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Against Marduk’s Anger (BMS 11)

This text falls somewhere between what modern readers might call spells and prayers; it solicits the god Marduk’s help against a misfortune caused by the supplicant’s unintentional offenses.

Incantation:

Champion Marduk, whose anger rages like the flood,        but whose forgiveness is like a compassionate father: When I spoke and went unheard, I became sleepless;        when I shouted and went unanswered, I felt betrayed. (My suffering) has torn a hole in my heart; [1]        it has left me as stooped as an old man.

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Constellations

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[mostlydeadlanguages]

“Could there be a lover like mine?” (MAH 16056, 1-20)

This poem comes from a tablet containing four poems about love and sex; sadly, the other three poems are mostly broken beyond repair.  The tablet’s designation, preserved at its end, is “Four ballads of the collection, ‘Could there be a lover like mine?’” “Ballad” is also the word for “breast,” so the genre could alternately be translated as “breast-songs.”

Could there be a lover as precious as mine?       And is he raising his “fruit”?               (Quiet down, trouble-maker!) Like a quince-apple,       he is bursting with excitement.

My love, am I being exiled to the wilderness,       or shall I spend the night? Shall I fence in my flirtations,       or will the “dove” rise to the occasion?

My love of the wilderness —       may criminals return him to me. You are fencing in my flirtations,       but may the gardener bear [them/him] away.

I cast my birdcage over the young man,       so that may I capture the “dove.” O Love-Goddess, you have filled me to bursting       with the man of my flirtations.

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Ah I love my island

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[dsxsbx]

Glendhu Bay // Mark Clinton

[muckley]

Reading the collections, Week 46: Math becomes art in Byrne’s 1847 colourful Euclid

Amongst the stacks in St Andrews one can find some of the most stunning and renowned examples of mathematicians and artists collaborating or crossing boundaries to experiment largely with Euclid’s ...

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[subtilitas]

Livio Vacchini - Piazza del Sole, Bellinzona 1999. Via, photos © Alberto Flammer, Tuomas Kivinen.

[raysofcinema]

STAR WARS EPISODE V: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)

Directed by Irvin Kershner

Cinematography by Peter Suschitzky

[blorgblorgblorg]

Syd Mead concept art from the Blade Runner 30th Anniversary blu-ray still gallery, part two: interiors

[nprfreshair]

A 1,400 year old Gingko biloba tree at the Gu Guanyin Buddhist Temple in the Zhongnan Mountains of China is seen shedding its golden leaves this past Autumn, bathing the temple garden in a sea of golden yellow.

via Twisted Swifter 

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G-G the book - G-G on Facebook - G-G on Twitter

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by E.V. Photography

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Orion above Mt.Fuji von kei yamane Mt.Fuji of the New year’s day