Bibio & Ex Confusion + Goldmund aka Keith Kenniff aka Helios aka Mint Julep aka A Pale Fire + BatteryOperated Orchestra + Carmen Villain.

By means of the ceremonies of the ancestral temple, they distinguished the royal kindred according to their order of descent.
By ordering the parties present according to their rank, they distinguished the more noble and the less. By the arrangement of the services, they made a distinction of talents and worth.

In the ceremony of general pledging, the inferiors presented the cup to their superiors, and thus something was given the lowest to do. At the concluding feast, places were given according to the hair, and thus was made the distinction of years.

C.

Kasia Majchrowska, Berlin, Germany.

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E.A.B.

Kate, Riga, Latvia.

frog pond…
a leaf falls in
without a sound

M.B.

Photos 1-4 by Nynewe, photo 5 by Stéphanie Macé.

These rites profan’d, the holy seer foreshow’d
A mourning people, and a vengeful God.

O.

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Steven Cormann, Southbury, CT, USA.

Among all the nations of antiquity, altars, mounds, and temples were dedicated to the worship of the orb of day. The ruins of these sacred places yet remain, notable among them being the pyramids of Yucatan and Egypt, the snake mounds of the American Indians, the Zikkurats of Babylon and Chaldea, the round towers of Ireland, and the massive rings of uncut stone in Britain and Normandy.

The Tower of Babel, which, according to the Scriptures, was built so that man might reach up to God, was probably an astronomical observatory.

M.P.H.