'E la Nave Vare'
018 'E la Nave Vare' .. -'Fishing for souls'
'Fishing for Souls', Adriaen Pietersz. van de VENNE (1614)At the left are the Protestant north Netherlanders, and at the right the Catholic southerners. Both parties fish for souls in the wide river dividing them. The Protestants' catch is greater than that of the Catholics. Moreover, at the left the sun is shining and the trees are in leaf. This is a reference to a psalm: the righteous will flourish like a tree bearing fruit, whose leaves never wither.
oilpaint on panel 98.5x187.8 cm
©: www.rijksmuseum.nl
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ref. # 018a 'E la Nave Vare' .. -´Immortal jellyfish´
"The turritopsis nutricula species of jellyfish may be the only animal in the world to have truly discovered the fountain of youth.Since it is capable of cycling from a mature adult stage to an immature polyp stage and back again, there may be no natural limit to its life span. Scientists say the hydrozoan jellyfish is the only known animal that can repeatedly turn back the hands of time and revert to its polyp state (its first stage of life).
The key lies in a process called transdifferentiation, where one type of cell is transformed into another type of cell. Some animals can undergo limited transdifferentiation and regenerate organs, such as salamanders,which can regrow limbs. Turritopsi nutricula, on the other hand, can regenerate its entire body over and over again. Researchers are studying the jellyfish to discover how it is able to reverse its aging process.
Because they are able to bypass death, the number of individuals is spiking. They're now found in oceans around the globe rather than just in their native Caribbean waters. "We are looking at a worldwide silent invasion," says Dr. Maria Miglietta of the Smithsonian Tropical Marine Institute"
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©: Worldhealth.net
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ref. # 018b 'E la Nave Vare' .. -the Movie
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua (Janet Suzman) near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.
©: Federico Fellini
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ref. # 018c 'E la Nave Vare' .. -Shipwreck
In his long essay 'Sea Burial' James Hamilton-Paterson tells an extraordinary story about the mid 19 century shipwreck of Italian writer/philosopher Giusto Forbici, also
called Justus Forfex. He was the sole survivor of the wreck and found himself stranded on a waterless coral islet somewhere amongst the archipelagos of south east Asia. Hamilton-Paterson is careful not to divulge the whereabouts of this islet, though it is probably in the Sulu Sea. Forbici, he says, salvaged from the wreck nine
large sealed glass jars which he at first assumed held water but later found in fact contained ink. It was an ink made out of organic materials, including that substance extruded by squid when alarmed. This ink was all he had to slake his thirst during the many weeks he subsisted on the islet. When he was rescued by a party of Bajau - sea gypsies - who had come to the islet to inter one of their leaders, Forbici was in a state of delirium in which the real and the imagined were inextricably entwined together; and for the rest of his life would try to understand this unique and paradoxical experience.©: picture:© James Morgan (UK); text from: mjedmo.wordpress.com
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018d 'E la Nave Vare' .. -scaterring ashes
The 9 Things No One Tells You About Scattering AshesWhat our 'Mourning, Noon & Night' columnist wishes someone had told her before she spread her late husband's ashes around the globe ©: website Tré Miller Rodríguez modernloss.com
©: picture 'prasad' (offering to the river Ganges) from the book "Banaras -city of God, Heart of India" by Robert Schilder
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