Ouroboros; Curiosities;

Throughout its history Mankind has always been prone to the fallacy of believing in anything;

Sunrise;

The Ouroboros  is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. The name originates from within Greek language;  oura meaning "tail" and boros meaning "eating", thus "he who eats his tail.

It has been represented throughout antiquity and  mankinds history.

Ouroboros on the flag of Gabriele d'Annunzio's short-lived Italian Regency of Carnaro at the city of Fiume (now Rijeka, Croatia)

Freemasonry

The ouroboros is displayed on numerous Masonic seals, frontispieces and other imagery.

Phytagorean Pentacle

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, and it was profoundly mystical. 

It is in the nature of man to be eaten by greed. From ancient times the Ouroboros has made its way from the Phoenicians to the Greeks, to the Romans to the different Chinese dynasties, these are only a few  from many who have chased  the Ouroboros and in the end have eaten up themselves. Empires come and go as they are linked impenetrably to greed, decadence, lawlessness in the highest echelons of  the leaders. Always the chase for More,  more fortune, more wars to enrich themselves until the snake devours herself and it all starts again. 

©TS

Morning Noon Evening

Morning

Noon

Evening

THEY please me not--these solemn songs

That hint of sermons covered up.

'T is true the world should heed its wrongs,

           But in a poem let me sup,

Not simples brewed to cure or ease

Humanity's confessed disease,

But the spirit-wine of a singing line,

           Or a dew-drop in a honey cup!

Paul Laurence Dunbar 

June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906

P.L. Dunbar a great poet and thinker very much admired.

© Photos TS

October; Food for thoughts;

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names" Chinese Proverb


Memorial for all the victims of aggressions, violence and wars. There has been not only one holocaust, every war and violence  is a holocaust for the people innocently  involved .
For the native people of the Americas.
For the native people of Australia
For the Africans traded into slavery and made second grade citizens in their own homeland.
The Palestinian  when they lost their land and homes in 1948 to the Zionist movement and the state of Israel was created
For all the dead  people of all lands who have lost their lives through  aggressions due to wars and the arrogance of politics and Politicians.

July; Food for thoughts;

   Winter, Camellias are in bloom, the subtle harmony of pink and gold.

   "Nothing is as powerful as an idea whose time has come!"    Victor Hugo

 
  "O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength! But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. William Shakespeare            "Measure for Measure," Act II, Scn. ii

The Seven Blunders of the World ;
 The seven blunders are:

Wealth without work

Pleasure without conscience

Knowledge without character

Commerce without morality

Science without humanity

Worship without sacrifice

Politics without principle

My Library; Serpent Dust; by Debra Adelaide;

Serpent Dust by Debra Adelaide

In my view a very poetic wonderfully written story.

Excerpts from this book;

Page 67
Mrs. Twineham:"...What will become of this colony, I am unable to say, and I am moved to consider how this
bustling self important little place should ever survive, let alone prosper.

Page 86
Dyirra:"...But we'd been camped on the edge of the maiyal settlement for month, watching our fishing places swallowed up. Then our water supply, then the badagarang hunting grounds. All going or gone.

....less than moments, then our homeland was transformed into something utterly unrecognizable

Page 87
Dyirra:" Meanwhile we were still stalking backwards, still retreating, creeping, silently putting one foot behind the other with our bags and stick...

Page102
Strawberries, ten bushels of India seed corn, bamboos, quinces, oak and myrtle trees...
Six bullet molds, fife hundred and eighty-nine women's petticoats...

Page 171
Cowper:"...out here you can belong. The land holds you when you submit to it. And so I have come to the bush that looks after you, if you let it.
That's what those grubbing, tree felling, gravel scraping fools back at the settlement will never understand.
...to truly look at the land they have claimed for their own, too stupid to think beyond the scope of thir own stores and provisions...

Page 181
The Reverend MR Arthur Twineham:"....we brought the seedlings with us. Yet the trees seem to me a crude punctuation in this landscape.....while the originals, the grey and drooping gums have long been felled and turned into fuel and shelter.

Within two years of the fleet's arrival, those watchers had suffered the shocking ravages of smallpox, their numbers decimated. the disease spread to aboriginal people throughout the country with devastating results. But how did smallpox arrive in Australia?

June; Food for thoughts;

There is always a dark cloud;  I know I am an optimist and look at the blue sky...cogito ergo sum.

Hopefully, even if it does not look like it, never has, "tous va pour le mieux dans le meilleur des mondes;" Voltaire.

'To plunder to slaughter, to steal these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness they call it peace." Tacitus- Roman historian 55-120 AD    

 "I bear solemn witness to the fact that NATO heads of state and of government meet only to go through the tedious motions of reading speeches, drafted by others, with the principal objective of not rocking the boat." - Pierre Trudeau

"I think that NATO is itself a war criminal." - Harold Pinter



"The ruling class has the schools and press under its thumb. This enables it to sway the emotions of the masses." - -- Albert Einstein - (1879-1955) Physicist and Professor, Nobel Prize 1921


"After the advent of the written word, the masses who could not - or were not permitted to - read, were given sermons by the few who could." - Theodore Bike


"And I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale." -Thomas Jefferson-

I believe Gandhi is the only person who knew about real democracy - not democracy as the right to go and buy what you want, but democracy as the responsibility to be accountable to everyone around you. Democracy begins with freedom from hunger, freedom from unemployment, freedom from fear, and freedom from hatred. To me, those are the real freedoms on the basis of which good human societies are based.

 

Food for thoughts; April 2011;

Sunset;

"We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."  ~Albert Einstein

"A normal person does not want to kill and will avoid it at all costs. The military won't let you remain normal. It doesn't matter if you think you are smart enough not to get caught up in their lies. They will change you.

Don't be sucked into the biggest myth and lie that dying for your country is somehow heroic"  Larry Kerschner 

"[War] is legalized mass murder, it is rightly relegated to the measure of last resort by civilized people the world over. Thus the majority of the civilized world was horrified when the United States launched a preemptive war on Iraq without the authorization of the United Nations."  Thom Hartmann

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector." -  Plato quotes 

"If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy"

 -  James Madison 

The time is always right to do what is right." --Martin Luther King Jr.