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Tasmania may be small

but it is a most diverse and interesting State. Separated from the mainland by the Bass Strait, the historical and wilderness delights of this magnificent island bring visitors flocking to its shores. Many come by air, but the vehicle and passenger ferry is becoming increasingly popular -with a good highway system and many reasonably priced hotels or bed and breakfast establishments, motoring is probably the best way to experience this small island. Sounds good? Do you want to 2023 Nude Calendars? Order 2023 Australian calendars here.

Tasmania covers an area of 68,331 sq. km -roughly the same size as Ireland. Each region offers quite different natural landscapes and features. The State's northern part is gentle farmlands and rolling pastures between large outcrops such as the Great Western Tiers. This huge mountain range extends across the centre of Tasmania, separating the wilderness of Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park from the agricultural region and Launceston to the north. The Tamar Valley, the State's premier wine-growing region, is near Launceston. Along the north and east coasts are many magnificent beaches, some stretching for many kilometres; there are fishing villages with excellent surfing to the north-west. The west coast features wild rivers, which cut through an area of rugged beauty that is rich in mineral wealth and timber; the east is rich in agricultural land.

In the southern part of the State are the magnificent Huon and Derwent valleys and Tasmania's capital city, Hobart. Many of the southern towns, such as Richmond, feature magnificent historic buildings. The Tasman Peninsula in the far south-east is home to Australia's most notorious convict settlement, Port Arthur; Bruny Island is another popular summer holiday destination here.

The climate in Tasmania is amenable throughout the year. Spring and autumn are mild to warm, but the nights can become very chilly and it can rain. Summer sees long warm to hot days, with pleasant nights. During winter, much of

the mountain country is covered in snow, ideal for skiing. Heading down from the mountain tops, the climate is still chilly and the nights are cold. The west coast boasts 360 days of rain each year, so pack a raincoat if you are heading there. During winter check with authorities on road conditions for the higher peaks.

Originally inhabited by Aboriginals, the island was first sighted by Europeans in 1624. Dutch navigator Abel Tasman arrived off the west coast and named it Van Diemen's Land after the Dutch Governor of Jakarta.

In 1777 Captain James Cook anchored off Bruny Island, and 27 years later Colonel David Collins established the settlement of Hobart. The white settlement of Tasmania soon led to the near extinction of the Aborigines -the authorities at that time took it upon themselves to rid the State of the Aboriginal people. When Truganini died in Hobart in 1876, for quite a long time it was thought that she was the last of the Tasmanian Aborigines, but there are still descendants of the Tasmanian tribes.

Tasmania's beginnings were as a convict colony, and there are remnants of penal settlements found all over the island, with the most notable being Port Arthur. This settlement was set up in 1830, and over the next 47 years an estimated 12,500 convicts passed through its gates. The settlement is extensive, and many of the buildings, including the solitary confinement cells, have been carefully restored. Tours, including the eerie night tours, are highly recommended.

Sarah Island, on Tasmania's wild west coast, is a similar site -the most hardened prisoners were kept in conditions not unlike those of Port Arthur.

Tasmania's vast mineral wealth has led to the establishment and growth of many towns, particularly on the State's west coast. Around Queenstown, gold was mined originally, but after most of the gold had been extracted copper was mined, with the subsequent deforestation causing considerable damage to the surrounding hills. Silver, lead and tin have all been mined at Zeehan, with tin mining continuing today.

With turbulent rivers gorging through the rugged mountain ranges, hydro-electricity is the best source of power for Tasmania -the island produces more energy than it needs. Many power stations are open to the public for inspection.

Much of Tasmania was forested when Europeans first arrived and timber was used for buildings both within Tasmania as well as on the mainland. Among other uses, Tasmanian blue gum was used to build the wharf areas on the Thames in London, and also to underpin the streets of Melbourne. There are several paper mills in Tasmania, including the Australian Newsprint Mill in Boyer, which produces more than 250,000 tonnes (275,500 tons) of paper annually, the Australian Paper Mill in Burnie and the Tasmanian Pulp and Forest Holdings in Triabunna, which produces woodchip.

Much of the island is World Heritage listed or national park land and it is quite likely that some areas may never have been explored by Europeans. A journey into the parks will reveal stunning lakes (St Clair or Dove Lakes), towering sheer precipices (Ben Lomond National Park), limestone caves (near Mole Creek), and vivid coloured rocks (Freycinet National Park). The most popular area is the Franklin-Gordon Rivers region, which was steeped in controversy during the 1980s when it was proposed that the Franklin River be dammed. Today the 'wild and still undammed' waters are World Heritage listed, testimony to a case won by the persistent actions of many environmentalists and campaigning by environmental groups.

There are many outdoor activities on offer in Tasmania, including bushwalking and horse riding. There are easy strolls in gentle, rolling countryside or along coastal heathlands, and more rigorous and lengthy treks through remote areas of the national parks; horse riders can trek along the beaches or across mountain ranges. Other possibilities are rock climbing, downhill and cross-country skiing, canoeing, whitewater rafting, abseiling, hang gliding, mountain biking, jet boat river riding and 4WD touring. You will even find camel riding! Marine reserves provide excellent diving and snorkelling.

Tasmania also has much to offer the gourmet, with excellent wines in the Tamar Valley-Piper's Brook Vineyard produces fine chardonnay, pinot noir and riesling -and the nearby Heemskerk, Dalmere or Dalrymple. Dairy produce is superb, with many cheeses and creams, including camembert and brie, available, and seafood is abundant.

Tasmania really is an isle of contrasts, with rugged mountain ranges, magnificent scenery, pristine sandy beaches, historic towns and fine food and wine -no wonder it is called the Holiday Isle.

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636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate begins. 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year. 718 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople. 747 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother, Pepin the Short, becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom. 778 – The Battle of Roncevaux Pass takes place between the army of Charlemagne and a Basque army. 805 – Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising 927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto. 982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria. 1018 – Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria. 1038 – King Stephen I, the first king of Hungary, dies; his nephew, Peter Orseolo, succeeds him. 1057 – King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Máel Coluim mac Donnchada. 1070 – The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England. 1096 – Starting date of the First Crusade as set by Pope Urban II. 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia. 1237 – Spanish Reconquista: The Battle of the Puig between the Moorish forces of Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon culminates in an Aragonese victory. 1248 – The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.) 1261 – Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned as the first Byzantine emperor in fifty-seven years. 1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan. 1310 – The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes. 1430 – Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca. 1461 – The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered. 1483 – Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel. 1511 – Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate. 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary. 1519 – Panama City, Panama is founded. 1534 – Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540. 1537 – Asunción, Paraguay is founded. 1540 – Arequipa, Peru is founded. 1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: 22 July 1549). 1592 – Imjin War: At the Battle of Hansan Island, the Korean Navy, led by Yi Sun-sin, Yi Eok-gi, and Won Gyun, decisively defeats the Japanese Navy, led by Wakisaka Yasuharu. 1599 – Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass: Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle. 1695 – French forces end the bombardment of Brussels. 1760 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz: Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon. 1824 – The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states. 1843 – The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. 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Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies. 1914 – A servant of American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, and murders seven people there. 1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon. 1914 – World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia. 1914 – World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I. 1915 – A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production. 1920 – Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula. 1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska. 1939 – Twenty-six Junkers Ju 87 bombers commanded by Walter Sigel meet unexpected ground fog during a dive-bombing demonstration for Luftwaffe generals at Neuhammer. Thirteen of them crash and burn. 1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California. 1940 – An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October. 1941 – Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage. 1942 – World War II: Operation Pedestal: The oil tanker SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses. 1943 – World War II: Battle of Trahili: Superior German forces surround Cretan partisans, who manage to escape against all odds. 1944 – World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France. 1945 – Emperor Hirohito broadcasts his declaration of surrender following the effective surrender of Japan in World War II; Korea gains independence from the Empire of Japan. 1947 – India gains independence from British rule after near 190 years of British company and crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations. 1947 – Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi. 1948 – The First Republic of Korea (South Korea) is established in the southern half of the peninsula. 1950 – Measuring Mw 8.6, the largest earthquake on land occurs in the Assam-Tibet-Myanmar border, killing 4,800. 1952 – A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people. 1954 – Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay. 1959 – American Airlines Flight 514, a Boeing 707, crashes near the Calverton Executive Airpark in Calverton, New York, killing all five people on board. 1960 – Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France. 1961 – Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall. 1962 – James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016. 1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland. 1963 – President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital. 1965 – The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock. 1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in Bethel, New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era. 1970 – Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game. 1971 – President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors. 1971 – Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1973 – Vietnam War: The USAF bombing of Cambodia ends. 1974 – Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President Park Chung-hee. 1975 – Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup. 1975 – Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II. 1976 – SAETA Flight 232 crashes into the Chimborazo volcano in Ecuador, killing all 59 people on board; the wreckage is not discovered until 2002. 1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project. 1984 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish Armed Forces with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh. 1985 – Signing of the Assam Accord, an agreement between representatives of the Government of India and the leaders of the Assam Movement to end the movement. 1995 – In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later). 1995 – Tomiichi Murayama, Prime Minister of Japan, releases the Murayama Statement, which formally expresses remorse for Japanese war crimes committed during World War II. 1998 – Northern Ireland: Omagh bombing takes place; 29 people (including a woman pregnant with twins) killed and some 220 others injured. 1998 – Apple introduces the iMac computer. 1999 – Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco. 2005 – Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins. 2005 – The Helsinki Agreement between the Free Aceh Movement and the Government of Indonesia was signed, ending almost three decades of fighting. 2007 – An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090. 2013 – At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video. 2013 – The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivorous species found in the Americas in 35 years. 2015 – North Korea moves its clock back half an hour to introduce Pyongyang Time, 81⁄2 hours ahead of UTC. 2020 – Russia begins production on the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine. 2021 – Kabul falls into the hands of the Taliban as Ashraf Ghani flees Afghanistan along with local residents and foreign nationals, effectively reestablishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

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Saints&Reading: Wed., July 13, 2022

July 13_ JuNE 30

SYNAXIS OF THE HOLY TWELVE APOSTLES OF CHRIST

Peter, Andrew, James and John the sons of Zebedee, Philip, Bartholomew, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Jude the brother of James, Simon the Zealot, Matthias.

The Synaxis of the Glorious and All-Praiseworthy Twelve Apostles of Christ appears to be an ancient Feast. The Church honors each of the Twelve Apostles on separate dates during the year, and has established a general commemoration for all of them on the day after the commemoration of the Glorious and First-Ranked among the Apostles Peter and Paul.

The holy God-crowned Emperor Constantine the Great (May 21) built a church in Constantinople in honor of the Twelve Apostles. There are instructions for celebrating this Feast which date from the fourth century. For lists of the Apostles' names, see: Mt.10:2, Mark 3:14, Luke 6:12, Acts 1:13, 26.

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Andrew the First-called is also commemorated on November 30. He was the brother of Saint Peter (June 29).

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle James is also commemorated on April 30. He and his brother John are the sons of Zebedee, and were called “sons of Thunder” (Mark 3: 17).

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle and Evangelist, virgin, and beloved friend of Christ, John the Theologian is also commemorated on September 26 and May 8. He and his brother James are the sons of Zebedee, and were called “sons of Thunder” (Mark 3:17).

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Philip is also commemorated on November 14.

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Bartholomew is also commemorated on June 11 and August 25.

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Thomas is also commemorated on October 6 and on the Sunday after Pascha.

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle and Evangelist Matthew is also commemorated on November 16.

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle James, the son of Alphaeus, is also commemorated on October 9.

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Jude is also commemorated on June 19. He is also known as Thaddeus (but should not be confused with Saint Thaddeus of the Seventy, who is commemorated on August 21), and was the brother of Saint James (October 23).

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Simon the Zealot is also commemorated on May 10.

The holy, glorious, all-laudable Apostle Matthias is also commemorated on August 9.

Source: Orthodox Church in America_OCA

HOLY QUEEN DINAR (10th c._Georgia)

The Russian Church has preserved chronicles of the life of Queen Dinar, a woman who achieved much on behalf of the Christian Faith. For years scholars have disputed about the historical figure discussed in great depth in the Russian Church. Many believed that the sources described Holy Queen Tamar, but the period of Tamar’s rule does not match that of the figure described in the chronicles. The Georgian chronicle Life of Kartli, however, has preserved information about a certain Dinar, Queen of Hereti (southeastern Georgia), who, along with her son Ishkhanik, converted Hereti to the Orthodox Faith and delivered its people from the Monophysite heresy in the 10th century. Queen Dinar’s story resembles that recounted in the Russian Chronicles more closely than any other. According to the Armenian historian Moses of Kalankaytuk, Slavic tribes that carried out incursions in the southernmost Caucasus often journeyed through the Transcaucasus, and it was with these tribes that the story of Queen Dinar made its way to Russia. The Georgian Church renders great honor to Holy Queen Dinar. As a result of her zealous labors and achievements, a large part of the eastern Transcaucasus was saved from the Monophysite heresy that dominated the region. Today, on the north wall of the Throne Hall in the Moscow Kremlin, there hangs an image of Holy Queen Dinar mounted on a white horse, victorious over the enemy.

MARK 3:13-19

13And He went up on the mountain and called to Him those He Himself wanted. And they came to Him.14 Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach,15and to have power to heal sicknesses and to cast out demons: 16 Simon, to whom He gave the name Peter; 17 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James, to whom He gave the name Boanerges, that is, "Sons of Thunder"; 18 Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Thaddaeus, Simon the Cananite; 19 and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed Him. And they went into a house.

1 CORINTHIANS 4:9-1

9For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men condemned to death; for we have been made a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men. 10 We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, but we are dishonored! 11 To the present hour we both hunger and thirst, and we are poorly clothed, and beaten, and homeless. 12 And we labor, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we endure; 13 being defamed, we entreat. We have been made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things until now. 14 I do not write these things to shame you, but as my beloved children I warn you. 15 For though you might have ten thousand instructors in Christ, yet you do not have many fathers; for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you through the gospel. 16 Therefore I urge you, imitate me.

#orthodoxy #orthodoxchristianity #easternchristianity #originofchristianity #spirituality #holyscriptures #gospel #bible #wisdom

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The Glory of Iveria, Mikhail Sabinin, c. 1880s

#Christendom #icons #Patriarchate of Georgia #Saint Nino of Georgia #St. Nino of Georgia #Saint Tamar the Great #St. Tamar the Great #saints #Sakartvelo

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films on youtube: part ii

Updated on September 29th 2021.

Below is a selection of films available on YouTube. As I try to update this list as regularly as possible (for this is a lenghthy process), please refer to the original post for the newest version.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Apparently, Tumblr restricts the number of links you can have all on one post. Therefore, this list is divided into two parts. You can access part one by clicking on the link below:

PART I HERE.

For a visual reference of all the movies available, click here.

Titles are alphabetized by director, and organized by year of release.

Orphée (1950), Jean Cocteau

The Mother and the Whore (1973), Jean Eustache

My Little Loves (1974), Jean Eustache

La Chienne (1931), Jean Renoir

The Southerner (1945), Jean Renoir

The River (1951), Jean Renoir

The Golden Coach (1952), Jean Renoir

À Propos de Nice (1930), Jean Vigo

Zéro de Conduite (1933), Jean Vigo

Vivre Sa Vie (1962), Jean-Luc Godard

Masculin Féminin (1966), Jean-Luc Godard

Chronicle of Anna Magdanela Bach (1968), Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Class Relations (1984), Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Antigone (1992), Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Two Men in Manhattan (1959), Jean-Pierre Melville

Le Deuxième Souffle (1966), Jean-Pierre Melville

Down by Law (1986), Jim Jarmusch

My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989), Jim Sheridan

Hovering Over the Water (1986), João César Monteiro

God’s Comedy (1995), João César Monteiro

Vai e Vem (2003), João César Monteiro

Underworld (1927), Josef von Sternberg

The Docks of New York (1928), Josef von Sternberg

Faces (1968), John Cassavetes

Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), John Cassavetes

Opening Night (1977), John Cassavetes

Just One Kid (1974), John Goldschmidt

King of Jazz (1930), Joh Murray Anderson

Song of Avignon (1998), Jonas Mekas

As I Was Moving Ahead Ocasionally I Saw Glimpses of Beauty (2000), Jonas Mekas

The Act of Killing (2012), Joshua Oppenheimer

…À Valparaíso (1963), Joris Ivens

Birds, Orphans and Fools (1969), Juraj Jakubisko

Sisters of the Gion (1936), Kenji Mizoguchi

The Story of the Last Chrisanthemum (1939), Kenji Mizoguchi

A Geisha (1953), Kenji Mizoguchi

Ugetsu (1953), Kenji Mizoguchi

Sansho the Bailiff (1954), Kenji Mizoguchi

Street of Shame (1956), Kenji Mizoguchi

Duel in the Sun (1946), King Vidor

Fires on the Plain (1959), Kon Ichikawa

The Ascent (1977), Larisa Shepitko

Dancer in the Dark (2000), Lars von Trier

The Upturned Glass (1947), Lawrence Huntington

Hamlet (1948), Lawrence Olivier

The Blue Light (1932), Leni Riefenstahl

Mädchen in Uniform (1931), Leontine Sagan

Rain (1932), Lewis Milestone

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Lewis Milestone

This Sporting Life (1963), Lindsay Anderson

if…. (1968), Lindsay Anderson

Au Revoir, Les Enfants (1987), Louis Malle

Jew Süss (1934), Lothar Mendes

La Terra Trema (1948), Luchino Visconti

Beautiful (1951), Luchino Visconti

The Leopard (1963), Luchino Visconti

Sandra (1965), Luchino Visconti

The Sunday Woman (1975), Luigi Comencini

L’Âge d’Or (1930), Luis Buñuel

Nazarin (1959), Luis Buñuel

Black Orpheus (1959), Marcel Camus

Limite (1931), Mário Peixoto

Spring on Zarechnaya Street (1956), Marlen Khutsiyev and Feliks Mironer

Vermilion Souls (2007), Masaki Iwana

La Haine (1995), Mathieu Kassovitz

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren

Caught (1949), Max Ophüls

The Reckless Moment (1949), Max Ophüls

Black Narcissus (1947), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Gone to Earth (1950), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Gente del Po (1947), Michelangelo Antonioni

Il Grido (1957), Michelangelo Antonioni

L’Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni

La Notte (1961), Michelangelo Antonioni

Red Desert (1964), Michelangelo Antonioni

Zabriskie Point (1970), Michelangelo Antonioni

The Passenger (1975), Michelangelo Antonioni

Women of Ryazan (1927), Olga Preobrazhenskaya and Ivan Pravov

The Stranger (1946), Orson Welles

Black Girl (1966), Ousmane Sembène

Punishment Park (1971), Peter Watkins

Mamma Roma (1962), Pier Paolo Pasolini

World on a Wire (1973), Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Martha (1974), Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Chinese Roulette (1976), Rainer Werner Fassbinder

City of Pirates (1983), Raúl Ruiz

Time Regained (1999), Raúl Ruiz

Lucrezia Borgia (1922), Richard Oswald

Strangers When We Meet (1960), Richard Quine

Framed (1947), Richard Wallace

Mouchette (1967), Robert Bresson

Four Nights of a Dreamer (1971), Robert Bresson

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), Robert Wiene

Rome, Open City (1945), Roberto Rossellini

Paisà (1946), Roberto Rossellini

Germany, Year Zero (1948), Roberto Rossellini

The Flowers of St. Francis (1950), Roberto Rossellini

Europa ’51 (1952), Roberto Rossellini

Journey to Italy (1954), Roberto Rossellini

Repulsion (1965), Roman Polanski

Cul-de-sac (1966), Roman Polanski

Songs from the Second Floor (2000), Roy Andersson

You, the Living (2007), Roy Andersson

Two (1965), Satyajit Ray

Battleship Potemkin (1925), Sergei M. Eisenstein

The Color of Pomegranates (1968), Sergej Parajanov

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women (1956), Shirō Toyoda

A Day at the Beach (1972), Simon Hesera

Royal Wedding (1951), Stanley Donen

It’s Always Fair Weather (1955), Stanley Donen

Indiscreet (1958), Stanley Donen

Charade (1963), Stanley Donen

The Haircut (1982), Tamar Simon Hoffs

A Page of Madness (1926), Teinosuke Kinugasa

Badlands (1973), Terrence Malick

The Entertainer (1960), Tony Richardson

Daisies (1966), Věra Chytilová

The Outlaw and His Wife (1918), Victor Sjöstrom

Shoeshine (1946), Vittorio de Sica

Bicyle Thieves (1948), Vittorio de Sica

Umberto D. (1952), Vittorio de Sica

State Fair (1946), Walter Lang

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), Walter Ruttmann

The Last Stage (1948), Wanda Jakubowska

Land of Silence and Darkness (1971), Werner Herzog

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Werner Herzog

Rope of Sand (1949), William Dieterle

Wings of Desire (1987), Wim Wenders

I Was Born, But… (1932), Yasujirō Ozu

The Only Son (1936), Yasujirō Ozu

The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941), Yasujirō Ozu

There Was a Father (1942), Yasujirō Ozu

Late Spring (1949), Yasujirō Ozu

Early Summer (1951), Yasujirō Ozu

The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice (1952), Yasujirō Ozu

Tokyo Story (1953), Yasujirō Ozu

Early Spring (1956), Yasujirō Ozu

Equinox Flower (1958), Yasujirō Ozu

Late Autumn (1960), Yasujirō Ozu

The Blue Sky Maiden (1957), Yasuzō Masumura

#films #youtube #updated #part ii

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Grishaverse timeline-ish question for you if you know! Do we have any knowledge about what religion in Ravka or elsewhere in the grishaverse was like when the Darkling was young?

Thanks for the ask!

In summary, saints seem to have been a concept for a long time, but there’s not a lot of other detail.

For the long version:

I’ve consulted some of the tales from The Language of Thorns and the Istorii Sankt’ya for references, when the tale featured a person shown to be non-fictional within the context of the book universe. For example, Magda from The Witch of Duva was a contemporary of Baghra and young Aleksander per Demon in the Wood.

I think you can take or leave those pieces as you like, as the fact that the underlying person is real in-universe doesn’t mean all the other details of the tales are of course. IRL, long-lived stories have often seen their religious context updated to later periods than they were originally written in. For Grishaverse purposes, I think that’s unlikely to have been the intent, but it’s a fun notion to play with if you want to go a different direction. That said, the mention of saints is pervasive in nearly everything.

The only writing focused on the Darkling as a child is Demon in the Wood. While there isn’t direct discussion of religion at the time, there are a few pieces we can draw from to check against other books:

- Ravka is specifically spoken of, telling us this is past the point where there was not yet a country in that area. (On a tangent note, we also see that Balakirev is already an established location too, as well as Os Alta.) - Petyr of Brevno, Baba Anezka, and Magda of the black woods are all mentioned as people Baghra and Aleksander have met personally - Not mentioned in the text, but of course this is after what at some point came to be seen as the martyrdom of Sankt Ilya, given that’s Ilya Morozova - While not related to Ravkan religion, the fact that Shu Han has temples is mentioned and that they have red roofs. - ‘Witches’ and ‘demons’ are a concept, ones that are specifically called out as likely to indicate Grisha are present in an area

Sankt Petyr of Brevno, Sankt Ilya in Chains, and Sankta Lizabeta are all mentioned as being in the in-universe version of the Istorri Sankt’ya in Shadow and Bone.

In King of Scars, Tamar and Yuri tell others of the tale of how the Priestguard was first created. Zoya names them ‘children’s stories’, so what was said above still applies. But said stories tell that Yaromir the Determined, the first Lantsov king, was the one who founded Ravka as a unified kingdom. That he prayed to ‘all of the Saints who would hear him’ - so if these details haven’t been altered over time, saints were already a concept before Ravka was founded - and that monks arrived with an offer of help. So, the concept of monks also likely existed.

Juris, Grigori and Elizaveta* are all characters in King of Scars and all are worshiped as saints in Ravka. From their own words, we learn that they are VERY old indeed. If their designations as saints occurred not long after their original martyrdoms, that says the concept of saints is likewise quite ancient. Elizaveta says ‘We have lived lives so long they would dwarf the history of Ravka’.

* The actual character is called Elizaveta, but the saint version of her is remembered as Lizabeta. Perhaps this was done as a nod to how long back the real Elizaveta’s story was first told. IRL these are two different forms of the same name, with Lizabeta also being only one letter off from a diminutive of Elizaveta.

In looking at the faerie and saints’ tales, we find:

- Lizabeta is mentioned as praying and thinking on the ‘great works of the Saints’ when she was a teenager. - Grigori is mentioned as speaking to ‘his saints’ just prior to his martyrdom - In The Witch of Duva, people pray to saints. - In Little Knife, saints and chapels are both mentioned. This is the story featuring Baba Anezka, though there’s not much context of where it might sit in time compared to Aleksander’s youth. Ravka and Os Alta exist, Anezka is mentioned as ‘ancient’. - Saints and priests and Saint’s Days are all mentioned in Petyr’s tale. (An interesting tangent note there is his martyrdom came of helping a village defeat a demon, one that is not depicted in a way that implies it’s a Grisha, but something more supernatural.)

A guess I made in a long ago meta post has so far been borne out by later revelations: I suspected a lot, if not all, of the saints were actually Grisha. Since then, I can’t think of one we’ve learned more about where that doesn’t seem to be the case.

A quick note on religion in Ravka-related things mentioned in the books in addition to saints: praying over icons, Butter Week (Maslenitsa IRL), church on Sundays, chapels, cathedrals, convents, monks, saints being honored on their designated Saints Days, the Feast of St. Nikolai in winter, Sikurian Psalms.

So far I haven’t found much about religions elsewhere than Ravka in the past, save the mention of Shu Han’s red-roofed temples. Fjerda existed at least as far back as Ravka too, so perhaps the concept of Djel goes back at least that far. Also, there’s a saint tale in the Istorii Sankt’ya about two saints who are from Shu Han, so that’s interesting!

#Grishaverse #The Grisha Trilogy #The Darkling #Shadow and Bone #Grishaverse Meta #Ask Response #tirkdi

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Pious Formulas on Georgian Money

Tedo Dundua

Deities are depicted on the coins struck in pagan Colchis (Western Georgia) and Iberia (Eastern and Southern Georgia). With these states being baptized in the 4th c., the gods were substituted by the saints. Christian pious formulas also appeared on money issued in kingdom of Georgia, obviously less “pious” than the inscriptions on the Byzantine coins. Greek inscriptions are mostly like as follows: “God, do assist . . .”, “Holy Virgin, do assist . . .”, “Cross, protect . . .”. And we have different pious formulas on Georgian coins: “Christ, exalt . . .”, etc. (D. R. Sear. Byzantine Coins and Their Values. Second edition, 1987, reprinted 1994, 1996. London, pp.33-34; https://www.academia.edu/35768659/History_of_Georgia, p. 204 n. 1). Full picture is presented below.

Half drama of Bagrat III (975-1014), imitation to dirhem (980).

Obverse: Central Arabic legend in three lines – “There is no god but Allāh alone, he has no associate”. Distorted Arabic legend around. Reverse: Central Arabic legend – “Muhammad is the Messenger of Allāh”. Georgian Asomtavruli legend around it –Christ, exalt Bagrat, king of the Abkhasians (Western Georgia). http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=39

David III Kuropalates’ (+1001) coins with the depiction of cross potent (979).

Obverse: Georgian legend – “Christ, forgive David”. Reverse: Cross potent on the four steps and Georgian legend – “Kurapalati”.

http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=40

Bagrat IV (1027-1072). I emission. 1055. Obverse: Facing bust of Virgin orans, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium. Greek legend – “the Holy Virgin”, close to nimbus, in different ways. Reverse: Marginal Georgian legend – “Christ, exalt Bagrat, king of the Abkhasians” (Western Georgia). In the center – “and Nobilissimos”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=41

Bagrat IV. II emission. 1068/69.

Obverse: Facing bust of Virgin orans, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium. Greek legend – “the Holy Virgin”, close to nimbus, in different ways. Reverse: Marginal Georgian legend – “Christ, exalt Bagrat, king of the Abkhasians” (Western Georgia). In the center – “and Sebastos”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=42

Giorgi II (1072-1089). I emission. 1073. Obverse: Facing bust of Virgin orans, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium. Distorted Greek abbreviation for “the Holy Virgin”, to l. and r. from nimbus. Greek legend – ΜΡ ΘΥ – appears sometime. Reverse: Marginal Georgian legend – “Christ, exalt Giorgi, king of the Abkhasians and the Kartvelians” (Eastern and Southern Georgia). In the center – “and Nobilissimos”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=43

Giorgi II. II emission. 1074. Obverse: Facing bust of Virgin orans, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium. Distorted Greek abbreviation for “the Holy Virgin”, to l. and r. from nimbus. Some specimens have different legend – “St. Virgin Blachernitissa”. Reverse: Marginal Georgian legend – “Christ, exalt Giorgi, king of the Abkhasians and the Kartvelians”. In the center – “and Sebastos”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=44

Giorgi II. III emission. 1075-1089. Obverse: Facing bust of Virgin orans, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium. Distorted Greek abbreviation for “the Holy Virgin”, to l. and r. from nimbus. Some specimens have different legend – “St. Virgin Blachernitissa”. Reverse: Marginal Georgian legend – “Christ, exalt Giorgi, king of the Abkhasians and the Kartvelians”. In the center –“and Caesaros”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=45

David IV (1089-1125). I emission. 1089-1099. Obverse: Facing bust of Virgin orans, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium. Greek legend – ΜΡ – ΘΥ, to l. and r. from nimbus. Reverse: Marginal Georgian legend – “Christ, exalt David, king of the Abkhasians”. In the center – “and Sebastos”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=46

David IV. II emission. 1089-1099. Obverse: Facing bust of Virgin orans, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium. Greek legend ΜΡ – ΘΥ, to l. and r. from nimbus. Reverse: Cross in the center and marginal Georgian legend –“Christ, exalt David, king and Sebastos (?)”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=47

David IV. III emission. 1118-1125. Obverse: Bust of a king in Imperial coat – wearing stemma (Imperial crown), divitision and chlamys; holds in right hand scepter cruciger, and in left, globus cruciger. And Georgian legend – “King David”. Reverse: Cross in a center and marginal Georgian legend – “Christ, David the king of the Abkhasians, Kartvelians, Ranians, Kakhetians, Armenians” (Rani and Kakheti are very Eastern provinces of Georgia). http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=48

Issues of Demetre I (1125-1156). 1136-1152.

Obverse: First Georgian Asomtavruli letter of the name Demetre in the center of octagonal frame. Arabic legend outside the frame – “King of the Kings, sword of the Messiah” – stylized and represents the part of the frame. Reverse: Arabic legend inside rosette shows the names of Caliph al-Muktafi li-amr Allāh (1136-1160) and the Seljuk sultan Ghias ad-din Masud (1133-1152). http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=63

“Irregularly” struck copper coin of David V (1155).

Obverse: Arabic legend in three lines, the following fragments of which are extant – “King of the Kings, sword of the Messiah David... ”. To the right, unknown sign is placed vertically. Fragment of a linear circle and a part of marginal legend. Reverse: Arabic legend in three lines – “Muhammad sultan [the mightiest], son of Mah[mud]”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=64

Issues of Giorgi III (1156-1184) with Asomtavruli letter. 1156-1160.

Obverse: First Georgian Asomtavruli letter of the name Giorgi inside rosette made up of waving lines and Arabic legend – “King of the Kings Giorgi, sword of the Messiah”. Reverse: Arabic legend in waved rosette – “al-Muktafi li-amr Allāh (1136-1160), ruler of the believers”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=65 Coins of Giorgi III – king with falcon on hand. 1174.

Obverse: Giorgi III in Asian-Byzantine dress. Seated cross-legged, facing. His left (sometimes right) hand rests on his thigh, on another hand up lifted sits a falcon. King wears stemma. Georgian Mkhedruli letters for the name of Giorgi (sometimes Asomtavruli monogram is added to it) and Asomtavruli legend – “In the K’oronikon 394 (=1174)”. Reverse: Arabic legend in three lines –“King of the Kings Giorgi, son of Demetre, sword of the Messiah”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=66 Coins of Giorgi III and Tamar. 1178-1184. Obverse: In the center of an ornamented hexagonal rosette two Georgian Asomtavruli letters for the name Giorgi. Asomtavruli legend outside rosette – “May God exalt King of the Kings”. Reverse: In the center of rosette the first letter of the name Tamar or various abbreviations of her name. Asomtavruli legend outside rosette – “May God exalt king and queen”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=67

Coins of queen Tamar (1184-1210) with her signature. 1187. Obverse: Signature of Tamar in the center of a wreathed frame. Georgian Asomtavruli marginal legend – “In the name of God, this silver piece was struck in the K’oronikon 407 (=1187)”. Reverse: Arabic legend in five lines – “The great queen, glory of the world and faith, Tamar, daughter of Giorgi, champion of the Messiah, may God increase her victories”. Circle around and marginal Arabic legend – “May God increase her glory, and lengthen her shadow, and strengthen her prosperity”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=68

Coins of Tamar and David with the “Bagrationi family badge”. 1200.

Obverse: Specific badge in the center which is thought to be the “Bargrationi family badge”. To the left and right Georgian Asomtavruli letters for the names of Tamar and David. Above and below Asomtavruli letters – “In the K’oronikon 420 (=1200)”. Reverse: Arabic legend in four lines – “Queen of the Queens, glory of the world and faith, Tamar, daughter of Giorgi, champion of the Messiah”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=70

Coins of Giorgi IV (1210-1223) with the legend “Giorgi, son of Tamar”. 1210. Obverse: Georgian Asomtavruli legend in the center of a wreathed frame – “Giorgi, son of Tamar”. Marginal Asomtavruli legend – “In the name of God, this silver piece was struck in the K’oronikon 430 (=1210)”. Reverse: Arabic legend in four lines – “King of the Kings, glory of the world and faith, Giorgi, son of Tamar, sword of the Messiah”. Circle around. Persian legend outside the circle – “In the name of the most saint God this silver piece was struck in the year 430”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=71

Coins of Giorgi IV with the legend “Of king Giorgi…lord of the Javakhs”. 1207-1210. Obverse: Georgian Asomtavruli legend in four lines – “Of king Giorgi, son of Tamar, lord of the Javakhs”. Reverse: Arabic legend in four lines – “The great king, glory of the world and faith, Giorgi, son of Tamar, sword of the Messiah. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=72

Coins of Giorgi IV – king in Imperial dress. 1210.

Obverse: King standing, facing, wearing stemma, with labarum in his right hand and anexikakia, a roll of parchment, wrapped in cloth and filled with dust, a symbol of mortality, in left. Fragments of Asomtavruli legend to both sides of the depiction – “Giorgi, son of Tamar ... 30, i.e. in the K’oronikon 430 (=1210)”. Reverse: Arabic legend in rosette made up of four leaves – “In the year 606 (=1209/1210)”. Second Arabic legend in segments between the leaves – “King of the Kings Giorgi, son of Tamar, sword of the Messiah”. Circle around. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=73

The “regularly” struck copper coins of queen Rusudan (1223-1245). 1227.

Obverse: Georgian Asomtavruli letters for Rusudan’s name in the center of an ornamented frame. Above, small-sized twisted sign, which is either Rusudan’s monogram, or her “signature”. Between the leaves of the frame date – “In the K’oronikon 447 (=1227)”. Reverse: Arabic legend in four lines – “Queen of the Kings and Queens, glory of the world, kingdom and faith, Rusudan, daughter of Tamar, champion of the Messiah, may God increase her victories”. Circle around. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=74

Silver coins of Rusudan with the effigy of Christ. 1230.

Obverse: Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus, pallium and colobium and raising right hand in benediction, holds ornamented book of Gospels in left hand. Greek legend: ΙC ΧC. Marginal Georgian Asomtavruli legend – “In the name of God, was struck in the K’oronikon 450 (=1230)”. Reverse: In the center of an ornamented frame, which is reminiscent of a badge depicted on queen Tamar’s coin dated by 1200, three Asomtavruli letters for the name Rusudan. Marginal Arabic legend – “Queen of the Queens, glory of the world and faith, Rusudan, daughter of Tamar, champion of the Messiah”.

http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=49

Copper coins of David VII Ulugh (1247-1270) with the depiction of a horseman. Obverse: Crowned figure of a horseman to the right. To both sides of the effigy – Georgian Asomtavruli letters for the name David. Reverse: Arabic legend in three lines – “King of the Kings David, son of Giorgi, sword of the Messiah”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=53

Copper coins of Demetre II (1270-1289) with the “Bagrationi family badge”. 1280. Obverse: Ornamented frame, much reminiscent of the one on Rusudan’s copper coins. In the center, Georgian Asomtavruli letters for the name Demetre; out, differently placed, Georgian legends – “King” or “King of the Kings”, and in some cases “K’oronikon 500 (=1280)”. Reverse: In the center, the same badge as on David’s and Tamar’s coin. Around border of the dots, Christian prayer in Asomtavruli – “We believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=54

Silver coins of David VIII (1293-1311) with the Christian prayer. 1297. Obverse: Arabic legend in four lines – “The most mighty king, sultan Mahmud Ghazan Khan, may God perpetuate his reign”. Reverse: Area within square of dots, Christian prayer in four lines in Arabic – “In the name of the Father, and the Son and the Holy Spirit, One God”. Georgian legend – “King David”. The segments between square and outer circle contain date formula, which is A.H. 696 (=1296/97). According to the months given on the coins, it became clear that their issue continued for four months (seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth) of A.H. 696, which corresponds to April–July period of 1297. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=55

Copper coins of David VIII with the “Bagrationi family badge”. Obverse: In the center of an ornamented frame Georgian Asomtavruli letters for the name David. Out, Georgian legend – “King of the Kings”. Sometimes below “K’oronikon 530 (=1310)”. Reverse: Finely depicted “Bagrationi family badge” with the Christian prayer in Asomtavruli letters – “We believe in the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit”. Left and right to this badge sometimes is placed “K’oronikon 530 (=1310)”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=56

Coins of Vakhtang III (1297-1308) with the Christian prayer. 1298/99. Obverse: Uighur legend in four lines – “Struck by Ghazan in the name of Qā’ān”. Reverse: Area within linear square; in center, cross within linear circle and a Christian prayer in Arabic around cross – “In the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit”. There are two Georgian Asomtavruli monograms read as king Vakhtang. Between square and outer circle a date in Arabic – “Struck in the year 698 (=1298/99)” and one of the months of the coin’s issue. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=57

Copper coins of Bagrat V (?) (1360-1393).

Obverse: First Georgian Asomtavruli letter for the name Bagrat placed in the center, within the linear circle. Asomtavruli legend around the circle reads as “In the name of God”. Reverse: Distorted Arabic legend in four lines. https://www.academia.edu/37315053/Giorgi_Dundua_Tedo_Dundua_CATALOGUE_OF_GEORGIAN_NUMISMATICS, pp. 284-285 . Silver coin of Alexandre I (1412-1442). 1412. Obverse: In the center, Georgian Asomtavruli letter for the date. Around, Asomtavruli legend which on some well-preserved samples can be read as follows – “King of the Kings Alexandre”. Reverse: Georgian legend in two lines – “In the name of god”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=62 Coins of Vakhtang IV (1442-1446) with Asomtavruli legends. Obverse: Georgian legend in three lines – “God, long live”. Reverse: Again, a legend in three lines which continues the legend on the obverse – “King Vakhtang”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=75

Coins of Giorgi VIII (1446-1466) with the title “King of the Kings”.

Obverse: Georgian Asomtavruli legend in four lines – “King of the Kings, slave of God, Giorgi”. Reverse: Cross. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=77 Coins of David X (1505-1525). Obverse: Georgian legend in three lines – “God, long live”. Reverse: Again, a legend in three lines which continues the legend on the obverse – “King David”. http://geonumismatics.tsu.ge/en/catalogue/types/?type=82

That is all. After, Christian pious formulas completely disappeared on the coins.

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Moon taught that God did NOT create the angels in pairs – meaning that God broke one of his own “creation” laws

Re. If illicit sex with Rev Moon can restore women in the position fallen Eve to a sinless state, then why didn’t sex with sinless Adam restore fallen Eve in the garden?

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Great point! Also, the Divine Principle tells us that God is a God of order, laws and principles. It also states that God is unique, absolute, eternal and unchanging …. therefore his laws are unique, absolute, eternal and unchanging. Put that together with the Divine Principle teaching that God ALWAYS (because his laws are unique, absolute, eternal and unchanging) creates in pairs. You remember, all that stuff about duality and such.

A point that always struck me as a bit OFF is that Moon taught that God did NOT create the angels in pairs – meaning that God broke one of his own “creation” laws, the law of positive/negative, masculine/feminine, of duality.

Moon taught that the Archangel Lucifer was lonely and so he was attracted to Eve because she was female.

So, God made a very big mistake when he failed to create the angels in pairs???? Are you really sure? Really sure….?

To me the whole story of the fall makes no sense at all.

A male angel is lonely because God went against his own principles of creation by not creating the angels in pairs? A male angel is so lonely he is attracted to a human female (imagine the reality of women back then, no soap, no shampoo, no combs, no clothes – and the beautiful angel of light, Lucifer, can’t keep his hands off her)? The male angel and the female human have sex? Really? Just how did they do that? And is sex still happening between angels and humans today? How frequently have angels had sex with humans throughout history? Was it just a thing between Lucifer and Eve?

And really, all of humankind suffers as a result of God’s mistake of going against his own principles of creation by not creating female angels for all those male angels? God was that stupid, thoughtless and cruel?

The story of the fall of man is lame from the gitgo. But when interpreted by Moon (or from whomever he stole the ideas) as a sexual fall involving blood lineages with a flesh and blood human female (angels have blood lineages?) due to the loneliness of the beautiful Archangel of light, Lucifer, it makes as much sense as all the false gods and mythological beasts and heroes the human race has ever invented, believed in or worshiped.

Why do people believe in Moon’s interpretation of the fall of man without thinking it through on a deeper level?

Linda Feher

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December 4, 2016

Rev Sun Myung Moon said: “There are no rights of ownership in the angelic world. If angels are masculine we would expect that God would create partners for angels and they would have descendants. However that is an enigma.”

Really? Moon is trying to pass off the idea of a “male only” angelic world as “an enigma”? Sounds more like he was trying to escape the fundamental ideas of his own doctrine of “duality” because he couldn’t explain why a God of “order, laws and principles” who is “absolute, unique, eternal and UNCHANGING” and whose laws and principles are also “absolute, unique, eternal and UNCHANGING” and who always “creates in pairs” chose to go against his own principles of duality when creating the angelic world.

Face it – Moon is guessing when it comes to the angelic world being made up of only male angels. That’s why he says it is an “enigma” to him, or in other words, a mystery.

Either the story of the “fall of man” is a myth or it is fact. If it is a myth then the whole story of the fall is no more important then the stories of Zeus, Hercules, Achilles, or Medusa, etc, etc, etc.

But if it is a fact, then God got it wrong by going against his own principles of creating everything in pairs or “the principles of duality”. Since I for one do not believe God got it wrong, and did not go against his own creation principles, then I think it is safe to say that “Moon got it wrong because he never knew the real God of heaven and earth. Moon has no idea where the concept of “male only angels” came from. And he couldn’t explain his struggle to make sense of the concept other then to call it an “enigma or mystery”.

But hey, let’s just go with the flow, say the story of the fall of man is a historical fact and then simply dodge any unwanted, messy questions like why God would create EVERYTHING in pairs EXCEPT FOR THE ANGELIC WORLD.

And again…why would an angel of light fall in love with a human female who lived before the age of cleanliness? And again, was that the only time an angel had sexual intercourse with a human being? How exactly did the angel of light have sexual intercourse with a human being? Did he use his “holy angelic light saber”. Saying that Lucifer was male and had sex with Eve implies that he had a penis. Why would God create male angels, made of light, and give them a penis if there were no female angels? What is the purpose and function of an angelic penis or “light saber”?

How did Eve have sex with Lucifer’s “light saber”? Could Lucifer stick his light saber anywhere in Eve? Or was it like the flesh and blood penis of a human male?

Come on man. You know you only believe in the story of the fall because you want to, and not because it makes any sense whatsoever.

The only thing of consequence concerning the fall of man story is how it was used as a means of guilt tripping everyone concerning sex and then controlling the guilty through their sex lives. You know what I’m getting at here…you can only have sex with the partner Moon “gave to you”. He was in total control.

The fall story was used by Moon to control our lives, our faith and our sacred honor. It was used to control the very core of humanity, which is our God given right to fall in love from our own free will.

Linda Feher

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Angels and the Fall

I would like to comment on Linda Feher’s article concerning the creation of angels and the fall of man.

First of all, some other spiritual teachings and traditions say that God created male AND female angels. One of the main teachings of the Jewish Kabbalah is about the tree of life and the 72 angels and archangels connected to this tree of life. It says that among these 72 angels, there are 40 male angels and 32 female angels! These angels are the leading angels, there are billions of others… Therefore how could Lucifer feel lonely? God knows what He is doing and He would never create anyone knowing that this being would feel lonely and jealous afterward!

I fully agree that Moon’s interpretation of the fall does not make sense!

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Do you see it? Adam and Eve were husband and wife before the Fall, not brother and sister.

Sun Myung Moon’s Theology of the Fall, Tamar, Jesus and Mary

Sun Myung Moon’s theology used to control members

Sun Myung Moon – Restoration through Incest

Moon’s theology for his pikareum sex rituals with all the 36 wives

Sun Myung Moon’s explanation of the Fall of Man is based on his Confucian ideas of lineage, and his belief in shaman sex rituals.

Five of the Many Ways in Which the Principle View of the Fall Is Nonsensical

Adam and Eve, the human male Y-chromosome and Sun Myung Moon

A Korean perspective on Moon and his ‘Fall of Man’ teaching

The concept of original sin seems to have been developed about 200 years after Jesus by Irenaeus and later by St Augustine.

A Brief critical examination of the Divine Principle theory of history

Moon: “The existence of Noah and of Adam as individual human beings is factual.” Science: “No”

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Returning Good for Evil

by Rev. Charles Simeon

"If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; for so you will heap coals of fire on his head, and Yahweh will reward you." - Proverbs 25:21-22

The morality both of the Old and New Testament is the same. Some have imagined that because our blessed Lord said "a new Commandment I give to you," he has in his Gospel enlarged the duties of his followers beyond what was required by the moral law. But no command of his was new in itself but only in its circumstances, as being enjoined from new principles and illustrated by new examples.

Morality does not depend on any arbitrary appointment. It arises out of the relation which we bear to God as our common Father and to each other as brethren. To love God with all our heart and mind and soul and strength, and our neighbor as ourselves, must of necessity be the duty of every child of man. Had our blessed Lord increased the demands of the moral law, then the Law must have demanded too little of us or the Gospel must have demanded too much. But neither of these is the case. The requirements both of the one and of the other are the same as far as morals are concerned. Love is acknowledged to be the fulfilling of the Law and the great commandment of the Gospel also.

From the words of our text we shall now be led to consider the duty inculcated therein.

By nature we all are inclined to render evil for evil. There is not a child who does not manifest this disposition as soon as it begins to act. Nor is there anyone whose own experience will not furnish him with unnumbered proofs that this is the natural bent of his own heart. Circumstances may indeed prevent us from retaliating injuries in an open way. The person who has inflicted the injuries may be out of our reach, or be too powerful for us to contend with, or be so low as to be deemed unworthy of our notice.

But in our hearts we shall find the vindictive principle strongly operative, disposing us to take pleasure in any evil that may have befallen our enemy, and to decline yielding to him any service which we might have rendered under the influence of a better principle. The man with the workings of hatred in his heart scarcely thinks of his enemy except with pain and a direct reference to the injuries received from him. And though from lack of opportunity he may not retaliate, he has in him the spark that might soon, by a concurrence of circumstances, break forth into a flame.

In proof of this we need only see how this spirit has operated in others, sometimes rankling for years till an opportunity was presented to gratify itself, and at other times bursting forth at once into furious resentment. Simeon and Levi, the sons of Jacob, were full of indignation against Shechem for defiling their sister Dinah. They formed a plan to murder not only Shechem but every male of the city in which he dwelt. To put them off their guard and disable them for resisting, they devised a scheme the most hypocritical and infernal that could enter the heart of man. And succeeding in this plan, they executed their bloody purpose without pity and remorse. Absalom's desire for revenge over the wrongs which his sister Tamar had sustained by Amnon rankled for two full years, till by artifice he was enabled to effect his murderous design. More rapid but not the less cruel was the vindictive wrath of David when Nabal had refused to recompense his services in the way he desired. David instantly hastened with armed forces to cut off Nabal and every male belonging to his numerous household. Alas, alas, what is man when left to the workings of his own corrupt nature! His every thought accords with that Pharisaic principle, "Thou shalt love thy friend and hate thine enemy."

But the word of God requires us to render good for evil. Every species of revenge is absolutely forbidden, even in thought. "If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going astray, you shall surely bring it back to him again. If you see the donkey of one who hates you lying under its burden, and you would refrain from helping it, you shall surely help him with it." Thus by the law of Moses the secret alienation of heart was to be counteracted by the exercise of actual kindness and benevolence.

But the words of our text are stronger still, and especially as they are cited by the Apostle Paul. The idea conveyed by him is that we must not merely give our enemy bread and water when he needs it, but must feed him with the tenderness of a mother towards her little infant. O what a victory does this suppose over all the vindictive feelings of our hearts!

We have a beautiful instance of this recorded in the history of Elisha. The prophet was surrounded by an army of Syrians determined to apprehend and destroy him. By a power communicated to him from above, he smote them all with blindness and then conducted them into the heart of Samaria. The king of Israel, now having gained this advantage over them, would have slain them. But the prophet said, "You shall not smite them, but shall set bread and water before them that they may eat and drink and go to their master."

Such is the disposition which we also are called to exercise towards our most inveterate enemies. We must "bless them who curse us, do good to them who hate us, and pray for them who despitefully use and persecute us."

Let us not be deterred by the arduousness of this duty but consider the encouragement given us to perform it. If we act in accordance with this kindness, we have reason to hope that we shall overcome the hatred of our enemy. Certain it is that no enemy was ever yet won by vindictive conduct. We may silence him by power, but we never can gain his affections by anything but love. And this will, if not always, yet sometimes prevail, as St. Paul intimates when he says, "Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good." Indeed, where there is a spark of honor left, we cannot but hope that such benevolence as this will at last prevail.

It is well known that metals are fused by heaping coals of fire upon them and not by putting fire under them. And thus shall the hard hearts of our enemies be melted by accumulated instances of undeserved love. True, we cannot convert their souls by this, for nothing but omnipotence can effect so great a work as the conversion of a soul. But we may reasonably expect to appease their wrath, perhaps also to slay their enmity against us. And one such victory will be a rich recompense for all the forbearance we have ever exercised and all the love we have ever displayed.

It is also plainly asserted in our text that such conduct shall be rewarded by God. It will be rewarded here, in that it will bring unspeakable peace to the soul; for whenever love rises superior to resentment and enables us to render good for evil, we find comfort springing up in our hearts.

But the promise will be yet more fully accomplished hereafter. Every act of patient self-denial and generous love will be noticed by God with special approbation. If a cup of cold water given to a disciple for Christ's sake shall in no way lose its reward, much less shall services rendered to an enemy for his sake pass unnoticed.

Therefore, let us guard against a vindictive spirit. You will sometimes be inclined to think that the exercise of resentment is necessary, that some displeasure needs to be manifested or your enemies will be emboldened to take still further outrages. But look at the command of God, which is clearly on the side of forbearance and love, and say, "Get thee behind me, Satan; you are an offense to me."

And set the Lord Jesus Christ before you as your example. When you were his enemy, he left the bosom of his Father for you. Yea, "when you were yet enemies, he died for you." I need say no more. Set him before you and your way will be clear. If you look to him for all needful help, his "grace shall be sufficient for you," and you shall be able to do all things through the strength he will impart.

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06/01/2020 DAB Transcript

2 Samuel 18:1-19:10, John 20:1-31, Psalms 119:153-176, Proverbs 16:14-15

Today is the 1st day of June welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I am Brian it is great to be here with you today. So, yesterday we turned the knob and stepped into a shiny, sparkly new week and now we’re turning the knob and walking into a shiny, sparkly new month that is out in front of us waiting to be lived into, this 6th month of the year. So, by the time we finish this month we will have experienced quite a bit a transition we won’t be reading in the Gospels anymore. That's just…that’s just briefly in front of us. So, we will be moving into new territory in the Bible, but we will also be reaching the center point of the year as…as we end this month. So, wow! And if I'm counting right this is the 153rd day of the year if we’re counting for leap year this year. So, we’ve been at this a while day by day step-by-step, allowing God's word to continue to do what God's word does. Sort of just touches the places in our lives that need to be touched. It just continues to pull us forward. And, so, let's allow that flow. Let's be pulled forward by picking up where we left off yesterday. King David is on the run from his son Absalom who’s trying to take over the kingdom and…and…and in the process trying to do away with his father. So, some family drama to say the least is going on. Today second Samuel chapters 18 verse 1 through 19 verse 10. We’re reading from the God's word translation this week.

Commentary:

Okay. So, we've…we’ve kind of come to the end of this story where Absalom the son of King David is trying to take over the kingdom of his father because Absalom is dead. And, so…so, he won't be trying to take over the kingdom of his father anymore. And it's really interesting what we observe today. David has run from his own son, fled Jerusalem, the capital city, like fled from his son. His son has disgraced his father in a number of ways publicly and had the intention and sought the advice on how to kill his father. David, of course, does indeed know this story. It was his story when King Saul was pursuing him. So, he is stealthy, he does know what he's doing even though he's got a much larger and different kind of entourage and he's older. So, it works out that there's gonna be a battle and David tells his commanders to go kindly toward Absalom. In other words, try to spare Absalom. In the end though Absalom is killed in battle. And David comes apart at that point. Like he goes into complete grief. He just begins to disintegrate, which certainly causes dissonance, right? Because the armies of…who were loyal to the King, who have basically rescued and saved the king's life and his kingdom now feel bad for what they've done because the king is so distraught. And, so, they don't know how to feel, which is when Joab steps in is like basically, “if you do not go out to your men who have saved you they won't be here tomorrow you won’t have anybody left.” So, what kind of things happen in a person's life that can bring them to this kind of behavior? Like why is David so completely undone? Obviously, he's lost a child. He's lost his son. So, that is completely understandable, but like what is fueling this? Probably regret. Some of you…some of you kind of like know…you’ve been through this to some sort of degree. Others of you may not, but you can go through your life estranged from someone. I have seen this so many times in my life. An offense can happen in your life that estranges you. And it can be a serious offense that should estrange you, but it then goes on and on. Maybe it's between a…a child and a parent, or between siblings or between best of friends. Something happens, something happens that probably shouldn't have happened. It causes a rift, the rift grows into estrangement, separation. And then that can go on for decades until somebody dies. And then all the sudden the time lost, like it...it liquefies basically, and the loss becomes overwhelming because the realization that like, that…that the story is written and there's no modifications that can be done anymore. That reality creates its own kind of dissonance inside of us where we’re realizing and maybe even wishing that we had…that…that we had walked the path differently because we lost something and we didn’t realize how much it meant until it was gone. And, so, that's the kind of reaction that we sort of see in David's behavior. And it would make sense why because he had this son Absalom, a beautiful boy, beautiful young man, a very respectable, very good-looking person. But David kind of undermined himself in his own family by taking another man's wife and…and having that man killed. And then one of David's other sons rapes his daughter Tamar and David basically doesn't really step into that much. And, so, Absalom kills Amnon who raped his sister and he has to go on the run for his life. And he’s estranged with…from his father for years in Geshur. And then when he’s brought back to Jerusalem, he’s not allowed to see his father's face for a couple of years while living in Jerusalem. So, now Absalom's dead and David's realizing that, you know, he had a role to play in the animosity that happened between son and father. And maybe one of the things we can consider in the scene that has played out before us is whether or not it's worth it. I mean we can be right. We can be right for decades. We can be convinced. We can be cemented in for decades that we’re right but when that person that we have some kind of connection to that we’re holding an offense against for so…for a long period of time when they are not in the picture anymore, that disappears. It…it was vapor in the first place. Maybe it's better to say what you need to say now. Maybe it's better to do what you need to do now before the story comes to a conclusion.

Prayer:

Father, we invite You into our regrets. We don't like to often think about them. They usually have a lot of pain associated with them. And once You've kind of wrestled with regret, you come to a realization that You can't win really. And, so, you're gonna wrestle and wrestle and wrestle or you’re gonna decide to just move on because there's no other way. And maybe we've never really invited You into those things. And maybe we have a regrets in the making in our lives right now, things that are gonna really really hurt later because we so desperately needed to be right right now. And, so, we’re inviting You into this because we see a glimpse of it, we see a picture of it, we see hints of it coming out of the pages that we’re reading today. So, we invite You into these areas. Some of the stories can't be rewritten. They can't be modified. They are what they are, and we invite You into that and we release it to You and offer it to You and invite You to lead us on the path that is forward. In other cases, maybe things have just been festering and they've blown up and time has gone by and we’ve just let it go by. And not all these things are entangled with other people. Some of these things are just based on the decisions that we've made, some of the choices that we wish we hadn't made because we made them completely without You and now, we have the scars. We invite You into the places of regret Father and we open ourselves fully to You and we invite You fully into these experiences and we take comfort in knowing that we’re not carrying this alone. You are with us and You will never leave us. Come Holy Spirit into all of these matters that we’re talking about today. Permeate these things. Be in and among us as we consider. We pray in the name of Jesus. Amen.

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Community Prayer and Praise:

Hi this is Rachel from Pennsylvania. Would you join me in prayer? Dear Lord, we lift up the family struggling with the pregnancy. Lord You know what’s going on with the baby in the womb and where and how this baby will be best taken care of and what this couple can handle with You to lean on. So, I pray Lord that You ease their pain and that You bless them with the desires of their hearts. I also want to lift up Laura…Laura Lee from Boynton Beach. Please bless her and bless her business and her family and her friends. I thank You for her encouragement. I also…I also want to pray for Rosie and her children and grandchildren as she lifts up our children and grandchildren regularly. I just pray that You bless her and I thank You for her and her prayers and how thoughtful they are and how well put together they are and I just thank You for how she relates them to You and the word of God and it’s just such a blessing. And also, I wanted to say to Valerie, welcome. We’re so happy that you are with us and I pray that you will become best friends with God. Welcome to the family.

Hello DAB my name is Perry Sky I’ve been listening to the broadcast for more than 12 years, but I’ve never called in. I want to wish everyone a happy Pentecost weekend. I’m praying for the power of the Holy Spirit to come upon us this weekend. I’m praying for the salvation of my husband’s soul and the restoration of my family. My family is very broken and has been for some time. My husband had…has issues that have caused alienation in my family and my children have abandoned us. My family is gone. I have no close friends and I have no support system and I’m disabled, and life has become hopeless, but I know that God is the restorer of families and He can restore mine too. So, I need prayer over restoration and hope and inspiration. Thank you for listening.

Hey DAB family this is Abby. I am just calling in tonight because I have just been following the news about the murder of George Floyd and I don’t know what to say. I…I…I don’t know if what I’m gonna say is the right thing to say. I just do know that as a white woman, I can’t keep quiet about this and I cannot just not say anything. I just want to say to all of my black brothers and sisters who are listening right now that I am so sorry that you have to endure the pain and the trauma and everything that you have to endure being a citizen in the United States and even across the world. I’m so ashamed. I’m so ashamed that, you know, if I’ve been part of the problem, I’m so ashamed of what people who look like me have done to you. I just wanted to put that out there and say that because I just…I don’t know what words to say but I’m just so sorry and I love you and I recognize my privilege and I’m doing everything I can to educate myself and to learn to do better and I promise you that I will raise kids who will do better and I just want you to know that I love you and I’m sorry.

Hello, I would like to pray for the lady that called in on April 8th who suffers satanic abuse. Father God please heal my sister in Christ. Minister to her heart in a deep and personal way so that through the word of God she may learn how to be truly intimate so that she may experience healthy relationships. Bring Christian warriors in her life who understand what she’s going through and can walk through the spiritual battlefield alongside her. Break any strongholds. I also pray that this satanic abuse is brought into the light. So many people don’t acknowledge that it exists or turn a blind eye to it and I just pray that we all just wake up and see that this does go on. It went on before and it goes on still now. If we say nothing, do nothing we’re complicit. So, I just pray that we have open…we have eyes to see and ears to hear not only the good that’s going on but also, I just pray that we’re equipped to handle satanic attacks and help our fellow brothers and sisters. Amen.

Good morning family this is Soaring on Eagles Wings from Canada and I’m calling in to lift up a few people to you. Terry from Australia was so transparent about his addiction with pornography. He doesn’t want to be in that space anymore and he’s tried all that he can try with no success. So, Father God I’m asking You now to take over and intervene in his life and remove this…this bondage that’s upon him Lord God. Help him to be the overcomer that You have created him to be. Let truth be poured into his life Father God and send him all the tools that he needs spiritually and in every other way to deliver him from this. Terry we are standing with You and we’re supporting You as You continue to fight the good fight. Shannon from Texas. You had a job offer, You moved, now Your job has been rescinded. What is she to do Father, God? She needs direction and she needs help. So, I’m asking You to guide her steps and show her the path that she should go. May she walk in Your footsteps Lord as You lead her to the right job in the right direction and I thank You. And I continue to lift up my friend Susan whose son has stage IV cancer. And now somebody else in her life as cancer. It’s been such a difficult time for her lately. So, precious Jesus, shine Your light into her life. Lift her up. Plant her feet on solid ground. When she gets anxious or fearful, remind her Lord God of what You have done and what You will continue to be. Surround her and her son in her family in the name of Jesus I pray…

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Why Devon Holiday Cottages Are England's Best Kept Secret

Devon holiday cottages are one of the UK's best kept insider facts. English individuals, obviously, think about them. Be that as it may, numerous abroad guests, including Americans and Canadians, head first to London and after that to Stratford. On the off chance that they head toward the West Nation Shower is the extent that they get. Shower is obviously world well known for its sublime Georgian engineering. Anyway individuals may be amazed to discover that on the off chance that they remained on the train or the motorway for an additional hour or so they'd arrive at Devon, home to a large number of the best shorelines, cottages, bars and different attractions you'll discover anyplace in the UK.

Devon towns and towns, for example, Modbury, Totnes, Ashburton, Harbertonford and Holne, go back a huge number of years and are wealthy in culture and legacy. These towns framed tight sew networks and were every now and again worked around a congregation and a town bar. The Congregation House Hotel is a typical bar name in the Devon territory. In Holne for instance you locate the thirteenth century church of St Mary the Virgin only a short stroll from the fantastic Church House Motel bar. Furthermore, Holne is high up in Dartmoor with awesome cycling and strolling actually from the entryway in addition to the opportunity to swim in profound pools on the Stream Dart which passes close-by. What's more, on a stroll over the tors of the Dartmoor National Park from Holne you're all around prone to see a portion of the shaggy Dartmoor Horses just as loads of sheep.

Be that as it may, if shorelines are more your thing you won't be frustrated with Devon Holiday Cottages either. Devon's scope of fabulous shorelines extends right along the South and North drifts. Beginning from the East you pass the shorelines of the English Riviera around Torbay before moving onto Dartmouth which is as the name proposes toward the part of the arrangement Dart. Further round the coast you reach Salcombe Estuary and in the end Plymouth. There are shorelines to suit each taste and each sort of action. Blackpool sands with its bistros, shops and shielded sandy inlet is ideal for families with small kids yet in addition an incredible spot for a touch of paddling. Or then again somewhat further along you come to Torcross, celebrated as the site where Partnered powers rehearsed for the D-Day arrivals and Beesands with its shingle shoreline and little angling vessels. Heading further West you locate some great shrouded shorelines and inlets some of which must be gotten to by walking. These incorporate Elender Inlet, Lannacombe and Gara Shake. And after that somewhat further again you come to Bigbury which is South Devon's best surfing shoreline and furthermore exceptionally well known for wind surfing and kite surfing

There is an enormous scope of Devon Holiday Cottages and lofts accessible to suit all financial limits and all sizes of gathering. However, the model Devon Cabin is presumably a stone manufactured house with a covered rooftop. Albeit a considerable lot of these cottages go back several years, well before home protection was even imagined, they are shockingly comfortable. The covered rooftops offer great protection and the thick stone dividers, and for the most part, genuinely little windows keep you warm however out the year. You will discover cottages with ocean perspectives or cottages high up on the Fields frequently snowed in for a considerable length of time at once in the center of winter. Devon is additionally known for its trademark thin paths with high banks that confound the bumpy Devon wide open.

Albeit numerous abroad guests neglect to arrive at Devon a relentless supply of English vacationers guarantees there are a lot of family cordial exercises to keep you occupied with during a holiday in Devon. The Paignton and Dartmoor Zoos are both certainly justified regardless of a visit. Dartmoor Zoo propelled the ongoing Matt Damon motion picture 'We purchased a Zoo'. What's more, the Steven Spielberg motion picture Warhorse was set and shot on Dartmoor and propelled some unrestrained remarks from the chief.

"There's no spot like it in the world...I have at no other time, in my long and varied vocation, been skilled with such a bounty of normal excellence as I encountered recording War Steed on Dartmoor"

Devon additionally has its very own smaller than normal Disneyland called Forests. Also, Plymouth, on the Tamar waterway, Devon's western outskirt, has the National Oceanic Historical center. On the off chance that meeting in the mid year you'll likewise discover a lot of occasional occasions, for example, the Dartmouth Cruising Regatta as well. weblink Devon Holiday Cottages

At long last no holiday in Devon holiday cottages would be finished without evaluating the nearby Cooking. The district represents considerable authority in privately delivered sustenance. Its fruitful land is known for its cultivating and market planting and you'll discover a large number of the superb neighborhood bars and cafés make it a standard to utilize nearby produce at every possible opportunity. What's more, Devon's long coastline implies there's a lot of privately got fish and shellfish on offer. Be that as it may, once in a while straightforward sustenance is ideal so you'll discover fish sticks and french fries to bite the dust for, Cornish or Devon pasties and another Devon claim to fame - the Devon cream tea presented with home made scones and neighborhood thickened cream.

Ben is chief of West Nation Lets, an office offering hand-picked holiday cottages in Devon. Following two years of living in Devon Ben is as yet stunned by the scenes, the shorelines and the brilliant bars.

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