Thomas M. Easterly
Big Mound during destruction, "The last of the Big Mound". , 1869
Daguerreotype
Easterly Collection 76.
Missouri Historical Society Photographs and Prints Collection.
(Photograph by David Schultz, 1994. NS 17087. Photograph and scan)


mound builder cultures


Mann, C. C. 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus. Knopf, 2005.


.

..

Because I can swim in the immense

Because I can swim in all forms

Because I am the launch woman

Because I am the sacred opposum

Because I am the Lord opposum



I am the woman Book that is beneath the water, says

I am the woman of the populous town, says

I am the shepherdess who is beneath the water, says

I am the woman who shepherds the immense, says

I am a shepherdess and I come with my shepherd, says


Because everything has its origin

And I come going from place to place from the origin...

Álvaro Estrada, María Sabina: Her Life and Chants, Ross-Erikson Publishers, 1981. Recorded July 21-22, 1956, by R. Gordon Wasson in Huautla de Jiménez, Oaxaca (Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico, Folkways Records, FR 8975)

Maria Sabina

.

The Field Museum









/\\

Science and Fiction/Models of the Universe

Large Scale Structure and Magnetic Fields

The Topology of the Universe
: Is the Universe Crumpled?

Topology

ODP/Topology

//

Moondog

Moondog

Moondog

.

Black Moth Super Rainbow

Dark Bubbles

_------.
/ , \_
/ / /{}\ |o\_
/ \ `--' /-' \
| \ \ |
| |`-, |
/ /__/)/
| |

Public Collectors

UbuWeb

The Grey Lodge




//\

Aos Sí

"...medieval scholars would have located sensory perception in the brain (Siraisi, 1990; McIlwain, 2006). However, they would have perceived the five senses as active entities conveying information about the outside world to the internal senses of common sense, imagination, judgement, memory and fantasy (the ability to visualize).

Scholars differed considerably over how this worked in practice: for example, were rays emitted from the eyes towards the viewed object or was it the other way round? Either theory allowed for these rays to influence both viewer and object, thus explaining the widespread concept of the evil eye, or a belief still current in the 18th century that what a mother saw affected her foetus. The brain, however, was not the only sensitive organ of the body."



Woolgar, C. M. The Senses in Late Medieval England. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2007.


via The Frontal Cortex