From the bottom of my heart...

Upside down love

Rencontre au ras du sol...

Funky caterpillar

Crystal skull & supernatural fascination...

Many believe these skulls were carved thousands or even tens of thousands of years ago by an ancient Mesoamerican civilization. Others think they may be relics from the legendary island of Atlantis or proof that extraterrestrials visited the Aztec sometime before the Spanish conquest.
 Stories about the skulls focus heavily on their perceived supernatural powers.
Joshua Shapiro, coauthor of Mysteries of the Crystal Skulls Revealed, on his Web site cites claims of healings and expanded psychic abilities from people who have been in the presence of such skulls.
"We believe the Crystal Skulls are a form of computer which are able to record energy and vibration that occur around them," he writes. " The skull will pictorially replay all events or images of the people who have come into contact with them (i.e. they contain the history of our world)."
Most archaeologists and scientists are skeptical, to say the least.
Skulls were prominent in ancient Mesoamerican artwork, particularly among the Aztec, so the connection between these artifacts and these civilizations is apt.
"[I]t was a symbol of regeneration," says Michael Smith, a professor of anthropology at Arizona State University. "There were several Aztec gods that were represented by skulls, so they were probably invoking these gods. I don't think they were supposed to have specific powers or anything like that."
Extracts of an article by  Richard A. Lovett and Scot Hoffman for The National Geographic.


The skull from the picture above was lent to me by a friend who got it carved by a gifted craftsman in Guatemala about eighteen years ago. It is about one and a half size bigger than an average human skull. I only intended to take pictures of it but  could not help gazing lengthy at it. Such a magnificent piece of rock crystal ! The few nights it was resting in my house I had the most intense and vivid dreams...
 

Spring equinoX or learning to read the tea-leaves...

If you didn't know coffee machines were unnecessary, unhealthy and rather useless, here is a clue :

This is what was left in the saucepan today, after making cardamom coffee...

Soul Child.

         

Jodie

  

The power of memory...

Kochi 2001

Never forget

Never blink

Never dismiss

Never forsake

 Never obliterate

 Never ignore

Never disregard

Remember

Salute

Care

Feel

Honour

Learn

Breathe

Love

BE

Anges de pierre

La femme squelette

Prémisses de printemps III

Jonquilles sauvages

Au centre du mOnde

Vous voudriez savoir avec des mots ce que vous avez toujours su en pensée.
Vous voudriez toucher du doigt le corps nu de vos rêves.

Et il est bon qu'il en soit ainsi.
La source secrète de votre âme doit jaillir et couler en chuchotant vers la mer,
Et le trésor de vos abysses infinis se révéler à vos yeux.

Le prophète, K. Gibran. 

Howling at the moon...

                                                                          ... and holding on ...