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Isaiah 47: mene, tekel, and parsin
Isaiah's prophecy was fulfilled before Daniel's very eyes, who was called in from retirement to explain God's handwriting upon the wall of Belshazzar's dining room.
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Judgment on Babylon
In contrast to God’s loving patience with God’s own own people, and God’s promise put God’s salvation in them, was the judgment coming to Babylon.
Come down and sit in the dust, virgin daughter Babylon!Sit on the ground without a throne, daughter Chaldea!For you shall no more be called tender and delicate.
Isaiah 47:1 (NRSV)
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youn will listen to this banger....NOW!!!!!
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Fleming Rutledge just shared that Warren Miller gave her the original. Pretty sly!
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Kids these days spending too much time talking about meme meme meme and not enough about mene mene tekel upharsin.
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mene, mene, tekel, upharsin, catch a tiger by its toe
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BELSHAZZAR'S FEAST (1820) by JOHN MARTIN
The painting depicts the biblical story of the writing on the wall from the Book of DANIEL. It is considered one of MARTIN'S most famous and important works, showcasing his trademark style of epic, apocalyptic landscapes and dramatic lighting.
The painting depicts a lavish banquet hall, with the BABYLONIAN king BELSHAZZAR at the head of the table, surrounded by his courtiers and concubines. The scene is set in the midst of a decadent feast, with opulent decorations and extravagant displays of wealth.
In the left side of the painting, a disembodied hand is seen writing on the wall, with the words 'MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN' appearing in fiery letters. This is the moment when God's judgment is delivered to BELSHAZZAR, foretelling the downfall of his kingdom and the end of his reign.
MARTIN'S use of light is a key element in the painting, with the source of the light coming from a large window behind the writing on the wall. This creates a striking contrast between the brightly lit banquet hall and the dark, ominous figures of the courtiers and the writing on the wall. The use of light also adds to the dramatic and supernatural atmosphere of the scene, emphasizing the divine message being delivered to the king.
MARTIN'S meticulous attention to detail is evident in the intricate and elaborate decorations of the banquet hall, showcasing his skill as a painter. The use of rich, vibrant colors adds to the opulent and grandiose atmosphere of the scene, further emphasizing the excess and decadence of BELSHAZZAR'S rule.
#Belshazzar's feast#john martin#romanticism#romantic art#romantic paintings#romantic artist#romantic
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Office malfeasance
Malfunctioning autocrats
Bureaucrats failing
Maladminsters
Our trust betrayed so beastly
Bread and circuses
Babylon falling
Mene tekel upharsin
Overthrown kingdoms
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I just stumbled upon this blog and I love it! I have a question from a completely noob point of view. I'd be interestest how you would translate the old biblical saying "Mene mene tekel upharsin" into sumerian. I've had some short conversations with an expert on that matter, but never got an actual translation. Thank you!
Hello! This is actually quite a complex question, due to the double meaning of the phrase. For some background, it is a quote from Daniel 5, a phrase that appears on a wall as an omen. The puzzle lies in its two interpretations, with the words acting as nouns or as verbs.
As nouns, the phrase means “mina, mina, shekel, half-mina”; both a mina and a shekel are units of money or weight. Both mina and shekel (1/60 of a mina) are derived originally from Mesopotamian units of measure, specifically from the equivalent Akkadian words manû and shiqlu (along with a talent, or kakkaru, equal to 60 mina). The Sumerian equivalents to talent, mina and shekel are gun, mana and ging or gin. So the translation for this phrase (with shurua “half”) in its literal sense would be mana mana ging mana-shurua.
However, interpreted as verbs (or, more precisely, participles), the sentence can be instead translated as “numbered, numbered, weighed, divided” (and thus the interpretation by Daniel as an omen of the imminent dissolution of Babylon). In this meaning, I’d translate the phrase as shita shita inla hala “(having been) numbered numbered weighed out (and) divided up”.
Puns and double-meanings like this are hard to translate across languages. But I hope that answers your question!
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The original first trailer (JP) of SMT IV had a gratuitous "Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin" in the middle of it. Was that supposed to have a significance in the plot or just for flair? There's no Belshazzar in IV's plot.
It's in the final game, too.
It's at a minute, 36 seconds in. Granted, the Japanese reading of the line is a lot more dramatic, lol.
The first line of the game is actually "Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?" Coupled with the "writing on the wall," I think it's meant to refer to imminent decline of Mikado and is perhaps spoken by King Ahazuya/Ahaziah. It's unfortunate both that his name was improperly translated and that he only appears in the late game Baal/Beelzebub quest, he could have added a bit more meat to Mikado's presence.
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Me: *misspells “meme” as “mene”*
My brain, acting like a personal autofill/text suggestion machine and bringing up any possible relevant info it can: mene tekel upharsin?
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America's EMPIRE has peaked! What to watch for in 2024 -25 that provides the EVIDENCE!
Then the Lord spoke to me in my spirit man: MENE MENE TEKEL UPHARSIN, “The writing is on the wall!”
After some 247 years of continuing growth…which produced the Greatest Empire on this planet, America is finally at its PEAK. The Empire will start its DECLINE in 2024-25. Rome (the West) fell in one day as its currency was devalued (476 A.D.). The East continued for another 977 years until 1453.…
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“What’s your sign?”
“Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin”
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"Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin" (The Stories of John Cheever)
We are back with Cheever, as confusing as ever
This is a story about a man reading stories and finding them very silly. As the reader, I'm not sure where I'm supposed to land here. Is the guy who comes home to America and starts reading these stories a terrible snob with an overly critical view of literature or are the stories really that bad? I don't know.
The stories don't seem that bad. They seem a little cliche, but I've been reading a lot of cliches in stories, so I don't know. The first passage is a string of bathos strung together that gives the narrator a headache. The next story is a story about a poor man who only realizes that his mother had an affair and he's the son...
Oh. I just googled this one. Ok, so now I have to say that my John Cheever expertise must bow to someone who actually knows that John Cheever is making allusions to Romantic poets and writers. In fact, he's just taking passages word for word and in this story the passages keep getting written on bathroom stalls and in pamphlets left on trains.
The blog that discussed this story hypothesized that this was a joke on the middlebrow audience who didn't get Romantic poetry. More importantly, he's giving the audience Romantic literature but then filtering it through a European who just doesn't get it.
So this guy is reading 19th century literature, written by Europeans, ascribing it to stupid Americans and going back to Europe as a relief from all this garbage.
Ok. It's a little funny. But I didn't get the allusions until I looked them up. Well except for mene mene which is totally Biblical. And alludes to our hero judging society and finding it wanting.
#John Cheever#New Yorker#Tim LIeder#Leigh Hunt#Keats#1963#middlebrow#1960s#Europe#America#Stupid Americans
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my life is just hedonism its like the bible ehere the spirit writes on the wall oh i remember the phrases anyways mene mene tekel upharsin
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listen, children and denizens of this stupid website:
you should be sceptical of discourse that requires you to be a safe space
you are not a space. you are a person filled with blood and intestines and mesenteries and tiny metallic engines
you are not a set design to comfort or mollify others; you are not obliged to hold still as the backdrop of another’s drama, not till the yard-arms become tipped with a pallid fire, and Mene Mene Tekel Upharsin becomes woven into the cordage. be free otherwise, and do not discard your freedom lightly
it is not true that the entire world must be contextualised in terms of the self; this is quite an egregious error actually. but i am not a space, and neither are you
a space is unoccupied, empty, available. you are not empty. you have Things inside of you. some are ugly, cruel, perhaps some should be locked away, never allowed to utter a syllable. if your desire to act decently and treat others fairly is sincere enough, your qualities will, on balance, outweigh your failings. then perhaps, in the fulness of time, your heart will become feather-light
but if your desire to appear decent exceeds your desire to act decently then you accept infinite compression of the self you’ve taken such care to attire in nice draperies
the internal temperature of a singularity approaches 0 Kelvin
soon you will have to be brave, and think a bit harder.
#h2so4 (vitriol)#freedom is infinitely more precious. especially cf acceptance into Rank Bastard ranks who lick the boots of robot thought police :')
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