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Salve Regina, Mater Misericordiae..... (beautiful old Latin hymn to the Madonna) Hail, O Queen Mother of Mercy....... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salve_regina
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Ok I think i would like to see the dictionary for this word. It's make sense it sounds like a key chain logo  . Oh I get i heard it form on of my friend he say that it is a wine name found in other countries (don't know what country).
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"It [a pyramid] had been excavated forty years earlier, the apartment floors strained and sifted, the chacs removed and crated and sent to Philadelphia." - Robert Stone, A Flag for Sunrise (1981)
chacs were Mayan rain gods, here to be understood as representations of some sort, one surmises.
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link Also called chaaks? These seem to be just little ornamental brick steps. link This one is better.
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Neat picture, Branny; though I'm not sure what I'm looking at. Mercy, they certainly put a LOT of work into all that. I saw a documentary on the Maya the other day; I think it said they believed there were something like thirteen levels of what Christians today would call Hell. Or maybe all of their existence, period. Anyway, the television people went down in this cave, and found artifacts on different levels, saying the deepest one would have been terrifying for any who felt they had to go down there (for meditation, or whatever).
It's interesting to speculate on what people 2000 years from now will think of our beliefs (and I don't necessarily mean religious). I kind of wish I could time-travel, so I could find out what things we don't understand or haven't invented yet!
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The colorless picture shows 13 of those 'things' at the edges.
(the first or 13th just outside the frame)
This is wiki infomation I found on the subject.
Maya: "Vertically, the sky was divided into thirteen layers, while the underworld is often claimed to have consisted of nine layers."
Christian: / "Dante: Hell (underworld ) according to Dante consisted of nine cirkels."
* Could it be the 13 'things' represent the layers of heaven as they go upward? ( Maybe underground there are nine hidden going downward? ) I'd like to take that trip too. What first, backwards or forwards?
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Not interested in hell myself.
Religion is for people afraid of going to hell.
Spirituality is for people who have already been there.
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I wasn't meaning hell to time-travel to, but Neanderthalers and Mars.
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"If I was not trying out the part of flâneur I was watching C-SPAN coverage of the impeachment proceedings." - Joseph O'Neill, Netherland (2008) link is this a common French term? (I've labeled it as obscure, in English).
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flâneur
From an online French dictionary:
Je chante le chien crotté, le chien sans domicile, le chien flâneur, le chien saltimbanque (BAUDEL., Poèm. prose, 1867, p. 223). (Of the filthy dog I sing, the homeless dog, the sauntering dog, the picaresque dog.)
Souriant à sa joliesse, comme une belle flâneuse (ROLLAND, J.-Chr., Foire, 1908, p. 818). (Smiling at her cuteness, like an itinerant beauty.)
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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