today: new moon today: Berlinale film festival (Berlinale) today: Chinese New Year today: new snow today: Fasching (old pagan rite, here's a bit: Fasching) today: Winter Olympics today: Valentine's Day (see the post below) .
hah! i hadn't thought of the parallel- no, these aren't prayer flags like in lung ta (http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/09/16/lung-ta-wind-words/).. this is "Fasching"-decoration, for a pagan rite. but the parallel indeed is striking. here is a picture of the Fasching-event: http://www.blueprint21.de/blueprints/photo19.html
the idea of "Fasching" is to dress up as witches and other creatures, and then scare away winter.
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Curious: Is this from your lung ta/wind words series?
hah! i hadn't thought of the parallel- no, these aren't prayer flags like in lung ta (http://qarrtsiluni.com/2009/09/16/lung-ta-wind-words/).. this is "Fasching"-decoration, for a pagan rite. but the parallel indeed is striking. here is a picture of the Fasching-event: http://www.blueprint21.de/blueprints/photo19.html
the idea of "Fasching" is to dress up as witches and other creatures, and then scare away winter.
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