SmugMug > keywords > wiremu > Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville

Originally i collaged a number of Google Earth images, including 3-D views, my paintings (and a Miro that was an accidental CLICK) and the centerpiece was my friend Rick from Jville. This was captured on Google Earth street camera. What are the odds of this? A biker captured on his Triumph in his front yard? A split second in the Google-Earth-mapping process.

I finally managed to get a portrait shot of Rick rather sneekily on my Apple iphone. He has incredible facial tattoos (Maori: 'moko') and you can just detect these above his glasses. The miracle of digital phi-tography allowed the Google-Earth image of Rick on his bike to be reflected in his glasses. 

Hence the title 'Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville'

courtesy of inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox November 2009
SmugMug > keywords > wiremu > Avatrix Wambie finally makes it to the Getty Center, LA

She finally got her Oscar in person. I was out in Wellington yesterday and she was insisting on a collage of part of the city. So it looks like the Wambie gets her way!

pix by inanga, the rest courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
SmugMug > keywords > wiremu > Marty and i learning Life Mastery Mary-style

I had the pleasure recently of meeting the most gentle of men. One was named Marty and he is centered above. He taught me about reptiles and the ancient Eastern Martial Arts. I promised to provide him with information on Aotearoa's ancient creature - the tuatara. Hey Marty this is as good an opportunity as any, so here goes.

The tuatara is old, very old. It predates the dinosaurs that perished in the Jurassic, and is reliably reported to be 260 million-years-old and yet still survives as a distinct species. It is the only survivor of the Sphenodon Class. It has a third-eye that is still highly photo-sensitive to light and fully operative.

[Marty, they spend hours staring directly at the Sun because it activates calcite crystals in their pineal-gland-equivalent initiating a second harmonic generation process whereby incoming and splitting photons leave with equal frequency and third-phase entangled.]

As I said Tuatara is a Class of its own, similar to Reptilia. I suspect that Sphenodon punctatus, still living, was the only member of TUATARA Class.

The correct taxonomic sequence is: Kingdom Animalia; Phylum Chordata; Subphylum Vertebrata; Class TUATARA; Order Sphenodontia; Family Sphenodontidae; Genus Sphenodon; and one species only of the entire Class SPHENODON PUNCTATUS. I agree with you, tuatara are more dinosauric thus birdlike than reptiles, hence the exposed vertebra.

Curiously, the diet of tuatara is Clematis (a local climbing plant), kawakawa (Macropiper excelsum) with properties similar to the indole alkaloids of kavakava, and several weta species (the largest insect in the world and also endemic to NZ).

I will send some pictures to www.northernberksreptileshow.com and you can use them if you wish. I got some great pics of Henry, currently imprisoned in Invercargill, New Zealand, when I was working there for Lonely Planet. Wiki gives this news:

"Tuatara eggs have a soft, parchment-like shell. It takes the females between one and three years to provide eggs with yolk, and up to seven months to form the shell. It then takes between 12 and 15 months from copulation to hatching. This means reproduction occurs at two- to five-year intervals, the slowest in any reptile.[11] Wild tuatara are known to be still reproducing at about 60 years of age—"Henry", a 111-year-old tuatara at Southland Museum in Invercargill, New Zealand, became a father (possibly for the first time) on 23 January 2009.[50][51]"

The oldest living creature on earth - the tuatara - is considered here to be the Keeper of the Twelve Kete [Baskets] of Knowledge, an appellation it shares most probably because of its manipulation of serotonin, melatonin and epitonin in third-eye visualization - SUN, MOON and SOMA as discussed.

I treasure the chance to meet you again so we can do some Sufi spinning and enjoy a laugh.

Jeff

thanks to Helen Gale for the great photo of Marty and I.
SmugMug > keywords > wiremu > The Search for Peace on Battlefield Earth

collage courtesy of inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
SmugMug > keywords > wiremu > Avocado Sunset, St Louis, Missouri

i had the privilege of visiting St Louis when i wrote the 'Plains States' for the first Lonely Planet US guide. i was fascinated with St Louis as one of my heroes Thomas Stearns (TS) Eliot was born in that city. He said that it inspired 'The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock', one of my all-time favorite poems. Here is what wiki says:

'In 1915 Ezra Pound, overseas editor of Poetry magazine, recommended to Harriet Monroe, the magazine's founder, that she publish "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock". Although the character Prufrock seems to be middle-aged, Eliot wrote most of the poem when he was only 22. Its now-famous opening lines, comparing the evening sky to "a patient etherised upon a table," were considered shocking and offensive, especially at a time when the poetry of the Georgians was hailed for its derivations of the 19th century Romantic Poets. The poem follows the conscious experience of a man, Prufrock (relayed in the "stream of consciousness" form characteristic of the Modernists), lamenting his physical and intellectual inertia, the lost opportunities in his life and lack of spiritual progress, with the recurrent theme of carnal love unattained. Critical opinion is divided as to whether the narrator leaves his residence during the course of the narration. The locations described can be interpreted either as actual physical experiences, mental recollections, or even as symbolic images from the sub-conscious mind, as, for example, in the refrain "In the room the women come and go." '

Across the 'river' from St Louis's famous arch are the Cahokia Mounds - hence the dream-catcher above. i have visited there also and i was fascinated with the pivotal location of the site, at the confluence of the Missouri and Mississippi rivers. For more on these see Another Roadside Attraction - the Treasure Hunt in this site. I left pounamu (greenstone) in many locations in the US when i was on my spirit quest - but not here under the arch. So with Google's Street cam, a wiki download and a painting of greenstone/pounamu (from Kuri's Big OE) amends have been made. Bernice, a friend of Ms P's, decided to send a message into the ether to her late father. Don, also born in Missouri, i hope you get this by ether-mail.

courtesy of Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox 2009
SmugMug > keywords > wiremu > Thanks Richard

courtesy Google Earth and mfnw

inanga
SmugMug > keywords > wiremu > Folding and Faulting, MacDonnell Ranges, Northern Territory, Australia

acrylic and oil on canvas board 2008 [temporary photo]

inanga
SmugMug > keywords > wiremu > Heart of Voh, New Caledonia

Google Earth image of 'Lac' Voh, New Caledonia (reminiscent of Yann Arthus-Bertrand's 'The Earth from Above' picture of the feature, now a Google icon) overlaid on detail from 'Beauty and the Beast' - see this gallery for the original

i went on a wild trip through New Caledonia a few years back. This wonder - the heart of Voh - is only visible from the air and it is a fluke to find it in the snaky delta of the Voh River on the north-western coast of New Cal using Google Earth.

courtesy of Google Earth images, SmugMug, Picasa 3 and Mozilla Firefox 2009

inanga
SmugMug > keywords > wiremu > Los Meurtos, near Tempe, Phoenix, Arizona

Strange, but thet still celebrate this Day of the Dead in Los Muertos, near Tempe - the day when the Pima and the Papago (Tohono O'odham) overcame the Hohokam and cast them out. Again, you rightly ask - what has this to do with a treasure hunt in the Superstitions? Quite a lot. We know the treasure is being protected - the list of 'los muertos' - the Dead - being found in the Superstitions is far greater than any other similar lair of treasure hunters.

The battle between the 'old' ones and the Tohono o'Odham ('the people of the finger language, [Odham = Ogham]) has a lot to do with what is going on in the Superstitions, now, tomorrow, whenever. If you think you have no 4-D foes then boy (or girl) are you in for a little surprise. Between the 28th and 31st of October if you are anyway in downtown Phoenix you will see the 'dead' reemerge in ghoulish masks - some are even riding motorbikes. Let's say that out in 'them thar hills' they are lurking all the time.

Now Latter Day Saints, i am going to explain to you why you should have brought the Book of Mormon. This battle of long ago is mentioned in detail in your 'good' Book. Several clues are laid therein, between the lines so to speak. What you will read in that repository of wisdom is accurate, only the names have been concealed.

For example all negotiations with the Tohono o'Odham and their allies in the Superstitions is done using the septagesimal [7] system of Mosiah as this wiki feed explains:

'Measuring system

In Alma 11, Mormon lists "the names of the different pieces of their gold, and of their silver" and their relative value (Alma 11:4). It is unclear what kind of system "reckoning" and "measure" refer to, although most Book of Mormon scholars now believe they were weights, not coins. Mormon explains that

'the names are given by the Nephites, for they did not reckon after the manner of the Jews who were at Jerusalem; neither did they measure after the manner of the Jews; but they altered their reckoning and their measure, according to the minds and the circumstances of the people, in every generation.' (Alma 11:4)

Mormon then explains that this fluctuating system was replaced with a standard system established by Mosiah². Such a uniformity of measuring systems would have done much to unify the newly formed society, streamline the calculation of exchange rates in long-distance trade, and increase trade revenue.

Gold units 	    Silver units 	  Relative value (in measures of barley) 	Equivalent
limnah 	    onti 	                7
shum 	    ezrom 	                4
seon 	    amnor 	                2
antion 		                      1½
senine 	    senum 	              1 	a measure of barley; one day for a judge
	        shiblon 	              ½ 	half a measure of barley
	        shiblum 	              ¼
	        leah 	                      ⅛

[Ed: having trouble aligning these.]

One of the apparent purposes of this system was economy of use. A set of weights that contained one of each unit could be used to measure out increments of up to 14 units without needing two of the same weight. Thus, a Nephite merchant could use his small personal set of weights for a range of products being sold instead of relying on a large quantity of weights.[4]'

If you are really serious about getting to use these units out in the wild you better familiarize yourself with this book - 'The short, swift time of gods on earth: the Hohokam chronicles' by Donald M Bahr as it correlates very closely with the Book of Mormon. As i said, maybe just with a change of characterization. If you are confronted with certain questions out in the Superstitions, and you are half way up the Peralta Trail already, you may need to have a knowledge of this book as bargaining background with the Tohono o'Odham.

In the spring of 1935 Juan Smith and William Smith Allison, who both lived on the Gila Indian Reservation [just below Chandler on the clue map above], sang and spoke their story to Julian Hayden. Julian was then a resident of Tucson and had devoted his life to writing on Hohokam archaeology, particularly on archaeological digs relating to Tohono o'Odham culture in the region of the Salado and Gila river valleys.

The recorded words and songs of the two Pima Songsingers were interpreted by Donald Bahr, Professor of Anthropology at Arizona State University, and author of 'Pima-Papago Ritual Oratory' (1975) and 'Piman Shamanism and Staying Sickness' (1974).

As the blurb states:

'Now this extraordinary document is presented in its entirety for the first time.

Beautifully expressed and composed of thirty-six stories, the narrative constitutes a kind of scripture for a native church, beginning with the creation of the universe out of the void and ending in the sixteenth century of present-day villages.

Central to the story is the murder/resurrection of a god-man, Siuuhu, who summoned the Pimas and Papago (Tohono o'Odham) as his army of vengeance and brought about the conquest of his murderers, the ancient Hohokam.' [ISBN 0-520-08468-3].

If you merely and simply substitute 'Tohono o'Odham' for 'Nephites' and 'Hohokam' for 'Lamanites' you are starting to get close to some old truths. Check out this about the Book of Mormon courtesy of wikipedia:

'Chronology

The books from 1 Nephi to Omni are described as being from "the small plates of Nephi".[43] This account begins in ancient Jerusalem around 600 BC. It tells the story of a man named Lehi, his family, and several others as they are led by God from Jerusalem shortly before the fall of that city to the Babylonians in 586 BC. The book describes their journey across the Arabian peninsula, and then to the promised land, the Americas, by ship.[44] These books recount the group's dealings from approximately 600 BC to about 130 BC, during which time the community grew and split into two main groups, which are called the Nephites and the Lamanites, that frequently warred with each other.

Following this section is the Words of Mormon. This small book, said to be written in AD 385 by Mormon, is a short introduction to the books of Mosiah, Alma, Helaman, 3 Nephi, and 4 Nephi.[45] These books are described as being abridged from a large quantity of existing records called "the large plates of Nephi" that detailed the people's history from the time of Omni to Mormon's own life. The book of 3 Nephi is of particular importance within the Book of Mormon because it contains an account of a visit by Jesus from heaven to the Americas sometime after his resurrection and ascension. The text says that during this American visit, he repeated much of the same doctrine and instruction given in the Gospels of the Bible and he established an enlightened, peaceful society which endured for several generations, but which eventually broke into warring factions again.' 

For the battles which followed go directly to the Book of Mormon: http://scriptures.lds.org/en/3_ne/4

[more to come...Ed] 

clue courtesy of Spider Grandmother [if you stand back you will see her], Google Earth [the treasure hunt clue map], a Phoenician cactus [Devil's tongue barrel or Crow's claw barrel, 'Ferocactus latispinus'], Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox October 2009

inanga
Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville

Originally i collaged a number of Google Earth images, including 3-D views, my paintings (and a Miro that was an accidental CLICK) and the centerpiece was my friend Rick from Jville. This was captured on Google Earth street camera. What are the odds of this? A biker captured on his Triumph in his front yard? A split second in the Google-Earth-mapping process.

I finally managed to get a portrait shot of Rick rather sneekily on my Apple iphone. He has incredible facial tattoos (Maori: 'moko') and you can just detect these above his glasses. The miracle of digital phi-tography allowed the Google-Earth image of Rick on his bike to be reflected in his glasses.

Hence the title 'Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville'

courtesy of inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox November 2009
 > Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville

Originally i collaged a number of Google Earth images, including 3-D views, my paintings (and a Miro that was an accidental CLICK) and the centerpiece was my friend Rick from Jville. This was captured on Google Earth street camera. What are the odds of this? A biker captured on his Triumph in his front yard? A split second in the Google-Earth-mapping process.

I finally managed to get a portrait shot of Rick rather sneekily on my Apple iphone. He has incredible facial tattoos (Maori: 'moko') and you can just detect these above his glasses. The miracle of digital phi-tography allowed the Google-Earth image of Rick on his bike to be reflected in his glasses. 

Hence the title 'Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville'

courtesy of inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox November 2009
Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville

Originally i collaged a number of Google Earth images, including 3-D views, my paintings (and a Miro that was an accidental CLICK) and the centerpiece was my friend Rick from Jville. This was captured on Google Earth street camera. What are the odds of this? A biker captured on his Triumph in his front yard? A split second in the Google-Earth-mapping process.

I finally managed to get a portrait shot of Rick rather sneekily on my Apple iphone. He has incredible facial tattoos (Maori: 'moko') and you can just detect these above his glasses. The miracle of digital phi-tography allowed the Google-Earth image of Rick on his bike to be reflected in his glasses.

Hence the title 'Rick sees Rick on his bike on Google Earth, Jville'

courtesy of inanga, Picasa 3, SmugMug, Google and Mozilla Firefox November 2009
Photo by: inanga • see photo in gallery

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