Some Unforgettable Moments of the World We Live in !!!

1957. The first day of Dorothy Counts at the Harry Harding High School in the United States . Counts was one of the first black students admitted in the school, and she was no longer able to stand the harassments after 4 days.
January 12, 1960. A second before the Japanese Socialist Party leader Asanuma was murdered by an opponent student.
1963. Thich Quang Duc, the Buddhist priest in Southern Vietnam , burns himself to death protesting the government's torture policy against priests. Thich Quang Dug never made a sound or moved while he was burning.
1962. A soldier shot by a sniper hangs onto a priest in his last moments.
1965. A mom and her children try to cross the river in South Vietnam in an attempt to run away from the American bombs.
1966. U.S. troops in South Vietnam are dragging a dead Vietkong soldier.

February 1, 1968. South Vietnam police chief Nguyen Ngoc Loan shots a young man, whom he suspects to be a Viet Kong soldier.
1972. After South Vietnam planes accidentally drop a bomb on a town.
1973. A few seconds before Chile 's elected president Salvador Allende is dead during the coup.
1975. A woman and a girl falling down after the fire escape collapses.

1980. A kid in Uganda about to die of hunger, and a missionaire.

February 23, 1981. Colonel Molina ve military police seizes the Parliament building in Spain . The photographer did not expect the scene, and hid the films in his shoe.
1982. Palestinian refugees murdered in Beirut , Lebanon .
1987. A mother in South Korea apologizes and asks for forgiveness for his son who was arrested after attending a protest. He was protesting the alleged manipulations in the general elections.
1989. A young man in China stands before the tanks during protests for democratic reforms.
1992. A mother in Somalia holds the body of her child who died of hunger.

1994. A man who was tortured by the soldiers since he was suspected to have spoken with the Tutsi rebels.
1996. Kids who are shocked by the civil war in Angola .
2001. An Afghani refugee kid's body is being prepared for the funeral in Pakistan .
2002. Soldiers and villagers in IRan are digging graves for the victims of the earthquake. A kid holds his father's pants before he is buried.
2003. An Iraqi prisoner of war tries to calm down his child.

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Post By Rajkot City Owner Mr.Dhaivat Trivedi Rajkot

The GORGON MEDUSA (Myth)

The Myth of Medusa the Monster

In the Athenian myth of the Greek hero Perseus, Medusa's female wisdom along with the potential of women in general is silenced and the forces of nature are conquered in an ultimate act of domination and vengeance.
Perseus is sent on a quest, by King Polydictes of Seriphos and Athena herself, to retrieve the head of the Gorgon, a deed said to require the maximum of heroic-male courage and skill. He is given magic winged sandals, a cap and a pouch,(a kibisis), from Hermes. Guided by Athena the entire time, he flies over the ocean to Lake Tritonis in Libya where makes his way through rough, thick woods. On the way to Medusa's palace he sees several statues of men and beasts. There are also stone pillars erected in honor of her deceased lovers. Perseus comes upon the sleeping Gorgons. While Athena holds out a shield as a mirror, Perseus decapitates Medusa with his crescent sword,(a harpe). Enraged, the Gorgon sisters chase after him but to no avail as his cap makes him invisible.

Perseus could not have completed this task without the help of the traitor warrior goddess Athena. It is she who guides and instructs him throughout his journey and slaying. Since the myth symbolized the usurping of her powerful roots in a culture where she and Medusa were one, it is appropriate that only she would know the secrets to find and defeat Medusa. (Apollodorous' s Perseus myth andPausanias's rational version of the myth)

The Blood of Medusa:

Even in death Medusa's blood retains its powers. It gives life to Pegasus, the winged, militant steed of Zeus that creates serpents in the earth with the touch of his hoof, and who also introduced Dionysiac worship to Athens. Also Chrysaor, the golden bladed giant, is born from her bleeding neck. Medusas' blood is drained from her body and later used to raise the dead, (making Asclepius a great healer). Used from her right vein it heals and nourishes life, from her left serpent it kills.
The snakes, her dreaded face, her look of stone, and her magical blood all correlate with the ancient menstrual taboo. Primitive folk believed that the look of a menstruating woman could turn a man to stone. Menstrual blood was also thought to be the source of all mortal life and also of death, as the two are inseparable.
The Head of Medusa:

Perseus puts Medusa's head into his pouch. He uses her head as a weapon during other exploits and when he reaches home he returns it to Athena. The head of Medusa is then wrought onto the center of Athena's aegis and Zeus's shield which is given to Athena. (description of Athena's aegis at the Parthenon) Even after her defeat, the face of Medusa forever maintains its Gorgon power to protect the Goddess from enemies by turning them to stone. It is the striking, central image on renderings of Athena. Medusas' face continues to symbolize her fierce strength in military ritual and in battle on the warriors' armor.

The Symbolism of the Myth

The mythological beheading of Medusa symbolizes the ultimate silencing of female wisdom and expression. It is the act which stops her growth, limits her potential, movement and cultural contributions. She is obliterated and her severed head is flaunted on the Acropolis and other works of art in pride of her and all women's subjugation by violent men. She is broken and her body enslaved. Her spirit, her mind, her spiritual powers are killed. Her once honored forces of female creativity and destruction are halted. Her role as dynamic mediatrix degraded. Her life-giving, death-wielding powers and wild forces of nature are controlled, tamed, and mastered by the male order. The cycles of life and nature are made to conform to his linear perspective.

The Motive Behind the Myth

The Perseus myth was invented to explain the appearance of Gorgon Medusa's face, or mask, on Athena's shield and aegis, the image of Athena that was inherited from the pre-Hellenic period. It is not surprising to learn that the earliest images of Athena had a striking resemblance to the revered Cretan serpent-goddess- priestess. Although Athena changes, in art she is consistently associated with snakes as they appear on her shoulders and on her armor, along with Medusa's face as the central image.

The Perseus myth was also an attempt to conceal Athena's roots in the Libyan Amazon Serpent-Goddess- Trinity-Athene, (a deity that was also present in Minoan Crete). In pre-Hellenic myths Athena was said to have come from the uterus of Lake Tritonis, (meaning Three Queens), the same place that Medusa is said to have ruled, hunted and led troops in Athenian myth. The older myths are more specific, they say that Athene was born of the Three Queens of Libya themselves, the Triple Goddess, with Metis-Medusa as her destroyer aspect.

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Did you Know About Egypt

The power of Zed-Khons-uef-ankh to move men and material is most evident in the two mammoth stone sarcophagi that protected his mummy. At great expense and labor they were transported across miles of sand and wasteland to his oasis tomb. Both were made of the finest stone of the age. The closest source for the inner alabaster sarcophagus was Hatnub, a quarry near Amarna on the east bank of the Nile, 130 miles (200 kilometers) from El Bawiti. The heavy outer limestone sarcophagus probably came from Tura near modern Cairo, according to Zahi Hawass, the tomb’s chief excavator. The expert craftsmen of Memphis, Egypt’s administrative center, carved the governor’s face into the stone, then a barge floated the finished product 150 miles (240 kilometers) down the Nile to a quay on the west bank where it was carried or dragged another hundred miles (160 kilometers) to Bahariya. Once there it must have been ceremoniously lowered into the tomb, where it lay for nearly 2,600 years before Hawass’s team lifted its 12-ton lid to search for the governor’s remains and his legacy.

Before the recent discovery of the gilded mummies at Bahariya Oasis made headlines, the most famous of Egypt’s scattered desert outposts was Siwa, 200 miles (320 kilometers) from the Mediterranean coast near the border of present-day Libya. Here, 2,400 years ago, one of the most renowned oracles of the time drew travelers across the sands in search of the prophesies of Amun-Re, the Egyptian sun god. In 332 B.C. one of those travelers was Alexander the Great. A believer in divine destiny, he wanted the blessing of the oracle to assure his dream of conquering Asia and his status as the son of Zeus-Amun. As ancient chroniclers report, he almost died on the journey. First his party ran out of water; then they were lost in a blinding sandstorm. Fate intervened when a sudden rainstorm and the sight of birds heading toward the springs of Siwa saved them. Alexander reached his destination and the oracle received him as the son of Amun and the future “Lord of Asia.”-----by Dhaivat trivedi

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