Giovanni Cassini Discovered Dione, A Moon Of Saturn, In 1684.

Omelas = Paradiese/Heaven???

The only chronological element of the work is that it begins by describing the first day of summer in Omelas, a shimmering city of unbelievable happiness and delight. In Omelas, the summer solstice is celebrated with a glorious festival and a race featuring children on horseback. The vibrant festival atmosphere, however, seems to be an everyday characteristic of the blissful community, whose citizens, though limited in their advanced technology to communal (rather than private) resources, are still intelligent, sophisticated, and cultured. Omelas has no kings, soldiers, priests, or slaves. The specific socio-politico-economic setup of the community is not mentioned, but the narrator merely explains that the reader cannot be sure of every particular.

Self-admittedly, the narrator reflects that “Omelas sounds in my words like a city in a fairy tale, long ago and far away, once upon a time. Perhaps it would be best if you imagined it as your own fancy bids, assuming it will rise to the occasion, for certainly I cannot suit you all.” The narrator even suggests that, if necessary, the reader may include an orgy in their mental picture of Omelas.

Everything about Omelas is so abundantly pleasing that the narrator decides the reader is not yet truly convinced of its existence and so elaborates upon one final element of the city: its one atrocity. The city’s constant state of serenity and splendor requires that a single unfortunate child be kept in perpetual filth, darkness, and misery.

Once citizens are old enough to know the truth, most, though initially shocked and disgusted, ultimately acquiesce with that one injustice which secures the happiness of the rest of the city. However, a few citizens, young and old, silently walk away from the city, and no one knows where they go. The story ends with “The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.”

constellations page in my grimoire ✨

This shocked me.

As a singer and musician who has a masters degree, I was shocked by this! I don’t think that many of you fully grasp what V was talking about with the chickens at the end of the the Run Ep. 29-Behind the Scenes.

He’s speaking about where on the piano… what NOTE the chickens are hitting when they cry!  Just by listening, he’s guessing what notes their hitting.

AND HE GETS IT RIGHT!

He’s talking about solfege… like in the song from Sound of Music: Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti Do, singing a scale.  Middle C on the piano is C4, the fourth octave.  So when he says the 6th Octave, that means 2 Octaves above the fourth which would be High C.  If he’s starting on C being Do… then 6th Octave Mi would be a high E… WHICH WHEN I CHECKED IS ACTUALLY WHAT SOME OF THE HIGHER NOTES WERE THAT THE CHICKENS WERE CRYING!  Fifth Octave Sol would be a G sitting at the top of the staff in Trebel Clef (if going by this same thinking) and is only slightly lower than some of the lower pitches the chickens were crying.

Do you realize how good of an ear you have to have to guess that!?  Do you know that there are college music students who can’t figure out what the pitch is just by listening?  DO YOUR REALIZE HOW FRICKIN SMART THIS BOY IT!?!?!?!  TO BE GUESSING THE NOTES THE CHICKENS ARE SINGING!??!!

The Sky Map of Ancient Nineveh, 3300 B.C.

The origins of Western astronomy can be found in Mesopotamia, and all Western efforts in the exact sciences are descendants in direct line from the work of the late Babylonian astronomers. This circular cuneiform tablet is a reproduction after a Sumerian star map, which perfectly matches the sky above Mesopotamia, in 3300 B.C.

It is an astrolabe, one of the oldest tools used for locating and predicting the positions of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars. Some call this the Sodom and Gomorrah Tablet because it describes a comet/asteroid which some think destroyed Sodoma and Gomorrah around 3300 B.C.

Look at her go

I’ve been a busy witch today✨

i don’t really give a shit about this tumblr being removed from the app store thing but above all i am really glad this is happening now and not in 2011 so i don’t have to scroll past some “PSA: TUMBLR HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE APP STORE!” “oh HELL NO!!! Dr who fandom grab your tardises!!!” “*50 gif reaction images of the supernatural guy looking pissed off” type of shit

Helike is a moon of Jupiter.