#icaros

[zluty-spendlik]

Icarus and Apollo

This painting was a freaking rollercoaster for my mind I was thinking about Icarus all day

Also it wasnt supposed to be Icarus and Apollo at first and

I like it though

[sculppp]

Alfred Schwarzschild (1874-1948) 

Icarus Fallen (1920).

[i-c-a-r-u-s]

~Icarus should have waited for nightfall,

the moon would have never let him go~

[shamandrummer]

Weaving Music into Art

The Shipibo are a tribe from the Amazonian rainforest in Peru credited with holding the traditions of the powerful entheogenic brew ayahuasca ("vine of souls"). This ancient tribe is known both for their beautiful geometric textiles and for their long history of using ayahuasca as an entheogen. This plant sacrament induces visual and auditory stimulation for the purpose of self-revelation and healing. In the Shipibo culture, shamans -- called curanderos -- work as plant-based healers of physical, mental, emotional and spiritual disorders. Their knowledge and healing power are said to come from the plants themselves.  

Shipibo shamans have a custom in which a they live for months in isolation and ingest different plants in order to connect with the spirits of the plants. According to Shipibo shamanism, each plant has a different personality, just like people. Once a plant is ingested, the shaman may be inspired to write a song. These songs, known as icaros, are then used in healing ceremonies, and eventually translated into geometric patterns in order to adorn tapestries with their messages. Each song and corresponding pattern embody the energy of a specific Amazonian plant. The colorful designs are a woven visualization of each plant's song, almost serving as a musical score.

Shipibo textiles reflect the tribe's culture and cosmology. Largely geometric in nature, the designs feature the square, the rhombus, the octagon and the cross, which represents the southern Cross constellation. Other symbols featured in the designs are the Cosmic Serpent, the Anaconda and various plant forms, notably the caapi vine used in the preparation of the ayahuasca brew. Shipibo patterns are believed to heal physical, mental, emotional and spiritual ailments, with each design carrying its own meaning. Some are said to bring wisdom or protection; others attract abundance. The textiles are worn as skirts, placed on tables or beds, hung on walls or used in ceremony.

There is an fascinating connection between the visual and aural in Shipibo art: the Shipibo can paint the pattern by listening to an icaro, or they can inversely hear the song by simply viewing the design. Shipibo shamans, under the influence of the psychedelic affects of ayahuasca, undergo a sort of biological feedback mechanism which affects the visual cortex, allowing the music to be seen, and then translated into artwork. Known as synesthesia, this is a perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway, in this case seeing by hearing, or hearing by seeing.

After discovering cymatics, the scientific study of geometric patterns created by sound vibrations, Irish artist Tanya Harris traveled to Peru in 2014 to explore the "visual music" of Shipibo art. Harris discovered cymatics while studying for an MA in Textile Futures at Central Saint Martins in London. Harris spent a month with the Shipibo and participated in ayahuasca ceremonies. During one of her last ceremonies, she received insight from ayahuasca that she should ask a shaman if she could record her singing a particular song and also get from her the geometric tapestry translation of the song.

So, using a handy video recorder, Harris carefully recorded the shaman's icaro about a plant called marosa. Harris found striking visual similarities between the shapes created by her cymatic patterns and the designs created by the Shipibo as illustrations of their songs. For Harris, it was simply confirmation that "sound is a primordial, creative force." Her experiences with the Shipibo are described in this short video, Consciousness Resides in Geometry.

[sundysc]

WE GONNA W YOUR  + M1

sum pyros feat my merasmus-enchanted dragon(left) & @voistly‘s wizard scientist(right)

[acamaryseinteery]

Fun fact that helps me include some my OCs into ToA:

Karma is actually (not by choice) related genetically to Nari and Skrael, because back in the ice age when they were creating her from human, they used stole/given DNA of Skrael and Nari, which gives her her powers and her eye style.

Mint (Karm's and Aaarrrgh's second child) is genetically closest to Nari and Skrael thanks nature control, growing plants, creating life from nothing and bringing life back.

Taradax is under servant to Nari because she created mother of the trees: blind Sylvan Freya. Sylvans were supposed to watch over trees as they were actually walking trees. (NOPE, nothing related to Groot, I made it sure).

Icar is son of past (OC) Trollhunter, thanks which he (quite) hates them

Taradax and Angor(back in his hero days) knew of each other briefly and as it happens, legends meet, talk, and test if what is told is true.

That's.... All I can think of now... I think. I have almost 30 OCs so it's getting hard to remember.

[novastale]

That photo mode ist just awesome. It's so much fun just searching for nice places to take some pictures. I can't believe that I didn't even want to buy Odyssey... (now I leave it to your Imagination what made me change my mind... 😉)

Isn't he gorgeous in that Outfit? ❤️

[urlasage]