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Like most mythological heroes, Achilles had a complicated family tree. His father was Peleus, the mortal king of the Myrmidons–a people who, according to legend, were extraordinarily fearless and skilled soldiers. His mother was Thetis, a Nereid.
According to myths and stories composed long after the Iliad, Thetis was extraordinarily concerned about her baby son’s mortality. She did everything she could to make him immortal: She burned him over a fire every night, then dressed his wounds with ambrosial ointment; and she dunked him into the River Styx, whose waters were said to confer the invulnerability of the gods. However, she gripped him tightly by the foot as she dipped him into the river–so tightly that the water never touched his heel. As a result, Achilles was invulnerable everywhere but there.
When he was 9 years old, a seer predicted that Achilles would die heroically in battle against the Trojans. When she heard about this, Thetis disguised him as a girl and sent him to live on the Aegean island of Skyros. To be a great warrior was Achilles’ fate, however, and he soon left Skyros and joined the Greek army.
When Homer wrote the Iliad in about 720 B.C.E., however, readers and listeners would not have known any of this. They only knew that Achilles was a great hero, that he had superhuman strength and courage and that he was supremely handsome. Homer painted a more nuanced picture: In addition to these qualities, his Achilles was vengeful and quick to anger and could be petulant when he did not get his way. He was also deeply loyal and would sacrifice anything for his friends and family.
Achilles: The Trojan War
According to legend, the Trojan War began when the god-king Zeus decided to reduce Earth’s mortal population by arranging a war between the Greeks (Homer calls them the Achaeans) and the Trojans. He did this by meddling in their political and emotional affairs. At Achilles’ parents’ wedding banquet, Zeus invited the prince of Troy, a young man named Paris, to judge a beauty contest between the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Each of the goddesses offered Paris a bribe in exchange for his vote. Aphrodite’s was the most alluring: She promised to give the young prince the most beautiful wife in the world. Unfortunately, the wife in question–Helen, the daughter of Zeus–was already married to someone else: Menelaus, the king of Sparta. At Aphrodite’s urging, Paris went to Sparta, won Helen’s heart and took her (along with all of Menelaus’ money) back to Troy.
Menelaus vowed revenge. He assembled an army of Greece’s greatest warriors, including Achilles and his Myrmidons, and set off to conquer Troy and get his wife back. In Homer’s telling, this war lasted for 10 bloody years.
Achilles: The Illiad
When the Iliad begins, the Trojan War has been going on for nine years. Achilles, the poem’s protagonist, has led one battle after another. He has met with great success–in fact, he is undefeated in battle–but the war itself has reached a stalemate.
Homer’s story focuses on a different conflict, however: the internecine quarrel between his hero and Agamemnon, the leader of the Achaean armies and Menelaus’ brother. In a battle that took place before the poem begins, Agamemnon had taken as a concubine a young Trojan woman named Chryseis. Chryseis’ father, a priest of the god Apollo, tried to buy his daughter’s freedom, but Agamemnon mocked his entreaties and refused to release the girl.
Enraged, Apollo punished the Greek armies by sending a plague to kill the soldiers one by one. As his ranks thinned, Agamemnon finally agreed to allow Chryseis to return to her father. However, he demanded a replacement concubine in exchange: Achilles’ wife, the Trojan princess Breseis.
Achilles did as his commander asked and relinquished his bride. Then, he announced that he would no longer fight on Agamemnon’s behalf. He gathered his belonging and refused to come out of his tent.
With the Greeks’ greatest warrior off the battlefield, the tide began to turn in favor of the Trojans. The Greeks lost one battle after another. Eventually, Achilles’ best friend, the soldier Patroclus, was able to wrangle a compromise: Achilles would not fight, but he would let Patroclus use his armor as a disguise. That way, the Trojans would think that Achilles had returned to battle and would retreat in fear.
The plan was working until Apollo, still seething about Agamemnon’s treatment of Chryseis and her father, intervened on the Trojans’ behalf. He helped the Trojan prince Hector to find and kill Patroclus.
Achilles vowed to take revenge. Thetis asked the divine blacksmith Hephaestus to make a sword and shield that would keep him safe. Achilles chased Hector back to Troy, slaughtering Trojans all the way. When they got to the city walls, Hector tried to reason with his pursuer, but Achilles was not interested. He stabbed Hector in the throat, killing him.
Hector had begged for an honorable burial in Troy, but Achilles was determined to humiliate his enemy even in death. He dragged Hector’s body behind his chariot all the way back to the Achaean camp and tossed it on the garbage heap. However, in the poem’s last section Achilles finally relents: He returns Hector’s body to his father for a proper burial.
Achilles: The Fate of Achilles
In his Iliad, Homer does not explain what happened to Achilles. According to later legends (and bits and pieces of Homer’s own Odyssey), the warrior returned to Troy after Hector’s funeral to exact further revenge for Patroclus’ death. However, the still-vengeful Apollo told Hector’s brother Paris that Achilles was coming. Paris, who was not a brave warrior, ambushed Achilles as he entered Troy. He shot his unsuspecting enemy with an arrow, which Apollo guided to the one place he knew Achilles was vulnerable: his heel, where his mother’s hand had kept the waters of the Styx from touching his skin. Achilles died on the spot, still undefeated in battle.
The official history is hiding a major world power which existed as late as the 19th century. Tartary was a country with its own flag, its own government and its own place on the map. Its territory was huge, but somehow quietly incorporated into Russia, and some other countries. This country you can find on the maps predating the second half of the 19th century.
Yet, some time in the 18th century Tartary Muskovite was the biggest country in the world: 3,050,000 square miles.
The flag and crest of Tartary had an owl depicted on it. The emperor's flag contained a griffin on a yellow background.
There is a growing opinion in Russia that French invasion of Russia played out according to a different scenario.
The one where Tsar Alexander I, and Napoleon were on the same side. Together they fought against Tartary.
Essentially France and Saint Petersburg against Moscow (Tartary). And there is a strong circumstantial evidence to support such a theory.
They built the Great Wall in what is now China. Marco Polo wrote an extensive and detailed account of Asia in the 13th and 14th centuries and did not even mention a wall. The Great Wall is not seen on any maps pre-dating the late 1600’s. So most of it’s construction occurred in 1700’s and it was built to keep the encroaching Chinese out of Tartaria. The openings on the wall are on the north side towards the former Tartary not on the south China facing side. It should be called the Great Wall of Tartaria. The further back in time you go the more advanced it gets. There are many pyramids of different kinds. Megalithic temples hewn out of solid rock. The Ellora Caves in India. The colossal underground monolithic churches of Lalibela Ethiopia. Extensive underground tunnel systems. The astonishing Serapeum of Saqqara in Egypt. The earlier the monolithic stone the bigger it is and the more precision it is cut with. The earlier the structure the more incapable we are of replicating it. Never was mortar used. In past ages the world was more diverse. Skeletons of giants are found on all continents. And remains of beings with elongated skulls. Graveyards of little people and horned human like entities have been unearthed. Now it is as if these beings have never existed. Like the Tartarians they are never mentioned. We live in a virtual reality where true history is ignored and covered up. A totally false narrative is taught. Fantasies have replaced truth and everything is pushed way back to the remote past. Older advanced structures are credited to local people who came later who have no idea how to build them. Deception has been utilized to push history back a thousand years and create an artificial dark age. The time of Jesus was less than 1000 years ago. In the Middle Ages the i and J before numbers designated Jesus. Not the number one. For example i346 is 346 years after the time of Jesus. It is not 1346. Way back in the Old Testament at the time immediately following the Exodus it states that the Israelites used the Arc of the Covenant as a weapon of war. Against the Amorites, Midianites and Philistines. So the use of energy weapons has been going on for over a thousand years. It was perfected to the point where it was able to take out many millions of Tartarians. The energy weapons melted cities and destroyed the civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome which were approximately of the same time period as Jesus and were heavily influenced by Tartaria. Not only are they pushed way back into remote history, the extent of their empires have been fabricated. Destroying the pyramid complex was the first objective of the Israelites. Puma Punku which is part of the Tiahuanacu complex in Bolivia had interlocking megaliths of andesite and diorite. These are types of granite only surpassed in hardness by diamonds but they were somehow carved with laser like flatness. Now they are broken and shattered and blown to bits. Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku is said to have been built by a simple local migrating tribe. This idea is used all over the world to dismiss and cover-up the ancient advanced cultures. Energy weaponized from the Arc of the Covenant is what brought down the Walls of Jericho. The Arc was an electrical capacitor composed of silver and brass alloys and gilded with gold. It’s true purpose was to store and direct energy from the Earth to outside sources. But transporting it around was very dangerous and it caused people to become sick and die. It had a constant radiation but it also sent out intermittent electrical surges where many people were killed instantly. The ones who carried it had to wear protective clothing. The electrical capacity of such an apparatus would be over 500 volts. Opposing armies would be defenseless against such a weapon. The volume or cubic capacity of the empty coffer inside the Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza is exactly the same volume as the Arc of the Covenant. According to Egyptian tradition the Israelites plundered Egypt during the upheaval at the time of the Exodus. They took the Arc out of the so called Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza at this time. The tribe of Israel also used religion as a means to get their foot in the door in the ruling affairs of foreign countries. A religious leader holds great power able to influence many simple minds who believe the leader’s edicts are from God. The Druids who held such sway in England were Jewish. So were the Jesuits. So have been all the Popes and the Mormon leaders. The reason why Jewish people look down upon Christians is because they know they invented the Christian religion. Jewish beliefs are just a rendition of the former appearances and interactions of planetary Gods. Books written in Tartary were rewritten and sold as Jewish history. Much of the content was fabricated and interfused with traditional local beliefs. This is how they sold their religion. They used Monks to write what they wanted making them think they were doing God’s work. The burning of old books and the rewriting of them in order to change history is the real Reformation. The Library of Alexandria in Egypt was purposely destroyed to limit knowledge. Making deals with kings was a way they were able to get control of a country’s financial system. Once one controls the money supply and its allotments then they control the country. In this way righteous kings were replaced by insurgent kings who defrauded the people to take part in unjust wars. Just fake an event such as a murder, blame it on another country, add some patriotic and religious slogans, demonize the other country and you have created a war. In the Middle Ages the spraying of viruses not only eliminated entire villages it caused the Black Plague which killed off over 70 million people in Europe. Disease was a favorite weapon used against the Tartarian kingdom. In 1346 at the Siege of Kaffa in the Ukraine the Tartarians suffered an epidemic of plague brought on by the catapulting of viruses into the city. Fire was used to burn crops and create famine. The 1490’s saw the first signs of collapse of the Tartary Empire. In 1666 the city of London was intentionally burned. Tartaria was severely weakened in 1775. But it remained until the early 1800’s. When Napoleon attacked Russia, Moscow was hit by an energy weapon. So was Washington DC in the War of 1812. These wars were actually wars against Tartarians. The first two world wars were to wipe out remaining Tartarian influences. Genghis Khan was said to be a Mogul. Mogul is just a made-up name which is then associated with Mongolia. Genghis Khan fought to restore the kingdom of Tartary and reclaim their land. His mounted warriors were called Tartars. Now Tartary is associated with hell. Many buildings in America demolished or still standing, said to be built by early pioneers or native people in America were in fact built by the Tartars. Disease was also used against the native people in the Americas. It is estimated that 95% of them perished from disease. Mostly smallpox. The Aztecs looked upon the Spaniards as the returning of their light colored god. Their beliefs harkened back to the events in the ancient sky when a light colored god came down from the heavens to save them. But these light colored people came to kill them. The Old World Order was replaced by the New World Order. And the Gregorian Calendar was instituted. To force the common people to accept a new false chronology. Peace and freedom was been replaced by being fenced up in strict borders. The suppression of Tartary coincides with the new teaching of evolution. We just think we are evolving. We have become disconnected with nature and disconnected with reality. It was not always like that. The farther back in time you go the more connected and at peace we were. With ourselves, with the animals and with the land we lived on.
••• Books and Publications •••
- History Of Mufcovy Tartary Perfia And Other Countries
- Narrative of a pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, from the frontiers of China to the Frozen sea and Kamtchatka; performed during the years 1820, 1821, 1822, and 1823
- Tibet, Tartary And Mongolia Ed. 2nd
- Travels In Ladak, Tartary, And Kashmir
- Travels in Russia, Tartary and Turkey
- A pedestrian journey through Russia and Siberian Tartary, to the frontiers of China, the Frozen Sea, and Kamtchatka
- Travels In Tartary Omce Company And News From Tartary
- With Peter Fleming in Tartary
- A voyage to Japan, Kamtschatka, Siberia, Tartary, and various parts of coast of China
- Tibet, Tartary, and Mongolia ; their social and political condition, and the religion of Boodh, as there existing
- Visits To High Tartary, Yarkand, And Kashghar
- The history of Genghizcan the Great, first emperor of the antient Moguls and Tartars
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Tartaria Star Forts...
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From a formal point of view, Oberalm is a young market, as the town was only granted market rights in 1930. Its great historical significance, however, can be seen from the fact that Oberalm has functioned since the Middle Ages as the southernmost village of the former Pfleggericht Glanegg; The marble Taiding table in the open air next to the church, which has been preserved from this period, is also unique. Not least because of this early administrative importance, Oberalm was occasionally referred to as a market since the late Middle Ages, but the late legal recognition of this position was delayed until the 20th century due to the long-standing dominance of the town of Hallein. Under the Nazi regime, the market town of Oberalm completely lost its independence due to the creation of the municipality of Hallein. It was not until eight years after the end of the Nazi regime that the market town of Oberalm was rebuilt on 1 January 1953 at the massive insistence of the population, but reduced in size by the parts bordering Hallein (especially Neualm).
The village of Oberalm has developed as a rural street village along the old country road to Hallein, which is the reason for the dense development on the main road. In addition to the Taiding table, the parish church of St. Stefan with its late Gothic ribbed vault and the hereditary burial of the knightly family of the Wiespeck, who had also been hereditary chamberlains of the archbishopric since the 15th century, can be mentioned as special buildings. In addition, the "castle quadrangle" should be mentioned: On the northern outskirts of the village is Winkl Castle, which served as the seat of the Wiespeck, and since 1908 it has housed the Winklhof agricultural college. The two castles of Haunsperg and Kahlsperg are residences from the 14th century, which derive their names from their builders, the von Haunsperg and the Chalhochsbergs. Today, the former is run as a castle hotel and the latter serves as a retirement home. Since the new boundary was drawn in 1953, Wiespach Castle, the fourth residence, is no longer located on Oberalm territory, but belongs to the town of Hallein.
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"The Giant of the Roots Tunnel" : The Controversial Actual Photo Published in 1946
Have you ever heard of the supposed Giant of the Tunnel Las Raíces? In July 1946, the Chilean magazine "En Viaje", dedicated to tourism, published a photograph of the underground vehicular passage – which connects Curacautín and Lonquimay in the region of La Araucanía – that could generate controversy.
In the image of the author Francisco Ribet during the construction of the Tunnel in the 1930s, a man of a much larger size than the other workers can be seen on the right side of the tunnel. Despite the obvious, in the article, this strange presence is not questioned, only the photo is used to tell the story of the work.
The tallest part of the structure has a maximum height of 5.6 meters, indicating that the man in the photograph may have been more than 4 meters tall.
The fact clearly stirs up conspiracy theories or legends regarding the existence of giants and the alleged concealment of this information from the public.
That is why in order to better understand the photograph, the expert in restoration of old photographs and owner of El Restaurador, Michael Puchi, carried out a detailed analysis and gave El Contraste, his opinion on the controversial image.
Las Raíces Tunnel Giant: "The record is 100% real"
"The photograph of the 'Giant' in the Las Raíces tunnel in Lonquimay does not have depth of field, so there is no blur in the background, neither in the people in front nor in the objects ahead," Puchi explained. "Although the photograph is not intervened from the digital area, the record is 100% real. But, unfortunately, it is not a giant, but a difference in depth between people that generates this striking effect and that today has gone viral on social networks."
Puchi pointed out that old photographs have significant differences compared to current photographs. "The main one is that they don't need a film to store the information and they don't require chemical processes to record the information," he said. "In addition, another important point is the depth of field that can be obtained today with our cameras."
In short, the official explanation for the photograph of the "Giant of the Tunnel of the Roots" would be a single one. It's an example of how perspective and depth of field can generate amazing optical effects in an image. Thanks to the analysis of expert Michael Puchi, we can better understand the nature of this ancient photograph and appreciate its historical and cultural value without falling into the temptation of speculation and legend.
A howdah, or houdah derived from the Arabic which means "bed carried by a camel", also known as hathi howdah, is a carriage which is positioned on the back of an elephant, or occasionally some other animal such as a camel, used most often in the past to carry wealthy people during progresses or processions, hunting or in warfare.
Oldest terrarium by David Latimer
In 1960 David Latimer got curious and decided to plant a glass bottle with seed. He would have never guessed it would turn into a beautiful case study of a self-sustaining sealed ecosystem that has been called “the world’s oldest terrarium.”
In fact, after all these years, David’s sealed bottle garden is still thriving and robust. With thriving plant life, despite not watering it since 1972.
David planted the terrarium back in 1960 by placing a quarter pint of water and compost in the ten-gallon bottle. He then lowered in spiderworts seeding with a wire. Finally, sealing it and put it in a corner filled with sun. Letting mother nature do its thing through photosynthesis.
Photosynthesis puts moisture and oxygen in the air through the plants. The humidity then builds and begins to rain back down on the plants. Leaves will also fall and rot, producing carbon dioxide that the plants need for nutrition.
It’s a beautiful example of how nature can support itself.
Larimer did open the bottle in 1972 to water the plant. But, since then, it has remained sealed without fresh water or air.
This is possible because the garden makes its own ecosystem through the magic of the sun (photosynthesis) that is self-sufficient.
“It’s 6ft from a window so gets a bit of sunlight. It grows towards the light so it gets turned round every so often so it grows evenly. Otherwise, it’s the definition of low-maintenance. I’ve never pruned it; it just seems to have grown to the limits of the bottle.”
David reported to the Daily Mail.
The sealed garden has been placed in the same spot for 27 years in the Latimer’s home and is located in Cranleigh, Surrey and first exposed to the world through Radio 4’s Gardeners Question Time on BBC by Chris Beardshaw. Chris is not only a television host but also a garden designer. He felt David’s sealed garden was indeed the perfect cycle of life and a great example of plants’ recycling ability. Also adding that it is the same method that NASA is interested in bringing plants into space. Saying:
‘”Plants operate as very good scrubbers, taking out pollutants in the air so that a space station can effectively become self-sustaining,’ he said. ‘This is a great example of just how pioneering plants are and how they will persist given the opportunity.”
Growing Bottle Gardens
A bottle garden works by creating a self-sustaining ecosystem through plant photosynthesis and recycling nutrients.
Light is the only input needed externally. Providing energy for food and growth. The light shines on the leaves and is taken in by protein-containing chlorophylls (green-colored pigment). The plant stores a portion of the light as ATP (adenosine triphosphate) for energy. The remaining amount is used in the plant roots to get rid of electrons from water.
The electrons then are free to release oxygen by converting carbon dioxide to carbohydrates through chemical reactions.
To decay organic material like deal leaves, the ecosystem employs cellular respiration. This is done by bacteria that take in waste oxygen and release carbon dioxide that helps the plant grow.
The plant will also use a similar process of cellular respiration to break down nutrients it has stored when there is no sunlight (nighttime).
Water is cycled by getting sucked up in plant roots, transpires into the air, then gets condensed into the potting mix. Beginning a new cycle that repeats over and over again.
Conclusion:
Many are skeptical of this being true, and some, like Bob Flowerdew (organic gardener), think that “It’s wonderful but not for me, thanks. I can’t see the point. I can’t smell it, I can’t eat it,”.
Shockingly David Latimer feels the same. Saying that the sealed bottle garden is pretty boring. Not really doing much, but it does interest him enough to see how long it can sustain itself.
Some claim it was a novel. Others corfirm it was a historical fact.
In the latter case, reference is made to the hundreds of fossilized bone remains on the Breton beaches.
The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence. The censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it. According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, "Pantagruelism", is rooted in "a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things". Rabelais had studied Ancient Greek and he applied it in inventing hundreds of new words in the text, some of which became part of the French language. Wordplay and risqué humor abound in his writing.
The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Smoky God by Willis George Emerson
Given the applicable copyrights, only the link can be referred to here.
https://livros01.livrosgratis.com.br/gu003007.pdf
The Monster of Conser Lake
As with many heavily wooded and/or remote areas of the world, particularly in North America, Oregon has a Bigfoot-like monster associated with it. In the 1960s, visitors to picturesque Conser Lake began reporting sightings of a seven-foot-tall Bigfoot-like creature that supposedly had shaggy white fur and pointy ears.
While the local residents referred to the monster as many different things, it got its official name from a journalist and a psychic who visited the lake together and encountered the monster. They said he spoke to them and told them his name was Flix. Locals still refer to the monster as the Conser Lake Monster, however.
The Legend of Colossal Claude
Just like the Conser Lake monster is an example of a local Bigfoot, Colossal Claude is an example of one of the many deep, freshwater lake and river monsters around the world. Unlike Bigfoots, which seem to be mostly indigenous to North America, lake and river monsters can be found worldwide. Oregon is no exception. It has its own river monster called Colossal Claude who lives in the Columbia River.
First seen in 1934 by a group of sailors, Colossal Claude was described as being forty feet long, with a snake-like appearance, and eyes that appeared “evil.” Over the next thirty years, Claude was seen and reported numerous times in the Columbia River by both locals, sailors, and visitors, and has been spotted at the mouth of the river, and as far south as Lincoln City.
Most people who have seen Claude say he looks “prehistoric.” Video footage taken in 1963 shows a creature that closely matches the descriptions given by others, except this creature was smaller than the forty to fifty foot long being most other reports described. It was just as creepy in appearance as other reports, and alike to other reports in every other way, however. It seems clear that something is in the Columbia River, though no one knows just what it is yet (just like the other lake and river monsters of the world)
Ogopogo
The largest of five inter-connected freshwater lakes of the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Okanagan Lake is home to a large serpent-like dragon named the Ogopogo. The natives of the area labeled the creature a sacred water demon. The dragon would demand a live sacrifice in exchange for safe crossing of the lake. The practice of sacrificing small animals before entering the water was done for hundreds of years by First Nations.
The small animals may have made for meager meals for the large serpent, but it was not food the dragon was interested in. It was recognition. When white settlers began to live in the region, Ogopogo struck similar bargains. In exchange for safety, they would make sacrifices to the creature. For the settlers, this sacrifice would be gold, silver, and jewelry.
Lake Chelan Dragon
The Ogopogo is not the only dragon that resides in the waters of the Pacific Northwest. A dragon’s egg was brought from Scotland in 1812 by Captain Chelan. When it hatched, it fled to the 55 mile long lake in north-central Washington state, where it grew strong and healthy by eating the fish and wildlife. There are rumors that mermaids aided the dragon’s hatching and escape, but there are few further tales of mermaids in Lake Chelan to support that story.
The dragon is a 30 foot long beast with the body of an alligator, a serpent-like head, and ribbed wings between its legs. Unlike the dragon of Okanagan Lake, Lake Chelan’s dragon does not parlay with humans and, as such, has no epitaph beyond its home lake. There are enough fish in the lake to keep the dragon well-fed and it rarely leaves the comforts of the depths. However, once in a while, it seeks new tastes and ventures onto land or extends its wings to soar.
The dragon appears to be immortal and impervious to any harm. There have been tales of the creature being attacked with knives, rocks, guns, and even dragged into the fire, only for the beast to grow even more angry.
Amhuluk
A strange creature lives in the waters of the northwest Oregon. The four-legged demon known as Amhuluk has a shaggy, green pelt and long, spotted horns on its head. The monster spreads pestilence and fog; where ever it steps, the ground softens and sinks. Thankfully for humanity, the fearsome beast rarely leaves its home in one of the lakes near Forked Mountain. Amhuluk is content to to remain in its “new” home, indulging in its favorite hobby of enchanting the water to drown whatever comes near.
Those who see the reflective waters of Amhuluk’s home become disoriented and get the sensation that the lake itself has drowned the sky and surrounding trees. And that they, themselves must be drowning. Victims fall into the water and drown, never quite sure in which direction the surface lies. Those that do manage to escape often find themselves falling violently ill and spreading contagious diseases, as being too near to the demon’s home means breathing in its musk.
Some venture into the lakes in the hope of making a deal with the demon, for it has the power to reverse disease as well. The demon will take diseases, curing the carrier and adding to its own repertoire. There is a risk that the demon will have seen the disease too often and will no longer be interested; those individuals will be gored on its horns; with a keepsake of its victims woven into the demon’s fur.
They were known for the Gigantomachy (or Gigantomachia), their battle with the Olympian gods.
According to Hesiod, the Giants were the offspring of Gaia (Earth), born from the blood that fell when Uranus (Sky) was castrated by his Titan son Cronus.
Archaic and Classical representations show Gigantes as man-sized hoplites (heavily armed ancient Greek foot soldiers) fully human in form. Later representations (after c. 380 BC) show Gigantes with snakes for legs.
In later traditions, the Giants were often confused with other opponents of the
Olympians, particularly the Titans, an earlier generation of large and powerful children of Gaia and Uranus.
The vanquished Giants were said to be buried under volcanoes and to be the cause of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
The name "Gigantes" is usually taken to imply "earth-born",and Hesiod's Theogony makes this explicit by having the Giants be the offspring of Gaia (Earth). According to Hesiod, Gaia, mating with Uranus, bore many children: the first generation of Titans, the Cyclopes, and the HundredHanders.
However, Uranus hated his children and, as soon as they were born, he imprisoned
them inside of Gaia, causing her much distress. Therefore, Gaia made a sickle of adamant which she gave to Cronus, the youngest of her Titan sons, and hid him (presumably still inside Gaia's body) to wait in ambush. When Uranus came to lie with Gaia, Cronus castrated his father, and "the bloody drops that gushed forth [Gaia] received, and as the seasons moved round she bore ... the great Giants." From these same drops of blood also came the Erinyes (Furies) and the Meliai (ash tree nymphs), while the severed genitals of Uranus falling into the sea resulted in a white
foam from which Aphrodite grew. The mythographer Apollodorus also has the Giants being the offspring of Gaia and Uranus, though he makes no connection with Uranus' castration, saying simply that Gaia "vexed on account of the Titans, brought forth the Giants".
There are three brief references to the Gigantes in Homer's Odyssey, though it's not entirely clear that Homer and Hesiod understood the term to mean the same thing. Homer has Giants among the ancestors of the Phaiakians, a race of men encountered by Odysseus, their ruler Alcinous being the son of Nausithous, who was the son of Poseidon and Periboea, the daughter of the Giant king Eurymedon. Elsewhere in the Odyssey, Alcinous says that the Phaiakians, like the Cyclopes and the Giants, are "near kin" to the gods. Odysseus describes the Laestrygonians (another race
Origins encountered by Odysseus in his travels) as more like Giants than men. Pausanias, the 2nd century AD geographer, read these lines of the Odyssey to mean that, for Homer, the Giants were a race of mortal men.
The 6th–5th century BC lyric poet Bacchylides calls the Giants "sons of the Earth".
Later the term "gegeneis" ("earthborn") became a common epithet of the Giants. The first century Latin writer Hyginus has the Giants being the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus, another primordial Greek deity.
Though distinct in early traditions,Hellenistic and later writers often confused or conflated the Giants and their Gigantomachy with an earlier set of offspring of Gaia and Uranus, the Titans and their war with the Olympian gods, the Titanomachy.
This confusion extended to other opponents of the Olympians, including the huge monster Typhon, the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus, whom Zeus finally defeated with his thunderbolt, and the Aloadae, the large, strong and aggressive brothers Otus and Ephialtes, who piled Pelion on top of Ossa in order to scale the heavens and attack the Olympians (though in the case of Ephialtes there was probably a Giant with
the same name). For example, Hyginus includes the names of three Titans, Coeus, Iapetus, and Astraeus, along with Typhon and the Aloadae, in his list of Giants, and Ovid seems to conflate the Gigantomachy with the later siege of Olympus by the Aloadae.
Ovid also seems to confuse the Hundred-Handers with the Giants, whom he gives a "hundred arms". So perhaps do Callimachus and Philostratus, since they both make Aegaeon the cause of earthquakes, as was often said about the Giants.
Other early sources characterize the Giants by their excesses. Pindar describes the excessive violence of the Giant Porphyrion as having provoked "beyond all measure".[30] Bacchylides calls the Giants arrogant, saying that they were destroyed by "Hybris" (the Greek word hubris personified).The earlier seventh century BC poet Alcman perhaps had already used the Giants as an example of hubris, with the phrases "vengeance of the gods" and "they suffered unforgettable punishments for the evil they did" being possible references to the Gigantomachy.
Homer's comparison of the Giants to the Laestrygonians is suggestive of similarities between the two races. The Laestrygonians, who "hurled ... rocks huge as a man could lift", certainly possessed great strength, and possibly great size, as their king's wife is described as being as big as a mountain.
Over time, descriptions of the Giants make them less human, more monstrous and more "gigantic". According to Apollodorus the Giants had great size and strength, a frightening appearance, with long hair and beards and scaly feet. Ovid makes them "serpent-footed" with a "hundred arms",and Nonnus has them "serpent-haired".
The most important divine struggle in Greek mythology was the Gigantomachy, the battle fought between the Giants and the Olympian gods for supremacy of the cosmos.
It is primarily for this battle that the Giants are known, and its importance to Greek culture is attested by the frequent depiction of the Gigantomachy in Greek art.
The references to the Gigantomachy in archaic sources are sparse.Neither Homer nor Hesiod mention anything explicit about the Giants battling the gods. Homer's remark
that Eurymedon "brought destruction on his froward people" might possibly be a reference to the Gigantomachy and Hesiod's remark that Heracles performed a "great work among the immortals"is probably a reference to Heracles' crucial
role in the gods' victory over the Giants. The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (or the Ehoia), following mentions of Heracles' sacks of Troy and of Kos, refers to his having slain "presumptious Giants". Another probable reference to the Gigantomachy in the Catalogue has Zeus produce Heracles to be "a protector against ruin for gods and men".
There are indications that there might have been a lost epic poem, a Gigantomachia, which gave an account of the war:
Hesiod's Theogony says that the Muses sing of the Giants, and the sixth century BC poet Xenophanes mentions the Gigantomachy as a subject to be avoided at table. The Apollonius scholia refers to a "Gigantomachia" in which the Titan Cronus (as a horse) sires the centaur Chiron by mating with Philyra (the daughter of two Titans), but the
scholiast may be confusing the Titans and Giants. Other possible archaic sources include the lyric poets Alcman (mentioned above) and the sixth-century Ibycus.
The late sixth early fifth century BC lyric poet Pindar provides some of the earliest details of the battle between the Giants and the Olympians. He locates it "on the plain of Phlegra" and has Teiresias foretell Heracles killing Giants "beneath [his] rushing arrows". He calls Heracles "you
who subdued the Giants", and has Porphyrion, who he calls "the king of the Giants", being overcome by the bow of Apollo.
Euripides' Heracles has its hero shooting Giants with arrows, and his Ion has the chorus describe seeing a depiction of the Gigantomachy on the late
sixth century Temple of Apollo at Delphi, with Athena fighting the Giant Enceladus with her "gorgon shield", Zeus burning the Giant Mimas with his "mighty thunderbolt, blazing at both ends", and Dionysus killing an unnamed Giant with his "ivy staff". The early 3rd century BC author Apollonius of Rhodes briefly describes an incident where the sun god Helios takes up Hephaestus, exhausted from the fight in Phlegra, on his chariot.
Literally : "a rock or a mountain that sticks up above the level of an area of ice or snow"
Also translated from Inuït ; 'a hill or mountain that has been completely encircled by a glacier and/or ice'
Petrified from organic origin.
Nunataks are promontories that project above the surface of a glacier.
Certain plants survived glaciation on nunataks.
Mount Pilatus
A few different local legends about the origin of the name exist. One claims that Pilatus was named so because Pontius Pilate was buried there.[citation needed] However, a similar legend is told of Monte Vettore in Italy. Another is that the mountain looks like the belly of a large man, Pilate, lying on his back and was thus named for him.
The name may also be derived from "pileatus," meaning "cloud-topped."
The walls of the château and its seven towers are constructed of ancient megalitic blocks and the roofs are stone slabs. The treestump-spur upon which the stone donjon sits was initially used by pre-historic people as an open place of refuge, followed by a wood tower and then the stone tower.
The château continued to evolve under the d’Aurouze, d’Estaing and Jean de Lastic and other prominent French families. In the early medieval period it was a contested stronghold. During the Hundred Years’ War, it was in a continuous tug-of-war between the French and the English resulting in numerous sieges and increased fortifications. During the Renaissance, the château was enhanced with classical details while made even more defensible
Today's ruins of the summit castle are located on the summit of the 644 m high Hohenkrähen ("Krayen"), a mount top north of Singen im Hegau, located between the villages of Duchtlingen, Schlatt unter Krähen and Mühlhausen in the district of Duchtlingen.
From the ruins you have a good view of the other treetop castles: Hohentwiel Fortress, Mägdeberg Castle and the western Lake Constance area.
The mount is overgrown, shrubs and trees cover the terrain. The summit can be reached via a narrow path.
The linden trees on the mountain flanks, some of which are very old, are currently considered to be the largest linden forest in West Germany. (The largest closed linden forest in Central Europe is the Colbitzer Lindenwald.) The forests on the mountain are home to one of the largest populations of dormice in Germany.
Archaeological finds suggest that the first settlement around the Hohenkrähen existed already in prehistoric times thanks to its distinctive and strategically secure location. Some finds document settlement activity during the Upper Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
Individual finds prove that the Hohenkrähen has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age. Romans and Alemanni used the mountain as a place of worship. Traces of Roman settlement are dated to the 2nd century AD.
The castle was built between 1180 and 1190 – it was built by the Lords of Friedingen, who were also called "de Craien" from 1191.
After an inheritance dispute and the war of the Confederates, Hans Wilhelm von Friedingen recruited about 1446 former Swiss mercenaries around 20. In the following six months, raids were carried out from Hohenkrähen on Swiss territory, which led to a settlement between the lord of the castle and the Confederates. In the years that followed, the Friedingers took advantage of the turmoil between Austria, the Confederates and the Swabian Confederation to increase their possessions through street robbery and looting. The actual trigger for the siege was the spurned courtship of a Swabian nobleman, Stefan Hausner, to a beautiful burgher's daughter from Kaufbeuren. He therefore attacked the merchants and withdrew to the allied Friedinger on the Hohenkrähen. Therefore, Emperor Maximilian assembled an army of the Swabian League under the command of Paul von Lichtenstein and Georg von Frundsberg, 8000 men, equipped, among other things, with 10 pieces (heavy guns) brought from Innsbruck, including the Scharfmetz and Singerin, the Turntraxel, the Duke Sigismund and the Ketterlin. The bullets often rolled back due to the steep height of the mountain, were collected and fired again. Frundsberg had shots fired at the Pfisterei from a middle hill, so that flour and feathers sprang out at the top (9 November). On November 12, 1512, the Hohenkrähen was captured after a three-day siege. However, the nobles were piled up during the night, the castle was burned down and razed, it was later rebuilt.
The legend of Poppele
Many local traditions are about a bailiff and robber baron Popolius Maier, who lived in the castle around the beginning of the 15th century and, according to legend, as punishment for the wickedness committed, has to wander restlessly through the area as "Burggeist Poppele". A field cross at the foot of the mountain is said to protect against the spirit. The figure appears in numerous legends and plays an important role in the Singen carnival. In a successful children's book, Elisabeth Walter describes the "adventurous journey of little Schmiedledick with the gypsies". As a Sunday child for the gypsies, Schmiedledick is supposed to redeem the Poppelegeist from the Hohenkrähen, he finally stays voluntarily with the Travellers in order to redeem the Poppelegeist.
the French articulation for the Middle English word 'tree-castle'.
Brittany, a region full of character that is attached to its peculiarities, is a world apart in a remote corner of northern France, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Hence the expression 'Costa-érès', literally: Costa (Spanish for coast) - Area.
The original name of Brittany was Armorica.
Later it was called Little Britain, by analogy with Great Britain. Later it became simply Brittany. Hence the mixed French-English wordplay in place names.
The Breton name Armor (meaning 'the sea') still refers to the coastal region, while Argoat ("the wood/forest") is the name for the inland region. The history therefore goes very far back into prehistory. The current castle was only built in the 19th century in neo-Gothic style, on the ruins of previous buildings, which were unfortunately destroyed during one of the many previous wars. Brittany has an abundance of legends. According to one of the legends, the castle was destroyed by King Arthur's army: The Round Table
After Christ's death, one of his disciples, Joseph of Arimathea, leaves Palestine and takes with him some drops of the divine blood in the bowl (the Grail) from which the Redeemer drank at the Last Supper. He lands in Brittany, stays in the forest of Brocéliande (now the Paimpont forest) and disappears without a trace. In the 6th century, King Arthur and fifty knights set out in search of the Grail. To do this, they made the crossing from England to Brittany and destroyed various buildings on their way, including some fortifications on the coastline of Costéarès. For the Knights of the Round Table, the Grail is sacred and can only be conquered by a warrior with a pure heart. The search for the Grail gave rise in the Middle Ages to numerous adventure stories that formed the Circle of the Round Table. In the castle of Comper (near the forest of Paimpont) is a 'Centre Arthur' located that offers guided tours through the forest, including a visit to the ominous “Valley of No return” and “Valley of the Faithless Lovers". (referring to Merlin and Viviane)
One of King Arthur's companions was Merlin the Wizard. He came
to the forest of Brocéliande to live in seclusion. Merlin
however, met Viviane; the wizard and the fairy fell in love with each other.
In order to have Merlin to herself, Viviane stole from him, one by one his secrets and locked him in a magic circle.
It would have been child's play for Merlin to free himself, but he accepted with pleasure his eternal amorous captivity.
The Arthur Legend reloaded: Arthurus and Anthea (German Edition)
German Edition by Ingeborg Christel Spiess (Author)
Since even the Knights Templar were not able to find the true Grail castle on earth, the author and publisher of this book set out as a shaman over a period of about three quarters of a year in the spiritual world to look for it there. Not only did she find the real Grail Castle and the Holy Grail, but she was also able to discover the two castles next to her height. Much interesting information about the meaning of the Grail and the three castles, but also about King Arthur's Round Table can be found in this book, as well as the great surprise that Jesus and his apostles are also the "Knights of the Round Table" and "King Arthur" is identical with the great revenant St. Germain. This book helps to see the Grail legends in a completely different light and is a novelty in legend interpretatio.
“Aiguille du Midi” translates to “Needle of the Midday.” It gets its name because when viewed from a church in Chamonix, the sun passes over the mountain peak at noon.
Like most mythological heroes, Achilles had a complicated family tree. His father was Peleus, the mortal king of the Myrmidons–a people who, according to legend, were extraordinarily fearless and skilled soldiers. His mother was Thetis, a Nereid.
According to myths and stories composed long after the Iliad, Thetis was extraordinarily concerned about her baby son’s mortality. She did everything she could to make him immortal: She burned him over a fire every night, then dressed his wounds with ambrosial ointment; and she dunked him into the River Styx, whose waters were said to confer the invulnerability of the gods. However, she gripped him tightly by the foot as she dipped him into the river–so tightly that the water never touched his heel. As a result, Achilles was invulnerable everywhere but there.
When he was 9 years old, a seer predicted that Achilles would die heroically in battle against the Trojans. When she heard about this, Thetis disguised him as a girl and sent him to live on the Aegean island of Skyros. To be a great warrior was Achilles’ fate, however, and he soon left Skyros and joined the Greek army.
When Homer wrote the Iliad in about 720 B.C.E., however, readers and listeners would not have known any of this. They only knew that Achilles was a great hero, that he had superhuman strength and courage and that he was supremely handsome. Homer painted a more nuanced picture: In addition to these qualities, his Achilles was vengeful and quick to anger and could be petulant when he did not get his way. He was also deeply loyal and would sacrifice anything for his friends and family.
Achilles: The Trojan War
According to legend, the Trojan War began when the god-king Zeus decided to reduce Earth’s mortal population by arranging a war between the Greeks (Homer calls them the Achaeans) and the Trojans. He did this by meddling in their political and emotional affairs. At Achilles’ parents’ wedding banquet, Zeus invited the prince of Troy, a young man named Paris, to judge a beauty contest between the goddesses Hera, Athena and Aphrodite. Each of the goddesses offered Paris a bribe in exchange for his vote. Aphrodite’s was the most alluring: She promised to give the young prince the most beautiful wife in the world. Unfortunately, the wife in question–Helen, the daughter of Zeus–was already married to someone else: Menelaus, the king of Sparta. At Aphrodite’s urging, Paris went to Sparta, won Helen’s heart and took her (along with all of Menelaus’ money) back to Troy.
Menelaus vowed revenge. He assembled an army of Greece’s greatest warriors, including Achilles and his Myrmidons, and set off to conquer Troy and get his wife back. In Homer’s telling, this war lasted for 10 bloody years.
Achilles: The Illiad
When the Iliad begins, the Trojan War has been going on for nine years. Achilles, the poem’s protagonist, has led one battle after another. He has met with great success–in fact, he is undefeated in battle–but the war itself has reached a stalemate.
Homer’s story focuses on a different conflict, however: the internecine quarrel between his hero and Agamemnon, the leader of the Achaean armies and Menelaus’ brother. In a battle that took place before the poem begins, Agamemnon had taken as a concubine a young Trojan woman named Chryseis. Chryseis’ father, a priest of the god Apollo, tried to buy his daughter’s freedom, but Agamemnon mocked his entreaties and refused to release the girl.
Enraged, Apollo punished the Greek armies by sending a plague to kill the soldiers one by one. As his ranks thinned, Agamemnon finally agreed to allow Chryseis to return to her father. However, he demanded a replacement concubine in exchange: Achilles’ wife, the Trojan princess Breseis.
Achilles did as his commander asked and relinquished his bride. Then, he announced that he would no longer fight on Agamemnon’s behalf. He gathered his belonging and refused to come out of his tent.
With the Greeks’ greatest warrior off the battlefield, the tide began to turn in favor of the Trojans. The Greeks lost one battle after another. Eventually, Achilles’ best friend, the soldier Patroclus, was able to wrangle a compromise: Achilles would not fight, but he would let Patroclus use his armor as a disguise. That way, the Trojans would think that Achilles had returned to battle and would retreat in fear.
The plan was working until Apollo, still seething about Agamemnon’s treatment of Chryseis and her father, intervened on the Trojans’ behalf. He helped the Trojan prince Hector to find and kill Patroclus.
Achilles vowed to take revenge. Thetis asked the divine blacksmith Hephaestus to make a sword and shield that would keep him safe. Achilles chased Hector back to Troy, slaughtering Trojans all the way. When they got to the city walls, Hector tried to reason with his pursuer, but Achilles was not interested. He stabbed Hector in the throat, killing him.
Hector had begged for an honorable burial in Troy, but Achilles was determined to humiliate his enemy even in death. He dragged Hector’s body behind his chariot all the way back to the Achaean camp and tossed it on the garbage heap. However, in the poem’s last section Achilles finally relents: He returns Hector’s body to his father for a proper burial.
Achilles: The Fate of Achilles
In his Iliad, Homer does not explain what happened to Achilles. According to later legends (and bits and pieces of Homer’s own Odyssey), the warrior returned to Troy after Hector’s funeral to exact further revenge for Patroclus’ death. However, the still-vengeful Apollo told Hector’s brother Paris that Achilles was coming. Paris, who was not a brave warrior, ambushed Achilles as he entered Troy. He shot his unsuspecting enemy with an arrow, which Apollo guided to the one place he knew Achilles was vulnerable: his heel, where his mother’s hand had kept the waters of the Styx from touching his skin. Achilles died on the spot, still undefeated in battle.
The official history is hiding a major world power which existed as late as the 19th century. Tartary was a country with its own flag, its own government and its own place on the map. Its territory was huge, but somehow quietly incorporated into Russia, and some other countries. This country you can find on the maps predating the second half of the 19th century.
Yet, some time in the 18th century Tartary Muskovite was the biggest country in the world: 3,050,000 square miles.
The flag and crest of Tartary had an owl depicted on it. The emperor's flag contained a griffin on a yellow background.
There is a growing opinion in Russia that French invasion of Russia played out according to a different scenario.
The one where Tsar Alexander I, and Napoleon were on the same side. Together they fought against Tartary.
Essentially France and Saint Petersburg against Moscow (Tartary). And there is a strong circumstantial evidence to support such a theory.
They built the Great Wall in what is now China. Marco Polo wrote an extensive and detailed account of Asia in the 13th and 14th centuries and did not even mention a wall. The Great Wall is not seen on any maps pre-dating the late 1600’s. So most of it’s construction occurred in 1700’s and it was built to keep the encroaching Chinese out of Tartaria. The openings on the wall are on the north side towards the former Tartary not on the south China facing side. It should be called the Great Wall of Tartaria. The further back in time you go the more advanced it gets. There are many pyramids of different kinds. Megalithic temples hewn out of solid rock. The Ellora Caves in India. The colossal underground monolithic churches of Lalibela Ethiopia. Extensive underground tunnel systems. The astonishing Serapeum of Saqqara in Egypt. The earlier the monolithic stone the bigger it is and the more precision it is cut with. The earlier the structure the more incapable we are of replicating it. Never was mortar used. In past ages the world was more diverse. Skeletons of giants are found on all continents. And remains of beings with elongated skulls. Graveyards of little people and horned human like entities have been unearthed. Now it is as if these beings have never existed. Like the Tartarians they are never mentioned. We live in a virtual reality where true history is ignored and covered up. A totally false narrative is taught. Fantasies have replaced truth and everything is pushed way back to the remote past. Older advanced structures are credited to local people who came later who have no idea how to build them. Deception has been utilized to push history back a thousand years and create an artificial dark age. The time of Jesus was less than 1000 years ago. In the Middle Ages the i and J before numbers designated Jesus. Not the number one. For example i346 is 346 years after the time of Jesus. It is not 1346. Way back in the Old Testament at the time immediately following the Exodus it states that the Israelites used the Arc of the Covenant as a weapon of war. Against the Amorites, Midianites and Philistines. So the use of energy weapons has been going on for over a thousand years. It was perfected to the point where it was able to take out many millions of Tartarians. The energy weapons melted cities and destroyed the civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome which were approximately of the same time period as Jesus and were heavily influenced by Tartaria. Not only are they pushed way back into remote history, the extent of their empires have been fabricated. Destroying the pyramid complex was the first objective of the Israelites. Puma Punku which is part of the Tiahuanacu complex in Bolivia had interlocking megaliths of andesite and diorite. These are types of granite only surpassed in hardness by diamonds but they were somehow carved with laser like flatness. Now they are broken and shattered and blown to bits. Tiahuanaco and Puma Punku is said to have been built by a simple local migrating tribe. This idea is used all over the world to dismiss and cover-up the ancient advanced cultures. Energy weaponized from the Arc of the Covenant is what brought down the Walls of Jericho. The Arc was an electrical capacitor composed of silver and brass alloys and gilded with gold. It’s true purpose was to store and direct energy from the Earth to outside sources. But transporting it around was very dangerous and it caused people to become sick and die. It had a constant radiation but it also sent out intermittent electrical surges where many people were killed instantly. The ones who carried it had to wear protective clothing. The electrical capacity of such an apparatus would be over 500 volts. Opposing armies would be defenseless against such a weapon. The volume or cubic capacity of the empty coffer inside the Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza is exactly the same volume as the Arc of the Covenant. According to Egyptian tradition the Israelites plundered Egypt during the upheaval at the time of the Exodus. They took the Arc out of the so called Kings Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza at this time. The tribe of Israel also used religion as a means to get their foot in the door in the ruling affairs of foreign countries. A religious leader holds great power able to influence many simple minds who believe the leader’s edicts are from God. The Druids who held such sway in England were Jewish. So were the Jesuits. So have been all the Popes and the Mormon leaders. The reason why Jewish people look down upon Christians is because they know they invented the Christian religion. Jewish beliefs are just a rendition of the former appearances and interactions of planetary Gods. Books written in Tartary were rewritten and sold as Jewish history. Much of the content was fabricated and interfused with traditional local beliefs. This is how they sold their religion. They used Monks to write what they wanted making them think they were doing God’s work. The burning of old books and the rewriting of them in order to change history is the real Reformation. The Library of Alexandria in Egypt was purposely destroyed to limit knowledge. Making deals with kings was a way they were able to get control of a country’s financial system. Once one controls the money supply and its allotments then they control the country. In this way righteous kings were replaced by insurgent kings who defrauded the people to take part in unjust wars. Just fake an event such as a murder, blame it on another country, add some patriotic and religious slogans, demonize the other country and you have created a war. In the Middle Ages the spraying of viruses not only eliminated entire villages it caused the Black Plague which killed off over 70 million people in Europe. Disease was a favorite weapon used against the Tartarian kingdom. In 1346 at the Siege of Kaffa in the Ukraine the Tartarians suffered an epidemic of plague brought on by the catapulting of viruses into the city. Fire was used to burn crops and create famine. The 1490’s saw the first signs of collapse of the Tartary Empire. In 1666 the city of London was intentionally burned. Tartaria was severely weakened in 1775. But it remained until the early 1800’s. When Napoleon attacked Russia, Moscow was hit by an energy weapon. So was Washington DC in the War of 1812. These wars were actually wars against Tartarians. The first two world wars were to wipe out remaining Tartarian influences. Genghis Khan was said to be a Mogul. Mogul is just a made-up name which is then associated with Mongolia. Genghis Khan fought to restore the kingdom of Tartary and reclaim their land. His mounted warriors were called Tartars. Now Tartary is associated with hell. Many buildings in America demolished or still standing, said to be built by early pioneers or native people in America were in fact built by the Tartars. Disease was also used against the native people in the Americas. It is estimated that 95% of them perished from disease. Mostly smallpox. The Aztecs looked upon the Spaniards as the returning of their light colored god. Their beliefs harkened back to the events in the ancient sky when a light colored god came down from the heavens to save them. But these light colored people came to kill them. The Old World Order was replaced by the New World Order. And the Gregorian Calendar was instituted. To force the common people to accept a new false chronology. Peace and freedom was been replaced by being fenced up in strict borders. The suppression of Tartary coincides with the new teaching of evolution. We just think we are evolving. We have become disconnected with nature and disconnected with reality. It was not always like that. The farther back in time you go the more connected and at peace we were. With ourselves, with the animals and with the land we lived on.
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From a formal point of view, Oberalm is a young market, as the town was only granted market rights in 1930. Its great historical significance, however, can be seen from the fact that Oberalm has functioned since the Middle Ages as the southernmost village of the former Pfleggericht Glanegg; The marble Taiding table in the open air next to the church, which has been preserved from this period, is also unique. Not least because of this early administrative importance, Oberalm was occasionally referred to as a market since the late Middle Ages, but the late legal recognition of this position was delayed until the 20th century due to the long-standing dominance of the town of Hallein. Under the Nazi regime, the market town of Oberalm completely lost its independence due to the creation of the municipality of Hallein. It was not until eight years after the end of the Nazi regime that the market town of Oberalm was rebuilt on 1 January 1953 at the massive insistence of the population, but reduced in size by the parts bordering Hallein (especially Neualm).
The village of Oberalm has developed as a rural street village along the old country road to Hallein, which is the reason for the dense development on the main road. In addition to the Taiding table, the parish church of St. Stefan with its late Gothic ribbed vault and the hereditary burial of the knightly family of the Wiespeck, who had also been hereditary chamberlains of the archbishopric since the 15th century, can be mentioned as special buildings. In addition, the "castle quadrangle" should be mentioned: On the northern outskirts of the village is Winkl Castle, which served as the seat of the Wiespeck, and since 1908 it has housed the Winklhof agricultural college. The two castles of Haunsperg and Kahlsperg are residences from the 14th century, which derive their names from their builders, the von Haunsperg and the Chalhochsbergs. Today, the former is run as a castle hotel and the latter serves as a retirement home. Since the new boundary was drawn in 1953, Wiespach Castle, the fourth residence, is no longer located on Oberalm territory, but belongs to the town of Hallein.
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"The Giant of the Roots Tunnel" : The Controversial Actual Photo Published in 1946
Have you ever heard of the supposed Giant of the Tunnel Las Raíces? In July 1946, the Chilean magazine "En Viaje", dedicated to tourism, published a photograph of the underground vehicular passage – which connects Curacautín and Lonquimay in the region of La Araucanía – that could generate controversy.
In the image of the author Francisco Ribet during the construction of the Tunnel in the 1930s, a man of a much larger size than the other workers can be seen on the right side of the tunnel. Despite the obvious, in the article, this strange presence is not questioned, only the photo is used to tell the story of the work.
The tallest part of the structure has a maximum height of 5.6 meters, indicating that the man in the photograph may have been more than 4 meters tall.
The fact clearly stirs up conspiracy theories or legends regarding the existence of giants and the alleged concealment of this information from the public.
That is why in order to better understand the photograph, the expert in restoration of old photographs and owner of El Restaurador, Michael Puchi, carried out a detailed analysis and gave El Contraste, his opinion on the controversial image.
Las Raíces Tunnel Giant: "The record is 100% real"
"The photograph of the 'Giant' in the Las Raíces tunnel in Lonquimay does not have depth of field, so there is no blur in the background, neither in the people in front nor in the objects ahead," Puchi explained. "Although the photograph is not intervened from the digital area, the record is 100% real. But, unfortunately, it is not a giant, but a difference in depth between people that generates this striking effect and that today has gone viral on social networks."
Puchi pointed out that old photographs have significant differences compared to current photographs. "The main one is that they don't need a film to store the information and they don't require chemical processes to record the information," he said. "In addition, another important point is the depth of field that can be obtained today with our cameras."
In short, the official explanation for the photograph of the "Giant of the Tunnel of the Roots" would be a single one. It's an example of how perspective and depth of field can generate amazing optical effects in an image. Thanks to the analysis of expert Michael Puchi, we can better understand the nature of this ancient photograph and appreciate its historical and cultural value without falling into the temptation of speculation and legend.
A howdah, or houdah derived from the Arabic which means "bed carried by a camel", also known as hathi howdah, is a carriage which is positioned on the back of an elephant, or occasionally some other animal such as a camel, used most often in the past to carry wealthy people during progresses or processions, hunting or in warfare.
Oldest terrarium by David Latimer
In 1960 David Latimer got curious and decided to plant a glass bottle with seed. He would have never guessed it would turn into a beautiful case study of a self-sustaining sealed ecosystem that has been called “the world’s oldest terrarium.”
In fact, after all these years, David’s sealed bottle garden is still thriving and robust. With thriving plant life, despite not watering it since 1972.
David planted the terrarium back in 1960 by placing a quarter pint of water and compost in the ten-gallon bottle. He then lowered in spiderworts seeding with a wire. Finally, sealing it and put it in a corner filled with sun. Letting mother nature do its thing through photosynthesis.
Photosynthesis puts moisture and oxygen in the air through the plants. The humidity then builds and begins to rain back down on the plants. Leaves will also fall and rot, producing carbon dioxide that the plants need for nutrition.
It’s a beautiful example of how nature can support itself.
Larimer did open the bottle in 1972 to water the plant. But, since then, it has remained sealed without fresh water or air.
This is possible because the garden makes its own ecosystem through the magic of the sun (photosynthesis) that is self-sufficient.
“It’s 6ft from a window so gets a bit of sunlight. It grows towards the light so it gets turned round every so often so it grows evenly. Otherwise, it’s the definition of low-maintenance. I’ve never pruned it; it just seems to have grown to the limits of the bottle.”
David reported to the Daily Mail.
The sealed garden has been placed in the same spot for 27 years in the Latimer’s home and is located in Cranleigh, Surrey and first exposed to the world through Radio 4’s Gardeners Question Time on BBC by Chris Beardshaw. Chris is not only a television host but also a garden designer. He felt David’s sealed garden was indeed the perfect cycle of life and a great example of plants’ recycling ability. Also adding that it is the same method that NASA is interested in bringing plants into space. Saying:
‘”Plants operate as very good scrubbers, taking out pollutants in the air so that a space station can effectively become self-sustaining,’ he said. ‘This is a great example of just how pioneering plants are and how they will persist given the opportunity.”
Growing Bottle Gardens
A bottle garden works by creating a self-sustaining ecosystem through plant photosynthesis and recycling nutrients.
Light is the only input needed externally. Providing energy for food and growth. The light shines on the leaves and is taken in by protein-containing chlorophylls (green-colored pigment). The plant stores a portion of the light as ATP (adenosine triphosphate) for energy. The remaining amount is used in the plant roots to get rid of electrons from water.
The electrons then are free to release oxygen by converting carbon dioxide to carbohydrates through chemical reactions.
To decay organic material like deal leaves, the ecosystem employs cellular respiration. This is done by bacteria that take in waste oxygen and release carbon dioxide that helps the plant grow.
The plant will also use a similar process of cellular respiration to break down nutrients it has stored when there is no sunlight (nighttime).
Water is cycled by getting sucked up in plant roots, transpires into the air, then gets condensed into the potting mix. Beginning a new cycle that repeats over and over again.
Conclusion:
Many are skeptical of this being true, and some, like Bob Flowerdew (organic gardener), think that “It’s wonderful but not for me, thanks. I can’t see the point. I can’t smell it, I can’t eat it,”.
Shockingly David Latimer feels the same. Saying that the sealed bottle garden is pretty boring. Not really doing much, but it does interest him enough to see how long it can sustain itself.
Some claim it was a novel. Others corfirm it was a historical fact.
In the latter case, reference is made to the hundreds of fossilized bone remains on the Breton beaches.
The text is written in an amusing, extravagant, and satirical vein, and features much crudity, scatological humor, and violence. The censors of the Collège de la Sorbonne stigmatized it as obscene, and in a social climate of increasing religious oppression, it was treated with suspicion, and contemporaries avoided mentioning it. According to Rabelais, the philosophy of his giant Pantagruel, "Pantagruelism", is rooted in "a certain gaiety of mind pickled in the scorn of fortuitous things". Rabelais had studied Ancient Greek and he applied it in inventing hundreds of new words in the text, some of which became part of the French language. Wordplay and risqué humor abound in his writing.
The Project Gutenberg Etext of The Smoky God by Willis George Emerson
Given the applicable copyrights, only the link can be referred to here.
https://livros01.livrosgratis.com.br/gu003007.pdf
The Monster of Conser Lake
As with many heavily wooded and/or remote areas of the world, particularly in North America, Oregon has a Bigfoot-like monster associated with it. In the 1960s, visitors to picturesque Conser Lake began reporting sightings of a seven-foot-tall Bigfoot-like creature that supposedly had shaggy white fur and pointy ears.
While the local residents referred to the monster as many different things, it got its official name from a journalist and a psychic who visited the lake together and encountered the monster. They said he spoke to them and told them his name was Flix. Locals still refer to the monster as the Conser Lake Monster, however.
The Legend of Colossal Claude
Just like the Conser Lake monster is an example of a local Bigfoot, Colossal Claude is an example of one of the many deep, freshwater lake and river monsters around the world. Unlike Bigfoots, which seem to be mostly indigenous to North America, lake and river monsters can be found worldwide. Oregon is no exception. It has its own river monster called Colossal Claude who lives in the Columbia River.
First seen in 1934 by a group of sailors, Colossal Claude was described as being forty feet long, with a snake-like appearance, and eyes that appeared “evil.” Over the next thirty years, Claude was seen and reported numerous times in the Columbia River by both locals, sailors, and visitors, and has been spotted at the mouth of the river, and as far south as Lincoln City.
Most people who have seen Claude say he looks “prehistoric.” Video footage taken in 1963 shows a creature that closely matches the descriptions given by others, except this creature was smaller than the forty to fifty foot long being most other reports described. It was just as creepy in appearance as other reports, and alike to other reports in every other way, however. It seems clear that something is in the Columbia River, though no one knows just what it is yet (just like the other lake and river monsters of the world)
Ogopogo
The largest of five inter-connected freshwater lakes of the Okanagan Valley of British Columbia, Okanagan Lake is home to a large serpent-like dragon named the Ogopogo. The natives of the area labeled the creature a sacred water demon. The dragon would demand a live sacrifice in exchange for safe crossing of the lake. The practice of sacrificing small animals before entering the water was done for hundreds of years by First Nations.
The small animals may have made for meager meals for the large serpent, but it was not food the dragon was interested in. It was recognition. When white settlers began to live in the region, Ogopogo struck similar bargains. In exchange for safety, they would make sacrifices to the creature. For the settlers, this sacrifice would be gold, silver, and jewelry.
Lake Chelan Dragon
The Ogopogo is not the only dragon that resides in the waters of the Pacific Northwest. A dragon’s egg was brought from Scotland in 1812 by Captain Chelan. When it hatched, it fled to the 55 mile long lake in north-central Washington state, where it grew strong and healthy by eating the fish and wildlife. There are rumors that mermaids aided the dragon’s hatching and escape, but there are few further tales of mermaids in Lake Chelan to support that story.
The dragon is a 30 foot long beast with the body of an alligator, a serpent-like head, and ribbed wings between its legs. Unlike the dragon of Okanagan Lake, Lake Chelan’s dragon does not parlay with humans and, as such, has no epitaph beyond its home lake. There are enough fish in the lake to keep the dragon well-fed and it rarely leaves the comforts of the depths. However, once in a while, it seeks new tastes and ventures onto land or extends its wings to soar.
The dragon appears to be immortal and impervious to any harm. There have been tales of the creature being attacked with knives, rocks, guns, and even dragged into the fire, only for the beast to grow even more angry.
Amhuluk
A strange creature lives in the waters of the northwest Oregon. The four-legged demon known as Amhuluk has a shaggy, green pelt and long, spotted horns on its head. The monster spreads pestilence and fog; where ever it steps, the ground softens and sinks. Thankfully for humanity, the fearsome beast rarely leaves its home in one of the lakes near Forked Mountain. Amhuluk is content to to remain in its “new” home, indulging in its favorite hobby of enchanting the water to drown whatever comes near.
Those who see the reflective waters of Amhuluk’s home become disoriented and get the sensation that the lake itself has drowned the sky and surrounding trees. And that they, themselves must be drowning. Victims fall into the water and drown, never quite sure in which direction the surface lies. Those that do manage to escape often find themselves falling violently ill and spreading contagious diseases, as being too near to the demon’s home means breathing in its musk.
Some venture into the lakes in the hope of making a deal with the demon, for it has the power to reverse disease as well. The demon will take diseases, curing the carrier and adding to its own repertoire. There is a risk that the demon will have seen the disease too often and will no longer be interested; those individuals will be gored on its horns; with a keepsake of its victims woven into the demon’s fur.
They were known for the Gigantomachy (or Gigantomachia), their battle with the Olympian gods.
According to Hesiod, the Giants were the offspring of Gaia (Earth), born from the blood that fell when Uranus (Sky) was castrated by his Titan son Cronus.
Archaic and Classical representations show Gigantes as man-sized hoplites (heavily armed ancient Greek foot soldiers) fully human in form. Later representations (after c. 380 BC) show Gigantes with snakes for legs.
In later traditions, the Giants were often confused with other opponents of the
Olympians, particularly the Titans, an earlier generation of large and powerful children of Gaia and Uranus.
The vanquished Giants were said to be buried under volcanoes and to be the cause of volcanic eruptions and earthquakes.
The name "Gigantes" is usually taken to imply "earth-born",and Hesiod's Theogony makes this explicit by having the Giants be the offspring of Gaia (Earth). According to Hesiod, Gaia, mating with Uranus, bore many children: the first generation of Titans, the Cyclopes, and the HundredHanders.
However, Uranus hated his children and, as soon as they were born, he imprisoned
them inside of Gaia, causing her much distress. Therefore, Gaia made a sickle of adamant which she gave to Cronus, the youngest of her Titan sons, and hid him (presumably still inside Gaia's body) to wait in ambush. When Uranus came to lie with Gaia, Cronus castrated his father, and "the bloody drops that gushed forth [Gaia] received, and as the seasons moved round she bore ... the great Giants." From these same drops of blood also came the Erinyes (Furies) and the Meliai (ash tree nymphs), while the severed genitals of Uranus falling into the sea resulted in a white
foam from which Aphrodite grew. The mythographer Apollodorus also has the Giants being the offspring of Gaia and Uranus, though he makes no connection with Uranus' castration, saying simply that Gaia "vexed on account of the Titans, brought forth the Giants".
There are three brief references to the Gigantes in Homer's Odyssey, though it's not entirely clear that Homer and Hesiod understood the term to mean the same thing. Homer has Giants among the ancestors of the Phaiakians, a race of men encountered by Odysseus, their ruler Alcinous being the son of Nausithous, who was the son of Poseidon and Periboea, the daughter of the Giant king Eurymedon. Elsewhere in the Odyssey, Alcinous says that the Phaiakians, like the Cyclopes and the Giants, are "near kin" to the gods. Odysseus describes the Laestrygonians (another race
Origins encountered by Odysseus in his travels) as more like Giants than men. Pausanias, the 2nd century AD geographer, read these lines of the Odyssey to mean that, for Homer, the Giants were a race of mortal men.
The 6th–5th century BC lyric poet Bacchylides calls the Giants "sons of the Earth".
Later the term "gegeneis" ("earthborn") became a common epithet of the Giants. The first century Latin writer Hyginus has the Giants being the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus, another primordial Greek deity.
Though distinct in early traditions,Hellenistic and later writers often confused or conflated the Giants and their Gigantomachy with an earlier set of offspring of Gaia and Uranus, the Titans and their war with the Olympian gods, the Titanomachy.
This confusion extended to other opponents of the Olympians, including the huge monster Typhon, the offspring of Gaia and Tartarus, whom Zeus finally defeated with his thunderbolt, and the Aloadae, the large, strong and aggressive brothers Otus and Ephialtes, who piled Pelion on top of Ossa in order to scale the heavens and attack the Olympians (though in the case of Ephialtes there was probably a Giant with
the same name). For example, Hyginus includes the names of three Titans, Coeus, Iapetus, and Astraeus, along with Typhon and the Aloadae, in his list of Giants, and Ovid seems to conflate the Gigantomachy with the later siege of Olympus by the Aloadae.
Ovid also seems to confuse the Hundred-Handers with the Giants, whom he gives a "hundred arms". So perhaps do Callimachus and Philostratus, since they both make Aegaeon the cause of earthquakes, as was often said about the Giants.
Other early sources characterize the Giants by their excesses. Pindar describes the excessive violence of the Giant Porphyrion as having provoked "beyond all measure".[30] Bacchylides calls the Giants arrogant, saying that they were destroyed by "Hybris" (the Greek word hubris personified).The earlier seventh century BC poet Alcman perhaps had already used the Giants as an example of hubris, with the phrases "vengeance of the gods" and "they suffered unforgettable punishments for the evil they did" being possible references to the Gigantomachy.
Homer's comparison of the Giants to the Laestrygonians is suggestive of similarities between the two races. The Laestrygonians, who "hurled ... rocks huge as a man could lift", certainly possessed great strength, and possibly great size, as their king's wife is described as being as big as a mountain.
Over time, descriptions of the Giants make them less human, more monstrous and more "gigantic". According to Apollodorus the Giants had great size and strength, a frightening appearance, with long hair and beards and scaly feet. Ovid makes them "serpent-footed" with a "hundred arms",and Nonnus has them "serpent-haired".
The most important divine struggle in Greek mythology was the Gigantomachy, the battle fought between the Giants and the Olympian gods for supremacy of the cosmos.
It is primarily for this battle that the Giants are known, and its importance to Greek culture is attested by the frequent depiction of the Gigantomachy in Greek art.
The references to the Gigantomachy in archaic sources are sparse.Neither Homer nor Hesiod mention anything explicit about the Giants battling the gods. Homer's remark
that Eurymedon "brought destruction on his froward people" might possibly be a reference to the Gigantomachy and Hesiod's remark that Heracles performed a "great work among the immortals"is probably a reference to Heracles' crucial
role in the gods' victory over the Giants. The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women (or the Ehoia), following mentions of Heracles' sacks of Troy and of Kos, refers to his having slain "presumptious Giants". Another probable reference to the Gigantomachy in the Catalogue has Zeus produce Heracles to be "a protector against ruin for gods and men".
There are indications that there might have been a lost epic poem, a Gigantomachia, which gave an account of the war:
Hesiod's Theogony says that the Muses sing of the Giants, and the sixth century BC poet Xenophanes mentions the Gigantomachy as a subject to be avoided at table. The Apollonius scholia refers to a "Gigantomachia" in which the Titan Cronus (as a horse) sires the centaur Chiron by mating with Philyra (the daughter of two Titans), but the
scholiast may be confusing the Titans and Giants. Other possible archaic sources include the lyric poets Alcman (mentioned above) and the sixth-century Ibycus.
The late sixth early fifth century BC lyric poet Pindar provides some of the earliest details of the battle between the Giants and the Olympians. He locates it "on the plain of Phlegra" and has Teiresias foretell Heracles killing Giants "beneath [his] rushing arrows". He calls Heracles "you
who subdued the Giants", and has Porphyrion, who he calls "the king of the Giants", being overcome by the bow of Apollo.
Euripides' Heracles has its hero shooting Giants with arrows, and his Ion has the chorus describe seeing a depiction of the Gigantomachy on the late
sixth century Temple of Apollo at Delphi, with Athena fighting the Giant Enceladus with her "gorgon shield", Zeus burning the Giant Mimas with his "mighty thunderbolt, blazing at both ends", and Dionysus killing an unnamed Giant with his "ivy staff". The early 3rd century BC author Apollonius of Rhodes briefly describes an incident where the sun god Helios takes up Hephaestus, exhausted from the fight in Phlegra, on his chariot.
Literally : "a rock or a mountain that sticks up above the level of an area of ice or snow"
Also translated from Inuït ; 'a hill or mountain that has been completely encircled by a glacier and/or ice'
Petrified from organic origin.
Nunataks are promontories that project above the surface of a glacier.
Certain plants survived glaciation on nunataks.
Mount Pilatus
A few different local legends about the origin of the name exist. One claims that Pilatus was named so because Pontius Pilate was buried there.[citation needed] However, a similar legend is told of Monte Vettore in Italy. Another is that the mountain looks like the belly of a large man, Pilate, lying on his back and was thus named for him.
The name may also be derived from "pileatus," meaning "cloud-topped."
The walls of the château and its seven towers are constructed of ancient megalitic blocks and the roofs are stone slabs. The treestump-spur upon which the stone donjon sits was initially used by pre-historic people as an open place of refuge, followed by a wood tower and then the stone tower.
The château continued to evolve under the d’Aurouze, d’Estaing and Jean de Lastic and other prominent French families. In the early medieval period it was a contested stronghold. During the Hundred Years’ War, it was in a continuous tug-of-war between the French and the English resulting in numerous sieges and increased fortifications. During the Renaissance, the château was enhanced with classical details while made even more defensible
Today's ruins of the summit castle are located on the summit of the 644 m high Hohenkrähen ("Krayen"), a mount top north of Singen im Hegau, located between the villages of Duchtlingen, Schlatt unter Krähen and Mühlhausen in the district of Duchtlingen.
From the ruins you have a good view of the other treetop castles: Hohentwiel Fortress, Mägdeberg Castle and the western Lake Constance area.
The mount is overgrown, shrubs and trees cover the terrain. The summit can be reached via a narrow path.
The linden trees on the mountain flanks, some of which are very old, are currently considered to be the largest linden forest in West Germany. (The largest closed linden forest in Central Europe is the Colbitzer Lindenwald.) The forests on the mountain are home to one of the largest populations of dormice in Germany.
Archaeological finds suggest that the first settlement around the Hohenkrähen existed already in prehistoric times thanks to its distinctive and strategically secure location. Some finds document settlement activity during the Upper Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
Individual finds prove that the Hohenkrähen has been inhabited since the Neolithic Age. Romans and Alemanni used the mountain as a place of worship. Traces of Roman settlement are dated to the 2nd century AD.
The castle was built between 1180 and 1190 – it was built by the Lords of Friedingen, who were also called "de Craien" from 1191.
After an inheritance dispute and the war of the Confederates, Hans Wilhelm von Friedingen recruited about 1446 former Swiss mercenaries around 20. In the following six months, raids were carried out from Hohenkrähen on Swiss territory, which led to a settlement between the lord of the castle and the Confederates. In the years that followed, the Friedingers took advantage of the turmoil between Austria, the Confederates and the Swabian Confederation to increase their possessions through street robbery and looting. The actual trigger for the siege was the spurned courtship of a Swabian nobleman, Stefan Hausner, to a beautiful burgher's daughter from Kaufbeuren. He therefore attacked the merchants and withdrew to the allied Friedinger on the Hohenkrähen. Therefore, Emperor Maximilian assembled an army of the Swabian League under the command of Paul von Lichtenstein and Georg von Frundsberg, 8000 men, equipped, among other things, with 10 pieces (heavy guns) brought from Innsbruck, including the Scharfmetz and Singerin, the Turntraxel, the Duke Sigismund and the Ketterlin. The bullets often rolled back due to the steep height of the mountain, were collected and fired again. Frundsberg had shots fired at the Pfisterei from a middle hill, so that flour and feathers sprang out at the top (9 November). On November 12, 1512, the Hohenkrähen was captured after a three-day siege. However, the nobles were piled up during the night, the castle was burned down and razed, it was later rebuilt.
The legend of Poppele
Many local traditions are about a bailiff and robber baron Popolius Maier, who lived in the castle around the beginning of the 15th century and, according to legend, as punishment for the wickedness committed, has to wander restlessly through the area as "Burggeist Poppele". A field cross at the foot of the mountain is said to protect against the spirit. The figure appears in numerous legends and plays an important role in the Singen carnival. In a successful children's book, Elisabeth Walter describes the "adventurous journey of little Schmiedledick with the gypsies". As a Sunday child for the gypsies, Schmiedledick is supposed to redeem the Poppelegeist from the Hohenkrähen, he finally stays voluntarily with the Travellers in order to redeem the Poppelegeist.
the French articulation for the Middle English word 'tree-castle'.
Brittany, a region full of character that is attached to its peculiarities, is a world apart in a remote corner of northern France, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. Hence the expression 'Costa-érès', literally: Costa (Spanish for coast) - Area.
The original name of Brittany was Armorica.
Later it was called Little Britain, by analogy with Great Britain. Later it became simply Brittany. Hence the mixed French-English wordplay in place names.
The Breton name Armor (meaning 'the sea') still refers to the coastal region, while Argoat ("the wood/forest") is the name for the inland region. The history therefore goes very far back into prehistory. The current castle was only built in the 19th century in neo-Gothic style, on the ruins of previous buildings, which were unfortunately destroyed during one of the many previous wars. Brittany has an abundance of legends. According to one of the legends, the castle was destroyed by King Arthur's army: The Round Table
After Christ's death, one of his disciples, Joseph of Arimathea, leaves Palestine and takes with him some drops of the divine blood in the bowl (the Grail) from which the Redeemer drank at the Last Supper. He lands in Brittany, stays in the forest of Brocéliande (now the Paimpont forest) and disappears without a trace. In the 6th century, King Arthur and fifty knights set out in search of the Grail. To do this, they made the crossing from England to Brittany and destroyed various buildings on their way, including some fortifications on the coastline of Costéarès. For the Knights of the Round Table, the Grail is sacred and can only be conquered by a warrior with a pure heart. The search for the Grail gave rise in the Middle Ages to numerous adventure stories that formed the Circle of the Round Table. In the castle of Comper (near the forest of Paimpont) is a 'Centre Arthur' located that offers guided tours through the forest, including a visit to the ominous “Valley of No return” and “Valley of the Faithless Lovers". (referring to Merlin and Viviane)
One of King Arthur's companions was Merlin the Wizard. He came
to the forest of Brocéliande to live in seclusion. Merlin
however, met Viviane; the wizard and the fairy fell in love with each other.
In order to have Merlin to herself, Viviane stole from him, one by one his secrets and locked him in a magic circle.
It would have been child's play for Merlin to free himself, but he accepted with pleasure his eternal amorous captivity.
The Arthur Legend reloaded: Arthurus and Anthea (German Edition)
German Edition by Ingeborg Christel Spiess (Author)
Since even the Knights Templar were not able to find the true Grail castle on earth, the author and publisher of this book set out as a shaman over a period of about three quarters of a year in the spiritual world to look for it there. Not only did she find the real Grail Castle and the Holy Grail, but she was also able to discover the two castles next to her height. Much interesting information about the meaning of the Grail and the three castles, but also about King Arthur's Round Table can be found in this book, as well as the great surprise that Jesus and his apostles are also the "Knights of the Round Table" and "King Arthur" is identical with the great revenant St. Germain. This book helps to see the Grail legends in a completely different light and is a novelty in legend interpretatio.
“Aiguille du Midi” translates to “Needle of the Midday.” It gets its name because when viewed from a church in Chamonix, the sun passes over the mountain peak at noon.
Simon Keegan, 36, who lives in Hyde, has spent years researching the ancient texts and says he can prove Arthur was from the Lancashire-Yorkshire area.
And the timing could not be more fitting as 2016 is the 1,500th anniversary of Arthur’s “Waterloo” – the Battle of Badon in which he defeated the Saxons in 516AD and stopped their invasion for a generation.
Many people know King Arthur as a medieval ruler of an army of knights in shining armour with magic swords and wizards, but he was actually recorded much earlier as a warleader who battled the Saxons in the 6th century.
Read an extract from Pennine Dragon: The Real King Arthur of the North
He ruled in the Dark Ages – the time after the Romans withdrew and before the Saxon invasion was complete. Arthur rallied the kings of Britain in a dozen pitched battles and sieges.
Keegan, who used to live in Heaton Moor and worked at the Stockport Express, said: “The earliest surviving reference to King Arthur is a history book by a monk named Nennius who lists 12 of Arthur’s battles.
Pennine Dragon
Pennine Dragon
“They can be located from as far north as Scotland – “Celidon” and “Mount Agned” are Caledonia and Edinburgh – and I identify “Dubglas” with the River Douglas in Lancashire.
“Arthur’s most illusive battle however is Mount Badon. Typically it is located as being Bath, but you will see I have found a more likely northern location.”
The book identifies the legendary King Arthur with a historical ruler called Arthwys ap Mar whose father was King in the York area and whose kingdom stretched from Hadrian’s Wall down to Lancashire.
Keegan said: “Although the original manuscripts don’t survive, the works of northern bards are perhaps the oldest mentions of Arthur.
“These men actually lived around the time of Arthur and would place him in the north.”
Another tantalising piece of information is the placement of Arthur’s Camelot. A small village called Slack in Yorkshire used to be called Camulod in Roman times and was home to a large and palatial amphitheatre.
But there is much more to this study than placing Arthur in the Pennines – every member of his legendary family tree is identified within the family of Arthwys.
We meet the real Merlin, the real Guinevere, the real Mordred and a host of other characters. In total 50 legendary Arthurian characters are identified in the one book.
Keegan insists it was only later that romantic writers shifted Arthur to Cornwall.
He said: “Nowadays we think of the British ‘Celts’ as being confined to Scotland, Wales and Cornwall but in Arthur’s time the whole country was ‘Celtic’ or British.
“The invasion of the Saxons, Angles and Jutes had not fully taken hold. Arthur was fighting the enemy on the front line – the northern frontier and the east coast. He would have been wasted if he were based in Cornwall.
“He had to be further north and further east to keep the invasions at bay. Arthur held a position of Dux Bellorum – Duke of Battles – that was always garrisoned in the north.
“Many of the later characters like Lancelot, Mordred and Merlin were based on much earlier figures – and I have tied them all together and found many of them were part of the same dynasty.”
Almansa Castle, the most representative in the region of Castilla la Mancha, is perched over the Cerro del Águila, a craggy hill that raises its spectacular silhouette over the Almansa plain creating a harmonious combination of the work of nature and the work of man.
The origins of Almansa Castle date back to the Almohad period, whose characteristic form of construction, adobe walls, is today still evident on some of its walls.
The castle passed through several hands until in the 15th century it was handed over to Juan Pacheco, who as the second Marquis of Villena undertook many of the reforms that have lasted until the present, among which feature the construction of the keep, the entrance barbicans and the embrasures for firearms.
From the 16th century onwards, Almansa Castle, like many other Spanish castles, went into a long process of abandonment and deterioration until in 1952 it experienced a profound restoration on its periphery.
The eastern sector of Cerro del Águila is of very steep gradients and difficult to cross. The other side has gentler slopes. The castle is made up of two echeloned areas, both shaped by semicircular towers and crenelated walls.
The lower area has two entrance doors, one on each side of the bailey. From the bailey, climbing a steep stairway, the second area is reached, in the centre of which is erected the majestic keep. This tower has a square ground plan, with masonry and ashlars works; the interior vaulting has Gothic cross vaulting with stone ribs. On the upper part of the tower is a crenelated terrace, which is reached by a spiral staircase carved in rock in a Gothic style.
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The Event 201 pandemic exercise, conducted on October 18, 2019, vividly demonstrated a number of these important gaps in pandemic preparedness as well as some of the elements of the solutions between the public and private sectors that will be needed to fill them. The Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, World Economic Forum, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are the leading components.
Throughout the Middle Ages (5th to 15th centuries) the site of Penne was of military strategic importance, being situated on the borders of the provinces of Albigeois, Quercy and Rouergue, with its fortress perched atop a bizarre shaped 'rock' overlooking the River Aveyron. As such, it was frequently the target of attack, most notably during the Albigensian Crusade, a twenty-year military campaign (1209–1229) initiated by the King Philip II of France and the Roman Catholic Pope Innocent III.
Ostensibly, the objective of the crusade was the elimination of all Cathars in Southern France, but this coincided with the French King's political ambition to annex the area to his northern territory.
People who adhered to Catharic principles were held to be anti-Catholic heretics; as narrated by McCaffrey, "their treatment was savage and merciless – heretics and their sympathisers were often either slaughtered or burned alive at the stake".
The ID2020 Alliance has launched a new digital identity program at its annual summit in New York, in collaboration with the Government of Bangladesh, vaccine alliance Gavi, and new partners in government, academia, and humanitarian relief.
The program to leverage immunization as an opportunity to establish digital identity was unveiled by ID2020 in partnership with the Bangladesh Government’s Access to Information (a2i) Program, the Directorate General of Health Services, and Gavi, according to the announcement.
“We are implementing a forward-looking approach to digital identity that gives individuals control over their own personal information, while still building off existing systems and programs,” says Anir Chowdhury, policy advisor at a2i. “The Government of Bangladesh recognizes that the design of digital identity systems carries far-reaching implications for individuals’ access to services and livelihoods, and we are eager to pioneer this approach.”
Gavi CEO Seth Berkley says that 89 percent of children and adolescents who do not have identification live in countries where the organization is active. “We are enthusiastic about the potential impact of this program not just in Bangladesh, but as something we can replicate across Gavi-eligible countries, providing a viable route to closing the identity gap,” he says.
A partnership was also formed earlier this year between Gavi, NEC, and Simprints to use biometrics to improve vaccine coverage in developing nations.
“Digital ID is being defined and implemented today, and we recognize the importance of swift action to close the identity gap,” comments ID2020 Executive Director Dakota Gruener. “Now is the time for bold commitments to ensure that we respond both quickly and responsibly. We and our ID2020 Alliance partners, both present and future, are committed to rising to this challenge.”
ID2020 also announced new partnerships and provided progress reports on initiatives launched last year. Since last year’s summit, the ID2020 Alliance has been joined by the City of Austin, UC Berkeley’s CITRIS Policy Lab and Care USA.
The City of Austin, ID2020, and several other partners are working together with homeless people and the service providers who engage with them to develop a blockchain-enabled digital identity platform called MyPass to empower homeless people with their own identity data.
A pair of inaugural pilot programs launched last year in partnership with iRespond and Everest have each made progress, ID2020 says. The iRespond program has improved continuity of care for more than 3,000 refugees receiving treatment for chronic conditions from the International Rescue Committee in Thailand, according to the announcement, while Everest has assisted with the provision of access to critical energy subsidies and a range of additional services with secure and user-centric digital identities without relying on a smartphone.
Saint George is remembered in hagiography as one of the Fourteen Holy Helpers and one of the most famous military saints. He is honored through the legend of Saint George and the Dragon. His memorial, Saint George‘s Day, is celebrated annually on the 23rd of April. Nations such as England, Ukraine, Ethiopia, and Georgia, along with Catalonia and Aragon in Spain and Moscow in Russia, have all claimed George to be their patron saint. He is also the patron of several regions, cities, universities, professions, and organizations. The Church–Mosque of Saint George in Lod (Lydda), Israel, is said to contain his remains.
Made of bell bronze, the bell cracked during a fire after being completed and has never been rung.
The bell is the largest bell in the world, weighing 201,924 kilograms with a height of 6.14 metres and diameter of 6.6 metres.
The bell was commissioned by Empress Anna Ivanovna, niece of Peter the Great.
The US government allegedly "killed and covered up" a 13-foot giant with red hair and six-finger hands who lived in the Afghanistan highlands.
The Giant of Kandahar, a 13-foot-tall monster with red hair and six-fingered hands that lived in the mountains of Afghanistan 'was killed and covered up by the US government.' This is a representational image.
US Military 'Killed' Kandahar Giant
In a chat with Marzulli (per Daily Star), the military contractor claimed to have been there during the savage killing of a killer he dubbed the Kandahar Giant.
Marzulli discusses the "Giant of Kandahar" with a guy claiming to be a soldier on his YouTube channel, which is dedicated to connecting contemporary events to Biblical prophesies.
Before he and the other "special forces" put it down, Mr. K claimed he observed the monster holding a spear and slaying a US soldier named "Dan."
None of the occurrences have been verified.
Who is the Kandahar Giant?
According to Indie88, the Kandahar Giant is one of the following two possibilities.
A legendary 13-foot-tall enormous creature who dwelt in Afghanistan's highlands and was destroyed by US special troops. The authorities later covered up the death of the red-haired giant with six-fingered hands;
A total myth.
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In August 2016, Marzulli posted a lengthy interview with Mr. K, a military contractor, on the internet video sharing platform. During the conversation, Mr. K stated that he was a member of the crew who ruthlessly executed the Kandahar giant.
In the early 2000s, when the US military was fighting the Taliban in their de facto capital of Kandahar Province, the incident occurred. On the other hand, this massive creature was not a human combatant in the least.
How This Monster Looked Like
The Kandahar Giant, according to Mr. K, is 13 feet tall and has two sets of fangs. With his spear weapon, the monster murdered one of the Special Forces men.
According to ATI, the remainder of the troops murdered him in less than 30 seconds by firing nonstop at him. The army forces hauled its body away in a Chinook chopper and have kept it concealed since no one had seen him.
Some accounts claim that the giant was as tall as 15 feet with six digits, wore leather moccasins with a horrible odor, and appeared out of nowhere from a cave, killing one soldier with his spear.
"Between them, the squad was armed with full-auto M4 carbines, 'recon carbines' (semi-automatic) and M107 Barrett anti-materiel rifles firing .50 BMG. This much firepower concentrated on one target for one second, let alone thirty, would be extremely destructive," One report claimed.
Non-disclosure agreements (NDA) were required of the soldiers. The troops, on the other hand, broke their silence because they believed that the truth should be revealed and that the public had a right to know.
US Government Denies Claim
When Snopes asked about the "Kandahar Giant incident" in 2016, the Department of Defense said, "We do not have any record or information about a special forces member killed by a giant in Kandahar."
Furthermore, neither the website nor the news release said that a "special forces troop" had gone missing in Afghanistan or that a giant had killed one of their men.
The video was shared by the Twitter handle InterestingsAsF on June 9. In the video, we see that the tree has a hollow opening on its trunk and flames can clearly be seen engulfing it from inside, in the hollow portion. The red shoals are clearly visible inside the tree.
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This book outlined a heterodox general theory of astronomy and the earth sciences that Horbiger had been working out since the 1880s - namely, that the universe was largely made of water ice and that ice infall profoundly affected the Earth and its climate.
Horbiger's cosmogony, which came to be known as the Welteislehre (world ice theory) or WEL, also claimed that the Milky Way was largely a ring of ice crystals surrounding the solar system.
Using evidence from the Bible and traditional mythologies, plus a doubtful command of geology, Horbiger further asserted that a number of icy moons had spiraled into the Earth, leading to a series of global catastrophes. In the interwar years, the WEL acquired many lay adherents (but little scientific support) in Central Europe, Britain, and the United States. The theory reached its apogee during the Third Reich, when the Sturmabteilung (SA) or Brownshirts promoted it as compatible with ancient Nordic myths and National Socialist ideology. "Horbigerism" lingered on after World...
Nonetheless, this Goddess is celebrated in Wicca and in several New Age cults,2 as well as in a lively popular literature.3 The authors of books about the Goddess take it for granted that her existence has been confirmed by the discovery of prehistoric artifacts. Joseph Campbell, who is regarded many people in the U.S.A. as an authority on all ancient mythologies, stated that Gimbutas’ work provided a “lexicon of the pictorial script” of Goddess religion. According to Campbell, Goddess religion was an expression of “that primordial attempt on humanity’s part to understand and live in harmony with the beauty and wonder of Creation” in contrast to the story of creation in Genesis, and the “manipulated systems of the West”. As he saw it, rediscovery of her religion addressed the “need in our time for a general transformation of consciousness.”4
But could a religion that so precisely met the needs of the twentieth century C.E. have existed in the twentieth century B.C.E.? Certainly not in the form that Gimbutas, Campbell, or any of their predecessors imagined it. The present book shows why. Editors Lucy Goodison (University College, London) and Christine Morris (Trinity College, Dublin) explain in a brief, but informative introduction that in reality the Goddess is a recent creation, not of women in the distant past, as many of her enthusiasts suppose, but of male academics in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The ktistes of her cult was of course J.J. Bachofen, but she had influential priests like C. G. Jung and Erich Neumann.5 Their theories influenced the work of prehistoric archaeologists, such as Sir Arthur Evans and James Mellaart. As the women movement gathered force, the notion of a prehistoric Mother Goddess was taken up earnestly even by academics like Gimbutas and historian Gerda Lerner.6 The moral sub-text of these works leant credibility to their arguments: most of the evils of the present-day world had been introduced as a result of the dominance of men.
By the 1960s archaeologists had begun to question the existence of the Goddess, in part because they saw what extravagant deductions were being made on the basis of a fragmentary body of material evidence. How (for example) was it possible to know what Cycladic figurines represented, in the absence of written evidence, and when there were no exact records of the proveniences in which the artifacts had been found? The authors of the essays in the book have reexamined the evidence “in areas where claims for the Goddess have been most insistent”. The result, as the editors put it, is a “revelation. Not of a single, fundamental pattern universally repeating itself, but of a picture of staggering diversity”. There are many different kinds and types of goddesses, but no Goddess. Here is a brief account of the some of the significant material in this detailed and extensively documented book.
In this publication I mainly refer to the connection of word choices for the same location as being: Monte Titano (Giant Mountain) - Vall Dragone (Valley of the Dragon) - Borgo Maggiore (Great Mountain/Fortress)
Valdragone is a village (curazia) in central San Marino.
It belongs to the castello of Borgo Maggiore.
The village is divided into two areas: Valdragone di Sopra (Upper V.) and Valdragone di Sotto (Lower V.). It is situated close at the east of Borgo Maggiore and also close to Cailungo and Domagnano.
The name of Valdragone appears for the first time in historical documents of 1253. The Monastero di Santa Chiara was built from 1969 to 1971.
According to legend, the name "Valdragone" comes from stories of a dragon that appeared there. From Italian val, apocopic form of valle ("valley") + dragone ("dragon").
Bayard first appears as the property of Renaud de Montauban in the Old French twelfth century chanson de geste Quatre Fils Aymon. The horse was capable of carrying Rinaldo and his three brothers ("the four sons of Aymon") all at the same time and of understanding human speech. Near the end of the work, Renaud is forced to cede Bayard to Charlemagne who, as punishment for the horse's exploits, has a large stone tied to Bayard's neck and has the horse pushed into the river; Bayard however smashes the stone with his hooves and escapes to live forever more in the woods.
Outside the Walloon town of Dinant in Belgium stands "Bayard Rock", a large cleft rock formation that was said to have been split by Bayard's mighty hooves. In Namur, the next town downriver along the Meuse, stands a locally famous statue of Bayard and the Four Aymon Brothers. There are plenty of named places in Wallonia linked to the legend of Four Aymon Brothers and Bayard.
The Bayard legend is also celebrated in other towns in Belgium — most notably in the Flemish town of Dendermonde, where a large procession is organised every ten years. The rivalry between Dendermonde and Aalst, a city close by, has led to the construction of the Steed Balatum[clarification needed] by the inhabitants of Aalst, as a parody on Bayard. Brussels (as part of the Ommegang), Mechelen and Ath all organise processions that include Bayard. There are also Bayard statues in Ghent and Grembergen.
The legend of the Dragon of Ljubljana comes back to the epic of Jason and the Argonauts. For the uninitiated, Jason and his Argonauts are Greek heroes on a quest to find the Golden Fleece. Their quest made them sail different isles and cities, encountering danger in every way.
According to the story, Jason and his Argonauts sailed to Colchis. Colchis is the modern-day Black Sea coast of Georgia. As he is looking for the Golden Fleece, Jason had to perform three tasks set by the King of Colchis.
Jason succeeded with the help of Medea, the king’s daughter who fell in love with the hero. Jason and his team earn the Golden Fleece defeating the dragon and run away with Medea in tow. Even if the hero won Medea’s hand and the Fleece, Jason and the Argo had to evade the king’s fleet.
The Founding of Ljubljana
The Argo will eventually evade the entire pursuit, but their haste caused a critical error. Instead of going south to the Aegean Sea, the Argo now entered the mouth of the Danube River instead.
The Argos continue sailing the Danube, going their way to the Sava and eventually to the source, the Ljubljanica River. The source of the river is marshy and Jason, with his band, need to dismantle their ship as the waters grew shallow.
Jason then decided to cross the land towards the Adriatic Sea, but winter came. The heroes settled in the locale to wait for more favorable weather. The Argonauts built a village on the marsh, but they made it on top of a dragon’s hunting grounds.
The Dragon attacked the village, spitting fire and burning half of their homes. Some of the Argonauts drowned, with one taken as dinner by the Dragon.
Jason then set out to kill the Dragon, wading through the marsh and finding a large island being the Dragon’s den.
Jason and Medea attacked the Dragon but failing to do damage to it. Medea counseled Jason to bind the Dragon’s mouth and close off its nostrils with its victims’ bones. With nowhere to exhale, the Dragon exploded, combusting under its own fire.
Jason decided to return to Greece, but several Argonauts decided to settle the fertile lands around Ljubljana. The first settlement became the Roman fort of Emona, which became present-day Ljubljana.
The True History of the Ljubljana Dragon
As interesting as the myth is, the real history of Ljubljana’s Dragon is as fascinating. The real accepted history of the Dragon comes from Saint George, known as the patron saint of Ljubljana Castle’s chapel.
The Ljubljana Castle came in the 15th century, following the legend of its patron saint. The legend of Saint George shows the slaying of a dragon who demanded human sacrifice. The saint then rescues the princess, which was the quintessential knight vs dragon story.
The entire legend was also a symbolism of Christianity and the religion overcoming paganism. The Dragon eventually became the city’s coat of arms. Through the Baroque period, it outweighed everything else when it comes to importance.
Through the centuries, the Dragon became the symbol of Ljubljana. It became the capital city’s protector and perched over it, overseeing everything happening. It became a symbol of courage, wisdom, and power to the entire country.
The story of dragons in Ljubljana did not stop at legends. The dragon stories of Ljubljana connected to the existence of real-life “baby dragons.” These come in the form of Olms or aquatic cave salamanders.
The first records of “baby dragons” existed in a cave beneath the spring of Vrhnika, near Ljubljana. By the 19th century, villagers sell the salamanders as tourist products. Today, the “baby dragons” still exist in the caves of Postojna and Skocjan.
Border forests went through, certainly since prehistoric times, the old road leading from the Elbe lowlands over the East Bohemian settlement area Branka the Klodzko Basin, and from there to the Baltic Sea coast popular sites of amber.
In the 18th century, a fire destroyed several surrounding lush vegetation. Thus excelled the rocks.
Notice that it's called in German : 'Adersbach'
Aders = 'veins' / Bach = 'stream'
The legend of the enchantment
Officially speaking, the City of Rocks was created by water. The legend, however, claims it was the gods’ anger that formed it. Supposedly, the gods punished the inhabitants of the ancient towns for allowing robbers onto the rich, Czech lands. And so the gods bewitched both the towns and the people, turning them all to stone. The Adršpach City of Rocks is meant to remind us of the people’s betrayal, a crime the gods were never able to forgive.
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