ARATTA

[n-e-x-u-s]

Is tumblr the new place to be?

[amokedas]

There are a thousand things which prevent a man from awakening, which keep him in the power of his dreams. In order to act consciously with the intention of awakening, it is necessary to know the nature of the forces which keep man in a state of sleep. First of all it must be realized that the sleep in which man exists is not normal but hypnotic sleep. Man is hypnotized and this hypnotic state is continually maintained and strengthened in him. One would think that there are forces for whom it is useful and profitable to keep man in a hypnotic state and prevent him from seeing the truth and understanding his position.

George Gurdjieff

[thatshowthingstarted]

Bronze and jade word hilt, State of Zhao,

Warring States Period (475-221 BCE),  

This artifact from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) is an ornamental piece fixed to the top of a sword hilt.

Crafted from gilded bronze and jade, it features a dynamic trio. A bronze dragon at the bottom is arched in motion and decorated with cloud motifs.

A jade dragon with grain-seed decorations mirrors the bronze one. A bronze tiger on the top is poised powerfully, its jaws gripping a red agate bead.

As a status symbol in the Zhao State, it showcases the exceptional artistry of their metalwork and jade craftsmanship. Unearthed in a tomb in Handan, Hebei, China.

The piece is now part of the Handan City Institute of Cultural Relics collection.

[enchantedbook]

Illustration of the Great Comet of 1577, from the book Tarcuma-I Cifr al-Cami by Mohammed b. Kamaladdin, 16th century AD.

[snailspng]

Agates from the Gobi Desert PNGs.

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[mirkokosmos]

Isanotski Peaks, Alaska - by Chris Owens

[metmuseum]

Fragment of a shirt. fourth quarter 18th century. Credit line: Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mrs. Edward S. Harkness in memory of her mother, Elizabeth Greenman Stillman, 1931 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/175600

[snailspng]

Random PNGs, part 217

(1. Spiral of shells, 2. Janus head from whale vertebrae, 3. Crinoid fossils, 4. Ceramic art by Dominique Mercadal, 5. Glass model of amoebae by Leopold & Rudolf Blaschka, 6. Slime mold (Stemonitis), 7. Hakutaku by Miyagi Gengyo (1958), 8. Slime mold (Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa), 9. Yup'ik seal float (?))

[the-crow-in-the-blooming-tree]

Horses in the mountains (Shymbulak, Kazakhstan)

[lesbianlenses]

Mongolia, by Kin Coedel

[antisquared]

[marinaskiadaresi-shadowlike]

'It is only when we realize that life is taking us nowhere that it begins to have meaning.' P.D Ouspensky

[pathofregeneration]

“In art it is necessary to study ‘occultism’—the hidden side of life. The artist must be a clairvoyant: he must see that which others do not see; he must be a magician: must possess the power to make others see that which they do not themselves see, but which he does see.”

— P.D. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum

[kamanori]

昨年、Biosemioticsで一番盛り上がった（？）Denis Nobleによる論文。

Noble, D. The Illusions of the Modern Synthesis. Biosemiotics 14, 5–24 (2021).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-021-09405-3

[zzkt]

“When meanings become unstable, inventiveness through exchange may be possible, and new habits may be made and laid down. But when reciprocity is refused or absent, then we are nothing but a chaos of broken relations. With that, we are in the presence of what the Estonian semiotician Ivar Puura called semiocide. Carelessness over meanings – in nature and in culture – is a symptom of relational sickness. This sickness can kill the systems it infects.”

— Wendy Wheeler. In Other Tongues: Ecologies of Meaning and Loss. 

[sashaspasiba]

Detail of the hand section of the jade burial suit of Liu Sui, Prince of Liang, of Western Han

[worldsandemanations]

Life size jade burial suit, gold thread