FWIW, our little village has a Nativity scene set up on the Town Common. Plastic,probably made in china :)
FWIW, our little village has a Nativity scene set up on the Town Common. Plastic,probably made in china :)
perfect...
Look at the bright side... "E Pluribus Unum" is proof that 'Mercans are the very first polymaths. Beautiful.
Poultrymaths...
A few weeks ago I discovered from an old book I keep on hand -- Manly P. Hall’s magnum opus (An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy, 1928) -- that the rooster "was accepted by the Greeks as the emblem of Ares (Mars) and typified watchfulness and defense. When placed at the center of a weather vane it signifies the sun in the midst of the four corners of creation" (pg.LXXXIX).
Mars sure gets around, even as the center of the four winds.
"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces peace!"
Yesterday I scored a metal sign from Tractor Supply. I could not find an image, but it's perfect for the kitchen. It's "Chicken Math" with a list of important formulae.
Great sale item selection. I forgot all about the mars/rooster/sun symbolism when I also brought home a rooster weather vane tree-topper. It looked like something I could display year-round.
Obviously any nativity barn scene without a rooster weather vane on the roof is incomplete because
Here is most famous prince of peace ever:
(I Warned You About What We’re Living Through Today.)
