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cielhunternorwood · 2 months

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So, this is going to be a strange bit of tangent-rant, what with all the Xitter-ing about Stellar Blade, sexualization, and whatnot. I promise, though, it's more random chatter than my own opinion on the matter (which is, more or less, idgaf). Reader beware.

For the unaware, Stellar Ass is an upcoming Korean video game starring a female main character modeled after a, well, model from Korea. However, the likeness isn't one-to-one, as there's some anime-ification going on with her face and hair, so there are definite liberties being taken with the character.

Naturally, though, people are less focused on her face and more focused on her butt and thighs, because her design is very much going into Hornyville in terms of accentuation, over-curvature, her swoocy movements, and her attire, or lack thereof.

Granted her butt and thighs are nowhere near as fantastic as Raiden from Metal Gear, but enough people have been chattering over her to trigger others who find this kind of design distasteful for many reasons. The thing is, it's a valid criticism to throw at a game, relying on some form of eye candy to draw people in.

It happens ALL THE TIME because that's what character design in games is about: making a character attractive and memorable to draw in the player and keep them hooked. It's not always sexy, though. Sometimes it's cute, sometimes it's cool, and sometimes it's just familiar to the player.

Having said that, it is also often a problem to design characters with sex appeal in mind, and it almost always involves female characters due to an inherent double standard that has yet to fade due to the many cultures that handle the issue in different ways.

Not that you can't make a sexy main character and still make them enjoyable to some extent as a character, but impressions will always be on visuals first, especially when knowing the persona of a character requires a time investment. In that way, a lot of the reactions based on appearance go both ways for equally valid reasons.

Similar complaints were made about Bayonetta and Nier: Automata, which are all equally valid, and could be made about the old Tomb Raiders if not for the rather cartoony cover arts (also that they toned down her boobs the more realistic they became in visual style). It's a means of hooking that is often used with a game that may not hit it off on gameplay alone.

The trouble is that the sexualized character can cause mixed signals, making an otherwise unremarkable game seem amazing because the sexy girl (or, rarely, guy) in the middle of the screen is triggering a positive reaction- brain chemicals, yada yada- from that alone. Hence why someone like me, who is asexual, generally is unaffected and has a more grounded opinion of such games.

I found Tomb Raider to be interesting to play, even if platforming in the remake was really buggy, forcing me to cut it short. Bayonetta felt too much like DMC 4 for me to actually buy the game, plus the magic hair idea and the heel-revolvers felt too dumb to me. Nier Automata was the first game to actually make my eyes hurt due to its washed out, sepia'd locations, and I found the game really boring even with its supposed "great story": it was just treading the old ground of other games that came before it without adding its own unique flair.

I can't help looking at Stellar Blade and thinking it'll be more of the same: people confused by their own excites into thinking a game is better than it is, much in the way the adrenaline rush of playing certain stupidly-difficult games can make you think a certain game is fun when it's actually badly designed and forcing you to win against unfair odds.

There's a lot of focus on how a game makes us feel when judging it, rather than judging it based solely on its status as a game. The fact that too many people can't separate their like or dislike of a game from its actual quality leads many to praise an otherwise bad game or condemn an otherwise good game, all over what the game makes them 'feel'.

To reel it back in, liking a game because it has a sexy character you want to watch and wank to, while I guess being fine, doesn't mean someone is wrong to criticize that design for being as such and further complain about 'oversexualization'. Especially when that sexiness is always the focal point of promotional media, cutscenes, animations, etcetera.

It's a very normal reaction to something that is still perceived as in the realm of sexism, sometimes because it comes from a culture that doesn't have the same values or progression as our own in that field. It's still a talking point that inevitably causes flared tempers, mainly because the people liking these sexy main characters feel attacked when the point is brought up.

Unfortunately, the defensive reflex really reveals more about them as a person than anything else, being unable to admit that 'Yes, this character is oversexualized, and I'm okay with that,' because the connotations to go with that are bad. It very easily lends to some extremist name-calling and labeling when the discussion should be focused on whether this is an okay thing in general or if it continues to promote an objectification ideal.

The problem then becomes the 'but it's a fictional character,' argument, which is a weak argument at its core due to the fact that separating fiction from reality relies on an individual knowing themselves in and out (which is impossible, mind you). However, a lot of what we like in fiction and onward is a translation of what we want subconsciously or would gravitate towards in reality because that's how the brain circuits are wired.

Again, this is focusing purely on the visual representation. For the pure reason that most consumers will always go for the instant gratification effect rather than hold off for the longer-lasting good effect. Part of why gacha games are so popular and addicting, but that's a subject for another time.

I guess, in the end, this tangent-rant is mostly a complaint that the problem isn't the character themselves but our unwillingness to have an actual discussion on how this can be a problem, how it may perpetuate a problem, and how it should be allowed to receive these criticisms, even if some of the complaints are plastered with buzz words or using it as basis for a really bad agenda.

We'll all love good-looking designs, be they sexy, cool, cute, or just reminiscent of someone we know, but we should always be willing to criticize them. Same for games. Your feelings for something and the quality of it are two entirely different things.

If you can't separate the two from each other, then either you need to learn how you can do that or simply admit your own bias and never render judgement.

Anyways, that's all I wanted to get out of my system. Again, my own opinion of Stellar Blade's MC is "I don't care," because I've seen enough of that kind of thing to just be numb to it. Also it's not as bad as a lot of character designs in Artery Gear and Nikke, or the stupid Nero Saber Venus look in Extella.

#rant #rant post #I'll still call it Stellar Ass for the lulz

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guysgreys · 2 years

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Supreme commander games

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#Supreme commander games

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canalstreetbaker · 5 years

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🖊🖊🖊 pick 3

ANOTHER THREE

So I have talked about C’arli, and about Encee, and about Neil.

I will then offer some blurbs on three other Shadowrunners (of which I use that term loosely) that I have created and even played on occasion.

The first:

Mitchell Westmarch was a middle manager for a Finance department in NeoNET’s Seattle HQ branch. By all rights he was somewhat popular with his team, his boss didn’t mind him, and IT thought he was hilarious because he spent So Much Time looking at strategies and stories about one of the more popular Sixth World MMO’s - Shadowrun Online.

In it he was Royce, the dead-eyed pistolero who had a silver tongue and a one-liner for every situation. He had the finest vat-grown muscles and brain enhancements, eyes and nose that could see and smell everything, and friends all over the social strata ingame.

Mitchell went and Got Obsessed.

The next thing you knew, Mitchell had raided his department’s budget and used a couple contacts over in Marketing/Medical to get a host of vatware and cyberware installed so that he could be his character ingame. So when he woke up and realized he just dropped a cool quarter mil on Looking Cool, he might’ve panicked a bit.

He talked with a friend of a friend his boss had commented about in passing - a fixer, well known in the region by Those In The Know, about what he could do to make that quarter mil back before the quarterly audit came up.

“Governor” J. LePetamaine had the perfect job for someone with his talents.

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The second:

Not much is known about Decker the Decker, save this:

He’s from Johannesburg

He’s a decker

He can only say three lines.

See, Decker was on a run that went wrong back in Cape Town, and since he was a nasty little hunchback he couldn’t get away. His brain got fried by psychotropic IC, his personality rewritten, and he was kicked on the next boat to Seattle with nothing but his cyberarm (and the deck contained within). To date, Decker is only able to say the following:

Decker

I will have the #6 special, please

I believe we have an arrangement

And somehow with being able only to say those three things, he managed to survive a Deep Run into the Foundations of the Matrix in order to find the True Secrets He Was Being Paid To Find.

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The third:

He was a pint-size frontman for KRUSIBYL, the greatest Goblin Metal band in the world. His music reached millions and was the undeniable voice of the Ork and Troll communities worldwide. His influence was vast, his resources unlimited, and his bed was frequently filled with a stunning cross-section of metahumanity.

Yet, for all of these things, Flea Knickertwister (born Bertram Charlemagne Morgan, but Flea Knickertwister sounded so much more metal) was very confused as to why his olfactory sensors were telling him a bespoke genetically-engineered canine was trying to lick him awake, whining as it did so. Flea identified it as a limited-edition Lipwigzer strain, a 41-S to be specific. This was curious, because he was reasonably certain he did not own one.

Flea cracked an eyelid to assess his situation, hands pushing the dog’s snout out of the way. The CalFree sun was covered in a smoky haze, obscured by the charred remains of a ramshackle stage that had not survived the previous evening. The gentle sound of waves crashing on the shore reminded him he was on a beach, yet his tour bus was nowhere to be found. Shattered remnants of amplifiers, speakers, and precision instruments - the finest his money could buy, which was very - were strewn about on the sand. A second plume of smoke was rising from beyond a dune, out of sight.

This may reveal the location of his tour bus, Flea surmised. He would have to summon the replacement.

As he blearily looked for his bandmates, Flea discovered a pile of half-barrel kegs the size of three trolls and a pile of white powder the size of two orks. Flea could see the pile move and dust blow into the air in a slow rhythm, like a kettle about to percolate. This was also curious - a pile that large in Flea’s proximity could only be novacoke from his private stash. Last night’s gala must have had him feeling excessively generous.

Despite clearly being surrounded by sand, Flea felt like he was floating on water. He could feel the forgiving plastic of a float ring gently cradling his small form. It bobbed in a hot tub fashioned from wood of the Sangre del Diablo - one of the originals, not the more-recent Bogota cuttings. His ever-helpful olfactory sensor cheerfully informed him that the spectrographic analysis indicated the 162 gallons or so of liquid he was floating in held hints of juniper, cucumber, a healthy measure of water, lime, and approximately 40% alcohol. This was further curious, as Flea was reasonably certain the tank he kept in reserve was smaller than 162 gallons. It had also been emptied well before what he could only assume was another sold-out beach concert.

The tub’s placement on the beach was a minor detail, despite the knowledge that said tub wasn’t meant to be removed from the tour bus. But, Flea noted, the smoke was rising in the distance, and of all the items that could be saved he was pleased this was the priority.

The most troubling development for him was that he was alone - save for the poodle licking his face from the hot tub’s edge - and that was a fate he would wish only upon his worst enemy. Even more troubling, he could not find his commlink - and without it, he was utterly bereft of contact with his legions of adoring fans. His MeFeed wasn’t going to update itself - unless his Social Media Coordinator had it. In which case, it would.

Feeling about in the ginwater, Flea came up with a lengthy chain of orichalcum links that led over the edge of the pool and into what he could only believe was the voluminous aether. Pulling on the chain only brought him to the very edge of the tub, disappearing into the oddly-contorted sand. It reminded him of that pile of novacoke he’d been meaning to investigate in the five-second eternity since he was rudely awakened.

Flea managed to roll off the edge of the float tube (and, coincidentally, the pool itself) and sprawl on the sand in question. As he did so, it started to shift and rise as a sky-clad form arose from its silicate tomb. An Ork, thin, yet voluptuous in all the places he enjoyed, looked down on him with a mixture of hangover and concern. That orichalcum chain led all the way up to a luxurious black Naga-hide choker encrusted with diamonds around her neck. It was designed by masters of leather work and crafted by trained servants of a dragon that Krusibyl played a birthday party for. Schwartzkopf, it turned out, wanted a somber celebration of Dunkelzahn’s hatching in the metahuman style. It was a trifle - the novacoke was more entertaining.

“There you are!” he said in happiness, looking up at her. “Suffer DarkBlood BoneRaven, you could’ve given me a terrible scare!”

Suffer, as Flea preferred to call her, knelt down to pick him up in her arms. She cradled Flea upon her heavenly chest, which had been worth the nuyen to install. The agent has told Flea that her name was Charlene Hubbart, but who cared about peasant titles anyway?

“I’m sorry I got lost,” she mumbled with reverence, as she was trained. “Will you forgive me?”

“This time,” Flea said magnanimously. While he wanted to find his commlink, activating the electric shock program that terminated at her collar wouldn’t be necessary. This was nice.

“Where are the oth- No, a more important question. Why is there a Lipwigzer 41-S here affectionately asking for walkies?”

Flea revised the priority of the electroshock program. Suffer was slipping - she should’ve answered this before he asked. She had been buried underneath sand, but his benevolence could only be pushed so far.

“Um,” Suffer said while carrying Flea towards the mountain of kegs, “You said you were keeping it until your demands were met.”

“Demands?” he asked, frowning. “What demands were - oh, sirens. Bother.”

The archives of his cybereye footage were already coming up as the first patrol buggy roared into view. Flea was certain that they would handle things, and if they wouldn’t then Suffer would. After all, she had a MBA from Harvard and her sister was a leading geneticist in her field. He had more important things to occupy his time, such as the passing fancy of this Lipwigzer’s abduction.

Perhaps that’s where the bathtub full of gin came from.

#castellankurze

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tlatollotl · 7 years

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The archaeological site of Nunalleq on the southwest coast of Alaska preserves a fateful moment, frozen in time. The muddy square of earth is full of everyday things that the indigenous Yupik people used to survive and to celebrate life here, all left just as they lay when a deadly attack came almost four centuries ago.

Around the perimeter of what was once a large sod structure are traces of fire used to smoke out the residents—some 50 people, probably an alliance of extended families, who lived here when they weren’t out hunting, fishing, and gathering plants. No one, it seems, was spared. Archaeologists unearthed the remains of someone, likely a woman, who appears to have succumbed to smoke inhalation as she tried to dig an escape tunnel under a wall. Skeletons of women, children, and elders were found together, facedown in the mud, suggesting that they were captured and killed.

As is often the case in archaeology, a tragedy of long ago is a boon to modern science. Archaeologists have recovered more than 2,500 intact artifacts at Nunalleq, from typical eating utensils to extraordinary things such as wooden ritual masks, ivory tattoo needles, and a belt of caribou teeth. Beyond the sheer quantity and variety, the objects are astonishingly well preserved, having been frozen in the ground since about 1660.

Emma Frances Echuck and her daughter Valerie take a break from drying salmon in the village of Quinhagak. At a nearby archaeological site artifacts such as this mask are emerging from the permafrost as it thaws.

The remains of baskets and mats still retain the intricate twists of their woven patterns. Break open a muddy, fibrous bundle and you’ll find crisp, green blades of grass preserved inside. “This grass was cut when Shakespeare walked the Earth,” marvels lead archaeologist Rick Knecht, a quiet, grizzled veteran of decades of digging.

Knecht, who’s based at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, sees a link between the destruction at the site and the old tales that modern Yupiks remember. Oral tradition preserves memories of a time historians call the Bow and Arrow Wars, when Yupik communities fought each other in bloody battles sometime before Russian explorers arrived in Alaska in the 1700s. Nunalleq offers the first archaeological evidence, and the first firm date, for this frightful period, which affected several generations of Yupiks.

Knecht believes the attacks were the result of climate change—a 550-year chilling of the Earth now known as the Little Ice Age—that coincided with Nunalleq’s occupation. The coldest years in Alaska, in the 1600s, must have been a desperate time, with raids probably launched to steal food.

“Whenever you get rapid change, there’s a lot of disruption in the seasonal cycles of subsistence,” Knecht says. “If you get an extreme, like a Little Ice Age—or like now—changes can occur faster than people can adjust.”

Today increasingly violent weather has driven Nunalleq to the brink of oblivion. In summer everything looks fine as the land dons its perennial robe of white-flowering yarrow and sprigs of cotton grass that light up like candles when the morning sun hits the tundra. But the scene turns alarming come winter, when the Bering Sea hurls vicious storms at the coast. If the waves get big enough, they crash across a narrow gravel beach and rip away at the remains of the site.

This centuries-old ulu, or cutting tool, was plucked from the thawing ground at Nunalleq. Embodying the native Yupik belief that everything is constantly in transition, the handle can be seen as either a seal or a whale.

The Arctic wasn’t always like this, but global climate change is now hammering the Earth’s polar regions. The result is a disastrous loss of artifacts from little known prehistoric cultures—like the one at Nunalleq—all along Alaska’s shores and beyond. Ötzi, the Stone Age man whose body was found in 1991 as it emerged from a receding Italian glacier, is the most famous example of ancient remains brought to light by warmer weather. But a massive thaw is exposing traces of past peoples and civilizations across the northern regions of the globe—from Neolithic bows and arrows in Switzerland to hiking staffs from the Viking age in Norway and lavishly appointed tombs of Scythian nomads in Siberia. So many sites are in danger that archaeologists are beginning to specialize in the rescue of once frozen artifacts. They’re having to make hard choices, though. Which few things can they afford to rescue? And which will they just have to let go?

In coastal Alaska, archaeological sites are now threatened by a one-two punch. The first blow: average temperatures that have risen more than three degrees Fahrenheit in the past half century. As one balmy day follows another, the permafrost is thawing almost everywhere.

HERITAGE AT RISK

The effects of global climate change threaten hundreds of sites that hold clues to Alaska’s past. Permafrost once protected fragile artifacts from rot and mold, but warmer temperatures are now causing more and more of the icy ground to thaw in the southern part of the state. At the same time, seas are rising and winter storms are raging, putting sites all along the coast in danger.

When archaeologists began digging at Nunalleq in 2009, they hit frozen soil about 18 inches below the surface of the tundra. Today the ground is thawed three feet down. That means masterfully carved artifacts of caribou antler, driftwood, bone, and walrus ivory are emerging from the deep freeze that has preserved them in perfect condition. If they’re not rescued, they immediately begin to rot and crumble.

The knockout blow: rising seas. The global level of oceans has risen about eight inches since 1900. That’s a direct threat to coastal sites such as Nunalleq, which is doubly vulnerable to wave damage now that the thawing permafrost is making the land sink. “One good winter storm and we could lose this whole site,” Knecht says.

He speaks from experience. Since the start of the excavation, the relentless action of the sea has torn about 35 feet from the edge of the site. The winter after the 2010 dig was particularly brutal. Residents of Quinhagak, the modern village just four miles up the beach, remember huge chunks of ice slamming into the coast. By the time Knecht and his crew returned, the entire area they had excavated was gone.

Since then Knecht has pressed on with a renewed sense of urgency. Rain or shine, during the six-week dig season, about two dozen archaeologists and student volunteers spend long summer days on their hands and knees gently stripping away soil with their trowels.

When this wooden paddle blade from Nunalleq was new, people relied on kayaks to get around. Modern Yupiks use motorboats to visit other villages, hunt sea mammals, and net fish. Mike Smith (right) waded into the Kanektok River before work to hook a few salmon, which he gave to his grandmother. “She was so happy, she put on her apron right away and began cutting them up,” he says.

On an August day that begins warm and buggy but soon turns overcast and cold, Tricia Gillam finds a common artifact that was created with exceptional artistry.

It’s a women’s cutting tool popularly called an ulu—uluaq in Yupik—with a curved blade of slate and a carved wooden handle. The archaeologists often uncover a blade, a handle, or an occasional complete ulu, yet this one brings gasps from everyone. The handle has the graceful shape of a seal. But that’s only half the design, it turns out. When local carver John Smith takes a look later from another angle, he sees the outline of a whale.

The artifact speaks to the fundamental Yupik worldview that nothing is a single, inflexible entity because everything is in a state of transformation. The ulu handle is a seal, but it’s not a seal. It’s a whale, but it’s not a whale. Other finds embody that same idea: A mask that’s a walrus, or a person. A small wooden box that’s a kayak, or a seal.

“That dynamism is a constant part of their lives,” Knecht says. “And climate change is part of that.”

If anyone’s going to survive the changes occurring in the natural world, he believes, it’s these people who have always seen their environment as something fluid, requiring adjustments and adaptations. They know firsthand the seasonal patterns of plants and animals, and if there’s a shift, they’ll shift with it.

On a visit to 86-year-old Carrie Pleasant (right), Sarah Brown gets advice on sewing a beaver-skin parka. Pleasant made fur garments for all 10 of her children, but kids today usually wear store-bought clothing. “Things are changing so much,” she said wistfully. Pleasant has since passed away.

The village of Quinhagak sits on Yupik land at the mouth of the Kanektok River, which winds across the tundra in wide loops before spilling into the Bering Sea. A few gravel streets run past a school, church, post office, supermarket, hardware store, health clinic, gas station, washateria, cell phone tower, and three sleek wind turbines that spin in the brisk sea breeze.

Officially, 745 people live here, in metal-roofed, wood-frame houses that perch on stilts a foot or so above the once frozen ground. But on any given day the actual population may be larger, swelled by relatives who have come to stay for several weeks, and residents of nearby villages who have come to shop, visit friends, and maybe pull in a few fish.

Based in an office building that also serves as the archaeologists’ headquarters, 50-year-old Warren Jones is president of the local Yupik corporation known as Qanirtuuq, Inc., managing its 130,564 acres, overseeing its businesses and financial assets, and negotiating contracts with the outside world. But he’d really rather be hunting, he tells me. Along with almost everyone else here, he follows the same cycles of subsistence as the generations of Yupiks who came before him.

“Most of our diet is from the stuff we gather, hunt, or fish,” he says. “My grandpa used to say, if you don’t have wood, fish stored away, berries, birds, you might as well be dead, because you don’t have nothing.”

From a traditional lookout, hunters scan the tundra for moose. Land and sea are like supermarkets for the Yupik, who know exactly what foods to search for in each season of the year. Locals’ ancestors carved the life-size mask above. Part human and part walrus, it was worn in a ritual dance to ensure a safe, successful hunt. “Even now, with rifles, going after a walrus is scary,” says Knecht.

Early August, when the excavation is in full swing, is a busy season for the villagers as they tap nature’s larder. Berries are ripening across the tundra, and fat coho salmon, known here as silvers, are swimming up the Kanektok on their way to spawn. In keeping with Yupik tradition, Misty Matthew helps her mother, Grace Anaver, gather food for the winter.

On the days she goes berry picking, Matthew drives an ATV deep into a flat, green landscape dotted with others on the same mission, hunched over as they fill their plastic buckets. Salmonberries ripen first, one small, sweet, orange cloud per plant. Then blueberries, with a vivid, sweet-tart flavor that no supermarket fruit can match, and low-growing black crowberries that are crunchy and subtly sweet.

No one here thinks in pints. It’s gallons they need. Matthew stirs up some of her haul with sugar and fluffy shortening to make a snack called akutaq, or Eskimo ice cream. Then she makes jam in her grandmother’s old stainless steel pot, and jelly with the leftover juice. But the bulk of the picking goes into big chest freezers in a backyard shed. She opens all three to show me what her mother already has gathered. One is stuffed with berries in clear plastic bags. Another has berries, salmon, seal oil, trout, and smelt. The last holds moose, clams, geese, swans, caribou, and two kinds of wild greens.

Kids in Quinhagak, the village near the archaeological site, are growing up very differently from their parents and grandparents. Instead of hand-sewn fur parkas, they wear the same store-bought clothing as other children around the world, and English, not Yupik, is their first language. Their time is occupied not with gathering food or making tools needed for survival, but with school, television, and the Internet.

Grace Hill at first argued against digging up the place where her ancestors lived and died, but she now sees how archaeology can connect people to their past. Some Quinhagak elders believe the old site has chosen to speak today and that’s why artifacts are turning up. Quinhagak’s residents are listening—and most important, the children are learning to appreciate their cultural heritage.

In a shed where salmon fillets hang to dry, Grace Anaver pauses while cutting up the day’s catch. On a wooden table nearby, she uses her ulu to cut the head off each fish. She then slits open the belly to remove the guts and slices fillets from the ribs. Returning home for lunch, she serves broiled salmon and a soup made with salmon heads and plump sacs of orange salmon eggs.

Carver John Smith works with electric tools, but his raw materials are strictly traditional: walrus ivory like the tusks he’s carrying here, antlers from caribou, and driftwood collected on the shores of rivers and the Bering Sea. He often finds inspiration in the artifacts that the archaeologists uncover—an ivory earring with spiral motifs, a beautifully shaped ulu, or a tiny wooden owl pendant.

Out on the vast tundra, Kathy Fox shows of the crowberries she has just gathered. The fine-tooth metal cradle that she’s holding allows her to harvest a dozen or so fruits with a single swipe. Crowberries grow on the branches of ground-hugging evergreen shrubs. Pickers have to get down on their hands and knees to find the tiny berries hidden in the dense mats of sprucelike needles.

“It’s good to be fat in this village. It means you’re eating well,” she says. “You’re supposed to have three years of food stored away to get you through the lean times.”

On another day, early in the morning, Matthew and her brother, David, take out their family’s motorboat to net salmon on the river. An hour later they bring 40 silvers, easily 20 pounds each, to the wooden drying racks along a quiet side creek where their mother is waiting. The two women spend the rest of the day gutting the fish, cutting fillets, and slicing strips for brining, drying, and smoking—everything done with deft strokes of their ulus.

Like many people who grew up here, Matthew has sometimes left Quinhagak to find work, but the people, the tundra, and the river keep pulling her back. Yet even after years away, she can see that the natural rhythms of life are out of whack.

“Everything’s two or three weeks ahead now,” she says as she cuts into a fish. “The salmon are late. And the geese are flying early. The berries were early too.”

Emma Fullmoon can count on younger relatives to provide food, like this salmon. And guests are always welcome in the home she shares with extended family. “That’s just what we’re supposed to do,” says her sister Fanny Simon. Though the Yupik idea of hospitality has endured, other customs have not. The wooden figure above has large, oval lip plugs, but no one today wears such ornaments.

If there’s one thing everyone in Quinhagak agrees on, and talks about often, it’s all the changes brought by the weird weather.

“Twenty years ago the elders began to say the ground was sinking,” says Warren Jones, as we chat in his office. “The past 10 years or so it’s been so bad everybody’s noticed. We’re boating in February. That’s supposed to be the coldest month of the year.”

The strangest thing? Three successive winters without snow. On his computer, he pulls up a YouTube video made by a teacher at the village school. As the song “White Christmas” plays in the background, fourth graders try to ski, sled, and make snow angels on bare ground, in December.

This angled piece of wood once formed part of a kayak’s stern. The wooden frame of such a craft, covered with waterproof seal skins, was made to measure for the person who would be doing the paddling. It was so finely calibrated that a kayak often was destroyed when the owner died.

Carved from a caribou antler, this barbed harpoon head (left) originally had a sharp tip, now broken. Its tapered bottom fit into a bone socket at the end of a long wooden shaft. The incised lines mark ownership. Hunters of sea mammals normally worked in a group, and the man whose harpoon struck the prey first was often entitled to a special portion of the meat. This piece of slate (right) was ground into its sharp, pointed shape and then slotted into the end of an arrow. Archaeologists found more than a thousand of these at the site of Nunalleq, mostly in association with the dwelling that was attacked. Some were even embedded in the building’s posts, probably the result of attackers shooting arrows down the hallways.

Like many of the sewing tools found at Nunalleq, this awl handle (left) was made of walrus ivory. A sharp tip of ground stone, bone, or even a rare bit of metal was once attached to the shank at the bottom. To sew a tough skin, an awl was normally used to punch holes along the seam line so the bone or ivory needle could glide in and out without breaking. Wooden dolls turned up all over the archaeological site. Some were simple playthings; others were probably used in rituals. This example, (right) carved from soft willow wood, has an unusually distinctive, detailed face that was likely meant as a portrait. The figure may have been created to stand in for someone who was unable to attend an important function.

Even without warmer winters, the children’s lives are very different from what their elders experienced. Qanirtuuq chairperson Grace Hill, 66, sees trends that concern her—like the fading language. “When I went to first grade, I only spoke Yupik. Now the kids only speak English,” she tells me in the fluent, slightly accented English that she learned in school. And then, of course, there’s the modern technology that’s changing everything everywhere. “The kids are more into computers—and they’re forgetting about our culture,” she worries.

Like other older villagers, Hill at first opposed the excavation of Nunalleq because Yupik tradition says ancestors shouldn’t be disturbed. But now she believes that archaeology can serve a greater good. “I’m hoping this will get the kids interested in their past,” she says.

Henry Small has the same thing in mind one sunny afternoon when he brings his 11-year-old daughter, Alqaq, to Nunalleq to check out the progress of the dig. This is their second visit this summer. When I ask him what he hopes his daughter learns here, he responds as if the answer were obvious: “Where she comes from!”

Alqaq, in a pink T-shirt, plaid capris, and movie-star sunglasses, is getting the message. On previous visits she has helped sort artifacts and sift the excavated soil for small things the archaeologists might have overlooked. She especially likes the dolls, she says, and the lip plugs. And what about the ulus, like the one her father made for her birthday, with her name carved into the handle? “It’s cool that we get to use what our ancestors were using,” she says without hesitation. Today’s visit is brief, with no work to do, so Alqaq and her father soon head up the beach toward home on an ATV.

The weather-bleached whale bones piled around clothesline poles in a Quinhagak backyard likely washed up on a beach nearby. Village elders remember bringing home dozens of whales every year, but those days are gone. Hunters now may make just a single catch on the open sea.

Archaeology’s potential to inspire such appreciation for the past is what motivated Jones to get the dig started. He asked Knecht to assess the eroding site, then helped convince the village’s board of directors that excavating Nunalleq was a good idea. He also got the board to fund the first two years of digging and provide ongoing logistical support. “It wasn’t cheap,” he says. “But to get the artifacts for our future generations, money didn’t matter.”

At the end of each field season the archaeologists have packed up what they’ve found and shipped it to the University of Aberdeen for conservation. But all the artifacts will be sent back later this year, destined for an old school building that Quinhagak has converted to a heritage center. Jones envisions this as a place where people can see, touch, and share stories about the beautifully worked possessions of their ancestors.

“I want our kids who are in college now to run it and be proud that it’s ours,” he says. And when this dream takes shape and the center opens its doors? “I want to be the first to go in and say, ‘I’m Yupik, and this is where I come from.’”

#archaeology #anthropology #native american #Yupik #alaska #Nunalleq #arctic #climate change #environment #national geographic

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uncomfortablyagedmeat · 7 years

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I haven’t been on here in so long I don’t even know if people I followed or who follow me are active anymore. So I’m just going to leave this here, for me that be able to come back to. I am making this the tomb.

2017 (as it has gone so far): January - Husband and I move out of the shitbag trailer we were so proud of (because we did it all by ourselves. No parents. No friends -save for the mooching lying fucking asshole. No problems -save for the mooching lying fucking asshole. Just us -save for the mooching lying fucking asshole. It was fucking sweet) into an actual house, THAT IT FUCKING PAID FOR all we have to pay is water/electric/wifi, but we give up total privacy. - Mooching Lying Fucking Asshole gets aggro af at Husband after disagreement, admits to cheating on Husbands brother, Husband tells his brother, we find out MLFA has been lying to not only the brother but her family as well saying that WE sold our car for DRUGS a month after moving into the shitbag trailer, that we QUIT our JOBS so she didn’t have enough money to pay bills so they would give her money, said WE were the ones living like savages, that (even without fucking jobs) we had a $2000 a month fucking weed bill (FOR ONE NO FUCK YOU, I SMOKE INSTEAD OF MEDICATING AND I ONLY SPENd ABOUT $250 a MONTH TOPS), brother dumps MLFA and we dump her as a friend. - I buy my second vehicle (this time 5555555% by myself like Husband didn't even help. I am so proud of myself. It runs way better than my last car and it is way safer lol RIP TO THE BRICK - Somewhere in this month (the sheriffs department says the 17th but honestly who fucking knows) Husbands bestie (good friend of mine as well) killed himself in the vehicle graveyard were we all worked. (I would like to note that nobody knew until March) - Husband quits job because my coworker is a huge cunt who's personality is fucking spot on for someone I truly cannot stand after all of the bullshit she put me through for fucking years and he was about to blow up. February - Husband and I take our first vacation alone together to a death metal concert. We hung out naked in the hotel room eating pizza and watching shitty cable all weekend until the concert and it was the most magical weekend. - I surprise Husband by buying our fluff and now we treat him like a human baby that humps everything. - A Family weekend in St. George Island turns interesting when Mom decided I needed to "lighten up" slipped her over 21 band on me and got me drunk of off 2 Pina Coladas & 3 Sex On The Beaches, After the walk back to my vehicle (in which we were sleeping) and smoking like 3 blunts, my punk ass VOMITED RED IN MY NEW FUCKING VAN LIKE ARE YOU SERIOUS BUGGY fucking weak. Then my mom and husband held me up while I vomited more out of the back of the fucking thing. I'm so disappointed in myself (lol and I am gonna do this shit to myself again barely a month later because my older sister wants me to drink for her birthday. Fuck). March - Husbands besties body is found. Devastation and guilt set in as everyone who works there realizes we have been living our lives for almost 2 months, working there and LITERALLY WALKING RIGHT FUCKING PAST WHERE HE WAS AND IF WE WERE REALLY HIS FRIEND WHY COULDNT I NOTICE! Why didn't we try harder to get ahold of him. Sadness. Devastation. - Blood Brother goes on 3 week heavy hard drug binge after finding out his girlfriend of 2 years has been cheating on him for 1 year of that, loses his jobs and stresses everyone the fuck out like wtf. - Blood brother gets job back and repays all Husbands and mud help by getting Husband a job with him. And now we have reached the present.

#I guess we could call this a diary post?#DIARY1

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nightcoremoon · 4 years

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I hate people who give software bad reviews because it doesn't work on their potatoes

honey it's not one of five stars because it's bad, you just have a shitty computer

I wouldn't downvote the evil within, dark souls, tales of bersiria, .hack//G.U. Vol.1//Rebirth, alien isolation, painkiller: black, fallout 3, fallout 4, return to castle wolfenstein, or any other number of games that don't run on my computer. I'd downvote them because they're all terrible games. ok maybe these are bad examples because I personally don't like these games but if I DID like these games, I'd still give them fair reviews based on their individual quality as a whole.

the evil within was mikami's baby and it was okay, it just made a lot of bad decisions, but it was still an ok horror game that paved the way for the evil within 2, WHICH IS INCREDIBLE

dark souls, well... look, miyazaki certainly made demon's souls but if it was the berzerk manga, and it's got cohesive level design, a couple of good characters, a couple of cool stages, three or four cool and well-designed bosses, secrets up the ass, and amazing music (when it's there) but as a game... it's fucking horrible. come on. it's soooo bad. it's buggy as shit, boring as shit, filled to the brim of shitty bosses and levels (I dare you to defend bed of chaos and pinwheel and moonlight butterfly and capra demon and centipede demon and asylum-demon-but-fiery and the entirety of lost izalith and not one not three but TWO chimeras and gwyndolin and crossbreed priscilla and the run up to seath and the absolutely asinine dlc access and kalameet and gaping dragon and the tomb of giants and the shitty weapon variety and the boring-ass NPCs and the ugly textures and GODDAMN BLIGHTTOWN. go on. do it. I dare you.) it's so far inferior to demon's souls in literally every single way aside from it's two huge levels one of which is admittedly absolutely breathtaking rather than five moderately sized levels one of which is just blighttown but a better challenge rather than a bullshit grind. demon's souls has maybe two shitty bosses in adjudicator and leechmonger, a meh boss in dirty colossus, and a stealth section puzzle in dragon god which is basically scarecrow in batman arkham asylum which was awesome but people only liked scarecrow because they're stupid for some reason, but like. with phalanx, tower knight, penetrator, allant, armor spider, flamelurker, fools idol, maneaters, old monk before they shut down the servers, old hero, storm king, and maiden astraea plus garl fuckin vinland, demon's souls is pretty close to a goddamn perfect game. but dark souls? for the good bosses you have quelaag, sif and artorias, ornstein and smough, kalameet, four kings for concept, abd gwyn for PLIN PLIN PLON. that's it. everything else is either a shitty inferior version of something already made before, improved upon massively in the sequels and bloodborne, asinine and obtuse, or boring and uninspired. that's why I give dark souls a bad review. not because it doesn't run well on my computer.

takes of bersiria is too edgy to be taken seriously, especially with the bikini outfit dlc, and the story is weak and slow and by the time I got to the good part I was sick of it, just like final fantasy 13, except tales of bersiria actually had a story. a weak one but one nonetheless.

dot hack is an mmo but since the only good mmos are world of warcraft circa wrath of the lich king, classic runescape, final fantasy 14, and ARGUABLY early everquest, it fails. but hey at least it's way better than fucking sword art.

alien isolation is just RNG: the game. but wow is it incredible for atmosphere and matching the aesthetic of the good movies to a T. the only problem, unfortunately, is the alien. you're either lucky and roll well and the game lets you progress, or it says fuck you and the alien uses wallhack and kills you and sends you back two hours of progress. "just craft some items" oh you mean the items that DONT FUCKIN WORK?

painkiller black was just a generic satanic shoot-em-up to generic speed metal thanks to stephen rippy, but with cam clarke and jim cummings as voices. the sequels got better but the first game was... generic. it was basically the aesthetics of doom 3 with the gameplay stylings of doom 2 and the story of the crow. it was okay. but nothing more. it was less than the sum of its parts. it walked so the franchise could run though. like dark souls. oh wait dark souls was the second one? well shit.

fallout 3 and 4 were addictive premises in broken buggy engines. not bad. just okay. anyway if not for fallout 3 we wouldn't have fallout new vegas.

and return to castle wolfenstein? ...actually I know nothing about the game.

man I really ended this post on a low note, huh

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5 Fingers of the Sacred Hand of World Traditions, healing, protection, removal of obstacles, blessing of self / life, anointing of quests, doorways, pets, photos, and your own forehead!

“Carlos, a priest of Afro-Brazilian Indigenous spiritual traditions in Santos, Braz. il, lead me out to the Statue of Yemanja, in the great bay, surrounded by beautiful coconut palm beach, stunning fluorescent pink sunsets, lighted cruise ships, and distant cargo ships for the largest port of South America, and shipping point for half the world’s coffee beans. There were other spiritual people visiting, wading the waste deep Atlantic ocean, half from this indigenous and ancient tribal belief, and half from all other spiritual traditions and interest, all open minded and intelligent persons on their own Soul Quests.

It seemed peaceful as he said certain phrases and blessed the water gathered there. It seemed, for me, with a Ph.D., in world cultures, to be common to world universal spiritual views. I mean, it wasn’t odd, garrish, funny, or a spectacle. I’ve seen this belief worldwide and in multitudes of people, the same searching, prayer, honoring, and openness, whether it is the syncretised view of a Mexican at Virgen de Guadaloupe, a non-Catholic going to Fatima, Portugal, or even the 60% of the persons in my conservative state of Idaho, where those 60% state they have their true spirituality, it’s a mystery, but they’re satisfied with it and don’t feel they need a view of “another person” imparted or guilted onto them. They are in contrast to the rigid and dogmatic, and they seek a Beloved, God, Goddess, Universe, or Unknown, with that universal tongue, from soul and (defined bottom of page), Universal Unconscious of Man/Woman kind, patterned even in our genetic code!

All 5 waters Blessed by local traditions. Blessed Waters, Holy Waters.

Most information is put onto posters here you can zoom in on each one for each finger, location of holy blessed water, traditions, more.

You’ll not find this information Any place else, because this combination of Blessed, Holy Waters is based on my travels and research worldwide for my Ph.D. in World Cultures and World Religions. I also believe these ancient traditions and symbols, found in EVERY culture, are valid for us today. These views are pancultural: found in all places. I collected the not just as an academic, but a world mystic and respector of these views, their validity, and world people. I believe in the power you’ll find in the 5 Fingers, 5 blessed waters, and that the symbolism will connect you with your soul and a greater Universe or Beloved.

Size:

Each purchase is one tiny bottle, shipped in triple protection.

One tiny bottle will recharge one million gallons of water! It’s not necessary to buy a big two liter of this, or ever by more! The Blessedness of this water is spread throughout all particles, and if you put it in a fountain, or a crystal jar: it’s all blessed.

But, this product is for sensible folks: see the note at the bottom of the text: consider this like water from a local stream or mountain river: you don’t drink it, give it to kids or pets, or get in eyes. It’s NOT dirty or buggy, it’s natural. (Remember when your mother told you to not put that in your mouth?).

Each Purchase is:

One tiny light proof bottle, with ALL 5 waters mixed in, described below. Yep, all 5, through great personal travail to get…… You’d think water like this should be given away: but you make the journeys, pay the tickets, and work to get the waters all blessed! Whew….

About 1-3ml. Use to recharge other water, for you, gifts to others, anointing of self, object, pets, etc.

This is Quantum Blessing:

Rumi: “the Universe is held in a drop of Water”.

5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, and the message:

Don’t Fear

Be Healed

Be Protected

· Hamsa Hand

· Hand of Fatima or

· Abhaya Mudra

A tradition and symbolism known and respected worldwide: the Holy Hand.

The 5 fingers:

5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, 4 Continents, Healing Goddess within saying: the messages:

ü Don’t Fear (Fear Not)

ü Be Healed

ü Be Protected

1. Fatima: Holy Water from Fatima, Portugal Shrine

2. Lourdes: Holy Water from the Grotto of Lourdes, France

3. Ganges, India: Holy Water from 1,000 locations along the Holy Ganges River, India

4. Brazil and Africa, and Santeria and Indigenous religions worldwide: Water from Statue / Atlantic at Santos Brazil, priest blessed. Yemanja (Iemanja), traditions from all Brazil, all sub-Saharan Africa, and all World Santeria

5. Americas: 5. Water from Ecuadorean Andes: combined / joined / synchretized Mary Aparitions in Quito and 50 other sites and Kechua Indigenous Beliefs: a. Shown: Virgen has a lizard like creature chained, is only winged Mary in world. b. Our Lady of Clouds Aparition. c. Quechua people, indigenous of Ecuador

Information on the 5 fingers, symbolism, and world traditions

1. Evil Eye

2. Abhaya Mudra

3. And more background for the 5 Fingers / 5 World Traidtions

HAND OF FATIMA

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The Hand of Fatima is an ancient talisman that symbolizes feminine power. Originating from the Hebrew word hamesh, literally meaning five, the hand is worn as a defense against negative energy, deflecting the gaze of the evil eye away from the wearer. Believed to channel the forces of good, the Hand of Fatima promotes healing and fosters miracles.

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Hamsa Hand: history

Examples of Khamsa

Early use of the hamsa has been traced to ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) as well as ancient Carthage[citation needed] (modern day Tunisia). The image of the open right hand is seen in Mesopotamian artifacts in the amulets of the goddess Ishtar or Inanna.[2] Other symbols of divine protection based around the hand include the Hand-of-Venus (or Aphrodite), the Hand-of-Mary, that was used to protect women from the evil eye and/or boost fertility and lactation, promote healthy pregnancies and strengthen the weak.[2] In that time, women were under immense pressure and expectation to become mothers.[8] The woman’s upbringing was centered on becoming a mother as an exclusive role, and it indicated child bearing as necessary.[9] It was also thought that marriage was a sense of protection for both the man and the woman.[10] In Jewish culture, the hamsa is associated with the number five because of the five fingers depicted on the hand.[11]

Art depicts a hamsa

One theory postulates a connection between the khamsa and the Mano Pantea (or Hand-of-the-All-Goddess), an amulet known to ancient Egyptians as the Two Fingers. In this amulet, the Two Fingers represent Isis and Osiris and the thumb represents their child Horus. It was used to invoke the protective spirits of parents over their child.[2] Another theory traces the origins of the hamsa to Carthage (Phoenicia, modern Tunisia) where the hand (or in some cases vulva) of the supreme deity Tanit was used to ward off the evil eye.[12] According to Bruno Barbatti, at that time this motive was the most important sign of apotropaic magic in the Islamic world, though many modern representations continue to show an obvious origin from sex symbolism.

This relates to the belief that God exists in everything. Another meaning of this symbol relates to the sky god, Horus. It refers to the Eye of Horus, which means humans cannot escape from the eye of conscience. It says that the sun and moon are the eyes of Horus. The Hand of Fatima also represents femininity, and is referred as the woman’s holy hand. It is believed to have extraordinary characteristics that can protect people from evil and other dangers.[13]

Symbolism and usage

Clay hamsa with an inscription in Hebrew (translates to “good luck”)

Amulet with two hands of Fatimah, bearing the inscriptions “God is the guardian”, “God brings consolation in all trials”

The Hand (Khamsa), particularly the open right hand, is a sign of protection that also represents blessings, power and strength, and is seen as potent in deflecting the evil eye.[2][18] One of the most common components of gold and silver jewelry in the region,[19] historically and traditionally, it was most commonly carved in jet or formed from silver, a metal believed to represent purity and hold magical properties.[2][20] It is also painted in red (sometimes using the blood of a sacrificed animal) on the walls of houses for protection,[21][22] or painted or hung on the doorways of rooms, such as those of an expectant mother or new baby.[2] The hand can be depicted with the fingers spread apart to ward off evil, or as closed together to bring good luck.[23] Similarly, it can be portrayed with the fingers pointing up in warding, or down to bestow blessings. Highly stylized versions may be difficult to recognize as hands, and can consist of five circles representing the fingers, situated around a central circle representing the palm.[23]

Hamsa in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam

Used to protect against evil eye, a malicious stare believed to be able to cause illness, death or just general unluckiness, hamsas often contain an eye symbol.[20][24] Depictions of the hand, the eye or the number five in Arabic (and Berber) tradition are related to warding off the evil eye, as exemplified in the saying khamsa fi ainek (“five [fingers] in your eye”).[24] Raising one’s right hand with the palm showing and the fingers slightly apart is part of this curse meant “to blind the aggressor”.[21] Another formula uttered against the evil eye in Arabic, but without hand gestures, is khamsa wa-khamis (“five and Thursday”).[25][26] As the fifth day of the week, Thursday is considered a good day for magic rites and pilgrimages to the tombs of revered saints to counteract the effects of the evil eye.[27]

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Evil eye

Nazars, charms used to ward off the evil eye.

The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury,[1] while others believe it to be a kind of supernatural force that casts or reflects a malevolent gaze back-upon those who wish harm upon others (especially innocents). Talismans created to protect against the evil eye are also frequently called “evil eyes”.[2][3]

The idea expressed by the term causes many different cultures to pursue protective measures against it. The concept and its significance vary widely among different cultures, primarily in West Asia. The idea appears multiple times in Jewish rabbinic literature.[4] It was a widely extended belief among many Mediterranean and Asian tribes and cultures. Charms and decorations with eye-like symbols known as nazars, which are used to repel the evil eye, are a common sight across Portugal, Brazil, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, parts of North India, Palestine, Morocco, southern Spain, Italy, Malta, Romania, the Balkans, the Levant, Afghanistan, Syria, and Bahrain, and have become a popular choice of souvenir with tourists.

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The Hand up: Abhayamudra

Remember: the message of all Gods, all traditions: FEAR NOT

Hindu Gods, most with right hand held up, palm out.

Buddha with his right hand in abhaya mudra.

Dewi Sri (Parvati) with her right hand in abhaya mudra, Bali Indonesia.[1]

The Abhayamudrā “gesture of fearlessness”[2] is a mudrā (gesture) that is the gesture of reassurance and safety, which dispels fear and accords divine protection and bliss in many Indian religions. The right hand is held upright, and the palm is facing outwards.[3] This is one of the earliest mudrās found depicted on a number of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh images.

The abhayamudrā represents protection, peace, benevolence and the dispelling of fear. The Hindu god Nataraja is depicted with the second right hand making the Abhaya Mudra, bestowing protection from both evil and ignorance to those who follow the righteousness of dharma. In Theravada Buddhism, it is usually made with the right hand raised to shoulder height, the arm bent and the palm facing outward with the fingers upright and joined and the left hand hanging down while standing. In Thailand and Laos, this mudra is associated with the Walking Buddha, often shown having both hands making a double abhayamudrā that is uniform.

Yemanja, Iemanja:

Goddess protector of Africa, Brazil, and world Santeria Traditions

Goddess of the Andes:

See posters for info on:

Holy Water, blessed,

From Cathedral de Fatima

Note on Santeria: a serious faith of followers based on Afro-Brazilian Indignous religions, and is only mocked in caricature of voodoo, the New Orleans movie parody and not related to indigenous religions.

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Above info from Wikipedia.com

Now: this is water collected worldwide: use some sense here:

It’s not for children, ingestion.

It’s often used to anoint a forehead, objects, or places: but don’t drink, get on lips or eyes, mix with foods or drinks, give to children. If anointing pets, do on top of head, not eyes or mouth. Keep the contents away from children, jokers, pets.

This isn’t dirty water, but consider it as any water from a local creek or river: you don’t drink it. Hey, you’re an adult here so take charge of the concepts, bottle, because you’re assuming risks of misuse by others, kids, pets.

We’re providing a leak proof bottle, and pack to prevent breakage up front: all items at Scooter Bee’s are pretty scrutinized: no refunds or returns in any situation. We also don’t accept returns as nobody wants used stuff.

This is genuine: collected waters. To purchase means you’ve read all the text and know what you’re buying. We’re not shipping you several liters silly. Read all, buy, enjoy, be healed and don’t forget to bless that cat.

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Please ask the day your order, and we’ll add a set of full page copies of the “posters” above, for your use. No Charge.

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Where will you keep your Blessed Water, that you charge? Here’s a idea:

Treat the charged water just like you would if you were making a personal home altar:

Set an intention of finding an a bottle or air proof container that is special to you. Give it a week or two for that item to “find” you. For one person, it could be something found at a yard sale, old, but then you wash it. For another person, it could be something costly, or a bottle you then embellish with tiles or gems. What ever it is for you, it will be “important”. Than, add your water to the container. It’s just me, but I’d use a highly filtered water (even from the machine at Walmart), because this would be missing local contaminants and smells, but a simply bottle of your favorite commercial water would do!

Then, add 2-3 drops of Blessed Water. It will charge the whole bottle. As I’ve done this personally, and kept both the original blessed waters and my “charged water to use”, they last and last. For instance, I may dab my pets on the forehead, the doorways inside and out to, of my home, a sacred object that may mean nothing to another person, my own forehead with prayers, a piece of clothing for some reason of prayer, blessing, to unseat obstacles, and open myself to what I view as God, the Universe, the Mystery, and the universal and pan cultural myths of ALL religions and the gods within.

Unlike lighting a candle or incense daily in the morning, this blessed water blessings is often done on a special day, special time, or struggling time, occasionally. It’s also important to do at the start of journey, quest, new jobs, new relationships, new intentions and dreams. How and by who’s power does the water work? It is the Mystery that lives in every person, and it’s the mystery of how the Spiritual World works. There are those who doubt, or totally disbelieve anything, but there are those who know that this world is as real as the seen and touched world. It’s sort of like the mystery and science writers of 1,000 to 3,000 years ago: they wrote about particles smaller than atoms, and edges of universes, and other realities and parallel universes now accepted by the most noted brained physicists. Why would then so many worldwide believe in this unseen? Carl Jung, European Psychiatrist, wounded healer, and deceased, said:

These ideas are patterned in every brain to know and believe that. Some body tells you about the spiritual world (which is often apart from organized religion), and you just “know”. These concepts exist in all persons, all places, and all times that we know of. Even if you have persons in an isolated tribe, they have these spiritual concepts, which are brain archetypes called the Collective Unconscious of Man/Woman Kind. They are not just there for a survival mechanism. Did the great mystery called God, Deity, Universe or Mystery put them in our genetic code? Or are they part of our soul: we just function so naturally with a concept of the Beloved: one or many or a mystery that we seek, seeks us, can be prayed to, is part of each person’s personal definition of that (you know for yourself who the Beloved is, apart from, or just influenced by books), you can reach directly, and yet is a Mystery of the Unknown and Unseen.

Some Quotes from the Poet Rumi, 13 Century Mystic Sufi Poet, and Seminary Teacher at a school in Turkey that taught to seekers from All religions, not presenting a dogma view:

“God is nearer to you than your self.”

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.”

― Rumi

“One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked.

A voice asked: “Who is there?” He answered: “It is I.”

The voice said: “There is no room here for me and thee.”

The door was shut.

After a year of solitude and deprivation

this man returned to the door of the Beloved.

He knocked.

A voice from within asked: “Who is there?”

The man said: “It is Thou.”

The door was opened for him.

The minute I heard my first love story,

I started looking for you, not knowing

how blind that was.

Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,

they’re in each other all along.

Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity.

The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death.

Tomorrow, when resurrection comes,

The heart that is not in love will fail the test.

When your chest is free of your limiting ego,

Then you will see the ageless Beloved.

You can not see yourself without a mirror;

Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.

Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky

And you lift me up out of the two worlds.

I want your sun to reach my raindrops,

So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud.

There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled.

In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be

stitched.

O, you who are ignorant of endurance and the burning

fire of love–

Love comes of its own free will, it can’t be learned

in any school.

There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired,

as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts

from books and from what the teacher says,

collecting information from the traditional sciences

as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.

You get ranked ahead or behind others

in regard to your competence in retaining

information. You stroll with this intelligence

in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more

marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one

already completed and preserved inside you.

A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness

in the center of the chest. This other intelligence

does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,

and it doesn’t move from outside to inside

through conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead

from within you, moving out.”

“What else can I say?

You will only hear

what you are ready to hear.

Don’t nod your head,

Don’t try to fool me—

the truth of what you see

is written all over your face!”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

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“Why are you so enchanted by this world

when a mine of gold lies within you?”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“In the heavens I see your eyes,

In your eyes I see the heavens.

Why look for another Moon or another Sun?—

What I see will always be enough for me.”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“Lose yourself,

Lose yourself in this love.

When you lose yourself in this love,

you will find everything.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Do not fear this loss,

For you will rise from the earth

and embrace the endless heavens.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Escape from this earthly form,

For this body is a chain

and you are its prisoner.

Smash through the prison wall

and walk outside with the kings and princes.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself at the foot of the glorious King. When you lose yourself

before the King

you will become the King.

Lose yourself,

Lose yourself.

Escape from the black cloud

that surrounds you.

Then you will see your own light

as radiant as the full moon.

Now enter that silence.

This is the surest way

to lose yourself. . . .

What is your life about, anyway?—

Nothing but a struggle to be someone,

Nothing but a running from your own silence.”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“Then I looked within my own heart

and there I found Him—

He was nowhere else.”

― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved

“I once had a thousand desires,

But in my one desire to know you

all else melted away.

The pure essence of your being

has taken over my heart and soul.

Now there is no second or third,

only the sound of your sweet cry.

Through your grace I have found

a treasure within myself.

I have found the truth of the Unseen world.

I have come upon the eternal ecstasy.

I have gone beyond the ravages of time.

I have become one with you!

Now my heart sings,

“I am the soul of the world.”

Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved, book at all book resources.

Where will you keep your Holy Water?

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Thank you to my friend bringing me the Holy Water, official type, from Fatima and Lourdes. The other three were gathered on my own journeys and quests. All, come out of a “quest, seeking, journey, sincerity”

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Hamsa Blessed Water, the Five Fingers Hamsa Blessed Water 5 World Traditions Holy Water / Blessed Water Hamsa, Fatima, Ganges, Evil Eye ++Get yours here at our Ebay store: https://ift.tt/2OfKHDZ . 5 Fingers of the Sacred Hand of World Traditions, healing, protection, removal of obstacles, blessing of self / life, anointing of quests, doorways, pets, photos, and your own forehead! “Carlos, a priest of Afro-Brazilian Indigenous spiritual traditions in Santos, Braz. il, lead me out to the Statue of Yemanja, in the great bay, surrounded by beautiful coconut palm beach, stunning fluorescent pink sunsets, lighted cruise ships, and distant cargo ships for the largest port of South America, and shipping point for half the world’s coffee beans. There were other spiritual people visiting, wading the waste deep Atlantic ocean, half from this indigenous and ancient tribal belief, and half from all other spiritual traditions and interest, all open minded and intelligent persons on their own Soul Quests. It seemed peaceful as he said certain phrases and blessed the water gathered there. It seemed, for me, with a Ph.D., in world cultures, to be common to world universal spiritual views. I mean, it wasn’t odd, garrish, funny, or a spectacle. I’ve seen this belief worldwide and in multitudes of people, the same searching, prayer, honoring, and openness, whether it is the syncretised view of a Mexican at Virgen de Guadaloupe, a non-Catholic going to Fatima, Portugal, or even the 60% of the persons in my conservative state of Idaho, where those 60% state they have their true spirituality, it’s a mystery, but they’re satisfied with it and don’t feel they need a view of “another person” imparted or guilted onto them. They are in contrast to the rigid and dogmatic, and they seek a Beloved, God, Goddess, Universe, or Unknown, with that universal tongue, from soul and (defined bottom of page), Universal Unconscious of Man/Woman kind, patterned even in our genetic code! All 5 waters Blessed by local traditions. Blessed Waters, Holy Waters. Most information is put onto posters here you can zoom in on each one for each finger, location of holy blessed water, traditions, more. You’ll not find this information Any place else, because this combination of Blessed, Holy Waters is based on my travels and research worldwide for my Ph.D. in World Cultures and World Religions. I also believe these ancient traditions and symbols, found in EVERY culture, are valid for us today. These views are pancultural: found in all places. I collected the not just as an academic, but a world mystic and respector of these views, their validity, and world people. I believe in the power you’ll find in the 5 Fingers, 5 blessed waters, and that the symbolism will connect you with your soul and a greater Universe or Beloved. Size: Each purchase is one tiny bottle, shipped in triple protection. One tiny bottle will recharge one million gallons of water! It’s not necessary to buy a big two liter of this, or ever by more! The Blessedness of this water is spread throughout all particles, and if you put it in a fountain, or a crystal jar: it’s all blessed. But, this product is for sensible folks: see the note at the bottom of the text: consider this like water from a local stream or mountain river: you don’t drink it, give it to kids or pets, or get in eyes. It’s NOT dirty or buggy, it’s natural. (Remember when your mother told you to not put that in your mouth?). Each Purchase is: One tiny light proof bottle, with ALL 5 waters mixed in, described below. Yep, all 5, through great personal travail to get…… You’d think water like this should be given away: but you make the journeys, pay the tickets, and work to get the waters all blessed! Whew…. About 1-3ml. Use to recharge other water, for you, gifts to others, anointing of self, object, pets, etc. This is Quantum Blessing: Rumi: “the Universe is held in a drop of Water”. 5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, and the message: Don’t Fear Be Healed Be Protected · Hamsa Hand · Hand of Fatima or · Abhaya Mudra A tradition and symbolism known and respected worldwide: the Holy Hand. The 5 fingers: 5 Fingers, 5 World Traditions, 4 Continents, Healing Goddess within saying: the messages: ü Don’t Fear (Fear Not) ü Be Healed ü Be Protected 1. Fatima: Holy Water from Fatima, Portugal Shrine 2. Lourdes: Holy Water from the Grotto of Lourdes, France 3. Ganges, India: Holy Water from 1,000 locations along the Holy Ganges River, India 4. Brazil and Africa, and Santeria and Indigenous religions worldwide: Water from Statue / Atlantic at Santos Brazil, priest blessed. Yemanja (Iemanja), traditions from all Brazil, all sub-Saharan Africa, and all World Santeria 5. Americas: 5. Water from Ecuadorean Andes: combined / joined / synchretized Mary Aparitions in Quito and 50 other sites and Kechua Indigenous Beliefs: a. Shown: Virgen has a lizard like creature chained, is only winged Mary in world. b. Our Lady of Clouds Aparition. c. Quechua people, indigenous of Ecuador Information on the 5 fingers, symbolism, and world traditions 1. Evil Eye 2. Abhaya Mudra 3. And more background for the 5 Fingers / 5 World Traidtions HAND OF FATIMA positivity | abundance | faith The Hand of Fatima is an ancient talisman that symbolizes feminine power. Originating from the Hebrew word hamesh, literally meaning five, the hand is worn as a defense against negative energy, deflecting the gaze of the evil eye away from the wearer. Believed to channel the forces of good, the Hand of Fatima promotes healing and fosters miracles. ******************************** Hamsa Hand: history Examples of Khamsa Early use of the hamsa has been traced to ancient Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) as well as ancient Carthage[citation needed] (modern day Tunisia). The image of the open right hand is seen in Mesopotamian artifacts in the amulets of the goddess Ishtar or Inanna.[2] Other symbols of divine protection based around the hand include the Hand-of-Venus (or Aphrodite), the Hand-of-Mary, that was used to protect women from the evil eye and/or boost fertility and lactation, promote healthy pregnancies and strengthen the weak.[2] In that time, women were under immense pressure and expectation to become mothers.[8] The woman’s upbringing was centered on becoming a mother as an exclusive role, and it indicated child bearing as necessary.[9] It was also thought that marriage was a sense of protection for both the man and the woman.[10] In Jewish culture, the hamsa is associated with the number five because of the five fingers depicted on the hand.[11] Art depicts a hamsa One theory postulates a connection between the khamsa and the Mano Pantea (or Hand-of-the-All-Goddess), an amulet known to ancient Egyptians as the Two Fingers. In this amulet, the Two Fingers represent Isis and Osiris and the thumb represents their child Horus. It was used to invoke the protective spirits of parents over their child.[2] Another theory traces the origins of the hamsa to Carthage (Phoenicia, modern Tunisia) where the hand (or in some cases vulva) of the supreme deity Tanit was used to ward off the evil eye.[12] According to Bruno Barbatti, at that time this motive was the most important sign of apotropaic magic in the Islamic world, though many modern representations continue to show an obvious origin from sex symbolism. This relates to the belief that God exists in everything. Another meaning of this symbol relates to the sky god, Horus. It refers to the Eye of Horus, which means humans cannot escape from the eye of conscience. It says that the sun and moon are the eyes of Horus. The Hand of Fatima also represents femininity, and is referred as the woman’s holy hand. It is believed to have extraordinary characteristics that can protect people from evil and other dangers.[13] Symbolism and usage Clay hamsa with an inscription in Hebrew (translates to “good luck”) Amulet with two hands of Fatimah, bearing the inscriptions “God is the guardian”, “God brings consolation in all trials” The Hand (Khamsa), particularly the open right hand, is a sign of protection that also represents blessings, power and strength, and is seen as potent in deflecting the evil eye.[2][18] One of the most common components of gold and silver jewelry in the region,[19] historically and traditionally, it was most commonly carved in jet or formed from silver, a metal believed to represent purity and hold magical properties.[2][20] It is also painted in red (sometimes using the blood of a sacrificed animal) on the walls of houses for protection,[21][22] or painted or hung on the doorways of rooms, such as those of an expectant mother or new baby.[2] The hand can be depicted with the fingers spread apart to ward off evil, or as closed together to bring good luck.[23] Similarly, it can be portrayed with the fingers pointing up in warding, or down to bestow blessings. Highly stylized versions may be difficult to recognize as hands, and can consist of five circles representing the fingers, situated around a central circle representing the palm.[23] Hamsa in the Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam Used to protect against evil eye, a malicious stare believed to be able to cause illness, death or just general unluckiness, hamsas often contain an eye symbol.[20][24] Depictions of the hand, the eye or the number five in Arabic (and Berber) tradition are related to warding off the evil eye, as exemplified in the saying khamsa fi ainek (“five [fingers] in your eye”).[24] Raising one’s right hand with the palm showing and the fingers slightly apart is part of this curse meant “to blind the aggressor”.[21] Another formula uttered against the evil eye in Arabic, but without hand gestures, is khamsa wa-khamis (“five and Thursday”).[25][26] As the fifth day of the week, Thursday is considered a good day for magic rites and pilgrimages to the tombs of revered saints to counteract the effects of the evil eye.[27] ********************************************* Evil eye Nazars, charms used to ward off the evil eye. The evil eye is a curse or legend believed to be cast by a malevolent glare, usually given to a person when they are unaware. Many cultures believe that receiving the evil eye will cause misfortune or injury,[1] while others believe it to be a kind of supernatural force that casts or reflects a malevolent gaze back-upon those who wish harm upon others (especially innocents). Talismans created to protect against the evil eye are also frequently called “evil eyes”.[2][3] The idea expressed by the term causes many different cultures to pursue protective measures against it. The concept and its significance vary widely among different cultures, primarily in West Asia. The idea appears multiple times in Jewish rabbinic literature.[4] It was a widely extended belief among many Mediterranean and Asian tribes and cultures. Charms and decorations with eye-like symbols known as nazars, which are used to repel the evil eye, are a common sight across Portugal, Brazil, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Albania, Algeria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq, Nepal, Pakistan, parts of North India, Palestine, Morocco, southern Spain, Italy, Malta, Romania, the Balkans, the Levant, Afghanistan, Syria, and Bahrain, and have become a popular choice of souvenir with tourists. *********************************** The Hand up: Abhayamudra Remember: the message of all Gods, all traditions: FEAR NOT Hindu Gods, most with right hand held up, palm out. Buddha with his right hand in abhaya mudra. Dewi Sri (Parvati) with her right hand in abhaya mudra, Bali Indonesia.[1] The Abhayamudrā “gesture of fearlessness”[2] is a mudrā (gesture) that is the gesture of reassurance and safety, which dispels fear and accords divine protection and bliss in many Indian religions. The right hand is held upright, and the palm is facing outwards.[3] This is one of the earliest mudrās found depicted on a number of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain and Sikh images. The abhayamudrā represents protection, peace, benevolence and the dispelling of fear. The Hindu god Nataraja is depicted with the second right hand making the Abhaya Mudra, bestowing protection from both evil and ignorance to those who follow the righteousness of dharma. In Theravada Buddhism, it is usually made with the right hand raised to shoulder height, the arm bent and the palm facing outward with the fingers upright and joined and the left hand hanging down while standing. In Thailand and Laos, this mudra is associated with the Walking Buddha, often shown having both hands making a double abhayamudrā that is uniform. Yemanja, Iemanja: Goddess protector of Africa, Brazil, and world Santeria Traditions Goddess of the Andes: See posters for info on: Holy Water, blessed, From Cathedral de Fatima Note on Santeria: a serious faith of followers based on Afro-Brazilian Indignous religions, and is only mocked in caricature of voodoo, the New Orleans movie parody and not related to indigenous religions. *********************************** Above info from Wikipedia.com Now: this is water collected worldwide: use some sense here: It’s not for children, ingestion. It’s often used to anoint a forehead, objects, or places: but don’t drink, get on lips or eyes, mix with foods or drinks, give to children. If anointing pets, do on top of head, not eyes or mouth. Keep the contents away from children, jokers, pets. This isn’t dirty water, but consider it as any water from a local creek or river: you don’t drink it. Hey, you’re an adult here so take charge of the concepts, bottle, because you’re assuming risks of misuse by others, kids, pets. We’re providing a leak proof bottle, and pack to prevent breakage up front: all items at Scooter Bee’s are pretty scrutinized: no refunds or returns in any situation. We also don’t accept returns as nobody wants used stuff. This is genuine: collected waters. To purchase means you’ve read all the text and know what you’re buying. We’re not shipping you several liters silly. Read all, buy, enjoy, be healed and don’t forget to bless that cat. ****************** Please ask the day your order, and we’ll add a set of full page copies of the “posters” above, for your use. No Charge. ******************* Where will you keep your Blessed Water, that you charge? Here’s a idea: Treat the charged water just like you would if you were making a personal home altar: Set an intention of finding an a bottle or air proof container that is special to you. Give it a week or two for that item to “find” you. For one person, it could be something found at a yard sale, old, but then you wash it. For another person, it could be something costly, or a bottle you then embellish with tiles or gems. What ever it is for you, it will be “important”. Than, add your water to the container. It’s just me, but I’d use a highly filtered water (even from the machine at Walmart), because this would be missing local contaminants and smells, but a simply bottle of your favorite commercial water would do! Then, add 2-3 drops of Blessed Water. It will charge the whole bottle. As I’ve done this personally, and kept both the original blessed waters and my “charged water to use”, they last and last. For instance, I may dab my pets on the forehead, the doorways inside and out to, of my home, a sacred object that may mean nothing to another person, my own forehead with prayers, a piece of clothing for some reason of prayer, blessing, to unseat obstacles, and open myself to what I view as God, the Universe, the Mystery, and the universal and pan cultural myths of ALL religions and the gods within. Unlike lighting a candle or incense daily in the morning, this blessed water blessings is often done on a special day, special time, or struggling time, occasionally. It’s also important to do at the start of journey, quest, new jobs, new relationships, new intentions and dreams. How and by who’s power does the water work? It is the Mystery that lives in every person, and it’s the mystery of how the Spiritual World works. There are those who doubt, or totally disbelieve anything, but there are those who know that this world is as real as the seen and touched world. It’s sort of like the mystery and science writers of 1,000 to 3,000 years ago: they wrote about particles smaller than atoms, and edges of universes, and other realities and parallel universes now accepted by the most noted brained physicists. Why would then so many worldwide believe in this unseen? Carl Jung, European Psychiatrist, wounded healer, and deceased, said: These ideas are patterned in every brain to know and believe that. Some body tells you about the spiritual world (which is often apart from organized religion), and you just “know”. These concepts exist in all persons, all places, and all times that we know of. Even if you have persons in an isolated tribe, they have these spiritual concepts, which are brain archetypes called the Collective Unconscious of Man/Woman Kind. They are not just there for a survival mechanism. Did the great mystery called God, Deity, Universe or Mystery put them in our genetic code? Or are they part of our soul: we just function so naturally with a concept of the Beloved: one or many or a mystery that we seek, seeks us, can be prayed to, is part of each person’s personal definition of that (you know for yourself who the Beloved is, apart from, or just influenced by books), you can reach directly, and yet is a Mystery of the Unknown and Unseen. Some Quotes from the Poet Rumi, 13 Century Mystic Sufi Poet, and Seminary Teacher at a school in Turkey that taught to seekers from All religions, not presenting a dogma view: “God is nearer to you than your self.” “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames.” ― Rumi “One went to the door of the Beloved and knocked. A voice asked: “Who is there?” He answered: “It is I.” The voice said: “There is no room here for me and thee.” The door was shut. After a year of solitude and deprivation this man returned to the door of the Beloved. He knocked. A voice from within asked: “Who is there?” The man said: “It is Thou.” The door was opened for him. The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere, they’re in each other all along. Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test. When your chest is free of your limiting ego, Then you will see the ageless Beloved. You can not see yourself without a mirror; Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror. Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky And you lift me up out of the two worlds. I want your sun to reach my raindrops, So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud. There is a candle in the heart of man, waiting to be kindled. In separation from the Friend, there is a cut waiting to be stitched. O, you who are ignorant of endurance and the burning fire of love– Love comes of its own free will, it can’t be learned in any school. There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences. With such intelligence you rise in the world. You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard to your competence in retaining information. You stroll with this intelligence in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more marks on your preserving tablets. There is another kind of tablet, one already completed and preserved inside you. A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness in the center of the chest. This other intelligence does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid, and it doesn’t move from outside to inside through conduits of plumbing-learning. This second knowing is a fountainhead from within you, moving out.” “What else can I say? You will only hear what you are ready to hear. Don’t nod your head, Don’t try to fool me— the truth of what you see is written all over your face!” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved tags: life, love, poetry, rumi 14 likes Like “Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “In the heavens I see your eyes, In your eyes I see the heavens. Why look for another Moon or another Sun?— What I see will always be enough for me.” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “Lose yourself, Lose yourself in this love. When you lose yourself in this love, you will find everything. Lose yourself, Lose yourself. Do not fear this loss, For you will rise from the earth and embrace the endless heavens. Lose yourself, Lose yourself. Escape from this earthly form, For this body is a chain and you are its prisoner. Smash through the prison wall and walk outside with the kings and princes. Lose yourself, Lose yourself at the foot of the glorious King. When you lose yourself before the King you will become the King. Lose yourself, Lose yourself. Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you. Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon. Now enter that silence. This is the surest way to lose yourself. . . . What is your life about, anyway?— Nothing but a struggle to be someone, Nothing but a running from your own silence.” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “Then I looked within my own heart and there I found Him— He was nowhere else.” ― Rumi, Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved “I once had a thousand desires, But in my one desire to know you all else melted away. The pure essence of your being has taken over my heart and soul. Now there is no second or third, only the sound of your sweet cry. Through your grace I have found a treasure within myself. I have found the truth of the Unseen world. I have come upon the eternal ecstasy. I have gone beyond the ravages of time. I have become one with you! Now my heart sings, “I am the soul of the world.” Rumi: In the Arms of the Beloved, book at all book resources. Where will you keep your Holy Water? ************** Thank you to my friend bringing me the Holy Water, official type, from Fatima and Lourdes. The other three were gathered on my own journeys and quests. All, come out of a “quest, seeking, journey, sincerity” **************** I think for a while we’ll not put a glitzy label on the tiny bottles, so that it is fully neutral and you. 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