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A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man
sees. Art degraded,
Imagination denied Nations are Destroy'd or Flourish in proportion as Their Poetry, Painting and Music are Destroy'd or Flourish: The primeval state of Man was Wisdom, Art and Science. William Blake; Jerusalem Energy is eternal delight. He who binds to himself a joy Mrs William Blake |
From Jerusalem, by Wm Blake |
Gaius also
proceeded, and said, I will now speak on the behalf of women, to take
away their reproach. For as death and the curse came into the world by a
woman, Gen. 3, so also did life and health: God sent forth his Son, made
of a woman. Gal. 4:4. Yea, to show how much they that came after did
abhor the act of the mother, this sex in the Old Testament coveted
children, if happily this or that woman might be the mother of the
Saviour of the world. I will say again, that when the Saviour was come,
women rejoiced in him, before either man or angel. Luke 1:42-46. I read
not that ever any man did give unto Christ so much as one groat; but the
women followed him, and ministered to him of their substance. Luke
8:2,3. 'Twas a woman that washed his feet with tears, Luke 7:37-50, and
a woman that anointed his body at the burial. John 11:2; 12:3. They were
women who wept when he was going to the cross, Luke 23:27, and women
that followed him from the cross, Matt. 27:55,56; Luke 23:55, and sat
over against his sepulchre when he was buried. Matt. 27:61. They were
women that were first with him at his resurrection-morn, Luke 24:1, and
women that brought tidings first to his disciples that he was risen from
the dead. Luke 24:22,23. Women therefore are highly favored, and show by
these things that they are sharers with us in the grace of life.
John Bunyan, Christian writer and preacher, born on November 28,
1628; from 'Encomium on women' in The Pilgrim's Progress,
(Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1853), p. 146
If there's a man among
ye, ye'll come out and fight, like the men ye are to be!
Anne
Bonney, Irish pirate, convicted of piracy on November 28, 1720 (to her drunken crew, before their capture, attrib.)
M'lord, we plead our
bellies.
Anne
Bonney and Mary Read (attrib.)
Drain, drain the bowl, each fearless soul,
Let the world wag as it will.
Let the heavens growl, the devil howl,
Drain drain the bowl and fill!
Anne
Bonney (attrib.)
Putative last words of
Washington Irving,
American author who died on November 28, 1859
Source
While I complain
of being able to glimpse no more than the shadow of the past, I may be
insensitive to reality as it is taking shape at this very moment, since I have
not reached the stage of development at which I would be capable of perceiving
it. A few hundred years hence, in this same place, another traveller, as
despairing as myself, will mourn the disappearance of what I might have seen,
but failed to see.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, French anthropologist and writer, born on November 28,
1908; from Tristes Tropiques (1955), Chapter 4: The Quest for Power, p.
43 (This is the Penguin edition translated by John and Doreen Weightman.)
In the case of European towns, the passing of centuries provides an
enchancement; in the case of American towns, the passing of years brings
degeneration. It is not simply that they have been newly built; they were built
so as to be renewable as quickly as they were put up, that is, badly.
Claude Lévi-Strauss; ibid, p. 95
If we judge the achievements of other social groups in relation to the
kind of objectives we set ourselves, we have at times to acknowledge their
superiority; but in doing so we acquire the right to judge them, and hence to
condemn all their other objectives which do not coincide with those we approve
of. We implicitly acknowledge that our society with its customs and norms enjoys
a privileged position, since an observer belonging to another social group would
pass different verdicts on the same examples. This being so, how can the study
of anthropology claim to be scientific? To reestablish an objective approach, we
must abstain from making judgments of this kind. We must accept the fact that
each society has made a certain choice, within the range of existing human
possibilities, and that the various choices cannot be compared with each other:
they are all equally valid. But in this case a new problem arises; while in the
first instance we were in danger of falling into obscurantism, in the form of a
blind refusal of everything foreign to us, we now run the risk of accepting a
kind of eclecticism which would prevent us denouncing any feature of a given
culture — not even cruelty, injustice and poverty, against which the very
society suffering these ills may be protesting. And since these abuses also
exist in our society, what right have we to combat them at home, if we accept
them as inevitable when they occur elsewhere?
Claude Lévi-Strauss; ibid, pp. 385-386
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing
to recognize – because they set so little store by them – the immense riches
accumulated by the human race on either side of the narrow furrow on which they
keep their eyes fixed; by underrating the achievements of the past, they devalue
all those which still remain to be accomplished.
Claude Lévi-Strauss; ibid, p. 393
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Feast
of Hathor as Sekhmet, ancient Egypt
"Lioness and Sun Goddess, Beer Goddess, the alternate of Bast,
the Cat Goddess." (Source of date: The Phoenix and Arabeth 1992
Calendar)
"Sekhmet was a goddess of the Memphis triad, sometimes shown as a lion-headed woman. Sekhmet was prayed to by mothers who wished to nurse their children, as in the following incantation: O thou who lives on the water, hasten to the Judge in his divine abode, to Sekhmet who walks behind him, and to Isis, ruler of Dep, saying, 'bring her this milk.'" Source
In Egyptian mythology, Hathor is the mother goddess and goddess of love of ancient Egypt. She was worshipped c. 2700 BCE or possibly
earlier, to c. 400 CE, in a cult that flourished in Ta-Netjer ('Land of
God' – modern day Dendera, or Dendara) in Upper Egypt, as well as
Thebes and Giza, and her priests included both men and women.
Other names for Hathor are Het-Hert, Athyr and Hetheru. Her name appears to mean 'house of Horus', a reference to her role as a sky goddess, the 'house' denoting the heavens depicted as a great cow. (At the temple of Queen Nefertari at Abu Simbel, Nefertari is shown as Hathor, and her husband Ramses II is shown in one sanctuary receiving milk from Hathor the cow.) Hathor was often regarded as the mother of the Egyptian pharaoh, who styled himself the 'son of Hathor'. During the Old Kingdom she assumed the properties of an earlier bovine goddess, Bat. She is an ancient goddess and appears to have been mentioned as early as the 2nd Dynasty.
Read on at Hathor: Egyptian goddess of sky – and terror
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A note about the dating of items in Wilson's Almanac The last Sunday in Trinity, and the last Sunday before Advent, is so called from the first words of the collect (short prayer) read in churches on that day: "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people." Today is traditionally the time to get the Christmas plum pudding made – it's quite easy to see the punning application of the words of the collect as an injunction to start making "fruitful" Christmas puddings and pies (recipes here). Traditionally, these should be stirred clockwise with a wooden spoon, with the members of the family taking turns in the order of mother, father, children then visitors. Today tells British schoolchildren the near approach of the Christmas holidays.
The first Alfred E Neuman?
Fourth Sunday preceding Winter Solstice, First Day of Pagan Advent
Buy Nothing Day (date varies)
Runic half-month of Is commences Goddess month of Astraea commences Feast day of St Andrew Feast day of St Andrew Trong Van Tram Feast day of St Basil Feast day of St Calimerius of Montechiaro Feast day of St Catherine Laboure Feast day of St Crescens Feast day of St Crescentian Feast day of St Cresconius Feast day of St Eustace Feast day of St Felix Feast day of St Fionnchu of Bangor Feast day of St Florentian Feast day of St
Gregory III,
Pope Feast day of St Hilary Feast day of St Hippolytus Feast day of St Hortulanus Feast day of St James of the Marches (James of La Marca) , of Ancona, confessor Feast day of St James Thompson Feast day of St Joseph Pignatelli Feast day of St Mansuetus Feast day of St Papinianus Feast day of St Papius Feast day of St Peter Feast day of St Quieta Feast day of St Rufus Feast day of St Simeon the Logothete Feast day of St Sosthenes Feast day of St Stephen the
Younger, martyr Feast day of St Urban Feast day of St ValerianIndependence
Day (Dita e Pavarësisë; Albanian Flag Day),
Albania
(from Turkey,
1912) Independence Day, Mauritania (from France, 1960) Independence Day, Panama Canal Zone Accession of the Ruler of Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe Ascension of
'Abdu'l-Bahá
(Bahá'í Faith)
Feast of the Holy Sovereigns,
Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii
1118 Manuel I Comnenus (d. September 24, 1180), Byzantine Emperor of the 12th Century who presided over a crucial turning point in the history of Byzantium and the Mediterranean 1489 Margaret Tudor (d. November 24, 1541), daughter of Henry VII of England and Elizabeth of York; her first marriage was to James IV of Scotland
1628 John Bunyan (d. August 31, 1688), English Puritan Christian writer and preacher. Imprisoned several times between 1660 and 1672, Bunyan used these periods of isolation to write his two literary masterpieces, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666) and The Pilgrim's Progress (1678). It has been said that his famous allegory about Pilgrim on his journey to the Celestial City is second only to the Bible in number of copies sold through the ages and throughout the world. Bunyan was a Dissenter, or Nonconformist, more specifically a Baptist, and thus a member of a persecuted minority. The Nonconformist denominations included the Baptists, the Wesleyan Methodists, Primitive Methodists, Quakers, Unitarians, Congregationalists, and Salvation Army. In Britain in 1662, the Act of Uniformity required episcopal ordination for all ministers. As a result, nearly 2,000 clergymen left the established church. The Test and Corporation Acts, which lasted until 1828, excluded all nonconformists from holding civil or military office. They were also prevented from being awarded degrees by the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. The term Dissenter came into use, particularly after the Toleration Act (1689), which exempted nonconformists who had taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy from penalties for nonattendance at the services of the Church of England (Wikipedia). Bunyan died from a cold caught riding through the
rain to reconcile a father and son.
1632 Jean-Baptiste Lully, (d. 1687) composer 1640 Willem de Vlamingh (d. ?), Flemish sea-captain who explored the southwest coast of Australia (then 'New Holland') in the late-17th century. On February 4, 1697, he landed at Dirk Hartog Island, Western Australia, and replaced Dirk Hartog's pewter plate with one bearing a record of both visits. The original plate is preserved in the Rijksmuseum. 1700 Rev. Nathaniel Bliss (d. 1764), British Astronomer Royal
In The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Blake began to develop his own mythology, which included a pantheon of characters such as Orc, a messiah, and Urizen, a cruel Old Testament-style god. Blake himself remarked that he had to "create a System, or be enslav'd by another Man's". Perhaps Blake's life is summed up by his statement that "The imagination is not a State: it is the Human existence itself".
A Mike Keith puzzle Hydra, hydra, looming bright Translate, villain - can man feel, 1785 Achille-Léonce-Victor-Charles (d. 1870), 3rd duc de Broglie, Prime Minister of France 1805 John Stephens (d. 1852), archaeologist 1810 William Froude (d. 1879), engineer, naval architect
1820 Friedrich Engels (d. August 5, 1895), German Socialist philosopher and the co-founder of modern Communist theory with Karl Marx. In 1848, they published The Communist Manifesto together. Engels edited several volumes of Das Kapital (Capital: A Critique of Political Economy) after Marx's death.
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