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Hyderabad, India Charminar is the best known landmark of the city. It was built in the 16th century by Sultan Mohammed Quli Qutb Shah |
Hyderabad - Golconda Fort
Hyderabad - View from atop the Charminar
Beach with cows and camels in Gokarna, Karnataka, study center for Sanskrit
scholars.
Decorated ceremonial wooden
cart - Gokarna, Karnataka
Drôme Valley, Luc-en-Diois,
France, the capital of the celtic Voconce Civilization before arrival of Romans
Happy man with his donkey, Egypt
Romania
Beginning New Mexico and Indian ruins section
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Artist's depiction of one of the buildings at Chaco Canyon.
| These sites have been abandoned for about 1000 years and the subsequent cultures living in the area (which have survived till today, just barely) are very different. Common theories about the disappearance of the sophisticated Anasazi indians of the American southwest around 1000 AD are overpopulation, drought, conflicts, and disease. This is a bunch of crap, let me tell you, the archaeologists didn’t even figure out that these people were all about the stars and the cycles and seasons until just recently. Most of the buildings are aligned with the cardinal directions, some of the walls are aligned with the 18.6 year cycle of minimum and maximum moonrise and moonset! It has only been 120 years since the ruins were found by the Westerners. Anyway, this is what happened – They figured out the white man was coming! And they set off on a mission to all four corners to learn about new lands and teach people to watch out for the white people. Many of “The People” as some of their descendents call them, forgot their instructions, lost their way, or were seduced by an apparent easy life elsewhere, but the word did get out. For example, when Cortez and the Spaniards arrived in Mexico the Aztecs knew what was going to happen because they had a legend, about the end of the world, in which "a bearded white-skinned god would come to signal the apocalyptic end of Aztec civilization." Well, they were right, here we are. I got to imagining what life was like out there in the time of these Indians, not bad, the Aztecs and Mayans were a little brutal. Where is whole western civilization thing headed, anyway? around in a spiral? The Mayans forecasted the end of the world (this cycle) in 2012 |
| Los Alamos, New Mexico is where the Americans developed the Atomic bomb. I visited the science museum there. |
| Oddly enough, also in Los Alamos, New Mexico I came across a protest of the current American wars, they were carrying signs that said "Bush lied, people died". Shortly after that I was stopped by two young missionary "sisters" who tried to recruit me to the Mormon church - "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" started by the American "prophet" Joseph Smith. One was Australian and the other had red hair. I have been waiting for more saints in these latter-days. |
| I like the Indian art from the southwest. The Hopis and Zunis make Kachinas which represent "supernatural beings manifested as messengers from the spiritual world" |
This is what happens to bad little Basset Hounds who bark to wake me up at 6 in the morning - the "chicken coop hold"
Goa, India
The Colorado Rockies
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Conclusion Nature, Donkeys = happiness Civilization = Bad |