Shotgun Sunrise

Run With Me.

[shadowedwater]

#incense #smoke #houseoftherisingsun

[matauryn]

“Many tales have come down to us of various water sprites and spirits, including mermaids. These are a more highly developed level of faerie working with and in the water element. The undines themselves though are usually more primal and not as developed. They often appear in female form, although there are both male and female forms of the more developed water spirits (i.e. mermen and mermaids).

The undines work to maintain the astral body of humans and to awaken and stimulate our feeling nature. They assist in unfolding heightened psychic feelings, as well as emotional ones. Theirs is the energy of creation, birth, intuition and creative imagination. They assist us in absorbing and assimilating life experiences, so that we can use them to the fullest. They help us to see and feel the fullest ecstasy of the creative acts of life, be they sexual, artistic or the performance of a duty with the right emotion.

Undines often make their presence known through our dreams. Dreams of water and sensuality often reflect undine activity and their urging to greater creativity in our life. Working with them can assist us in controlling and directing dream activity, as well as strengthening the astral body for fully conscious, out-of-body experiences.”

- Ted Andrews Enchantment of the Faerie Realm: Communicate with Nature Spirits & Elementals http://amzn.to/16jroAc

Image Credit: Josephine Wall

[wolveswolves]

The perks of having a librarian as a mother; free scrapped library books. Jim Brandenburg is one of my favourite wolf photographers, and I absolutely love this book! So many pictures!

[shadowedwater]

@geralyn_marie we fly. #pastmidnight #grilloedtoperfection

[bloodyxmary]

Why are we not having sex right now?

[shadowedwater]

#lemonfromabove #citrusxlimon #sacredfruit

[darkseid-of-the-moon]

Hey Just wanted to say I stumbled upon your selfie and thought I'd let you know I think you're attractive. Not to be creepy or anything. Have a nice day :3

[amortentiafashion]

(Julien Fournie, fall 2015 couture)

[gothiccharmschool]

LOOK at that velvet. 

[saniosan-deactivated20160202]

Egyptian lady. It’s been over 2 months that I’ve drawn anything. Busy life. :D Anyway, you think you can’t cope with extreme temperatures? Imagine having a huge wig on top of your head during the day. 

[the-history-blog]

Nefertiti (ca. 1370 – ca. 1330 BC) - Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshiped one god only, Aten, or the sun disc. Akhenaten and Nefertiti were responsible for the creation of a whole new religion which changed worship within Egypt. With her husband, she reigned at what was arguably the wealthiest period of Ancient Egyptian history. Some scholars believe that Nefertiti ruled briefly as Neferneferuaten after her husband’s death and before the accession of Tutankhamun.

[archaicwonder]

Egyptian Bronze Triad (Osiris, Isis, Horus) c. Late Period,  664-30 BC

This triad represents the Osiris myth which is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval king of Egypt, and its consequences. Osiris’ murderer, his brother Set, usurps his throne. Meanwhile, Osiris’ wife Isis restores her husband’s body, allowing him to posthumously conceive a son with her. The remainder of the story focuses on Horus, the product of Isis and Osiris’ union, who is first a vulnerable child protected by his mother and then becomes Set’s rival for the throne. Their often violent conflict ends with Horus’ triumph, which restores order to Egypt after Set’s unrighteous reign and completes the process of Osiris’ resurrection. The myth, with its complex symbolism, is integral to the Egyptian conceptions of kingship and succession, conflict between order and disorder and, especially, death and the afterlife. It also expresses the essential character of each of the four deities at its center, and many elements of their worship in ancient Egyptian religion were derived from the myth.

The figure depicts Osiris, wearing the atef crown flanked by Horus the child, wearing the double crown with a sidelock and on the other side, Isis, surmounted by the sun disc with horns, shown standing on a hollow plinth, the front cast in relief with the child god squatting, flanked by Isis and Thoth in adoration, a panel on either side with falcon headed soul of Pe and jackal headed soul of Nekhen, the reverse of the plinth has panels with a lotus on stand and a human male figure, probably the deceased in jubilation posture, next to the square opening, an inscription giving the donor’s identity: ‘May Isis give life to Wedja-hor son of Pa-di-hor’, the short sides of the plinth with further souls of Pe and Nekhen.

[npr]

In catacombs south of Cairo, researchers have discovered burial sites filled with huge numbers of mummified animals — nearly 8 million of them, mostly dogs.

The catacombs, at a site called Saqqara, are dedicated to Anubis, the jackal-headed god of the afterlife. Archaeologist and Egyptologist Salima Ikram, a professor at the American University in Cairo who has worked extensively at the site, writes that animal mummification began in ancient Egypt “to allow beloved pets to go on to the afterlife, to provide food in the afterlife, to act as offerings to a particular god and because some were seen as physical manifestations of specific gods that the Egyptians worshipped.”

Millions Of Mummified Dogs Found In Ancient Egyptian Catacombs

Photos: Courtesy of Paul Nicholson; Courtesy of Salima Ikram

[eves-e-den]

[beautyofabandonedplaces]

The Roman desert castle known as Bashir, located in Jordan [OC] [1520x2280]

[bluedydoll]

[worldlyamerican]

Desert Castle

[artofthedarkages]

“The Mshatta Facade”

A side of an Umayyad palace heavily decorated with friezes of arabesques, animals, flowers, and vines.

Built out of burnt bricks, carved out of stone.

Made in the 8th century by the caliph Al-Walid II at Qasr Mshatta in modern day Jordan. The facade was gifted by the Ottoman Sultan to the German Kaiser in 1903. Currently located at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin.