“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Again! This time it’s Marcus Aurelius. I’ve had his meditations on my shelves forever. “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.” If you’ve seen the film Gladiator – great spectacle, BS history – you’ll know who Marcus Aurelius is. “Very little […]
From Historia Augusta – The Life of Lucius Verus “For he had a golden statue made of the “Green” horse Volucer, (FLYER) and this he always carried around with him; indeed, he was wont to put raisins and nuts instead of barley in this horse’s manger and to order him brought to him, in […]
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green… Oh. I’ve done that! But it is a very good question. Looking at Hadrian the Roman. Prior to Hadrian’s arrival in Britannia, the province had suffered a major rebellion, from 119 to 121. Inscriptions tell of an expeditio Britannica that involved major troop movements, including the […]
Jerusalem William Blake And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon Englands mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On Englands pleasant pastures seen! And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills? Bring me my Bow of […]
WikiWeAllBelieveYou Page : Antinous As a child, I kind of fell in love with Antinous. The pretty boy. The beloved companion of Hadrian. Marguerite Yourcenar wrote a wonderful book – Memoires of Hadrian. If…. PAX ROMANA …is true. Then Antinous can only be one person. John.
The Pax Romana lasted 1000 years. Well, that’s “their” story. Now – “Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones;” Cheap, I know. But I […]
Three km from Chufut-Kale lies Tepe-Kermen – the Ancient Cave City. The Church inside Tepe-Kermen … … “with two entrances and three windows. In the altar were six roughly worked columns, of which only three survived; outside the altar, carved large crosses. In one of the inner corners of the church a stone box of a […]
And I quote: “The name of Mary left a deep imprint in the names associated with Chufut-Kale. As it turns out, in addition to the old necropolis in the Gorge of Mary, here, very close, there was a settlement called the CITY of MARIA – Mariampolis, Mariampolis is located on the same side of […]
THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF THE CATHARS – PART ONE Ref the image above: “Stone gravestones from the crypts of the necropolis in the Gorge of Mary, near Chufut-Kale. On the tombstone on the left we see the Christian cross, and on the right gravestone is the Qatari cross. “ “Finds from the necropolis […]
,,,is a place called Chufut-Kale Me…months ago….Chufut-Kale “Chufut-Kale was revered as the second most holy city after Jerusalem.” Andronicus I Comnenus and his mother spent a long time here. She was buried here. “In the 6th century, one of the most famous cave cities, Crimea, presumably built by the Alans and […]
ikiWPage: Bakhchisaray Cave Monastery “In 1787, Empress Catherine II personally arrived in Crimea. In the Khan’s Palace, “to the left of the entrance, in front of the bridge, stands the Catherine’s Verst” with the inscription “Summer of 1787”, installed in honor of the arrival of the Russian Empress in Bakhchisarai >> Thus, at […]
Meñli I Giray is credited with the creation of the Khan’s Palace in Bakhchisarai. WikiWhatever: Meñli I Giray According to the above Wiki page, he defeated the evil Golden Horde and his family ruled Crimea from 1422 to 1783. (Eight short years after 1775) But was it a “defeat”? Or was he a part […]