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@ByzantineSpirit
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Lover of History, Culture and the Arts.
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Joined January 2021
Concept: A population of God-fearing men & women who are intelligent, strong, self-reliant, take responsibility and are willing to put their foot down.
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Strange how every time leftists post “Islamic architecture” it’s just buildings from Iran and none of its supposed admirers even respect the tradition enough to appreciate it void of virtue signalling or call it what it actually is; Persian architecture.
strange how none of the “retvrn to tradition” accounts ever talk about the stunning beauty of islamic architecture
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Have to think back to this post every few weeks or so
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Found a place on Google maps with one single review and this is that review
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Can you imagine being the man in this photo? Just a happy Brazilian enjoying his summer day until some photographer discreetly takes your photo and two years later thousands of fridge IQ "Jew-namers" keep insulting your looks thinking you're their worst enemy lmao.
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Baffled. Bewildered. Perplexed that local kebab salesman from some 3rd world Islamic theocracy happens to have outlandish political views. How could this be, i thought he was just so kind and loving by the way he always says "extra garlic sauce, boss?" When I give my order. .
Celebrating the murders and kidnapping of Israelis is quite possibly the most heinous act of public hate I have seen on the streets of London.
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The palace of Alhambra in Andalusia, Muhammad Ali mosque of Cairo (largely western Baroque inspired), the impressive Shah Mosque of Isfahan, the many Seljuq Caravanserai’s of Anatolia all reduced to mere “Islamic architecture”. Such simplification should make one feel insulted.
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Nothing is funnier than Albanian diaspora. Just straight up we wuzzing themselves into imaginary victimhood and grievances that never took place.
imagine complaining about albanians living in britain, when you guys are directly responsible for dividing our lands causing decades of displacement and g3nocide for our ppl.
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Ascension of the Prophet Elijah // Ανάληψη του προφήτη Ηλία. Theodoros Poulakis (1620-1692), Cretan School
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Something very charming about female mutuals who unapologetically scream their most intrusive and deranged thoughts on to the timeline.
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Not Rome, not Constantinople, but in a third (secret) capital of the Roman Empire…
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The same (or similar) style of braided hair is traditionally done in parts of Anatolia and the Caucasus
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She is escaping from Plato's cave, finally seeing the true world. The shadows will fool her no longer.
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@ArmenianStalin @SG_Tupper Plutarch’s description is the closest you’re going to get. Attempting to discredit it after posting the Pompeii mosaic made centuries after is rich lol.
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Byzantine, Arab & Latin influences on full display at the Zisa castle, Palermo, Sicily. 🇮🇹
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A thread🧵 on the Crimean Armenians (Ghrimahayer) who held such a significant presence on the peninsula that for a period the Sea of Azov came to be known as the Armenian Lake or 'Lacus Armeniacus'
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The Art of Armenian Illuminated Manuscripts. The Annunciation and canon pages of the Zeytun Gospels, 1256 A.D. by Toros Roslin // Թորոս Ռոսլին
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Various regions of Greece:.1. Bell-wearers(Κωδωνοφόροι) of Macedonia.2. Janissaries(Γενίτσαροι) of the Naoussa carnival (Paros).3. "Geros" of the Skyros carnival (it's female counterpart is "Korela").4. And lastly, another bell-wearer typical of the village of Kali Vrisi, Drama.
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The difference between love and hate, is the emotion. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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Has to be embarrassing for Sunni’s to never trump their Greco-Roman predecessors. God bless the Rûm of Syria.
The Ummayad Mosque must be the most beautiful piece of architecture in the world.
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@ArmenianStalin @SG_Tupper “Apelles, in painting him as wielder of the thunder-bolt, did not reproduce his complexion, but made it too dark and swarthy. Whereas he was of fair colour, as they say, and his fairness passed into ruddiness on his breast particularly, and in his face.”. Plutarch, Alexander 4.3.
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Sinopia — The red ochre used during Renaissance to underpaint frescoes takes name from a specific pigment used during antiquity that was exported from the city of Sinope & sourced from Cappadocia. This was then used throughout the Classical world, such as on the murals of Pompeii
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@carthago814 My point is, it is so much more than that. Imagine if all architecture in practically any majority-Christian country was reduced to mere “Christian architecture” and blindly grouped together, solely appreciated as an insult to political enemies.
The palace of Alhambra in Andalusia, Muhammad Ali mosque of Cairo (largely western Baroque inspired), the impressive Shah Mosque of Isfahan, the many Seljuq Caravanserai’s of Anatolia all reduced to mere “Islamic architecture”. Such simplification should make one feel insulted.
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@kunley_drukpa Vacuum box really adds to the experience. Truly makes you feel like you’re in the presence of one of the age defining men in history. Wouldn’t be the same without it I think.
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You need to live in a cave. You need to be troglodyte-maxxing.
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One of the lesser known Byzantine cave churches scattered around the valleys of Cappadocia that I visited. Dedicated to the Theotokos
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13th c. Armenian Khachkar (Cross-stone) at the monastery of Goshavank // Գոշավանք
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Byzantine-era pagan tapestry from Egypt depicting Hestia Polyolbos // Ἑστία Πολύολβος (Hestia full-of-blessings), first half of 6th c. AD.
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On one corner of Constantinople, hidden underneath an unremarkable building built into the outer walls of the Ottoman Seraglio, sits a Holy Well (Αγίασμα) and small church dating back to Byzantine times. Dedicated to St. Therapon ☦️
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The 11th c. Byzantine monastery of Cappadocia known as the Karanlik Kilise ("Dark Church") ☦️
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The Pantanassa Monastery // Μονή Παντάνασσας of Mystra // Μυστρά, Greece. Dedicated in 1428 by John Frankopoulos // Ἰωάννης Φραγγόπουλος of the #Byzantine Despotate of Morea, it is inhabited by nuns and remains the last continuously inhabited monastery at the historical site.
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Tears to my eyes every time I think of Albanian Holocaust. 9 gorillion dead. No survivors.
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An Armenian woman & Greek woman, in the Queen of Cities, Constantinople. (circa 1682)
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It may not be as grand as that of the Hagia Sophia, but the dome in the paracclesion of the Chora Church is the most beautiful there is in my opinion.
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The tomb and elaborate burial shroud of Maria Asanina Palaiologina of Doros (b. - 1477). Born in the Byzantine principality of Theodoro on the Crimean peninsula, she was Princess-Consort of Moldavia through her marriage to Stephen the Great
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#FrescoFriday Griffin in the throne room of the Minoan palace at Κνωσός // Knossos, 15th c. BC.
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Don't care, didn't ask, riding horses in the land of horses.
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“You’ll never have enough time to read most of the books on your reading list…”
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Horses roaming at the ruins of the mediæval Armenian city of Ani. (photo by Diana Markosian)
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In the woods of Bulgaria one finds the mausoleum of Demir Baba. An Alevi folk saint who is thought to have miraculously created the sacred springs in the area. It is built on top of an ancient Thracian sanctuary and visited by locals (Alevi & Christian alike) on St. George's day.
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@realpeteyb123 Greek Americans suffer from diaspora syndrome where they attempt to cling close to their inherited roots to avoid assimilation, the issue with this is that it is (largely) superficial and does not translate to the actual homeland where people do not have the same impulses. What.
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@magicinthealps I definitely wouldn’t disagree in certain contexts, I also don’t intend to divorce religion from the architecture (on the contrary even, I think these all influence one another), the example I gave may not have been clear enough with that. The point is mostly that these broad.
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C3-6th post-Meroitic Nubian crowns discovered in the Ballana tombs. Pharaonic iconography alongside inlaid stones which were likely Byzantine import. The early beginnings of Christianisation in Nubia.
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6th c. Monastery of St. Simeon near Aswan, Egypt
The journey to a 6th century monastic settlement in the Sahara desert
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Stupidest thing I ever read.
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Christ is Born! A Merry Christmas // Καλά Χριστούγεννα // Շնորհավոր Սուրբ Ծնունդ and Happy New Year to all my dear friends and followers. 🎄❤️
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Filmed in Cappadocia, Maria Callas as lead, costume design inspired by ancient Mesopotamia & Mediterranean, also makes creative use of crazy looking Turkish/Kurdish shepherds coat (see first picture). Orientalist fantasy done perfectly right. Pure kino.
The almost psychedelic rendition of "Medea" (1969) by Pier Paolo Pasolini, one of the greatest films in italian cinema.
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Armenian architecture & art feels uniquely defined by its reliance on stone masonry. This is due to number of reasons (very dry earthquake-prone highlands as well as perilous frontier zone), but it also gives a very distinct character. Wouldn't feel out of place in Middle-Earth.
13th c. Armenian Khachkar (Cross-stone) at the monastery of Goshavank // Գոշավանք
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"How do I (40M) make my 5 year old nephew believe he is trans for liking feminine things". Not grooming btw
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Good lesson in not trusting people whose primary identity consists of NOT being something:. “I’m ex-Muslim”.“I’m ex-Mormon”.“I’m ex-Christian”.“I’m an ex-drug addict”.“I used to be a rightwinger now I’m woke”.“I’m an ex-liberal who got REDPILLED”.Etc. Etc.
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Baptisteries of #Byzantine Africa Zeugitana & Byzacena (Tunisia). 1. Baptistery of the Basilica of St. Vitalis. Sufetula (modern Sbeitla).2. Church of the priest Felix of Demna, Clypea (modern Kelibia).3. & 4. Baptistery at Thapsus (modern Bekalta)
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@HerrKalos_PhD In Egypt it’s like the opposite of this. Walk around pyramids and the desert is like a garbage dump. Camel guy hands me a coke during the little break, I ask where to leave the bottle, “just throw it in the sand” he says. It physically hurt me to do it, but I had no other choice.
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The #Byzantine Monastery of San Giovanni Theristis // Μονή Αγίου Ιωάννη του Θεριστή of Bivongi, Calabria🇮🇹☦️. Originally built in 11th c. Unlike many other monasteries however this one has been revived under jurisdiction of the Orthodox Church and remains operational to this day.
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Someone should start a Mythical Africa account on here, much to post about
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Traditional churned ice cream made with mastic & orchid flour (salep) & a bit of pistachio sprinkled on top is especially good. Has a stretchy texture to it & refreshing flavour thx to the mastic. It's common all around the East Mediterranean.
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@hollowearthterf So what? This is all you could think of? What’s else? You’re going to post some tamed and docile little snub nose surrounded by flowers to prove that you like monkeys? You’re all so predictable.
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Met an American girl here who tells me she lived in Andorra for over a year by just working as an English teacher. Requires certain qualifications but she doesn’t have them and they just let her do it anyway. I know multiple people who do this. Is it really that easy? U just.
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May be in Venice, but it’s CLEARLY Constantinopolitan through and through
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Hellenic irregulars in Roumelia — Spyros Meletzis // Σπύρος Μελετζής (1940s)
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@KeithWoodsYT I don’t think “AI facial recognition software” proves anything but who cares? Are you gay like @classicsgroyp?.
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San Giorgio dei Greci // Ἅγιος Γεώργιος τῶν Ἑλλήνων — Venezia // Βενετία 🇬🇷☦️🇮🇹
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I will not share footage of that Christmas market attack but let me say this: Remigration not enough. There need to be prisons. Sednaya prisons. Dozens of them. Possibly even more. Disparaging Middle Eastern autocratic governance is a mistake.
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I believe this is the first painting that made a lasting impression on me, I remember seeing it in my Roman history book when I was about 8-9 years old.
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“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” — John, 8:12. (Mosaic of Christ Pantocrator at the Duomo di Cefalù, Sicily)
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Likewise, Byzantine-era Coptic Christian tapestry from Egypt depicting the Theotokos as a Byzantine empress. Also from 6th c. AD.
Byzantine-era pagan tapestry from Egypt depicting Hestia Polyolbos // Ἑστία Πολύολβος (Hestia full-of-blessings), first half of 6th c. AD.
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You won't see state-sponsored assaults on other religions like this not because "they fear Islam" or anything of the sort, but exactly because Christianity is the old enemy at home while other religions in the West are used as diversionary instruments to advance their interests.
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Worst opinion ever xosted on X. Ever.
Puffer jackets are functional, unassuming and dignified for men. Wool coats are for gay guys, tragic “Dimes Square” fashion victims and Colombian zoomers from Queens who work at Zara. They’re not warm enough, they’re not cut generously enough, most men don’t look like Alain Delon.
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Convent of St. Catherine at Mount Sinai, as seen in lithographs by David Roberts — 1842
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Bridal headdresses. - Bridal dress of Hardanger, Norway.- Traditional 'Shishak' bridal headdress of Pskov, Russia.- Bride from Transylvania, Romania
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Second Anglo-Dutch war, Michiel de Ruyter’s raid on Medway
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The only basis on which Greece ever existed was guaranteeing the protection and continued existence of the Greek nation. Inability to understand this and take ideas to their full conclusion truly epitomizes the cowardly apathetic liberal 'thought' so rife in Western countries.
Greece was a land of many peoples, languages and cultures. Through nationalist aspirations that based themselves on supposed century and thousand year old claims, it became, mainly through horrifying violence an artificial ethnostate, a Greece for Greek christians.
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Girl in traditional costume from Thesprotia // Θεσπρωτία, Greece (1950s). photography by Spyros Meletzis // Σπύρος Μελετζής
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The Greek Orthodox college of Phanar sits in one of my favourite buildings in Istanbul // Κωνσταντινούπολη. Originally founded in 1454, It's one of the last remaining schools still in use by the quickly dwindling Greek minority of Turkey. The current structure was built in 1881.
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Μετέωρα // Meteora and it's monasteries take you to another world.
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The magnificent apse mosaic of Christ Pantocrator at the Duomo di Monreale, along with it's many other #Byzantine mosaics are truly a sight to behold. 12th c. AD. Near Palermo, Sicily🇮🇹.#MosaicMonday
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