meanings of expressions of the divine, divine communications of nature and existence itself.
To understand the Medew Ntr is to understand the universe itself
Its is expressed in hieroglyphics around the world.
Kemetic Philosophy, The Emerald Tablets and the Deity Thoth
Gula the Great one
Classification: Matron Goddess
Associated: Healing
Sacred Animal: Dog
Sacred Stone: Lapis Lazuli
Culture: Sumerian, Babylonian-Akkadian
Consort of Ninurta
Sacred Place: Temple at Urak
Title: Lady of Karrak, Lady of Isin, the Great Physisian
Gula is the Babylonian goddess of healing and patroness of doctors, healing arts, and medical practices. She is first attested to in the Ur III Period (2047-1750 BCE). Her name (Gula) means 'Great' and is usually interpreted to mean 'great in healing' while Ninkarrak means 'Lady of Kar,' interpreted as 'Lady of the Wall,' as in a protective barrier, though it has also been taken to mean 'Lady of Karrak,' a city associated with that of Isin.
In Sumeria, she was referred to as 'great physician of the black-headed ones' (the Sumerians).
She is associated with the underworld and transformation.
She was the daughter of the great god Anu, created with his other children at the beginning of time
