A #Maya-style #batik I did many years ago. .. #linandaras_art #art #artwork #painting #fabric #textile #ancient #Mexican #American #рисунок #батик #Майа

New Love card design

Celtic-knot-inspired

A Mystery Rock

Made from a local River Hafren pebble & ink

We watched a documentary about the #Chachapoya culture and I did a river #pebble in that #style. #drawing #painting #acrylic #ink #crafts #craft #rock #rockpainting #ancient #stylized #paint #галька #рисунок #linandaras_art

Alexander asked the fellow [a captured pirate], “What is your idea in infesting the sea?” And the pirate answered, with uninhibited insolence, “The same as yours, in infesting the earth! But because I do it in a tiny craft, I’m called a pirate: because you have a mighty navy, you are called an emperor

Cicero, De Republica

all the virtues of character seem to belong to us from birth… For we are just and moderate and courageous and the rest straight from our birth … even children and animals have these natural dispositions, through they evidently prove harmful without rational guidance.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

One may observe in one’s travels in distant countries the feelings of recognition and affiliation that link every human being to every other human being

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

the good citizen, instead of trying to terrify the opposition, ought to prove his case in fair argument

Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War, speech by Diodotus

Sacrifices were not an aberrant or cruel activity – they were a sophisticated way of dealing with the necessity of killing animals in order to eat. In fact the rituals surrounding sacrifice suggest that the Greeks felt some unease about killing animals they had reared themselves. So the illusion was created that an animal went to its death willingly and before the killing all present threw a handful of barley at it, as if the community as a whole was accepting responsibility for the death. At the moment of the slaughter women would utter impassioned cries, again a recognition of the seriousness of what was being done in taking life”.

Charles Freeman, The Closing of the Western Mind (probably the same true about other ancient cultures too – A.C.)

Blessed is he who learns how to engage in inquiry, with no impulse to harm his countrymen or to pursue wrong actions, but percieves the order of immortal and ageless nature, how it is structured.

Euripides, fifth century BC