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“What we’re seeing here is the religion of the stone age made manifest in the ground,” said Matt Leivers, the senior research manager at Wessex Archaeology. “Obviously we have no understanding of precisely what any of it meant, but the fact that time and again, over thousands of years, people are coming back to [the Stonehenge landscape] to build and rebuild and mark and remark this set of substantial events – it gives us an indication that this is religion. This is how they are understanding their place in the cosmos, how the universe works, what their deities are. “We don’t know what the sun meant to them. We don’t know whether they personified it as a deity. But the amount of effort that’s directed toward marking it and its movements leaves us in no doubt at all that this is a major religious event that’s inscribed over the whole landscape over millennia.”

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"yeshua of nun" —deut 31

Lou de Bètoly ‎– Berlin Spring/Summer 2020

i forgot to say this on the proper day but one of the things my professor pointed out about the pictures on the temple walls of carthage is that these lines completely strip away any of the humanity earned by iliad book 24. the last book of the iliad is achilles’ truest moment of humanity, the moment where the demigod rage that has held him since the first word of the poem releases him, and he’s able to connect with priam as a grieving father while knowing his own father will soon grieve him too. and these lines address NONE of that. because of course they don’t! we’re in aeneas POV cam! he fought against the greeks! the reader of the iliad can see hector’s body as the bridge between achilles and priam; aeneas only sees the body of his friend.

aeneas is faced with precisely the future hector hopes for: he, living and ruling in an age of brutal violence, knows that his son will grow up to be a peacetime king, called less cruel than his father. and aeneas resents this. he resents his son. he’s not content to fight battles to clear the earth of threats so that his son may rule in a better age. he wants that better and more peaceable age for himself. aeneas will be absent from ascanius’s future. he, just like in hector’s vision of the future, will die after three years and not be there to greet his son when he comes home to the halls of lavinium and alba longa. and he wants to live. he wants to live quietly. he doesn’t want to kill or to die. but what he wants the most he cannot have. ascanius is meant to have it instead.

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OSCAR ISAAC ‘In The Hand of Dante’ behind the scenes

from The Penn Museum