#Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction

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Edo Tensei

Not even death can save you from the ninja military complex

Tobirama really said ‘you’ve just died it’s not big deal. Get up and keep fighting’ and Orochimaru took it even further and did it to ALL THE HOKAGE ***

Tengai Shinsei

The name in english is insane (heavenly obstacle quaking star***)

The jutsu madara used to summon not one, but TWO meteors on the allied shinobi forces.

Insane jutsu

Bro just drops meteors on people whenever he wants

Does he pull them from space? Take the material from somewhere on on earth and form it int he sky and then drop it? Does it just materialize?

What’s going on with this jutsu???

Dude can just do the cretaceous-tertiary mass extinction event whenever he wants

WHERE DID HE LEARN THIS?

WHO INVENTED THIS?

WHO THOUGHT ‘Oh i know what will be awesome, a jutsu that drops meteors on people!’

Sasuke out here fighting dinosaurs in boruto, meanwhile Madara is the one who friggen killed them all

#most ridiculous jutsu poll #Most ridiculous Jutsu #Uchiha Madara #Orochimaru #if there is a * at the end of a reason #that means i either added the reason or more likely added to it #like providing the english name for Madara’s move

[kingoftieland]

As a science teacher and longtime dino fan, I totally nerded out when I saw this and had to have it! This vial contains a soil sample from the KT Boundary, scientifically known as the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) Extinction Layer. First recognized by scientists in the 1980s, this layer contains high levels of micro-meteorites and the element iridium, which is extremely rare on Earth but abundant in asteroids. In the early 1990s, a 112 mile-wide crater was discovered in the Gulf of Mexico, solidifying the asteroid extinction theory. In total, 75% of all species on Earth vanished, including the terrestrial and marine dinosaurs. 💥

This sample was collected in Slope County, North Dakota and has three layers. The bottom gray section is from the Cretaceous period, before the extinction of the dinosaurs, while the top brown section is the post-dinosaur Paleogene layer. The dark band in between is the KT Boundary itself.

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[tort-time]

Turtles and tortoises are among the oldest reptile groups, dating back much further than snakes, crocodiles, and alligators. These incredible creatures even predate dinosaurs, having evolved 250 million years earlier. Yet, even with their long life span, adaptations, and endurance, turtles and tortoises today are at extremely high risk.

Recently, an international team of scientists from the US, France, Australia, and Germany "including Senkenberg researcher Uwe Fritz, published their work identifying all 357 species of turtles, their physiology, and their population status now over time. The overall findings from this work are frightening.

"The results presented by the research group headed by the lead author Anders G.J. Rhodin (Chelonian Research Foundation and Turtle Conservancy) are alarming: About half of the world's turtle species are threatened with extinction. The animals are particularly affected by habitat loss and excessive capture for consumption and the pet trade." -via Phys.org

Similar research has confirmed this dire state; in fact, turtle extinction is progressing much faster than during the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. At this rate, all turtles could be extinct in a few centuries!

This decline does not only impact the turtles and tortoises themselves. Many turtles and tortoises are keystone species, which allows hundreds of other animals and insects to survive. They are all vital parts of their ecosystem, and their extinction would cause that of so many other creatures.

So as we celebrate our shell friends, it's time to do our research and do our part to stop this swift decline. We must support legislation protecting these creatures and their habitats and support groups working to stop the exploitation and illegal wildlife trade. If we don't, we may be sharing these glorious animals through stories and pictures alone.

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[ultramet3]

No.77 Iridium - the goddess of the rainbow in platinum group

Iridium is one of the least abundant elements in the earth's crust, about one-fortieth the amount of gold.

The elements Iridium and Osmium were discovered simultaneously in 1803 by the British chemist Smithson Tennant.Born in Selby in 1761, Yorkshire, Tennant had studied medicine when he was young, but found it unaccommodated to be a doctor after graduation and finally turned to study chemistry. In 1785, at the age of 23, Tennant was elected a fellow of the Royal Society and kept digging in the field of chemistry. He made a quantitative analysis of diamond combustion experiments in 1976, which confirmed the surprising conclusion that diamond and graphite were isomers.Tenant passed away in 1815 on a bridge, near Boulogne-sur-mer, France, which collapsed while he was riding across it.

(Smithson Tennant)

Iridium has also been implicated in an ancient Earth extinction event.Iridium is found in very small amounts in the Earth's crust, but scientists have found it very high levels in sediments at the end of the Cretaceous and the top Tertiary period (about 65 million years ago) where the dinosaurs died out, hundreds of times higher than its natural abundance in the earth's crust. At the same time, asteroids contain a lot of iridium. According to these, the American physicist Luis Walter Alvarez hypothesized that an asteroid impact wiped out 70 percent of all plant and animal species on Earth, including all non-avian dinosaurs and that much of the iridium in the Earth's crust today also came from it.Then a similar size crater, Chicxulub Crater, was discovered in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, besides, no dinosaur fossils have been found at the K-Pg boundary. Multiple clues further support the Alvarez hypothesis.

In modern times, iridium oxides have also attracted a lot of interest over the past 10-15 years. As a heavy transition metal element with a half-filled 5d electron orbital, in theory, its oxide should exhibit metallic conductivity. However, due to relativistic effects (spin–orbit interaction) on the electron shell structure, many iridium oxides behave as insulator. These insulators have been predicted to exhibit strange electromagnetic phenomena.Compounds isolated from iridium are also of interest to the chemical community. In this compound, iridium reaches a valence of +9, the highest known oxidation state, which has never been found before. This also makes iridium the element with the widest range of oxidation states (from -3 to +9 valence).

Iridium also has excellent performance in terms of physical properties, having the second highest density (22.56 g /cm³) of all elements, only slightly lower than osmium, and the second highest melting point at 2450℃. At the same time, iridium has strong and outstanding resistance to corrosion and high temperatures, making it ideal for use in spark plugs and engine parts in the aerospace industry. Iridium is extremely scarce around the world. It is produced mainly as a byproduct of electrolytic refining of copper and nickel, only three tons a year, making it expensive.

Iridium’s  pronounce “Yi” in Chinese is the same as the one of the number “one” , which can be derived into the meaning of "always", symbolizing the persistence and pursuit of love, ideal, career and life, as well as the loyalty, unswerving and unchanging style of the Chinese people. With these special meaning, therefore, iridium metal is gradually used in the jewelry industry, and a large number of iridium jewelry has come into the public eye.

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[certainknightapricotranch]

🦖TYRANNOSAURUS DINOSAUR🦖

The name of Tyrannosaurus rex means "savage lizard King" in Ancient Greek, and the species name means king in Latin. 🤴🤴 Tyrannosaurus Rex was one of the last non-avian dinosaurs before the Cretaceo-Tertiary extinction event. It lived during the Maastricht (Maastricht) period at the end of the Cretaceous period from 68.5 million to 65 million years ago. Fossils are found in the United States and Canada in North America, one of the last dinosaurs to die out. 😲😲

LINK:https://www.amazon.com/Nifeliz-Dinosaur-Fossils-Building-Tyrannosaurus/dp/B08HCH7TRN

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[ultralowoxygen]

Cretaceous-tertiary Extinction by Aljaž Gošnak Via Flickr: Olympus OM10 / Kodak Gold 200

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[jknewsinfo]

LEH Scientists discover 35 mn years old rare snake fossil in Ladakh LEH: Scientists have reported spotting of the fossil of a Madtsoiidae snake from the molasse deposits of Ladakh Himalaya for the first time indicating their prevalence in the subcontinent for much longer time than previously thought. An official statement said Madtsoiidae is an extinct group of medium-sized to gigantic snakes, firstly appeared during the late Cretaceous and mostly distributed in the Gondwanan landmasses, although, their Cenozoic record is extremely scarce. The statement said from the fossil record, the whole group disappeared in the mid-Paleogene across most Gondwanan continents except for Australia where it survived with its last known taxon Wonambi till late Pleistocene. Dr. Ningthoujam Premjit Singh (corresponding author), Dr. Ramesh Kumar Sehgal, and Abhishek Pratap Singh from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dehradun, India in association with Dr. Rajeev Patnaik and Wasim Abass Wazir from Panjab University Chandigarh; Dr. Navin Kumar and Piyush Uniyal from Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, and Dr. Andrej Èeròanský of Comenius University Slovakia have reported for the first time a Madtsoiidae snake from the late Oligocene ( part of the Tertiary Period in the Cenozoic Era, and lasted from about 33.7 to 23.8 million years ago) of India or the molasse deposits of Ladakh Himalaya. The occurrence of Madtsoiidae from the Oligocene of Ladakh indicates their continuity at least to the end of the Paleogene (geologic period and system that spans 43 million years from the end of the Cretaceous Period 66 million years ago). "The research published in Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology showed that the members of this group were successful in this subcontinent for much longer time than previously thought," the statement said. It added that the global climatic shifts and the prominent biotic reorganization across the Eocene-Oligocene boundary (which correlates to the European Grande Coupure), did not cause the extinction of this important group of snakes in India. The newly described specimen is housed in the repository of Wadia Institute, an aut https://www.instagram.com/p/CdiCtqEppTP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Body Replacement Technique: Orochimaru Edition

What the heck Orochimaru?

So gross

He can regenerate!?

Heal every wound!

But he also litterally has to vomit out of his own body to do it

How did he think of this technique (snake summons???***)

Seem’s to have a thing for vomiting things up (snakes, sword)

Submitter wishes they could have seen Jiraiya and Tsunade’s reactions to seeing this shit

Tengai Shinsei

The name in english is insane

The jutsu madara used to summon not one, but TWO meteors on the allied shinobi forces.

Insane jutsu

Bro just drops meteors on people whenever he wants

Does he pull them from space? Take the material from somewhere on on earth and form it int he sky and then drop it? Does it just materialize?

What’s going on with this jutsu???

Dude can just do the cretaceous-tertiary mass extinction event whenever he wants

WHERE DID HE LEARN THIS?

WHO INVENTED THIS?

WHO THOUGHT ‘Oh i know what will be awesome, a jutsu that drops meteors on people!’

Sasuke out here fighting dinosaurs in boruto, meanwhile Madara is the one who friggen killed them all

#most ridiculous jutsu #most ridiculous jutsu poll #Orochimaru #Uchiha Madara

[zulukane]

When your ultimate thought is "uh-oh" — then your entire species is wiped out.

#dinosaur #dinosaurs #extinction #wave #river #meteor #apocalypse #prehistory #Cretaceous #Paleogene #Tertiary #Cenozoic

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[carnegiemuseumnaturalhistory]

Folded Forest: Defining the Jurassic Period

by Jane Thaler

What’s in a Name?

Derived from the words for “middle life” in Greek, the Mesozoic Era consisted of three geological periods: the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. While many of us might be aware of all three, the term “Jurassic” has seeped into our everyday lives in a way that the Triassic and Cretaceous have not. We can attribute much of this ubiquity to the wildly popular Jurassic Park books by Michael Crichton and their subsequent film adaptations, but have you ever wondered what “Jurassic” actually means and how scientists define the period’s geological boundaries?

Coining “Jurassic”

The “Jura” in Jurassic refers to the Jura Mountains that run along a large portion of the Swiss and French border. Named for the ancient Celtic word for forest, the Jura Mountains are known for their tree-covered peaks and the folded rocks that comprise them (Jones, 2020, p. 94).

Jura Mountains from Wikimedia Commons.

It was here in 1795 that Alexander von Humboldt, a Prussian explorer and naturalist, documented a series of carbonate shelf deposits from the period now known as the Jurassic and dubbed them the “Jura Kalstein.” Alexander Brongniart, a French scientist known for arranging and describing the geologic formations of the Tertiary Period (66.0 to 2.6 million years ago), coined the term “Terrains Jurassiques” to refer to all Jurassic strata in 1829. In 1832, German geologist Leopold von Buch established the three-fold subdivision of epochs based on the folds of limestone in the Jura: the Lias (Early Jurassic), the Dogger (Middle Jurassic), and the Malm (Late Jurassic). This arrangement remains the basic framework for our geological understanding of the Jurassic to this day (Ogg et al., 2012b, p. 732; Encyclopedia Britannica, 2021a).

Jura Mountain fold known as the “Chapeau de Gendarme” from Wikimedia Commons.

Beginning of the Jurassic

Nestled between the Triassic and Cretaceous periods, the Jurassic spanned from 201.3 million years ago to 145 million years ago (National Park Service, 2020). The end of the Triassic (so named because it is a group of three strata) and the beginning of the Jurassic is marked by the Triassic–Jurassic (Tr–J) extinction event, sometimes called the end-Triassic extinction. The fourth of five major extinction episodes on Earth (or sixth if you count the current, anthropogenic extinction), the Tr–J extinction wiped out around 75 percent of all marine and terrestrial life (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2021b).

Current evidence suggests that the Tr–J extinction was initially set into motion by movements of the Earth’s crust. As the all-encompassing mega-continent Pangea began to break apart, the associated tectonic shifts caused significant volcanic activity that spewed carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. The resulting global warming disrupted the Earth’s carbon cycle and contributed to ocean acidification (Fuge, 2020).

The ecological niches left open by the Tr–J extinction were quickly filled by remaining species of pterosaurs, crocodilians, turtles, mammals, many species of plants and invertebrates, marine life, and dinosaurs. Though many species died out during the extinction event, the wet and warm climate of the Jurassic in many places encouraged the growth of lush vegetation along with the proliferation and diversification of fauna. Oceans teemed with life, forests flourished, and dinosaurs became the dominant forms of backboned animal life on land during this time (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2021b).

Jurassic landscape in the Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibition at Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

End of the Jurassic

The end of the Jurassic is a bit of a mystery as the geological boundary between it and the Cretaceous Period (the latter name derived from the Latin for “chalk”) remains formally undefined. In fact, the Cretaceous is the only period in the Phanerozoic Eon (541 million years ago to present day) that “does not yet have an accepted global boundary definition” (Ogg et al., 2012a, p. 795). This definitional challenge is due to a number of factors but is mostly attributed to the concept of provincialism or provinciality, which means that plant or animal populations were restricted to a particular area or group of areas (Gale et al., 2020). This resulted in endemic populations, particularly of ammonites, which left uneven or unclear fossil markers in the stratigraphic record (Wimbledon, 2017; see Énay, 2019 for more detail on the J/K boundary debates).

We do know that the end of the Jurassic was marked by the Tithonian–early Barremian cool interval, which began 150 million years ago and continued well into the Early Cretaceous (Ogg et al., 2012a). During this time, some groups of animals did go extinct or become less diverse, like the dinosaurian subgroup Stegosauria that included Stegosaurus, while others increased in abundance, like some ammonite subgroups who survived the Tr–J event. Plants were also developing in important ways during this time. Around 130 million years ago, angiosperms (flowering plants) began to diversify, and they became increasingly dominant throughout the Cretaceous (Friis et al., 2010). Taking the unknowns and variables into account, the end of the Jurassic is currently placed at 145 million years ago.

Naming Geological Periods

Many of the names we still use for geological periods went through a similar process to that of the Jurassic: a scientist named a phenomenon based on the strata they were studying and the nomenclature (the system of names) developed from there. Nowadays, defining and naming geological units is left to the International Commission on Stratigraphy of the International Union of Geological Sciences. The process by which this happens feels about as long as the geologic periods themselves, at least to those of us watching from outside the commission. This is, of course, an exaggeration, but it does take years of work and rounds of voting to arrive at an official stratigraphic boundary designation.

Check out https://stratigraphy.org for the latest updates on humanity’s understanding of geologic time.

Jane Thaler is a Gallery Experience Presenter and Floor Captain in CMNH’s LifeLong Learning Department. Museum staff, volunteers, and interns are encouraged to blog about their unique experiences and knowledge gained from working at the museum.

References:

enay, Raymond (2019). The Jurassic/Cretaceous System Boundary is at an impasse: Why not go back to Oppel’s 1865 original and historic definition of the Tithonian? Cretaceous Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104241.

Encyclopedia Britannica (2021a). Alexandre Brongniart. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexandre-Brongniart

Encyclopedia Britannica (2021b). End-Triassic extinction. https://academic-eb-com.pitt.idm.oclc.org/levels/collegiate/article/end-Triassic-extinction/474417

Fuge, L. (2020). Volcano link to end of Triassic extinction. Cosmos. https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeontology/volcano-link-to-end-of-triassic-extinction/

Friis E. M., Pedersen K. R., Crane P. R. (2010). Diversity in obscurity: fossil flowers and the early history of angiosperms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 365. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2009.0227

Gale, A. S., Mutterlose, J., Batenburg, S., Gradstein, F. M., Agterberg, F. P., Ogg, J. G., Petrizzo, M. R. (2020). The Cretaceous Period. In The Geologic Time Scale 2020 (Gradstein, F. M., Ogg, J. G., Schmitz, M. D., & Ogg, G. M., Eds.). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824360-2.00027-9

Gore, R. (n.d.), The rise of mammals. In National Geographic. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/rise-mammals

Ogg, J. G., Hinnov, L. A., Huang, C. (2012a). Cretaceous. In The Geologic Time Scale 2012 (Gradstein, F. M., Ogg, J. G., Schmitz, M. D., & Ogg, G. M., Eds.). Elsevier.

Ogg, J. G., Hinnov, L. A., Huang, C. (2012b). Jurassic. In The Geologic Time Scale 2012 (Gradstein, F. M., Ogg, J. G., Schmitz, M. D., & Ogg, G. M., Eds.). Elsevier.

Jones, P. (2020). Jura Mountains, France/Switzerland. In Around the World in 80 Words. University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226682822-026

National Park Service (2020). Geologic time scale. https://www.nps.gov/subjects/geology/time-scale.htm

Pfiffner, O. A. (2006). Thick-skinned and thin-skinned styles of continental contraction. Special Paper of the Geological Society of America, 414.

Sauquet, H., von Balthazar, M., Magallón, S. et al. (2017). The ancestral flower of angiosperms and its early diversification. Nature Communications, 8. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms16047

Scotese, C. R., Song, H., Mills, B. J. W., van der Meer, D. G. (2021). Phanerozoic paleotemperatures: the Earth’s changing climate during the last 540 million years. Earth-Science Reviews, 215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.earscirev.2021.103503

Wimbledon, W. A. P. (2017). Developments with fixing a Tithonian/Berriasian (J/K) boundary. Volumina Jurassica, XV. https://doi.org/10.5604/01.3001.0010.7467

#Carnegie Museum of Natural History #Jurassic #Jurassic Park #Jurassic World #Dinosaurs #Paleontology

[earthstory]

Ammonite!!! Ammonites are named after a reference by the Roman writer Pliny the Elder which described stones that appeared as the horn of Ammon (the ram). They first appeared in the oceans about 400 million years ago during the Devonian period and were some of the dominant species in the ocean shortly thereafter.

Ammonites are key for geologists because they meet the standards to be index fossils. It’s really important for geologists to be able to compare the ages of rocks from one part of the planet to another and often there are no chemical links between rocks produced at the same time. In that case it requires an index fossil – a fossil match between two locations. For a species to be a good index fossil it has to be widespread so it occurs in both locations, it has to be abundant so that geologists can find them, and it has to be short-lived so that the match only covers a narrow time window. Ammonites meet all these standards. Some ammonites, like this one, were huge. In some cases they were up to 2 meters across. Ammonites grew over time; the organism formed a chamber and then as it grew it formed new, outer chambers to move into. It then left a thin connection to internal chambers called a siphuncle that allowed it to pump air into the internal chambers to change the buoyancy of the shell so that it could actually move up and down in the water. Ammonites were mostly predators, using tentacles to bore into shells of other organisms in the ocean for food. They went extinct at the cretaceous-tertiary boundary along with the dinosaurs, leaving a 350 million year record of shells for us to find. -JBB Image credit: https://flic.kr/p/9rLCFw Read more: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/prehistoric/ammonites/ http://bit.ly/1RjVdBm http://bit.ly/1IVQMdX

#ammonite #fossil #ammon #ram #fossils #fossilfriday #paleontology #geology #shell #the earth story

[ganymedesclock]

Ooooo, a god first worshippers not having to be human is a very cool thought! The scavengers of the world not thinking of Aeon at all poorly also really makes sense, they feed on already dead meat and clean up after other animals, of course a god like Aeon would be well liked by them! So, any other first worshippers situations among the other gods?

The color gods in Lorn are, in some ways, archetypes of reality- so they are very 'human' in some regards, but in others, they have a relationship with a bunch of different things on the planet. In part, a lot of things we think of as "standard for a god" are some things they learned- drifting towards certain things, concepts, ideas, and people.

The majority of them didn't have quite so rough an upbringing as Aeon- Dena also didn't have much of a sense of what it was or meant to be a god, but she also had a surplus of both All-Color and Lorn's attention, so arguably her first 'worship' was her own artistic process- feeling a strange sense that there was something sublime, something alive, in things that were beautiful to her, and in her attempts to create beauty, this sense that it was partway there.

(Needless to say, this rapidly gave her a rocky perfectionist streak- it was always only 'partway' there)

Another part of this was that humans weren't exactly around to be worshipers when Dena was first being born. Comparing the history of this setting to the history of the earth, Dena's birth would coincide roughly with the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction. There was quite a gap between her and Sivi, with the latter being born-fittingly- around the paleolithic. (This also ties in, a bit, to that Dena doesn't always take a humanoid form and in fact spends most of her time as a bird). So Dena's first worship was... art itself, to a degree, though she would also fly among and interact with many different animals.

Humans were an exciting phenomenon to the young Sivi. Not just because they resonated with her, but when her older sister and parents all seemed like they'd been there forever and already knew what was up, even if Dena hadn't "done" much with that time-

(gods in Lornwood have a very 'only as old as they feel' kind of thing where without psychological development they just... don't really age, and Dena has often been such a late bloomer that Sivi risked passing her a few times)

-but here were these people making tools out of stone, and starting to tame animals, and they recognized Sivi, and Sivi recognized them, but they struggled to communicate because they were actually using languages.

And this captivated her. No matter how much big sister grumbled and fretted and rustled her feathers and insisted that the Garden was better, that look how much it tires you out to be away from home, Sivi would come around with new ideas because she was talking to the people, she was learning their languages, and look, look, she's actually not all that tired at all, they noticed her legs hurt and threaded sticks together to help hold her up, and this sense of working together, of building better things, of communicating- resonated very deeply with Sivi, and left her increasingly aware and concerned that she wasn't actually the smallest and weakest compared to these humans; they would age and die at a rate far quicker than her, and stones she could just push out of the way with her bare hands would break them. At the very same time she was so excited that they were like her, she realized they weren't, and began to feel a sense of responsibility, that there has to be some way to make it fair, because humans saw her legs were not set 'fairly' and sought to make it so, but their own weaknesses, their own struggles- they cannot just be their burdens to carry alone, right?

The world as Garu came into it was a world that had grown- in part, had grown a little faster than in our world because of Sivi's influence. It was a pretty happening place. At this point, cities, kingdoms, the beginnings of empires- young Garu abandoned the Garden quicker and far more aggressively than Sivi had, in part because he grew uncomfortable with All-Color's company after a while, so in some ways, Garu is the most human of the Lorn gods- for better, and for worse.

Because Garu basically grew up on the streets.

Thanks to both Sivi's ministrations and human ingenuity, there was now this exciting concept of wealth- of plenty, and of what was owed to whom. And in many places, this meant wealth concentrated, and some people grew powerful- and in places where wealth concentrates, there are people it is siphoned from.

Garu was raised by, and in turn, worshiped by, beggars- people afflicted by disease with no one to care for them, who had nothing to give, who noticed the white-haired child riddled with unnatural holes that wandered place to place. A God, unlike the shining amber or elusive scarlet, or the abiding yet ever-distant white sun- a god that lived among them, in the lowest and most miserable of places.

For people who had nothing to give but their bodies, the first offerings Garu received were droplets of blood. To this day, there's some 'traditionalists' with a very specific horizontal cut on their palm, who do not call the name of a god of fortune or thieves, but the beggar-god, the holy child of men just as much as he was a child of the sun.

In hindsight, it's not hard to imagine how the sincerity of desperation came to drive a fairly aggressive audacity from Garu.

When Tema was born, Sivi took an immediate hand with her- both to avoid another Garu, and because at this point, as new technologies were beginning to emerge, gods born far closer together, the consequences of a new god growing up any particular way would be enormous. As such, Tema was in some ways kept away from her own aspects or worship due to being coddled by big sister- Sivi fed Tema symbiotically off of her own established order at this point. Even now, at the point the story takes place (~19th century) Tema's only starting to admit that she finds a lot more of interest in the crops and fields and animals that various civilizations tend than she is in most of the people tending them- she doesn't want to hurt Sivi's feelings, and doesn't have much confidence that it means anything if every sheep she's ever met has the same dream of a place beyond the meadow, even if the shepherd ostensibly has everything they need and they're not even sure they want to leave.

In Aeon's case, not having an introduction to most of civilization and being somewhat unable to leave what's no longer the Garden but nowadays referred to more as the Lornwood- their ability to meet people depends entirely on being invited in through specific spaces created in the rest of the world, and the sort of people who invite a god with their reputation don't tend to mean the greatest, so, yeah, long story short, between an aristocrat who really, really wants his brother's wife to marry him instead, and a raven that's just hungry for venison but can't hunt a deer on its own, Aeon will absolutely prefer the company of the latter.

After all, they call Aeon a vicious, filthy thing too, even if scavengers are simply those who survive where they weren't invited.

...and then there's Ilvi, who is barely alive, because they have a suspicion what sort of things would worship them, who is only really believed in by their own creations, and their relatives.

#The Lornwood #Dena the Scarlet God #Sivi the Amber God #Garu the Golden God #Tema the Viridian God #Aeon the Changeling #Ilvi the Violet God #readmore

[ilovedinosaur]

Walking Dinosaur with Projection, Flashing Horns and Can Lay Eggs

Jurassic Walking Tyrannosaurus Roars, Moves Mouth and Wags Tail, Battery Powered Robotic T Rex Toy for Boys & Girls (Large)

       The legendary light-up T-rex is stepping out of the Cretaceous period and into your child's living room!               

► Tyrannosaurus is the largest of the tyrannosaurids. Survived  in MAA of the Cretaceous period, about 68.5 million to 65 million years  ago,        

  ► It is one of the dinosaur species before the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.        

      ► Now, let your kids learn more knowledge about dinosaurs with this special partner!       

► Multi-Function - Comes with the function of walking motion, laying eggs, swinging head & tail, opening and closing mouth, realistic roaring, and light up neck & spiky spine. Embark on a Jurassic journey and makes for endless hours of entertainment. ► Flashing Spine & Projection Light -LED lights in red, blue & green illuminate the clear & soft spikes spine down the head.It projects a lighted graphic from the neck onto the floor which truly reflect the T-Rex living in virgin forest freely. ► Fun Laying Eggs - The eggs can be inserted through the back and lay from the belly every few seconds. ON/OFF toggle switch gets this guy moving, roaring and lit up easily. ► Safe Material - The dinosaur toy is safe for kids and made of sturdy recyclable ABS plastic. Pass the US toy CPSIA and ASTM F963-11 test. Dinosaur requires 3 AA batteries (NOT INCLUDED). ►

Never Go Wrong as a Gift

- kids will be enthused to receive this as a gift for any occasion. Inspire your kid's creativity and imagination. Perfect choice as kids Birthday / Holiday / Christmas gift. Recommended for ages 3 years old and up.

#tyrannosaurus #roar #dinosaur

[osha-employee-one]

Trick or treat: what made you so interested in safety to begin with?

The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event.

#Asks