Streisand and Streep and Moss! Oh my!
Streisand and Streep and Moss! Oh my!
Why should the married folk have a monopoly on simple band rings?
Tramas envolventes com sotaques diferentes.
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Streisand and Streep and Moss! Oh my!
Weren't the '90s the coolest? Fashion designers certainly seem to think so lately. Take a look at the models, designers, and celebs who seem to be inspiring the way we dress all over again.
Streisand and Streep and Moss! Oh my!
When you see lichens growing on a stone or tree, you know that you are seeing something aged. Lichens are a symbiotic organism using a partner to live.
HERE is KATE MOSS modelling the new Blackpool FC home and away kits for next season. Of course she’s not. It’s the Holland kit, and also part of […]
Lose the dreaming, and you may lose your world. There is a haunting warning about this, echoing down across the millennia, from an ancient Sumerian text. It gives voice to Ningal, the goddess-protector of Ur, who shared the central temple-palace complex with her consort Nanna, the god of the Moon. Ningal is speaking of the coming destruction of the city: When I was grieving for that day of storm, that day of storm, destined for me, laid upon me, heavy with tears... Dread of the storm's floodlike destruction weighed on me, and of a sudden on my couch at night, upon my couch at night no dreams were granted me. [1] Here the loss of dreams heralds the fall of the city and the loss of an empire. We can only grasp the full power of Ningal's terrible complaint when we understand her vital role, and that of the succession of high priestesses who embodied her, as dreamers and dream interpreters. In The Treasures of Darkness, Thorkild Jacobsen made a strong case that Ningal, like her mother Ningikuga, was a goddess of reeds as well as of the Moon. For the people of ancient Sumer, reeds defined a liminal environment, between the marshes and the dry land, symbolically a place of passage between states of consciousness and reality. Betty de Shong Meador writes in her wonderful book Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: "Ningal wanders in that borderland between dry ground and the watery deep of the rivers or ocean. In that transitional space between solid consciousness and the muddy unconscious, dreams emerge. Ningal is the divine dream-spinner who roams the marsh in the moonlight of her husband and taps the fertile, imaginative play of figures in the darkness that make up dreams." The high priestess of the Moon god of Ur, Nanna, embodied the goddess Ningal in the annual rites of sacred union in which Nanna was embodied by the king. The hieros gamos was believed to renew the fertility of the land. From day to day, a no less vital function of the high priestess was to receive and pass on to the king and the people "Ningal's gifts of dreams". The phrase comes from the first author known by a personal name in all the world's literature: Enheduanna, poet, princess and high priestess of Nanna at Ur, whose wild and lovely poems evoking the Moon couple's daughter Inanna, Queen of Earth and Heaven, still arouse and unsettle us today. Scholars parsing the cuneiform texts from Sumer that have survived on baked clay tablets have found extensive evidence that dreams were greatly valued as oracles for both individuals, families and the whole polity. It was believed that the gods expressed their wishes and revealed the future through dreams. Special care was taken in incubating dreams on matters of great importance. The dream seeker would lie down on a special couch - "the shining, fruitful couch" - to seek divine guidance, or seclude herself in a specially constructed reed hut. In her poem of exile, Enheduanna grieves for a people bereft of the gift of dreams. The poet priestess laments I cannot stretch my hands from the pure sacred bed I cannot unravel Ningal's gifts of dreams to anyone [2] References 1. trans. Samuel Noah Kramer; in Thorkild Jacobsen, TheTreasures of Darkness: A History of Mesopotamian Religion (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976) 87. 2. trans. Betty De Shong Meador in Inanna, Lady of Largest Heart: Poems of the Sumerian High Priestess Enheduanna (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001) 66.
Photographer Spotlight: Mario Testino
Kate The Great.
Plus, the New York Fashion Week calendar is released.
Streisand and Streep and Moss! Oh my!
Der Mode- und Fashionblog aus München.
Moss reminisces about posing topless with Mark Wahlberg, what she learned from Christy Turlington and Naomi Campbell, and shooting her first Allure cover 20 years ago.
Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery and the rest of the cast return to Madison Avenue for 'Mad Men's' final seven episodes, which begin airing April 5.
These Things No.60! this feels like it should be momentous, or something. i actually calculated how long i have been blogging the other day, and it’s been 5 years (and 2 months) since i started this…
