Mittwoch, 4. November 2015
Dienstag, 13. Oktober 2015
I saw this article on dangerous minds:
The Toraja are a people who live in mountainous South Sulawesi in Indonesia, and their society rests on a sturdy foundation of animism, the belief that a spiritual essence pervades all things, living and unliving, including animals, plants, trees, and rocks. Tana Toraja means “the land of Toraja.” One of the most noteworthy aspects of the Toraja are their funeral rites, which last several days and often occur many weeks after the star of the show has shuffled off his or her mortal coil. The rituals include tree burials for infants who died before teething as well as the parading of actual mummies.
Since funerals are such an elaborate affair for the Toraja, the bereaved family members very often lack the funds for the ritual at the appropriate time, so sometimes the funeral has to wait months or even years until the requisite capital is accrued. In the meantime, the deceased is embalmed and stored in the same house as his or her family. Here’s the amazing bit: Until the funeral ceremonies are completed, the person is not considered to be dead but merely suffering an illness.
Amusing Planet explains the astonishing rest:
Without further ado, here are several stunning pictures of infant tree graves, wooden effigies of the deceased, hanging coffins, and mummies taking part in a Ma’Nene celebration.
The Toraja are a people who live in mountainous South Sulawesi in Indonesia, and their society rests on a sturdy foundation of animism, the belief that a spiritual essence pervades all things, living and unliving, including animals, plants, trees, and rocks. Tana Toraja means “the land of Toraja.” One of the most noteworthy aspects of the Toraja are their funeral rites, which last several days and often occur many weeks after the star of the show has shuffled off his or her mortal coil. The rituals include tree burials for infants who died before teething as well as the parading of actual mummies.
Since funerals are such an elaborate affair for the Toraja, the bereaved family members very often lack the funds for the ritual at the appropriate time, so sometimes the funeral has to wait months or even years until the requisite capital is accrued. In the meantime, the deceased is embalmed and stored in the same house as his or her family. Here’s the amazing bit: Until the funeral ceremonies are completed, the person is not considered to be dead but merely suffering an illness.
Amusing Planet explains the astonishing rest:
Toraja tribe members are rarely buried in the ground. They are either placed in caves dug out in the rocky side of a mountain, or in wooden coffins that are hung on a cliff. The grave is usually expensive and takes a few months to complete. A wood-carved effigy, called Tau tau, representing the deceased is usually placed in the cave looking out over the land. The coffins are beautifully decorated, but over time the wood begins to rot and the bleached bones of the deceased often drop to the bottom of the suspended burial ground.
Babies are not buried in caves or hung from cliffs but buried inside the hollow of living trees. If a child dies before he has started teething, the baby is wrapped in cloth and placed inside a hollowed out space within the trunk of a growing tree, and covered over with a palm fibre door. The hole is then sealed and as the tree begins to heal, the child is believed to be absorbed. Dozens of babies may be interred within a single tree.
The burials are completed, the guests have feasted and returned to their homes, but the rituals are not over. Every few years, in August, a ritual called Ma’Nene takes place in which the bodies of the deceased are exhumed to be washed, groomed and dressed in new clothes. The mummies are then walked around the village like zombies.
Without further ado, here are several stunning pictures of infant tree graves, wooden effigies of the deceased, hanging coffins, and mummies taking part in a Ma’Nene celebration.
Montag, 12. Oktober 2015
Magician Shokyokusai Tenkatsu
Magician
Shokyokusai Tenkatsu and her Flower Heaven Troupe wearing a strap-on
hooked into a 300,000 volt Tesla Coil to shower bolts of artificial
lightning on the girls below holding conductor rods, part of the
Japanese artistic movement called Eroguronansensu (literally
“erotic-grotesque-nonsense”)
Mittwoch, 7. Oktober 2015
Nazi Occult
Its also said that Erik Jan Hanussen told Hitler on New year`s eve to get a Mandragora .One month before he became Reichskanzler on the 30. january 1933. But there is also the story that this plant brought some conflicts because it made Hermann Göring say: Oh that just looks like our Goebbels! And Goebbels got pissed off because the Mandragora was so small and crippled...
Mittwoch, 16. September 2015
Montag, 14. September 2015
Montag, 7. September 2015
Donnerstag, 2. April 2015
Schaugericht/wim wenders tokyo-ga
Back in middle ages the Schaugericht was used to impress your guest by adding fake food , food made out of wax , cast or sugar , to create a spectacular attraction.They even rebuilded mystic setting or pictures full of symbols from the bibel. Swans and peacocks often got cooked and then put back together so they still looked alive . Lambs , deer ,bullheads were gilded!
Another thing was to create a pie-crust that looked like dinner and then hiding living animals inside, like birds, butterflys , eel as a scary surprise, dogs and even a dwarfs in it to make the ladys scream.
In 1761 Maria Theresia banned the Schaugericht because of wastefullness and people got more used to create this fakefood out of porcelain and so on
Setup of a swan
Dienstag, 24. März 2015
Crazy Austen Heinz DNA Printer
Decellularization
is a tissue engineering technique designed to strip out the cells from a
donor organ, leaving nothing but connective tissue that used to hold
the cells in place. This scaffold of connective tissue - called a "ghost
organ" for its pale
and almost translucent appearance - can then be reseeded with a
patient’s own cells, with the goal of regenerating an organ that can be
transplanted into the patient without fear of tissue rejection.This is
in the experimental stage.
but has nothing to do with this crazy Heinz and his Startup !!!! :
loco
but has nothing to do with this crazy Heinz and his Startup !!!! :
loco
A couple assemble their false body parts: false teeth, eye , hair
1825 By: Louis-Léopold Boillyafter
Vantias-Diorama Memento Mori Ruysch
Naked woman with head of a bear
possibly published by John Smith, after Unknown artist, mezzotint, 1680-1690 © National Portrait Gallery, London
1825 By: Louis-Léopold Boillyafter
Vantias-Diorama Memento Mori Ruysch
Naked woman with head of a bear
possibly published by John Smith, after Unknown artist, mezzotint, 1680-1690 © National Portrait Gallery, London
Illustration
showing spectators and sight-seers visiting the Paris Morgue, c. 1870s.
The city had built a glass wall in front of a refrigerated room, so
that the visiting public could help to identify unknown corpses, but it
soon became simply a gruesome tourist attraction, drawing as many as
40,000 per day before the morgue closed to the public in 1907."
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