The Historical & Mythological Library
Josh said:It's very recent history but was prompted by your first post on this thread about the Salem witch trials, the one of Rebecca Nurse ...
Fast forward 332 years and you have this:
"The Iranian state has said that it plans to open a treatment clinic for women who defy the mandatory hijab laws that require women to cover their heads in public.
The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” was announced by Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. She said the clinic will offer “scientific and psychological treatment for hijab removal”."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/14/iran-announces-treatment-clinic-for-women-who-defy-strict-hijab-laws
(Guardian, 14th November, 2024)
and also this:
"A wave of protests broke out across Iran in September 2022 after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, who was detained for allegedly wearing her headscarf incorrectly.
A video of Nika at a street protest, filmed days after Amini’s death, appeared to show her standing on top of a rubbish bin and setting fire to headscarves. Soon after, she reportedly went missing and her family found her body eight days later in a morgue. She was allegedly abducted, sexually assaulted and killed by the security forces."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/18/nasrin-shakarami-arrested-mother-nika-protester-mahsa-amini-killed-iran-security-forces
(Guardian 18th Oct, 2024)
There's been a massive uptick of harassment against women here since the election. Stay tuned as project 2025 aka Christian Nationalism hits the floor. Oh, wait, it already has.
Hundreds of hate attacks recorded in US since election
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37992579
Fast forward 332 years and you have this:
"The Iranian state has said that it plans to open a treatment clinic for women who defy the mandatory hijab laws that require women to cover their heads in public.
The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” was announced by Mehri Talebi Darestani, the head of the Women and Family Department of the Tehran Headquarters for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. She said the clinic will offer “scientific and psychological treatment for hijab removal”."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/nov/14/iran-announces-treatment-clinic-for-women-who-defy-strict-hijab-laws
(Guardian, 14th November, 2024)
and also this:
"A wave of protests broke out across Iran in September 2022 after the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, who was detained for allegedly wearing her headscarf incorrectly.
A video of Nika at a street protest, filmed days after Amini’s death, appeared to show her standing on top of a rubbish bin and setting fire to headscarves. Soon after, she reportedly went missing and her family found her body eight days later in a morgue. She was allegedly abducted, sexually assaulted and killed by the security forces."
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/oct/18/nasrin-shakarami-arrested-mother-nika-protester-mahsa-amini-killed-iran-security-forces
(Guardian 18th Oct, 2024)
There's been a massive uptick of harassment against women here since the election. Stay tuned as project 2025 aka Christian Nationalism hits the floor. Oh, wait, it already has.
Hundreds of hate attacks recorded in US since election
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-37992579
A little New Moon reading, tis the season! 🤶
If you’re going to use a blade to harvest mistletoe or any plants in life why it’s good to use a copper sickle or blade…
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There is definitely a meeting point between folklore and science with this issue.
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Lore for aeons has always stated that the plants only like to be cut with a copper blade. And not iron nor steel because it drives away the spirit from the plants. For the faeries do not like them as it repels & hurts them.
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The Tuatha de Dannan, the fae folk of these isles were spoken of being very close to human kind; the key thing which was different is that they did not contain an iron molecule in their blood, to make that haem molecule to allow their blood to be infused with oxygen. For it is the iron which grounds the human spirit into mortality and gives each human their own magnetic field. For the fae breathed the eternal light to sustain their spirits instead.
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Iron is known as a base metal, it corrodes & breaks down in the presence of oxygen over time.
Whilst copper is one of the noble metals, it is non corrosive…seen as an eternal metal.
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When a plant is cut with iron it quickens the tannins, excellarating plant cell death & decay. Iron & steel literally steals electrons from the plants which causes this excelleration of decay (steel is a v apt word in this case.)
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Whilst when a plant is cut with copper it forms an antimicrobial layer to the cut preserving the flowers and preventing rot.
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Iron is magnetic, copper is conductive. So, whereas iron tools disturb soil magnetism, copper assists the flow of earth energies to nourish the plants.
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via Holly Rae Anable
🖼️ ~ A Druidess & Mistletoe ~ Carl Haag
#NewMoon #DarkMoon
Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered the composition of the universe has not been properly honored. No memorial plaque commemorates her groundbreaking achievements, and her newspaper obituaries failed to mention her most important discovery.
While every student learns that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, Charles Darwin explained evolution, and Albert Einstein revolutionized physics with relativity, few are taught about Cecilia Payne, the scientist who revealed what the universe is made of. Textbooks simply state that hydrogen is the most abundant atom in the universe, without ever acknowledging how we came to know this.
Let’s talk about Cecilia Payne.
Denied financial support for her education by her mother, Payne earned a scholarship to Cambridge, where she excelled. However, Cambridge refused to grant her a degree because she was a woman. Undeterred, she moved to the United States to continue her work at Harvard.
In 1925, Payne became the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College. Her dissertation, described by astronomer Otto Struve as “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy,” revolution. via intersteller ink
Ahavati said:Since her death in 1979, the woman who discovered the composition of the universe has not been properly honored. No memorial plaque commemorates her groundbreaking achievements, and her newspaper obituaries failed to mention her most important discovery.
While every student learns that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, Charles Darwin explained evolution, and Albert Einstein revolutionized physics with relativity, few are taught about Cecilia Payne, the scientist who revealed what the universe is made of. Textbooks simply state that hydrogen is the most abundant atom in the universe, without ever acknowledging how we came to know this.
Let’s talk about Cecilia Payne.
Denied financial support for her education by her mother, Payne earned a scholarship to Cambridge, where she excelled. However, Cambridge refused to grant her a degree because she was a woman. Undeterred, she moved to the United States to continue her work at Harvard.
In 1925, Payne became the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College. Her dissertation, described by astronomer Otto Struve as “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy,” revolution. via intersteller ink
I just read the Wikipedia page on her and now I want a copy of her book...The Stars of High Luminosity (1930)
Very interesting career! Thanks for cluing me in:)
While every student learns that Isaac Newton discovered gravity, Charles Darwin explained evolution, and Albert Einstein revolutionized physics with relativity, few are taught about Cecilia Payne, the scientist who revealed what the universe is made of. Textbooks simply state that hydrogen is the most abundant atom in the universe, without ever acknowledging how we came to know this.
Let’s talk about Cecilia Payne.
Denied financial support for her education by her mother, Payne earned a scholarship to Cambridge, where she excelled. However, Cambridge refused to grant her a degree because she was a woman. Undeterred, she moved to the United States to continue her work at Harvard.
In 1925, Payne became the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College. Her dissertation, described by astronomer Otto Struve as “the most brilliant Ph.D. thesis ever written in astronomy,” revolution. via intersteller ink
I just read the Wikipedia page on her and now I want a copy of her book...The Stars of High Luminosity (1930)
Very interesting career! Thanks for cluing me in:)
Ahavati said:
With the way your mind works, you will enjoy that book.
The luminosity angle is what intrigues me, since from my days in high school photography class, where in the darkroom I witnessed first hand the subtle actinic power of illumination effect on silver nitrate emulsion chemistry, and since then coming to realize how little we seem to know about the nature of illumination, perhaps there's existing data that's been forgotten, or never dovetailed into humanity's overall knowledge corpus as it should have been.
I'm especially smitten with the observable effects of the plane polarization of light through a polarizing filter, which is of course a phenomenon known mostly to landscape photographers and mineral microscopists.
With the way your mind works, you will enjoy that book.
The luminosity angle is what intrigues me, since from my days in high school photography class, where in the darkroom I witnessed first hand the subtle actinic power of illumination effect on silver nitrate emulsion chemistry, and since then coming to realize how little we seem to know about the nature of illumination, perhaps there's existing data that's been forgotten, or never dovetailed into humanity's overall knowledge corpus as it should have been.
I'm especially smitten with the observable effects of the plane polarization of light through a polarizing filter, which is of course a phenomenon known mostly to landscape photographers and mineral microscopists.
MidnightSonneteer said:
The luminosity angle is what intrigues me, since from my days in high school photography class, where in the darkroom I witnessed first hand the subtle actinic power of illumination effect on silver nitrate emulsion chemistry, and since then coming to realize how little we seem to know about the nature of illumination, perhaps there's existing data that's been forgotten, or never dovetailed into humanity's overall knowledge corpus as it should have been.
I'm especially smitten with the observable effects of the plane polarization of light through a polarizing filter, which is of course a phenomenon known mostly to landscape photographers and mineral microscopists.
Let me know what you think of the book.
The luminosity angle is what intrigues me, since from my days in high school photography class, where in the darkroom I witnessed first hand the subtle actinic power of illumination effect on silver nitrate emulsion chemistry, and since then coming to realize how little we seem to know about the nature of illumination, perhaps there's existing data that's been forgotten, or never dovetailed into humanity's overall knowledge corpus as it should have been.
I'm especially smitten with the observable effects of the plane polarization of light through a polarizing filter, which is of course a phenomenon known mostly to landscape photographers and mineral microscopists.
Let me know what you think of the book.
Ahavati said:
I'll see if I can locate my copy if you can't. Is it difficult to find? Out of print?
You have a copy?
I just scrolled through it at the Internet archive and realized that though the math will be beyond me, I would certainly find poetic potential in the spectrophotometric and astrophysical lingo, and the charts can be interesting too.
I'll see if I can locate my copy if you can't. Is it difficult to find? Out of print?
You have a copy?
I just scrolled through it at the Internet archive and realized that though the math will be beyond me, I would certainly find poetic potential in the spectrophotometric and astrophysical lingo, and the charts can be interesting too.
