Yesterday’s sunset from Warwick

Posted on March 12, 2007 | Category: Birds, Nature, Sunset/Sunrise

 Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

       (Rabindranath Tagore; Indian Poet, Playwright and Essayist, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913, 1861-1941)

Below are some picturesque photographs of the sunset yesterday.  Yesterday was actually fairly warm, although as the sun went down the temperature started to go down also.  The sunset was very nice, especially as the sunset dropped behind the clouds, and then illumined the clouds.  Then some birds just happened to fly by.  In fact sunset and sunrise is exactly the time when birds show up, go figure right.  I guess that is the best time for them to find bugs or food or whatever, but they are defiantly more prevalent at that time. 

This is a picture of the flock of birds flying by the picture was taken from the roof of a building in Warwick.

 

Again here is another awesome picture taken form the roof of a building in Warwick, with the tree, birds and sunset it just makes for an almost perfect picture.

 

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2 Responses to “Yesterday’s sunset from Warwick”

1. Lucian Fayd Savage Says:
   September 6th, 2007 at 2:38 pm

   Forgive the passage of the uninvited. I was googling ‘Manticores’ from my own interest (as I had the same conclusions you posted) and your blog post came up. I thought I’d throw in my two cents. Granted you posted that entry in 2005 - better late than never, sir.

   Jeremiah is traditionally credited with authoring the Book of Jeremiah 1 Kings, 2 Kings and the Book of Lamentations with the assistance and under the editorship of Baruch ben Neriah, his scribe and disciple.

   - Perhaps some of your answers might be derived from there? Should you own a bible?

   Some random facts:

   Greek and Roman authors (Aristotle, Pliny) described the beast the same way the Persians had.
   “Symbol
   “In the middle ages, the manticore was the emblem for the profit [sic] Jeremiah because the manticore lives in the depths of the earth and Jeremiah had been thrown into a dung pit. At the same time, the manticore became the symbol of tyranny, disparagement and envy, and ultimately the embodiment of evil. As late as the 1930s it was still considered by the peasants of Spain, to be a beast of ill omen.”

   “This cruel, vicious creature lived in the depths of the earth and could defeat all animals except the lion. The earliest account of the manticora is by Ctesias, a Greek physician at the Persian court in the fifth century BC; its name derives from the Persian martya (man) and xvar (to eat).”

   [The above found from random sites, Google more than likely led you to any of them already].

   I find the geography of the Manticore interesting. Of all places I have found it referenced in India, Ethiopia, Spain, Rome, Greece, Iran, or simply referenced as “a creature from the middle east”. - another biblical tie? A beast to span many languages is surely a beast of Babel?

   They call Jeremiah the broken hearted prophet and of course, a doom sayer in his day that wandered the streets with a wooden yoke about his neck. Today we would have paid him about the same attention we pay to the insane on our own streets. I believe the association he has to the manticore is not necessarily derived from the pits he was thrown into but most medieval scholars agree that the Manticore was a symbol for death, the devil, etc. Combine this with Jeremiah’s penchant for sorrow (he did write the book of lamentations after all) and you have all the combined symbolism you need for all that is dark and dreary. I have always found it interesting that the Bible names so few demons, and beasts within its pages. Good luck finding an actual reference to any in it. You might want to look for the metaphorical and/or dig through the books mentioned to see if Jeremiah himself had more to offer on the topic, - I have not yet gotten around to reading them or I’d let you know what I’d found. ; )

   My favorite fact about the Manticore is that a lot of ‘middle eastern’ countries used the Manticore as a brand for anyone who was a cannibal. Jeremiah the man eater?

   Interesting indeed. A macabre beast you’ve picked here.

   I intend to compile a similar journal entry if I can ever get around to updating my own blog.

   Cordially yours,

   Lucian of the Savage Variety

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2. Jon Says:
   September 6th, 2007 at 4:03 pm

   Wow i see you have definitely done some digging on the manticore. Your insight is much appreciated, and certainly helps to shed some light on beast. Also I find your reference to the creature’s inability to defeat lions particularly interesting since Jesus is often prorated as a lion in Scripture. Perhaps there is another level of symbolization there symbolising the ultimately victory, which Jesus will have over the devil. I wonder if you there might be more on that aspect of the symbolism, and yet even more levels to the sybolism.

   Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He crouches, he lies down as a lion, and as a lion, who dares rouse him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until Shiloh comes, and to him shall be the obedience of the peoples.
   Genesis 49:9-10

   A lion has roared! Who will not fear? The Lord GOD has spoken! Who can but prophesy?
   Amos 3:8

   Then I began to weep greatly because no one was found worthy to open the book or to look into it; and one of the elders said to me, “Stop weeping; behold, the Lion that is from the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome so as to open the book and its seven seals.”
   Revelation 5:4-5

   The original post can be found here, for those interested:
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