19 posts tagged “africa”
"One more word about smelly fish, and I'll make you smell for the rest of the day";. Accra, Ghana, dec 2005
Is the Sphinx older than 5,000 years? Is the face that of a sub-Saharan African? Why is the nose missing? Did Napoleon use it for target practice? Why is questioning the age of the Sphinx at 5,000 years heretical? Has water eroded this monument and if so, what is the meaning of this? Why is it best to be a tenured professor first before questioning orthodoxy? Who is Boris Said and what is his connection with Charlton Heston? If you want to understand the grand legacy of Egypt who do you call? Dr Zahi Hawass? National Geographic, Discovery Channel, the Smithsonian, or R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz?
John Anthony West speaks passionately about the Sphinx and Egypt in several podcasts at his blog http://www.jawphoenixfire.blogspot.com/. I suggest when listening to the Son of Mystery of the Sphinx series you look at a photo of the subject such as this one, or the two below. Otherwise these presentations could easily bore you. West details events and personalities specialists in the field of questioning orthodox Egyptologists would only consider.
John Anthony West has the best advertisements for any service KO has heard thus far. After listening to him hawk his Egyptian symbolist tours I conclude you haven't really lived on Earth unless you have visited Egypt at least once and understand some of the basics of Egyptian symbology.
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PYRAMIDE & SPHINX PLATEAU DE GIZA, EGYPTE
dedicated to my flickr-friend Petra (ps70) ...
Large On Black
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Explored: 01.12.2008
Don't just look at the pretty picture. Get a compass, straightedge, pencil and graph paper. Start creating yourself. Begin with Albrecht Durer's pentagram and hexagram http://www.geomancygroup.org/pentagram.html.
Pentagrams and hexagrams aren't evil. They are encoded in the universe. They manifest in many places such as flowers (p & h), the 8-year long pentagram-forming orbit of Venus around the Sun as seen from Earth, honeycombs (h), any set of seven identically-sized round objects (h), and Saturn's north pole (h). Now stretch your arms out, stand with feet apart and head up high (p).
Oh baby, I'm a star (from 12:54) http://www.spike.com/video/prince-revolution/2792252.
Martin Heigen writes:
The perfect Ratio of 1:1.618 that occurs everywhere in Nature. In this example I used the Corona (Latin for Crown) of a Stapelia schinzii var. schinzii flower (from Namibia, Africa), to illustrate Nature's divine Ratio. The Inner and Outer Corona, and Corolla Lobes (Petals) all conform to this exact Ratio.
The Golden Ratio (or Golden Mean) can be found in everything from human anatomy, to a nautilus shell, butterflies, insects, plants and flowers.
Architects used this formula (π / Phi) from the Parthenon to the Pyramids, and Renaissance Artists like Leonardo da Vinci used it for the Composition of the Mona Lisa.
Best viewed LARGE.
Read more about The Golden Ratio" at Wikipedia.
Martin
