I wrote: “During that tragic month, I also experienced wildly peculiar events. First, I took a picture of a goat near my home. Second, I took a picture of myself wearing one sock on my right foot while I laid in a tent reading a book. Third, on the day that Nipsey was murdered, I…
Hasmonean Dynasty
The Hasmoneans were a Jewish priestly dynasty that ruled Judea from roughly 164–63 BCE.Origins They emerged from the Maccabean Revolt, led by Mattathias and his sons — most famously Judah Maccabee — against the Seleucid Greek king Antiochus IV, who had desecrated the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. The Jewish holiday of Hanukkah commemorates their victory….
The Other Side
Jesus archetype fits Nipsey Hussle because Nipsey wore Pumas, and rode the 108 bus. Jesus was a son of a Roman Soldier of the Hasmonean Dynasty whose family created includes a puma. The number 108 is a sacred number and aligns with Nipsey because he rode the 108 bus to Watts. This is an interesting…
Hidden in Plain Sight
Simon Rodia spent 33 years of his life creating the Watts Towers. The tallest Stelae in Axum is 33 meters tall. In Tikal, one of the temples is 33 meters in height. The average human breathes 108 multiplied by 100 times in the day and again at night. At the temperature of 108 degrees, the…
The Sacred Frequency: 108
The Sacred Frequency: 108 and Its Human VesselsAn Essay on the Divine Number and the Artists Who Embodied It There are numbers that count, and there are numbers that mean. Mathematics gives us tools for measurement, but certain figures transcend calculation and enter the realm of the sacred — numbers that civilizations across centuries and…
Voodoo, Vodun, and Hoodoo
Voodoo, Vodun, and Hoodoo: A Comparative Analysis The terms Voodoo, Vodun, and Hoodoo are often used interchangeably in popular culture, yet they refer to distinct — though related — spiritual traditions with different origins, practices, and purposes. Rooted in the African diaspora, each tradition emerged from the forced displacement of enslaved African peoples and their…
108
The number 108 is one of the most spiritually and mathematically charged numbers in human culture, appearing across an almost startling range of traditions and disciplines. In Hinduism108 is considered supremely sacred. There are 108 Upanishads, the ancient philosophical texts that form the bedrock of Hindu thought. There are 108 names of many major deities,…
October 9
Here are notable events, holidays, and celebrations associated with October 9 around the world: Historical Events • 1446 — The Korean alphabet, Hangul, was promulgated by King Sejong the Great of the Joseon Dynasty, making this date foundational to Korean cultural identity. • 1776 — Spanish missionaries establish the Mission San Francisco de Asís (Mission…
Shibuya 109
Why is it so named? Shibuya 109 takes its name from a simple but clever piece of numerical wordplay rooted in Japanese. The numbers 1, 0, and 9 can be read in Japanese as ichi, maru (or zero), and kyū respectively — but more relevantly, 10 can be read as tō and 9 as kyū,…
Patois and Haiti
Adding patois and Haiti to this constellation of words shifts the linguistic lens toward the colonial world and the complex, often violent, processes by which languages are born, suppressed, and transformed. Patois is a word that carries its own prejudice embedded within it: derived from Old French, it originally suggested rough, clumsy speech — the…
Drachm, Phlegm, and Thumb
These three words share a fascinating silent consonant — the silent “b” in thumb, the silent “g” in phlegm, and the silent “ch” in drachm — and each of those silent letters is a kind of fossil, a remnant of an older pronunciation that speech gradually smoothed away while spelling stubbornly preserved it. This phenomenon,…
All Colored Cast (Part III): A Descriptive Essay
Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982 Jean-Michel Basquiat’s All Colored Cast (Part III), created in 1982, is a large-scale work executed in acrylic and crayon on a square canvas measuring 152.5 by 152.5 centimeters. Currently held in a private collection, the painting immediately commands attention through its vivid yellow background, which serves as a luminous field upon which…
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