Poetry
Dream the impossible dream,
Suffer the ruthless anguish,
Tread where the braves won't dare,
Repair the irreparable harm,
Love a chaste love at distance,
Suffer the ruthless anguish,
Tread where the braves won't dare,
Repair the irreparable harm,
Love a chaste love at distance,
Face your invincible enemy,
Try when all the strengh is fadding away,
Reach the unattainable star:
That's my Quest.
Try when all the strengh is fadding away,
Reach the unattainable star:
That's my Quest.
Dom Quixote de La Mancha (Miguel de Cervantes)
Literature
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908.
In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life.
Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism.
Maugham, wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley.
The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography.
There are five characters important on this book.
Four of them lead the plot, in 4 different views:
Susie, a Parisian girl in love with Art, but especially for Arthur;
Arthur the Doctor, completely rational, sceptic in everything and related with everything mystic or supernatural, in love, not with Susie but with Margaret;
Margaret, tutored by Arthur, spending a period in Paris with Susie, and with her marriage marked with Arthur;
and Porhoët, another doctor, had lived in Egypt, with vast knowledge in the occult.
And there is Oliver Haddo, the magician, a strange man that dominates the arts most frightening's, but at the same time captivating and stunning.
A certain black side, or if we want, a grey side of the occult, gains a place more intense in the text as we read it.
The Magician (1908)
W. Somerset Maugham
The Magician is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908.
In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life.
Crowley wrote a critique of this book under the pen name Oliver Haddo, where he accused Maugham of plagiarism.
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| Aleister Crowley |
Maugham, wrote The Magician in London, after he had spent some time living in Paris, where he met Aleister Crowley.
The novel was later republished with a foreword by Maugham entitled A Fragment of Autobiography.
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| Somerset Maugham |
There are five characters important on this book.
Four of them lead the plot, in 4 different views:
Susie, a Parisian girl in love with Art, but especially for Arthur;
Arthur the Doctor, completely rational, sceptic in everything and related with everything mystic or supernatural, in love, not with Susie but with Margaret;
Margaret, tutored by Arthur, spending a period in Paris with Susie, and with her marriage marked with Arthur;
and Porhoët, another doctor, had lived in Egypt, with vast knowledge in the occult.
And there is Oliver Haddo, the magician, a strange man that dominates the arts most frightening's, but at the same time captivating and stunning.
A certain black side, or if we want, a grey side of the occult, gains a place more intense in the text as we read it.
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| Old London |
Good Readings!!!
Archeology
Yesterday, on my search for archeological facts, i discovered the Lanzón from the Chavín people.
The Chavín, a South American preliterate civilization, great astronomers, established a trade network and developed agriculture by 900 BCE, according to some estimates and archeological finds.
Artifacts were found at a site called Chavín in modern Peru at an elevation of 3,177 meters.
Chavín civilization spanned 900 to 300 BCE.
They built large temples, the largest early buildings in Peru, which allowed them to observe the stars and the movement of the sun and the moon therefore predicting climatic changes that benefited agriculture.
Those in charge of the temples were priests also know as shamans.
They occupied the top of the social hierarchy and became early astronomers who were venerated by locals as having special powers and connection with the gods.
The inhabitants in Chavín believed that these priests communicated with the gods and to honor them they built huge sculptures such as the Lanzon Monolith, Tello Obelisk, the Raymondi Stella and carved heads in their building walls.
These sculptures represented a metaphor of the universe as the Chavín inhabitants understood it.
On the center of this archeological place, it's a piramidal temple, and in the core of it, the Lanzón.
As some of you may know, the practice of offering people to the gods was somewhat common among the south americans (can't talk to much about my people... but it was, it's a fact), and they did it in this place.
The Lanzón pit was the place where they sacrifice people, and on its back was the graveyard of the people sacrificed.
The Lanzón
Chavín, South American, Pre-Inca Civilization
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| Lanzón |
Yesterday, on my search for archeological facts, i discovered the Lanzón from the Chavín people.
The Chavín, a South American preliterate civilization, great astronomers, established a trade network and developed agriculture by 900 BCE, according to some estimates and archeological finds.
Artifacts were found at a site called Chavín in modern Peru at an elevation of 3,177 meters.
Chavín civilization spanned 900 to 300 BCE.
They built large temples, the largest early buildings in Peru, which allowed them to observe the stars and the movement of the sun and the moon therefore predicting climatic changes that benefited agriculture.
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| Graveyard |
Those in charge of the temples were priests also know as shamans.
They occupied the top of the social hierarchy and became early astronomers who were venerated by locals as having special powers and connection with the gods.
The inhabitants in Chavín believed that these priests communicated with the gods and to honor them they built huge sculptures such as the Lanzon Monolith, Tello Obelisk, the Raymondi Stella and carved heads in their building walls.
These sculptures represented a metaphor of the universe as the Chavín inhabitants understood it.
On the center of this archeological place, it's a piramidal temple, and in the core of it, the Lanzón.
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| Temple |
As some of you may know, the practice of offering people to the gods was somewhat common among the south americans (can't talk to much about my people... but it was, it's a fact), and they did it in this place.
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| Lanzón |
The Lanzón pit was the place where they sacrifice people, and on its back was the graveyard of the people sacrificed.
The Chavin civilization story is worth to know.
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| The Shaman |
Archeology
New Terracota warriors discovered
Over 8,000 unearthed terracotta warriors stand in formation in a massive underground tomb (Pit 1) built for Emperor Qinshihuang’s protection in his afterlife just 100 miles north-west of Xi’an, one of the oldest cities in China and the capital of Shaanxi Province on June 28, 2012.
The Museum of the Terracotta Army has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Photos
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| Pit 1 |
Music
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976.
The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member.
The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the Post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the Punk Rock revolution in the United Kingdom.
During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the Gothic Rock genre.
After the release of Pornography (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired.
With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed", Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music (as well as a unique stage look).
The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world.
The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004.
The Cure have released thirteen studio albums, 10 EPs and over thirty singles during the course of their career.
The Cure
The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex in 1976.
The band has experienced several line-up changes, with frontman, vocalist, guitarist and principal songwriter Robert Smith being the only constant member.
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| Robert Smith |
The Cure first began releasing music in the late 1970s with its debut album Three Imaginary Boys (1979); this, along with several early singles, placed the band as part of the Post-punk and New Wave movements that had sprung up in the wake of the Punk Rock revolution in the United Kingdom.
During the early 1980s, the band's increasingly dark and tormented music helped form the Gothic Rock genre.
After the release of Pornography (1982), the band's future was uncertain and Smith was keen to move past the gloomy reputation his band had acquired.
With the 1982 single "Let's Go to Bed", Smith began to place a pop sensibility into the band's music (as well as a unique stage look).
The Cure's popularity increased as the decade wore on, especially in the United States where the songs "Just Like Heaven", "Lovesong" and "Friday I'm in Love" entered the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
By the start of the 1990s, The Cure were one of the most popular alternative rock bands in the world.
The band is estimated to have sold 27 million albums as of 2004.
The Cure have released thirteen studio albums, 10 EPs and over thirty singles during the course of their career.
Videos
Friday I'm in Love
Lullaby
Why can't i be you? (love this one)
Lovesong
Just like heaven (a classic)
Boys don't cry
Music
With the launching of A Faith Unscathed, Hallowbound will turn a new page and can show to everyone, the power of both worlds: Heavy metal and classic music.
HallowBound
Hallowbound project was conceived in the end of 2008 by composer and guitar player Mauro Fonseca, in a musical gender not very used in Portugal.
After participating in several bands, he decided to invest in a band with his own style, a type of music that uses the strenght of Heavy metal and the greatness of Classic music.
In 2009, decided to record her very first demo tape, entitled Hallowbound, with tha help of some known musicians.
the lack of experience/production and the few time he had to record it, resulted in a demo that wasn't what he wished to be.
That was the motivation to start writting A Faith Unscathed (2011), with new knoledge accquire and the participation of people with the recording/production know how.
During the recording, the vocals role belonged to Carina Fonseca, and made that the songs had a better tune and melody.
Can Find the Hollowbound here:
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