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Mar 3View SourceTo partly return to the original subject, here's a telling image http://www.corbisimages.com/stock-photo/rights-managed/YK004437/joe-rosenthal-and-yevgeny-khaldei-holding-their
"Next to Joe Rosenthal's photo of raising the flag on Iwo Jima, Yevgeny Khaldei's photo of Soviet soldiers raising a flag on top of the Reichstag building in Berlin is perhaps the most famous photo of World War II.
But unlike the Iwo Jima photo, Khaldei's Reichstag photo was both staged and doctored.
Khaldei's photo was directly inspired by Rosenthal's Iwo Jima photo. Noting the publicity the Iwo Jima photo had received, Soviet officials (perhaps Stalin himself) ordered Khaldei to fly from Moscow to Berlin in order to take a similar photo that would symbolize the Soviet victory over Germany. Khaldei took a Soviet flag with him in his luggage.
When Khaldei arrived in Berlin, he considered a number of settings for the photo, including the Brandenburg Gate and Tempelhof Airport, but he decided on the Reichstag, even though Soviet soldiers had already succeeded in raising a flag over this building a few days earlier. Khaldei recruited a small group of soldiers and, on May 2, 1945, proceeded to recreate the scene (top).
Back in Moscow, Soviet censors who examined the photo noticed that one of the soldiers had a wristwatch on each arm, indicating he had been looting. They asked Khaldei to remove one of the watches. Khaldei not only did so, but also darkened the smoke in the background. The resulting picture (middle) was published soon after in the magazine Ogonjok. It became the version that achieved worldwide fame.
Subsequently, the photo continued to be altered. The flag was made to appear to be billowing more dramatically in the wind. The photo was also colorized.
Throughout his life, Khaldei remained unrepentant about having manipulated this, his most famous photo. Whenever asked about it, he responded, "It is a good photograph and historically significant. Next question please.""
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo_database/chronological/P40
"The image (top) of Marines raising an American flag on the peak of Iwo Jima's Mt. Suribachi was taken by AP photographer Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. It is one of the most reproduced images in history, having appeared on a postage stamp (which for years was the biggest selling stamp in U.S. post office history) and also served as the model for the Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia. However, within days after Rosenthal took it, rumors began to spread that he had staged it. Although these rumors have been repeatedly discredited, they continue to be repeated to the present day.
The rumors can be traced back to the fact -- which Rosenthal never tried to hide -- that he photographed the second flag-raising on Mt. Suribachi, not the first. The marines had raised a flag earlier in the day, under heavy fire. Marine Photographer Louis Lowery managed to get a shot of this event (bottom). But the commanders later decided this first flag should be replaced by a larger one. Rosenthal only arrived at the peak in time to photograph this second flag raising, but he always insisted that he never directed or posed the soldiers in this shot any way."
http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/photo_database/image/raising_the_flag_on_iwo_jima/
To: evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com
From: evola_as_he_is@...
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:18:55 +0000
Subject: [evola_as_he_is] Re: An Eye is Not Always an Eye
'The All-Knowing God' by R. Pettazzoni, especially the chapters on Africa and Egypt, may not address the crucial issue of the solarisation of feminine deities (see L. H. Gray (http://www.archive.org/stream/mythologyallrac03maccgoog/mythologyallrac03maccgo\
og_djvu.txt), it will still be of interest to those who are keen to investigate the matter of the 'eye' further. Besides, it refers to early Egyptian texts whose content is strikingly similar to that of the Ancient Testament with respect to the motive of the revengeful God, and which we believe have not been translated in any other Indo-European languages than English and German.
Now, the aforementioned chapters of 'The All-Knowing God' can be read in their entirety at google.books, with the help of IE, Chrome, and Firefox, as some pages, unavailable here, can be accessed there, and vice-versa.
--- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Evola" wrote:
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> We have said that further study into the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon and symbolism would be needed to ascertain whether the process of masculinisation of some Oriental goddesses was an isolated phenomena, or was part of a vaster systematic transvestitism'. Meanwhile, we have found out a book which is by far the most in-depth study we have ever read of Egyptian mythology, and which brings into light the recurrence of the aforementioned phenomenon in ancient Egypt : "In the Middle and New Empires... most goddesses were solarized as the "daughter"
> or 'eye' or 'diadem' of the sun. Lunarization of divinities, on the other hand, remained a rare process." (http://www.archive.org/stream/mythologyallrac03maccgoog/mythologyallrac03maccgoog_djvu.txt)
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> This inversion is best understood in the light of the fact that sun gods such as the Egyptians' did not possess the Olympian characteristics of the luminous immutable principle which were proper to the Hyperborean Apollo, but were year-gods, 'dying-gods' (see the chapter of 'Revolt against the Modern World' called 'North and South')
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> --- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "Evola" wrote:
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> > This is a quote from a Hollywood movie :
> > "Gabriel: Have you ever heard of Harry Houdini? Well he wasn't like today's magicians who are only interested in television ratings. He was an artist. He could make an elephant disappear in the middle of a theater filled with people, and do you know how he did that ? Misdirection.
> > Stanley: What the fuck are you talking about?
> > Gabriel: Misdirection. What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes."
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> > Hollywood has become a master in the art of misdirection, of making one see the wood for the trees. In this case, incredible as it sounds, the fact that, as pointed out by the French criminologist X. Raufer, most of the agents involved in the so-called "war on drugs" were suddenly reassigned to the so-called "war on Terror" in the days following the 9/11 suggests that this event was the wood. - Misdirection does not appear to be included in the list made by J. Evola of the tactics which are used by the forces of subversion.
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> > Large-scale `government'-sponsored hoaxes turn out to be extremely difficult to expose. It is enough to be aware that the representatives of the forces of subversion are by definition illusionists. Whatever direction the masses are induced to look in by the media, look in the opposite direction, not to be misdirected.
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> > On a related subject, an eye is not always an eye. See the notorious "all-seeing eye", which Orwell, an Establishment stooge, claimed to be an attribute of a character he called "Big Brother". The name itself is deceptive. As a matter of fact, the "all-seeing-eye" is one of the main attributes of Near- and Middle-East goddesses such as Ua Zit, all local variants or aspects of the archetypal Great Mother ; they were precisely named "eye-godesses". To date, the most ancient artefacts that have been excavated have been so in sites dating to the Neolithic period, in the Greater Mediterranean area, including Spain, where, at that time, it is worth noting that tombs and temples assumed strong matrifocal shapes (see She Is Everywhere ! An Anthology of Writing in Womanist/Feminist Spirituality, p. 96). It is claimed that the "eye godess" spread from Mesopotamia to all corners of the world, including Greece, Italy, Britain, and, as we have seen, Spain (Terracotta figurines of eye goddesses can be found at http://www.academia.edu/457468/Symbolism_and_significance_of_bronze_rhomboid_beads_pendants_from_Jenne_and_the_Inland_Niger_Delta_Mali) The artefact shown at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLaYU9T_BWA&feature=related (from 5.50 onward) would tend to confirm it fully
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> > A special aspect of Inanna-Ishtar put us on the path of seeing what the eye is really about, that is, the hidden symbol within the symbol. "the Eye Goddess has her own Eye Temple at Tell Brak in eastern Syria, which dates from 3000 B.C.E. It is crowded with countless figures of the Eye Goddess. High on the walls of the dramatic interior. great eye-faces alternate with symbols of the gate guarded by Inanna's reed bundles. Her special role was evidently to stare back an attacker at the gate. Punctuating the design are rosettes, vortices of petals that look like eyes with lashes (the vagina surrounded with hair). The design, which displays three symbols with similar meaning is repeated around all the walls. The shrine overflows with hundreds of variations of the eye figure each apparently a votive presentation. Alone on an altar is an enormous pair of hypnotically staring eyes that resembles nothing so much as a pair of opera glasses." As most symbols, it is ambivalent : "The greatly feared eye was both an amulet for protection and a death-dealing aggressor." (Lady of the Beasts : The Goddess and Her Sacred Animals, p. 70-71) Other symbols, peculiar to the Great Mother, such as the full moon and the owl, clearly resemble the eye and refer to it (Every Breath You Take: Stalking Narratives and the Law, p. 33). The vulva is the symbol within the symbol.
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> > This double-bottomed symbol, so to speak, would need to be tracked from the Neolithic, both in its areas of origin and in the later cultures in which it spread and took root. Here, we shall limit ourselves to noting its prevalence in the Semitic world, where Islam was born and developed, and, to start with, in the Kaaba (`The Cube') itself, which Mohammed once kissed, and which every Muslim has the duty to touch and to kiss at least once in his life, and, more precisely, in the black stone located in its eastern corner (http://api.ning.com/files/7O-5vlAG9rph5iPL1XqGlRcDN6D2XadsnW5e926CYkVKPWJl4d*iF9a6QX6svu4dhYf*CciAsRdpTKSuVIOCNzPt42xxN8sL6XG-IQGMwZc_/Kaaba.png ; http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_QfVWU-2pVL4/TIOlPC_S6DI/AAAAAAAAPWk/tI6c3yRyHi8/s1600/black+stone+mecca+allah.JPG) "Muslims considered the Black Stone's stylised vulva to be an ideal looking vulva, so they clipped and cut girls' vulva until they looked like the Black Stone's stylised vulva" (Moon-O-Theism, p. 153). Poorly written, disorganised, as it is, this work still is, to the best of our knowledge, the only one dealing with this subject ; excerpts from it are available at google.books. The chapter `The Vulviform Black Stone with its silver chasing' (p. 148-156) is a must read. Look at the picture p. 149 : it is simply astounding, not from an esthetical standpoint, but from our perspective, in that it shows a star and a crescent inside the "vulva" (incidentally, the objection that the star and crescent was not a symbol of the early Muslim community and it was first used by them on the flag of the Ottoman empire from 1793 onward does not stand up in the light of the prevalence, brought to light by Y. Natan, of these two signs in the architecture of the Kaaba and its surroundings ; in this light, it can be said that the symbol remained latent in Islam for ten centuries, and that it is not by chance that it emerged in the late eighteenth century).
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> > The G shape of the Star and Crescent is even more obvious in symbolic contexts where the later appears vertically (http://www.religionfacts.com/islam/images/symbols/crescent-200.gif), as in the most common symbol of the Freemasons (http://www.clker.com/cliparts/U/0/O/m/E/4/g-compass-and-ruler-md.png), some of whom takes it to the point of adorning the hinge with an eye (http://forum.mastermason.com/uploads/3697/sq-cp-simple.gif). Since the compass and the square form a shape similar to the lozenge, and the lozenge is a schematised configuration of the vulva, it does not take much imagination to figure out what the eye-shaped hinge stands for analogically. The lozenge, whose shape suggests the vulva, is a feminine symbol that is widespread in Central America as well as in the Mali region ; for example, among the Berbers, it is seen both as a vulviform symbol of fertility and as a protecting eye. In the ancient Scandinavian world, the sixth rune Ingwaz, from the name Ing, a so-called fertility god, has the same shape, yet in it "is all the primeval worship and fear of the Goddess as the Birth-giving, Devouring Mother" ; besides, Ing is a minor god. If the rune in question is related to the vulva in the ancient Scandinavian iconography, it is free from ocular symbolism. It is indeed "interesting that several traditional rune books refer to Ing as a castrated male god." (The Woman's Book of Runes, p. 94) We will see below why it is interesting.
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> > Turning back to the `all-seeing-eye', as notoriously featured on one side of the one Dollar note, no conspiracy theorist seems to have noticed that "In this image the point of the pyramid or steeple is cut off and we have a cap-stone that is separated from the rest of the pyramid. Suggesting that if the lower section is Freemasonry then the upper section is another organization. Within the cap stone is the single eye which is a vagina symbol. Suggesting that the cap stone represents a Goddess organization. So this whole imagine seems to be saying that above the patriarchal Freemason organization is a Goddess organization." (http://www.womanthouartgod.com/wmbondfreemasonry.php) This enlightening observation was made by a Freemason who had a rather complete grasp of the subject. His study is also a must read.
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> > As has been seen (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evola_as_he_is/message/1579), in early Judaism, the moon goddess was `dressed', revamped incognito as a god, Yahweh. A similar revamping was undergone by the aforementioned rosette, which, while it originally belonged to the eye goddess, simulating the vulva, became a symbol of the sun in the Palaeolithic.(Lady, p. 301) Further study into the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon and symbolism would be needed to ascertain whether these were isolated phenomena or were part of a vaster systematic `transvestitism'.
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> > --- In evola_as_he_is@yahoogroups.com, "tlefranc10" wrote:
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> > > I would like to share these two links for the benefit of the members of this group: www.cluesforum.info and www.septemberclues.info
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> > > They deal mainly with the "9/11 attacks" but also with other "terrorist attacks" and "mass shootings".
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> > > As for "9/11", the line of thought there is that no plane was destroyed and that it was missiles that hit the towers. Another interesting claim is that not many people actually died, perhaps a few dozens, the mass of the victims being fake identities generated through morphing software and such. This would not be surprising, given that the "counter-initiation" forces have managed to make people believe much bigger things during the twentieth century. However, these views are not the most attractive thing these two sites offer.
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> > > What is really interesting about them is their extensive and exhaustive analysis of photographs, videos and "storylines". I think that they have managed to prove that many photos, videos and "storylines" have been faked – not only for "9/11" but also for other "actions".
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> > > Image and video manipulation is certainly a powerful weapon used in the occult war waged against European peoples and, as such, it should be studied. It is used in many fields and not only in the "important" ones, such as geopolitics. For example, "humanitarian" organizations against "world hunger, poverty, etc." are used to falsify the pictures and videos they show in their marketing campaigns in order to reinforce the intended effects, i.e. that people give more money and feel guiltier. Besides, the "fight" against "world hunger, poverty, etc." is yet another way to promote globalism, as the fight against "global warming" is.
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> > > That is why I think these two sites contain worthy information. This article, "Lying with pixels", written in 2000, is also worthy of interest: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/400734/lying-with-pixels/
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