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[rm]

sannion is looking for music relevant to Greco-Roman/Egyptian deities. Some of you can surely help him out. I personally want to see what people come up with. I feel like I should have answers, but I am so immersed in Nordic music lately that seems unlikely. Also, I'd be very curious to see if anyone comes up with anything Anubis-related that isn't a crappy goth tune (not that I object to crappy goth tunes, quite the contrary, but I'm familiar enough not to be curious).

Quasi-randomly, this prompts me to ask, what deity-type statues or things do you all have in your houses. It occurs to me that Patty and I have a Ganesha, an Anubis (these first two are both mine, and I realize, in a weird, inappropriate math way that Ganesh + Anubis sort of equals Hermes, who I've had an affinity for since I was really small), and (I think) at least two Buddhas (one is hers, and one is my Mizuko Jizo).

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

When I went to Prague I wandered into a store one day that was dark and strange, and where much of the light was reflections off glass panels and crystal chandeliers. I wandered around between genuine antiques of the Old World and strange debris of the New. I turned a corner and it opened up into a room with a twelve foot ceiling and an entire wall covered in icons. Real icons, the kind smuggled out of monasteries and churches in Russia, icons probably from the time of Rublev. I wanted to buy some of them so terribly. They were probably stolen or illegally removed from the country during the 90s. I was the only person there, aside from the shop owner who looked at me askance. I just smiled and left. I still keep kicking myself.

I have a few icons made by the monks not far from here, one of which shows the crowning of Nicholas II and Alexandra.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Yeah, at the very least you could have rescued them. You and I and our brushes with native artifact theft!