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Figure depicting Xiwangmu, one of the most prominent female Daoist deities
Scanned from Invitation to World Religions: Oxford University Press Textbook
Penjing 盆景, also known as penzai 盆栽, is the ancient Chinese art of depicting artistically formed trees, other plants, and landscapes in miniature.
Since at least the 1st century AD, Taoist mysticism has included the recreating of magical sites in miniature to focus and increase the properties found in the full-size sites. There were legends dating from at least the 3rd and 4th centuries of Taoists said to have had the power to shrink whole landscapes down to small vessel size.
The earliest-known graphic dates from 706 AD and it shows two maid servants carrying penjing with miniature trees.
(all the artifacts in this post date back to the Qing era)
Mount Qingcheng 青城山 in Sichuan province, China.
It is considered one of the birthplaces of Taoism, and one of the most important Taoist religious sites in China. As an important site of the Taoism, it became host to many Taoist monasteries and temples, and since 2000 it has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. ☯️
Tai Ji Jian Yi太极剑意 (Tai Ji Sword Intent). The first two clips are the authentic Daoist Tai Ji Sword from Wudang Mountain, and the subsequent ones are martial sword techniques derived from Tai Ji Jian, as well as sword styles in films and dramas.
What is Tai Ji: Tai Ji represents the ultimate origin of all things in the universe—the undivided “primordial qi” from which the opposing forces of yin and yang emerge, move, and transform. The term “Tai” denotes the supreme, while “Ji” signifies the pivotal axis, embodying “the beginning of all things and the source of all change.” Its core concept is captured in The Book of Changes: Appended Remarks: “In the Yi there is Tai Ji, which generates the Two Modes.”
Tai Ji represents a worldview of unity in opposition and cyclical motion, exemplified by the Taijitu (yin-yang symbol), which visually illustrates the principles of complementary balance and mutual transformation between yin and yang. This philosophy permeates fields such as traditional Chinese medicine, feng shui, and the arts.
So Tai Ji Sword is not merely a martial art—it is fundamentally a practice of embodying the cosmic principle of yin-yang harmony.
Miniature Mountain with Daoist Paradise, 18th Century. Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), Qianlong period (1736-1795). Jade (nephrite).
Palestine: The Ancient Land of Canaan
In the ancient world, Palestine was part of the region known as Canaan, where the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah were located. The term “Philistia” (from which “Palestine” comes) initially referred to an area of land in southern Canaan, which the people known as the Philistines occupied a very small part of.
The Canaanites, Canaanite-Phoenicians, and the Israelites, among others, established themselves in the area much earlier. The Philistines are thought to have come to the area toward the end of the Bronze Age, circa 12th century BCE, and established themselves on the southern coastal plain of the Mediterranean Sea in an area afterwards known as Philistia.
The whole of the region was referred to as Canaan in Mesopotamian texts and trade records found at Ebla and Mari as early as the 18th century BCE, while the term “Palestine” does not appear in any written records until the 5th century BCE in the Histories of Herodotus. After Herodotus, the term Palestine came to be used for the entire region, which was formerly known as Canaan.
The region is part of the so-called Fertile Crescent, and human habitation there can be traced back to before 10,000 BCE. The lands were originally inhabited by nomadic hunter-gatherers who most likely immigrated from Mesopotamia but became sedentary agriculturalists by the Early Bronze Age (circa 3300 to circa 2000 BCE). In the Middle Bronze Age (circa 2100 to circa 1550 BCE), trade with other nations expanded and Canaan prospered. In the Late Bronze Age (circa 1550 to circa 1200 BCE), this affluence continued as the region was incorporated into the Egyptian Empire (circa 1570 to circa 1069 BCE).
As Egypt’s influence and power waned, that of the Assyrians grew, and there were Assyrian incursions into other lands as early as 1295 BCE. The entire Near East suffered during the so-called Bronze Age Collapse of circa 1250 to circa 1150 BCE, and Canaan was no exception. According to the biblical book of Joshua, the Israelite general Joshua invaded the land and divided the region among his people. The late-date theory of the event places it at circa 1250 BCE, and archaeological evidence shows signs of widespread destruction in the region around that time. However, the Sea Peoples (whose identity remains unknown) arrived in the region at approximately that same time and could have been responsible for the evident destruction of towns and cities, as they were in other nations.
The Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, and the armies of Alexander the Great all conquered the region in succession, and, finally, so too, the armies of Rome. By the time Rome appeared in the land, it was long known as Judea, a term taken from the ancient Kingdom of Judah, which had been destroyed by the Babylonians.
It was also referred to, however, as Palestine and, after the Bar-Kochba Revolt of 132-136, the Roman emperor Hadrian renamed the region Syria-Palaestina to punish the Jewish people for their insurrection (by naming it after their two traditional enemies, the Syrians and the Philistines). The designations Philistia, Roman Judea, and Palestine were all in use afterwards.
When the Western Roman Empire fell, Palestine was taken by the Eastern or Byzantine Empire and held until circa 634, when it was taken by invading Muslim armies from Arabia.
Name
The name Palestine is thought to derive from either the word plesheth (meaning “root palash,” an edible concoction carried by migratory tribes, which came to symbolize nomadic peoples), from the Egyptian word Peleset (“Land of the Philistines”), or from Philistia (“Land of the Philistines”). The author Tom Robbins has suggested the term Palestine originates from the ancient androgynous god Pales, who was worshipped in the region of Canaan. If this is so, then Palestine means “Land of Pales.”
It has been established that there was an androgynous deity named Pales (referred to in texts as both a god and a goddess) who was recognized by the Romans as the patron deity of shepherds and sheep and whose festivals were celebrated on 21 April and 7 July in Rome in the area of the Palatine Hill (Adkins & Adkins, 269).
There is, however, no documentation from ancient times linking this deity to the name of the region, and most likely “Palestine” derives from “Philistia,” as noted by scholars J. Maxwell Miller and John H. Hayes:
Along the southern coastal plain of the Eastern Mediterranean seaboard (roughly south of present-day Tel Aviv) were settled the Philistines. They came to that region as a part of the general ‘Sea Peoples’ migrations at the end of the Bronze Age and inhabited five main cities – Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza.
Although historically the Philistines are to be associated specifically with the coastal plain, during Classical Times the name 'Philistia’ (“Land of the Philistines”) came to be applied more generally to the whole southern end of the Eastern Mediterranean Seaboard…In short, then, the English term 'Palestine’ derives ultimately from 'Philistia’.
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Following Herodotus’ use of the term in his work in the 5th century BCE, other writers adopted it in their own, and Palestine gradually replaced Canaan as the name of the region.
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The Gemini North telescope on Maunakea in Hawaii observed NGC 1514, also known as the Crystal Ball Nebula. It is located 1,500 light-years away and was discovered by William Herschel in 1790. apod.nasa.gov
Adult and child skeletons go for a walk. Historia Anatomica humani corporis. André du Laurens. 1627.
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Female soldiers from the Mexican Revolution, (1910 - 1920)
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