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The Great Wave of Kanagawa from Japanese Artist Hokusai
Your next-to-last subheading, How did the great wave come into being?, describes the Kanagawa wave as one of 36 blocks relating to Mount Fuji. It explains that the blocks furnish their audience with Mount Fuji at different times and from ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/25/2023
Was Tirumala Tirupati Balaji Temple a Buddhist Shrine?
Indra appears to be a god who fares well in every religion that includes him. Is it just me, or is it likeable the way he is in Buddhism and Hinduism?
A Shiva follower receives the moniker Vaishnava. What would an Indra follower be named?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/25/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
Your third symbol, Mirrors, intrigues me.
I never manage to decide firmly whether mirrors are there to keep a bad person on a bad path that the mirrors know will result in the triumph of good or whether mirrors think that the bad will win if ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/25/2023
A Forest for the Future
Chestnuts are not native to Britain. The Romans introduced sweet chestnut, but the horse chestnut came from the Balkans. I am not aware of any American chestnut being imported into Britain. If such an import had happened it would have been rare.
frankbeswick, on 07/24/2023
Thinking About Painting Your Walls Pink?
The Barbie film released here last week. I see pink clothing and footwear just about everywhere.
All that clothing will need to be washed after wear. Would there already be such a thing as pink dryers and washers for your pink laundry room ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/24/2023
A Forest for the Future
Your first subheading Get to know the forest makes me think of the American Chestnut what with the trials of ash and elm trees on your, eastern (Atlantic) pond side.
Would there have been a time when the British Isles imported American chestnut ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/24/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
The second symbol, Numbers, makes me wonder about the number 1 in fairy tales.
It seems that 1 would be a desirable, good, kind number because of there being one hero for each such damsel in distress as Cinderella and Snow White.
Would it not ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/24/2023
A Forest for the Future
I do not knowbthe insects in detail,but the Ash borer is one.
frankbeswick, on 07/22/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
The Tocharian and Gaelic languages belong to the Indo European group which originated in Anatolia, so there is ban affinity, but they do not have a specially definable connection.
frankbeswick, on 07/22/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
The bedroom and chapel were on the ground floor..The rooms upstairs were of no specific purpose, but there I'd no evidence of animal use.
frankbeswick, on 07/22/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
I do not have access to the Barber book at this moment.
But my memory is that she listed among the mysteries of the light-eyed, light-skinned, slender, tall Urumchi mummies of the Tarim River Basin between India and China that they speak a ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/22/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
Thank you, DerdriuMarriner, for being so involved. You opened a lot of questions.
About number three: it's so universally present we should never limit it to one meaning (good or bad, for instance). The same is true for numerous symbols around ...
Tolovaj, on 07/22/2023
A Forest for the Future
The third paragraph to the second subheading brings up predatory insects that feed on ash and sycamore. It considers that "Not all the trees are native. The nurseries grow sycamore and black poplar, not native, but necessary. To gardeners ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/22/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
The first paragraph to the third subheading Description of the house gives that house a ground floor and one storey.
Were the bedroom and chapel rooms on the ground floor or on the one and only storey?
What would the level without the bedroom ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/22/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
The first and the second paragraphs to the second symbol, Numbers, contain information that superficially may not mesh well with one another.
Three defers to goodness as does seven, apart the mismatched seven deadly sins.
The second paragraph ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/22/2023