Caesar Augustus

Weird, wonderful, whimsical, wicked.

[Caesar Augustus @WicCaesar]

#ZombieWalkRJ #Arpoador

[🌿 Esper 🌿 @Esperacchi]

I fucking hate AI necromancy I fucking hate AI necromancy I fucking hate AI necromancy

[Neminha 🦇⚰️💀👻🏳️‍🌈 @nemanema]

É sério isso? Estão tirando uma com a cara do consumidor, passou da hora da gente se rebelar, que inferno

[gabis @lanadezreal]

me revolta esse filme ter sido feito com atores brasileiro baseado num livro brasileiro com a história se passando no brasil e gravado no brasil mas o oscar foi pra frança porque o diretor era francês

[Cultura Inquieta @culturainquieta]

«No se puede gastar la creatividad. Cuanto más la usas, más tienes.»

— Maya Angelou

📹: Por la artista visual francesa Anneka Imbert

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

This is genius

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

“Algorithms and artificial intelligence are the opposite of taking risks and to me that is the opposite of making art.”

- Madonna to Vogue Italia

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Esto es Kentucky (EEUU), una iglesia evangélica organizó una simulación de fusilamiento de inmigrantes delante de niños que acudieron a un campamento de verano.

Puro amor al prójimo, excepto si eres negro, homosexual, inmigrante, comunista o musulmán, entonces toca fusilamiento.

[Wenting @zephray_wenting]

Might sound a bit cursed, but I turned the M5Stack PaperS3 into a GameBoy emulator:

[Intercept Brasil @TheInterceptBr]

A Igreja Universal defendeu que “um cristão de verdade não pode nem deve compactuar com ideias esquerdistas”. O Intercept Brasil revelou, no entanto, que deputados ligados à Universal indicaram familiares para cargos na Infraero durante o governo Lula III.

[Caesar Augustus @WicCaesar]

@fotodocorte @TeIevizona Como a Bia do Brás engordou tanto?

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

The day 3 Japan National Team players faced 100 elementary school kids at the exact same time 😂

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

La esposa y la hija del gobernador colonial francés Paul Doumerm, arrojan sapèques (monedas de bajo valor) y granos de arroz a niños vietnamitas como si fuesen animales. (1900)

Así es como Occidente llevó la "civilización" al mundo, con la esclavitud, el saqueo y el genocidio.

[miss ❀ @addisonismygod]

im crying can someone make this into a gif? 😭

[Hüseyin Karakurt @vekilkarakurt]

80 yıl boyunca her yıl 120 gün ve günde 24 saat 12.000 btu bir klimayı çalıştırırsanız ömrünüz boyunca doğaya yaptığınız co2 salınımı 100 ton olacaktır.

bir süperyat haftada 109 ton
bir özel jet yılda 810 ton
co2 salınımı yapar.

yani ömrünüz boyunca yazları terleyerek geçirirken bir milyardar sadece bir haftada sizin ömrünüz boyunca kaçındığınız zararı doğaya verebiliyor.

[The Public Domain Review @PublicDomainRev]

Mongolian manuscript from the 19th century, full of charts and diagrams that astrologers (generally Buddhist monks) would use to calculate the best time to do certain things, such as depart on a trip or remove a dead body from a dwelling: https://t.co/JMOcPFnUyw

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Powwow dances are beautiful expressions of Indigenous spirituality, history and culture. There are a variety of regional dance styles performed by men, women and children across North America. For all dancers, spiritual centre of a powwow is always the Circle — a revered area blessed by a spiritual leader. Dancers must only enter Circle from east, as they walk in direction of sun. In addition, powwow dances, drum music and singers and regalia are sacred elements of celebration, meant not only to entertain, but also to tell important stories about personal and cultural history.

Term “powwow” derives from Pau Wau, meaning “medicine man” in Narrtick, a language spoken by Algonquian peoples in Massachusetts. English settlers began misusing word to refer to meetings of Indigenous medicine men and later to any kind of American Indian gathering. American Indians have since reclaimed term.

Although powwows are said to originate with Plains Indigenous peoples, cross-cultural exchanges have produced various regional variations to powwow dances. Most well-known of Northern styles (originating from northern Great Lakes and Great Plains regions) include men’s and women’s Northern Traditional Dances. Most well-known Southern styles (originating from central and western areas of Oklahoma and southern Plains peoples, including Kiowa, Comanche, Pawnee, Ponca), include men’s Southern Straight Dance and women’s Southern Cloth Dance. Some dances, namely men’s and women’s Fancy Dances, women’s Jingle Dance and men’s Grass Dance, are less geographically specific in modern times because they have been adapted in different ways by both Northern and Southern communities.

There are also dances that are specific to certain First Nations, or that commemorate certain events or elements of nature. For example, Chicken Dance (Northern Plains), Crow Hop (Crow of Montana) and Rabbit Dance (Sioux) are regional dances that originate from observations of nature and animals. Sneak-Up Dance (Plains) and Smoke Dance (Haudenosaunee) are warrior dances. Hoop Dance (Anishinaabe) incorporates anywhere from one to 30 hoops in a story-telling dance. There are many other types of regional and ceremonial dances performed by various First Nations at some powwows.

Most powwow dances are performed by individuals. There are dances for couples as well, such as Owl Dance (Northern Plains). Friendship Dances or Round Dances (Anishinaabe/Northern Plains) are intertribal dances that are open to general public, allowing both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples to celebrate together in song and dance. During Round Dance, all participants join hands and circle dance area, facing centre of circle. At times, Métis dancers (often performing the traditional jigging dance), Inuit dancers and dancers from Indigenous nations outside Canada and United States, such as Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, among others, are asked to perform at powwow celebrations. In this way, powwows can be a forum for cultural exchanges.

Powwows can be defined as traditional or competitive. Traditional powwows are held in local communities, and do not have dance and drum group competitions. Competitive powwows have dance categories for women, men and children. Dancers who score the highest in their category receive awards or cash prizes. At contest powwows, dance categories can be gender- and age-specific. For example, jingle dress dance is typically performed by women, while Smoke Dance was historically performed by men. However, with resurgence of two-spirit traditions, and progression of women’s rights movements in 20th Century, some powwow organizers and First Nations allow dancers of opposite sex to participate in traditionally male or female specific dances. Most dances are also categorized by age: adult, teenager/youth and “tiny tot” (children). Panel of judges evaluating the competitive dances scores performers based on dance category as well as regalia and dancing abilities.

#archaeohistories

[chapila @anittapresa]

tanta saudade da cudy 😢

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

Mary Fields aka Stagecoach Mary was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses.

She was the first black woman employed as a mail carrier in the US and the second woman to work for the US Postal Service.

—Mary Fields was born enslaved around 1832 and freed following the American Civil War. In 1895, Fields was hired as a mail carrier because she was the fastest applicant to hitch a team of six horses. Fields was the first African American woman, and only the second woman, to work in the United States Postal Service. She got her nickname stagecoach because she never missed a day of work, even showing up during heavy snow by wearing snowshoes and carrying the mail packs on her back.

Fields stood six feet tall, and was a woman who commanded attention. Legend has it she wore a 38 Smith & Weston strapped under her apron and could hit anything within 50 paces.

After quitting the mail route in 1901, Fields opened her own laundry and restaurant with the help of Mother Amadeus, the mother superior of an Ursuline convent in Toledo, Ohio.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

The Septennial Rites in Guardia Sanframondi "The Feast of the Assumption" is observed every seven years in the small Italian town (or whenever is necessary: famines, plagues, earthquakes, etc.)....

Centuries ago, legend has it, a farmer discovered a wooden Madonna statue in a field in emerald hills northeast of Naples. After locals fought to keep statue, they honored it with rituals. Some 500 years later, those rituals continue.

The rites in the hamlet of Guardia Sanframondi were originally designed to seek pardon of Madonna dell’Assunta or her divine intervention against famine and scarce harvest. They are now held every seven years, in a week of atonement and costumed parades that re-enact biblical parables. Even residents who have emigrated abroad return for ceremonies and strut through cobblestone streets.

Tradition has been handed down through the generations, and is a moment that publicly marks the ticking of time in the village of 5,000. Refusing to take part is a dishonor for some. The seven days culminate with Sunday procession, which includes hundreds of self-flagellating, hooded penitents. Six-month-old babies are carried in their parents’ arms, to “whiten the soul,” as a 7 year-old put it. Villagers who now play the older characters in some of the 120 different scenes were the youngest actors decades ago, as was this bearded Abraham offering his son Isaac in sacrifice.

Four local districts prepare for almost a year in advance. They make elaborate costumes or rent them from Rome’s Cinecittà movie studios and select residents who will act in each of the live scenes. Little girls are likely to be angels with feathered wings, while their older, curly-haired sisters are apt to impersonate ancient Roman beauties. Villagers wake up at dawn to dress up, put on makeup and then gather in narrow streets around their church, awaiting an order to march, each in their position.

Sunday is most important, and longest day, in rites. The day before, secular and religious authorities open the golden, shell-shaped niche where Madonna normally rests, dominating the altar of the sanctuary in town’s main square. Every year, as the niche was opened, the faithful, crammed in the church’s nave, released the tension in tears. Old women in black knelt down in prayer. Younger faithful raised their hands over the crowd to applaud the Madonna. On Sunday afternoon, the Madonna was returned to its niche inside the church, watched by residents and curious tourists. At the windows overlooking the square, some older villagers wondered whether they would live long enough to see her again in another seven years, and dried their eyes with white handkerchiefs.

The seven-hour procession under a scorching August sun, through narrow medieval streets built when only horses and people needed them, is itself an act of sacrifice. It is also a matter of endurance. Some walked backward for entire day. Others shuttled sideways, pretending to protect themselves from the devil. Toward the end, many of child angels were pushed in strollers or carried by their parents. By final uphill stretch, even a bearded Jesus was perched in a doorway, while others sat to rest.

The “battenti” penitents who flagellate themselves with nails — wear white robes, disguising their identities, in what is said to be intimate repentance. They traditionally get dressed in private homes purposely left empty so they can keep their identities secret, though community members can easily divine who is hiding under the hoods.

Some of penitents flagellated themselves while walking for hours, beseeching the Madonna to heal them or to cure their sick children. Others held a wood cross in one hand and used the other hand to jab a rounded cork with dozens of nails into their chests repeatedly, in a gesture of physical atonement. Some struck themselves so hard that blood squirted in air, causing visitors to cover their faces and lower their gaze.

🎥© holy.violence (IG)

#archaeohistories