• Posts Tagged ‘Ancient Egypt’

    Anatomy Of A Firefly

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    Little boxes on the hillside

    Fun fact: Giza sits at the cross section of the most land anywhere on earth. The north-south axis (31 degrees east of Greenwich) is the longest land meridian, and the east-west axis (30 degrees north) is the longest land parallel on the globe. This post’s draft -which I have been tinkering with for a...

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    The Past Is As Weird As The Apocalypse

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    We are certainly living in interesting times. But it appears we have always lived in interesting times and that we have traditionally been pretty poor at recognising this. One has to wonder just how voluminous the evidence for a rewrite of the dominant narrative of civilisation has to be before we can drop the...

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    The Accidental Illuminati

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    One of a pair of gold-capped obelisks taken from an Egyptian sun temple and aligned to the heliacal rising of Sirius. Also pretty.

    It amuses me how strong the tendency is among corners of the magical world to throw the baby out with the bath water. Almost as if, should you find one idea in a book or a blog post you disagree with then the whole lot has to go. You could -and I do- make...

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    Hedge Buddhas And Egyptian Weddings

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    This is the first weekend more or less to ourselves in quite some time. I have been day-dreaming about it since Wednesday: sleeping in, cooking, reading, catching up on television, meditating, doing the monthly forecast. (Have you done yours? Sun sign astrology was the hands-down winner again this month.) Here are a few things...

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    An Ancient Egyptian Pain Killer

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    Even obviously fake sun looks appealing when you're sick in London

    Being under the weather makes you think about things like pain killers.. And boredom… And what you have in the cupboard because nuts to going outside. As I was rearranging my bookshelves in preparation for the arrival of two more to catch the overflow I found a title I bought at the Book Of...

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