Tuesday 12 August 2008

Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam hand painting

Michelangelo Buonarroti The Creation of Adam hand paintingMichelangelo Buonarroti Entombment paintingPierre Auguste Renoir Sleeping Bather painting
the size and shape of a thumbnail, left by the largest species of jellyfish. Found washed up on the sea beaches, these shells are traded inland for finished jewelry and for poems—if that is what the written texts, single sheets, booklets, and scrolls, so beautiful and teasing to the eye, actually are.
Some visitors confidently assert that these texts are religious works, calling them mбndalas or scriptures. Others confidently assert that the Nna Mmoy have no religion.
There are many traces on the Nna Mmoy plane of what people from our plane call civilisation, by which people from our plane, these days, usually mean a capitalist economy and an industrial technology based on intense, exhaustive exploitation of natural and human resources.
Ruins of immense cities, traces of long roads and huge paved areas, vast wastelands of desertification and permanent pollution, and other evidences of progressive society and advanced scientific technology crop up among the fields and border the parklands. All are very ancient and seem to be quite meaningless

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