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When Right-Wing Extremists Crashed the French Drone Festival

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher May 19, 2023 May 19, 2023Acoustic and Classical, Activities and Festivals, Ancient Inspired, Christianity, Culture, Electronica, Events and Happenings, France, Music, News, Social and Political Issues, Spirituality, Temples and Shrines

Right Wing Extremists Crash the French Drone Festival

When Right-Wing Extremists Crashed the French Drone Festival by Philip Sherburne (Pitchfork)

Set among ruins that predate Stonehenge, You Origin festival reshaped the work of Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley, Kali Malone, and more around meditative surroundings—despite some unwanted guests.

The entire weekend was shot through with an uncommon spirit of openness, as if everyone realized how rare an opportunity it was to see music in this meditative context. All the events converged upon an overlapping set of themes: the intersection of sound and landscape, space and time, presence and ephemerality. Above all, it felt…

Archaeologists have uncovered the first human representations of the people of mythical Tartessos – Arkeonews

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher April 22, 2023 April 22, 2023Archaeology, History, News, Photos, Spain, Temples and Shrines

The team from Mérida’s Institute of Archaeology believes two of the busts discovered in what is thought to be a shrine or pantheon represent Tartessian goddesses, despite the fact that Tartessian religion was previously thought to be aniconic (opposed to the use of idols or images).The stone busts’ facial depiction, as well as the inclusion…

Students on northern Israel field trip stumble onto 1,500-year-old lioness carving | The Times of Israel

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher March 20, 2023 March 20, 2023Africa, Archaeology, History, Israel, Jewish, Judaism, Rome, Temples and Shrines

The basalt carving of a lioness suckling her young discovered at Ein Nashut by students on a field trip on March 1, 2023, in ancient Israel. (courtesy Mordechai Aviam)

A group of students taking a class on the history of early Jewish villages in northern Israel became part of the story they were studying last week after stumbling across a 1,500-year-old carved lioness sculpture that likely adorned an ancient synagogue.Prof. Mordechai Aviam of the Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee was leading…

I Watched Ancient Apocalypse So You Don’t Have To (Part 1, 2, and 3)

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher March 1, 2023 March 20, 2023Archaeology, History, Myths and Legends, Temples and Shrines, Video

I Watched Ancient Apocalypse So You Don’t Have To (Part 1) from YouTube54 minutes 27 seconds

Howdy friends! In this video, we begin our deep dive into the wonderful and imaginative world of Graham Hancock, journalist, sociologist, pseudoscientist, and pyramid enthusiast.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A&ab_channel=Miniminuteman[/embed] In his most recent documentary series on Netflix, Hancock postulates the existence of an ancient lost civilization that dominated the world at the end of the last ice age. Throughout this series I will be taking a balanced look at this claim, weighing each piece of evidence presented, in an attempt to determine whether…

Israel unveils finds from tomb of early Christian figure

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher December 22, 2022 December 22, 2022Archaeology, History, News, Temples and Shrines

Israel unveils finds from tomb of early Christian figure (Yahoo News)

Israel on Tuesday unveiled pilgrims’ lamps and other finds from the so-called Tomb of Salome, a burial site named for a woman said to have assisted at the…

Israel on Tuesday unveiled pilgrims’ lamps and other finds from the so-called Tomb of Salome, a burial site named for a woman said to have assisted at the birth of Christ.The tomb was discovered by grave robbers in what is now Lachish national park, west of Jerusalem, in the 1980s.Subsequent excavations by archaeologists have uncovered…

Tourist booed, detained after climbing stairs at protected Mayan monument El Castillo in Mexico – ABC7 Los Angeles

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher November 24, 2022 November 24, 2022Culture, Indigenous Maizeland, Mexico, News, Racism, Temples and Shrines, Travel, Video

In Mexico, a dumb tourist stunt prompted a very angry reaction.People can be heard shouting “idiot” and other insults in Spanish as they doused the tourist in water. https://youtu.be/TdLkMUN6SbQ Source: Tourist booed, detained after climbing stairs at protected Mayan monument El Castillo in Mexico – ABC7 Los Angeles

The Dahomey Kingdom | African History Documentary

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher September 24, 2022 September 24, 2022Africa, Africa, Culture, History, Spirituality, Temples and Shrines, Video

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G93TsdYFgoY&ab_channel=AEAFilms[/embed] Children of the Panther | Part 1 | Danhomé & Vodun In Part 1, Onuora Abuah travels to his boyhood home of Benin (West Africa) to learn the history of the 17th century Danhomé (Dahomey) kingdom which ruled the region. His journey begins in the water town of Ganvie, before heading north to Abomey,…

Skull of Mary Magdalene – Magdalene Publishing

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher July 23, 2022 July 23, 2022Death and Funerary Practices, History, Temples and Shrines

The skull of Mary Magdalene rests most of the year in the crypt of the Basilique Sainte Marie Madeleine, a massive Gothic basilica whose construction began in 1295 under Charles II of Anjou, King of Naples, Count of Provence and nephew of St. Louis (King of France). It was on this ground, that Mary Magdalene’s…

Emmett Till’s Chicago Home Will Be Preserved!

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher July 20, 2022 July 20, 2022Social and Political Issues, Temples and Shrines, United States

Fourteen-year-old Emmett Till traveled from his home in Chicago to visit family in Mississippi in the summer of 1955 before being brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman. Now the home on Chicago’s South Side where Till lived with his mother, Mamie Till Mobley, will receive a portion of a grant intended to…

Diver Discovers Underwater Treasure Beneath Pharaoh’s Tomb – YouTube

K. Sis. Nicole T.N. Lasher June 13, 2022 June 13, 2022Africa, Archaeology, Temples and Shrines, Video

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWVZ8T8v_qk&t=13s[/embed] Underneath a 30 foot high, 2,300 year old pyramid and cut into the earth’s bedrock is the tomb of an ancient Pharaoh, ruler of the Kingdom of Kush. These southern neighbors of the ancient Egyptians were similar to their neighbors of the north in several ways. They enshrined their leaders in pyramidal tombs, only…