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<----THIS MONTH'S WINNER !!!
Theme: MOTHER AND EARTH
Submit a photograph, a scanned drawing or painting, a collage or montage, photoshopped or gimped ,around this month's theme: "Mother and Earth".
Deadline: midnight GMT, Oct 24th, 2007
Voting Closes: midnight GMT, Oct 31st, 2007
- Each entrant can supply 3 digital images.
- No re-submissions etc. The first 3 emails will be used.
- Images must be of best possible Jpeg Quality no larger than 2100 pixels width or height.
- Each of the images are to be emailed to UTM who will resize them to 500 pixels (max) in width, and post them in the forum. Official email address is:
This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it - Winner will be chosen by vote. The voting system will be turned on at midnight on the 24th and run for one week.
- How closely each entrant has stuck to or interpreted the theme is purely down to each voters discretion.
- Entrants may not vote for themselves.
- contest(s) are only open to GCC members
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view the competition submissions here
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Feel free to post other links thats may be of inspiration to others.
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From Wiki:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Earth
Mother Earth may refer to:
- Mother Nature, a common metaphorical expression for the Earth and its biosphere as the giver and sustainer of life
- Matka Ziemia, a Slavic deity
- Gaia (mythology), the mythological goddess personifying the earth
- Mother Earth (Asimov), a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov
- Mother Earth magazine founded by anarchist Emma Goldman
- Mother Earth (journal) journal published by anarchists John G. Scott and Jo Ann Wheeler
- Mother Earth (album), by the symphonic metal band Within Temptation
- Mother Earth (blues/rock band), American band formed in the late 1960s with Tracy Nelson as vocalist
- Mother Earth (song), by the band Underworld
- Mother Earth (Within Temptation song), by the symphonic metal band Within Temptation
- Mother Earth (band), a British AcidJazz-band of the early 1990s
Halloween,
or Hallowe'en, is a holiday celebrated on the night of October 31st. Traditional activities include trick-or-treating, costume parties, viewing horror films, visiting "haunted houses", and participating in traditional autumn activities such as hayrides (which may have "haunted" themes).
Halloween originated under the name of Samhain as a Pagan festival among the Celts of Ireland and Great Britain. Irish and Scottish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century.
Halloween is now celebrated in parts of the western world, most commonly in Ireland, the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and sometimes in Australia and New Zealand. In recent years, the holiday has also been celebrated in various other parts of Western Europe.
The term Halloween (and its older rendering Hallowe'en) is shortened from All-hallow-even, as it is the evening of/before "All Hallows' Day", also known as "All Saints' Day". It was a day of religious festivities in various northern European Pagan traditions, until Popes Gregory III and Gregory IV moved the old Christian feast of All Saints' Day from May 13 to November 1. In the ninth century, the Church measured the day as starting at sunset, in accordance with the Florentine calendar. Although All Saints' (or Hallows') Day is now considered to occur one day after Halloween, the two holidays were, at that time, celebrated on the same day. Liturgically, the Church traditionally celebrated that day as the Vigil of All Saints, and, until 1970, a day of fasting as well. Like other vigils, it was celebrated on the previous day if it fell on a Sunday, although secular celebrations of the holiday remained on the 31st. The Vigil was suppressed in 1955, but was later restored in the post-Vatican II calendar.
In Ireland, the name of the holiday was All Hallows' Eve (often shortened to Hallow Eve), and though seldom used today, the name is still well-accepted, albeit somewhat esoteric. In Irish, the festival is known as Oíche Shamhna (Night of Samhain), or simply Samhain; in Scottish Gaelic it is Samhainn or Samhain; in Welsh, Calan Gaeaf to the Welsh; "Allantide" to the Cornish and "Hop-tu-Naa" to the Manx. Halloween is also called Pooky Night in parts of Ireland, presumably named after the púca, a mischievous spirit.
Many European cultural traditions hold that Halloween is one of the liminal times of the year when spirits can make contact with the physical world, and when magic is most potent (according to, for example, Catalan mythology about witches and Irish tales of the Sídhe).
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Isis
is a goddess in Egyptian mythology. She was most prominent mythologically as the wife and sister of Osiris and mother of Horus, and was worshipped as the archetypal wife and mother.
Her name literally means "(female) of throne", that is, "Queen of the throne", which was portrayed by the emblem worn on her head, that of a throne. However, the hieroglyph of her name originally meant "(female) of flesh", i.e. mortal, and she may simply have represented deified, historical queens.
Her origins are uncertain but are believed to have come from the Nile Delta; however, unlike other Egyptian deities, she did not have a centralised cult at any point throughout her worship. First mentions of Isis date back to the Fifth dynasty of Egypt which is when the first literary inscriptions are found, but her cult became prominent late in Egyptian history, when it began to absorb the cults of many other goddesses. It eventually spread outside Egypt throughout the Middle East and Europe, with temples dedicated to her built as far away as the British Isles. Pockets of her worship remained in Christian Europe as late as the 6th century.
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Triple Goddess
In ancient Indo-European mythologies, various goddesses or demi-goddesses appear as a triad, either as three separate beings who always appear as a group (the Greek Moirae, Charites, Erinnyes and the Norse Norns) or as a single deity who is commonly depicted in three aspects (Greek Hecate). Often it is ambiguous whether a single being or three are represented, as is the case with the Irish Brighid and her two sisters, also called Brighid, or the Morrígan who is known by at least three or four different names. In most ancient descriptions of Triple Goddesses, the separate deities perform different yet related functions, and can appear as any age they desire. In the Neo-Pagan religion of Wicca, the Triple Goddess is held in particular reverance, along with the Horned God.
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Gaia
or Gaea derives from the Greek words Ge (γη) = Earth (Pelasgian), and *aia = grandmother (PIE). Thus, Gaia (γαια) can refer to any one of the following:
* Gaia, a goddess from Greek mythology; also Terra or Tellus, her equivalent in Roman mythology, and Ki, her equivalent in Sumerian mythology
* Gaia hypothesis - an ecological hypothesis that proposes that living and nonliving parts of the earth are viewed as a complex interacting system that can be thought of as a single organism
o Gaia's Revenge - features studies forecast about unintended consequences of brewing climate storms
* Gaia philosophy, a set of philosophical views based on ecosystems and the concept of a "living planet"
* Gaia Movement - international network of groups drawing inspiration from the Gaia hypothesis
Post edited by: Techbot, at: 2007/10/05 13:35
