The Mystery And The Myth

“There were giants in the earth in those days and when the sons of god came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children, the same became mighty men, which were of old, men of renown”

Genesis, chapter 6, verse 4

The Mayans and Incans of South America believed that there was a race of giants existed on earth before the great flood, so did many other ancient civilizations, some took them for gods, other made life like models of them from stone and even wrote about them in their history, the Greeks and romans told stories of blood falling from Olympus and landing on the lap of the goddess Gaia who gave birth to the titans a race of fearful giants that destroyed anything in their way but what seemed to amaze me is the fact that all those different civilizations documented the same known entity.

My mother always told me stories from the Quran, and I remember her telling me that people who lived in the time of Adam and Eve were gigantic and huge! It never occurred to me they were classified as giants because I always thought of giants as a fairytale mythical creatures that only existed in books and the human imagination.   As I grew older I started to read more about those mysterious giants of the old age and I came across many legends and ancient biblical texts but there was one that amazed me and it was the legend of the Saiduka people.   

Lovelock Nevada isn’t just a dead end that exists in the middle of the Nevada desert, it was a great archeological site. In 1912 miners reported some strange findings in the cave, it was of mummified mummies that are believed to be the legendary Saiduka people that lived in that area around 2000 years ago. According to the Paiute Native American Indians they were a race of cannibal red haired giants, the Paiute’s people were at war with those mysterious beings. The story goes that the Saiduka tribe attacked and ate the Paiute people then a fearless group of brave warriors locked the giants up in a cave and burned them. This story was also mentioned in the writings of Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins a Native American activist.

Unfortunately the miners destroyed most of the artifacts and mummies before reporting the findings to the authorities, what survived from the ruins was also destroyed later on and all that’s left from the truth is a bunch of photos and newspaper clippings that dated back in the time of the finding. For it lacking enough evidence doesn’t stop me for believing that this is quite in fact a remarkable discovery and that giants really did exist, as for the positive and negative features of this discovery for one thing it proves that ancient text did carry some truth to it and that it’s a worldly encyclopedia in which the ancients recorded many things that might have been true but then again there are allot of farfetched documentation that challenges the scientific odds    

Mother Goblin

Dear diary it has come to me that the authority have placed me outside for no apparent reason, this is my first night walking around in a vast litter box it feels so good, but then again why am I outside? Could it be that they forgot about me or is that people of this world are cruel and heartless, or is it that they fear me attacking another fluffy chick. Either way I shall stand post and sing the song of my people that echo’s the infinite Meyaw of an everlasting agony.

Dear diary tonight is my 3^rd night outside, it amuses me to walk around and watch the stars twinkle in the darkness of the night, but lately something else caught my attention, an amazing aroma that makes the juices in my body vibrate on a note to that I’m still on a curious scale to what’s causing this aroma.

Dear diary today is my 4^th night and oh my god I met someone long dark and handsome, this other feline tom has asked my hand in marriage and I told that hunk of fur yes, I cold feel my tears of joy running down my whiskers I finally found my one true love the one who will impregnate me my 10^th litter of kittens and yes I’m so happy and looking forward to this new life of mine.

Dear diary it has come to my attention that my husband’s aroma is quite different from the one I have smelled two weeks ago I wonder what tom cat made that sweet aroma of the gods, as funny as it sounds I lost interest in my husband for some kind of unknown reason. Does that make me a bad being for loosing interest? Assuming I haven’t compromised with my fate yet.

Dear diary today the authority decided to lock me away inside because they found our love marks on my neck, is this my punishment for not informing them about my relationship.  I’m just so confused now, at least I wont have to put up with the verbal abuse that I go through on a daily basis, I also found the mysterious tomcat behind that outlandish aroma. There was a twinkling spark between us the moment we locked eyes. Now I’m all locked up and completely bedazzled by this mysterious stranger. I feel the authorities are taunting me by actually putting me in a cell with an invisible shield they call a window.

Dear diary its day 40 in solitude, two weeks ago I managed to escape and met with My husband it wasn’t great it was actually terrible, my significant other turned his back on me and stroked his paws on my face for the first time, its bad enough that I had to put up with the verbal abuse but this was beyond tolerable. As the first tear dribbled down my whiskers mysterious showed up and just like that with the power given to him he stroked my villain and disappeared into the night, dragging with him the dispelled entity that used to be my husband. Today I realized my stomach is growing larger, the villain is destroyed but my hero is long gone. I stand-alone by the invisible shield not knowing the fate that awaits me.

Dear diary today is day 99, I had three beautiful healthy kittens, the authority are pampering me with food and unconditional love, I feel loved and appreciated I know I have to be strong for my litter I shall be their mother and their fathers, they have grown up allot my mini model citizens of this cosmic universe. I am still waiting for Mr. mysterious to show up, actually would deeply love to thank him someday for giving me my self-respect and courage to believe in myself again, he is truly declared a hero in my world, I wish him all well wherever he is.

Yellow eyes in the garden

The soft breeze blew her whitish gray fur to the side creating an infinite wave. A figure laying motionless under the warmth of the sun, so peaceful yet mischievous. Her purr was as soothing as a children’s lullaby, as if taking her to a more tranquil parallel universe. The clicking noise of the camera interrupted the serenity in the air and simultaneously her yellow amber eyes swung open and that peaceful moment of time turned to fragments of the past as she charged full force curious on what was the source of that sound.

It was from that moment on I decided to capture my Pixie but holly Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious it was hard, so I called out for backup hoping for the kitten to stay still. One by one my six siblings started coming out of the bat cave or so Moi calls it. Curious on why their elder sister called them out? confusion strikes the jolly Brady bunch, and I saw that, but the look on my face said it all. As soon as they noticed, the mini photo-shoot shifted to a family BBQ outing and it got imbedded into each and every one of us as the most awesomest day in history.

Building House

Many movements shaped the designs in the upcoming years of the 20^th century, among those movements was the Bauhaus art.

Walter Gropius followed his utopia and founded the Bauhaus institution of art around 1919. Gropius was not alone in his utopian aspiration there were others who joined in molding a new generation of artists. The basic principle of the Bauhaus was creating art in anyway and with anything, this new art shifted in a completely different direction from traditional artistic methods. Students learned to create art literally nothing much was demonstrated on paper, crafting skills are thought by craftsmen and esthetic inspiration was by artists, new and cheap materials were used, machines assisted designs were crafted, color theory, basic shapes and architecture were also part of the Bauhaus curriculum.

Opposite to art nouveau Bauhaus art never related to nature in any way possible they were more of expressions of the human emotion and how we felt, abstract drawings is a prime example of that.

Later as this movement flourished the designs became attainable to the common majority of people, easy and practical items for everyday use. The workers and students started mass-producing their designs to the public in large numbers with an affordable price. The face of the 20^th century was designed molded and displayed at the Bauhaus, a movement that left its print in the world.

The allure of the new age

 












On the edge of the 19^th century the modern movement flourished greatly. And life as we know it was gradually changing into a more globally united opened society. With that change a new rebellious art movement was born called “ Art Nouveau ’’.

Art Nouveau’s popularity submerged in Paris around (1890-1910) this style defined modern art by challenging and rebelling against traditional art in creating beauty in a time filled with grotesque and UGLY.

The style is mostly consisted of swirly decorative organic lines, and the main focus in the portrait is the demonstrated female, which somehow is portrayed in a seductive manner. It is a representation of nature, sensuality and sex.

Art nouveau also known to be inspired from a mid 17^th century Japanese art called “Ukiyo-e” which means “picture of the floating world”.

The major known veterans of art nouveau won their creative freedom after this particular art became popular in the Parisian region and was demonstrated in the  "La Maison Moderne’s" gallery. The chez artists Alphonse Mucha shocked art scholars with his unique sense of artistic choice and many artists grew fond of his style and got inspired to spread this décor in everything including architecture across the region of Europe.

This style shapes our modern world in many ways. From cartoon creations, architecture, fashion, to even furniture it was a grate movement that defined the new age.

Myrsina

 

Summer rain drops its final farewell, winter knocks from a distance

young souls hold the everlasting sacred bond. hopeful dreams of tomorrow fill their world with a child that slowly grows.

but winter only fulfilled one part of the agreement  ..  skin as white as snow and hair as black as col and cheeks as red as blood was the young child of theirs, as a soul departures to the other side another is incarnated giving a glimmer of joy but heavy load of loss.

seven winters passed and her other half remarried a dreadful female with dreadful daughters of sin, greed and envy was masked behind magical beauty .. a beauty so rare but deceitful.

Asking the sun who's the fairest of them all, but as the days goes by the child reflects infinite surreal beauty and the sun beamed down on the fairest of all.

envy grew thick, and trickery was placed with greed of who's the fairest of them all.

The Troll King

 Many undefined phenomena’s turns our simple human imagination loose, simply because the unseen plays an important role in our beliefs about almost everything.

In dreams the human brain functions in a realistic manner, a perfect example of such is a painting drawn by John Henry Fuseli around 1871-1872 named  “The Nightmare”.

Fuseli, a Swiss born artist who lived most of his life in England, was the iconic genius of his time. In the late 18^th century most artists were influenced by a style called “Romanticism”. This style was widely known among legendary artists at that time.

When we wonder, on what does Romanticism mean? Our brain immediately thinks of “Love”. But if we actually took a closer look and reviewed the basic concept of Romanticism we would actually find out that it really explores the imaginative inner realms of the mind, a human point of view in expressing words like, I feel, I think, I act, I live, I am an individual, my life is my own, freedom, love, the sense of creating the unseen world of books, tales, sayings and legends.

In “The Nightmare“ Fuseli created an unseen supernatural threat, which astonished us as the

“Incubus”.  
 This all came from European folklore.
( An Incubus is a devious creature of the night,

 a demon known to surmount or lay upon helpless women in their sleep and conduct in sexual activities with them.

The disturbing cold look on the Incubus’s face haunted its viewer and gave an infamous reputation that speaks for itself. The symbolism is as clear as it can get. It displayed an occurring nightmare of a sleeping woman. the room seem effected with a soft concentration of light. This style in painting is called Chiaroscuro, and it literally means “Light-Dark”.

Many Artists use the style “Chiaroscuro” in their painting technique; it’s when they illuminate a dark area, like painting a lit candle in a dark room. The mix of dark and bright colors smartly gives an illusion of a light source.

Then there’s a crazed mare lurking from behind the curtains, and that itself wasn’t a random use of canvas space. If we actually took a closer look on the origins of the word nightmare we would find out that it actually means “An evil spirit that suffocates sleepers”.  Fuseli showed a cryptic message of some sort. To explain more take the symbol of a drawn eye, a heart and the letter U, what does that look like? It clearly shows the symbol and the formation of the sentence “I love you”. In Fuseli’s painting The nightmare it does exactly that, the atmosphere seems dark and at night time, the mare is there just like the “I love you” sentence, and for Fuseli he wanted to symbolize the night-mare. 

There was also a vile of what seemed to be some kind of medication. Back at that time people were extremely superstitious, and some strongly believed that if women didn’t have any children their most likely to have lost their mind and gone insane.  In order to calm those women down doctors prescribe a dangerous hallucinogenic drug called Optisulin. The drug did calm women down, but with terrible side effects that mostly lead to death and some serious cases of addictions.

 The whole theme represents an intense sexual sight.

Another theory about the message art scholars debated about this painting is that the sleeping woman is Anna Landolt. Anna was Fuseli’s lover, they were deeply in love and Fuseli planned to ask her hand in marriage, sadly Anna’s father did not agree and they were forced to leave each other. Heart broken Fuseli created this masterpiece out of frustration, Fuseli then was reincarnated within the Incubus in the painting. The painting represented an erotic aspect of lost love and the pain Fuseli faced on a daily biases knowing she was never his.

We as soul beings of this planet love to explore the infinite imaginative realm of dreams and unexplained fantasies. Being allured to this beautiful yet disturbing iconic image is only natural.

 After all it does really tap into pages of our brain that only our wildest dreams managed to show.