Showing posts with label Wednesday. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wednesday. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

Miércoles

Miércoles
Mercredi
Wednesday
Woden
Wood
Office
Timber
Arc de Triomphe
Hermes Trismegisto
Paul the Messenger
Place Charles de Gaulle 
La Puerta Negra


Phil.1:6
"Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:"


Jas.2:1
"My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons."



"A roaring swirl of white water sweeping the valley"~~~Winston Churchill
"the din in front swelled to a tremendous chorus"~~~ Stephen Crane 


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Colonial Office Design 

Typically classic Colonial design is a mixture of Georgian, French and Spanish Colonial style. Interiors are formal and symmetrical with prominent architecture found throughout.

"Simple ideas, the materials of all our knowledge, are suggested to the mind only by sensation and reflection"~~~Locke


Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton





The Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile (French pronunciation: [aʁk də tʁijɔ̃f də letwal] (About this soundlisten); literal translation: "Triumphal Arch of the Star") is one of the most famous monuments in Paris, France, standing at the western end of the Champs-Élysées at the centre of Place Charles de Gaulle, formerly named Place de l'Étoile — the étoile or "star" of the juncture formed by its twelve radiating avenues. The location of the arc and the plaza is shared between three arrondissements, 16th (south and west), 17th (north) and 8th (east). The Arc de Triomphe honours those who fought and died for France in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, with the names of all French victories and generals inscribed on its inner and outer surfaces. Beneath its vault lies the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I.  
The Arc de Triomphe by Eugène Galien-Laloue

As the central cohesive element of the Axe historique (historic axis, a sequence of monuments and grand thoroughfares on a route running from the courtyard of the Louvre to the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806, and its iconographic program pits heroically nude French youths against bearded Germanic warriors in chain mail. It set the tone for public monuments with triumphant patriotic messages. Inspired by the Arch of Titus in Rome, Italy, the Arc de Triomphe has an overall height of 50 metres (164 ft), width of 45 m (148 ft) and depth of 22 m (72 ft), while its large vault is 29.19 m (95.8 ft) high and 14.62 m (48.0 ft) wide. The smaller transverse vaults are 18.68 m (61.3 ft) high and 8.44 m (27.7 ft) wide. Three weeks after the Paris victory parade in 1919 (marking the end of hostilities in World War I), Charles Godefroy flew his Nieuport biplane under the arch's primary vault, with the event captured on newsreel.


Chess: "Miércoles" "Mercredi" "Arc de Triomphe" "Hermes Trismegisto" "Paul the Messenger"
"Place Charles de Gaulle" "Wednesday" "Woden" "Wood" "Timber" "Office" "La Puerta Negra" "El cuento del candado" 

Monday, October 17, 2011

Hermes

Hermes
Miércoles
Wednesday
Messenger
Mercury
Prov.19:5
"A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape."

 Vegetarian Lasagne
by Jasmine 2455

 Cabin Retreat in Autumn
by Robert Llewellyn / Corbis

Chess:  "Hermes" "Miércoles" "Wednesday" "Mercury" "Messenger"

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Michener

Caribbean
House of Orange

Chac Mol
Ball
Wednesday

Henry Moore
Francisco
Waterford
Canals
Río Grande

Prov. 27:11
"My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me."






Chess: "Ball" "House of Orange" "Chac Mol" "Wednesday" "Caribbean" "Henry Moore" "Bridge" "Francisco" "Waterford" "Canals" "Río Grande"

The Skin of our Teeth



I am standing on the Pont des Arts in Paris. On one side of the Seine is the harmonious, reasonable façade of the institute of France, built as a college in about 1670. On the other bank is the Louvre, built continuously from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century: classical architecture at its most splendid and assured. Jsut visible upstream is the Cathedral of Notre Dame--not perhaps the most lovable of cathedrals, but the most rigorously intellectual façade in the whole of Gothic art. The houses that line the banks of the river are also a humane and reasonable solutions of what town architecture should be should be, and in front of them, under the trees, are the open bookstalls where generations of sudents have found intellectual nourishment and generations of amateurs have indulged in the civilised pastime of book collecting. Across this bridge, for the last one hundred and fifty years, students from art schools of Paris have hurried to the Louvre to study the works of art that it contains, and then back to their studios to talk and dream of doing something worthy of the great tradition. And on this bridge how many pilgrims from America, from Henry James downwards, have paused and breathed in the aroma of a long-established cuture, and felt themselves to be at the very centre of civilisation. Civilisation, by Kenneth Clark

Caribbean, by James A. Michener


To gather notes of the book Caribbean by James Michener



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. Ch.1 A HEDGE OF CROTON

Nótese por ejemplo que el solo nombre de Antigua ya nos sugiere una idea de conexión con los arcanos del pasado--como por ejemplo, tal vez, las secretas fórmulas del voodoo haitiano, o la zozobra del griego o las peripecias del hebreo. Guadeloupe nos transporta a la fé católica en la matriz mexicana bajo una luz francesa y una configuración de mariposa. Martinique tiene la dualidad de lo marcial: lo militar y lo magisterial, dominación y liberación, revolución y Revelación, caña y café, Martí y Batista. All Saints (St. Vincent) la realidad de las genealogías, descendencias y hermandades trascendentales con su doble filo. Y Trinidad con todo lo que comporta el Número Tres en un proceso y en la Concepción o intelección dialéctica.....en fin y esto sólo para empezar

"The Caribbean, nearly nineteen hundred miles wide from Barbados to Yucatán, does not include either the Bahamas 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." Ch.1 A Hedge of Croton
Nótese que "Jamaica" pronunciado de cierta manera puede sonar a algo muy parecido a la expresión "llamó y qué ?" .... y que hay en la zona Maya una ciudad que se llama Tikal que puede, tal vez conectarse con "tu call" , "zambroteando" español e inglés, pero también se puede conectar con "Tiquicia" por aquello de que un "tical" sería un lugar lleno de ticos, pero recuérdese que "el tico" puede ser un limonense, y que para un limonense "auténtico" Jamaica es casi como la ""Madre Patria " y para un hombre caribeño las raíces son muy importantes, la yuca es una raíz y ya de ahí conectar a Yucatán y al Reino Unido tan solo requiere traer a colación este versículo Prov. 12:12
"The wicked desireth the net of evil men: but the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit." entonces la raíz del justo rinde frutos, y por lo tanto cuando este "limonense" clame al Señor, Éste le responderá y no lo desamparará. So there you have it!!! Q.E.D. ;-) je je je

"But one must always keep in mind the salient fact about this and its islands: the dominant settlers of the area would become the black slaves who arrived in such droves from Africa that in time they outnumbered and eventually outpowered all other groups combined."Ch.1 A Hedge of Croton.

Ahora bien, ¿era este resultado previsible? Por supuesto! Lo previeron los "blancos"? Los "negros"? Estas categorías aquí no son adecuadas para explicar la dinámica Civilizadora, que implica una consciencia humana directora de un proceso complejo en sus lineamientos generales pero no para determinar el resultado particular en cada caso. Convirtiéndose estos patriarcas en determinado momento en espectadores de acontecimientos violentos sin poder en esas instancias intervenir efectivamente en el corto plazo. Podríamos en estas circunstancias, tal vez, darle un uso positivo a la expresión de Jorge Luis Borges "puro italianaje mirón" para referirnos al Concejo de Mayores de "Israel" cuando las presiones económicas y militares empujaban con un ímpetu inesperado en una dirección no deseada como lo fue la explotación infra-humana que sufrió la población negra en los campos caribeños y que requería de una complicidad perversa no sólo de blancos sino de negros en África, y no podían frenar esa "locomotora" rápidamente.

"The Caribbean is often referred as the Mediterranean of America. In a strictly geographical sense thecomparison is apt: both are landbound, they are almost identical in size( Mediterranean 969,000 square miles; Caribbean 971,400. Both have been important historically, but there the similarities between the two great seas end. The lands bordering the Mediterranean gave rise to many outstanding civilizations and the three great religions, while the only great indigenous civilization that operated in the Caribbean area was the Maya in Yucatán,a and even it was dying out before the explorers arrived from Europe. " Ch.1 A Hedge of Croton

No cabe duda que la Civilización es el producto del Ingenio, ya sea que sabiamente acatemos un fundamento Trascendental, o que simplemente pretendamos postular factores de naturaleza material. Pero es el ingenio el que desarrolla técnicas de producción, construcción, organización, de comunicación y los lenguajes apropiados a dichos fines. el resultado apetecido de dicho quehacer es dulce al paladar de los pueblos. Por eso no es de extrañara que en el Caribe se establecieran los más grandes "ingenios" de azúcar; para muchos esto puede ser lo que en inglés se denomina "serendipity", pero no, hay una luz inspiradora a lo largo de la Historia de la Humanidad, y al final, parafraseando a Shakespeare, creo, las estrellas conspiran en sus cursos para el Triunfo Final de Jesucristo La misma Evangelización con la inspiración del Espíritu Santo ha generado inevitablemente grandes contradicciones entre el espíritu y la letra de la misma. Contradicciones que resultan de atender a lecturas de la Biblia de una manera literal por los "evangelizados" y algunos "evangelizadores" y de ahí resultaron algunas de las mayores crueldades en la historia. Pero es que la religión SIN ÉL es al igual que una pirámide Maya una pirámide trunca, y es por lo tanto una interpretación así una mera "ilusión" lo que el budismo llama Maya pero si creemos en una mano Invisible, no en el mercado sino en la Historia Humana entonces podemos ver la Providencia Divina y comprender la instancia Maya como una "obsolescencia planeada" y también será su concomitante relato, la dislexia en la lectura de la Biblia, algo llamado a ser superado cuando Jesucristo sea REAL a los ojos de todos. Mientras tanto habrá que seguir jugándonosla como lo que somos nosotros VI King s porque somos los que hemos visto al REY (RA) y seguiremos tratando de enrumbar la nave por el RUMBO correcto.
Por lo que todo ese periodo trágico en la historia del Caribe--que es un fiel reflejo de la historia trágica en la Humanidad-- no es sino un proceso inevitable llamado a ser superado cuando hayamos CRUZado el verdadero Mar Rojo que nos interesa CRUZar.......WE WILL CROSS IT!!!




A Chac Mool stone statue at Chichen Itza site, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico. This reclining Toltec-Maya figure influenced Moore's sculpture.
Chacmool excavated by Augustus Le Plongeon (d. 1908) from the Platform of the Eagles and Jaguars at Chichen Itza, Yucatan. 1875.
http://maya.csuhayward.edu/archaeoplanet/AdivinoGra/PhoMisc/Chacmool.htm
I presume this is one of the late 20th century prints of Le Plongeon's 19th century negatives made by Lawrence Gustave Desmond. Clearly photo is not from when sculpture was in sito; presumably taken when it was either in Piste or Merida.