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nobleheart: Due to your love of Art. I only felt it right to include you as a moderator of this board. You have brought so much to this topic and shared many links.. thank you!
ScarletRose: I'm glad you liked them
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always looking for something cool & art-related,I found this.
Beautiful Japanese wrapping cloth called furoshiki(an oversized square cloth, dyed in a variety of colors and patterns) are used in a creative artisitc way to wrap gifts,store things or carry things.The origin of the furoshiki goes back to the 14th century.
nobleheart: oh Steve those are so pretty.. I have a picture (just a print) that I hang in my bedroom with Three young ladies sitting on a garden stairway.. the girls reminded me of my two daughters and my neice..
nobleheart: I think alot of people would say both. It is a case of "say what you think others will want to hear"
ScarletRose: tsk, tsk, scarlet. the system is just as visual as the nature and both nature and system can stimulate the mind.
harley: ty harley.I study native north american shamanism,but also lately have gotten in reasearch on pre-christian spirituality & its influence of early christians.
also the templar knights & related mysteries.
The blue color of the sky is caused by the scattering of sunlight off the molecules of the atmosphere. This scattering, called Rayleigh scattering, is more effective at short wavelengths (the blue end of the visible spectrum). Therefore the light scattered down to the earth at a large angle with respect to the direction of the sun's light is predominantly in the blue end of the spectrum.
Yes.. more correctly worded and in more detail.. although.. this is still talking about the frequency of the light rays.. :) I just didn't have the time to go into depth..
ScarletRose: I believe the term is "Rayleigh Scattering". I took a college course in Geography so I should know the proper spelling, sadly when I passed the course I dumped most of the information into my mental recycle bin (you know what they say, "garbage in/garbage out", an inexact use of the term but I think it applies, LOL)
harley: Thanks girlie girl.. how interesting that is.. and I got to learn something I hadn't learned before and that is the reasoning of the halo or circular sheild on statues..
harley: thank you, I thought it might have such an origin but I wasn't sure. Speaking of the sun it too appears several times in classical paintings, perhaps the famous Renaissance painters got some of their inspiration from pagan beliefs?
What Was the Origin of the Halo? Surprisingly, the halo is both pagan and un-Christian in origin. Many centuries before Christ, natives decorated their heads with a crown of feathers. "They did so to symbolize their relationship with the sun-god: their own 'halo' of feathers representing the circle of light that distinguished the shining divinity in the sky. Indeed, people came to believe that by adopting such a 'nimbus' men turned into a kind of sun themselves and into a divine being."
Later in history, the Roman emperors who began to think of themselves as divine beings wore a crown in public to imitate the sphere of light from the sun.
The need to preserve art objects also added to the development of the halo. "Statues were kept not in museums but in the open. Therefore they were subject to deterioration through various causes. To protect them from the droppings of birds, the rain and the snow, a circular plate--either of wood or brass--was fixed upon their heads!"
nobleheart: the jesus image brings a question to mind. What is the origin of the halo? As far as I know there isn't any scriptural (Christian or otherwise) to support the image and I've heard that it was added to certain images as an emblem of holiness (to distinguish holy characters from other characters in art).