AlunSalt

“Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another” – Plato

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    • September Wallpaper

      Regina Viarum. Photo (cc) iessi.
      I’ve used the Wallpaper creator at Big Huge Labs and the photo above to make a couple of wallpapers for my computer. I have two monitors so it’s in two different sizes 1200×800 (widescreen) and 1024×768 (standard). The image I’m using this month is a HDR photo of the Appian Way, [...]

    • Now it’s Poseidon

      While I was writing the last post defending Hekate against atheists this video came up on Pharyngula from Coffeeghost.

      Clearly he’s a man unafraid of being threatened with a water pistol.

    • Religious Moonshine

      The building dedicated to Hekate, who helped the Greeks really understand the moon. Oh, it’s not that religion we’re talking about?
      There are no experiments and tests to explain love, empathy, longing, the agony and ecstasy of the heart, the wild and wonderful creativity of the brain, that thing that happens to you when a full [...]