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poemas-letras-y-artes · 2 years

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Cuando los vientos cambian de dirección, las tormentas se convierten en suave brisa capaces de refrescar y a la misma vez, acrecentar la flama del alma…

Priscila Alcívar

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aring-king-king · 4 months

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#Lowrider #hydraulics #Shot by Frankie Fire #car #culture #Miami #embassyposts

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myfashionburden · 4 months

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heaven gaia spring/summer 2019

#heaven gaia #fashion #runway #chinese fashion #style #catwalk #fashion edit #fashionedit #fashion details #details #china #culture #mygifs #gif #look book #character design #look #lookbook #myfashionburden

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blackswaneuroparedux · 1 year

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Il en va de l'érotisme comme de la danse : l'un des partenaires se charge toujours de conduire l'autre.

- Milan Kundera

#kundera #milan kundera #quote #argentine tango #tango #dance #dancing #dancers #argentina #men #women #femme #eroticism #movement #sensuality #art #culture

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itscolossal · 1 year

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In Killian Lassablière’s Short Film ‘Kukeri,’ a Centuries-Old Bulgarian Tradition Wards Off Evil Spirits

#bulgaria #culture #history #video

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in-tenebris-et-in-solitudine · 9 months

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profesors · 3 months

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"Swimming for the Holy Cross" 🇷🇸

◾Serbian Orthodox Epiphany, known as Богојављење (lat. Bogojavljenje) , is a significant religious observance celebrated on January 19th (January 6th in the Julian calendar). On this day, the Serbian Orthodox Church commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the Jordan River. One of the distinctive customs during Богојављање is the ritual of „Пливање за часни крст“ or swimming for the Holy Cross.

◾In this ritual, young men dive into icy waters to retrieve a wooden cross thrown by a priest. The one who successfully retrieves the cross is believed to receive a special blessing and good fortune throughout the year.

◾This tradition symbolizes the baptism of Jesus and emphasizes the importance of spiritual cleansing and renewal. The act of swimming in cold waters represents a commitment to faith and a willingness to endure challenges for the sake of religious devotion.

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cyberstrangerballoon · 1 year

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12TH SYNASTRY CULTURE 🛸 {PART 2}

12TH in synastry, is making love mentally. It's stimulating the darkest places in the partner's mind. You don't need to be near each other to know that something has happened.

It's mystical, it's like you're exploring the dark and cold universe alone. It's like you have a mental and spiritual connection, you bring out the best in the person in the house.

There might also be a bit of disillusionment there. Especially if Neptune and Venus fall there. You give the person of the house the role of muse. You write songs, poems and poetry about her. You put her in the lead role, which ends up putting the expectations very high on her. That never ends well.

You two are like a psychedelic dream, it's an explosion of colors and feelings. It's a very strong connection that can end up leading to hatred. So be aware of the signs, give space and time for the two of you.

If you two recently broke up, you're probably having trouble getting over the person. She appears in your dreams as a ghost. I've been there.

It's karmic, the two of you probably met in a past life. That doesn't mean you're soul mates destined to be together. Most likely you came into this life to resolve issues from the past, and let go. There's better things coming your way, believe me.

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sad-gang666 · 21 days

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A esa de rojo 🫣!!!!

#sad gang #sad boy #soundcloud #music #culture #funny #design #hip hop #tumblr chilenito #chilegram #chile tumblr #chilean #tumblr chilensis #chilenita

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alpaca-clouds · 8 months

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The Nature-Culture Divide

Something I have seen a lot of people within the Solarpunk sphere talk about and wonder is: "When did we stop seeing ourself as something outside of nature?" And given that I actually had a module on that (Social Geography, best module I ever had, given we had an anarchist professor!) I thought I could quickly explain this one.

So, the names come, in the end, from Latin and back when those words were considered in Latin, the difference was, that nature was a thing that was innate, while culture had volition behind it. You could change nature into culture by putting work into it.

Something that might surprise you is, that the idea of nature then was never quite big for most of European history. And let me make one thing clear: While we have these ideas also played with in Buddhist culture - especially in East Asia - the way we define it right now is a Western idea.

And that idea... Well, that idea came with colonialism. The thing many do not realize is, how much of the rules and "lines in the sand" that we use in our culture came from colonialisation, came from the desire to make "our" culture different from "theirs". It is shown in the way we eat, in the way we raise children, in the way we view gender and sexuality. And, yes, in the artificial border between nature and culture.

Before I tell you more about this, let me please say here: Yes, this is contradictive. I am aware of it. I am not the one who came up with the contradiction. White settlers did that all on their own.

When the settlers came to America they found a landscape very, very different from what they were used to from Europe. After all, Europe has been changed through human hand for at that point about 1600 years. (And for you Europeans out there: Researching how much forest your local area might have lost through the Romans is always a "fun" thing to do! Because the Romans destroyed a lot of European ancient forests.) In Europe, even at the wildest places, there was usually some evidence of human habitation - but this was not true for the Americas. Not because there were no people there, but rather because the people interacted with the environment very differently.

See, the European idea - while never quite that defined until this point - was really, really based on this thought that nature can be turned into culture. And that this transformation was in fact a good thing to happen. So, when the settlers arrived in the Americas they did not see "culture" there, only "nature" and set out to turn that "nature" into "culture".

Of course, we - modern people living today - do realize that indigenous people had in fact cultures of all sorts and that the actual difference was, that they just did not see that culture as something different from nature, rather than a part of it. Because their culture had not been influenced by Romans. But the settlers back then did not see this or rather did not want to see this. So they "cultured" the land, with the ideas about nature and culture being further formalized at that point.

It kinda stayed like this until the late 19th century, when Madison Grant, the originator of eco fascism came to be influencial. And now he saw something that the settlers until this point were unable to see: The indigenous people do stuff with the nature around them! They change it! For example through controlled burning of forests and things like that.

And this made Madison Grant very angry, because he was very much off the opinion that nature should be "unsoiled" by human hands. So... he made sure that those indigenous people got once more pushed out of the areas they were living, with the same areas being declared natural parks and no longer interfered with by humans (except, of course, all the tourists who destroyed it bit by bit). Leading... To a lot more wild fires.

So, where does this leave us in terms of the culture/nature divide?

Well, the idea has been there since ancient Rome and has very much influenced how much we view nature as its own thing. But within Rome nature was still not quite seen as the opposite of culture - as one could turn into the other. Under the Roman view an abandoned house or a field that was no longer cared for would turn back into nature, while anything could become culture just by interacting with humans.

The modern view really came through colonialism and the way colonialist did not understand (and did not want to understand) indigenous practices. This made people more and more drift towards the understanding of humans being an entirely different thing from nature.

But this is wrong, of course. We are part of nature. We are just animals with fingers and slightly larger brains. And many indigenous cultures understood this. In the end it was the greed of some that made us loose this connection to nature. And that is exactly why we are in this climate change related mess right now.

#solarpunk #history #culture #nature #culture-nature divide #colonialism #anti colonialism #indigenous knowledge #indigenous people #national parks

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katre-i-vefaa · 27 days

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poemas-letras-y-artes · 2 years

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ALMAS DE FUEGO.

No era necesario tocarse cuando sus almas se estaban amando; ellas llegaban a fundirse a tal grado que sus sentidos se agitaban al tan solo su voz escucharse.

Almas de fuego que al encontrarse se fundieron en una eterna llamarada, que ni un diluvio lograba apagar por lo vorágine de su arder.

Compatibles a morir… cual piezas de un mismo universo, de auras de fuego quemando a placer; contagiando a su paso a otras almas con su sublime fuego.

Incontrolable incendio… que aunque ardía no quemaba, cual luz de antorcha juntos alumbraban y cual sol no se apagaban.

¡Cuanta pasión y amor en aquellas almas! que lograban dominar lo inexplicable, y a su amor no daban tregua… porque amarse en esa forma tan audaz en su destino escrito estaba.

Priscila Alcivar.