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Evidence of Exodus

Many often wonder if there is any factual evidence proving the Bible being true. What if I told you that not only can I point you to strong evidence of the old testament Exodus being real, I can point you to a person in Exodus who has a real life replica of himself. Being possibly the only person mentioned in the Bible that we can truly see how they appeared. (With the exception of Vladimir Putin's recent 2024 claim that he has an original painting of Jesus Christ that has been in Russia).

bNow, if you're not familiar with the book of Exodus (chapters 1-14), I suggest you taking a moment to read it. Otherwise, what I'm about to say may not make much Sense. Or, read this and then read Exodus, and things might make more sense to you as it's being read. Either way, I highly recommend reading it.

Archeologically, we're able to prove many things within the Bible, however, Exodus is not one of them. Matter of fact, some of the things are extremely questionable. For example, where are all these Israelites coming from mentioned? There are no records of a man named Moses in Egypt. Many movies depict the enslaved Israelites were building the pyramids, however, The pyramids were built long before the Israelites were enslaved. There are many things that people question in the book of Exodus, you might as well. Maybe I can help with any doubt that you may have. In hopes to open your eyes as to the possibility that these things really could have, and did indeed happen.

Let's go back to the story of Joseph. Joseph is one of the 12 sons of Jacob, also named Israel. (Remember God changed his name to Israel because of his faith in willing to sacrifice his son). They fell into a Great famine Aunt resources grew very slim, so they went searching for a better life elsewhere. Can you guess where they ended up? That's right, Egypt! This is where we get "The children of Israel", also known as, the Israelites.

Joseph's gift from God was the ability to interpret dreams. In doing so, he was able to interpret the Pharaoh's dream which ultimately helped save Egypt from a great famine. So how did his people, his family, end up in bondage? Answer is, the Israelites were living and the delta and we're living a pretty prosperous existence. Up until the moment a new pharaoh becomes in charge. This Pharaoh knows nothing about Joseph. For none other than narcissistic reasons, the new pharaoh is upset that the Israelites are living such a lavish life. He ordered task masters to watch over them, which is when they became enslaved. This Pharaoh is historically documented saying to his midwives, "watch the two stones." Meaning, Egyptian women often give birth while sitting straight up to let gravity help them with the birthing process. Often, they would sit on two stones to help assist them during labor. This correlates with the Bible when pharaoh ordered the death of all the Israelite males that were being born. This is around the time that Moses was born. With Moses's mom afraid of him being murdered, she sent him away, down the river, for a chance at life.

Another questionable biblical text says that the pharaohs daughter finds Moses and the river and takes him in as her own. An Egyptian naming their child Moses, which is Hebrew is not very likely. Leaving some skepticism. Let me push that skepticism aside.

Remember, Moses is sent down river, so when he's found, he's found in the reeds. Now the Hebrew word massa (משא) means brought out. However Moses, Moses is actually a pure Egyptian name, which means Born. Just think about Ra-Moses, Ra means God and Moses means birth in Egyptian, God is Born. Another common Egyptian term is Toth-Moses. So therefore, just because the name Moses doesn't appear as someone's name being an actual person, it does not mean he did not exist. Moses literally means birth and Egyptian. Something someone would say or call a newborn baby.

Moses later has an encounter with God through a burning bush. God tells Moses that he is going to be the one to help set the Israelites free and lead them into the promised land. Moses, brings his brother Aaron with him to go speak to the pharaoh. Moses performs many miraculous wonders and so do the pharaohs magic wielders. So it's like they're in competition for a moment. Moses has a staff and he throws it down and it turns into a snake. Then Pharaoh has his people throw a staff and they also turn into snakes. It was almost like this was something that they've seen before, and we're unimpressed. Now you can take it exactly how it was written and think that a staff was thrown down and turned into a snake and both parties were able to do so. What I think happened is, the staff happened to be a cobra snake that was stiff like a staff with the head as the handle. When you throw the snake down onto the ground it then is able to slither away. This is a known practice and Egypt then and even today which would explain why people wouldn't be impressed. Moses and Aaron came back time and time again with 9 different plagues. Trying to convince Pharaoh to let his people go. Pharaoh gets annoyed and Now orders that the Israelites are no longer going to be given prepared straw to mix with their bricks. Leaving them to cut their own straw to mix with clay in order to make their own bricks. Giving double work with the same deadline. None of the plagues presented so far didn't seem to phase the Egyptians whatsoever. By this point, God says enough is enough and lets the pharaoh know that if he does not cooperate, he will take all the firstborns of families who do not have a blood sacrifice over their door frame. Of course Pharaoh did not take this threat seriously, so there was no blood sacrifice and he ended up losing his son. This is what makes pharaoh say okay, You can have your freedom, you can go.

When the Israelites leave, the Egyptians are all mourning the deaths of their firstborns. So, when the Israelites asked for gold and silver upon leaving, they just handed it over with no issues. So the Israelites are able to leave rich with gold and silver. Rightfully so in my opinion. They just spent approximately 430 years, in slavery and are now heading to the promised lands.

As the Israelites were on their way, Pharaoh quickly changed his mind and decided to go after the Israelites and bring them back. This is when the famous part of Exodus happens that most people are familiar with. Did the Israelites really cross the Red Sea on dry land? While the Egyptians get swallowed whole by the water? There is a lot of skepticism about rather or not they truly did part the Red Sea.

Here the Israelites are leaving on foot with all this gold and silver. We know that they lived in the Delta part of Egypt so we can kind of figure out the route that they took. They don't take the Philistine route because Palestine is highly guarded with watchtowers. So what they do is go through the marsh. Now the misconception lies with where exactly they crossed at. Which they actually crossed through the Sea of Reeds and not the Red Sea. Now in the Bible it says that Pharaoh's chariots were clogged. Sounds like they were going through mud. If you ask me. Which if I'm on foot I can get through but if I'm in a chariot I cannot. So Pharaoh's men ended up perishing while God helped the Israelites make it through safely.

In playing devil's advocate, if this story is true then why is there no record other than what is mentioned in the Bible of this particular situation? The answer is Egyptians were horrible at record keeping in general. Their record keeping is mainly made up of what is written in tombs or on Stella's. Which never mentioned anything about any of their defeats. Egyptians only kept records of victories. Honestly, this entire situation only really mattered to the Israelites. No one else really cared. But this was the beginning of their entire religion.

Biblically they never say who the pharaoh actually was. Historically, Egypt didn't even have a pharaoh at this time. Who ever was in charge would technically be a king. So where does the Bible get Pharaoh from? It's actually a conjunction of 2 Egyptian words, that meant house, great. Which Pharaoh meant the one who lived in a great house. Fitting for someone living in a palace.

A clue in the Bible as to who this pharaoh may be is when they speak of the Israelites building the store cities with bricks. Is it a coincidence that one of the cities names is Pi-Ramess? They are using bricks, which historically we can narrow down the time frame in which bricks began being used to build the storehouse in these 2 cities mentioned.

i'm going to agree with Bob Brier, an egyptologist who suggested the Pharaoh in the book of Exodus is...... Ramesses the Great. Why?

Ramesses' built his capitol right beside the Delta, which would be close enough to the Israelites. Especially during the times Moses and Aaron were traveling back and forth trying to convince him to let his people go. The Israelite slaves built the city of Ramesses out of brick and he was the one who built these cities. There is a sentence written on a Papyrus that explains grain ratios to be handed out to the soldiers and apperu (now I know I butchered inthe spelling of this word, but I spelled it the way it sounded). Which The translation is thought to mean Hebrew. Many scholars believe that this is our Israelites. Other scholars believe that Merneptah was the ruler over The Exodus. They believe this because the first time Israel is mentioned is during the reign of Merneptah, which is Rameses 13th son and his successor. However, when Merneptah mentions Israel on his Stella. It is referred to as a people and not a country or a foreign land. Meaning around this time the Israelites were still wondering. Therefore, if they are wandering at this time, that means they must have left right before he began his reign. Biblical scholars believe The Exodus happened in year 20 of rameses reign. Guess what else happens right around this time? Ramesses loses his firstborn son, Amonhirkhopshef.

In the Egyptian museum, you can now see the mummy of Ramesses the Great. Which very well may be the only face you can look upon that is a real biblical figure. I love it when science, history and the Bible correlate.

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Brier, Bob. The history of ancient Egypt. (2013). The great courses.

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quiverwingquack · 1 year

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🔥common fandom complaint that you're sick of hearing🔥

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25. common fandom complaint that you’re sick of hearing

THE SCROOGE AND WEBBY TWIST WAS NOT OUT OF NOWHERE! I CANNOT STRESS THIS ENOUGH! Welcome to my fucking TED Talk!!!

Look, I’m autistic. This show is my special interest, my comfort media, the thing that’s been there for me through it all. I know most people are not nearly as obsessive about it, and haven’t watched every episode like six times, which I have.

But to brush off a twist that you don’t like, simply because you didn’t see it coming, isn’t right. The foreshadowing was there as early as the pilot, with Webby mirroring the Scrooge statue. It’s in Toth Ra, when Scrooge desperately searches for her and calls out her name, even though Louie also got lost with her. It’s literally the plot of Confidential Casefiles, where Scrooge realizes she’s as bold and adventurous as he is and immediately starts to build a bond with her.

It’s in Last Crash and Treasure of the Found Lamp and Nightmare on Killmotor and the end of Moonvasion. It’s right there in their subplot in Double O Duck, it’s in Webby’s worry for her family in Phantom & the Sorceress and her need for his approval in New Gods. It’s in the Fight for Castle McDuck, where she brings the family back together, and in Foreverglades and Santa Stole Christmas where Webby parent-traps Scrooge into mending his relationships with his exes.

That’s just what I can come up with from reading the episode titles off Wikipedia, and I guarantee you I missed some! It’s so engrained in the show that you find it in almost all their interactions. Webby is so much like Scrooge and wants to make him proud and Scrooge loves her more than anyone else and is always so proud of her even if he struggles to say it.

The reason no one saw it coming is, I think, a mix of the show being cut short and good writing. Webby’s plot definitely could’ve—and should’ve—had more to it, but they were trying to pay off a lot(the resolutions for their entire ensemble cast, the Disney Afternoon references and plots they’d planned, the plot with Bradford that started as early as the pilot). If they’d had more time things would be different! But also, this was an incredible writing crew! Frank Angones worked on Wander Over Yonder before this, and Dana Terrace made Owl House afterward. From what I’ve read in interviews and the art book, they kept the twist to the writer’s room and told David Tennant, to support his performance as Scrooge. And then you get to the end and it’s like “oh yeah, we told Kate Micucci the day she came to record that episode” or something like that. Not even the crew knew what they were foreshadowing! But if you take the time to rewatch it after you’ve found out, it’s literally all over the series.

Anyway, as Frank Angones once said, “I must establish an elaborate series of callbacks and payoffs or else I simply vanish.”

#duckverse #ducktales #scrooge mcduck #webby mcduck #webby vanderquack #ask game #mine!#krueger4eva thank you for handing me a One Free Infodump Pass i genuinely had so much fun writing abt this #like this twist literally rewired my brain. i write differently now because i took notes on how frank and the crew paid it all off.

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shxinny · 1 year

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Djehuty/Tehuty

Bien, he querido hablar de Djehuty hace tiempo, pero no me daba el tiempo y cuando tenía se me olvidaba (Autismo/TDAH check), pero hoy me quise animar a hacerlo, de primeras porque soy su aprendiz, así que es mi deber hablar sobre el panteón egipcio y mis netkheru y segundo porque me comprometí a hablar de él y dar sus mensajes. Entonces, empecemos con este post.

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¿Quien es Djehuty?

Djehuty es el netkher de la meditación, el heka, la escritura, las artes y patrón de escribas, y escriba en si mismo.

Él fue participe del mito osiriaco, quien se encargó de aconsejar a Sutekh (Tifón/Set/Seth), de revivir a Ausar (Osiris), de restauran el ojo de Heru (Horus, sincretismo del que hablaremos más adelante, pues todos estos sincretismos merecen un post explicándolos), de ayudar a dar a luz a Nut, quitándole 5 noches a la Luna y también el padre de la Ogdóada de los Hehu y esta Ogdóada la conforman los netkheru

Kuk y Kauket

Nun y Naunet

Heh y Hehet

Nia y Niat

Siendo Djehuty la cabeza. Se dice que son una manifestación de Djehuty, pues los Hehu actúan cómo uno solo, también hay quienes dicen que son los hijos de Djehuty.

En publicaciones posteriores hablaremos más profundamente de la Ogdóada de los Hehu y sus correspondencias.

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Periodo Greco-Romano

Los greco-romanos asimilaron, no sincretizaron, ojo, son conceptos distintos, a Djehuty con Hermes y Mercurio, cambiándole su nombre a Thoth/Thot/Toth, lo escriben de muchas manera, no sabría decir cuál es la correcta xD.

Cuando los Greco-romanos vieron los mitos en los que estaba envuelto Djehuty y al ver también sus correspondencias, decidieron "limpiar su nombre", omitiendo ciertas partes del mito osiriaco donde es protagonista él y en otros mitos, cómo puede ser el mito del libro de Djehuty, donde castiga a un hombre y a su familia con la muerte tras haber robado su libro que contenía sus hechizos.

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Representación

Son muchos los animales representativos de Djehuty, pero los más destacados son el Babuino y el Ibis, siendo representado como un hombre con cabeza de Ibis o Babuino o directamente como estos animales, pero hay que tener cuidado, pues Babi, otro netkher Babuino lunar, es representado directamente cómo este animal y es muy fácil confundirse.

Cuando se le representa a Djehuty, suele estar acompañado de otros escribas o suele tener a mano sus herramientas, cómo pueden ser su pluma y su papiro, donde cuenta los días de reinado del faraón o anota las malas y buenas acciones de las personas.

También se le suele representar junto a Ra y Sutekh, siendo junto a este ultimo con el que protege a la barca solar y a Ra de los ataques del demonio Nepai y otros, cómo los mut y el demonio S/h/a/k/i/k.

Curiosidades

Djehuty fue, en un inicio, un sacerdote de Ra, un fiel servidor suyo, es por esta razón también la de uno de sus animales, el Babuino, pues este sale todas las mañanas y hace un gesto el cual pareciera ser un saludo al sol, es por esta razón por la cual se le considera un fiel servidor de Ra, incluso, Djehuty, se ha ganado el título de "Ojo de Ra", título el cual, como ya hemos visto en post anteriores, son muchas las y los netkheru que son portadores de este honorable titulo.

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courseyoulovemeyoudontknowme · 2 months

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981, Steven Spielberg)

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Raiders of the Lost Ark is a 1981 film directed by Stephen Spielberg and written by Lawrence Kasdan, based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman, as well as the progenitor of the Indiana Jones film saga.

It was the highest-grossing film of 1981, earning approximately $330.5 million worldwide, and also a critical success, receiving praise for its modern take on the serial film, its seamless action and adventure, as well as for the cast, especially Ford, Allen and Freeman. The film was nominated for several awards and, among others, won five Academy Awards, seven Saturn Awards and a BAFTA Award.

The United States Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry in 1999.

In 1936, American archaeologist Indiana Jones leads an expedition to recover a Golden idol from a Peruvian temple with snares and deadly traps. When it seems to be successful, the local guide Satipo betrays Jones to steal the idol, only to end up killed by a trap, and only Jones manages to escape alive with the idol from the crumbling temple. Rival archaeologist René Belloq corners him and steals the idol. Pursued by the dangerous Hovitos Indians, allies of Belloq himself, Jones escapes on a waiting seaplane.

After returning to his university, Jones, along with colleague and friend Marcus Brody, is informed by two US Secret Service agents that the Nazis are digging in Tanis, Egypt, and one of their telegrams mentions Jones' old mentor, Abner Ravenwood. Jones deduces that the Nazis seek the mythical Ark of the Covenant, hidden in a secret chamber in the city, which they believe will make them invincible. To find it they must get their hands on the Staff of Ra amulet, guarded by Abner, which can indicate where the chamber is located via a scale model of the city.

At a bar in Nepal, Jones reunites with Abner's daughter, Marion Ravenwood, with whom Jones had an illicit affair, and learns that Abner is dead. The bar is later set on fire during a scuffle with a group of Nazis, led by the sinister Gestapo agent Arnold Ernst Toth, intent on taking the medallion from Marion.

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Here’s my ranking of my “least” favorite to my favorite DuckTales 2017 episodes:

69. Trickening

68. Rumble for Ragnarok

67. Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot

66. Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks

65. Life and Crimes of Scrooge McDuck

64. Day of the Only Child

63. New Gods on the Block

62. 87 Cent Solution

61. Richest Duck in the World

60. Fight for Castle McDuck

59. Missing Links of Moorshire

58. Lost Cargo of Kit Cloudkicker

57. Secret(s) of Castle McDuck

56. GlomTales

55. House of Lucky Gander

54. Happy Birthday, Doofus Drake

53. Storkules in Duckburg

52. Who is Gizmoduck

51. Sky Pirates… in the Sky

50. Beware the B.U.D.D.Y System

49. Depths of Cousin Fethry

48. Ballad of Duke Baloney

47. Duck Knight Returns

46. Outlaw Scrooge McDuck

45. Spear of Selene

44. Impossible Summit of Mt. Neverrest

43. Double O Duck in You Only Crash Twice

42. Lost Harp of Mervana

41. McMystery at McDuck McManor

40. Living Mummies of Toth-Ra

39. Town Where Everyone was Nice

38. Great Dime Chase

37. How Santa Stole Christmas

36. Louie’s Eleven

35. DayTrip of Doom

34. Golden Lagoon of White Agony Plains

33. Raiders of the Doomsday Vault

32. Quack Pack

31. What Ever Happened to Donald Duck

30. Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee

29. Most Dangerous Game… Night

28. They Put a Moonlander on the Earth

27. Beaks in the Shell

26. Terror of the Terrafirmians

25. Let’s Get Dangerous

24. Astro B.O.Y.D.

23. Escape From the ImpossiBin

22. Treasure of the Found Lamp

21. Woo-oo

20. Split Sword of Swanstantine

19. Moonvasion

18. Forbidden Fountain of the Foreverglades

17. Last Crash of the Sunchaser

16. Last Christmas

15. Jaw$

14. Golden Spear

13. Timephoon

12. Last Adventure

11. Nothing Can Stop Della Duck

10. Beagle Birthday Massacre

9. Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck

8. Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks

7. Friendship Hates Magic

6. From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22

5. Shadow War

4. Nightmare on Killmotor Hill

3. First Adventure

2. Phantom and the Sorceress

1. What Ever Happened to Della Duck

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thecrusadercomrade · 1 year

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Toth-Ra this had to be really the most evil villain if you think about it. The guard and his family keep the civilian as slaves for generations. (Wait a minutes overthrow evil pharaoh and escaping to freedom. Its kinda a Passover episode) Launchpad saving the day in a very Launchpad way.A Thriller references if anyone was going to do a thriller references it Dewey.

It really is a messed up situation. The descendants of servants continue to serve their long-dead master while being forced to live inside his tomb. How many generations were born and died without ever knowing the outside world? How did they avoid inbreeding after so long?

At one point Scrooge says "let my children go", and I actually wondered if that was a reference to Moses XD. I wouldn't be surprised if it was!

If you're gonna rebel against your master, burritos sound like as good a reason as any!

Yeah, I noticed that from Dewey and his little dance troupe. Not the most effective, but at least it looked cool.

#ask #ducktales 2017 #toth-ra #scrooge mcduck #launchpad #dt17 dewey

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dustedmagazine · 10 months

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Listed: James and the Giants

James and the Giants is the latest project from James Jackson Toth, who got his start in the freakiest edges of aughts folk as Wooden Wand, releasing a slew of albums under that and his own name. More recently, Toth has convened another band, James and the Giants, which shares personnel with Woods (Jarvis Tavernier, Kyle Forester and Jeremy Earl). In her review of their self-titled debut, Jennifer Kelly wrote, “Who’d have guessed from James Jackson Toth’s early forays into noisy, freak folk experiments that he’d shape up as such an elegant craftsman? This latest collection of songs attests to the artist formerly known as Wooden Wand’s deep connection to and understanding of foundational American popular music forms: blues, folk, gospel, R&B, Beatles-esque psych and Brill Building pop.”

Below is some music I really love. I have omitted music created by friends and people with whom I am acquainted in “real life.”

Oiro Pena

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Studio overdubs are a bit of a rarity in jazz music; even less common is jazz created by a single musician overdubbing themselves. While recent Oiro Pena albums have expanded to include several other members, band founder Antti Vauhkonen’s earliest work under the name was created by Vauhkonen alone accompanying himself performing all of the instruments. The result is like a cross between the space exotica of Sun Ra’s Chicago period and the homespun psychedelic clatter of No Neck Blues Band. As much as I enjoy the band’s recent work, it is the early Oiro Pena records that I find most compelling, the composite parts of a single brain improvising with itself to create a beautiful illusion.

B-52s — “Ain’t It A Shame”

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The B-52s’ 1986 album Bouncing Off The Satellites is what is often referred to in rock crit speak as a “transitional record.” It preceded a 3-year hiatus, after which the B-52s enjoyed a tremendously successful comeback with 1989’s 4x platinum Cosmic Thing, thanks in no small part to chart-topping singles “Love Shack” and “Roam.” Bouncing Off The Satellites found the increasingly fractious band moving away from their taut, artsy new wave origins and embracing the potential of nascent studio technology, namely the Fairlight CMI. Most crucially, the album was released less than a year after the AIDS-related death of founding member and guitar player Ricky Wilson, who was silently and secretly struggling with the virus during the recording of the album. As a result, the band did not promote nor tour in support of the album, which is really too bad, because it’s a great group of songs, the highlight of which being the melancholy “Ain’t It A Shame” (later covered by Sinead O’Connor). The song does not deal directly with Ricky’s illness—it was written before the diagnosis was revealed to anyone in the band—but seems to foreshadow some of the band’s personal difficulties in that prophetic way that songs often do. A gorgeous, flawless song.

Eyvind Kang — “Binah”

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Tucked inconspicuously into the center of polymath / genius Eyvind Kang’s 2002 CD-only release, Live Low To The Earth, In The Iron Age, is this mesmeric masterpiece, somewhere between a post-rock Bill Frisell and a more pastoral Henry Flynt. Over 27 minutes, “Binah” slowly blossoms, changing almost imperceptibly. To an impatient listener, it will be like watching paint dry; to me it’s like watching a flower bloom. My wife Leah and I have listened to this album on a loop for hours, and I’m not typically a “listen to a song on a loop for hours” kinda guy.

Omar S

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For over two decades, fiercely independent producer Omar S has been upholding the tradition of Detroit techno, his best music fusing the black sonic fantasias of Drexciya with the supple house-funk of Theo Parrish. On his own records and on his own label, FXHE, on which the vast majority of his 12”s and albums are released, the former Ford Motor Factory employee works exclusively with analog gear. Omar’s releases on FXHE are pressed in small quantities, often with crude, handwritten labels; if you order direct from FXHE, it’s very likely the box you receive will have been assembled and shipped by the man himself. While using techno and Chicago house as its base, the music Omar S produces is eclectic and unpredictable, untethered to any signature sound or approach; he’s just as likely to release an irresistible summer jam (see the Diana Ross-sampling “Day,” a track so infectious it makes Daft Punk sound like The New Blockaders) as darked-edged minimal house tracks like “Nite’s Over Compton,” on which Omar S masterfully evokes a mood using the barest essentials and tools.

Frank Zappa — “Chunga Basement”

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I’ve given up trying to convert friends to the cult of Frank Zappa. I’m a big fan, especially of his guitar playing, but I sympathize with those who might have an aversion to Zappa’s prurient and mean-spirited sense of humor. In fact, if Frank Zappa’s particular sense of humor could be said to have an exact diametric opposite, it is my own. I love Zappa’s music in spite of — not because of — its scatological / puerile aspects. With that preamble in mind, I encourage all you private press-obsessed guitar loners to consider this embryonic, uncharacteristically laid-back version of future live staple “Chunga’s Revenge,” recorded during a casual jam session in early 1970 and featuring a rhythm section of Ian Underwood on keys, Max Bennett on bass, and Aynsley Dunbar on drums. “Chunga’s Revenge” was historically one of several signature vehicles for Zappa the Guitarist (as opposed to Zappa the Social Theorist, Zappa the Comedian-Provocateur, Zappa the Serious Composer, et al) and this early take finds our mustachioed man sounding uncharacteristically mellow and un-caffeinated, exploring the endless possibilities of his guitar in a way that isn’t remotely wacky or wanky.

Barre Phillips — Three Day Moon

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There was a brief period in the mid-to-late 1970s when artists on ECM — my all-time favorite label after Three Lobed — were experimenting with synthesizers, approaching this relatively new technology with an omnivorous artistic fervor common to the ECM roster. Legendary bassist Barre Phillips’ pair of albums in the late 1970s are, to me, the distillation of this meeting of the earthy and the synthetic, locating in the process what might be considered ground zero for “ambient jazz.” While jazz groups incorporating elements of ambient and drone have become increasingly common as of late, there was little precedent in 1976 for the experimental marriage of saxes and circuitry. Mountainscapes (1976) and Three Day Moon (1978) both feature the mysterious and under-recorded synthesist Dieter Feichtner, about whom little is known — anyone know what became of him?

The Knife — Silent Shout

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In 2006, I was in an electronic music rut. Everything being produced suddenly felt like a retread or a facsimile of things I already liked, a malady common to older, more established genres like rock and jazz, but not, as far as I was concerned, electronic music. My slump ended upon hearing Silent Shout, the third album by Swedish sibling duo The Knife. Though I avidly continue to keep up with the uniformly excellent solo projects of both members of The Knife — Karin Dreijer Andersson’s Fever Ray and Olof Dreijer’s Oni Ayhun — Silent Shout remains a pivotal record in my listening life. The album’s gothic austerity and phantasmal reimagining of dance music is clearly the work of visionary minds. Silent Shout is music of physicality, of intimacy and bodies, rendered icy and alien in part by the deployment of pitch-shifted vocals that suggest multiple menacing personas, giving the album the dissociative sense of having many different vocalists embodying different characters. Dreijer Andersson’s voice is an incredible instrument, capable of evoking dread, fear, loneliness, and antagonism. Incredible artist.

Ulver — Blood Inside

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Ulver is predictable only in its unpredictability. The band radically reinvents its sound from album to album in a way that makes the Norwegian group’s music impossible to pigeonhole (see also: Boris, Circle). The group’s early albums are exciting, if fairly traditional black metal. But since then, Ulver has experimented with symphonic neo-classical, synth pop, art rock, trip hop, and folk music. 2005’s Blood Inside is their masterpiece — one of the most engrossing, relentless and overwhelming albums I’ve ever heard. Sometimes the album sounds like King Crimson covering The Cure’s Pornography, sometimes it sounds like Swans trying to evacuate a city being blasted by bombs. A grower if ever there was one, Blood Inside will worm its way into your psyche with its manic, brute ferocity and decadent maximalism. I’m loath to resort to the cliché of comparing a piece of music to an acid trip, so let’s instead call Blood Inside the sonic equivalent of an anxiety attack — inside a kaleidoscope.

Tolerance — Divin

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The late music journalist Yuzuru Agi founded the Osaka-based Vanity label in 1978, releasing 11 LPs alongside a handful of 7” singles, flexis, compilations, and cassettes by mostly Japanese artists before dissolving the label in 1982. My favorite Vanity release is 1981’s Divin, the second album by the Osaka duo Tolerance. Led by the enigmatic and mysterious Junko Tange and aided by guitarist Masami Yoshikawa, Tolerance used drum machines and mixers alongside guitars and keyboards to create a different sort of early electronic music, one that was as far away from Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream as Captain Beefheart was from the Rolling Stones. As the album’s most enthusiastic boosters love to acknowledge, listening to Divin is like listening to the future: the mechanized cracked electronics of Wolf Eyes and Nautical Almanac can be heard here, no wave’s dissonant skronk and grave incantations, and certainly what is now referred to as “minimal wave.” But the record’s prescience as a precursor to techno may be a tad overstated; by 1981, we already had “Being Boiled,” Louis and Bebe Barron’s soundtrack for Forbidden Planet, and Throbbing Gristle’s “Hot On The Heels On Love” (the latter of which does sound like a clear precursor to Tolerance’s “Sacrifice”), to name a few. Whether or not the members of Tolerance were aware of any of these things is impossible to know, as no one has seen or heard from either band member since shortly after Divin’s release. I’d speculate that most if not all of these resemblances are purely coincidental and not an indication of any direct influence. The coincidences, however, are fascinating. “Misa (Gig’s Tapes in ‘C’), presented here backwards, sounds a bit like a dry run for My Bloody Valentine’s “Touched;” “Sound Round” could quite easily pass as a sixth-generation cassette dub of some lost Skam or Rephlex 12,” while “Bok Wa Zurui Robot (Stolen from Kad)” does indeed sound like a blueprint for Detroit techno. There is something beguiling and uncanny about the entire presentation of Tolerance in general and Divin in particular. Though it is unlikely that the future architects of electronic music as we know it were aware of this record upon its limited release in 1981, it is a testimony to the notion of collective unconscious that Divin unwittingly presages so much of what was to come while still sounding like nothing else.

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midnightwins22 · 2 years

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Ducktales Rankings

So I realized that most of the things that I post or reblogged on here are about Rise of the TMNT and while I love that show to bits, I realized that I haven't talked nearly enough about my first love/obsession and that is Ducktales 2017.

Sadly as the show has been over for over a year now, I'm not into it as I used to be. Yet, I still read some fanfics and still love the characters, especially my boys: Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

I have decided to do a rankings list of the show. That being said, I haven't seen an episode in a while but my rankings are pretty much firmly in place. Also I won't rank every episode as that is too long so I am only doing the top 5 worst and top 5 best from every season and then taking those lists and doing a top 10 list of the whole show.

With that being said, let's Dew this!!!

Season 1 (Worst)

5. Terror of the Terra-Firmians

4. The House of the Lucky Gander

3. Sky Pirates...In the Sky

2. The Living Mummies of Toth-Ra

The Infernal Internship of Mark Beaks (the worst episode of Season 1)

Season 1 (Best)

5. The Shadow War (Season 1 finale)

4. The Other Bin of Scrooge McDuck

3. McMystery at McDuck McManor

2. From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22

The Last Crash of the Sunchaser (The best episode of Season 1)

Season 2 (Worst)

5. The Golden Armory of Cornelius Coot

4. The Ballad of Duke Baloney

3. The Depths of Cousin Fethry

2. The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee

The Golden Spear (the worst episode of Season 2)

Season 2 (Best)

5. Raiders of the Doomsday Vault

4. Whatever Happened to Della Duck?

3. A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill

2. The Most Dangerous Game...Night (Season 2 premiere)

Nothing Can Stop Della Duck (the best episode of Season 2)

Season 3 (Worst)

5. Challenge of the Senior Junior Woodchucks (Season 3 premiere)

4. They Put a Moonlander on the Earth

3. The Trickening

2. The Lost Harp of Mervana

New Gods on the Block (the worst episode of Season 3)

Season 3 (Best)

5. How Santa Stole Christmas

4. Quack Pack

3. The Last Adventure (Season 3/series Finale)

2. Escape from the Impossibin

Let's Get Dangerous (the best episode of Season 3)

Top 10

10. McMystery at McDuck McManor

9. From the Confidential Casefiles of Agent 22

8. Quack Pack

7. A Nightmare on Killmotor Hill

6. The Most Dangerous Game...Night

5. Nothing Can Stop Della Duck

4. The Last Adventure

3. Escape from the Impossibin

2. The Last Crash of the Sunchaser

Let's Get Dangerous

Again these are my personal rankings. I would love to hear any of you guys personal rankings in the comments. Also if any of you want me to go in depth on these rankings or want me to rank any of the characters from the show then let me know

I am also planning on doing rankings of my other favorite shows, like ROTTMNT, Amphibia, The Owl House, and Gravity Falls so stay tuned for those.

#ducktales 2017 #ducktales rankings #ducktales season 3 #ducktales season 2 #ducktales season 1

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thehuggingisajustfortodaything36 · 1 year

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For my very first poll I have decided to do something that requires more than 10 options/choices and because there can only be one poll per post there will be multiple posts that all have to do with the same poll. This poll will be about which DuckTales (2017) episode you consider to be the best in the entire series. So if the episode you consider the best isn’t on this particular poll, don’t worry because there will be multiple posts that may have the episode you’re looking for on there. All the episode polls will end around the exact same time. Even though there will multiple posts with a poll dealing with which DuckTales (2017) episode you consider to be the best, please treat this as a single poll and vote for one episode only. For example if the episode you’re looking for is here and you voted for it on this poll, please don’t go to the other posts to vote for an episode that’s on that poll. Have fun! 😊 ❤️ 🦆

#ducktales 2017

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cryptramesses · 1 year

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Seeing all your posts makes me wanna just binge Toutotsu no Egypt Kami the second I get home

Honestly? Do it. It's short, it's sweet, it's worth the binge! What's even better is that it's cute and fun and a good way to just decompress after a long day. Don't know if you have watched it before, don't know if my blog was your introduction to it, regardless of what your starting point with this series is, I definitely recommend.

The only catch is that if you're someone who is easily upset over things pertaining to mythology or religion, and are a stickler about it looking at it as this holy thing that shouldn't be tainted, Toutotsu no Egypt Kami/Oh Suddenly Egyptian Gods is definitely a series to skip out on. I will tell you now that if you're going to approach the series with this concept of holiness, where people can't make jokes or giggle about it or even be loose and relaxed with the mythology and the gods depicted, then you aren't going to like it.

The show is silly. It's not afraid to laugh at how goofy the feud between Lord Horus and Lord Set gets (let me tell you it's real goofy sometimes), as well as how petty it can be. It's not afraid to be like 'oh yeah Anubis? He's well respected and all, but he's still really close with all the other gods and is depicted as being very similar to a dog in his personality'. They aren't afraid to be like 'Toth is a nerd and Bastet is a cat'. If you aren't comfortable with representations of the gods in that matter, then this show is definitely 100% not for you -- skip out on other shows like Tutenstein, Moon Knight, and whatnot while you're at it and stick to the raw mythos.

Now, I personally love it, both as a casual anime enjoyer and as a Kemetic Pagan. Since these gods are integral to my spiritual and religious sphere of living, it's safe to assume that they are sensitive to me and with that approaching the concept with care is important to me. There are a ton of movies and shows I avoid because they clearly did not show love or care to the source material(the Mummy for example -- great horror movie, but did we really need to go and demonize mummification and label it a horror movie fad?), nor respect for the still very well and good belief system that exists based around this material.

What I like about Toutotsu no Egypt Kami/Oh Suddenly Egyptian Gods is that it's very clear the writer, Yuka, did their research and cares deeply for the mythology surrounding this culture. They take care to keep in mind the implications and to make something both lighthearted and respectful.

Sure things are glossed over, and the drama of the Gods is mostly a footnote in this slice of life anime, but that's the point. The question asked is 'what are these gods like when outside of the myths and could it be possible that even they can be silly at times?' Sure it's overplayed, but that's just the nature of anime. Emotions are exaggerated to make them easier to read universally (that's why you get the super dramatic gasps, gulps, and 'huh's when you watch, which do not translate over well into english).

The tl;dr that I'm trying to get to here is this is a good show as a whole. It's just genuinely good to watch, it's family friendly, and it's overall just a lot of fun from a consumer perspective. For someone who has no background with Kemetic Paganism, it's a good watch. However it also gets the additional mark of being a show that does Kemet and the gods within it justice. Yes it's super silly, it's a show that pokes fun at things, but it does so in a way that doesn't feel meanspirited or crass. The authors understand things like the Weighing of the Heart ceremony, the Pharaohcy, the situation with Lord Ra and the rest of the gods, the war between Lord Horus and Lord Set. They understand these concepts and seek to make them easy to digest and understand.

I went on a long rant there but I felt the need to really hammer home -- this is a good show. It's good for casual watchers who don't know a lick of mythology, it's good for people who like mythology but don't worship those gods, and it's especially good for those who are Kemetic Pagans or worship the Gods of Kemet in some way/shape/form.

So yeah -- go watch Toutotsu no Egypt Kami/Oh Suddenly Egyptian Gods, you won't regret it. It's on crunchyroll. If you don't have a crunchyroll you know how to get access to it, I don't think I need to tell you.

Additionally, for all my Kemetic Pagans out there, just a reminder, it's okay to meme about mythology and the belief system. It's not morally incorrect. We don't need to approach it like we're going to Sunday School. Laugh a little. The Gods won't hate you for it. I'll probably get a lot of flack for this from witchblr, but I actively make playful jokes about the mythology and the Gods in Their presence, and I've never been cursed for it. So you're good. You'd be surprised the amount of Lettuce jokes I make, if you know, you know.

#oh suddenly egyptian gods #toutotsu no egypt kami #asks #ramessesanswers #ramessesrambles #rudolphsb9 #kemeticism #kemetic paganism #ancient egyptian gods

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