#maeander

[kararadaygum]

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[seagulls-den]

Ode to Karpos

Praise be unto you, son of sweet springtime graced with efflorescence and words stained with sap Your hair is adorned with the flowers of fallen heroes and wasted youths and your skin, sticky with nectar glints in the gentle budding sun If you should sink in the Maeander then let me drown as well, my love may your mother transform my body so I may grieve by your father’s touch Please, lend to me the leaves  of the citrus golden apple; tonight I wish to dream  of fresh starts

[elladastinkardiamou]

This pattern keeps popping up in design, and it’s even older than it sounds

On a recent trip to London, I spent a morning wandering the antiquity galleries of the British Museum and was reminded — as I always am — that so many patterns and designs we use today are actually as old as time.

Perhaps there is no motif this is truer of than the Greek key, which is even older than its name suggests. Variations of the design are found on Egyptian tombs, ancient Chinese buildings and sculptures, and Mayan carvings. Still, we most closely associate the linear geometric pattern with the Greeks and their mosaic floors, red and black pots, and masterfully carved marble friezes.

Greek key, also referred to as meander, is in its most basic form a linear pattern. The design is made up of a long, continuous line that repeatedly folds back on itself, mimicking the ancient Maeander River of Asia Minor with its many twists and turns. Homer mentions the river in “The Iliad,” and it is believed that the meander motif symbolizes infinity or the eternal flow of things. (In fact, the word “meander” is derived from the ­250-mile-long snaking Maeander, known today as the Menderes, which flows through southwestern Turkey.) What is most astonishing about the meander motif is that it is found in the architecture, sculpture and decorative arts of many early civilizations — civilizations that could not possibly have known or seen one another’s artifacts. It seems that those cultures, independent of one another, created their own version of the motif.

[dalupo-blog]

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[maeander]

Noctilucent

I passed through your life, Like storm clouds at night.

A fading silhouette of intent, Emotions scattered and out of focus.

What if instead I was the moon, Hiding myself away from you?

Perhaps you were the one to shine, And I tried keeping you for myself?

[hellas-inhabitants]

The ancient Greek symbol the Maeander (Meandros)symbolizes Victory and Unity, symbol of Infinite and Eternal Life.

Το αρχαιότερο ελληνικό σύμβολο ο Μαίανδρος (ή ελληνική κλείδα) αποτελεί σύμβολο Νίκης και Ενότητας, σύμβολο του Άπειρου και της Αιώνιας Ζωής.

[complexdistractions]

Shiggajon : Sela

It’s hard to describe what’s going on within the grooves of Shiggajon’s Sela. It’s hard to describeShiggajon. Okay, not really. Shiggajon is a Danish music collective that makes music you might hear prior to the Rapture happening. Or moments before aliens descend onto this planet. Or possibly what you hear in your head during a funeral at sea. It’s a volcanic sound. Overpowering, mighty,…

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[archaicwonder]

Road to Ephesus from Laodicea by A_O_G on Flickr.

Laodicea lay on the south bank of the River Lycus about two miles from its flow, approximately one hundred feet above the valley floor on a flat plateau at the junction of both the Lycus and the Maeander valleys, and was situated in a ‘triangle’ of cities along with Colossae (to the south-east) and Hierapolis (to the north-east) - each some 10 miles, approximately, from one another.

The city stood at the head of the valley where a road division directly reached five other ancient cities: to the west, Ephesus lay at the end of the most used route while, to the north-west, the road rose to traverse Philadelphia, Sardis, Thyatira and, the capital, Pergamon.