In ancient Egyptian times, women were seen and honored as higher and holier than a man.
The woman is the mother of all, giving life and teaching.
The ancients believed that when a man achieves a great deal of knowledge, spirituality and power, he would be allowed to wear a long hair wig to symbolize that he had reached a certain level equal to a woman.
As the two come together she holds her man, giving him strength and protection.
There is a saying that continues to float today: “Behind every successful man there is a strong woman.” ❤️❤️
One of the most unusual seals from the ancient world!
Dating to the Neo-Babylonian era, approximately 700 B.C., this cylinder seal contains an anthropomorphic carving of a bearded merman and a mermaid on the right.
🧜 In the stamp we can see the upper part of a human body, while the lower part is a fish with its fine details, where the tail, fins and scales are carved with great precision.
Both the merman and the mermaid raise their right hands and extend …
I was today years old when I learnt that the part of the body we affectionately refer to as a pouch has a proper scientific name.
Ladies and gentleman, introducing the panniculus, “an apron of skin and fat that sags below the navel, particularly after pregnancy or weight loss”.
While I won’t be adding panniculus to my baby names list, I do think we should show it a little more love. Because despite what you might see on social media, having a pouch, or a panniculus on a Sunday, is entirely natural and normal. And to prove it, I refer you to the drawing attached.
This piece of art was created in 23,000 BCE, on the walls of a cave in what we now call France. Opinions vary as to whether it represents a woman in childbirth, or an appreciative ode to the female form, but either way her pouch is clearly visible, and she was important enough and interesting enough and beautiful enough to commit to rock for eternity.
It can be hard to feel good about our bodies after pregnancy and birth, and there’s no denying that we have been forever changed by the experience inside and out, but it’s even harder when we try to live up to unattainable and constantly shifting beauty standards.
That’s why this piece of art brings me such joy, the figure is undeniably and unashamedly female, lumps and bumps and all. And if a woman 25,000 years ago, whose life was undoubtedly much harder than mine, can handle this jelly, then so can I.
This photo was taken in 1892 in New York. It is an image of Bill Smith. He was not a rich man, philanthropist or playboy like the fictional characters in comics and movies. He worked in a butcher shop.
Bill Smith began his personal fight against crime at the age of 43: he caught a thief who wanted to rob the store. The scoundrel tried to run away with a leg of lamb over his shoulder, but very unfortunately he caught Smith’s attention and got a good beating. Mr. Smith faced the law for this act, but was released by a sympathetic judge.
This inspired Smith to fight on. At first he suppressed all attempts to rob his store, and then he began patrolling the nighttime streets of New York looking for criminals.
Soon Smith conceived an unusual image for himself and commissioned a menacing mask. He needed it to hide his true identity.
The press reported about the hero: “All the locals have heard of this Batman. He walks the night streets, and gangsters, thieves and drunken vagabonds keep their distance from him.
The elders tell us that it takes longer for us to heal today and the reason is because the old trails our ancestors used to use to find us have been destroyed….so now our ancestors are having a hard time finding us to help us heal.
We are also told that was the first plant to grow on Mother Earth
When we harvest Sweetgrass,we get three bunches of seven strands
So there will be 21 pieces of grass.
We do not pull it, this is the hair of Mother Earth.
We braid the three strands of seven pieces right there on Mother Earth
Then we gently cut it
If we want to state our intentions,, we can bring tobacco as to bring Creator in on our words as to how we will use this
For an offering we can offer something the plant can use,, like water,
So offer the relations around it, it’s brothers and sisters,mother and father
And so on,give them a gift of water.
When we burn sweetgrass, remember these things: Its a kindness medicine…with a sweet gentle aroma when we light it.
Its symbolic…
There are 21 strands used to make a braid… The first 7 strands represent those 7 generations behind us~ Our parents Our grandparents Our great grandparents and so on forth
7 generations behind us~who we are and what we are is because of them~they’ve brushed and made the trails we have been walking up til now…but the trails have been destroyed, we have lost our connection.
The time has come to heal and reconnect with our ancestors.
The next 7 represent the 7 sacred teachings… Love, Respect, Honesty, Courage, Wisdom, Truth and Humility.
The elders tell us how simple, powerful and beautiful the teaching are:
1 Love: unconditional affection with no limits or conditions that starts with loving yourself.
2 Respect: due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights or traditions of other, with consideration, thoughtfulness, attentiveness, politeness, courtesy, civility, deference.
3 Honestly: have a character of integrity, and honor be free from fraud or deception, legitimate truthful.
4 Courage: bravery, permitting one to face extreme dangers with boldness withstanding danger, fear or difficulty
5 Wisdom: the quality of having experience, knowledge and good judgment the quality of being wise.
6 Truth: the face of the matter, veracity, sincere, candor and genuineness a determined in principle entirely by how it relates to things
7 Humility: freedom from pride or arrogance, being humble, when we truly understand the teaching of humility, that we are not any better then anyone else and you are not any better then me. that at the end of the day we are simply human beings, this is what makes this teaching powerful and beautiful.
The last 7 strands are those of the 7 generations in front of us~ Our children ….. Our grandchildren ….. Our great grandchildren ….. as well as those children yet to be born.
It is important because everything we do to Mother earth will one day effect them… We have lost our way, Mother Earth gives us everything we need to heal ourselves and the earth. We must go back to our roots and bloom.
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