Today is day 7 of #30DaysWild. During early morning #hedgewatch, my humans met this #butterfly. It's a cinnabar #moth. It is because of the wonderful red colour, named after the #mineral #cinnabar. Our humans are #geologists and like that a lot 😹😻
#cinnabar
A few #cinnabar #moths at #WindowOnWildlife this morning.
#nature #naturephotography #wildlife #invertebrates #insects #lepidoptera #moth #moths #mothsmatter #cinnabarmoth #shotoniphone @RSPB @ukbutterflies
From my lunch time walk, a #Cinnabar #Moth clinging to a stalk alongside Bawsey Drain (this picture has been rotated 90 degrees to maximize the presence of the moth).
#Photography #Nature #Insects #Entomology #Moths #CinnabarMoth
Om 09:00 uur komt deze Cinnabar colorway uit. Via onderstaande link ga je direct naar deze sneaker.
👟 Air Jordan 1 High OG (WMNS) Rare Air - Cinnabar
🔗 https://tidd.ly/4iT9yZW
#rareair #cinnabar #airjordan1
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Deze 'Cinnabar' is ingeladen bij Nike. Check deze sneaker nu!
👟 Air Jordan 1 High OG (WMNS) Rare Air - Cinnabar
🔗 https://tidd.ly/4iT9yZW
#cinnabar #rareair #airjordan1
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De 'Cinnabar' is bij de 1e winkel ingeladen.
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👟 Air Jordan 1 High OG (WMNS) Rare Air - Cinnabar
#rareair #cinnabar #aj1
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Our New Idria ghost town & abandoned mercury mine trip is up!
#NewIdria #GhostTown #Abandoned #Mine #Mercury #Cinnabar #OffRoad #OffTheBeatenTrack #FourWheelTravel
First track in the new studio! Always nice to bust out the toy piano.
#electronicmusic #choons #cinnabar #shalmaneser
https://soundcloud.com/shalmaneser/slouching-towards-bakersfield
Deze Aj1 High - Cinnabar (Rare Air) heeft een releasedatum
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👟 Air Jordan 1 High OG (WMNS) Rare Air - Cinnabar
#rareair #cinnabar #airjordan1
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Garry Shaw in The Art Newspaper:
Ancient Maya city of Ucanal was contaminated with mercury, study reveals
Newly published research shows just how pervasive mercury—an essential element in the red cinnabar pigment favoured by the Maya—is at the site in Guatemala
Finally made it to New Idria! Lots of video in the can, editing will begin as soon as possible. #NewIdria #Idria #GhostTown #Abandoned #MercuryMine #Cinnabar #RAMTrucks #PowerWagon #OffTheBeatenTrack #FourWheelTravel
🪷 #Cinnabar & #celestite are lucky #crystals for tonight's serendipitous #Gemini #ThirdQuarter Moon (called the "Consolation Moon" in Antinous #MoonMagic), according to #Antinous priest and certified crystals advisor #MartinCampbell: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/08/its-cinnabar-for-consolation-moon-by.html 🪷
The cinnabar catapillars have annihilated all the ragwort in my garden now. I panicked and collected most of them into jars and transplanted them onto fresh plants in the park. I hope I did the right thing.
#wildlife #caterpillars #cinnabar #ragwort #bugs #bugstodon
Daoism and Chinese folk religion are intertwined in very ornate ways to the point it's hard to tease them apart. A case in point is the interaction with the calabash gourd and cinnabar.
The calabash gourd has many meanings in Chinese cultures. The oldest meanings are likely related to fertility and connubial bliss (because the many seeds within it suggested many children). Later it adopted the meaning also of fortune and wealth because of its similarity in sound to those terms. Finally it took on the meaning of health because doctors would transport their medicines inside of them.
And this is where the Daoist part enters the picture. Daoism, in its religious form, is obsessed with making "immortality pills" (recall that pills were frequently stored in the calabash), so calabashes became common symbols of Daoism.
The two things most commonly associated with these pills are quicksilver (mercury) and cinnabar (a mercury compound, but this wasn't known at the time; the colour of cinnabar was always a favoured colour in Chinese culture, up to today). Indeed one of the ways these pills were to be made was to put cinnabar in one part of a calabash and quicksilver in the other and have them "marry" (perpetuating the fertility symbolism).
Which leads us to the subjects of today's little photo-essay: a brass calabash-shaped charm with a surprising interior, and an actual calabash used as a charm ... with a surprising interior as well.
As usual the alt text has the explanations and Mastodon users will have to click through to the Pixelfed post to get all of them.
So why did I get these? I wanted to see if I can use them for those tiny dice I posted a while back¹. Unfortunately the hole in the real calabash was too small to fit all the dice, and the brass one was too tight a fit to be practical.
I'm still looking.
#China #culture #calabash #gourd #charm #cinnabar #Daoism #folklore
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¹ https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/686739369624740628
The calabash gourd has many meanings in Chinese cultures. The oldest meanings are likely related to fertility and connubial bliss (because the many seeds within it suggested many children). Later it adopted the meaning also of fortune and wealth because of its similarity in sound to those terms. Finally it took on the meaning of health because doctors would transport their medicines inside of them.
And this is where the Daoist part enters the picture. Daoism, in its religious form, is obsessed with making "immortality pills" (recall that pills were frequently stored in the calabash), so calabashes became common symbols of Daoism.
The two things most commonly associated with these pills are quicksilver (mercury) and cinnabar (a mercury compound, but this wasn't known at the time; the colour of cinnabar was always a favoured colour in Chinese culture, up to today). Indeed one of the ways these pills were to be made was to put cinnabar in one part of a calabash and quicksilver in the other and have them "marry" (perpetuating the fertility symbolism).
Which leads us to the subjects of today's little photo-essay: a brass calabash-shaped charm with a surprising interior, and an actual calabash used as a charm ... with a surprising interior as well.
As usual the alt text has the explanations and Mastodon users will have to click through to the Pixelfed post to get all of them.
So why did I get these? I wanted to see if I can use them for those tiny dice I posted a while back¹. Unfortunately the hole in the real calabash was too small to fit all the dice, and the brass one was too tight a fit to be practical.
I'm still looking.
#China #culture #calabash #gourd #charm #cinnabar #Daoism #folklore
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¹ https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/686739369624740628
Just a safety note: CINNABAR is toxic (it's an ore of mercury) -- some of the oldest cases of mecury poisoning were from the use of cinnabar, 5000 years ago. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/love-of-wine-leads-to-chance-discovery-of-widespread-mercury-poisoning-in-copper-age-180979091/ #cinnabar #mercury #toxicity
Ancient Iberians Ingested Red Dust Loaded With Mind-Altering Mercury
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-iberians-ingested-red-dust-loaded-with-mind-altering-mercury-180983889/ #archaeology #spain #CopperAge #Valencina #mercury #hallucinogen #cinnabar
‘none more red’ story of the week…
Ancient Iberians Ingested Red Dust Loaded With Mind-Altering Mercury #chalcolithic #cinnabar #acrodynia https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-iberians-ingested-red-dust-loaded-with-mind-altering-mercury-180983889/
@Okanogen So you’re discriminating against mineraloids? #NativeMercury #mercury #cinnabar #vermilion #calomel #hydrargyrum #Hg #MinCup23
🪷 #Cinnabar & #celestite are lucky #crystals for tonight's serendipitous #Gemini #ThirdQuarter Moon (the "Consolation Moon" in Antinous #MoonMagic, says #Antinous priest and certified crystals therapist #MartinCampbell: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/09/its-cinnabar-for-consolation-moon-by.html 🪷
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