Leon Bakst, and Arabic Magic

NASA sent a song by Chuck Berry into space. Over time NASA has sent quite a lot of music up there, to be retrieved by whoever is out there, for them to make something of all of it.

When human beings as a whole, make some monument to something, more often than not it demonstrates the utter intellectual poverty and crassness of the materially-powerful so-called 'leaders.'

The 'Fountain of Eternal Life' is, 
according to Arabic folklore,
located somewhere in 'Bahrain.'
'Bahr-ain' means, something similar to 'Bahrzak;'
an isthmus between two great oceans...

It is not just my own personal view, but it is the view of some sub-contractors who 'went for a walk in the forest' as I think the Latvian phrase is, about those who are a little bit um, well 'in need of rest,' shall we say, and who claim to have had lengthy conversations with ET aliens - that the original Pioneer 10 plaque that was shot up into space and shoved as far out as possible, was possibly the stupidest thing to show to anyone with half an advanced alien brain.

One guy reported to the Kremlin division of the toppest top bureau there, that we came this close to being wiped out just on the strength of that stupid thing alone.

It's like a bunch of kids with crayons drew something. The plaque shows where the 'Goldilocks zone' for a planet with life is in our solar system, and then a couple of line depictions of what we look like on the outside, minus clothes, and a couple of bits of 'scientific' gibberish that apparently are meant to show what we are made of. We, we, us, superficial, us, we, look like, and oh, we know where we live, and like, no one else with K2+ intelligence would not know that, right?

Okay.

I've never been to Egypt.

Bahrzak.

Egypt is as far away, to me, as the outer Oort Cloud surrounding our planetary system.

But I would bet London to a soggy wet bus-ticket, that somewhere, in amongst all the amazing archaeology there, you will find 1. a lion or dog-like creature in monumental form, 2. something with wings, 3. a disk-like depiction, maybe such as a sun or the sun, 4. multiple snakes or 'gorgon-like' things - you might even say, 'dragon-like,' which grow upwards from some base...5. A pair of eyes...

At minimum you will find all those things.

I could have told you that before one single archaeologist ever laid foot anywhere near there.

Is there anything in that list we have not found yet...? Anything missing? Do you think?

Yes 'we' are like a bunch of kids, but a bunch of kids with mischievous and misbegotten 'leaders' and 'rulers' in charge of a whole lot of valuable things. And who wield considerable power.

According to Islamic tradition, this
is the 200 foot long grave of Amran,
the grandfather of Jesus... Wonder how tall
Jesus must have been?

Meanwhile, this is the kind of thing we are stuck with - and if this looks really really silly and stupid to you, then just hold onto your horses, because there may be things we think we 'know' and look upon every day with our own uncritical eyes, but which look just as stupid to those that know a lot better than we do, and a lot more things than we do.

Leon Bakst designed stage sets and production graphics for the Ballets Russes from around 1909 onwards, for which he provided highly exotic, richly colored sets and costumes - and more than one of the ballets he designed for have become extremely famous and enshrined permanently in ballet lore. There was one particularly notable, at the time somewhat infamous ballet - 'the Afternoon of the Faun' - which involved the dance depiction by Vaslav Nijinsky, of a mythical creature, a faun. (Nijinksy caused riots and fights inside the theaters when some members of the audiences objected to what appeared like the faun performing various kinds of sexual acts with nymphs on stage in the final act, or using objects of clothing of the nymphs to do that...).

This is the faun in the
movie 'Narnia.'
Dame Daphne Guinness likes to
depict herself as a kind of 
a faun, especially with her shoes.
Not sure whether she has hairy legs...

Fauns are part of very ancient folklore, from Turkey, Persia, Greece, Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan, and later on Arabia too. Many Muslim scholars conflate the images of 'fauns,' with their own mythology of Genies. Fauns are the creatures with long and powerful animal-like legs, and cloven hoofs.

But where were Bakst and Nijinsky getting their ideas about these creatures from? 

One of the greatest works of verse ever devised in the Arabic language - 'the Conference of the Birds' by Farid ud-Din - contains a crystal clear summary of how one may see such said-to-be mythical, or imaginary, invisible-to-mortal-eyes beings.