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Finally, exhausted and at a loss to remember any additional songs, Richie Havens began playing a guitar groove. The word “freedom” came to his mind, and he began singing. He added a few lines from the traditional song, “Motherless Child,” and a new song, an anthem for the Woodstock festival, was created live on stage. The song, "Freedom" was immortalized in the Oscar-winning 1970 documentary film, Woodstock, and the film’s soundtrack album and became a staple of Richie’s performances the rest of his career. Richie told the story many times about having to go to the theater and watch the movie to learn the song he had extemporaneously written on the Woodstock stage. Woodstock was a defining moment for Richie Havens, and he would reference his performance at the festival for the rest of his career.

Wade Lawrence & Scott Parker

#richie havens #woodstock

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So glad it's not me

sitting on a pretty white couch

inside the videodrome in 1080p

A karmic conversation while handing out judgment towards our USWNT

Kafka time

The segment ran next

Faith, Family, and Patriotism

Read the overlay on the screen

Forward fast to hear as I stare in disbelief

Not the first of men to say

I love you to a stripper

As the white cushions cackle with glee

Another thankless, joyous morning

In the land of the free.

~Title ~ A Summation Of What I Heard This Sunday Morning But Didn't Want To See I'm Thankful For Our Graceful USWNT 23

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Heartfelt Prose In Less Then 15

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#the mirror #andrei tarkovsky

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Quetzalcoatl, like Osiris to the Egyptians, was the mythological figure who brought farming and civilization to his people. Also, like Osiris, Quetzalcoatl had a malicious brother, Tezcatlipoca. Tezcatlipoca tricks Quetzalcoatl into drinking an intoxicant which leads to illicit relations with a priestess and, consequently, to Quetzalcoatl’s guilt-fueled self-immolation and resurrection. The Aztecs considered the planet Venus to literally be Quetzalcoatl either as the divine being or as the historical leader embodying the god who had been unjustly exiled.

In Mesoamerica the planet Venus is especially dazzling and, consequently, was considered of extreme importance. It was called the Ancient Star and when it appeared again in the East, after an 8-day absence in its cycle, priests flicked the blood of sacrificial victims toward it to appease it. Venus completes its revolution around the Sun every 224.7 days, yet, from Earth, Venus seems to complete a perceived cycle every 584 days. The Dresden Codex , one of the few Mayan books not destroyed by the Spanish, has a ritual calendar of 104 years based on this 584-day cycle. In this calendar the heliacal rising as a morning star (when Venus seems to appear out of the Sun) was given the ritual length of 236 days, its transition to an evening star at superior conjunction was given 90 days, its period as an evening star was given 250 days, and its disappearance at inferior conjunction was counted as 8 days (during which a wild festival was held).

Some modern researchers believe that a closer look at these numbers could have helped the Mesoamerican cultures discover an accurate model of our solar system, but scientific description was the last thing these folks were looking for, as they believed that the night sky contained messages that could guide one’s life and decisions on Earth. This was much more useful than discovering a heliocentric theory.

Indeed, the patterns in the night sky seemed to cry out, “Decipher me! This is no coincidence! There is deep meaning in the stuff up here!” For example, Mesoamerican mathematicians realized that 5 x 584 = 8 x 365. This begged the question: “What does this mean!?” So, 8 Venus cycles equaled 5 Earth years. It had to mean something. The night sky was revelatory and this 8 to 5 ratio might not be immediately understood, but it was a piece of the overall puzzle to be kept for the day when it could be placed meaningfully into the greater picture.

The information derived from the night sky and other information used in magical predictions was arithmetical and numerological to the Mesoamericans. There was, for instance, a Sacred Round of 260 days. Nobody, anymore, is sure where they got this from – maybe the period of time for human gestation.

It became a type of mathematical constant, however. 2 x 260 = 520, which equals, for instance, three lunar half years. The Dresden Codex, from which we learn of the importance of the planet Venus in the lives of the power elite in Mesoamerica, was a book of divination with the stations of the Venus cycle as important aspects of when, for example, war should occur.

Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca

Yet, the four-part division of the Venus cycle also allowed for the creation of a story. It allowed for the creation of allegorical or symbolic qualities which invited the god Quetzalcoatl into the picture or, perhaps, lead to the creation of the Quetzalcoatl story. These four intervals could be roughly divided into Venus as a morning or evening star incorporating disappearances in front of and behind the sun. One could begin to say that the planet Venus was born from the Sun and died back into the Sun.

Venus thus becomes the perfect symbol for various types of dualisms, e.g. death and resurrection, purity and sin, malevolence and benevolence. Various optimistic or pessimistic connotations could accrue to the two major parts of the story, lending value or potency to predictions based on where Venus might be at any given time.

Indeed, the rising of Venus from the Sun was interpreted ominously. In the Dresden Codex we see Venus as an armed warrior-god spearing a victim. Only a solar eclipse was feared more than the heliacal rising of Venus. The historical Quetzalcoatl stated he would return from the east to gain vengeance, and thus the reemergence of the planet brought this prediction back into everyone’s consciousness. Venus rising from the Sun was a foreshadowing of Quetzalcoatl returning to gain justice against a corrupt society.

It is important to also realize that Quetzalcoatl means “precious twin”. The two appearances of the planet are like twin stars, one emerging from the light and one descending into darkness. The story went that when Quetzalcoatl (the god) killed himself, a star rose from the funeral pyre. He then turned a negative into a positive by traveling through the underworld searching for the bones with which he could create humanity.

The concept of death and resurrection pervades ancient mythology as one of our central hopes is that we can rise again, if not literally then metaphorically. It represents the awakening from denial to awareness, the movement from a lower to a higher nature. Perhaps the symbolism resonates so strongly with us because of the deep awareness we have that there is a process of becoming available to us, that through patience and self-examination we can discern the necessity for the most humane values and responses to emanate in our lives.

To believe that union must emerge from divorce, mercy must emerge from revenge, kindness from callousness, patience from petulance, joy from despair, love from hatred, brotherhood from antagonism is to realize a meaning in the Ancient Star’s journey. To be able to pick Venus out of the sky, and understand that it can be a symbol of death and resurrection, of adversity and hope, is an extraordinarily powerful aesthetic experience.

Article written by Daniel Gauss

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Joan Baez & Marianne Faithfull "As Tears Go By"

#joan baez #marianne faithfull

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Absolutely Genius. As close as being remarkably divine that one has known. In short, as Lee Scratch Perry would say....... Most Brilliant 🌞 The subject I am addressing is, A Title Of A Song That Consists Of Three Words. (⁠✿⁠ ⁠♡⁠‿⁠♡⁠)

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