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Jumping Over Fire | Persian Ceremony | On the Last Wednesday of The Year

17 Mar 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr

Chaharshanbe Suri (Wednesday Fire Feast) is one of the Iranian festivals that is held on the evening of the last Tuesday of the year (Esphand) and Wednesday night, and lighting a fire and jumping over it is its main feature. https://en.wikipedia.or...

Bavaria 1 kreuzer, 1859

16 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Andrii Androshchuk

1 kreuzer, 1859, Kingdom of Bavaria (1806 - 1918) period of the reign of king Maximilian II (1848 ~ 1864). BASIC INFORMATION Krause number: KM# 858 Country: Bavaria Denomination of the coin: 1 kreuzer Years of minting: 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862,...

Huginn and Muninn.

15 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Eythor-Photography

Hello again! Tonight I'd like to share this image & poem. we decided to make a post containing this old Icelandic poem, and decorate it in our style. With ravens ofcourse. Ravens are repeatetly associated with Odin, Odin is called the “raven-god” (Hr...

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia

15 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments CryptoCelt97

Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia by Peter Hopkirk is a sprawling true story of how European explores came to Central Asia in search of buried empires and treasures in the old cities...

Weekend Nature Walk: A glacial lake and a forest covered in artist's bracket

15 Mar 2021 2 minute read 2 comments tych0_21

I had another free day this weekend and decided to head out to a forest reserve I had never visited before. The reserve has mixed stands of pine and hardwood that ring along the slopes and valleys that border the reserve's central lake. The undulati...

Hele Mali | The Sea Shanty of Black Persian Sailors & Fishermen

14 Mar 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr

 The song " Hele Mali ", a famous traditional performance of the "Rastak" group, which promotes Iranian folk music from all over the country, in fact, is the sea shanty of the fishermen and sailors in southern Iran who sing it while working rhythmica...

The Reign of Empress Rachel: Crusader Kings 3, AAR #11

13 Mar 2021 10 minute read 0 comments bengy

The Eleventh of the After Action Reports (AAR) following my direction of the Irish Empire, tracing the dynasty of the Briain dynasty through the Middle Ages. The previous AARs can be found here: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7,...

Happy Song of Botorai | Persian Folk Music of Rastak Band

13 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr

The story of the Rastak group began in the summer of 1997 when a creative Persian musician named Siamak Sepehri started a band with the help of music students and young researchers, all of whom had concerns about preserving and disseminating Iranian...

Salvator Mono - Savior of All Primates

12 Mar 2021 2 minute read 0 comments tych0_21

This one is... a bit different. Instead of picking one piece to recreate, I made a piece that is based on combining two separate depictions of Jesus Christ: Salvator Mundi - (School of?) Leonardo da Vinci; and Ecce Homo - Elias Garcia Martinez ("Rest...

We shall meet again

11 Mar 2021 1 minute read 0 comments RandomMusings

We shall meet again, in Petersburg, as though we had buried the sun there, and then we shall pronounce for the first time the blessed word with no meaning. In the Soviet night, in the velvet dark, in the black velvet Void, the loved eyes of the bless...