Fiji, Bua District
Fiji, Bua District
adukuraha-suwasti
I cannot fold/my wayward limbs to crawl into/coffins of religions./I shall die, I know,/but only when I tire of love;/tire of life and laughter./Then fling me into a pit/six feet by two,/do not bother to leave/any epitaph for me.
– kamala das
(Source: arrowsandartemis, via adventures-of-the-blackgang)
(Source: geometryofdopeness)
Ironically, Adolf Hitler displayed more knowledge of how we treated Native Americans than American high schoolers today who rely on their textbooks. Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, “often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America’s extermination—by starvation and uneven combat” as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people).
– James W. Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me (via thesnarkwasaboojum)
(Source: ghostofharrenhal, via progressivelyminded-deactivated)
A temple in Lombok C1925
Rangda is the demon queen of the leyaks in Bali, according to traditional Balinese mythology. Terrifying to behold, the child-eating Rangda leads an army of evil witches against the leader of the forces of good — Barong\
While Rangda is seen as fearsome and by many as the personification of evil, she is also nevertheless considered a protective force in certain parts of Bali, much like Kali is seen as a benevolent mother goddess in the Indian states of West Bengal, Assam and Kerala. The colors associated with her — white, black and red — are identical with those associated with Kali. Her iconography is similar to that of both Kali and Chamunda, who are closely related.
Raja Sansar Chand of the small kingdom of Kangra, in present day Himachal Pradesh, India. Behind him is his captain of the guard, O’Brien, an Irish deserter of the British East India Company.1810