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Sanctified Samhain and Uplifting Halloween my pet Rioters! Today I command be burning up time with friends and scrutiny my crony witchy movies! As is tradition at home at Rabble-rousing A Rumpus, I've mount a very special Halloween era, jam-packed with stories and music to get you in the Halloween purpose. Bestow are even a few original tolerance by me!I've included my new original small story, The Apprentice's Head of government Move, below for your reading be concerned with. But, organize are a few riveting witchy stuff from a few the internet I treatment you'd love.Move Choke BopThe Move Choke Bop is a perfectly-time Halloween gift with all your crony Disney villains from engineer Todrick Group of students.HALLOWEEN Magical ON ETSYAnd, what would the Rumpus be inadequate a brisk self-promotion. Completely now at my Etsy shop - TorchAndPaintbrush.Etsy.com - you can get 20% off everything with symbol code HALLOWS. I've created some fun Halloween motivated contributions ranging from 3-30 (or 2.40-24 with the symbol). A few items to consider:Rabble-rousing A Hallowed RumpusHere's the list of every rattle and story you'll find in this year's Halloween Special:Relay You Seen the Existence of John - folk songThe Raven - OmniaAncient Ones - KelliannaLa Llorona - adapted by Joe HayesGoodnight Moon - ShivareeA Man Who Lived in Leeds - folk parable Witch - The Bird and The BeeJack - O - Lantern - folk parable retold by S. E. SchlosserEnchantress - Jenna GreeneDefying Significance - from the friendly immoral vocal by the cast of GleeRoom on the Broom - Julia DonaldsonThe Apprentice's Head of government Move - Fire LyteI Put A Move On You - Winifred Sanderson ">When the sky turns end of the day and you be trained the sounds of the highest night bird, march to the very end of your thoroughfare, wear out your fog, and turn disappeared. If you are very lucky, and magic is in your apparition, you'll see a path leading you to the gates of Cauldron Built-up. It was the day previously Halloween in Cauldron Built-up and all the citizens were making their measures. The inner-city mayor, Old Wizard Mingus, was very hasty for this year's partying, to the same degree his nephew would be combination him for the highest time. His nephew was seven, which is the age all immature wizards begin their training, and Halloween is everlastingly the highest day of a wizard's training.It was a big job, in spite of this, for if an novice wizard can not master his highest spell by the end of that highest Halloween he would lose his powers continuously. The Old Wizard Mingus had no uneasiness at all, for he had licensed numerous a immature witch and wizard and not one of them had ever lost their powers. At properly mid-day, Old Wizard Mingus through himself fix to bring in the immature boy. He'd laid out what he treatment would be a meal of Cauldron City's most excellent eat foods. Bestow were toffee corns lush from a Hag Witch's discharge, as well as all the ordinary favorites of bat office chips, lizard eyes, and russet balls jam-packed with phantom salve. (If we are qualities frank, organize is no such thing as phantom salve. At most minuscule, that's what supreme of the citizens of Cauldron Built-up abstract, to the same degree the sole thing someone ever found from loud into a russet ball jam-packed with phantom salve was an silent hollow everyplace salve must be. But one and all went downward with the badge, describing how it tasted close vanilla or raspberry or rotten yeast, which one and all prearranged was the supreme sweet.)Mingus was elated in the role of out from the horizon flew a insignificant chariot. It had no carried by the wind livestock haulage it or gryphons or eagles or even moving hummingbirds. On the other hand, it had brooms coupled to the underbelly. The insignificant profession came to rest a few inches exclusive the base, and a mouse-haired boy hopped down into the old wizard's back place. "So long organize, Uncle Mingus," whispered Jeremy, the Old Wizard's Nephew.Mingus' wizard's cap to all intents and purposes chop up off as he rapid from end to end to spoon his nephew up into a big hug. "Good wishes my boy!" cried Mingus. "How was your trip?"Jeremy regaled the wizard of his journey from end to end the lands and waters in his family's magical chariot. How he'd flown from end to end the Faery District and can take on sworn he got a envision of the queen who he strongly designed waved and winked at him. He talked about dignified agree with to chimeras and how he'd gotten a brisk too in the vicinity to Draco Pile for his preconception. The Old Wizard Mingus listened unselfishly and then whispered, "I'm so prompt you're here! Let's go inmost and get started on your training. Halloween is tomorrow, and we require to get you fix for your highest spell!""Inevitable thing, uncle!" Jeremy whispered blissfully. "But, I'm predatory as soon as that trip. Do you hallucinate we'll take on time for a eat first?"Mingus laughed at himself, realizing he was so excited to start the boy's training that he'd entitlement gone about basic food."Of course, Jeremy," replied Mingus. "Let's go into the kitchen highest. I've got phantom creams!""Oh boy! Existence creams!" exclaimed Jeremy. "I faith you take on rotten toadstool!"Wizard and nephew sat in the kitchen, munching on phantom creams and intake hot witch's get on to from cast glossy cauldron mugs. Since the wizard's institution lived in a land far absent, organize was furthest to hold down up on. They swapped stories and told jokes until eventually the immature boy whispered, "Uncle, the sun is separation down. I hallucinate I must go to bed."The wizard replied, "Landed gentry me! The time has entirely gotten absent from me. Really, in spite of this, we must practice your highest spell at most minuscule just the once previously bed.""Do we take on to, uncle?" whined the boy. "I'm so listing, and I know that you'll teach me my highest spell in no time tomorrow."The wizard was quite confident in his skills as a magic bookish, and he knew the boy was listing, so he snapped his fingers and whisked them every into the guest bedroom on a gust of magical bend. Mingus tucked the lad under a cover of stars and moons and told him a bed time story about a brisk witch and a faery who studious that not all spells take on to poem. "Witches are picky," whispered Jeremy as he drifted off."Yes they are," replied the Old Wizard with a beam. He patted the boy's advantage and went off to his own bedroom on the top scheduled. He felt to all intents and purposes close a child himself, as this was the highest of his nieces and nephews he was separation to train. Subsistence the mayor of Cauldron Built-up had set aside the wizard so boisterous he'd never had children of his own, but Jeremy would believe the institution line of magic. Now, all he had to do was span a spell to teach previously the parentage of midnight on Halloween.The cry of the banshee signaled daylight in Cauldron Built-up, and one and all woke with encouragement at the treatment of a lush, new Halloween celebration previously them. Mingus had woken brood to go down to the kitchen and succession banquet for his nephew. Preparing banquet was a rationally easy behave for the wizard. All he had to do was open a recipe book and point at a picture of crop and the plates would do the rest. He was a bit overzealous in his pointing that dawning, to the same degree previously he knew it the kitchen was to the top with biscuits and gravy and pancakes and bacon and fried release eggs and knotty release eggs and deviled release eggs - with demons enslaved inmost. The wizard was onerous a plastic cup of of late squeezed dragon fruit hot drink in the role of Jeremy restricted down his flight of stairs. "Oh boy! This slight looks amazing!" he whispered. "Eat up!" cried the wizard. "We take on a full day forwards. Enough of work to do to succession you for your highest spell casting!""That sounds close fun, uncle, but let's put the last touches on this banquet highest.""As usual," replied the wizard. "We wouldn't objective to leave this edible meal I ripe uneaten.""Safe to eat, uncle? My mom says you unbiased point at stuff.""Auspiciously, ripe strength be an overstatement, but I mount the food!""Prepared?""Effectively, fine, I summoned banquet.""Can you actually cook, uncle?" asked Jeremy."Define coach.""Necessitate crop from ingredients using your hands and no magic.""No."The brisk boy laughed and laughed and the wizard associated him. The same as they'd eaten the pass of the bacon and no release eggs of any pleasing were disappeared on the platters, Jeremy insisted that they shrubs the plates. Mingus whispered, "Oh, Jeremy, you can unbiased wave your hand from end to end the plates and they'll clean themselves. Near, watch-" "Vacillate, uncle!" exclaimed Jeremy. "I know you don't cook, but don't you know how to clean dishes?""Auspiciously..." the old wizard fumbled a few for something to say."You don't even shrubs your dishes?""Of course not, and neither command you just the once you've mastered all your spells and charms!""That's unbiased silly," whispered Jeremy who dragged a stool from end to end to the go under water and turned on the water. He grabbed the bubbles and started on the highest plate. Tossing a laconic to the perplexed wizard, the immature boy whispered, "Near, uncle. You dry."The rest of the mid-morning was exhausted washing, aeration, and putting absent the plates. As well as the precocious boy profound they would do the rest of the dawning chores themselves. Dusting happened inadequate a Clean Bunnies Move and the floors were mopped inadequate a Downright and Sparkly Temptation and they even managed to water the garden inadequate a Sharply Rainfall Chant. "That was put work," wheezed the bore stiff wizard. "Float on, uncle," whispered the boy, "that wasn't so hard! My mom says it's good to get your hands unclean every now and then.""Don't you all use your magic everyplace you live?""There's magic, certain, but we peaceful get our chores done ourselves.""Auspiciously, I'm prompt you've through it to Cauldron Built-up. I'll deterioration you how to make your chores get done in a snap! But highest...how about some lunch? I'm thin."The wizard and his novice through their way back into the kitchen everyplace Jeremy began rummaging by way of the bathroom cabinet for some bread and cheese."What are you doing?" asked the wizard."Conception lunch!" whispered the boy whose advantage was hindered loaded in a bracket pulling out strawberry preserves. "Don't you unbiased objective to be opposite by way of the crop pictures and secure one?" asked Mingus in all somberness."That's no fun. As well as you can't march your fingers as soon as you've slight the jam!""Really, Jeremy, you've got to do a brisk magic at some point today or you'll never be beneficial to use magic again!"Forthcoming out from the bathroom cabinet with his arms full of bread, cheese, preserves, a few pieces of fruit, and some dry substance, the novice wizard sat their banquet down on the combat and got to work making a sandwich.Jeremy replied, "There's peaceful profusion of time for magic, uncle, but faculty now let's eat."The Old Wizard Mingus arched his faculty eyebrow at his nephew and began to judgment on a countenance of fruit, realization kind for the highest time that the day was separation to run out previously his nephew cast any magic at all. But, he swallowed his doubts with his fruit. At the rear of all, he was a wizard of bright come across who had educated numerous an novice witch and wizard. He had oblivion to uneasiness. The same as banquet was by way of and they'd washed the plates - Mingus put up less of a spar this time a few - the two through their way far-flung. The wizard had profound to teach Jeremy some weather magic for his highest spell. "Effectively Jeremy. Now," whispered the wizard, putting his Pressing Wizard face on, "look over this."The wizard knotted his hands up high, wiggled his fingers, and whispered "Lluvia!" At his tell, a medium-sized ashy haze formed in the sky and began to perkily fall rain. "Your turn," whispered the wizard. "Accelerate to joist your comply with clear and hallucinate of water."The same as the wizard turned a few to reconsider the boy's logic, he saw that the immature boy had found an umbrella and was standing opposite it. "What on earth are you doing?" asked the wizard."Complex to watch over dry. Close relative says that I strength hold down unkind if I let my clothes get saturated in the role of it's raining," replied the wizard's novice.Waving his wizard hand at the haze, it disappeared as in spite of this it had never been organize and the place was at once dry. "Would you literally start on magic inmost everyplace you won't get wet?" asked Mingus."Yes, application," whispered Jeremy.They walked inmost and into the wizard's workshop. It was a huge room with a chart in the involved jam-packed with tools and bottles with labels close "Henbane" and "Mugwort" and "Ogre Childish person Teeth". "What do you use the teeth for?" asked Jeremy, strenuous a revolted be opposite on his face."The same as you bite them, you scent close an ogre," replied the wizard."Gross! The same as do you ever use those?""I haven't yet, but the magic is organize if I ever require it."The wizard firm Jeremy can uncomplicatedly learn the Trace My Book Temptation, which at once levitated whatever book you were looking for faculty into your lap. He described the system to Jeremy and then sat in a head to agricultural show. "All you do," whispered the wizard, "is pay attention on the book you objective and speak its reputation in a stanch, clear create. Subsequent to this: Reminiscences of a Mermaid!"No pretty had the wizard whispered the words, than a azure book floated from a bracket high up neighboring the restrict down into the wizard's lap. It even opened to the page that secured a bookmark. "Speculation I've been meaning to put the last touches on this one," whispered Mingus to Jeremy with a wretched grin, realizing that out of 480 pages, he'd through it to page 27.But, Jeremy was off flipping by way of the pages of "Djinn and Everywhere to Trace Them". "Jeremy," started the wizard. "Why don't you come sit down and try this spell?""I command in a tiny, uncle," Jeremy retorted. "but I found the supreme enhance book! Bestow are all these stories in at home I've never heard of! May I read this one for a brisk while?""How about as soon as our lesson? It won't do to holdup on your magic, especially not on this very crucial day. Let me help."The wizard waved his hand and, in a gust of golden smoke, a ironic brisk head appeared, considerably sized for his immature nephew. The boy took the head and hindered his rifle strongly in the book. "Can I read for unbiased a brisk while?" asked the boy. "I augur we'll do magic following."Arching his eyebrow and cocking his advantage, the wizard gave a unstill, sidelong glare at his novice. Would this be the day someone under his sponsorship lost their magic all to the same degree they refused to practice spells?"All faculty," quitter Mingus. "You can read the book, but sole for a brisk so. It's crucial for you to do magic, Jeremy, to the same degree it's up to you to believe the institution line!""Blessing, uncle!" cheered the boy, who hasty propped his knee up and slouched into the expand reading cut. Old Wizard Mingus profound he would boisterous himself in his porch. He'd unbiased expected a very extraordinary and beautiful flourish that was whispered to turn your hair any color you comfortable. Since he had been a combination of age-old white and humid ashy for a consider of duration, he was excited to see if that scoop was true. Bestow was a new bookish at the witch school who he comfortable to astound, and he felt he would be supreme celebrated if his hair were a advantage golden brown. If you were to ask the wizard, this was transactions and had fully oblivion to do with how old-world the new bookish was. Fasten at all. The wizard had been toiling absent, working with the flourish, rotate his hair this covering and that in the role of a brisk create taken aback him from the access. "Dinner's ready!" called Jeremy."Jumping Djinnjerbread Men!" cried the amazed wizard, who completed up fumbling his hand cut and completed up rotate his hair a specially warm covering of azure. His nephew laughed."Is that what you've been perform in at home, Uncle Mingus? I could've turned your hair azure with some knock down berries. Is it part of a Halloween costume?""Um.... No. This is for nasty wizard transactions. I'm learning a new spell. See, even I never section learning.""Did you mean to turn your hair blue?""Is it mealtime time already?" side-stepped the blue-haired wizard. "But you peaceful haven't cast your highest spell, and time is candid out!""Bestow command be profusion of time as soon as mealtime. Now, come on. I through a Halloween feast!"The boy led the wizard down the set of steps, by way of the wizard's ever-twisting hallways, ahead of the library and a few the fit from the broom sly and into the wizard's dining room. He had been using it to wear out added cloaks and other miscellany, as nil came for distant mealtime anymore, and it had set crumbly and moldy with lack of use. But the unavailable immature boy had chased absent the cobwebs and oiled up the bombastic chart, and the whole room was now fit for a straightforward Halloween meal. What a meal it was, too! Bestow was roast pumpkin and potato stew with homemade allotment crescent moon rolls and porcelain of apple cider with brisk cakes and treats wordy about in the ideal of witch hats and stars and cats. Halloween fit for a king, and supreme absolutely expand for a wizard mayor and his novice nephew. "The same as did you take on time to do all this?" asked Mingus, who unbiased now realized how craving he was as soon as an afternoon rotate his hair suchlike but shades of ashy. "I read for a brisk so," Jeremy replied. "But, then I saw it was separation to be mealtime rapidly, and in the role of I went to settle in on you, you seemed so boisterous. I treatment I'd state of bewilderment you. You take on a lot of crop in your cupboards! I sole cleaned up and got everything fix close my mom educated me.""You mean you did all this inadequate magic?" The boy laughed. "Of course, uncle! You don't take on to use magic for everything. You must be beneficial to make your own crop inadequate wiggling your fingers.""What's the fun in that? That's what magic is for?""I form my mom everlastingly educated me to use magic in the role of I completely attractive something, and not unbiased for coiffure my teeth or direct the scheduled.""But I love my magical toothbrush!""Oh, uncle! You're sillier than a pig-goose! Complete you what. Let's eat up, and then I'll do my highest spell. Specter that be okay?"The wizard unpretentious fill terminology, as long as the boy promised organize would be no more than distractions as soon as mealtime. They ate excitedly and told stories and sang all their crony Halloween songs. The same as their bellies were full and the chart secured sole crumbs and long-winded aromas, the boy picked up his plate and began haulage it to the kitchen to shrubs up."Float on, uncle," called Jeremy. "It's time for my highest spell!"Between a magical glitter in the wizard's eye, he eagerly followed the immature novice into the kitchen, quite old-world as to what the boy had in store for him. "Specter you clean the plates with a Downright Up Move or do you objective to try the weather magic again?" asked the wizard."No," replied the boy. "something better."Between that, he set the plate in the go under water, pointed his nickname at the faucet, and cried out "Lluvia!". Magically, the faucet began to fall water, and the boy stood on his stool and began washing his plates. "Now bring me the rest of them, so we can clean up previously we go Trick-or-Treating!" whispered Jeremy with a grin. The wizard brought the plates, so the boy washed them. As the wizard was aeration off the hindmost plate he mused, "You know, Jeremy. I hallucinate I studious something from you today. Possibly I recycled magic a bit too normally. It's been fun realization my hands unclean.""See, uncle," replied the novice. "Draw is bright and all, but in the role of you use it for everything, sometimes you turn your hair azure."The two laughed. As well as they gathered a few sacks, went far-flung, hopped on the wizard's broomstick, and flew off into the Halloween sky. It was time for trick-or-treat, and all witches and wizards and monsters and ghosts would be packing their faces with toffee. For that is how you make noticeable Halloween courteously in the magical inner-city of Cauldron Built-up. Worship and Lyte,Fire Lyte
NAMES - TWO-SCHNEUss - THREE-SCHNEUss - FOUR-SCHNEUssFor instance FRIEDRICH BERNHARD MARBY SAYS, THEY BELONG TO THE RUNE-ALLEGORIES Vivid THE Impulse OR Revolve. LITERALLY: " This is not purely the top with the swastika. Put forward are movement-symbols, that gaudiness 2-12 so-called hooks or feet. The unusual, old names were: two-Fos, three-Fos, four-Fos, etc or two-foot, three-foot, four-foot, five-foot etc - now, that each one has hooks, they taking into consideration on in addition understood in order to camouflage: Hooks, considerably of: Heels, aspire previously: Discharge considerably of the original: Fos. The choice the " Christian " church strove to injure and shine the judicious, the choice they had to suppression themselves and they had to suppression their knowledge in the " Kalander-language ", that fitting compassionate the bits and pieces other names, unsettled the names. And so Kalander-Sprache (kalen = speaks, ander = occurrence). That's how it became Fos = root, (root) heels = hooks and these alterations were to poster top figure visibly with the especially symbol, with the four-Fos or as it is called today: Swastika. Amid the other with " Fos " timely symbols the old provisions remained, aspire for section Tuefos, Trifos,Femfos, Sexfos (or two-fos, three-fos, five-fos, six-fos, etc.). The same as the Germanic buildings, whose masters, authority sweat and apprentices had the purely proper fragment, aspire just the once a Roman pope articulated himself, they were the purely ones certified to build the Christian churches ( for example or else the commonplace constructions would clutch been choice fastidious than the churches). - This grace is called, that the Germanic buildings might use up when about 1150, the " Gothic grace ".It is the grace, that reminds of the unusual church of the ancient Germans, of the minster of the forest, in its unaffectedness, nature-loving-ness and dexterity. In this grace worldly beings and soul are stretching themself, coming loose themself from the weight of the kit, to the nirvana, upwards to God ! By, the ancient Germans had in addition built churches facing, in addition in the so-called " Romance grace ", and in addition quicker than the entrance of the Rome- church. Otherwise 6000 lifetime formerly that our calendar became binding, a wood-church stood on the lay down, on which the Sense minster stands today.In Germany and the in the vicinity countries represent were in addition churches built in the so-called Romance grace and built from stones for a inclination time formerly the strong introduction of the Christian experience. - The grace of the so-called " renaissance " penetrated from Italy in the 15 th. Century of our modern calendar. In this grace, the priestly reason-stand, that has found its purest aeration in the Gothic churches and cathedrals, is flummoxed a stand that avoids each tightness and connects the earth and tune, soul and spirit, worldly while and God together. In the timbering of the houses, aspire in addition in the church-constructions and clearing halls, that the Germanic buildings clutch built, we find the symbols of the true way to God, the symbols of the world, the nature and the life, in the tracery aspire in all parts of these constructions as " jewelry ". I bring some examples for it: The two-foss the two-schneuss Gravel Uranus The Trifoss the three-schneuss Gravel Saturn The four-foss the four-schneuss Gravel Jupiter Then, one finds the five-schneuss, the six-schneuss etc. These statistics join to the two-fos(add up to 2, sphere Uranus) that Trifos (add up to 3, sphere Saturn) the Vierfos (add up to 4, supervision, sphere Jupiter) the Femfos (add up to 5, sphere Mars). The Sexfos (add up to 6, sphere sun) etc. The three illustrations gaudiness the right-spin. In these tracery-signs the left-spin can in addition be found ever-present. Now we cry the free space of the symbols named finer " fish-blister " or " Schneusse ". The word "fish-blister" betrays the suppression once more. The life-size word is Schneusse. That is in addition how the Schneussen (existing in the allegories mentioned formerly) separate off the tension-fields in the position *). Choice type of runic symbols are 1. the three-pass - 2. the four-pass - 3. the five-pass the six-pass, the seven-pass etc. You can find these symbols on and in Gothic constructions as signs of the old Germanic philosophy and religion and what's more abundant times in coats of arms with the actual meaning-basis. Then these symbols, in which the Schneussen are linked with resistance, so that qualified plants growth, in fact the three-pass as shamrock, the four-pass as any be radiant, the five-pass as five-leaved rose, the six-pass as six-flaky rose etc up to the twelve-flaky rose, in the west-front of the churches, or the l6flaky (old rune-number) rose or the 18-flaky (Wodans rune-number) rose or as 24-flaky (in addition a rune-number) rose, can be found. Consistently and ever-present, the rose tells about the understand of the explode and the saintly generation ". Sources: F.B. Marby 'Der germanische Einweihungsweg pages 57 - 60 Reprint in the Spieth Verlaghttp://www.swastika-info.com/en/opinion/opinion/1072132993.html
JERTIH, MALAYSUA - Three healers from Terengganu Islamic Joist (YIT) luggage compartment they captured 12 foster djinns from the domicile of Siti Balqis Mohd Nor late she no more over on Saturday night. Her race fancy her display was quiet when two bomoh captured nine djinns on Friday and put them in preserved containers. Yesterday, still, the 22-year-old, who is the eldest of four children, claimed she was whisked obtainable to a pit about 15km from her home in Kampung Gong Nangka in. She knowingly no more at 7.30pm, proceedings at an earlier time allusion deep and information committee chairman Khazan Che Mat, YIT escort Kamarul Al Amin Ismail and YIT officials all the rage at her home with the healers. Hundreds of inhabitants searched give away the domicile and at locations that she had been found in persist disappearances but this proved futile. At 11.30pm, her mother Norizan Held, 47, normal an SMS from Siti Balqis, saying that she had been engaged to a pit in Bukit Keluang. Jabi assemblyman Ramlan Ali headed a use pond to Bukit Keluang but they hardly found seven men and two women who were meditating (bertapa) captive the pit. Two hours second, Siti Balqis sent diverse SMS, saying she had been whisked home but had landed on a rambutan tree.Siti Balqis was blond and ridiculous when rescuers brought her down from the rambutan tree.The three Islamic medical practitioners thought they captured 12 djinns late treating her. Siti Balqis hardly regained consciousness at 5am and told her mother she saw Ramlan and other rescuers at Bukit Keluang pit but none of them possibly will become aware of her calls. "I even tried to question Ramlan's husband as she passed by me but she did not see me," she thought. Meanwhile, Khazan thought the medical practitioners were sent by the allusion administration to help the race. Source: asiaone Clap on the link under to go back to my home page: Dwelling Clap on the link on the under to read some of the remarks unadulterated by kin who has second hand amulets or bought amulets from me:CommentClick on the link under to go to my magical store to see thailand amulet:Cherished store
by Sherry Jones
Medieval artists created their works not to express, but to impress. At a time when standing out in a crowd could earn you an accusation of heresy -- along with possible torture and burning at the stake -- artists used their talents primarily to exalt God -- with exquisite crosses, censers, reliquaries, and other objects used in religious ceremonies as well as colorful stained-glass -- and to bring beauty into the lives of the exalted, via gem-encrusted drinking goblets, engraved platters, jewelry, and curiously shaped water pitchers called "aquamanilia."
As I wandered through the Cloisters museum in New York last March, I imagined the sisters in my novel "Four Sisters, All Queens," and what they might have seen in their splendiferous royal lives. Here's a sampling of what I found. To see more, head to my website's scrapbook page.
PLAQUE WITH CENSING ANGELS, HAUTE-VIENNE, LIMOUSIN, FRANCE, 1170-80. CHAMPLEVE ENAMEL AND COPPER GILTTwo mournful angels are showing waving censers over what would have been the scene of Christ's crucifixion. All around them, stylized clouds; behind them; copper gilt in a swirling pattern known as vermicule, in a plaque that must have decorated one of the largest crosses -- at least four feet high -- produced at Limoges.
KING LOUIS IX CARRYING THE CROWN OF THORNS CA. 1245-48As described in FOUR SISTERS, ALL QUEENS, this stained glass depicts French King Louis IX (Saint Louis) carrying the Holy Crown of Thorns after buying them for the kingdom from Baldwin, the Emperor of Constantinople. Here the crown is shown in a golden chalice, but chroniclers wrote of his bearing it in a golden box, barefoot, all the way from Sens to Paris - a walk that would have taken him more than a week to complete.
Front view
Back view
CROSS, SUFFOLK, ENGLAND, 1150-60, POSSIBLY FROM THE ABBEY AT BURY ST. EDMUNDS. WALRUS IVORY WITH TRACES OF PAINT.
This cross is said to be one of the great medieval finds of the 20th century and a masterpiece in ivory carving, featuring more than 100 figures depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments.
CHALICE, GERMANY, 1230-50. SILVER GILT, NIELLO, AND JEWELSStunning! The craftsmanship is amazing considering the era. This chalice was used to celebrate the Eucharist, commemorating his sacrifice by eating bread and drinking wine said to be transformed into his flesh and blood during the ceremony. On the base are four Old Testament scenes thought to prefigure New Testament scenes on the knop above: Moses and the Burning Bush (the Annunciation), the flowering of Aaron's rod (the Nativity), Noah's Ark (the baptism of Christ), and Moses and the Brazen Serpent (the Crucifixion). The niello decoration on the bowl's exterior depicts Christ standing with the twelve apostles.
GAME PIECE: HERCULES SLAYING THE THREE-HEADED GERYON, COLOGNE, GERMANY, 1150. WALRUS IVORYIT WASN'T ALL ABOUT RELIGION IN THE MIDDLE AGES. CLASSICAL LITERATURE, INCLUDING PAGAN MYTHOLOGIES, WERE A PART OF EVERY "LETTERED" PERSON'S EDUCATION. THIS GAME PIECE, FROM A BACKGAMMON PRECURSOR KNOWN AS "TABLES," DEPICTS HERCULES SLAYING THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER GERYON, SHOWN SLAIN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCENE AND WITH HERCULES'S FOOT ON ITS NECK. THIS TABLEMAN CONTAINS TRACES OF PAINT; OFTEN PIECES FOR ONE SIDE IN THE GAME WERE PAINTED WHILE THOSE FOR THE OPPOSING SIDE WERE LEFT UNPAINTED.
Aquamanilia (aqua=water + manus=hand) were a type of pitcher used for washing the hands. Above, from England, is a glazed ceramic aquamanile in the form of a ram, created sometime between 1250 and 1350. Below are three aquamanilia from North Germany, fashioned in the 13th century: in the form of a lion (left), a dragon (center), and a man on horseback.
Which all goes to show -- they really "don't "make them like they used to!"Sherry Jones is the author of "Four Sisters, All Queens" (Simon & Schuster/Gallery), an historical novel about four sisters in 13th-century Provence who became queens of England, France, Germany, and Italy (Sicily), as well as an e-book prequel, "White Heart: A Tale of Blanche de Castille, the White Queen of France." She is now working on a new book, also under contract with Simon ">
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For this spell you drive necessary a large scrap of ice, an icicle, a grow, or several ice cubes. You'll also necessary a hollow, and a candle.
Fire the ice modish your dominant hand (your rectify if rectify handed, your not here if not here handed), cuddle it better-quality a hollow and be attracted to about winter and anything it is that has been fixed in your own life.
Say, "'This represents the Crone, Lady of Detached, of the time while the land is so far and sleeping. But as winter's thaw out begins, so the Lady casts off her robes of softness and becomes like auxiliary the Maiden. Broad of stimulus, be equal with the cool waters of brim, she flows like auxiliary to bring life and desire to all the become calm".
Now ask the Maiden to bring fire and heat up to your own life so that your energy drive avenue and your own brim drive come. Visualize the fixed seats in your life melting objective as the ice in your hand is melting.
Location the melting ice modish the hollow, say a moist thank-you. Cushy a stunted candle and as you do, be attracted to about how your life drive begin to come into bud and render null and void.
Following the ice has admiringly melted, detect the important water to put on your favourite person on the inside, either confidential or in the garden. (Please hang around until the water has reached a reasonable leg formerly you do this.)
"~Madame Fortuna"
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How Transformation is Initiated During a Oneness MeditationBy Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D.
"In this year, the whole entire goal is to push as many people as possible into Awakened states, and people who are in Awakened states, push them into Awakening. That's the whole goal of our work." - Doug Bentley, Senior Guide, Oneness University
The Oneness Meditation was released at the beginning of 2012, to assist with the planetary shift in consciousness. It originated from the Oneness University, and is part of a global phenomenon that is taking many forms. The Oneness Meditation brings you and your community the experience of Oneness-One Love, One Consciousness, One with all that is. It is helping to start a chain reaction that creates a critical mass for a shift towards setting all of humanity totally free.
Please watch this short video to understand how this meditation activates a person's kundalini (life force energy or Holy Spirit) to push them into Awakened states and full Awakening.
The Oneness Movement is working in a big way to help 70,000 people Awaken by the end of 2012. With this many fully Awakened people on earth, a field will be fixed into mass consciousness that will make Awakening automatic for everyone over the next several decades. In two generations children will start to be born Awakened and the transformation of humanity will blossom fully as suffering ends.
Not only will you help your own personal transformation by attending Oneness Meditations, you'll help heal your family and your planet as well.
Here is link showing the dates and locations of Oneness Meditations being held in the US and Canada:
http://www.onenessuniversity.org/index.php/calendar-usa
You can also participate in Oneness Meditations that are streamed on-line by visiting this link showing a global calendar of Oneness Meditations webcasts:
http://www.onenessmeditationevents.com/
Please view this previous article for more detailed instructions on how to get the most out of a Oneness Meditation webcast:
http://americankabuki.blogspot.com/2012/06/oneness-meditation-now-live-streamed-on.html
Please help evolve humanity's consciousness as smoothly as possible during this incredible transition. Getting as many people as possible to experience the grace, freedom ">
Blessings,
Peter DeBenedittis, Ph.D.Oneness Trainer
Theme: How Many Ways Can You Say "Buy" Without Spending Money? - The first words/syllable of the four theme answers are homophones.20A. Furthermore: BY THE SAME TOKEN33A. 1961 Tony-winning musical inspired by Elvis being drafted: BYE BYE BIRDIE43A. 7/4/1976 celebration: BICENTENNIAL59A. Retail store financing come-on: BUY NOW, PAY LATERHello all, Boomer here. I wish I could buy now and pay later with tokens.I never saw "Bye, Bye, Birdie", but I do remember the Bicentennial very well. The US issued special quarters that year and I got ten rolls at the bank and put them away as an investment. They are now worth 25 cents each, but you can't get as much for a quarter as you could in 1976. I remember spending the day at a Minnesota Twins double header, outdoors at Metropolitan Stadium. Outdoor MLB is returning to the land of 10,000 lakes next spring.I am not the best puzzle solver. I got about 80% of this one before I needed help. But I didn't need help with bowling last night. 665 is a good score for an old guy, and today I looked at my driver's license and Damn! I'm a year older! I'm the same age as Hillary Clinton, not as famous but my cheeks aren't as chubby. Have fun with today's puzzle.Across:1. One-person boat: SKIFF. My first error. I wanted to put Kayak.6. College athlete: JOCK. The Gophers could use a few more.10. Mouse catcher: TRAP. Build a better one and the world will make a path to your door, but who wants the world at their door anyway?14. China's "EN LAI. C.C. knows him better than I; Alternate answer would be QIN. C.C.'s Mandarin name is Zhouqin, but it doesn't have enough letters.15. Clickable symbol: ICON 16. Compete in a meet: RACE. We are all in this rat race together, some day we may meet.17. Ghostly noises: MOANS. Halloween is coming. I prefer BOOS. For the Yankees of course.18. "Let It": Everly Brothers hit: BE ME. " I blessed the day I found you, I want to stay around you, now and forever..."19. Peruvian empire builder: INCA. The Empire Builder was a train. The Incas didn't build it. It came later.23. Barbary ape's cont.: AFR24. Necklace clasp resting place: NAPE. If you don't get it fastened correctly, it could rest on the floor.25. Baton Rouge sch.: LSU. Home of the Fighting Tigers. Shaq's alma mater by the way.29. Coastal inlet: RIA. Crossword river inlet.31. Take to the clink: ARREST. Clink is slang for "jail". It's never fun. Think before you drink.37. Rig on the road: SEMI. To me, semi always meant half or partial. Why they call the big trucks semis, I'll never know.38. John, to Ringo?: LOO - I can't figure this out. Is LOO an English word for bathroom?39. Trivial, as chatter: IDLE - If it's your brain, it's the devil's playground, trouble in River City.48. Debonair: RAKISH. Never heard of this word. I thought it's what you do to your leavish on the lawnish in the fallish.51. Dr.'s group, maybe: HMO. Maybe History Moves Over if the health care bill passes.52. Adobe file format: PDF. Yeah I've heard of it, but I don't know what PDF stands for.53. Cockney's main Web page?. 'OME (Home). Never heard of this. (From C.C.: Cockney is in the East End of London where the letter H is dropped in local dialect.)54. Bears or Cubs: TEAM. And not very good ones recently.57. Suffix with Israel: ITE. Israelite.64. Rick's love in "Casablanca": ILSA. Funny how some old movies are Classics.65. Mayberry moppet: OPIE. Ronnie Howard, now aged director Ron Howard. Famous as Opie and Richie Cunningham of "Happy Days." But do you remember him waiting for the Wells Fargo Wagon in "The Music Man"?66. Con game: BUNCO. "Dragnet" Sergeant Friday frequently worked the Bunco Squad out of Los Angeles.68. Nuremberg no: NEIN. Their "yes" is JA.69. Elbow-joint bone: ULNA. When you get old, a little Cryogel on the ulna helps your bowling.70. Embodiment of perfection: IDEAL. They make wonderful Toys. Also quality electrical products. Fish tapes, wire-nuts, and Yellow 77 elephant snot.72. Ball-bearing gadgets?: TEES. Golf ball. Use only wooden tees. Plastic mars your driver.73. Short-winded: TERSEDown:1. Divinity sch.: SEM. Short for Seminary. Best one I've seen is in Clyde, MO.2. Drawer projection: KNOB. I might have said door handle.3. "me down...": I LAY4. Classic orange soda: FANTA. I had CRUSH in there first.5. Seafood cookout: FISH FRY. The best fish fries are Sunfish, Crappies, Walleye, and Northern Pike from Minnesota lakes. But they are lake food, not seafood.6. Triangular sails: JIBS7. Blue part of a map: OCEAN. Unless you spill a bottle of ink on your atlas.8. Cause for a pause: COMMA. Well, I suppose, this, could be true, maybe. Rhyming sounds good.9. Patella protector: KNEE PAD - Got me again. I put kneecap - then I realized your kneecap is a patella.10. The Dixie Chicks, e.g.: TRIO - One of George W's favorite groups, or not.11. Fester in one's mind: RANKLE. Sometimes crosswords rankle me.12. Way to get in: ACCESS. Unless you're going to weight watchers. Then you have to weigh to get in.13. Planters logo Mr. "PEANUT. A marketing Icon. More famous than a Gecko.21. Buffalo-to-Albany canal: ERIE. I don't think I've seen a puzzle yet that doesn't have ERIE in it somewhere.22. Actress Garr: TERI. Another common puzzle staple.26. Air rifle ammo: BBS. Most are plastic now. Like everything else.27. Needle feature: EYE. Keep your eyes peeled for needles in the haystack.32. Coachman's control: REIN. Okay, but aren't they usually called reins?34. Netanyahu of Israel, familiarly: BIBI. Benjamin Netanyahu's nickname. "Uber-hawk.35. Particle with a charge: ION. There are eons of crossword puzzles with ION.36. Philip who wrote the Zuckerman novels: ROTH. Does he have an IRA?40. Chip go-with: DIP. Don't let the dip slip off the chip and onto your lip. Chips are not that healthy. The only chips I have now are short golf shots.44. Analogy words: IS TO45. Give a tongue-lashing: CHEW OUT. See above clues. This is also how a mouse will sometimes gain ACCESS out of a TRAP.46. Runner Z'atopek: EMIL. Emil was a common name 100 years ago. I don't know of any now.47. Cooperative response to "Do you mind?": NOT A BIT. Maybe it's cooperative, but if Sister Mary Margaret asks you to mind, better not say "no" or you'll be standing in the corner until lunch.48. Spring chirpers: ROBINS. Robins are the first sign of Spring. The second sign is when there's less than four inches of snow on your lawn.49. Lucky charm: AMULET. Whatever happened to four leaf clovers and rabbits' feet.50. Enters, as data: KEYS IN55. William Tell's target: APPLE. Was it a Honeycrisp? Granny Smith? Fuji?56. Largest New England state: MAINE58. Piano exercise: ETUDE. I've never heard of this. I remember EGBDF. Which were the keys you had to put your fingers on.60. Indian breads: NANS. Served in the Cleveland clubhouse after a game?61. Supporting votes: YEAS. Also World Series cheers for the Phillies.62. Cabinet dept. with a lightning bolt on its seal: ENER. Maybe they could change it to a wind turbine.63. Some HDTVs: RCAS. Okay, but what was the name of the dog listening to the megaphone speaker on the Victrola again?67. Corrida shout: OLE. Are they cheering for the matador, the bull, or are they really saying Oh Lays, and shouting for more chips for their dip?Answer grid.BoomerNote from C.C.: Happy Birthday, Boomer!
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