Tumblr (3.0; @darsanas)http://darsanas.tumblr.com/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltkfb8hwT61qc6wuio1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://artemisdreaming.tumblr.com/post/11860048093">artemisdreaming</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>‘Untitled Etching’</p> <p>Pouran Jinchi</p> <p>Large image:  <a href="http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/thefacts.com/content/tncms/assets/editorial/3/cf/323/3cf323de-5eed-11df-9c57-001cc4c03286.image.jpg">HERE</a></p> <p>Contributed image/MFAH.  Untitled 1998 etching by Iranian artist Pouran Jinchi. On loan from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. © Pouran Jinchi, courtesy Art Projects International, N.Y.</p> </blockquote>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18896084486http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18896084486Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:38:35 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0foqjyWsQ1qzz58lo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://tekiela.tumblr.com/post/18811466579/gennady-pavlishin-folktales-of-the-amur-1975">tekiela</a>:</p> <blockquote> <div> <div> <p><span class="Apple-style-span">Gennady Pavlishin - Folktales of the Amur - 1975</span></p> </div> <div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br/></span></div> </div> </blockquote>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18896059667http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18896059667Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:36:53 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0ic3o8cyi1r1dpd5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://antitacta.tumblr.com/post/18895645084/sculpture-of-karaikkal-ammaiyar-by-an-unknown">antitacta</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Sculpture of Karaikkal-Ammaiyar by an unknown artist, Tanjavur district, Tamilnadu, south India, 13th century.</p> <p><em>This is a ‘portrait’ sculpture of the Saiva poet-saint Karaikkal-Ammaiyar (‘Mother of Karaikkal’). </em><br/><br/><em>Born in the 6th century to a wealthy merchant family in the port city of Karaikkal, Karaikkal-Ammaiyar was blessed with great beauty. She</em><br/><em>married young, but after a series of miracles dedicated her life solely to Shiva. She achieved her emaciated state after beseeching Shiva to</em><br/><em>free her from her all worldly encumbrances, including her beauty.</em><br/><br/><em>Shiva granted her wish, transforming her into the form of one of the skeletal spirits who dance before Shiva at the cremation grounds.</em><br/><em>Karaikkal-Ammaiyar spent her days as an emaciated figure singing Shiva’s praise, accompanied only by her hand cymbals.</em><br/><br/><em>Karaikkal-Ammaiyar settled in Tiruvalankadu, the forest famed as the site where Shiva performed his ‘tandava dance’ in the midst of</em><br/><em>cremation pyres. There she spent the remainder of her life, writing hymns in praise of her Lord, many of them rich in gruesome imagery of</em><br/><em>death and decay. She signed her poems Karaikkal-pey, identifying herself as one of Shiva’s grotesque goblin followers, and kept the</em><br/><em>company of Shiva’s other dwarfish attendants, the ‘ganas’.</em></p> <p>“HARA! HARA! HARA!”</p> </blockquote>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18896028195http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18896028195Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:34:53 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lynkfeEpn61qkpoqjo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18896022821http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18896022821Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:34:29 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzm7eaTpzr1qk0go1o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><br/>Gustav Klimt, <em>Philosophy</em></p>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18839145023http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18839145023Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:10:44 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyvpwvPh1L1r3bizmo1_r2_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><em>Siyah mashq</em><span> (lit. ‘black practice’ in Persian) originally referred to calligraphic practice sheets where words and letters were written facing in several directions and over each other, in order to conserve paper. </span><span>However, when calligraphers realized how stunning some of these pieces were, <em>siyah mashq</em> evolved into a style of its own, where words and letters were repeated, regardless of meaning, in rhythmical compositions.</span></p> <p>via <a href="http://www.islambook.net/bbs/archiver/showtopic-4025.aspx">islambook.net</a></p> </blockquote>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18839052643http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18839052643Mon, 05 Mar 2012 23:06:58 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzy8yaG3oY1r31v2no1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://voiceofnature.tumblr.com/post/18249910727/by-aleksandr-uglanov">voiceofnature</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Гиперборейская Русь by Aleksandr Uglanov</p> </blockquote>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837793757http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837793757Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:21:53 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0g7n5KfdE1qz5q5oo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://mudwerks.tumblr.com/post/18837428385/via-sea-creature-flickr-from-the-homer-story">mudwerks</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>(via <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/picture-perfect-designs-jewelry/6957580983/">Sea Creature | Flickr</a>)</p> <blockquote> <p><span>From the Homer story</span><br/><span>illustrated by <strong>N. C. Wyeth</strong></span></p> </blockquote> </blockquote>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837587196http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837587196Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:15:15 -0800“The mind of a perfect man is like a mirror: It grasps nothing; it expects nothing. It reflects but does not hold.”<br/><br/> - <em>Lao Tzu</em>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837428646http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837428646Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:10:22 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvmkivxRVX1qkvojqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><blockquote> <p><strong><span class="st">Zdzisław Beksiński </span></strong></p> </blockquote>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837366523http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837366523Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:08:32 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx35gjG7Lw1qf5wyao1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://ivebeenherethiswholetime.tumblr.com/post/15096225020/re-on-flickr-excuse-the-crease-bad-alignment">ivebeenherethiswholetime</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/69856528@N03/6608568789/" title="Re:">Re:</a> on Flickr.<br/>excuse the crease + bad alignment. </p> </blockquote>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837307543http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837307543Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:06:45 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt8orjj7BU1r0ng4fo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>Natureza humana</p> <p><em><br/></em></p> <p><span><u><br/></u></span></p>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837284254http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837284254Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:06:03 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0eckoJfPU1r1up8zo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837130819http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/18837130819Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:01:30 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lya7zya5lB1qdu3nno1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/17197059162http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/17197059162Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:02:04 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyymhfuIy91r6lt8qo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/17196845887http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/17196845887Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:57:16 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsi1l2oHSD1qg7ex5o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>why don’t you want me</p>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/17196739385http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/17196739385Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:54:50 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx5ppxKYoI1qiow5xo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/15168957638http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/15168957638Sun, 01 Jan 2012 21:53:56 -0800“It is not all of life to live,<br/> nor yet all of death to die.<br/> For life and death are one,<br/> and only those who will consider the experience as one<br/> may come to understand or<br/> comprehend what peace indeed means.”<br/><br/> - <em>Edgar Cayce </em>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/14677096461http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/14677096461Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:52:12 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu58wn5B7a1qjmro0o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/14676857315http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/14676857315Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:46:28 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwn8mcdf1h1qapv62o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/14676826243http://darsanas.tumblr.com/post/14676826243Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:45:42 -0800