Dendera

 A text only post, and about history, afield from fauna and flora, sort of...and grim, so dear readers, a caution to read on...

I've buried the hatchet with Target, and return now for shopping errands, and on the way over there today on Harbor, I noticed the popular ice cream stand thereabout is boarded up, and the whole area behind being prepared for some new construction...and across Harbor from there I cast a glance, and a new Giant Howling Wolf statue is seated behind the construction fence, and there's a new street, Great Wolf, branching off now from Harbor...Great Wolf is the name of a chain of waterpark hotel resorts...with the continuing heat, they should do well!

The aether is well known to Star Wars fans...it's called the Force...

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One of the audio sources Lipsett sampled for 21-87 was a conversation between artificial intelligence pioneer Warren S. McCulloch and Roman Kroitor, a cinematographer who went on to develop IMAX. In the face of McCulloch's arguments that living beings are nothing but highly complex machines, Kroitor insists that there is something more: "Many people feel that in the contemplation of nature and in communication with other living things, they become aware of some kind of force, or something, behind this apparent mask which we see in front of us, and they call it God."
When asked if this was the source of "the Force," Lucas confirms that his use of the term in Star Wars was "an echo of that phrase in 21-87." The idea behind it, however, was universal: "Similar phrases have been used extensively by many different people for the last 13,000 years to describe the 'life force,'" he says.^[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Force_(Star_Wars)


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When the first Star Wars movie came out, it was Episode IV of what were to be nine? episodes...a whole bunch anyway...and they were all in George Lucas' head...I forget how many successful movies he had before Star Wars, one?, so there was immediate consternation among the immediate fan base of Star Wars that if Star Wars wasn't successful, the other episodes wouldn't be made!...and Lucas had them all in his head just waiting to be made!

I was watching a clip of a tourist group on youtube touring the ancient Egyptian Temple of Dendera...it is a marvel...it was like the last of the Egyptian temples to be built...actually a rebuild...temples were always being rebuilt altered...that happens when your culture lasts like four thousand years!...every last bit of the Temple at Dendera is covered with illustrations...the French were so taken with the Zodiac in the ceiling that they stole it, and it is now in the Louvre...the French are all over things, archaeologically speaking, in Egypt, and Greece...this started when Napoleon took along his Savants on his effort to conquer Egypt...I had the book for awhile of the illustrations the Savants made....they fell on their knees with joy when they came to the Temple at Dendera...today, they have just cleaned the ceiling of the soot form the early Christians' cooking fires, and it still has its painted coloring...the whole Temple was in painted colors...Christians, maybe  Muslims too, are said to have been the ones that damaged much of the Temple's imagery...it looks like a ball peen hammer was used...little round digs in everything...but that may have been done by the Egyptians themselves...to destroy the magic of images the Egyptians would deface them, and there are older temples where this is seen, and was certainly done by the Egyptians...but vandals have been at work since back then right up to today...everything sacred, it's said, will at some time be profaned...anyway, I got to thinking that the Temple artists were like Tesla, they had everything in their mind's eye...I had a friend who could draw like this when I was a kid...where I would sketch, trying to find harmony with a lot of preliminary light lines, he would just draw the whole drawing out, quick!...Disney famously did this with the story of Snow White...he had gathered his artists together, and they weren't sure how to start, and Disney just acted out the whole story, voices and all...it was in his head!...

The Temple artists had everything in their heads too, I imagine, and what I mean is the whole lore of Ancient Egypt...they could go on about those things as easily as Star Wars fans can go on about Star Wars...they know every story, every character, every scene...however trivial!...and Lucas was the first 'fan', and had the complete lore all to himself!...but soon enough magically shared it with his movies...and where did he get his lore for Star Wars?...his imagination was steeped in previous stories, and here is link that explains this very well, and much better than I can!

How did George Lucas create Star Wars?
http://www.moongadget.com/origins/

DavidDavid