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By Toutatis! It’s good!
Otsaila.
Basque word for February.
It literally means “the month of wolves”.
Hercules the Infant Strangling the Serpents / Choice of Hercules / Apotheosis of Hercules, c. 1911, Violet Oakley
The Civilized Man
The civilized individual has a mind of his own but lacks reasoning. He repeats what he has been told because he knows that repetition is the mother of learning. Repetitio est mater studiorum! He has been programmed with these words since a very young age and that is all he knows, to memorize and repeat, like an empty memory unit, a soulless device. All that ever comes out of his mouth are slogans, definitions, quotes, thoughts and information which are all product of a mind far more brilliant than his own, he simply consumed them.
Consumerism, the main characteristic of the Civilized Man. His fight is not a fight for survival but rather a fight to consume as much as possible, fun, pleasure, resources, in his bottomless pit. And so, the civilized man since a long time ago turned to hedonism and severe immorality. He turned food from means of obtaining energy to means of obtaining oral and psychological pleasure. He turned alcohol from a medicine to a party drug and a mood changer and turned sex from an act of reproduction and love sharing to an act of quick dopamine release. In some cases sex completely lost it’s natural role of reproduction.
This of course are just a few examples of how the Civilized Man and civilization are degrading and destroying all those things that make us human and that we once enjoyed without any problem.
Modern civilization, a double edged knife.
Modern civilization is a double edged knife. Sick, we are looking for a cure from modern civilization. Sick from a sickness caused from the very same. We are protected from the uncivilized elements, protected or isolated? From a very young age programmed, domesticated, indoctrinated, with one word civilized. We hate and avoid everything that is not concrete, asphalt or any other material that does not represent the civilization in which we were born and raised.
Concrete is clean, dirt is not! The water from a plastic bottle is drinkable but the water from a river is not! The water that falls on our heads in the shower is clean, rainwater is not!
Most civilized individuals will argue on this and say: “Dirt contains toxins, the rivers are polluted with chemicals and the rain might be acidic!”. And they would be right to say so but they never ask “how” and “why”. How did all those toxins ended up in the soil, where do all those chemicals in the river come from and how come the rain is sometimes so acidic that it can burn and melt trees and animals? To those that led their entire life in total isolation from reality it may cause shock when they find out that most of the pollutants come from the factories that work to maintain them and their comfortable lifestyle. They will turn their heads in disbelief when they realize that they are afraid from the chemicals and diseases which are funded by their very own hard earned money, my dear civilized folk. Civilized? All of a sudden it does not feel so good to be called civilized, does it? If so then you are on the right path, it means you can see the way, all you have left now is to take the first step in that direction. Good luck.
Do you want to understand why we constantly associate the good with the docile and civilized? Do you want to have another perspective on freedom and the wild? Start reading this
In the Orchard
Frantisek (Franz) Dvorak, 1912
Statuette of Hippo
This faience hippopotamus statuette was found in Dra’ Abu el-Naga’ in western Thebes. The glossy blue glaze is the color of the Nile, where the animal lived, and the decoration shows various representations of fauna and flora that grew by the river. The flowers, papyrus plants, and perching bird, are depicted in black, linear forms. Such animal figurines were popular in tombs of the Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period.
The hippopotamus was associated with the fertility of the Nile mud or silt. The hippopotamus goddess Taweret was, moreover, a protector goddess of women and newly born children. Figurines of her were used as amulets to drive away danger.
An emblem of goddess, the hippopotamus conversely significant evil at other times. The animal appears in Nile hunting scenes on mastaba tomb walls of the Old Kingdom period as hunting was a pursuit of noble people. At the same time, the scene symbolized the victory of right and order over chaos and disorder.
Made of Egyptian faience. Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty, ca. 2134-1991 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 21365
Esta es la cara del autentico pan. Pan sin levaduras industriales, lleno de fermentos caseros y mucho amor. #motherdough #bread
Illustration of triple spirals at Newgrange from the book Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times (1904), by Allen, J. Romilly, 1847-1907.
I still find it curious that I was always drawing and sketching these exact patterns in childhood, before I ever knew about their meaning or origin. I still do, when my mind feels too muddled and I need to ground my thoughts in something soothing.
From The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights, 1912 by Lancelot Speed (English, 1860–1931)
The modern world is desacralized, that is why it is in crisis. The modern person must rediscover a deeper source of his own spiritual life.
C. G. Jung,
interview with Mircea Eliade (1952)
by Jeromy Carman
Banksia (Dryandra) carlinoides
This shrub in the Protea Family is native to Western Australia, and it is sometimes referred to as the “pink dryandra”, although the flower color ranges from pink to white. All of the plants formerly put in the genus Dryandra are now included in Banksia. Our plant is flowering especially well this year, perhaps appreciating our wet winter.
-Brian
ASOIAF Universe: Children of the Forest
“The gods the children worshipped were the nameless one that would one day become the gods of the First Men -the innumerable gods of the streams and forests and stones.It was the children who carved the weirwoods with faces.” (The World of Ice and Fire)
We owe the children ancestral memory.
On the morning of the summer Solstice.
After 4 years this picture is still receiving I like ❤
Alexandre Séon (1855 - 1917) Le Poète (1895)
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my Luddite self raging against technology