Falling Star

The story shares similarities with the hero tales of cultures around the world as it focuses on a central character of supernatural origin who is raised far from home and comes to the people in a time of need to save them from danger or destruction or to offer them the promise of renewal and redemption. In this version of the hero tale, the main character's mother is a young Cheyenne maiden who falls in love with Brightest-Star (the evening and morning star) and marries him, joining him in hi...

Summary of some interesting entries from the online dictionary of Symbols from University of Michigan

Sulfur as hellSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/sulfur.html Sulfur According to Christian legend, sulfur is associated with HELL and the Devil (Cooper, 1978), and is often referred to as brimstone. Up one level Back to document index ShadowSourceURL: http://websites.umich.edu/~umfandsf/symbolismproject/symbolism.html/S/shadow.html ShadowWith light, the shadow is the Chinese yin and yang; shadows are often identified with a person...

Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon Is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material by Ryan Coleman

Claire Denis’s Stars at Noon Is a Cunning Improvement on the Source Material by Ryan Colemanhttps://lithub.com/claire-deniss-stars-at-noon-is-a-cunning-improvement-on-the-source-material/Elusive, elliptical, sinewy, and instinctual. Her films often start after the action’s begun and end before it feels over. They give the impression of being granted temporary access to a raging world, one whose problems can’t be solved, whose social codes can’t be fully ascertained, and whose figures recede e...

The Fault in Our Star Names

The International Astronomical Union has established a committee to finalize a list of official star names. Some companies offer unofficial naming rights for purchase. But the voices of certain communities are often left behind. By accident of Earth's 23.5-degree tilt and the specific geography of our view of space, amateur astronomers and travelers who find themselves lost in the Northern hemisphere have long searched for Ursa Major, the great bear, whose torso is formed by the conspicuous...

Constellation Perseus: the hero

Perseus is one of ancient Hellas' greatest heroes, and it is not odd that he was immortalized in the night's sky. He is--of course--linked to the many constellations dedicated to the rescue of Androméda, but there is far more tot he hero Perseus.  Perseus was born to Danae, who was locked in a bronze chamber by her father Akrisios, where she was impregnated by Zeus in the form of a golden shower. Akrisios put both mother and child in a chest and set them adrift on the sea, but ...

Astrology: Informative, Harmful, or Just Plain Fun?

What follows is a guest post by Beba Cibralic (Georgetown University). Like every self-respecting queer 20-something-year-old, I dabble in star signs. I’ll check my horoscope every once in a while to find out what kind of month it’s going to be and I’ve been known to create compatibility charts when I start dating someone. (For the uninitiated: these charts are based on factors related to your and the other person’s birth date and birth location.)  To be sure, these are far from upstand...

Soiled, Torn, Dead

Soiled, Torn, Dead Chapter 7, Part II, of Lolita is an extraordinarily powerful piece of writing, even by the standards of that work. This is the chapter that begins: "I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita’s morals". In this chapter Humbert Humbert describes how the twelve-year-old Dolores Haze was turned into a prostitute by his demands on her. Her allowance was granted only on condition that she consents to his sexual requests.He reports: "Only very...

Type Descriptions — The Enneagram Institute

The Nine Enneagram Type DescriptionsClick on any of the titles below to read detailed descriptions about each of the nine Enneagram types. 1 THE REFORMERThe Rational, Idealistic Type: Principled, Purposeful, Self-Controlled, and Perfectionistic2 THE HELPERThe Caring, Interpersonal Type: Demonstrative, Generous, People-Pleasing, and Possessive3 THE ACHIEVERThe Success-Oriented, Pragmatic Type: Adaptive, Excelling, Driven, and Image-Conscious4 THE INDIVIDUALISTThe Sensitive, Withdrawn Type: Exp...

Coma Berenices (thing) by DataJunkie - Everything2.com

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Coma Berenices (thing) See all of Coma Berenices, no other writeups in this node. (thing) by DataJunkie Mon Aug 20 2001 at 10:28:02 This entire constellation consists of an open star cluster. Legends say the daughter of the king of Cyrene, Berenice, married Ptolemy Euergetes, a pharaoh of Egypt in the 3rd century B.C. Her hair was famed for its beauty. As an offering of thanksgiving to the gods, she cut it off when her husband retu...

Book of Lost Names - The

Hindu astrology

Hindu astrology 1. Hindu astrology Astrology Hindu astrology (also known as Indian astrology, more recently Vedic astrology Kannada: ವೇದ ಜ್ಯೋತಿಶಾಸ್ರ), also Jyotish or Jyotisha, from Sanskrit jyotiṣa, from jyótis- "light, heavenly body") is the ancient Indian system of astronomy and astrology. It has three branches:[citation needed] • Siddhanta: Indian astronomy. • Samhita: Mundane astrology, predicting important events related to countries such as war, earthquakes, political event...

Decoding the ancient Greek astronomical calculator known as the Antikythera Mechanism

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