Ricardo Palacio and his wife went as tourists to Yanga Palmillas, a place with a mysterious and marvelous stone ball. When they approached it, they suddenly saw a blazing UFO in shape of a plate appeared and was hanging 100 m high in the air for few minutes. The spouses thank Saint Rose of Lima for protecting them from a danger. They bring this retablo as gratitude.
the Temple of Amon and Ra-Harakhty in “the Valley of the Lions” (known in arabic as Wadi es-Sebua), Lower Kush/Nubia. Photo 2: the Third Pylon of the Temple with a
colossal statue of King Ramses II holding the sacred standard of Amon-Ra; on the Pylon’s towers, King Ramses II smiting the captured rebels against Maat before Amon-Ra (at left) and Ra-Harakhty (at right). Photo 3:
one of the six sphinxes (wearing the Nemes with the Uraeus and the Double Crown) from the First Court of the Temple. Photo 4:
one of the four falcon-headed sphinxes representing the God Horus (wearing the Double Crown and with a statuette of Ramses II) from the Second Court of the Temple
gold armlet decorated with the Eye Goddess, the “Eye of Ra”, with four wings, wearing the Double Crown and standing on a lotus flower; detail. From the Pyramid of Queen/Kandake Amanishaketo (I century BCE) in the northern Royal Necropolis of Meroë (N6). Now in the Egyptian Museum of Munich…
Hair bias is a real problem. It’s rarely talked about, but it affects millions globally.
This World Afro Day, we’re calling time on this.
Whatever your hair type, join the movement to Change the Facts, Not the Fro. In celebrating our Afro hair this weekend in all of its versatility, help us continue the conversation by tagging us in your pics @worldafroday.
Magical Negro is an archive of black everydayness, a catalog of contemporary folk heroes, an ethnography of ancestral grief, and an inventory of figureheads, idioms, and customs. These American poems are both elegy and jive, joke and declaration, songs of congregation and self-conception. They connect themes of loneliness, displacement, grief, ancestral trauma, and objectification, while exploring and troubling tropes and stereotypes of Black Americans. Focused primarily on depictions of black womanhood alongside personal narratives, the collection tackles interior and exterior politics―of both the body and society, of both the individual and the collective experience. In Magical Negro, Parker creates a space of witness, of airing grievances, of pointing out patterns. In these poems are living documents, pleas, latent traumas, inside jokes, and unspoken anxieties situated as firmly in the past as in the present―timeless black melancholies and triumphs.
Morgan Parker is the author of There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé (Tin House Books 2017), Other People’s Comfort Keeps Me Up At Night (Switchback Books 2015), and the forthcoming poetry collection Magical Negro (Tin House, 2/5/19). Her debut young adult novel Who Put This Song On? is forthcoming from Delacorte Press in late 2019, and her debut book of nonfiction will be released in 2020 by One World. Parker received her Bachelors in Anthropology and Creative Writing from Columbia University and her MFA in Poetry from NYU. Her poetry and essays have been published and anthologized in numerous publications, including The Paris Review, The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, Best American Poetry 2016, The New York Times, and The Nation. Parker is the recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, winner of a 2016 Pushcart Prize, and a Cave Canem graduate fellow. She is the creator and host of Reparations, Live! at the Ace Hotel. With Tommy Pico, she co-curates the Poets With Attitude (PWA) reading series, and with Angel Nafis, she is The Other Black Girl Collective. She is a Sagittarius, and she lives in Los Angeles.
Run For It: Stories Of Slaves Who Fought For Their Freedom (2017)
Run For It ― a stunning graphic novel by internationally acclaimed illustrator Marcelo d’Salete ― is one of the first literary and artistic efforts to face up to Brazil’s hidden history of slavery. Originally published in Brazil ― where it was nominated for three of the country’s most prestigious comics awards ― Run For It has received rave reviews worldwide, including, in the U.S., The Huffington Post. These intense tales offer a tragic and gripping portrait of one of history’s darkest corners. It’s hard to look away.
Marcelo D’Salete is a
Brazilian cartoonist, graduate of the University of Sao Paulo with a degree in fine arts. He is an acclaimed illustrator, teacher, and historical author who lives in Italy.
A vignette from the Book of the Dead of Neferrenpet (papyrus). The body and soul, represented by the (”Ba”) bird, are re-united. Reign of Ramesses II. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1279-1213 BC. Now in the Cinquantenaire Museum, Brussels.
Powehi means “the adorned fathomless dark creation” or “embellished dark
source of unending creation” and comes from the Kumulipo, an 18th
century Hawaiian creation chant. Po is a profound dark source of
unending creation, while wehi, meaning honoured with embellishments, is
one of the chant’s descriptions of po, the newspaper reported.
