Jumat, 09 Januari 2009
The time when I am very tired of walking
The Elf From The Moon
The Elf from the Moon
By: Ryan Hilmawan
This story took place in the year of 2115 where the Earth’s technology has been very developed. Humans can go out to space anytime they want, a lot of aliens have been discovered, the one that can find another new creature from space will be known by everybody in the Earth.
One day, a boy and his father wanted to visit the Moon to find
some things for them to collect, there are many things in the Moon
because some things from the Earth are sent to the Moon because they
thought it isn’t going to be worth anything but the boy and his father
wanted to invent something new from the things there, even if the
things are said to be unworthy they think they can fix it, recreate it and
combine it.The boy is a shmuck but the father is very intelligent.They
each had a pet that can stay in outer space for a very long time, it is the
result of what the scientists do.The boy had a rat and the father had a
big flying red eel. The rat is a goof and the eel is an ace at everything.
They fly to the Moon by using their spaceship, the spaceship is an
automatic spaceship, while they were waiting the father drank some tea
and ate some gum but without the father knowing, the boy is eating a
raw meat and drinking water from a miniature pool with some black
water as the place for the rat to swim, the big flying red eel is eating a
tart cake and the rat is putting some gel to it’s fur but it turned out to be
a mess and it made all it’s fur stand and sharp like a pin until they
finally arrived at the Moon. They get started by using a pill of 5 day
oxygen supply and take a camera to see take some pictures of the Moon
, the boy put on the suit with the help of his father, they explore the
Moon for nine hours but there were no things to be found, the father
was sad but the boy is having some fun by jumping and running
around and so is the rat The eel waslooking at a comet that fell next to a
big rock which they haven’tchecked yet the eel talked to the rat and the
rat understands because they were both animals even if they were not
the same kind, the rat go and tell the father while the eel is checking the
big rock. The eel stopped for a moment waiting the others to catch up
to look at the amazing view of elves running around. All of them were
surprised to see that the comet is actually a spaceship, the father talked
to one of the elves and it understood, the elf speaks english it said that
they were all the Saprohumanitarianism were trying to find other planet
to live because not a lot of creatures know about Moon but they got
trapped in a black hole and lived there for 3 years until they managed to
find their way out.” So the creature living in the Moon was
elves.”thought the father. The Boy thinks that they are animals from
the “Largest Elf Alien Zoo” and the rat thinks that they are from the
Hall of the Elf Alien .Since they have been there, the father wanted to
stay for a while to look at the Elves place and took
some pictures.
First he saw a pot shaped like a cow at the Elf Gift Shop, then he look
at the Elf museum and looked at the history of the Saprohumanitarism
and dicovered that their favourite food that is only available on Earth is
an oat mixed with a fur from a dog and a piece of wood from a log that
has been tied with a rope that was soaked in water ten times . And they
like to drink hot oil.They like to have a quiz and sit in a bed for one
hour and they are scared of a creature that had horns didn’t have any
tails.And while the father and the eel has been to all that place, the boy
and the rat are hearing the Elf Moon band playing some music. An old
Elf said that they using the musical instruments that are made from the
things that are sent from Earth to the Moon a long time ago.The father
heared that and figured out that it’s why they didn’t found
anything.When they are about to go home anelf said that they should
tell the other humans and perhaps all other creatures from other planet
about them so that the Moon will be known by the whole world as a
place thet elves live. The father agreed ,as soon as they arrived the
father and the eel go to a place where the scientists were and tell them
that the Moon is populated by elves , the things he saw and about the
history, at first the scientists didn’t believe it but after the father show
them the pictures, they were very surprised. Then they called of a
meeting with the scientists from around the Earth and discuss about the
amazing discovery, the father were told to wait at the his house for a
few days and wait for the call from the scientists.
A few days later, the father received a call from the scientists and were told to come to the Space Museum.When the father arrived the scientists suddenly congratulated the father, they said he had won two prize for discovering another creature from outer space.They took a picture of this moment and plan to hang the picture of that moment and the pictures of the elves at the Space Museum, the father also received a certificate and a trophy, from that day the father has been travelling around the other galaxy with his shmuck son and their pets to find more outer space creatures.
The End
Temple of Artemis
The Temple of Artemis (Greek: Ἀρτεμίσιον Artemision, Latin: Artemisium), also known less precisely as Temple of Diana, was a temple dedicated to Artemis completed in its most famous phase, around 550 BC at Ephesus (in present-day Turkey) under the Achaemenid dynasty of the Persian Empire. Nothing remains of the temple, which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Temple of Artemis was not the first on its site, where evidence of a sanctuary dates as early as the Bronze Age.
The old temple antedated the Ionic immigration by many years. Callimachus, in his Hymn to Artemis, attributed the origin of the temenos at Ephesus to the Amazons, whose worship he imagines already centered upon an image (bretas). In the seventh century the old temple was destroyed by a flood. Around 550 BC, they started to built the "new" temple, known as one of the miracles of the ancient world. It was a 120-year project, initially designed and constructed by the Cretan architect Chersiphron and his son Metagenes, at the expense of Croesus of Lydia.
It was described by Antipater of Sidon, who compiled the list of the Seven Wonders:
I have set eyes on the wall of lofty Babylon on which is a road for chariots, and the statue of Zeus by the Alpheus, and the hanging gardens, and the colossus of the Sun, and the huge labour of the high pyramids, and the vast tomb of Mausolus; but when I saw the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, "Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught [anything] so grand".Ephesian Artemis
Artemis was a Greek goddess, the virginal huntress and twin of Apollo, who supplanted the Titan Selene as goddess of the Moon. Of the Olympian goddesses who inherited aspects of the Great goddess of Crete, Athene was more honored than Artemis at Athens. At Ephesus, a goddess whom the Greeks associated with Artemis was passionately venerated in an archaic, certainly pre-Hellenic cult imageHistory
The sacred site at Ephesus was far older than the Artemision. Pausanias[10] understood the shrine of Artemis there to be very ancient. He states with certainty that it antedated the Ionic immigration by many years, being older even than the oracular shrine of Apollo at Didyma. He said that the pre-Ionic inhabitants of the city were Leleges and Lydians. Callimachus, in his Hymn to Artemis, attributed the origin of the temenos at Ephesus to the Amazons, whose worship he imagines already centered upon an image (bretas).
Pre-World War I excavations by David George Hogarth, who identified three successive temples overlying one another on the site, and corrective re-excavations in 1987-88 have confirmed Pausanias' report.
Test holes have confirmed that the site was occupied as early as the Bronze Age, with a sequence of pottery finds that extend forward to Middle Geometric times, when the clay-floored peripteral temple was constructed, in the second half of the eighth century BC.The peripteral temple at Ephesus was the earliest example of a peripteral type on the coast of Asia Minor, and perhaps the earliest Greek temple surrounded by colonnades.
In the seventh century, a flooddestroyed the temple, depositing over half a meter of sand and scattering flotsam over the former floor of hard-packed clay. In the flood debris were the remains of a carved ivory plaque of a griffon and the Tree of Life, apparently North Syrian. More importantly, flood deposits buried in place a hoard against the north wall that included drilled amber tear-shaped drops with elliptical cross-sections, which had once dressed the wooden effigy of the Lady of Ephesus; the xoanon must have been destroyed in the flood. Bammer notes that though the flood-prone site was raised about two metres between the eighth and sixth centuries, and a further 2.4 m between the sixth and the fourth, the site was retained: "this indicates that maintaining the identity of the actual location played an important role in the sacred organization" (Bammer 1990:144).
The new temple, now built of marble, with its peripteral columns doubled to make a wide ceremonial passage round the cella, was designed and constructed around 550 BC by the Cretan architect Chersiphron and his son Metagenes. A new ebony or grapewood cult statue was sculpted by Endoios, and a naiskos to house it was erected east of the open-air altar.
This enriched reconstruction was built at the expense of Croesus, the wealthy king of Lydia.The rich foundation deposit of more than a thousand items has been recovered: it includes what may be the earliest coins of the silver-gold alloy electrum. Fragments of the bas-reliefs on the lowest drums of Croesus' temple, preserved in the British Museum, show that the enriched columns of the later temple, of which a few survive (illustration, below left) were versions of the earlier feature. Marshy ground was selected for the building site as a precaution against future earthquakes, according to Pliny the Elder.The temple became a tourist attraction, visited by merchants, kings, and sightseers, many of whom paid homage to Artemis in the form of jewelry and various goods. Its splendor also attracted many worshipers, many of whom formed the cult of Artemis.
Croesus' temple was a widely respected place of refuge, a tradition that was linked in myth with the Amazons who took refuge there, both from Heracles and from Dionysus.
that was carved of wood and kept decorated with jewelry. Robert Fleischer identified as decorations of the primitive xoanon the changeable features that since Minucius Felix and Jerome's Christian attacks on pagan popular religion had been read as many breasts or "eggs" — denoting her fertility. Most similar to Near-Eastern and Egyptian deities, and least similar to Greek ones, her body and legs are enclosed within a tapering pillar-like term, from which her feet protrude. On the coins minted at Ephesus, the apparently many-breasted goddess wears a mural crown (like a city's walls), an attribute of Cybele (see polos). On the coins she rests either arm on a staff formed of entwined serpents or of a stack of ouroboroi, the eternal serpent with its tail in its mouth. Something the Lady of Ephesus had in common with Cybele was that each was served by temple slave-women, or hierodules (hiero "holy", doule "female slave"), under the direction of a priestess who inherited her role, attended by a college of eunuch priests called "Megabyzoi" (though sometimes the existence of a college is disputed and rather, a succession of priests given the title of "Megabyzos" is preferred) and also by young virgins (korai).
Modern scholars are likely to be more concerned with origins of the Lady of Ephesus and her iconology than her adherents were at any point in time, and are also prone to creating a synthetic account of the Lady of Ephesus by drawing together documentation that ranges over more than a millennium in its origins, creating a falsified, unitary picture, as of an unchanging icon.
The Old Treasure Hunter
The Old Treasure Hunter
by: Ryan Hilmawan
Once upon a time, in a village called Lotuy, an old man lives there. His body is very weak and thin, he claims that he is a very famous traveler when he was young but only three boys believes him. He lives in a small hut in the forest, he always tell the story when he fought wild animals while searching for an ancient ruin, but the three boys stopped to believe his words after a few years, he is now very lonely.
he then decided to search for treasures again so that the three boys will believe him again.He knew where to search for the treasures, he had a map that was burried under a tree that he planted.
He chopped the tree down and took the map, he then sets on a journey to find the treasure but then he died after three days and nobody cares.
The End