lulyasghost
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'Small Horned Owl on Maple Branch under Full Moon' by Utagawa Hiroshige, 1832
Bob Ross & Hoot on The Joy of Painting: ‘Mountain Mirage Wood Shape’ S15, E4 (1988)
Kinetica Art Fair, 2012, featuring 'Pony' by Tim Lewis (video source)
edit: i feel the need to specify that this is a robot for everyone who's confused 😭
I feel like 90% of "ancient curses" are probably adequately explained by the fact that the self-proclaimed adventurers who ostensibly fell victim to them were, as a class, a bunch of dipshits who engaged in frequent international travel in an era before antibiotics and vaccines. Like, the list of novel pathogens these guys were risking exposure to on a regular basis was effectively "all of them". That's gotta leave a mark.
KAKSJSJ me encanta
One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.
The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:
Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.
Behold the rufous and black and rufous elephant shrew (Rhynchocyon petersi)! Despite its diminutive size, this critter is more closely related to elephants than it is to shrews. It’s also distantly related to manatees, dugongs, and hyraxes. It uses its long snout to scoop up worms, ants, termites, roots, berries, and shoots to eat. To move around its territory, this fast-moving mammal creates networks of foraging trails, which also serve as escape routes from predators.
Photo: Smithsonian's National Zoo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, flickr
I woke up to THIS in MY wall.
I can't take a good picture but it's basically this moth.
Anyways I've been scared of this moth since basically always, the first time I saw one I thought that pom pom at the end of the tail was actually worms eating the moth alive.
Obviously those are not worms but still, I keep picturing the moth flying and throwing her worms at me and they are happy because they finally get to eat a human and I hate it.
Anyways, bye. 👋😊✌️😘
it wild to me that there are people out there who aren't interested in history
like wdym you don't think about the fact that women would tell stories as they made butter in the same way we listen to podcasts today? wdym you don't think about that one Chinese poet who wrote about how much he loved his cats hundreds of years ago? wdym you don't think about the fact that we found a gravesite of a young child surrounded by flowers from THOUSANDS of years ago? wdym you don't think about how people wrote "i was here" into the walls in Pompeii? wdym you don't think about the little egyptian boy who drew little doodles at the top of his school works more then a thousand years ago?
wdym you don't think about the fact that people, no matter the place, time, or social status, are fundamentally no different from you. that they loved the same as you, enjoyed the same things you did, dreamed about a better life the same way you did. that despite how seemingly detached you are from these people, in time, place, and culture, the things you do and what u are is so undeniably human that it transcends time and space
Dotted Wolf Spider (Rabidosa punctulata)
Observed by coronadogim, CC BY-NC
Wood and faience game board with pieces, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, circa 1550-1295 BC
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Alright. I see A LOT of people saying they never manifest what they want. Let’s get something VERY CLEAR: You don’t manifest what you want — you manifest what you are. And what you are is defined by what you accept as true.
Because you are not your mind, you are not your thoughts; you are the conscience that observes them. So change your internal truth. Simply accept that there’s no separation between you and your desires.
There’s no real need for methods, subliminals, or whatever the fuck... because the one giving power to all of that is you. You are the operant power.
It looks like cotton candy, I love it. ♥
Siempre quise teñirme de rosa pastel, lástima que al tener el pelo oscuro la decoloración me deja el pelo en pausa más o menos. Algún día será. :') </3
Tutankhamun Headrest
An ivory headrest with the god Shu holding the sky above his head. The two lions symbolize the mountains on the eastern and western horizons, between which the sun rose and set which, in this very case, is represented by the king himself. The headrest was designed to support the pharaoh’s head between the two horizons as he traveled through the afterlife.
Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Valley of the Kings, Thebes. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 62020
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