Mastodawn

A #legal_system becomes a system of #justice when it holds the #wealthy, the #privileged and the #powerful to a higher standard of #responsibility and #accountability. One that does the inverse is a system of #slavery. The latter is guaranteed to succumb to a #revolution after a short rein.

This is a gentle reminder to those building systems that protect privilege and the privileged. Your creation will become your #tomb when it finally collapses in on you. #Treachery has a price.

NB 6d ago

Sleep Tight 🛏️ for #spookysaturday

I have very few spooky photos left. Now that the good weather is here I just want to photograph un-spooky things 😂
This was taken in the Cimitero Monumentale di Ferrara. ✨

#photography #amateurphotography #monochrome #portrait #cemetary #statue #details #urbanart #urbanarchitecture #art #sculpture #classical #spooky #creepy #gothic #dark #moody #atmosphere #tomb #grave #mausoleum #cimitero #italia #ferrara #italy #bologna #photo

Comic Crusaders Apr 10

RESEARCH BEFORE YOU RAID WITH “CHRONICLES OF THE TOMB RAIDER”
Explore the world of the hit game series “Tomb Raider” with an in-depth look at the legend and legacy.

Dark Horse Books and Crystal Dynamics are proud to present Chronicles of the Tomb Raider, which details Lara’s journeys within the fan-favorite video games in chronological order,...
https://comiccrusaders.com/comic-books/research-before-you-raid-with-chronicles-of-the-tomb-raider/
#comic books #comics #Dark Horse #tomb raider

Dave J Apr 8

Analysis at a megalithic #tomb at #Bury, north of #Paris, shows two separate phases of burial: unusually young deaths in the 3100s BCE—perhaps indicating major crisis such as war or famine—and an unrelated population derived from #Iberia some centuries later.

This supports evidence elsewhere in #Europe of a #Neolithic #population #collapse ~5000 years ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-026-03027-z #science #anthropology #archaeology #archeology #biology #genetics #DNA #France

Population discontinuity in the Paris Basin linked to evidence of the Neolithic decline - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Analysis of ancient human genomes from a Neolithic collective gallery grave in northern France points to population discontinuity and turnover between the third and fourth millennium BC.

Nature

Carmelite Quotes Apr 6

Quote of the day, 7 April: Jessica Powers

Grace guards that moment when the spirit halts
to watch the Magdalen
in the mad turbulence that was her love.
Light hallows those who think about her when
she broke through crowds to the Master’s feet
or ran on Easter morning,
her hair wind-tumbled and her cloak awry.
What to her need were the restrictions of
earth’s vain formalities?
She sought, as love so often seeks and finds,
a Radiance that died or seemed to die.

One can surmise she went to Calvary
distraught and weeping, and with loud lament
clung to the cross and beat upon its wood
till Christ’s torn veins spread a soft covering
over her hair and face and colored gown.
She took her First Communion in His Blood.

O the Tumultuous Magdalen! But those
who come upon her in the hush of love
claim the last graces. A wild parakeet
ceded its being to a mourning dove,
as Bethany had prophesied. We give
to Old Provence that solitude’s location
where her love brooded, too contemplative
to lift the brief distraction of a wing.
There she became a living consecration
to one remembering.
Magdalen, first to drink the fountained Christ
Whose crimson-signing stills our creature stir,
is the Blood’s mystic. Was it not the weight
of the warm Blood that slowed and silenced her?

Sr. Miriam of the Holy Spirit, O.C.D. (Jessica Powers)

The Blood’s Mystic (1950)

Powers, J 1999, The Selected Poetry of Jessica Powers, Siegfried, R & Morneau, RF (eds.), ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: AI-generated image (Midjourney), Mary Magdalene Runs to the Tomb at Dawn, created in an impressionist style inspired by Richard Miller (educational use).

#BloodOfChrist #JessicaPowers #mystic #StMaryMagdalene #tomb