Sundial of Ahaz, leaf from the Postilla Litteralis (Literal Commentary) of Nicholas of Lyra.
Paris, France, ca. 1360-1380.
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Paris, France, ca. 1360-1380.
With its fan-like shapes that seem to flutter across the page, this leaf exemplifies the medieval diagrammatic tradition at its best. What feels like elements lifted from a 20th century-century watercolor are in fact abstract sundials used to illustrate a fine point of 14th-century biblical exegesis.
The leaf comes from the landmark study of Nicholas of Lyra (1270-1349), Master of Theology of the University of Paris, which provided commentary on every book of the Bible. The story here, found in both Isaiah (38:1-8) and 2 Kings (20:1-11), recounts Godโs willingness to turn the shadow of the sun back 10 degreesโapproximately one hour--as a sign to the Judean King Hezekiah. The illustrations on this leaf present two different ways of charting the miraculous reversal of time.
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The 6000-7000 year old burial of a young woman and her newborn baby found in Vedbรฆk, Denmark.
The young woman, estimated to be around 20 years of age at the time of her death, and baby are believed to have died during childbirth.
Two hundred red deer teeth were found by the womanโs head, and her head resting on a pillow of antlers. The baby was found buried on the wingtip of a whooper swan with a flint knife at its hip.
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The young woman, estimated to be around 20 years of age at the time of her death, and baby are believed to have died during childbirth.
Two hundred red deer teeth were found by the womanโs head, and her head resting on a pillow of antlers. The baby was found buried on the wingtip of a whooper swan with a flint knife at its hip.
The child was placed on a specific part of the swan, an appendage that had a strong and important role in social interaction between swans, made up of the long primary and secondary feathers used to fletch arrows. The wing was placed in the grave not as a symbolic afterthought, but as a material acknowledgement of the intimate relationship between humans and whooper swans, the enmeshing of their worlds and the development of understanding both of themselves and of the surrounding world, through their continual and repeated engagements.
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A_manifesto_for_a_social_zooarchaeology_Swans_and_other_beings_in.pdf
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The capture and killing of a swan, understood not as a resource but as a sentient social agent, would be an emotive and theatrical event, a very specific, sensorial and affective experience: the clamorous and terrified movements of a stricken swan or the cacophonous and tremulous swirl of sound emitted by desperate swans as they were trapped, would have made the occasion distinctive, poignant and memorable.
Prior to killing, humans may have believed they recognized specific individuals from previous engagements, possibly even from different years; with this memory comes an acknowledgement that they are, like humans, individual and sentient beings, adding considerable weight to the process of killing them. Moreover, these experiences would have contributed to the developing biographies of these known individual swans, created through past engagements.
Overton, N. J., & Hamilakis, Y. (2013). A manifesto for a social zooarchaeology. Swans and other beings in the Mesolithic. Archaeological Dialogues, 20(2), 111โ136. doi:10.1017/S1380203813000159
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I learned about the Stanford Prison Experiment in one of my psychology classes in university years ago. However it is just another example of biased and manipulated science, as explained in the video below:
https://youtu.be/CElJEVMrnto
Here is a video on the most notorious psychology experiment from 1971, taught as fact still to this day:
https://youtu.be/760lwYmpXbc
https://youtu.be/CElJEVMrnto
Here is a video on the most notorious psychology experiment from 1971, taught as fact still to this day:
https://youtu.be/760lwYmpXbc
YouTube
The Stanford Prison Experiment *DEBUNKED*
The Stanford Prison Experiment is one of the most famous research studies in modern psychology.
The study took 24 healthy and seemingly "normal" male college students and placed them in a mock prison environment dividing them into guards and prisoners. โฆ
The study took 24 healthy and seemingly "normal" male college students and placed them in a mock prison environment dividing them into guards and prisoners. โฆ
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13th century Arabic machine manuscript. Invention that produces light.
Were people from the 19th century the discoverers of electricity?
13th century manuscript from the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Al-Jazari, Turkey, 1203.
For months I tried to find a source to translate this page with very little luck.
Thinking these were Persian, I reached out for a translator.
An archaeologists son in law reached out to me:
This language used to be used in the majority of the middle east, before the existence of Islam and up until three centuries after, no one in the universe spoke this language nor knew how to read it.
Source continues:
He additionally mentioned that one of the inventions was about harvesting a sort of energy from water and from the sun, but they are indeed inventions..
The text:
We might be looking at 13th century illustrations where energy is being produced via atmospheric and through perpetual motion.
Picryl
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Were people from the 19th century the discoverers of electricity?
13th century manuscript from the Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices by Al-Jazari, Turkey, 1203.
For months I tried to find a source to translate this page with very little luck.
Thinking these were Persian, I reached out for a translator.
An archaeologists son in law reached out to me:
This is not Persian, they are in Arabic which is not even a modern Arabic, or pre modern Arabic but ancient Arabic. which has not been used anywhere for 8 to 10 centuries.
This language used to be used in the majority of the middle east, before the existence of Islam and up until three centuries after, no one in the universe spoke this language nor knew how to read it.
Source continues:
My father in law is an archeologist in the middle East. He not only speaks in this language but wrote two books in this language. He mentioned that these scripts were coded.. in order to prevent the general public from understanding these inventions.
He additionally mentioned that one of the inventions was about harvesting a sort of energy from water and from the sun, but they are indeed inventions..
The text:
This what was a machine to harvest โlight!โ from output water in โwafihโ (Wafih refers to large and open places). as you determined its height after measuring the distance from sky, then locate the bottom on the second passage (water source) and there is a wheel of the palms (refers to small wheels that where in size of human palms) from which you estimate the front of the water, then seventy turns of the wheel and speak the vocabulary(word) of the light from inside of your good deeds.
We might be looking at 13th century illustrations where energy is being produced via atmospheric and through perpetual motion.
Picryl
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black magick
perhaps a taboo subject matter, but one which should be examined... what is "black magick"?
is it the same as "dark magick"?
why is "magick" spelled with a "k"?
while i cannot answer all of your questions, it is my opinion schools of magick can be divided into three basic colors:
white, green, and black
read any number of texts on "black magick", and i have no doubt one will begin to comprehend the scope of the practice...
something do do with demons, desperation, destruction... right?
it is my opinion, the practice is largely concerned with 'selfishness'.
in practice, the magi would employ supernatural forces to effect change, specifically for personal gain, or satisfaction.
to put this in context...
how many times have you prayed for abundance?
how many times have you implored your enemies to be punished?
were these prayers the will of the Gods?
or were they made from a selfish place?
the difference between "white" and "black" is the intention behind the spell which is cast.
perhaps a taboo subject matter, but one which should be examined... what is "black magick"?
is it the same as "dark magick"?
why is "magick" spelled with a "k"?
while i cannot answer all of your questions, it is my opinion schools of magick can be divided into three basic colors:
white, green, and black
read any number of texts on "black magick", and i have no doubt one will begin to comprehend the scope of the practice...
something do do with demons, desperation, destruction... right?
it is my opinion, the practice is largely concerned with 'selfishness'.
in practice, the magi would employ supernatural forces to effect change, specifically for personal gain, or satisfaction.
to put this in context...
how many times have you prayed for abundance?
how many times have you implored your enemies to be punished?
were these prayers the will of the Gods?
or were they made from a selfish place?
the difference between "white" and "black" is the intention behind the spell which is cast.
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