Dominion
Skagerrak

Isaiah 55:6
“Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:”

 

"the decision of one age or country is a wonder to another"~~~John Stuart Mill 

 

 

"insistence upon rules of conduct marks the ebb of religious fervor"~~~A. N. Whitehead

 

"How easy is success to those who will only be true to themselves"~~~Trollope

 

Brit Manuela

 

 

"that sea of horror ebbing and flowing around the edges of the world"~~~Elizabeth Bowen

 

 

 The Skagerrak is a strait running between the southeast coast of Norway, the southwest coast of Sweden, and the northern coast of the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark. It connects the North Sea to the Baltic Sea and serves as a major navigational route for shipping and trade. The name "Skagerrak" is derived from the OLD NORSE words "Skaga," meaning a protruding headland, and "Rak," meaning straight waterway.

"Woe to the inhabiters of the earth and of the sea!"~~~Revelation 12:12

"the Greenland whale is one of the most wonderful animals in the world"~~~Darwin 

"the successive business of the seasons continues to make its wonted revolutions"~~~Samuel Johnson
 

 

 

 

Chess: "Dominion" "Skagerrak"


   

Madeira

Ébano
Madeira
El Roble
Woodstock
Troy
Ebony

Mark 8:34
“And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.”

"He was widely admired in his village, and in other villages along the sunset coast, as a PRODIGIOUS FISHERMAN who knew the SECRETS of THE DEEP. He would remain for hours in his canoe, long spear at the ready, awaiting the arrival of fish in the waters below, and usually he had anticipated where they would come. Now he paddled far to the west trailing a huge MANATEE that had strayed into these waters, and he stayed with the great sea animal even when he lost sight of the coast, for he knew that if he could somehow bring that huge beast to land, all the villages along the sunset side would have enough meat for FEASTS UNTOLD."~~~James A. Michener: CARIBBEAN. Ch. A Hedge of Croton.

 

"allay thy ecstasy. In measure rein thy joy"~~~Shakespeare

 

 

Chess: "Madeira" "El Roble" "Woodstock" "Troy" "Ébano" "Ebony"

Star Apples (Star Fruit)

Sol
George Washington
The Shining
Solar Energy
Star Apples  🇺🇸

Mark 8:36

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”

"But now Bakámu was caught up in the discovery that his wife had accumulated rare knowledge, and better than other women, she knew when to plant manioc and sweet potato, how to cultivate corn, and where in the forest she could find star apples, guava and especially the rich, sweet cashew nut. And when her man brought home an iguana, once or twice a year, she knew how to prepare the first joyous feast and then dry the rest of the meat and save it for later."~~~James A. Michener: CARIBBEAN. Ch.1 A Hedge of Croton.

 

 

 

Star fruit (carambola): Averrhoa carambola

 

 

 

 

  Kaimito (Star Apple) fruit: Chrysophyllum cainito

 

 Chess: "George Washington" "The Shining" "Solar Energy" "Star Apples"

OSLO
Antigua
Suriname
Paramaribo
Lesser Antilles
Antillas Menores

Santiago
Chain
Surround

Romans 1:17
“For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”

"THE CHIEF CHARACTER in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world’s most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form A CHAIN of lovely jewels TO THE NORTH AND EAST.
....
But however magnificent the sea is, the stories of human endeavor must focus on the scattered islands, just as in the larger world, history concentrates on the settled continents. We have neither the time nor space to deal with all the islands, each worthy of its own treatment, but we shall visit in close detail more than a dozen, and in the process observe many diverse civilizations dominated by a wide variety of mother nations: Spain, Holland, England, France, Denmark, the United States, and the societies unrelated to Europe: Arawak, Carib, Maya, African, East Indian. It is a rich tapestry we shall be inspecting.
The story begins in the year 1310 on an island—which would later be named Dominica—lying in the middle of the eastern arc.
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He had pondered the mystery of why his small island contained people, while its larger neighbors had none, but could find no answer, and talked with no one about it. He kept his silence even after he took Tiwánee as his wife to live with him in the shelter he had built for them. She has great wisdom, he thought, and someday I will tell her. But now Bakámu was caught up in the discovery that his wife had accumulated rare knowledge, and better than other women, she knew when to plant manioc and sweet potato, how to cultivate corn, and where in the forest she could find star apples, guava and especially the rich, sweet cashew nut. And when her man brought home an iguana, once or twice a year, she knew how to prepare the first joyous feast and then dry the rest of the meat and save it for later."~~~James A. Michener: CARIBBEAN. Ch.1 A Hedge of Croton.

 

 Chess: "Antigua" "Oslo" "Suriname" "Paramaribo" "Lesser Antilles" "Antillas Menores" "Surround" "Chain: cadena de oración" "Santiago"

Taiwan

Oslo

Taiwan

Thebes

Cat

Ancient Evenings

Colossians 1:10
“That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;”

"He kept his silence even after he took Tiwánee as his wife to live with him in the shelter he had built for them. She has great wisdom, he thought, and someday I will tell her. But now Bakámu was caught up in the discovery that his wife had accumulated rare knowledge, and better than other women, she knew when to plant manioc and sweet potato, how to cultivate corn, and where in the forest she could find star apples, guava and especially the rich, sweet cashew nut. And when her man brought home an iguana, once or twice a year, she knew how to prepare the first joyous feast and then dry the rest of the meat and save it for later."~~~James A. Michener: CARIBBEAN. Ch.1 A Hedge of Croton.

Chess: "Oslo" "Taiwan" "Thebes" "Cat" "Ancient Evenings"

Blue Mountain

Jamaica
Blue Mountain
Caribbean
Ford
Rolls-Royce
Azúcar

Proverbs 14:34
“Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.” 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

"THE CHIEF CHARACTER in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world’s most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islands that form a chain of lovely jewels to the north and east. Although bounded on the south and west by continental land masses, it is the islands that give the Caribbean its unique charm. On the north lies the large and important trio: Puerto Rico, Hispaniola (Haiti and the Dominican Republic) and great Cuba. On the east are those heavenly small islands that so artistically dot the blue waves: Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, All Saints, Trinidad and remote Barbados among them. The southern shore is formed by the South American countries of Venezuela and Colombia and the Central American nation of Panamá. The western shore is often overlooked, but it contains both the exciting republics of Central America—Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Honduras—and the wonderful, mysterious peninsula of Yucatán where the ancient Maya flourished.
The Caribbean, nearly nineteen hundred miles wide from Barbados to Yucatán, does not include either the Bahama Islands or Florida, but does contain near its center an island which at intervals assumed an importance greater than most of the others, Jamaica with its turbulent history."~~~James A. Michener: CARIBBEAN. Ch.1 A Hedge of Croton. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Jamaica" "Blue Mountain" "Caribbean" "Ford" "Rolls-Royce" "Azúcar"

Rio Grande

Benjamin
Big Bend
Rio Grande

 
1 Timothy 2:5
“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grand Canyon of Yellowstone (Kathy Rodríguez, model)
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“The natural bent of my mind was to science.” ~~~Thomas Paine

"I perceived he was bent on refusing my mediation"~~~Emily Brontë

"To a man bereft of the sense of purpose"~~~G. Wilson Knight

 

 

 

Pithaya

 

 

 

 

 

Traje típico de Costa Rica con motivo de carreta típica( modelo Andrea Montero)

 

 

 

Chess: "Benjamin" "Big Bend National Park" "Rio Grande"

Assumption of the Virgin

Asunción de la Virgen

Puerto Limón
Boston
Valparaíso
Hamburg

Lemonade

 

 Psalms 51:12
“Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.”

The Assumption of the Virgin or Frari Assumption, popularly known as the Assunta,is a large altarpiece panel painting in oils by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian, painted in 1515–1518.

 

 

 The Assumption of Mary was a Catholic doctrine that remained optional in the early 16th century; it was not declared an article of faith until 1950. The Franciscan order whose church the Frari is, were always keen promoters of this and other aspects of Marian theology, in particular the related doctrine of the Immaculate Conception of Mary, then still a matter of live controversy. The doctrine held that the body of the Virgin Mary was "assumed" or moved physically into heaven "at the end of her earthly life". Most Catholics believed that this took place after a normal death (usually three days after in tradition), but some that Mary was still alive when it happened, a question that Munificentissimus Deus in 1950 was careful not to settle. At the base of the picture, glimpses of Mary's stone sarcophagus can be discreetly seen, allowing those believing in an assumption before death to ignore it or regard it as something else.

The broad composition of Titian's painting, with a group of apostles below a rising Mary, shown as alive, who moves towards a group of angels in heaven, follows earlier depictions in art, though such an imagined scene did not form part of the doctrine. The related scene of the Coronation of the Virgin in heaven had tended to be replaced by scenes showing the moment of the actual assumption, as here, which was often combined with it. Here the angel accompanying God the Father on the right holds out a crown, which he is about to place on her head.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 "In all these ways the Church gave imaginative expression to deep-seated human impulses. And it had another great strength which one may say was part of Mediterranean civilisation - or at any rate a legacy from the pagan Renaissance : it was not afraid of the human body. Titian's Assumption of the Virgin , a Baroque picture almost one hundred years before its time, was painted in the same period as his great celebrations of paganism. Early in the sixteenth century Titian had given his immense authority to this union of dogma and sensuality ; and when the first puritan influence of the Council of Trent was over, Titian's work was there to inspire both Rubens (who made superb copies of it) and Bernini. In their work the conflict between flesh and spirit is gloriously resolved. It would be hard to imagine a more comfortingly physical presence than the figure of Charity on Bernini's tomb of Urban VIII. And in Rubens's picture of that extremely un-Protestant subject Sinners saved by Penitence, he has achieved in the repentant Magdalene, and even in the figure of Christ himself, a noble sensuality, perfectly at one with an unquestioning faith."~~~Kenneth Clark: CIVILISATION.Ch.7 Grandeur and Obedience

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Puerto Limón" "Boston" "Valparaíso" "Hamburg" "Lemonade"

Berlin

Berlin
Sweden

Bernini

1 John 5:7
“For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.”

David byBernini

"I think the answer is that Roman buildings those of Bernini in particular - have a warmth of feeling that French Classicism lacks. In the end they appeal to the emotions, and give abstract form to the same popular sentiment that supported the Catholic revival; whereas Perrault's facade reflects the triumph of an authoritarian state..."~~~Kenneth Clark: CIVILISATION. Ch.9 The Pursuit of Happiness

Joss Forsberg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Berlin" "Bernini" "Sweden"

Gibraltar

Gibraltar
Robe
Castle
Castilla

Botafogo

Exodus 13:21-22
“And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night: He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people.”

 

 

Inés Palacios
 

 

 

Fiorella Arbenz 

 

 "IN THE LATTER YEARS of the sixteenth century, 1567–1597, two fabled mariners, one Spanish, one English, waged an incessant duel throughout the Caribbean. The two men fought at the extreme western end at Nombre de Dios, and beyond the northern limits at Vera Cruz in Mexico. They fought on the isthmus, the approaches to Panamá, at little ports on the coast of South America and at the huge harbor of San Juan in Puerto Rico. But most often they faced each other at Cartagena, the walled city that became in the early 1500s the capital of Spain’s empire in the Caribbean. In heritage, training, religion, manner and personal appearance, these men differed conspicuously, but in personal heroism and eagerness to defend their honor they were identical."~~~James A. Michener: CARIBBEAN: Ch.4 The Spanish Lake

 

 

Chess: "Gibraltar" "Robe" "Castle" "Castilla" "Botafogo"

Florida, Ice & Farm

Honduras
Murmansk
Mar-a-Lago
Woodstock
Florida, Ice & Farm
Yggdrasil

1 Thessalonians 4:16
“For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:”

 

 

 

"To attain
the highth and depth of thy Eternal ways."~~~Milton

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Honduras" "Murmansk" "Florida, Ice & Farm" "Yggdrasil" "Woodstock" "Mar-a-Lago"