Ritual
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Skeleton of Coyote and Datura blossom. Photo based mixed medium image.
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Dancing Dragon in Chinese New Year’s parade
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The Monoliths in Carnac, France This photo was chosen for the front page of RedBubble’s featured page. Thanks for viewing!
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For you, and you alone, I have prepared a Blood Moon. It is for you, and you alone. As it permeates your being, it is for you alone. As it melts away your sense of self, it is for you alone. As it turns your bowels into liquid, it is for you alone. On the altar is the offering, filled with your wretched loathing. Beware and be wary. I have prepared this for you, and you alone. Image and text created by Susan Isabella Sheehan / “Art Is The Perception Of An Altered Reality©” / Copyright 2008 Surreal Digital Artist™ I invite you to visit Surreal Digital Artist
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This image depicts a group of dancers in a sacred ritual. It is based on a group of Australian aboriginal dancers. Subtely worked into the arm and body positions is the word ‘LOVE’ ... see if you can work it out! Handmade papers and organic material from the rainforests of Northeast NSW
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Copyright 2004 Mariam Muradian. All rights reserved. I painted this series, including this painting, after hang gliding at 10,000 feet! / That perspective and that experience changes you forever in a split second! Oil pastels , acrylics, and charcoal on canvas. CLICK ON SAME IMAGE IN MY JOURNAL UNDER “MY FLYING ART MOVIE” TO SEE THE SERIES SLIDE SHOW!
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A little get together with the girls ;-)
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For some reason I always find myself drawn to the moon in my greatest times of adversity…. seeking solace in the Mother Goddess maybe….. perhaps some ritual remnant of pagan ancestors….. Either way, it soothes me. The ritual known as Drawing Down the Moon is the Wiccan/pagan ritual of drawing the spirit of the Goddess/moon into the practitioner to enable the Goddess to speak directly through this person. / It is a very sacred ritual amongst followers of this faith. Featured – Witches, Wizards and Warlocks, March 2009 Featured – First Things Group, April 2009 Top Ten Finish – First Things Group Challenge – It Must be Magic! – April 2009 Background : UmbraDeNoapte / Model : the very beautiful Jodi by FantasyStock / Moon : mabaxter / Texture : SheisprettyStock / Tattoo : Artists own : Big thanks to my ever patient Husband for taking the shot.
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Been on my wishlist of places to go and photograph for about 15 years…finally made it last saturday! We were blessed with some great light too…..and wonderfull, mystical place….possibly the most amazing location for a stone circle in the country Castlerigg, Lake District, Cumbria
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I did a brief feather series until I got bored after about 3. / FEATURED in Bubbler’s Weekly Challenge Top Ten! Thanks for the votes! / watercolor on Arches 30# cold-press
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she gives birth……...as does the earth……. / please visit my online fineart gallery for other products of all kinds, thank you, g. anthony gallo / Arteologist23 rock art photos inspired by larry gambon, check out an amazing gallery: / Larry Gambon
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one of the latest arteology series titled the birth canal / please visit my online fineart gallery for other products of all kinds, thank you, g. anthony gallo / Arteologist23
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We’re every woman… / It’s all in us…
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The dark one .. a vampire sorceress .. the blood she doesnt consume she uses in her dark rituals
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Produced in Painter X from a photoshop composite Reference photograph for model courtesy of mizzd-stock
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...more of the Daily Tao Series…...... From the book ‘Tao Daily Meditations’ by Deng Ming-Dao on Joy Do your devotions make you happy? / Is your life a joyous song? In all this talk about spiritual devotion, there is one simple fact. You have to like it. It should make you happy. It is unfortunate that so much coercion, unhappiness, bitterness, guilt, and fear become wrapped up in spirituality. Why can’t we simply do things out of joy? Practicing spirituality isn’t a matter of drudgery. It isn’t a matter of fear. It isn’t for fitting into a social group. It has nothing to do with status. Being devoted to holiness in your life is a matter of joy and celebration. When you sit down to meditate, a smile should come to your lips and a feeling of joy should permeate your body. When you go to consecrated ground to give thanks and celebrate, you should do so not because of the day of the week or out of the habit of ritual, but because this is the best way that you know how to adore your gods and express the wonder of being on this earth. Yes, yes, there is much unhappiness in this existence. That unhappiness is part of the overall field of negativity. There are also positive things in life, and spirituality is foremost among them. So whenever we practice our spiritual devotions, let it be in gladness and joy.
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stock / mjranum-stock.deviantart.com / my own personal photos / dreamstime / chulii-stock.deviantart.com / MJ84-StockPhotos.deviantart.com this image has been digitally watermarked and can be tracked
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Acrylic on Canson paper / 32×38cm / / / / / / / / / / Featured – Water Media (Paintings by hand only ) -9 August 2009 / Top Ten – First place – African Art At heArt – Painting FireBird -the Igor Stravinsky Ballet, Challenge – 10 August 2009 / Featured – African Art at heArt – 13 August 2009 Featured – Fantastic Primitive Art – 15 August 2009 / Featured – Painted Nature – August 2009
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acrylic on canvas / Painted wile listening to Irakere…WATCH Cuba, in particular, still has a phenomenal amount of sacred Yoruba music and dance. In the time of slavery, owners purposely broke up the families of slaves and mixed together people from the different African ethnic groups as a way of maintaining control. However, in early 18th century Cuba the Spanish Catholic Church created mutual aid societies, called cabildos, as a medium of entertainment and reconstruction of many aspects of their ethnic heritage. There came to be Yoruba cabildos, Congo (Bantu) cabildos and Arara (Fon) cabildos in Cuba. Yoruba religious ceremonies were practiced and preserved in the cabildos of Cuba as the slaves seemingly synchronized their masters’ pantheon of Catholic saints with their own pantheon of orisha. Thus, the orisha covertly lived on in Cuba hiding behind a facade of Catholicism. In truth, these traditions did not exactly synchronize with Catholicism, but rather Catholicism was used as a camouflage behind which Yoruba religious practices took root and flourished. While the white slave owners observed the Africans celebrating a saint on his/her particular day, they were usually unaware that it was actually the orisha who was being worshiped. Today, the terms saint and orisha are used interchangeably in Cuba. The correlation of the Yoruba orisha with the Catholic saints is part of the island’s common culture. For example, Santa Barbara is understood to be the Yoruba orisha Changó, the god of thunder. San Lázaro is synonymous with Babalú Ayé, the orisha of infectious diseases. Consequently, the Yoruba religion in Cuba is often referred to as Santería, or the cult of the saints. Another common name for this religion is Lucumi, a Yoruba word meaning friends. Lucumi is also the name given to descendants of Yoruba slaves in Cuba, as well as their music, dance and their Cubanized dialect of the Yoruba language. Yoruban and Christian rites are easily mixed together by Cubans. After all, the genetic and cultural mixing of African and European ethnic groups has been occurring there for centuries. However, little European influence can be found in the dance and music of the Lucumi ceremonies. Also, the Nigerian systems of divination, such as Ifá, remain intact in Cuba. Abakuá In Cuba, peoples from southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon were known as Carabalí or Bríkamo, and they included the Ejagham, Efik, Ibibio, and others. The Ngbe society became known as Abakuá, after the word Abakpa, a term by which the Ejagham of Calabar were designated. It took root in the Havana area and in Matanzas, where it became a considerable force in local politics. In eastern Cuba, two Carabalí cabildos still exist in the city of Santiago de Cuba, and play an important role in that city’s carnival. The Abakuá leopard-masker, the íreme, has practically come to symbolize Afro-Cuban folklore. / The batá drums are the most important of the several differentdrum systems used in Lucumi ceremonies. Batá are a set of threeprogressively-sized, double-headed hourglass-shaped drums, considered to be oneinstrument and acting as a single organism. They play rhythms that are without adoubt the most intricate of the Afro-Cuban drum systems. The batáliterally “speak” the Yoruba language and recite a litany that is crucial toparticular rituals. The largest of the batá is called Iyá (mother). TheIyá is the lead drum which initiates the recitation of the litany,improvises to the dancer’s steps, and carries on call and response conversationswith the mid-sized batá known as Itótele. The smallest ofthe batá is the Okónkolo. The Okónkolo plays thesimplest patterns of the three, emphasizing the main beats. Batá used in the religious ceremonies are considered sacred. Eachconsecrated set of batá has living within it the deity known asAña.Batá are a set of three double-headed, hourglass-shaped drums. The largest iyá (mother), [E-Yah], is the master drum. The iyá calls the rhythms in, calls changes and conversations. Next in size, the itótele (means: follows completely), [E-Toe-Teh-Lay], follows the direction of the iyá answering the conversation calls and rhythm changes. The smallest drum okónkolo [O-Kon-Ko-Lo], sometimes referred to as Omele [O-May-Lay (strong child)], , for the most part plays ostinato patterns, also changing rhythms from the calls of the iyá. Iyesá The Iyesá are a Lucumí “nation” still recognized as having a distinct musical style. Iyesá drums are played with sticks, usually in groups of three, with a fourth drum added for certain toques. Their combined rhythmic patterns are more unified than the three-way conversation among the batá drums. Agogó, or dance gongs, of different pitches that play interlocking patterns accompany these drums. The last surviving Iyesá cabildo in Cuba is San Juan Batista, which was founded in 1854 in the City of Matanzas. Arará The people known in Cuba as the Arará came from Dahomey, what is today the Benin Republic. They included Fon, Popo and Ewe groups, as well as some conquered peoples to their north. Arará cabildos were founded in Cuba as far back as the 17th century, and their names reflect regional and ethnic differences – hence the denominations Arará Dajomé, Arará Sabalú and Arará Magino. The second is a reference to Savalu, a town in northern Dahomey that was conquered by the Fon. It was inhabited by the Mahi people, recalled in the cabildo name “Magino.” Many members of the Mahi priesthood were sent into slavery in the Americas, and they had an especially strong impact on Haiti vodun. The name Arará is derived from the Dahomean city of Allada, and is related to the term Rada found in Haiti and to Arrada on the tiny island of Carriacou in the Grenadines. In both cases the name refers to Dahomean styles of drumming. Other outposts of Dahomean culture in the Americas include houses in the Brazilian cities of Sáo Luis do Maranháo, Salvador, Recife and Porto Alegre. In Cuba the Arará were always a minority overshadowed by the Lucumí, and their distinctive cultural identity is now in danger of disappearing. Arará centers are still to be found in Ciudad de Matanzas, Jovellanos, Máximo Gomez and el Perico, all in Matanzas. One characteristic of Arará music is the use of hand clapping and body percussion.
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a digital litho coloration from the original hand drawn ink on illustration board. for all occasions, fineart products can be found here at redbubble and also at my zazzle fineart gallery below, if you like please visit
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the sky stealers
by Elucidatesilent ritual of day’s opening / dawn fresh on our skins / we slip out of sleep’s embrace
every day a friend and i go for a run, / early in the morning. / we steal the sky. / jordan busson. 2 september 2009.
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~ Some folks, some times, feel as if entrapped and entombed in despair, eternally. As a Laminated Print…
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