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Our Lady's House at Ephesus
St John of Damasus said that she survived thirteen years after Jesus, but wanted to see Jerusalem before she died, so she was taken back to the city and died there.
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2023
A Forest for the Future
Transhumance involves taking animals to mountain pastures in summer, but bringing them down in early Fall. They would be kept near the farm in winter.
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
Horses are an Irish passion, but the geographical distance between the Irish and the
Tarim river people's implies a large difference in time between the contacts between the people's.I think that the Trojan connection is a red herring, as ...
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
Elizabeth Wayland Barber associates ancient Irish, Tarim River Basin peoples and Trojans with perfecters of horse-raising and textile-making, with residents near salt licks and with settlers of strategic sites with stunning views.
She ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/21/2023
A Forest for the Future
The second paragraph to your first subheading, Get to know the forest, describes transhumance farming in Welsh mountain pastures.
Where did they and their animals go the rest of the year? Were they still on the mountain west sides? What was the ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/21/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
The very last sentence under your subheading Finding the site identifies a tradition of Our Lady Mary dying in Jerusalem.
Would there be anything in that tradition as to when and where in Jerusalem?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/21/2023
Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards
The image between the 8th exporter and the 9th importer roles held by Frances intrigues me.
The little girl's hat manifests a crescent and a star. Albeit not in the same arrangement, with the moon under not next to the star, it prompts images ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/21/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
Your images between the first and the second symbols intrigue and please me. The second-mentioned verb in the immediately preceding sentence is particularly because of the "third-eye bindi" from ancient India for blue-colored intellect. The ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/21/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
Your suggestion that a folk memory is augmented by subsequent memories is absolutely correct. Several different ones become fused into one single memory.
There is no memory of a giant flood in the British Isles, we had the story of Noah for ...
frankbeswick, on 07/21/2023
Frances Brundage, an artist of picture books and postcards
The image under Frances' role as Ephemera creator intrigues.
It looks like five strips with one month on each. That makes January through May. Their backs might have June through October.
But where would November and December? Would they spill ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/20/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
The second paragraph to the first symbol calls black, gold, red and white main fairy-tale colors. It equates white with birth, red with life and black with death. What is the association for gold?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/20/2023
The Origins of the Irish: a review
I like that suggestion of a folk memory.
Might there be a folk memory of such destruction in the British Isles or would such destruction be unthinkable in the context of how the waters around the British Isles behave?
Regarding Atlantis, would ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/20/2023
The power of color red
Black and red are supposed to be the colors of the legendary Atlantis.
Would you know of any country -- apart Germany -- that has those colors as icons, standards, symbols or talismans?
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/20/2023
Snow White and Its Symbols
No, I didn't expect so many symbols in what oftentimes seemed like the simple, straightforward story of how Snow White went from despised daughter to desirable princess.
It's interesting that the mother focused upon cheeks, hair and skin. Why ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 07/20/2023
Our Lady's House at Ephesus
I think the story that you have given is very credible, though currently unprovable. It wa not found in any source or book ' that i have read.
frankbeswick, on 07/19/2023