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[is-poe-dameron-straight-today]

April 1st 2017

Poe is straight

[archaeologicalnews]

Were Egyptian 'Pot Burials' a Symbol of Rebirth?

Ancient Egyptians who buried their deceased kin in pots may have chosen the burial vessels as symbols of the womb and rebirth, scientists argue in a new paper.

Pot burials in ancient Egypt have long been considered the domain of the very poor. In a paper published in the journal Antiquity, however, archaeologists Ronika Power of the University of Cambridge and Yann Tristant of Macquarie University in Australia assert that pots weren’t just a last-ditch choice for the desperate. Instead, they wrote, pots may have symbolized eggs or the womb, and their use may have indicated beliefs that the dead would be reborn in the afterlife.

“[I]t is hard to dismiss the visual similarities between pots laden with human bodies with limbs contracted into the so-called ‘foetal’ or ‘sleeping’ position and gravid uteri or eggs,” the researchers wrote. “It is clear that further study is required to untangle the symbolic meaning of this particular mode of burial, which has clear associations with gestation and (re)birth.” Read more.

[arse-thetic]

#justiceformuslims

[csidesuicide]

I love every single person who reblogged this

[achromatiq]

I don’t think people realize how much of an impact this kind of support can have, I don’t think everyone knows what these little things can mean to us.

It may just be me, I don’t know. But every single time I see this on my dash or on someone’s blog or anywhere else, I kind of just breathe a sigh of relief. That’s one more person who cares. That’s one more person who doesn’t hate me.

Because it means so much, especially when all the media is spewing out is that I’m a terrible person and no one wants people like me near them. It means so much because I’m tired of people who won’t sit next to me in class, or who choose to join the longer line at the grocery store because they don’t want to be beside me and my family. It means so much when I have to lift my head any time someone says the words Islam or Muslim because I’m scared that they’ll say something that’ll hurt, when I have to pay attention to the news because who knows what so and so is saying now, who knows which of my people are being attacked now, who knows what’s going to happen to me now.

It means so much because I’ve been given the idea that the world is against me. And a huge part of it may be, but at least I’ve been reminded that some of it, just a small group of people, acknowledges that I’m a person too. That people like me are just that, people.

Maybe it’s just me, I don’t know. But now you do, so thank you for believing that I’m human when so many people don’t.

[ello-bby]

Have a great day x

[writing-prompt-s]

Go unfollow this blog all you want, I am reblogging this. 

[edeneye30]

I am aware this does not follow this blog’s style, however, I find it necessary to reblog this

[tyrellelliots-deactivated201712]

we be popping the BIGGEST bottles when luke skywalker drop kicks his idiot nephew into a garbage chute in ep viii

[scottlangs]

I didn’t know there was this much green in the whole galaxy.

[mothurs]

friend: you look stressed me: haha yeah it’s the stress

[animalsnaps]

[yavn]

hello 911? hi yeah omg sorry i know it’s late and this is probably so annoying like i hell don’t wanna bother you haha, like i know you’re probs mad at me, are you mad at me? actually don’t answer that it’s okay haha. omg this is so stupid like i sound like such a crybaby right now, like for real i’m listening to myself talk and i’m like “aaahh you’re so embarrassing!!” haha like … omg haha i’m so… anyway. what was i saying? oh right. so i was just stabbed in the chest and

[rritsuen]

[protobacillus]

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[awwww-cute]

When your dog is cooler that you are! (Source: http://ift.tt/2k1Uxea)

[rus-califi]

Welcome to the space age, ladies and gentlemen

[shunkawarakin]

This is really quite a big deal. A tremendous amount of modern research ends up being sold to journals which require unreasonable payments to access it and only pay the original authors a pittance. It’s nice to see an agency like NASA deliberately widebanding its findings.

[vabla]

Not sure if people fully realize just how big of a deal this is. THIS is how science is advanced. Not through biased corporate research, business secrets, marketing, paywalls and patent wars. But through open, uncensored and unrestricted public access to knowledge.

[question-the-status-quo-deactiv]

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22[Filter]

^ There’s the direct link to all the studies.

[supaslim]

NASA IS GOOD, NASA IS GREAT

[aripuppyistired]

@osunism

[nyokoko]

NASA is the hero we don’t deserve.

[nightpiercer]

This deserves every reblog.

[blackwoolncrown]

DOWNLOAD AS MUCH AS YOU CAN bc there’s good reason to believe this isn’t going to stay available.

[7ae-deactivated20140920]

[awwww-cute]

Naptime on the beach (Source: http://ift.tt/2iuipE1)

[qoa]

no offense but…..i’m tired of like……………not being stunningly beautiful

[willow]

mood

[emmacharlottewatson]

“Be kind. Don’t hurt other people. It’s all the sort of Christian ethics stuff I thought was bullshit when I was a kid. No, it turns out it’s not bullshit. Tell the truth, be kind, all that corny stuff”. 

Rest in peace, Carrie Fisher (October 21, 1956- December 27, 2016)