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Egyptian Alphabet Egyptian Alphabet

A is Anubis,
He has the head of a dog,
And guides all the dead,
To the land of death and fog.

B stands for Bes,
The god of drink and joy
He's small as a dwarf,
Not taller than a boy.

C's a Canopic jar,
That has organs inside,
Liver and heart and kidneys,
Under natron do hide.

D comes from Doeat
The land of the dead,
You get there by boat,
Steered by a dog's head.

E is the Eye of Ra,
She fell from the sky,
The lioness Sachmet,
Who let people die.

F 's for Pharao,
Considered a god
They made him a mummy,
To protect him from rot.

G is for Geb,
The god of the earth
His wife is on top,
He lies in the di

Poetry In the beginning was the Word... And the Word was God. Thus says the apostle John. Other translations of his Gospel say that 'the Word was divine'. Indeed, words are strangely powerful things. They are magical. Language is magical. No animal has anything resembling human language. Steven Pinker has written three excellent books on the subject. Fascinating stuff, although at times you'll probably find him a bit too technical.

Is it not weird that mere words can move people to do all sorts of things? That they can convey thoughts, ideas, emotions? That you can paint pictures with them? Hypnosis is just a use of words. Mass hypnosis even more s

The New Spartans, Modern Infanticide The New Spartans – Modern Infanticide

The Journal of Medical Ethics, March 2nd 2012: Two renowned scientists, Dr. Francesca Minerva, a research associate at Oxford University and dr. Alberto Giubilini, a University of Milan bioethicist, present an argument for… well, how to call it? I guess the most accurate term is “murder”. Infanticide, child murder to be precise.

They call it euphemistically “after-birth abortion”, but in the second sentence clarify that what they actually mean is “killing a newborn”. In their article they state that: “Euthanasia in infants has been

The Grin of the Cheshire Cat The Grin of the Cheshire Cat

The grin of the Cheshire cat is the last thing Alice (in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland") sees off this strange animal and she confesses that this grin is the strangest thing she has ever observed. It is strange still, because Lewis Carroll's notes on this passage have faded through the years, leaving us to wonder what it was the Cheshire cat grinned at.

One of the earliest ancestors of the common cat is Dinictis, from the Olicene, forty million years ago. This animal, which looked a bit like a civet, is not only the ancestor of our cat but also of the panther, the tiger and the lion. But there is nothing lau

Tell me Tell me…

Tell me you love me,
I need it, to hear,
Tell me you need me,
Oh, tell me my dear.

Tell me, if I hurted you hard,
I am so afraid,
If I ever made you smart,
And I will placate.

Tell me what you want me to be,
What you want me to say,
What I'm failing to see,
Tell me why, when and what —
Please, tell me the way.

Riddle 6 I was loved by the sun,
His light made me see.
Believe me did none,
That filled him with glee.
They told me: Begone
And yet it came to be.
The city did burn,
And after that, soon,
The armies did turn,
And I met my doom.
By a queen’s cruel blade,
In revenge for her child,
With her lover as an aid,
Jealousy, never is mild.

The Great Outdoors The Great Outdoors

My father was a great enthusiast for the outdoors. I'm not. Nor is my mother or my brother Elton. Understand, we are not against the countryside per se. In fact we love the countryside. On a postcard preferably. Or a painting. Elton and I are city people. We like shopping malls and coffee houses. A tree is good. A forest is... well, it is possible to have too much of a good thing.

But our father insisted on having this cottage in the vicinity of Aarschot (It's a Belgian village, don't bother to look it up. In fact, you best forget I mentioned it, straight away. No, that's not fair. It's actually quite lovely.) So we went

Sisyphos Sisyphos

"There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” — Le mythe de Sisyphe, Albert Camus.

I feel a deep pain in my heart. It’s called “absurdity”, the ultimate realization that life has no meaning. That we exist in an uncaring and silent universe, without past, without future, only an eternally continuous and meaningless “now”.

“You mustn’t think about these things”, my friends tell me. But I cannot help it. It’s in my bluepri

Mummy Mummy

Do you know what a mummy is? Well, you probably have a mammy. The word may sound similar but there a world of difference between the two. Mammies are sweet. Mummies aren't. Mammies are soft. Mummies aren't, unless they've been put in some warm water for a while. Mammies can move. Mummies stay absolutely still, unless you hang them to dry by the fire.

A mummy resembles a Christmas present. That is, they are all wrapped up. But don't try to unwrap them. It makes a terrible mess and besides, they don't like it. And kids, neither will mammy (if you try this at home).

How does one make a mummy? First you need a pharaoh. That's not a cigar

The New Atheists 1 The Four Horsemen The New Atheists 1 – The Four Horsemen

Atheism is probably of all times. We read, in the fifth century BC, about a certain Diagoras of Melos, reputedly the first professed atheist. Also Protagoras, in his book On the Gods, wrote: “Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing whether they exist or not or of what sort they may be, because of the obscurity of the subject, and the brevity of human life." However he was probably more of an agnostic than an atheist.

Yet there always must have been people who, because of their philosophical persuasion, and more often because of the big question about human suffering, doubted the e

Ten Nordic Heroes Ten Nordic Heroes
Searching for gold in the Rhine
Fafnir got changed in a dragon
And then there were nine

Nine Nordic Heroes
Were divided by hate
Regin was killed by his brother
And then there were eight

Eight Nordic Heroes
Their fate was decided in heaven
Alberic became invisible
And then there were seven

Seven Nordic Heroes
Siefried was killed by devious tricks
Hunting boar in the woods
And then there were six

Six Nordic Heroes
In Xanten given over to strive
King Gunther got jealous
And then there were five

Five Nordic Heroes
Odin did love them no more
He banished Brunhilde
And then there were four

Four Nordic Heroes
Their doom, que

Riddle 1 Never born, three times I lived upon the earth,
Never died, since long again I turned to dirt,
I ate all others of my kind,
I was the only, left behind.

By my dear friend,

a writer & photographer

Few days home ...

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And then ... off again. This way I'll never catch up

Update: and home again ... for a few days

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=Elfyah 13 hours ago Hobbyist Photographer

Thanks a lot for faving

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*Smaragd01 13 hours ago Hobbyist Photographer

You're welcome

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*Pleasure-or-Madness 22 hours ago Hobbyist Photographer

Thank you for the fav

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*Smaragd01 22 hours ago Hobbyist Photographer

You're welcome ... there so much to see at Topkapi. I went 3 times now and every time I discovered something new

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*Pleasure-or-Madness 21 hours ago Hobbyist Photographer

I'm at home now and really want to go back there
just - a charming ^^

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*Smaragd01 21 hours ago Hobbyist Photographer

Same here ... though it's nice weather here now I like to visit Istanbul again. Maybe I'll have a short vacation there in autumn

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~appa-appa-away 1 day ago Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you for the

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*Smaragd01 1 day ago Hobbyist Photographer

You're welcome ... and it's so true what you wrote

Really like it

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~pariah87 5 days ago

Olá,

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Have a nice week!

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*Smaragd01 2 days ago Hobbyist Photographer

De nada ... great shots deserve to be faved

Have a nice weekend!

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~fkatana May 19, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

You're welcome

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~laima-udre May 19, 2012 Student Interface Designer

thanks for faving my musketeer [link]

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*Smaragd01 May 19, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

No problem, a brilliant idea & a really good shot, particularly nice touch of that sepia tone

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~PiratePenguinFreak May 18, 2012

_{Thanks for the fav!}

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*Smaragd01 May 19, 2012 Hobbyist Photographer

You're welcome

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