Iphigenia

Iphigenia
Matthew
Gokstad
Barcelona
Buenos Aires
Ireland
Breaking Bad
Arizona Highways

Rom.8:6
"For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace."

“The sheer technical skill of their journeys is a new achievement for the western world; and if one wants a symbol of Atlantic man that distinguishes him from Mediterranean man, a symbol to set against the Greek temple, it is the Viking ship. The Greek temple is static and solid. The ship is mobile and light.”~~~ Kenneth Clark: Civilisation. Ch1 The Skin of Our Teeth.

The beginning of the Gospel of St. Matthew, from the Lindisfarne Gospels

Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.).  Agamemnon.

"Heaven sends the vengeful fiends of hell.

Even so doth Zeus, the jealous lord

And guardian of the hearth and board,

Speed Atreus' sons, in vengeful ire,

'Gainst Paris-sends them forth on fire,

Her to buy back, in war and blood,

Whom one did wed but many woo'd!

And many, many, by his will,

The last embrace of foes shall feel,

And many a knee in dust be bowed,

And splintered spears on shields ring loud,

Of Trojan and of Greek, before

That iron bridal-feast be o'er!

But as he willed 'tis ordered all,

And woes, by heaven ordained, must fall-

Unsoothed by tears or spilth of wine

Poured forth too late, the wrath divine

Glares vengeance on the flameless shrine."

Oseberg ship, Oslo

Iona, Western Scotland

Chess: "Iphigenia" "Matthew" "Gokstad" "Barcelona

Buenos Aires" "Ireland" "Breaking Bad" "Arizona Highways"

Paraguay

Paraguay
Managua
Breaking Bad
If
Arthur 

Psalm 18:18
"They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the LORD was my stay."

Managua, Nicaragua

Encarnación, Itapúa, Paraguay 
Christianity - predominately Catholicism - is by far the most popular religion in Paraguay with around 97 percent of people identifying with it.

Chess:  "Paraguay" "Managua" "Breaking Bad " "If" "Arthur"

If....

If you can keep your head when all about you
  Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
  But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
  Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated don't give way to hating,
  And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream — and not make dreams your master;
  If you can think — and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
  And treat those two impostors just the same:.
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
  Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
  And stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
  And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
  And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
  To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
  Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
  Or walk with Kings — nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
  If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
  With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
  And which is more; you'll be a Man, my son!

© Rudyard Kipling. All rights reserved