Forwarded from 𝐖𝐇𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐈𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐍𝐂𝐄 (Nic)
ANCESTORS
When you look in the mirror you see not just your face but a museum. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Even complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities, shyness in crowds, or susceptibility to sickness have been lived before. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and through these we perceive the world and the world perceives us. We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, whether or not we look down to acknowledge them.
When you look in the mirror you see not just your face but a museum. Although your face, in one sense, is your own, it is composed of a collage of features you have inherited from your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and so on. The lips and eyes that either bother or please you are not yours alone but are also features of your ancestors, long dead perhaps as individuals but still very much alive as fragments in you. Even complex qualities such as your sense of balance, musical abilities, shyness in crowds, or susceptibility to sickness have been lived before. We carry the past around with us all the time, and not just in our bodies. It lives also in our customs, including the way we speak. The past is a set of invisible lenses we wear constantly, and through these we perceive the world and the world perceives us. We stand always on the shoulders of our ancestors, whether or not we look down to acknowledge them.
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Forwarded from Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)
Entrance into the Earth by Gilbert Williams
🌲Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)🍄
🌲Hyperborean Radio (Uncensored)🍄
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Forwarded from Operation Werewolf Official
“There Lancelot, low and softly to himself singing, the sun greeted - life from darkness lifted, shining in the dome of heaven by death exalted.
Ever times would change and tides alter, and o’er hills of morning hope come striding to awake the weary, while the world lasted.”
Wishing a powerful Summer Solstice to those who observe.
XCII
Ever times would change and tides alter, and o’er hills of morning hope come striding to awake the weary, while the world lasted.”
Wishing a powerful Summer Solstice to those who observe.
XCII
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Forwarded from 𝕰𝖈𝖍𝖔𝖊𝖘 𝖔𝖋 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕺𝖛𝖊𝖗𝖒𝖆𝖓.
“The Valkyries thereby lead the warrior home. And he is by no means on his own. But he will have to learn how to listen to his inner voice, from where She will guide him.”
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Forwarded from ELYSIVM
“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains – mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature’s workshops.”
John Muir
John Muir
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Forwarded from Celtic Europe
Pictish symbol stone depicting a battle against Anglo-Saxon invaders, from the churchyard of Aberlemno, in Angus; Scotland. 🏴⚔️🏴
The stone is thought to depict the Battle of Dún Nechtáin, fought on May 20 of the year AD 685, between the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria and the Pictish Kingdom of Foirtriu. Northumbria had been extending its power northward into Scotland, trying to subdue and annex the whole of northern Britain. Resistance seems to have coalesced around the Pictish king of Foirtriu, Bridei III, son of Beli. The Anglian king Ecgfrith, son of Oswiu, led an immense army into Scotland in hopes of finally crushing that resistance. According to the English historian Bede, the Picts lured the Anglo-Saxon army deep into Scotland to a pre-selected battlefield, where it was defeated and cut to pieces in one of the bloodiest battles of that entire period. Ecgfrith himself was killed —the stone seems to show him in the lower right, being eaten by a raven— along with his entire army. The Picts not only shook off Northumbrian domination, they permanently broke the kingdom’s power; Northumbria would never again achieve hegemony in Britain.
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The stone is thought to depict the Battle of Dún Nechtáin, fought on May 20 of the year AD 685, between the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Northumbria and the Pictish Kingdom of Foirtriu. Northumbria had been extending its power northward into Scotland, trying to subdue and annex the whole of northern Britain. Resistance seems to have coalesced around the Pictish king of Foirtriu, Bridei III, son of Beli. The Anglian king Ecgfrith, son of Oswiu, led an immense army into Scotland in hopes of finally crushing that resistance. According to the English historian Bede, the Picts lured the Anglo-Saxon army deep into Scotland to a pre-selected battlefield, where it was defeated and cut to pieces in one of the bloodiest battles of that entire period. Ecgfrith himself was killed —the stone seems to show him in the lower right, being eaten by a raven— along with his entire army. The Picts not only shook off Northumbrian domination, they permanently broke the kingdom’s power; Northumbria would never again achieve hegemony in Britain.
Celtic Europe - channel link (please share!): https://news.1rj.ru/str/CelticEurope
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Forwarded from 🏛MEDIEVAL EUROPE🏛
James I of Scotland with his consort Joan Beaufort, queen of Scotland. 🏴
*He has the coat of arms of Scotland on his tabard and is holding a sword and scepter, while she has the coat of arms of England on her clothing, and is holding a scepter and thistle.
*He has the coat of arms of Scotland on his tabard and is holding a sword and scepter, while she has the coat of arms of England on her clothing, and is holding a scepter and thistle.
Forwarded from Celtic Folk and Culture
Mammoth Book of Celtic Myths.pdf
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