The Brain is an Advanced Fractal Antenna

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The Abydos Helicopter & The Golden Section

At Abydos, in the ancient temple built by Seti I, and his son Ramses II, on a heavy stone slab supporting the ceiling are hieroglyphical writings, which are illustrated by a most eye catching, and thought provoking scene - an array of four futuristic craft.
dIf this were modern art, we would have no doubt that it clearly shows a helicopter next to a stacked formation of three harder to identify advanced craft. Disavowal stems strictly from the fact that this art is over 3,000 years old, and we know that there was no advanced technology and science in our misty past -

Menmaatre Seti I (also called Sethos I after the Greeks) was a Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt (Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt), the son of Ramesses I and Queen Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II. As with all dates in Ancient Egypt, the actual dates of his reign are unclear, and various historians claim different dates, with 1294 BC – 1279 BC[4] and 1290 BC to 1279 BC[5] being the most commonly used by scholars today.

The name Seti means "of Set", which indicates that he was consecrated to the god Set (commonly "Seth"). As with most Pharaohs, Seti had several names. Upon his ascension, he took the prenomen mn-m3‘t-r‘, which translates as Menmaatre in Egyptian,which means " Eternal is the Justice of Re."[1] His better known nomen, or birth name is technically transliterated as sty mry-n-ptḥ, or Sety Merenptah, meaning "Man of Set, beloved of Ptah". Manetho incorrectly considered him to be the founder of the 19th dynasty.

List of Berber people - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pharaoh
Ramses II (Berber: Ramsis Wiss 2) , according to L. Balout, C. Roubet and C. Desroches-Noblecourt, study titled 'La Momie de Ramsès II: Contribution Scientifique à l'Égyptologie (1985).' Balout and Roubet concluded that "the anthropological study and the microscopic analysis" of the pharaoh's hair showed that Ramses II was "a fair-skinned man related to the Prehistoric and Antiquity Mediterranean peoples, or briefly, of the Berbers of Africa."
Shoshenq I (Berber: Cicnaq), Egyptian Pharaoh of Libyan origin, founder of the Twenty-second dynasty of Egypt
[edit]Kings of Numidia
Masinissa (Berber: Masnsen), King of Numidia, North Africa, present day Algeria and Tunisia
Jugurtha (Berber: Yugerten), King of Numidia
Juba II (Berber: Yuba Wiss 2), King of Numidia
[edit]Roman Emperors and Generals
Macrinus, Roman emperor for 14 months in 217 and 218
Clodius Albinus, governor of Britannia
Lusius Quietus, governor of Judaea and one of the best Trajan's chief generals
Quintus Lollius Urbicus, governor of Britannia from 138 to 144
Septimius Severus, Roman emperor from 193 to 211
[edit]Writers
Terence (Berber: Tirines), (Publius Terentius Afer), Roman writer
Apuleius (Berber: Afulay), Roman writer ("half-Numidian, half-Gaetulian")
Priscian , Latin grammarian of the 5th Century, born in modern Algeria
[edit]Christians
Saint Augustine of Hippo, from Tagaste, was Amazigh
Saint Monica of Hippo, Saint Augustine's mother
Arius, who proposed the doctrine of Arianism
Donatus Magnus, leader of the Donatist schism
[edit]Others
Tacfarinas (Berber: Takfarin, Takfarinas), who fought the Romans in the Aures Mountains
Firmus, who fought the Romans Between 372 and 375
Gildo (Berber: Gildu, Gellid), who fought the Romans in 398
[edit]In medieval times

Adrian of Canterbury, Abbot of St Augustine's Abbey in Canterbury
Dihya or al-Kahina
Aksil or Kusayla
Salih ibn Tarif of the Berghouata
Tariq ibn Ziyad, one of the leaders of the Moorish conquest of Iberia in 711.
Ibn Tumart, founder of the Almohad dynasty
Yusuf ibn Tashfin, founder of the Almoravid dynasty
Ibn Battuta (1304–1377), Moroccan traveller and explorer
al-Ajurrumi (famous grammarian of Arabic)
Fodhil al-Warthilani, traveler and religious scholar of the 18th century
Abu Yaqub Yusuf I, who had the Giralda in Seville built.
Abu Yaqub Yusuf II, who had the Torre del Oro in Seville built.
Ziri ibn Manad founder of the Zirid dynasty
Sidi Mahrez Tunisian saint
Ibn Al jهzzar famous doctor of Kairouan, 980.
Muhammad Awzal (ca. 1680–1749), prolific Sous Berber poet (see also Ocean of Tears)
Muhammad al-Jazuli, author of the Dala'il al-Khairat, Sufi
Imam Buseiri, poet and author of the famous poem Qasida Burda – lived in Alexandria
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Chamharouch, the king of "jinn"

Chamharouch, le roi des "djinns" in Insayen - amezruy / Traditions - histoire / Traditions - history Forum

At about 2,000 meters above sea level halfway between the village of Imlil and refuge NELTI (located at the foot of Toubkal), Chamharouch is a well known place of pilgrimage around the mountain.

This place, supposed to honor the King of "jinn", would have the power to heal people with mental illness. To get rid of its evils, the pilgrim patient must stay long enough. Some remained there for years, according to the words of one local resident. A huge rock, painted white covers, according to legend, the place came to collect the "djinn" Chamharouch. It is at this precise location, in a cavity beneath the huge rock that "pilgrims" to collect.

In the mountains, among Berbers, roam the trails jnoun mainly in the evening or at night. The jnoun are the demons, the spirits that take the behind, pressing to look over your shoulder. They accompany you everywhere. Sometimes your own jnoun (plural of djinn ) will take quarrel with those of your partner. This explains the sudden bursts of antipathy which sometimes overwhelm you for no apparent reason during a first meeting. Conversely if your jnoun and his family are friendly, so immediately you become best friends.

The jnoun attend preferably some places, the vicinity of cemeteries, sunken roads, desolate places. It is important not to let the bad jnoun in the house. Sometimes you will notice a door on the imprint of a hand-dipped in color. It is the hand that pushes the evil eye, clearly indicating "Keep driving, you do not want bad jnoun here.."

The jnoun are incredibly present in the life of every day. They mingle shamelessly affairs of the living. Sometimes they are bad but sometimes they defend the innocent and do justice to the humble.

A Boumalne Dades, the jnoun intervened several times. Mohamed told me the story. Mohamed is not particularly superstitious, or even truly believing. It is not one to rush to the mosque every call to prayer. He studied at Ouarzazate. But Boumalne in the 80's, he was a child, there was a warrant officer of the gendarmerie that was law and order. One day the police captured a man in the souk of the village. They dragged him to the brigade to make him confess his sins, actual or imaginary. There, they shut him up, he was brutalized.

And while the village sleeps, that the police are about to take exhausted a well deserved rest, the first stone hits the front. Others follow, a deluge of stones came from nowhere. The windows broke, the door cracks, stones fly in, the furniture rush in all directions. The police are trying an output, the gun battery. Impossible, you must take cover. Person on whom to fire, except those that arise stones flying from the sky, whistling in their ears. The next day, the accused is released for lack of serious evidence.

A short time later, Mohamed I swear he was there with his bike and he has seen it all, some time later, the sergeant was transferred to another position. He commanded a cart, he pushes his personal belongings, furniture. The bed just charge ignites spontaneously reduced to ashes in an instant the contents of the trailer.

Mohamed does not draw further conclusion that the evidence of the existence of jnoun. These are the jnoun who spoke to hunt and to continue their brutal vengeance this Warrant and hated.

chamharouch le djinn roi - YouTube



Toubkal Mountain


Toubkal Mountain in Blue...and Mouth of the Serpent Valley in Red

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You should listen to this show; especially when he talks about Seti 1 Father of Ramses II

William Henry - Light Beings 01/11

William Henry - Light Beings 01/11 - YouTube

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Mysterious molecules may help cool Earth - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com

Elusive molecules in the Earth’s atmosphere may be helping to cool the planet more efficiently than scientists previously thought, a new study suggests.

They are called Criegee intermediates, or Criegee biradicals (named after the German chemist Rudolf Criegee), and are short-lived molecules that form in the Earth’s atmosphere when ozone reacts with alkenes (a family of organic compounds). While scientists have known about the intermediates for decades, they haven't been able to directly measure how the molecules react with other atmospheric compounds, such as the pollutants nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide, until now.

Principle of Correspondence

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Good to read you Dave

You guys should check this out...a DIY 3D Led 8*8*8 Cube:



LED cube 8x8x8 demo - YouTube

a fractal construct has an 'efficient function', it has a fractal ergonomy to them, they function on multiple levels and in multiple dimensions:

also: this looks fun and easy to make:

Improved Buckyball Motor. - YouTube

Exploding Zen Magnet Hanging Spinner - YouTube

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also about the 3d 8*8*8 cube:



Walter Russell Drawings







hope this inspires you

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Now, I'm going to ask you to use the child residing inside you ...and please watch the following...it is available online if you look for it

Once Upon a Time... Space - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Once Upon a Time... Space differs from the rest of the Once Upon a Time titles in the sense that the series revolve on a dramatic content rather than an educational premise. The series still has a handful of educational information (such as an episode discussing the rings of the planet Saturn).

The series succeeds Once Upon a Time... Man. It reprises almost the entire totality of the characters of the previous series and adapts them into a science-fiction context.

The story tells about the confrontation of many big galactic powers. Among them there is the Omega Confederation, of which Earth is a member of; the military republic of Cassiopée led by the general Le Teigneux; and a powerful supercomputer which controls an army of robots. A group of super powerful creatures called the Humanoids later appear in the series. Once Upon a Time... Space features the adventures of Pierrot (son of colonel Pierre and president Pierrette) and his friend Psi.

---------------also:

The Friendship Case ( Il Caso Amicizia ) Full-Length Part 1 - YouTube

English Version (in 5 parts) of an Italian documentary describing the extraordinary Italian case of alien contact with a group of men. Part 3 contains an apparent real recording of a message of friendship given by them to us (see 6 : 11 ). See part 5 for a UFO connection with Voltaire and St. Germain

It had been kept secret for half a century, but only just recently came to light after the death of one the men involved (Bruno Sammaciccia had asked for it to be kept secret until after his death).

In Pescara, during the 50s to 70s, a group of extraterrestrials had contacted a number of unsuspecting people directly. This project was called 'Amicizia.' These men would be brought to their (etheric) 'bases' located on earth and apparently on board the UFOs.

The people involved were of high social and cultural status, among them was the notable Console Alberto Perego. This is a collection of testimonials from them, which also shows excellent quality footage and photography of the phenomena, as well as apparent 'messages' (of love and goodwill) given to us from these beings.

Author: Pier Giorgio Caria, Director: Luca Trovellesi Cesana, Executive Producer: Diego Corvaro, Montage: Pietro Di Stefano, Giorgio Di Stefano.

You will be surprised how much info is in this Animated series



best way to influence a culture is through her children

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Principle of Correspondence

sorry for the long story but here is an example taken from the book Freakonomics : Story about the KKK

After just a few weeks inside the Klan, Kennedy was eager to hurt it any way he
could. When he heard about Klan plans for a union-busting rally, he fed the
information to a union friend. He passed along Klan information to the assistant
attorney general of Georgia, an established Klan buster. After researching the
Klan’s corporate charter, Kennedy wrote to the governor of Georgia suggesting
the grounds upon which the charter should be revoked: the Klan had been
designated a non-profit, non-political organization, but Kennedy had proof that
it was clearly devoted to both profits and politics.
None of Kennedy’s efforts produced the desired effect. The Klan was so
entrenched and broad-based that Kennedy felt as if he were tossing pebbles at a
giant. And even if he could somehow damage the Klan in Atlanta, the thousands
of other chapters around the country—the Klan was by now in the midst of a
serious revival—would go untouched.
Kennedy was supremely frustrated, and out of this frustration was born a stroke
of brilliance. He had noticed one day a group of young boys playing some kind
of spy game in which they exchanged silly secret passwords. It reminded him of
the Klan. Wouldn’t it be nice, he thought, to get the Klan’s passwords and the
rest of its secrets into the hands of kids all across the country? What better way to
defang a secret society than to infantilize—and make public—its most secret
information? (Coincidentally, in Birth of a Nation, a former Confederate soldier
is inspired to start the Klan when he sees a pair of white children hide under a
sheet to scare a group of black children.)
Kennedy thought of the ideal outlet for this mission: the Adventures of
Superman radio show, broadcast each night at dinnertime to millions of listeners
nationwide. He contacted the show’s producers and asked if they would like to
write some episodes about the Ku Klux Klan. The producers were enthusiastic.
Superman had spent years fighting Hitler and Mussolini and Hirohito, but with
the war over, he was in need of fresh villains.
Kennedy began feeding his best Klan information to the Superman producers.
He told them about Mr. Ayak and Mr. Akai, and he passed along overheated
passages from the Klan’s bible, which was called the Kloran. (Kennedy never did
learn why a white Christian supremacist group would give its bible essentially
the same name as the most holy book of Islam.) He explained the role of Klan
officers in any local Klavern: the Klaliff (vice president), Klokard (lecturer),
Kludd (chaplain), Kligrapp (secretary), Klabee (treasurer), Kladd (conductor),
Klarogo (inner guard), Klexter (outer guard), the Klokann (a five-man
investigative committee), and the Klavaliers (the strong-arm group to which
Kennedy himself belonged, and whose captain was called Chief Ass Tearer). He
spelled out the Klan hierarchy as it proceeded from the local to the national level:
an Exalted Cyclops and his twelve Terrors; a Great Titan and his twelve Furies; a
Grand Dragon and his nine Hydras; and the Imperial Wizard and his fifteen
Genii. And Kennedy told the producers the current passwords, agenda, and
gossip emanating from his own Klan chapter, Nathan Bedford Forrest Klavern
No. 1, Atlanta, Realm of Georgia.
The radio producers began to write four weeks’ worth of programs in which
Superman would wipe out the Ku Klux Klan.
Kennedy couldn’t wait for the first Klan meeting after the show hit the air. Sure
enough, the Klavern was in distress. The Grand Dragon tried to run a normal
meeting but the rank and file shouted him down. “When I came home from work
the other night,” one of them complained, “there was my kid and a bunch of
others, some with towels tied around their necks like capes and some with
pillowcases over their heads. The ones with capes was chasing the ones with
pillowcases all over the lot. When I asked them what they were doing, they said
they were playing a new kind of cops and robbers called Superman against the
Klan. Gangbusting, they called it! Knew all our secret passwords and everything.
I never felt so ridiculous in all my life! Suppose my own kid finds my Klan robe
some day?”
The Grand Dragon promised to expose the Judas in their midst.
“The damage has already been done,” said one Klansman.
“Our sacred ritual being profaned by a bunch of kids on the radio!” said the
Kladd.
“They didn’t put it all on the air,” the Grand Dragon offered.
“What they didn’t broadcast wasn’t worth broadcasting,” said the Kladd.
The Dragon suggested they change their password immediately, from “red-
blooded” to “death to traitors.”
After that night’s meeting, Kennedy phoned in the new password to the
Superman producers, who promised to write it into the next show. At the
following week’s Klan meeting, the room was nearly empty; applications for new
membership had fallen to zero.

Principle of Polarity

What drove Kennedy was a hatred of small-mindedness, ignorance,
obstructionism, and intimidation—

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Happy New Year of The Dragon...seems to be following us ...the Dragon that is

from the link you provided:

The Bodhisattvacharyāvatāra or Bodhicaryāvatāra, sometimes translated into English as A Guide to the Bodhisattva's Way of Life, is a famous Mahāyāna Buddhist text written c. 700 AD in Sanskrit verse by Shantideva (Śāntideva), a Buddhist monk at Nālandā Monastic University in India. It has ten chapters dedicated to the development of bodhicitta (the mind of enlightenment) through the practice of the six perfections (Skt. Pāramitās). The text begins with a chapter describing the benefits of the wish to reach enlightenment. The sixth chapter on the Pāramitā of patience (this i need ) (Skt. Kṣānti, kshanti) is considered by many Buddhists to be the pinnacle of writing on this subject and is the source of numerous quotations attributed to Śāntideva. Tibetan scholars consider the ninth "Wisdom" chapter to be one of the most succinct expositions of the Madhyamaka view. The tenth chapter is used as one of the most popular Mahāyāna prayers.

Harmonic Math

ps: she is definitively coming...

Idir-A Vava Inouva by Lionel Tunisiano - YouTube song in berber...amazing

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from: Essaouira - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Essaouira presents itself as a city full of culture: several small art galleries are found all over the town. Since 1998, the Gnaoua Festival of World Music is held in Essaouira, normally in the last week of June. It brings together artists from all over the world. Although focussed on gnaoua music, it includes rock, jazz and reggae. Dubbed as the "Moroccan Woodstock" it lasts four days and attracts annually around 450,000 spectators.

Essaouira in the mid-sixties was the place where hippies gathered a number of communities that hosted among other artists like Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, Bob Marley, Sting. Jimi Hendrix to attract gnaoua was in Essaouira, Morocco introduced to music by blacks slaves.

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter Unledded "GNAWA"

Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - No Quarter Unledded "GNAWA" - YouTube



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Having found the 7 Cathedrals, I turned my eyes back to Morocco...Did you know that in the region of Essaouira, there is a legend about the 7 Saints

so i searched some more Zawiyah, and found a peculiar photo...the least you could say...I'll keep you hanging a bit...

The Region it was found in , is known for a long historical presence of a Jewish population and Jewish Saints, which to this day is visited

7 Saints Regraga

The spring Regraga



Annually in Morocco, is held in late March by the brotherhood popular Regraga Daour a year. This pilgrimage, which takes place on the territory of Chiadma in the province of Essaouira, lasts 44 days and involves 40 steps. A singular event popular, religious, economic ...

The fabulous tour of the Seven men Regraga According to an immutable tradition, was launched, as every spring for forty-four successive days, the pilgrimage circular Regraga around the tombs of the Seven Saints.

The fascinating history of Regraga is maintained by a living tradition which makes Haouariyoun (the apostles), followers of Sidna Aissa (Jesus) through Saint-Jean (Sidi Yahya).

Rites and observed in their songs Moussem by Abdelkader Mana, recorded in his famous book on Regraga also strangely remind the biblical story of the Table Spread. Arrived in Andalusia according to this legend, the ancestors of these four Regraga fled by sea the persecution they endured in their monotheistic faith, to land on the banks of Oued Tensift to Kouz they have established a place of prayer, called Berber Timzkden n'houren (Mosque of the Apostles).

Disciples of Jesus, professing a belief similar to Arianism, the Regraga particularly proud of their second top-fact: their encounter with the Prophet Mohamed and Islam Sidna in Arabia, which makes them companions, first introducers of Islam in Morocco. However, a thesis put into question by the ulama of Fez of the seventeenth century, but still strongly defended by Regraga.

According to this belief: seven men reportedly went to Saudi to meet the chosen of God, which they expected Sidna Mohamed prophecy. Converted to Islam, they receive the blessing of the Prophet to spread the new religion among their countrymen. Mission accomplished if one believes the legend that the jumper would have found Oqba Ibn Nafii Haha Islamized the country on entry into Morocco.

As warrior monks, followers of orthodoxy, the Regraga also illustrated by their struggle against heretics Berghouata, introduction of legal chadilite rite in Morocco and later, their battles against the Portuguese occupiers, while up to the present, their baraka fertilization is earnestly invoked by the tribes and Chiadma Haha.

Source leconomiste.com

Sept saints des Regraga - Nature et Culture en Hautes-Terres

This pilgrimage is performed by thirteen circular zaouias, down or affiliates of seven saints. It takes place in forty-four steps and thirty-eight days. Reference to the forty days of flood and saints hidden apotropéens who took turns to carry the burden of the mystical world. From the outset, we are in the mystical symbolism of numbers. The 40 days of the flood, the 40 hidden saints apotropéens who take turns to carry the burden of the mystical world.

There are only thirteen zaouias (sanctuaries of direct or indirect descendants of the seven holy founders). But the other steps are either Seyyed (sanctuaries without descendants), or a simple cenotaph (where lords hoarding their money in troubled times, they say). Or without domes catafalques, tombs disproportionately located near a major Argan Tree, a cave or atop a sacred mountain.

Legend of the Seven Saints is quite answered in the Mediterranean. One of the best known versions is that the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus in Turkey mentioned in Sura of the Cave:

On the heels of their trajectory, the Regraga draw on the geographical area of Chiadma two huge wheels that seem to reproduce a cosmic constellation on earth. It is perhaps no coincidence that one of the tribes called Njoum precisely: the stars.

start at 1 min 10

to you old friend, you know who you are

MOHA ROUICHA - YouTube

City Don't Cry - Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - YouTube

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Wah Wah - Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - YouTube


Wah Wah - Robert Plant

From my island home I feel a chance
Kiss the tide - goes time and circumstance
Give me peace of mind and let me dance
Bury all my pain of years beneath the sand
On my heels these wings I gladly wear
Laugh into the face of anger and despair
Give me peace of mind and let me dance
Bury all my pain of years beneath the sand

powerful

original statue Flying Mercury




Nass El Ghiwane London 1980 By nass-elghiwane.com - YouTube

when i listen to it it reminds me of the sons of the wind ....

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same as:

Kamli Wale Mohammed - Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (Part 1/3) - YouTube

or this one...which is unbelievable (sorry for the update )

Ravi Shankar, Alla Rakha - Tabla Solo in Jhaptal - YouTube

and listen to what he says

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Wah Wah - Jimmy Page & Robert Plant - YouTube


Wah Wah - Robert Plant





powerful

original statue Flying Mercury




Nass El Ghiwane London 1980 By nass-elghiwane.com - YouTube

when i listen to it it reminds me of the sons of the wind ....

look what i found ..nice coincidence

Amazon.com: The Sons of the Wind: The Sacred Stories of the Lakota (9780806132242): D. M. Dooling: Books

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Native American myths

White Buffalo Woman
This is a central myth of the Plains tribes, especially the Lakota, or Sioux. It tells how the Lakota first received their sacred pipe and the ceremony in which to use it. It has often been related, for example by Black Elk, Lame Deer and Looks for Buffalo.

In the days before the Lakota had horses on which to hunt the buffalo, food was often scarce. One summer when the Lakota nation had camped together, there was very little to eat. Two young men of the Itazipcho band – the ‘Without-Bows’ – decided they would rise early and look for game. They left the camp while the dogs were still yawning, and set out across the plain, accompanied only by the song of the yellow meadowlark.

After a while the day began to grow warm. Crickets chirruped in the waving grass, prairie dogs darted into their holes as the braves approached, but still there was no real game. So the young men made towards a little hill from which they would see further across the vast expanse of level prairie. Reaching it, they shielded their eyes and scanned the distance, but what they saw coming out of the growing heat haze was something bright, that seemed to go on two legs, not four. In a while they could see that it was a very beautiful woman in shining white buckskin.

As the woman came closer, they could see that her buckskin was wonderfully decorated with sacred designs in rainbow-coloured porcupine quills. She carried a bundle on her back, and a fan of fragrant sage leaves in her hand. Her jet-black hair was loose, except for a single strand tied with buffalo fur. Her eyes were full of light and power, and the young men were transfixed.

Now one of the men was filled with a burning desire. ‘What a woman!’ he said sideways to his friend. ‘And all alone on the prairie. I’m going to make the most of this!’

‘You fool,’ said the other. ‘This woman is holy.’

But the foolish one had made up his mind, and when the woman beckoned him towards her, he needed no second invitation. As he reached out for her, they were both enveloped in a great cloud. When it lifted, the woman stood there, while at her feet was nothing but a pile of bones with terrible snakes writhing among them.

‘Behold,’ said the woman to the good brave. ‘I am coming to your people with a message from Tatanka Oyate, the buffalo nation. Return to Chief Standing Hollow Horn and tell him what you have seen. Tell him to prepare a tipi large enough for all his people, and to get ready for my coming.’

I have to say honestly my jaw dropped when read it



Nass El Ghiwane - Allah Ya Moulana (Gnawa) - YouTube

‘Look on this,’ she said, ‘and always love and respect it. No one who is impure should ever touch this bundle, for it contains the sacred pipe.’

She unrolled the skin bundle and took out a pipe, and a small round stone which she put down on the ground.

‘With this pipe you will walk on the earth, which is your grandmother and your mother. The earth is sacred, and so is every step that you take on her. The bowl of the pipe is of red stone; it is the earth. Carved into it and facing the centre is the buffalo calf, who stands for all the four-leggeds. The stem is of wood, which stands for all that grows on the earth. These twelve hanging feathers from the Spotted Eagle stand for all the winged creatures. All these living things of the universe are the children of Mother Earth. You are all joined as one family, and you will be reminded of this when you smoke the pipe. Treat this pipe and the earth with respect, and your people will increase and prosper.’

The woman told them that seven circles carved on the stone represented the seven rites in which the people would learn to use the sacred pipe. The first was for the rite of ‘keeping the soul’, which she now taught them. The remaining rites they would learn in due course.

The woman made as if to leave the lodge, but then she turned and spoke to Standing Hollow Horn again. ‘This pipe will carry you to the end. Remember that in me there are four ages. I am going now, but I will look on your people in every age, and at the end I will return.’

She now walked slowly around the lodge in a sunwise direction. The people were silent and filled with awe. Even the hungry young children watched her, their eyes alive with wonder. Then she left. But after she had walked a short distance, she faced the people again and sat down on the prairie. The people gazing after her were amazed to see that when she stood up she had become a young red and brown buffalo calf. The calf walked further into the prairie, and then lay down and rolled over, looking back at the people.

When she stood up she was a white buffalo. The white buffalo walked on until she was a bright speck in the distant prairie, and then rolled over again, and became a black buffalo. This buffalo walked away, stopped, bowed to the four directions of the earth, and finally disappeared over the hill.

The spirit woman

This is the only myth in which White Buffalo Woman appears. Moreover, there is no attempt to create a whole life story for her, and she has no identifiable family or husband, unlike the Navajo’s Changing Woman. She is altogether mysterious, appearing on the distant horizon, bringing her gifts, and then departing. In her self-sufficiency and virgin inviolability she is like the Greek goddesses Athene and Artemis, though since the coming of the Native American Church, many Native people have identified her with the Virgin Mary.

[QUOTE]When the White Buffalo Woman enters the lodge she walks around it in the solar directions, to meet the chief in the west (opposite the east, place of dawn and therefore of enlightenment). The spotted eagle feathers on the pipe are symbols of transcendent solar spiritual power. His feathers are equated with rays of the sun. As Joseph Epes Brown says, when a Lakota wears the eagle-feathered war bonnet, he ‘actually becomes the eagle, which is to say that he identifies himself, his real Self, with Wakan Tanka.’ Thus when the Ghost Dancers sang, ‘The Spotted Eagle is coming to carry me away,’] they were referring to spiritual transcendence of the material world.[/QUOTE

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Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni[1] (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), commonly known as Michelangelo (Italian pronunciation: [mikeˈlandʒelo]), was an Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art.[2] Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with fellow Italian Leonardo da Vinci.

Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime, and ever since then he has been held to be one of the greatest artists of all time.[2] A number of his works in painting, sculpture, and architecture rank among the most famous in existence.[2] His output in every field during his long life was prodigious; when the sheer volume of correspondence, sketches, and reminiscences that survive is also taken into account, he is the best-documented artist of the 16th century. Two of his best-known works, the Pietà and David, were sculpted before he turned thirty. Despite his low opinion of painting, Michelangelo also created two of the most influential works in fresco in the history of Western art: the scenes from Genesis on the ceiling and The Last Judgment on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. As an architect, Michelangelo pioneered the Mannerist style at the Laurentian Library. At 74 he succeeded Antonio da Sangallo the Younger as the architect of St. Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo transformed the plan, the western end being finished to Michelangelo's design, the dome being completed after his death with some modification.

In a demonstration of Michelangelo's unique standing, he was the first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive.[3] Two biographies were published of him during his lifetime; one of them, by Giorgio Vasari, proposed that he was the pinnacle of all artistic achievement since the beginning of the Renaissance, a viewpoint that continued to have currency in art history for centuries. In his lifetime he was also often called Il Divino ("the divine one").[4] One of the qualities most admired by his contemporaries was his terribilità, a sense of awe-inspiring grandeur, and it was the attempts of subsequent artists to imitate Michelangelo's impassioned and highly personal style that resulted in Mannerism, the next major movement in Western art after the High Renaissance.