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Monthly Archives: March 2010
PRINCES IN SCALY ARMOR
Dragon ladies and water fairies. Fish Maidens, rain mothers and other hybrid critters. Now you see them, now you don’t. These powerful shimmering phenomena of the Chinese imagination reveal themselves but briefly through mist and clouds.Watery nymphs beloved by mortal … Continue reading
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Tagged Beowulf, Chinese mythology, Erasmus Darwin, Friedrich de la Motte, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque, Geoffrey Chaucer, Hsia Dynasty, J.W. Waterhouse, John Milton, John Milton Comus, John William Waterhouse, King Nereus, Maclise Undine, Nu Kua, Richard Wagner, Undine Danube nymph, William Blake
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WHERE THE WEST WAS WON
The achievement of the Byzantines was to keep barbarians at bay, create a new art, preserve Western culture for a thousand years, and push a little further the limits of piety and depravity. It is only recently that the word … Continue reading
FEW ARE CALLED ALL ARE CHOSEN
Whether they were the plagues on the Egyptians or whether it related to ensuing gifts on tablets of stone in the sinai desert immortalized in the ten commandments is not entirely clear. Somehow, perhaps through the ”miracle” of compound interest … Continue reading
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Tagged Asher Scharfstein, Bob Marley Exodus, Book of Numbers, Children of Lidice, Marc Chagall, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Mireille Silcoff, Mireille Silcoff National Post, Passover, Rabbi Nathan Goldberg, Rabbi Z. Harry Gutstein, Schmuel Rosen, Schmuel Rosen Haaretz
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GYPSY KINGS
A razzle-dazzle worth its weight in gold. A bracelet on a pretty Spanish arm once led archaeologists to an ancient trove of gold; a three thousand year old treasure which altered the entire concept of prehistoric civilization in western Europe. … Continue reading
YOUR MOTHER SHOULD KNOW
”In Neolithic culture the houses of villages in Anatolia (Catal Huyuk) and other places had neither windows nor doors; the only entrance was through the wide, horizontal roof. The house was entered by a ladder, which was then withdrawn in … Continue reading
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Tagged Catal Hoyuk, Catal Huyuk murals, Catal Huyuk sculptures, Catal Huyuk Turkey, Catalhoyuk, figures of Anatolia, Ian Hodder, James Mellaart, Karis Eklund, Mel Copeland, Michael Balter, neolithic art, Ona Johnson
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LAST VIBRATIONS
As long as the many war campaigns of the twelfth century were conducted on a reasonably friendly footing they brought no intolerable hardship to the people who dwelled in the shadow of the castles. But early in the thirteenth century … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Bonner, Bernart de Ventadorn, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Dante Alighieri, Folquet de Marseille, Ford Madox Ford, Friedrich Gennrich, Gertrudis Feliu, Guiraut Riquier, Konrad von Alstetten, Las Cantigas de Santa Maria, LiliumLyra, Majorcan folk songs, Maurice Valency, Medieval Music, Narcisco Yepes, Peire Cardenal, Pope Innocent III, Steve Muhlberger, Steven Muhlberger
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ANARCHIES OF THE FLESH
The troubadour epoch was the twelfth century and they both extolled existing values and created new ones in song and verse. For a lady’s husband to become actively jealous was considered both doltish and dishonorable, a breach of the spirit … Continue reading
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Tagged Andreas Capellanus, Andrew the Chaplain, azam ali, Cantigas de Santa Maria, Cantigas King Alfonso the Wise, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Feliu, Maurice Valency
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