Ogdoad
The name of eight Egyptian deities who were especially worshipped in Hermopolis in Upper Egypt. They form the basis of the creation myth.
The Ogdoad consist of four gods and four goddesses who together personify the essence of the primordial chaos before the creation of the world. They are Nun and Naunet (the primordial water), Huh and Hauhet (infinite space), Kuk and Kauket (darkness), and Amun and Amaunet (representing hidden powers).
From themselves they created the mound upon which lay the egg from which the sun god emerged.
The gods of the Ogdoad are represented as frogs or with the head of a frog; the goddesses in the shape of a snake or as a woman with the head of a snake. Their cult centered on the town of Khemnu (Greek Hermopolis) in Middle Egypt. They also had a sanctuary at Medinet Habu in western Thebes.
Friday, 5 November 2004
"The Top Ten Best Queer Porn Videos of All Time"
"you've suffered through the tedious plots, the shaved balls, the lame dialogue. Now finally a definitive list from 2 watch and wank authorities"
(via fleshbot)
"you've suffered through the tedious plots, the shaved balls, the lame dialogue. Now finally a definitive list from 2 watch and wank authorities"
(via fleshbot)
Thursday, 4 November 2004
extract from guardian article oct 24 2004 that has since been removed....
"On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
meanwhile....
Oliver James, the clinical psychologist says.... "I was too depressed to even speak this morning. I thought of my late mother, who read Mein Kampf when it came out in the 1930s and thought, 'Why doesn't anyone see where this is leading?'"
people in Britain have every right to be upset by the US election outcome. "People invest in political ideas as a way of creating a sense of the future. A big factor in depression is a sense of hopelessness; the feeling that you can have no influence on outcomes." If people seemed disproportionately miserable yesterday, then it is because, he believes, the election result is not abstract political background to the daily business of living; there are many who will feel that George Bush in the White House compromises their personal safety.
"On November 2, the entire civilised world will be praying, praying Bush loses. And Sod's law dictates he'll probably win, thereby disproving the existence of God once and for all. The world will endure four more years of idiocy, arrogance and unwarranted bloodshed, with no benevolent deity to watch over and save us. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, John Hinckley Jr - where are you now that we need you?"
meanwhile....
Oliver James, the clinical psychologist says.... "I was too depressed to even speak this morning. I thought of my late mother, who read Mein Kampf when it came out in the 1930s and thought, 'Why doesn't anyone see where this is leading?'"
people in Britain have every right to be upset by the US election outcome. "People invest in political ideas as a way of creating a sense of the future. A big factor in depression is a sense of hopelessness; the feeling that you can have no influence on outcomes." If people seemed disproportionately miserable yesterday, then it is because, he believes, the election result is not abstract political background to the daily business of living; there are many who will feel that George Bush in the White House compromises their personal safety.
on this day 1995: Israeli PM shot dead
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. he was shot three times at close range in the stomach and chest by an assailant as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv earlier on Saturday.
The rally at which Mr Rabin was shot was attended by about 100,000 Israelis who backed the Rabin government's peace initiatives with the Palestinians.
The gunman, named as Yigal Amir, was one of the founders of an illegal Jewish settlement on the West Bank and a member of an extreme right-wing organisation.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated. he was shot three times at close range in the stomach and chest by an assailant as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv earlier on Saturday.
The rally at which Mr Rabin was shot was attended by about 100,000 Israelis who backed the Rabin government's peace initiatives with the Palestinians.
The gunman, named as Yigal Amir, was one of the founders of an illegal Jewish settlement on the West Bank and a member of an extreme right-wing organisation.
Wednesday, 3 November 2004
The Osama bin Laden Audition Tape
(via screenhead)
archive...
"I was a good Arabic translator who did a great Saddam imitation." twice a week, for US$3,000 a month, the Iraqi student says, under condition of anonymity, he took a taxi from his campus apartment to a Boston-area recording studio rented by the Rendon Group, a DC-based public relations firm with close ties to the US government. His job: translate and dub spoofed Saddam Hussein speeches and tongue-in-cheek newscasts for broadcast throughout Iraq.
(via screenhead)
archive...
"I was a good Arabic translator who did a great Saddam imitation." twice a week, for US$3,000 a month, the Iraqi student says, under condition of anonymity, he took a taxi from his campus apartment to a Boston-area recording studio rented by the Rendon Group, a DC-based public relations firm with close ties to the US government. His job: translate and dub spoofed Saddam Hussein speeches and tongue-in-cheek newscasts for broadcast throughout Iraq.
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american Gay marriage rejected in state votes
Voters in 11 states across the US yesterday approved law changes banning gay marriages in ballots running alongside the presidential election.
They approved various constitutional amendments that limited marriage to being between a man and a woman. The amendments were won - often by huge margins - in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Utah and Oregon.
The proposed amendments in Mississippi, Montana and Oregon referred only to marriage, specifying that it should be limited to unions of a man and a woman. The measures in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Utah also called for a ban on civil unions.
american Gay marriage rejected in state votes
Voters in 11 states across the US yesterday approved law changes banning gay marriages in ballots running alongside the presidential election.
They approved various constitutional amendments that limited marriage to being between a man and a woman. The amendments were won - often by huge margins - in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ohio, Utah and Oregon.
The proposed amendments in Mississippi, Montana and Oregon referred only to marriage, specifying that it should be limited to unions of a man and a woman. The measures in Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma and Utah also called for a ban on civil unions.
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