An incredible victory for @HamawyForNJ.
More proof that taking a principled stand on Israel's genocide is not a liability among the working class majority of this continent.
Moral clarity is popular.
#FreePalestine
bubbles is best friends with cream! 🩵💛
the two of them visit each other for playdates and baking sweets together 🧁🧃they love talking about chao and having sleepovers! which canon characters does your OC get along with? 🐾
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More than 3,000 years ago, the people of Sanxingdui may have created a "flying altar."
It had a divine dog crying out with wings spread, solemn figures making offerings, mysterious images of sacred mountains, and a strange creature with a human face and a bird's body looking down at the human world.
In 1986, this bronze fragment was unearthed from Pit No. 2 at Sanxingdui and named the "Altar." Although one half had been melted away, smashed, or placed elsewhere, and the remaining half had also been warped by fire, what survives still allows us to see traces of the extraordinarily astonishing imagination of the ancient Sanxingdui people.
At the very bottom of this altar is a bronze dog.
Its mouth is rectangular, a feature shared by all the bronze dogs discovered at Sanxingdui so far. A credible interpretation is that this shape may depict the dog crying out loudly, so that its voice could reach the gods.
On the dog's forehead is a horn resembling an elephant's trunk. But even this is not the most striking feature of the creature. On its back is a wing raised upward, suggesting that it could not only send its voice up to the deities above, but also spread its wings and fly toward their dwelling place.
Above the dog stand human figures. They wear short-sleeved garments with hems reaching their knees, and their hands are held before their chests, grasping what appear to be vine-like objects.
Even more mysteriously, two of these figures have human faces appearing on their hats. Together they carry four mountain-shaped objects, each decorated with a beast motif.
Above the four sacred mountains is a roof. On each side of the roof is a row of kneeling figures, while at the very top stands a strange creature with a human face and a bird's body. Each of the four sides also features a bird, decorated with dragon patterns.
The surviving height of this artifact is 55.3 centimeters.
Today, we can only see its fire-damaged remains. The six newly excavated sacrificial pits from five years ago allowed many once-fragmented artifacts to be reassembled. Yet this piece still awaits its missing parts.
Even so, the part that remains is enough to astonish us 3,000 years later.
We find Avatar breathtaking because it created a fantastical universe in which humans are connected with nature, ancestors, and spirits.
But more than 3,000 years ago, Sanxingdui had already used bronze, divine dogs, flying wings, sacred mountains, and bird-gods to construct their own "Pandora."
What we see is only a damaged bronze artifact.
What they saw may have been an entire universe.
If anyone has it in them to help me, I’m in a dark place again. I can’t afford my meds or my groceries right now. I’m like 250$ short. :/
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When the timberwolves are out of the playoffs but it’s just basketball and you have friends and family that love and support you, a good job, good progress on your degree, a roof over your head with great friends as roommates, and a full stomach.
Naz Reid has a heartfelt answer when asked about this past year, 6th man, the towels, the love, etc.
Not gonna summarize, this is one to watch…
#Timberwolves
@XoneNoYuuutsu best part is that decision making can be learned, especially from a guy like mike. if his physical and technical abilities are as good as they’re gonna get, his mental abilities still can get better.