Self-Portrait With Death As A Fiddler, 1872, Arnold Bocklin

The Hiroshima Shadows 

On August 6th 1945 the world changed forever within a blink of an eye. Japan had no idea what was about to happen to them and the world looked on in horror. August 6th was the day that ‘Little Boy’ was detonated 1,900 feet above the city of Hiroshima. 

Residents who were going about their daily business saw a bright flash of light, followed by the heat that was 10,000F destroying anything in its path. The U.S had just released Little Boy over Hiroshima and had similar plans for Nagasaki. The U.S hoped that by weakening Japan they would force them to surrender and the war would finally be over. 

The U.S also wanted to show off to the world their new technology and used Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a warning to any other country who believed that they could take them on. When Little Boy was dropped, residents had little time to run for safety as the heat and clouds engulfed them. The most affected site was the Sumitomo Bank as it was closest to where the Little Boy was. 

The heat from Little Boy had been so intense that it had bleached everything in the immediate area, leaving shadows of anything that stood in its way. Perhaps the scariest and most famous photograph from this time is the photo of the Hiroshima Shadow Man. 

This photo shows the shadow of an elderly man who was sitting on the steps of the Sumitomo Bank, complete with the shadow of his walking stick. Hiroshima is dotted with shadows just like it, displaying people’s final moments before their lives were taken. It wasn’t just people that left shadows behind either, bikes, water tanks and structures all left their mark. 

These shadows are well documented but the photo of the man on the steps is the one that we all associate with Hiroshima. The shadows remained there for decades until the wind and rain took their toll. 

However, the infamous shadow of the man sitting on the steps was removed and placed in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum where visitors are able to see the shadow up close and personal.

🔮Cómo incorporar cosas de brujería en tu vida diaria🔮

Siempre me preguntan sobre cómo incorporar la brujería en tu rutina diaria, así que aquí hay algunas maneras en que podrías hacerlo.

Tips

🕯️cuando te despiertes, puedes quemar incienso o salvia en tu casa y limpiarte todo para un nuevo día

🕯️cuando bebe bebidas como té o café, puede usar la cuchara para mezclar en el sentido de las agujas del reloj para aumentar algo o en sentido antihorario para disminuir algo

🕯️También puedes dibujar un símbolo en el fondo de tu taza con miel y luego agregarte beber encima

🕯️ Cuando hornee cosas con leña, puede tallar sigilos para hacer que su comida sea más mágica y llenarse con su intención

🕯️establecer un altar para sus antepasados ​​y rezarlo todos los días cuando se despierta o antes de acostarse, también puede dejar ofrendas allí

🕯️ lleva cristales o amuletos que hayas hecho en tu bolsillo o alrededor de tu cuello para que puedan hacer su magia

🕯️ Encantar cosas como pinceles de maquillaje o joyas

🕯️ Bastante auto explicativo, pero puedes escribir en tu libro de sombras o grimorio todos los días

🕯️tener un mapa de la luna que muestra las etapas de la luna cada mes y marcar cuándo le gustaría practicar sus hechizos en función de qué fase de la luna será más beneficioso

🕯️ Cultivar un jardín lleno de muchas plantas, árboles y arbustos diferentes. Todos los días salga a la calle y dedique un tiempo a aclarar su mente y volverse más íntimo con su espiritualidad e intuición.

¡Espero que esto haya ayudado a algunos de ustedes! Siéntase libre de agregar más sugerencias a continuación! ✨

¿Sabes lo que es estar con una mujer completa? No me refiero a si cumple con el volumen estereotipado de sus nalgas o la fantasía de un par de senos que tapen su cara. Te hablo de la verdad que estremece como un recóndito hechizo en el núcleo de cada una de nuestras células, te hablo de unos labios que hablan con voz de esperanza en tiempos difíciles, te hablo de una mujer con brazos pequeños que te pueden hacer sentir un océano, te hablo de una mirada que te reta y no se cansa de verte como si fueses un atardecer en el Pacífico. Yo sé que puedes decirme que has estado con muchas, que eres un gran amante, que a todas las complaces, y sabes lo triste, que puedes complacer a todas y no querer a ninguna, que puedes llenar sus oídos de cuentos y fantasías, pero al día siguiente te sentirás igual de solo que cuando despiertas un domingo pensando en cómo en el fondo envidias a esas parejas que se levantan temprano para dar un paseo, pensando en que crees que por haber compartido la cama con muchas puedes entender lo que es estar de verdad con una mujer. Estás equivocado mi amigo, una mujer completa hace que no te den ganas de huir, una mujer completa no se parece a las modelos que sigues en portadas de revistas o redes, una mujer completa te hace sentir hombre, y no me refiero a un macho, si no a un hombre fuerte, con convicciones, con fortaleza, con decisión, una mujer completa te demuestra en silencio lo pendejo que eres y ella sabe que lo entenderás. Existir es una batalla que un tiempo se libra solo, después se necesita compañía, tanto por supervivencia como por espiritualidad. ¿Has estado con una mujer completa? Tal vez no, porque ellas no pierden su tiempo con los que están hechos pedazos, ellas ya pasaron por eso.

El libro tinto para charlar con el que no vino, Quetzal Noah.

Common Spell Items

Here’s a collection of items you can easily find outside and their correspondences/associations

Grass:  Psychic powers, protection, growth, nature, learning, healing, new beginnings, recovery from loss Pine needles:  Cleansing, healing and strengthening. It also acts as a natural insect repellent Pine cones: Masculinity, fertility Maple Leaves: Feminine, moon magic, travel, learning, dealing with change, decision making, spiritual healing Pennies: Luck, wealth Dandelions: Divination, wishes, calling spirits Dandelion leaves:  Summoning spirits, healing, purification, defeating negativity Red/purple wild clover:  Fidelity, love, money, protection, the blessing of domestic animals White wild clover: Breaking curses Two leaf clover: Love, luck Three leaf clover: protection, luck Four leaf clover: Protection, psychic powers, spirit work, luck, success Oak leaf:  Truth, steadfast knowledge, protection Acorn:  Good luck, protection, wisdom, and personal power Walnut: Healing and protection

Feel free to add any more! 

Existen cuatro teorías que intentan explicar la existencia de Kindlifresser (el come-niños), el cual se cree fue construído en 1546:

La primera (y más desafortunada teoría) es que Kindlifresser fue construído como una forma de advertir a la comunidad judía de Bern. El sombrero que carga la estatua se asemeja al sombrero judío Judenhut, el cual los judíos estaban forzados a usar para la época.

La segunda explica que el “ogro” de la estatua es una representación de el titán griego Cronos, el cual es conocido en mitología por haberse comido a todos sus hijos para evitar que le quitasen el trono.

La tercera teoría sugiere que la estatua se hizo en honor al hermano mayor del Duque Berchtold, fundador de la ciudad de Bern. Aparentemente los celos que le causó ser opacado por su hermano lo volvieron loco a tal punto que—según cuenta la leyenda—“se comió a todos los niños de la ciudad”.

La cuarta y más verosímil explica que Kindlifresser representa un personaje de fábula. Las madres en Bern le decían a sus hijos que, de no portarse bien y/o hacer silencio, el come-niños iría por ellos. El significado cobró importancia durante la guerra de los 30 años cuando la hambruna causó, entre otras cosas, que las personas se volvieran caníbales como resultado de la falta de comida y ganado.

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Lo que ves como entretenimiento puede convertirse en un dulce veneno, que mientras lo inhalas poco a poco te mata.

- Roberth Kingsman

TEATRI - TEATRO GRECO TAORMINA, ERACLEA MINOA, PALAZZOLO ACREIDE, SEGESTA, SIRACUSA, TEATRO MASSIMO PALERMO, TEATRO REGINA MARGHERITA CALTANISSETTA, TEATRO PIRANDELLO AGRIGENTO, TEATRO MASSIMO BELLINI A CATANIA, TEATRO VITTORIO EMANUELE MESSINA.

THEATER AND SICILY - 02 THEATER: EMOTIONAL SITE

The first theaters in Sicily were the Greek ones that built them in every city they founded. I love these theaters that have the sky on the roof and the sea in front of the spectators, where the spectators surround the actor and the word arrives everywhere with the same strength and beauty. The Arabs did not bring theaters but minstrels and poetry, the Normans with their deeds created the starting point for the puppet theater. The Arab minstrels soon became Storytellers and created a theater without actors where the music and the verses and the drawings of events described the story. Although the Pupi theater appears poor and primordial it was an important constant of Sicilian culture. The Pupari visited the villages and created a theater in every square reciting the history of the Paladins with rhymes and verses. In every big city there was a puppet theater that the priests did not criticize and where poor and rich attended as it spoke of love and honor, of duties and traitors, very strong elements in our culture.

Towards the end of 1700 began the first theaters of which you see some photos and that were frequented by the nobility and rich bourgeoisie. In reality there were others much more popular that were an evolution of the puppet theater. But these are not the only theaters in Sicily. I remember that the first time I went to the theater was when I was five years old to see a company that played a very funny farce but based on betrayals and loves, that I did not understand. The theater in which I was was very large, with the stars for the ceiling and all of us spectators around the stage. This theater was the square of the village where a truck had climbed with a small stage and the painted backdrops to offer a show for the patronal feast. That company of popular actors (in the sense that they came from the people, reciting texts for the people), remembered what had been the “Commedia dell'Arte” those small companies of actors who invaded Europe in 1500-1600 disclosing the art theatrical. Now there are poor companies with few means that do not always visit my old town to still recite the classics of popular theater; But I see that the young people of my village regularly act as actors, creating a stage in the square to play on.

And that’s what I wanted to tell you: a theater to play in Sicily is not just a building but a popular concept to find and listen, to participate, laugh and eventually think. And these places that create, sow and spread emotions in Sicily there are many because Sicily itself is an emotion.

TEATRO E SICILIA - 02 - IL TEATRO: IL LUOGO DELLE EMOZIONI

I primi teatri in Sicilia furono quelli greci che li costruirono in ogni città che fondarono. Io amo questi teatri che hanno per tetto il cielo e per fondale il mare, dove gli spettatori circondano l’attore e la parola arriva ovunque con la stessa forza e bellezza. Gli arabi non portarono teatri ma menestrelli e poesia, i Normanni con le loro gesta crearono il punto di partenza per il teatro dei Pupi. I menestrelli arabi diventarono presto cantastorie e crearono un teatro senza attori dove la musica ed i versi ed i disegni degli avvenimenti descrivevano la storia. Il teatro dei Pupi benché appaia povero e primordiale fu una costante importante della cultura siciliana. I Pupari visitavano i paesi e creavano un teatro in ogni piazza recitando con rime e versi la storia dei Paladini. In ogni grande città vi era un teatro dei pupi che i preti non criticavano e poveri e ricchi frequentavano in quanto parlava di amore ed onore, di doveri e traditori, elementi molto forti nella nostra cultura. 

Verso la fine del 1700 incominciarono a nascere i primi teatri di cui vedi alcune foto e che erano frequentati dalla nobiltà e ricca borghesia. In realtà ve ne erano altri molto più popolari che erano una evoluzione del teatro dei pupi. Ma non sono solo questi i teatri in Sicilia. Io ricordo che la prima volta che andai a teatro fu quando avevo cinque anni per vedere una compagnia popolare che recitava una farsa molto divertente ma che basandosi su tradimenti e amori, io non capivo. Il teatro in cui ero era grandissimo, con le stelle per soffitto e tutti noi spettatori intorno al palcoscenico. Questo teatro era la piazza del paese dove era salito un camion con un piccolo palco e dei fondali pitturati per offrire uno spettacolo in occasione della festa patronale. Quella compagnia di attori popolari (nel senso che venivano dal popolo, recitando testi per il popolo), ricordava quello che era stata la “Commedia dell’Arte” quelle piccole compagnie di attori che invasero l’Europa nel 1500-1600 divulgando l’arte teatrale. Ora vi sono compagnie povere e con pochi mezzi che non sempre visitano il mio vecchio paese per recitare ancora i classici del teatro popolare; io però vedo che regolarmente sono i giovani del paese a farsi attori, a creare un palco nella piazza su cui recitare. 

Ed è questo che volevo dirti: un Teatro per recitare in Sicilia non è solo un edificio ma è una concezione popolare per ritrovarsi ed ascoltare, per partecipare, ridere e alla fine pensare. E questi luoghi che creano, seminano e diffondono emozioni in Sicilia ve ne sono tantissimi perché la Sicilia stessa, è un emozione.

Te fuiste y me dejaste atado...

Atado a dolores,

atado a rencor,

atado a la soledad,

atado a recordar

y a recordarte mientras

que una cadena de lágrimas

es lo único que me sostiene la mano.

Harvester Of Sorrow.