Littlestone
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The Wheel of Time
Dec 31, 2005, 21:43
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Thanks to moss for posting the 19th century engraving entitled <b>The Wheel of Time or the Perpetual Calendar of the Druids</b> on TMA earlier this year - I can think of no more fitting an illustration than this, nor no more appropriate a poem than that by John Ogilvie (1733-1813) to end the year.*
What else to say, other than to wish health and happiness to one and all for 2006, and to thank again those who have contributed to <b>Megalithic Poems</b>.
* http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/
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follow that cow
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Jan 01, 2006, 20:40
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.... and a very Happy New Year to you, Littlestone.
I'm sure you've come across it before but I thought you may like to have this painting in your megalithic collection.
http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/f/friedric/1/102fried.html
akemashiteomedetougozaimasu (I think!?!) :-)
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Jan 01, 2006, 22:16
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Thanks for that link ftc, and the very beautiful pic by Master Friedrich!
You got the <i>akemashita</i>... perfect (the literal translation of which is - <b>It has Opened. Honourable Felicitations</b> :-)
Another Poems Site which you may be interested in is at http://www.japanpoem.com/intro.html Check out the poem by the Lady Murasaki Shikibu and the pic of Snow Temple in Snow :-)
<i>Yoi o toshi o</i> ;-)
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic Poems
Jan 01, 2006, 23:14
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PS Just added <b>Dolmen in the Snow</b> to http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/
Thanks again ftc - a great painting and perfect words for the New Year :-)
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PeterH
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Re: 'Rudyard Kipling
Jan 03, 2006, 21:32
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...and the point you are making is what?
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Wiggy
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Re: 'Rudyard Kipling
Jan 04, 2006, 10:04
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....for the love of god, noooooooooooooooo!!!!!
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Wiggy
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Re: 'Rudyard Kipling
Jan 04, 2006, 10:05
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..=;0)
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fitzcoraldo
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Re: 'Rudyard Kipling
Jan 04, 2006, 10:29
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"Kipling was so disgusted by the Nazis and the sight of their flag that he removed the swastika, a Hindu symbol of good luck, from his bookbindings. It had been his trademark for nearly forty years but it was now 'defiled beyond redemption'."
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Wiggy
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Re: 'Rudyard Kipling
Jan 04, 2006, 10:35
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I believe he wasn't all that keen on Germans, even before the rise of Hitler.
Some of his opinions regarding "race" would seem questionable in this day and age - still a great writer and human being though.
Hey, thats the big 200!
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PeterH
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Re: 'Rudyard Kipling
Jan 04, 2006, 11:36
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He died in 1936 and so wouldn't have known about the atrocities to come under the curse of the swastika. His son was killed in World War One. He was a man of his time and we shouldn't judge his views on race by modern standards. He loved the landscape of England and he loved the ordinary people. He was no fascist and so I simply wondered what point Seven was making in drawing our attention to Kipling's use of the Sanskrit swastika in a pre-Nazi era.
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