The Mysterious Cottingley Fairies

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This is a fantastic tale of two cousins that lived in Cottingley, England in the early 20th century.

Elsie Wright was 15 yrs old and Francis Griffiths was 10 years old at the time these photos were taken in 1917.

Researchers claim there were 5 photographs taken altogether, with Elsie and Francis interacting with the fae.

Later Sir Arthur Conan Doyle discovered their work and posted their photos in his article about fairies in Strand Magazine December (1920)

After much investigation into these mysterious photos some deduced they were real while many thought they were fakes.

A total conundrum to say the least.

In 1983 the two cousins confessed they faked the fairy photos.

Later, Elsie passed away age 87 in 1988 and Francis died at age 79 in 1986.

Their Shenanigans created a stir among popular spiritualists at that time such as Edward Gardner.

The girls talent with photography…

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The Art of The Atrocity Exhibition

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Just Art ❤🙏

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Cover of First UK Edition of The Atrocity Exhibition-J.G Ballard 1970-Based on Salvador Dali Cover of First UK Edition of The Atrocity Exhibition-J.G Ballard 1970-Based on Salvador Dali’s City of Drawers

J.G Ballard, the genre busting English science fiction writer responsible for such novels as The Drowned World, Crash, High Rise and Empire of the Sun as well as some of the finest short stories in world literature, frequently remarked that he really wanted to be a painter in the surrealist tradition that he so loved instead of a writer.

This deep reverence and constant engagement with the visual arts can be most clearly seen in his demented and wildly perverse cult classic collage novel The Atrocity Exhibition. Referencing Ernst, Dali, Magritte, Dominguez, Matta, Bellmer, Delvaux, Tanguyas well as Pop Artists Tom Wesselman and Andy Warhol in the frequent free association tests and ‘condensed novels’ that comprise the text, The Atrocity Exhibition could easily…

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Damona Gaulish Goddess of Cows

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Today is Cow Appreciation Day. To celebrate this day let me introduce you to Damona  a Gaulish/Celtic goddess of Cows and healing who was worshiped by the Celts in Burgundy. She was a consort of Apollo Borvo and of Apollo Moritasgus.

Reproduction statue of the Damona, found at Hochscheid near another depicting the god Apollo Public Domain

Source:

  • Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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Huldra: Northern European Forest Creature

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Be watchful when you are hiking in the dark tall woods of Northern Europe, you just may come across a lovely woman that is really a creature termed ‘Huldra’ who are a legendary race of Norwegian forest spirits that dwell in the dark woods of Norway. Huldra is also known as Holder to Germanic folks. They are also spoken about in oral Sámi tradition and Lapplanders. According to Swedish folklore Huldra are called Tallemaja “pine tree Mary,” or skogsrå“spirits of the forest.” In Sámi folklore they are known as Ulda. The origin of the name Hulda connects her to the shaman Völva and the German figure Holder or Frau Holle.

Huldra-Theodor_KittelsenShe emerges out of the dark woods as a bewitching stunning, fair skin woman with long wavy, blonde hair wearing a crown of flowers upon her head with a large gap in its back sometimes filled with tree…

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The Birth of Art

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Horses and Rhinoceros- Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave circa 30,000-32,000BP Horses and Rhinoceros- Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave circa 30,000-32,000BP

We do not know exactly when the first work of art was created by human hands and we will probably never for certain, as the very question is vexatiously hedged with other questions (such as, what constitutes art?), and that is before we factor in our uncertain knowledge of unconscionably remote periods, new discoveries that shatter accepted wisdom and most pertinently, all that will remain undiscovered as it has vanished from the face of the earth forever.

Georges Bataille who wrote extensively on the subject of prehistoric art for over three decades published  Prehistoric Painting: Lascaux or the Birth of Art in 1955, a monograph on the famous Lascaux Caves, known as the Sistine Chapel of Prehistoric Art, with paintings dating from around 17,000 BP.  Bataille’s theory that Lascaux represented the birth of art  would have been uncontroversial at the time, but new…

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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The images are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rime_of_the_Ancient_Mariner

The mariner up on the mast in a storm. One of the wood-engraved illustrations by Gustave Doré of the poem.

I actually wanted to write a love story, The Love Story, about my parents but; sometimes you are obsessed with something or some thema. that is what was happening to me today, I was suddenly attacked by one of the Iron Maiden’s songs; Rime Of The Ancient Mariner. it might be because we’re dissatisfied by the real-time in which we live (as I surely feel to be) and searching in the old time when we were young and the problems are easier to be solved or even be ignored.

I love something creepy just helps me to keep awakened, 😀 I does not mean it to be a sadistic or masochistic thing to search an excitement to be wake up! it is only the old history or story or fairy tales, which I love to hear, to know, and to keep them in my heart and mind for having the feeling as I was also among him/her or them.

Engraving by Gustave Doré for an 1876 edition of the poem. “The Albatross” depicts 17 sailors on the deck of a wooden ship facing an albatross. Icicles hang from the rigging.

Anyway, actually, a friend of mine/ours; Stefy <e-Tinkerbell> made me think about the “Rime of our life” as she made as a title on one of her posts; The Rime of our Life https://etinkerbell.wordpress.com/2019/05/11/the-rime-of-our-life-2/

Therefore, I love the old stories; fictions or not, no matter I love them, and I love when one lets the imagination flies freely, like Shakespeare, or Dickens, or Dostoevsky or Jules Verne or Arthur Conan Doyle.

To put it bluntly, I’m not here on this Earth to search for the matters which I’d get in my hands, I want just to gather all spirituals keeping in my mind (soul) and when I have to go, I’ll take all with me 😉

Anyway, I share now the musical version of the old tells, by a band which really is one one the best musical performance in the music history, the song has been written by Steven harris, the bassman and I tell you; I had also tried to write a song alone and wrote every little thing on every instrument, it isn’t easy. also; hats off!

So, if you like, let’s get back to the ’80s in which the music was music and the musicians were in the real form.

The Restoration of Rembrandt’s The Night Watch Begins: Watch the Painstaking Process On-Site and Online

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Thinking modernly or thinking classically? That is the question. 👇👇👇

http://www.openculture.com/2019/07/the-restoration-of-rembrandts-the-night-watch-begins-watch-online.html

Reading The Red Book (3)

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The third nombre of the continual post by dear friend symbolreader which inspires me again with my littleness to add my sincerity to this great book of the history of the psychology.

“If you are boys, your God is a woman.

If you are women, your God is a boy.

If you are men, your God is a maiden.

The God is where you are not.”

When I read such as these words, I feel the wholeness in me ❤ ❤

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Sharing My Love of Symbols

https://symbolreader.net/ https://symbolreader.net/2019/07/07/reading-the-red-book-3/