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Hi. I started a newsletter called *Animal animal*.
It’s partly for the small kid in your life: animal limericks, facts, drawings--
--and partly for you: books, art, online treasures.
Pop by and read edition 001 here: tinyurl.com/2zumzwfz
I hope you’ll sign up!
It is also more striking in its visuals.
The best ‘Ramayana’ movie is a ‘90s anime called ‘The Legend of the Prince Rama.’ The anime achieves what the new Bollywood blockbuster isn’t able to — that is, it’s told with dramatic clarity. vulture.com/article/the-best…
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As promised, a new batch of yaksha. This time, I turned my eye to pan-Asian representations of the makara and the gajasinha.
I hope you like them and if you do, that you’ll consider buying one. In the age of AI, how nice to own some human-made art, no?
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Una de las urnas mas impresionantes y complejas encontradas en nuestro país. Fue ubicada por la arqueóloga Nelly Robles en una de las tumbas del Edificio 6 de Atzompa, a un costado de la Casa o Templo de los Altares. El descubrimiento se dio en el 2012. Esta fina urna modelada y policromada iba a acompañada de una segunda, una representación femenina de la Señora Agua. Ambas destacan por su fina hechura y su color. Noten el gran yelmo o tocado de lagarto, lo que denota su carácter sagrado como mediador entre el mundo terrenal, celestial y el inframundo, un xicani
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5. A makara carved from soapstone, at the 12th century Hoysaleshwara temple in Karnataka, India. The Hoysala kingdom's extraordinary sculptures cover almost the whole architectural surface of the temple.
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The Navajo hogan is a masterpiece of efficiency & vernacular architecture: tons of thermal mass, an aerodynamic profile, well-ventilated yet comfortable year
round. The entire structure is built by hand from materials harvested nearby, & it’s fully biodegradable. Perfection
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3. Stone gajasinha sculpture in the ruins of the kingdom of Yāpahuva (1276–1284); a brass gajasinha made in Senkadagala (Kandy) in the 1800s, copied from a silver lamp at a temple in the Dumbara Valley (via V&A).
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Nice new site: ruism.org. A bilingual edition of the Four Books, Chinese with James Legge’s English translation, and Zhu Xi’s commentary in Chinese toggles open under each verse. Plus the Five Classics, terms, bios, etc. Also has a Spanish and Catalan interface!
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"Itztlacoliuhqui — el señor del frío, la obsidiana y aquello que se vuelve rígido.
En la tradición mexica, Itztlacoliuhqui es una figura asociada con el frío, las heladas, el hielo , las consecuencias y la obsidiana; su nombre suele interpretarse como “el que tiene algo torcido” o “el que está encorvado”, una imagen relacionada la forma de su cabeza , representación del maíz y la obsidiana; junto con la rigidez y la transformación que produce el frío.
La obsidiana, negra, brillante y cortante como una noche congelada, aparece vinculada a su poder. No es simplemente una piedra: para los mexicas podía ser instrumento ritual, materia para armas y espejo oscuro capaz de evocar fuerzas sobrenaturales.
Itztlacoliuhqui representa así una naturaleza que no destruye con fuego, sino con frío: aquello que inmoviliza, endurece y detiene el movimiento." Por @sr.venado #neomexicanismos
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AI attempts to hobble or outright destroy the liberatory possibility of information technologies—the ability to use voice, image, video, and text as authentic witness and testimony, in a globally accessible human archive transcending distance and time, to easily contradict power.
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The gajasinha is a mainstay of Hindu/Buddhist art. It serves an apotropaic role, and/or appears as a guardian animal. Popular in Lanka as a threshold guardian, I was surprised to learn it appears much less frequently in East Asia.
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