Afshar saddle bag, 1880, Iran.
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Kashmir, a region with a captivating ethnic diversity, is home to many fascinating communities. Parveena and her daughter, Rubeena, are part of an ethnic group known as Gujjar. During the summer, they live high in the mountains alongside their cattle, surrounded by the beauty of nature. However, as winter approaches, they migrate to the warmer valleys. The life of these people is challenging, but, like many traditional communities, they maintain a deep connection with spirituality, which gives them strength and hope. For instance, little Rubeena wears a Ta’wiz around her neck, a special amulet containing a few verses from the Quran.
Mihaela Noroc
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Jeff's Tuareg Cross
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The Meaning
Any question about their symbolism put to the users generally elicits only vague answers. Some attribute to it a function of "grigri" or “reserve of wealth". The ethnologists Germaine Dieterlen and Ziedonis Ligers spotted a situation where the father gave the jewel to his son in age of virility, marriage and nomadism, saying to him: "My son, I give you the four directions of the world, because we do not know where you will go to die".[6]
According to one Tuareg elder narration, a young nomadic warrior wanted to declare his love to the young girl of his heart, the latter being locked up at home and therefore inaccessible to his messages. The village blacksmith then had a very important place in Tuareg society. As such, the blacksmith had the right to enter the houses of all the families with whom he traded with. The young man then had a jewel forged which combines the two syllables of the Tamashek word " T (a) R (a)" ("tara" meaning " love" and spelled "ⵜⵔ" in the Tifinagh alphabet.) and entrusted the blacksmith with the mission of transmitting the message of love to his beloved in the greatest discretion.[7]
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Lonely is the road endlessly traveled
And rare is a place to rest
My weary head
As I can remember none so sublime
Than the welcoming nest
Atop your warm thighs
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Eva (Eszter Balint), in Stranger than Paradise (Jim Jarmusch, 1984).
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'Corronation of Feathers' by Adam Oehlers
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Altai. Character from "Mergen"
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The more I travel, the more it opens my mind and my heart to everything and everyone around me
There is a precious gift in moving through the world and all of its unfamiliar and wonderful ways
It is a gift of perception, a gift of your inner world changing as the outside world shifts around you
Your perception of what you know based on the experiences you’ve had from within your home country changes…
It shifts to a deeper understanding of humanity and the wildness of the earth, an understanding that roots deeply within your heart and dissolves judgement on the ways of life that go against your own beliefs.
Compassion makes a home in your heart for all life, all across the earth, everywhere you go.
When you move between such different worlds you realise how connected it all is, how connected WE are to the natural world, how culture is a way of life so unfamiliar to our own ways but so essential in preserving the rituals and survival of communities across the world and in the keeping of life continuing to thrive.
In my experience, every time I have chosen to travel, life presents me with the opportunity to expand in ways I never expected to, and gifts me beautiful experiences that change my life forever.
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SS Nomadic’s lifeboat, the last remaining White Star Line lifeboat in the world. It has been on display onboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach since around 2017. Just recently it has returned to Belfast, hoping to have it displayed near Nomadic. Unfortunately, nobody wanted to display it. So the owners have stripped her of her signage and fittings and they are preparing her for long-term storage.
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