Mary Ann Shadd Cary was born in 1823 to parents dedicated to the abolition of slavery. Her parents taught her much about fighting for equality and often provided shelter for fugitive slaves. Cary moved to Canada with the passage of the Fugitive Slave Law in 1850 where she founded Canada’s first antislavery newspaper. After she was widowed during the Civil War, Cary moved to Washington, DC where she taught at public schools and lectured around the country on women’s rights and the women’s suffrage movement. She studied law at Howard University and graduated in 1883 as one of the first black female lawyers in the country.
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an early abolitionist and women’s suffrage leader. She was one of the few African American women present at conference and meetings about these issues between 1854 and 1890. Harper was also a well-known author whose poetry and essays focused on issues of slavery, gender and racial discrimination. Her writings and lectures made Harper one of the first major popularizers of African American protest poetry.
Marry Church Terrell attended Oberlin College as a young woman where she became one of the first African American woman to earn a college degree. After moving to Washington, DC, Terrell became involved in the women’s rights movement. She focused much of her efforts on securing women’s right vote, touring the country to lecture on the issue. In 1896, she and fellow activists founded the National Association of Colored Women and Terrell served as the association’s first president. After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, Terrell turned her attention to civil rights and helped bring about the desegregation of restaurants in Washington, DC.
A prominent African American educator, church leader and suffrage supporter, Nannie Helen Burroughs devoted her life to empowering black women. Burroughs helped establish the National Association of Colored Women in 1896 and founded the National Training School for Women and Girls in Washington, DC in 1909. She was outspoken on issues she considered important to African American interests and wrote many articles for leading African American newspapers and magazines. She used these articles to attack injustices endured by African Americans and encourage readers to take responsibility for changing their own conditions.
Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin dedicated her life to supporting women’s and civil rights. Lampkin began hosting local suffragette meetings at her home near Pittsburgh and organizing African American women to engage in consumer groups in 1912. Much of her efforts centered on the organization of women’s groups and her leadership earned her the position of president of the Lucy Stone Woman Suffrage League in 1915. Later in life she also served as a field secretary and fundraiser for the NAACP.
Written by Alison K., Digital Content Specialist, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Walhalla, overlooking the Danube, in Germany, is a memorial, one could say a temple of artistic memorials, to many famous Germanic people, starting with Arminius, sometimes called Herman Battle, who defeated three Roman legions plus auxiliaries at the Battle of Teutoburg in 9 CE. It also includes other valiant pagans: Hengist, from Jutland, who became the first Anglo-Saxon king in England, ruling the Kingdom of Kent from about 455 - 488 CE and Widukind, the continental Heathen Saxon leader who lead a long resistance to
the Roman Catholic King of the Franks, Charlemagne. The resistance tragically ended in the forced conversion of the continental Saxons, with thousands of refusers of Christianity and the rebuilding of a “Holy” Roman Empire being forcibly baptized and beheaded, while those who agreed to Xtianity were commonly reduced to serfdom: a case of Ethnic cleansing and the Church being a little over-inclusive. Charlemagne is also commemorated and doubtless some would like to see Hitler memorialized. There are memorials to
Widerstandskämpfer: anti-Nazi resistance fighters.
The Walhalla was conceived by Bavarian Crown Prince Ludwig in 1807 and built by 1842. To me it’s a pity he chose a neo-classical style for this, out of keeping with the freedom-loving spirit of Germanic pagans like Widukind who were resisting the rebuilding of the Roman Empire.
Whatever: it’s still well worth a visit: even the memorials to those one dislikes give rise to thought and enable us to learn from history.
The pictures are taken from the Wikipedia entry
Walhalla memorial:
Top: Außenansicht der Walhalla, July 2009, Michael J. Zirbes (Mijozi)
Centre: Walhalla-Ansicht aus Richtung des Donau-Ufers, Michael J. Zirbes (Mijozi), July 2009.
Bottom: Walhalla in Regensburg, by Christian “VisualBeo” Horvat, March 6th, 2006.
“Divine symbols which have been given to mankind from time to time speak to that forum of truth which is within our hearts, and waken our consciousness to divine ideas entirely beyond words.”
The Neophyte Ritual and that of the Adeptus Minor Grade are the most important and effective rituals of the Order. Those in between are the so-called elemental rituals. Crowley took a rather dim view of these. Francis King assumed wrongly that I also held much the same attitude. In fact, however, I think that they have a very definite place in the entire process of initiation. That they are verbose and overlong I will admit to. Nonetheless there are ways and means of overcoming this problem. In my recently published book Ceremonial Magic (Aquarian Press, England) a ritual opening that I called Opening by Watchtower (first demonstrated in the consecration ceremony of the Vault of the Adepts) could be elaborated meaningfully in a variety of different ways which could be construed as effective as abbreviated elemental initiations.
To be concise, an elemental initiation is one in which the elementals are invoked in such a way that they affect the sphere of sensation or the energy field of the candidate. A series of impressions or symbols are impressed on this energy field in such a way that they act, for the candidate, as a kind of passport providing safe entry and freedom of movement in that elemental sphere of operation.
Assuming that this is the case, then the four elemental grade initiations of the Outer Order, in reality do little more than the abbreviated Opening by Watchtower ceremonies. A number of advantages flow from this assumption. The first is that the ritual is nowhere as turgid, lengthy and tiresome as is the grade ritual, all criticisms which led Crowley and others to the faulty conclusion that they could be dispensed with as useless. The second, and I think the most important one, is that the Watchtower rituals described in the book named above could be employed as self-initiatory rituals.
Again, assuming that this is factual, then we have reached a stage which fulfills the original promise of some of my early writing on the Golden Dawn - which was that since the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was now defunct, the isolated student here, there and everywhere, could now be his own initiator. This does not preclude the possibility that new temples might arise and have arisen in various parts of the world independently of any other temple. Several new temples have in recent years been formulated and are functioning very sucessfully, with new temples emerging even now.
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Homemade artisan herb bread, home grown and dried apples and prunes, uncured beef sausage, munster cheese. Made a small bag from cheesecloth and tied it closed.
Top left to right: Evereskan Honey Comb, Elven Travel Bread (Amaretto Liquer Cake with custom swirls), Lurien Spring Cheese (goat cheese with garlic, salt, spices and shallots), Delimbyr Vale Smoked Silverfin (Salmon), Honey Spiced Lichen (Kale Chips), and Silverwood Pine Nuts.
From upper left: “Honeytack” Hard tack honey cakes, beef sausage, pork sausage mini links, mini whole wheat toast, cranberry cheddar cheese mini wedge, mini pickles, pumpkin and sunflower seeds, lower right is my homemade “travel cake” muesli with raisins, golden prunes, honey, eggs and cream.
Orcs aren’t known for their great cuisine. Orcs prefer foods that are readily available (whatever can be had by raiding), and portable with little preparation, though they have a few racial delicacies. Toughs strips of lean meat, bones scavenged from recent kills, and dark coarse bread make up the bulk of common orc rations.Fire roasted rothe femur (marrow is a rare treat) [beef femur], Strips of dried meat (of unknown origin) [homemade goose jerky], foraged nuts, only edible by orcs….nut cracker tusks [brazil nuts], coarse black bread, made with whatever grains can be pillaged [black sesame bread], Pungent peppers [Habanero peppers stuffed with smoked fish and olives].
The Duergar (gray dwarves) are the hated subterranean cousins of the surface dwelling Shield dwarves. Vast Duergar kingdoms exist in the Underdark beneath Toril’s surface. Duergar are known for their foul tempers, penchant for cruelty, grim and bitter dispositions. Their food is as coarse and uncouth as they are. Clockwise from top left: Sour Deep rothé pepper cheese (Limburger), boiled Deep rothé kidney (whole beef kidney), foraged roots and tubers; skirret and Fellroot (ginger and turmeric roots), contorted strangler fungus (Enoki mushrooms), onion & mushroom gravy hand pies (Morel mushroom with shallot and dill in cream sauce).
Lizardfolk (This is a MEAL/feast and not a travel ration):
Lizardfolk are known to be omnivores, forage for a surprising variety of foods found within the confines of their marshy environs, in this case the Lizard Marsh near Daggerford. Fresh caught boiled Delimbyr Crayfish on wild chives, coastal carrageen moss entrapping estuary brine shrimp (irish moss, dried brine shrimp), Brackish-Berries (blackberries), Blackened Dart-Frog legs (frog legs) on spring sprouts (clover sprouts), roasted bog bugs on a stick!
Drow (This is a MEAL/Party Fare and not a travel ration):
From top left: Menzoberranzan black truffle rothe cheese (Black Knight Tilsit), Donigarten Moss Snails (Escargot in shallot butter sauce), Blind cave fish caviar in mushroom caps (Lumpfish caviar), faerzress-infused duck egg imported from the surface Realms (Century egg), Black velvet ear fungus (Auricularia Black Fungus Mushroom).
Mind Flayer/Illithid (This is a MEAL/Party Fare and not a travel ration):
A Mind Flayer dwelling in the Underdark of the Forgotten Realms might celebrate a special event with a smorgasbord of illithid delicacies. Center: An extra large brain (former minotaur servant who did not go quietly) plated on tinged cerebrospinal fluid. Right: peeled kuo-toa eyeballs in serous fluid (with mithral eating pick) TOP RIGHT: green mushroom wine TOP: drow slave heart (tastes better than human) with savory sanguine sauce. All served amongst various potion bottles, scroll and alchemical vessel.
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