Viking traveler’s amulet, based on the Lillbjärs picture stone. The back reads: “Unharmed Go Forth, Unharmed Return, Unharmed Back Home”, Frigga’s blessing to Odin, possibly from Vafþrúðnismál.
How does this have almost 10,000 notes ?
Because the world is full of trouble and every little bit of help counts.
these watches are so pretty i just had to design characters for them… rainbow white’s wand is the minute hand of a clock, and rainbow black’s is the second hand! they both specialize in time magic ✨
The native Maori people of New Zealand have tattooed their faces for centuries. They had a complex warrior culture before the arrival of Europeans, and suffered under early colonialism, but have experienced a cultural revival since the 60′s.
The marks are called moko, and are etched with chisels instead of needles to leave grooves along with the ink. The true form is sacred, unique to each person, and distinct from European tattoos that mimic that traditional style.
There arent many pictures non combat related that look this badass
Actually most
Tā moko are done with modern tattoo equipment these days, but some people get them done the traditional way. And, as others have said, they’re not for Non-
Māori, as they have specific meanings and significance. If you want a tattoo with Māori
style, you can get a
kirituhi. These avoid any designs associated with particular tribes or famous people you’re not related to.
Kirituhi is a Māori style tattoo either made by a non-Māori tattooer, or made for a non-Māori wearer. Kirituhi has mana of it’s own and is a design telling the unique story of the wearer in the visual language of Māori art and design. Kiri means ‘skin’, and tuhi means ‘to write, draw, record, adorn or decorate with painting’.
Kirituhi is not restricted to only Māori people, and it is a way for Māori to share our cultural arts with people from around the world in a respectful manner, and for non-Māori artists to enjoy our beautiful art form as well. I happily do kirituhi for my clients around the world and it is a privilege to do such work for them.
Kirituhi is no lesser an artform than moko, however it is different and I believe these differences must be acknowledged and respected, so that the integrity of our taonga Māori – moko, is maintained around the world.
Moko is uniquely Māori and it is strictly reserved to be done by Māori, for Māori.
If either the recipient or tattooer do not have Māori whakapapa, then the resulting design is a Māori Style tattoo or kirituhi, NOT moko. The word moko originated from the Māori atua (god) of volcanic activity and earthquakes, Rūaumoko – therefore the origin of tā moko is divine and sacred – to me this is no small thing, nor should it be dismissed.
As my mentor once told me, ‘moko is about 99% culture, and 1% tattoo’.
i’m reading a book on spider biology and here’s some things i’ve learnt so far
they can’t move their eyes so when they need to focus on something they move their retinas independently of the rest of the eye instead and i can’t precisely pinpoint why this creeps me out but it does
i mean just look at that
they have two main eyes and the rest are secondary
which deeply upsets me because there’s quite a few six-eyed spiders and this wasn’t weird when it was just going from a larger number to an arbitrary smaller number, but knowing that they’ve got six because they decided to jettison their main eyes and run on backups is much much weirder
wolf spiders have the best goofy little monster faces. this isn’t
strictly
a biology fact but it’s still true
big spiders have 30-40 heartbeats per minute and lil dudes can have up to 100
their arteries run from the heart, into the chest, and down their legs, and then they open up and dump their blood in their feet. just right in there. let it slosh around. that’s all you need from a circulatory system, right.
their blood sloshes around and eventually winds up at the lowest point of their bodies, where their lungs slurp up all that loose blood and shove it back into the heart
instead of being made in bone marrow or anything, their blood cells just bud directly off of the heart muscle into the bloodstream
they can taste with their feet but not their mouths
god spiders are weird
thanks to this post i just looked up spider anatomy on wikipedia (actually i did a search for “spider organs” on duckduckgo and that’s what came up first) and it was even weirder than i imagined, their heart looks like WHAT? and did i misunderstand the diagram or do they have intestines running down all their legs? anyway a+++ would recommend
i get the gist that if there’s something that makes you go “that can’t be right” wrt spiders, it absolutely is right
mgd is midgut branches and lmao yep they poke down into the leg segments sometimes (or, as in friend jumping spider in fig b, up surrounding the eyes…….)
there’s so much happening inside spiders, who authorised this
Most arthropods have /hilarious/ circulatory systems because a significant chunk of it is “toss the organs in a pool of oxygen enriched blood and hope that works out”
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