my mind begins to hum...

[mayavin]

The gods came down to watch the combat
between Bhishma and Arjuna. These were two of the greatest warriors
on earth.
Both chariots were drawn by white steeds.

From either side flew arrows in countless number.
Shaft met shaft in the air
and sometimes the grandsire's missile hit Arjuna's breast
and that of Madhava (Krishna).
And the blood flowing made Madhava more beautiful than ever
as he stood like a green palasa tree in full bloom
with crimson flowers.

[the fire elf]

Ghatotkacha,
as per the Mahabharata epic,
was the son of Bhima and Hidimbi.
His maternal parentage made him half-Rakshasa,
and gave him many magical powers that made him an important fighter
in the Kurukshetra war, the climax of the epic.

Ghatotkacha is considered to be a loyal and humble figure.
He made himself and his followers available
to his father Bhima at any time;
all Bhima had to do was to think of him and he would appear.
Like his father, Ghatotkacha primarily fought with the mace.

His wife was Ahilawati and his son was Barbarika.

In the Mahabharata, Ghatotkacha was summoned by Bhima
to fight on the Pandava side in the Kurukshetra battle.
Invoking his magical powers, he wrought great havoc
in the Kaurava army.
In particular after the death of Jayadratha,
when the battle continued on past sunset,
his powers were at their most effective (at night).

At this point in the battle,
the Kaurava leader Duryodhana appealed to his best fighter, Karna,
to kill Ghatotkacha as the whole Kaurava army was coming close to annihilation
due to his ceaseless strikes from the air.
Karna possessed a divine weapon, or shakti, granted by the god Indra.
It could be used only once,
and Karna had been saving it to use on his arch-enemy,
the best Pandava fighter, Arjuna.

Loyal Karna, unable to refuse the request of Duryodhana
whose cause he had pledged himself to serve,
hurled the missile at Ghatotkacha, killing him[3].
This is considered to be the turning point of the war.
After his death, the Pandava counselor Krishna smiled,
as he considered the war to have been won for the Pandavas
now that Karna no longer had a divine weapon
to use
in
fighting
Arjuna.

[mayavin]

[the fire elf]

jinn like force
in revered yet
(i have yet to perceive as)

coveted books

[mayavin]

aeons whispered concepts

[the fire elf]

to what end?

yet to come
carries
what has been

[mayavin]

for the same reason
stars sing
and need not rehearse

[the fire elf]

Lilu, a similar male demon, was one of the four demons that belonged
a vampire or incubus-succubi class.
The other three were Lilitu, the she-demon,
Ardat lili (Lilith's handmaid),
who visited men by night and bore them children,
and Irdu lili, who was the male counterpart to Ardat lili
and would visit women by night and beget children by them.

These demons were orginally storm demons.

However, because of popular mistaken etymology
they became to be regarded as night demons.

[mayavin]

if you're looking at me like i'm good or evil,
you might as well be holding an apple in your hand

The Book of Isaiah 34:14,
describing the desolation of Edom,
is the only occurrence of Lilith in the Hebrew Bible:

Hebrew (ISO 259):
pagšu iyyim et-iyyim w-sair al-rēhu yiqra akšam hirgiah
lilit u-maah lah mano

morpho-syntactic analysis:
"yelpers meet-[perfect] howlers;
hairy-ones cry-[imperfect] to fellow.
liyliyth reposes-[perfect],
acquires-[perfect] resting-place."

KJV:
"The wild beasts of the desert
shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island,
and the satyr shall cry to his fellow;
the screech owl also shall rest there,
and find for herself a place of rest."

[mayavin]

if you're looking at me like i'm good or evil,
you might as well be holding an apple in your hand

The Book of Isaiah 34:14,
describing the desolation of Edom,
is the only occurrence of Lilith in the Hebrew Bible:

Hebrew (ISO 259):
pagšu iyyim et-iyyim w-sair al-rēhu yiqra akšam hirgiah
lilit u-maah lah mano

morpho-syntactic analysis:
"yelpers meet-[perfect] howlers;
hairy-ones cry-[imperfect] to fellow.
liyliyth reposes-[perfect],
acquires-[perfect] resting-place."

KJV:
"The wild beasts of the desert
shall also meet with the wild beasts of the island,
and the satyr shall cry to his fellow;
the screech owl also shall rest there,
and find for herself a place of rest."

[the fire elf]

The use of personal names is not unique to humans.
Dolphins also use symbolic names,
as has been shown by recent research.
Individual dolphins have individual whistles,
to which they will respond even when there is no other information
to clarify which dolphin is being referred to.

Naming is the process of assigning a particular word or phrase
to a particular object or property.
This can be quite deliberate
or a natural process that occurs in the flow of life
as some phenomenon comes to the attention of the users of a language.
Many new words or phrases come into existence during translation
as attempts are made to express concepts from one language in another.

(i.e.) giachameleonlilith...
lilithgiachameleon...
gialilithchameleon

[mayavin]

[mayavin]

There is a lot of stuff that goes on
but you won't know about it
unless you know the right people
or stumble on the right stuff at the right time.
The main reason for this is the Single Creepy Guy Effect.
Having worked the Critical Tits After Party
and having been in a camp that held the Canadian Beaver Eating Contest,
it is very important to keep the Creepy Single Guys out.

13 results for: creep

–verb (used without object)
1. to move slowly with the body close to the ground,
as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.

2. to approach slowly, imperceptibly, or stealthily
(often fol. by up): We crept up and peeked over the wall.

3. to move or advance slowly or gradually:
The automobile crept up the hill.
Time just seems to creep along on these hot summer days.

4. to sneak up behind someone or without someone's knowledge
(usually fol. by up on):
The prisoners crept up on the guard and knocked him out.

5. to enter or become evident inconspicuously, gradually, or insidiously
(often fol. by in or into:)
The writer's personal bias occasionally creeps into the account.

6. to move or behave timidly or servilely.

7. to grow along the ground, a wall, etc., as a plant.

8. to advance or develop gradually so as to infringe on or supplant something else:
creeping inflation; creeping socialism.

9. to slip, slide, or shift gradually; become displaced.

10. (of a metal object) to become deformed,
as under continuous loads or at high temperatures.

11. Nautical. to grapple
(usually fol. by for): The ships crept for their anchor chains.

–verb (used with object)
12. Archaic. to creep along or over.

–noun
13. an act or instance of creeping.

i creep through multidimensional perspectives
and declared length of banishment to be returned
10fold

14. Slang. a boring, disturbingly eccentric, painfully introverted, or obnoxious person.
15. Slang. an intelligence or counterintelligence agent; spy.
16. Geology. a. the gradual movement downhill of loose soil, rock, gravel, etc.; solifluction.
b. the slow deformation of solid rock resulting from constant stress applied over long periods.

17. Mechanics. the gradual, permanent deformation of a body
produced by a continued application of heat
or stress.

18. a grappling iron; grapnel.

19. Firearms. the slack in a trigger mechanism
before it releases the firing pin.






























Creep (Warcraft),
a neutral but hostile computer controlled unit in Warcraft III

Creep (Starcraft),
an organic ground cover necessary
for constructing structures by the Zerg race in Starcraft

"Creep" (Stone Temple Pilots song), by Stone Temple Pilots

"Creep" (Radiohead song), by the British band Radiohead

[the fire elf]

This image, taken by Terra/MODIS instrument on December 17, 2004
shows thick haze and smoke along the Ganges Basin in northern India.
Major sources of aerosols in this area are believed to be smoke
from biomass burning in the northwest part of India,
and air pollution from large cities in northern India.
Dust from deserts in Pakistan and the Middle East may also contribute
to the mix of aerosols.
The average wind is directed to blow aerosols along the steep hillside
of the Tibetan Plateau,
to the eastern part of India
and the Bay of Bengal.

Dust and black carbon,
which are blown towards higher altitudes
by winds at the southern slope of the Himalayas,
can absorb shortwave radiation
and form elevated heat sources
over the Tibetan Plateau.

The net atmospheric heating
due to aerosol absorption
causes the air to warm and rise,
increasing the concentration of moisture
in the mid-troposphere,
and providing a positive feedback
to the aerosol heating.
A recent modeling study
shows that upper tropospheric heating
over the Tibetan Plateau
induced by absorbing aerosols
in late spring and early summer
can induce an early onset and subsequent intensification
of the Indian summer monsoon.

[mayavin]

and here it is in black and white:

[the fire elf]

poign·ant
–adjective
1. keenly distressing to the feelings: poignant regret.
2. keen or strong in mental appeal: a subject of poignant interest.
3. affecting or moving the emotions: a poignant scene.
4. pungent to the smell: poignant cooking odors.

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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME poynaunt < MF poignant, prp. of poindre < L pungere to prick, pierce. See pungent, -ant]

—Synonyms 1. intense, sincere, heartfelt. 4. piquant, sharp.
—Antonyms 1, 2. mild.

[mayavin]

prick
—Antonyms 1, 2. mild.

yeah...
i hear ya

he was kinda a prick to me

"mr. enlightened role-model" told me he'd like to push me out of a window...

but they were vying for dominance
and damnit, i'm a participator

[the fire elf]

[Origin: 1525–35; by aphesis < MF envier to raise the stake (at cards),
OF: to challenge, provoke < L invÄ«tÄ

[mayavin]

Much to my amazement, I found my understanding
of appeal evolved right along with the rest of me.
Perhaps it was my short obsession with the
computer simulated societies. I may have
gleamed insight from Maslow's structure of
the heierarchy of needs, through which the
value systems conventionally presented to us
faded like soo much mists before the sun.

All that was left was the people and stuff,
and the new qualities of attribution
cognized to the presence

[mayavin]

multiple personaes
like the multifaced dieties of old
serves my cognitative jumping jacks
better through two

one just feels soo boxed in sometimes

1. meditating; contemplating:
The cogitative faculty distinguishes humans from animals.
2. given to meditation; thoughtful:
The leaders sat in cogitative silence.


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[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME < ML cÅ

[the fire elf]

The cogitative faculty distinguishes humans from animals.

utter nonsensicality.

blind and deaf they must surely be...

are not they that way,
that i might work quickly
in peace?

[mayavin]

as of yesterday, after 4:26,
i've begun reading this book
for the first time:




i take it in chunks
to allow what i've recognized
to ripple out and settle

[the fire elf]

CHIYO:

In the summer of 1945, a year after Chiyo's father dies in the war, she expects him to come back during O-Bon, the Japanese festival of the dead. When he does not return, this 4 year-old girl runs off into the night, meeting a Monk with no ears, a crying Geisha at the cemetery, a Samurai ghost & the Lotus god...

Directed by Masanori Baba

79th Academy Awards
Semi-Finalist For Short Live Action Category

www.chiyoshort.com

MU:

A surreal mystery fable based on an ancient story about a traditional Japanese tattoo artist, who discovers that he is both dead and alive at the same time.

Japanese translated as nothing, was used long ago as an answer to a Zen riddle. Mu tells the story of Seiji, a traditional Japanese tattoo artist who tattoos the yakuza in Los Angeles...

Directed by Paul Yacono

www.muthefilm.com

[mayavin]

most the peep's back home in oklahoma
seemed tuned to the collective outpourings of the hollywood types

seemed suiting to come stir the philosophical amalgam

then if i go back
'least i can occupy myself
with reverseengineering the mind ripples

and find out what the hell i'm doing

[the fire elf]

the book "ender's game"
parted ways with me late yesterday
along my wandering and musing

got as far as donning the dragon

[mayavin]

most the peep's back home in oklahoma
seemed tuned to the collective outpourings of the hollywood types

seemed suiting to come stir the philosophical amalgam

then if i go back
'least i can occupy myself
with reverseengineering the mind ripples

and find out what the hell i'm doing




the book "ender's game"
parted ways with me late yesterday
along my wandering and musing

got as far as donning the dragon





took a photojourney to my friends

travelling from charleston SC to wilmington NC



there i worked at the juggling gypsy for a bit...

then took offense, loosed some wrath,

and took a photo journey back to the west coast

to the cre8tivity space

in the return photo's, the scabs show

from when i felt hypocritical rudeness

left for a shelter

found a bike

off balance baggage/a couple beers

causally led the bike

to meet a wall

and introduced me to the ground...



same day #33

went off



the camera of the modern rendition of "grapes of wrath"

is buried in the sand

for temperature purposes

till i get the government

to foot the bill on developing it

by "tapping social security on the shoulder"


Currently watching :
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints

[the fire elf]

genes that control development play a major role in evolutionary novelty

slight changes in the function of genes that
control development may create major changes in
adult morphology. allometric growth, the different
rates of growth in various parts of the body,
leads to the final shape of the organism.
a minor genetic alteration that affects allometric
growth in various parts of the body, leads to
the final shape of the organism. a minor genetic
alteration that affects allometric growth can have
a major morphological effect.
novel organisms can also be produced by small
genetic changes that affect the timing of
developmental events. paedomorphisis is the
retention in the adult of juvenile traits of
ancestral organisms.

(student guide for cambell's biology, fourth edition
c 1996)

[mayavin]

speciation by shifts in adaptive peaks

according to wright's adaptive landscape metaphor,
adaptive peaks occur where a population's gene pool
is at an equilibrium that maximizes fitness
in that environment. valleys separating the peaks
represent low average fitness of individuals.
natural selection will tend to push the population
back to the former peak when there has been
some slight nonadaptive change in allele frequency.
when environmental conditions change, the adaptive
landscape itself changes, creating new peaks and valleys.

peak shifts can be initiated by a bottleneck
or by other nonadaptive changes in a population's
genetic structure. genetic drift can knock a
small population off it's adaptive peak, and
natural selection can then push it to a new
adaptive peak that was present but formerly
unreachable by a genetically stable population.
following a founder effect and the resulting
genetic drift, adaptive evolution can push
a destabilized gene pool to a new adaptive peak
in a new adaptive landscape.

[the fire elf]

organisms depend on the cohesion of water molecules

liquid water is unusually cohesive due to the
constant forming and reforming of hydrogen bonds
that hold the molecules together. this cohesion
creates a more structurally organized liquid and
enables water to move against gravity. the
adhesion of water molecules to the walls of
plant vessels also contributes to water transport.
hydrogen bonding between water molecules produces
a high surface tension at the interface between
water and air.

[mayavin]

what was said does not indicate what will be said

37"Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me;
anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
38and anyone who does not take his cross and follow me is not worthy of me.
39Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.

40"He who receives you receives me,
and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.
41Anyone who receives a prophet because he is a prophet will receive a prophet's reward,
and anyone who receives a righteous man because he is a righteous man will receive a righteous man's reward.