“Moebius’s World of Edena story arc comprises five chapters–Upon a Star, Gardens of Edena, The Goddess, Stel, and Sra–which are all collected here.
A storyboard artist and designer (“Alien, Tron, The Fifth Element,” among many others) as well as comic book master, Moebius’s work has influenced creators in countless fields”
– GoodReads
“Stel and Atan find a space station abandoned and go looking for the crew. One flying blue pyramid later, they find themselves on the paradisaical planet of Edena…”
– Dan Schwent
By: Mœbius (Le Monde d’Edena #1-4), The World Of Edena. Published November 8th 2016 by Dark Horse Books (first published January 2001)
“Evidence indicates that cats were first tamed in Egypt. The Egyptians stored grain, which attracted rodents, which attracted cats. (No evidence that such a thing happened with the Mayans, though a number of wild cats are native to the area.) I don’t think this is accurate. It is certainly not the whole story. Cats didn’t start as mousers. Weasels and snakes and dogs are more efficient as rodent-control agents. I postulate that cats started as psychic companions, as Familiars, and have never deviated from this function.”
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood, when it first occurred to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet I can’t remember it. It never occurred to me at all. We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it, before we know that there are words,out we come, bloodied and squalling…with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there’s only one direction and time is its only measure.”
– Tom Stoppard
Artist: Tito Corbella, 1916
“A series of works dedicated to the British nurse Edith Louisa Cavell, which saved the lives of soldiers of all the warring countries of the First World War without any differences.” – x-heesy, tumblr
“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”
The Trinacria. History and Mythology – Symbol of convergence of Sicily with Hellenic and Norman History and Culture.
“The symbol of Trinacria is now known because in the flag of Sicily and that of the Island of Man. Its history is complex and in some ways still shrouded in mystery, or at least in indeterminacy, as it relates to mythology. The Trinacria, symbol of Sicily, is composed of the head of the Gorgon, whose hair is entwined serpents with ears of corn, from which radiate the three legs bent at the knee. The Gorgon is a mythological figure who, according to the Greek poet Hesiod (VIII – early VII century B.C.), was each of the three daughters of Ceto and Phorcys, two gods of the sea: Medusa (the Gorgon for excellence), Stheno (“strong”), Euryale (“the large”).
They had boar tusks, hands of bronze, golden wings, snakes on the head and in waist, lived at the Hesperides (daughters of Atlas, they lived in the Isle of the Blessed, in the westernmost part of the world) and were able, with a glance, to petrify men. The ears of wheat are the symbol of the fertility of the land. The three legs represent the three promontories of Sicily – cape Pelorus (or tip of Faro, Messina: North-East), cape Passero (Syracuse: South), cape Lilibeo (Marsala: West) – whose arrangement is made explicit in the Greek word triskeles and is linked to the geographic meaning: treis (three) and akra (capes): from which, also in Latin, triquetra (three peaks).
The arrangement of the three legs, suggesting a rotation, led the researchers to go back to the Eastern religious symbols, in particular that of Baal, god of Time (in whose monument at Vaga (Beja, Tunisia), over the bull, there is a trinacria) – or that of the Moon, where the three legs are replaced by scythes. In the Asia Minor, between the sixth and fourth centuries BC, the Trinacria was engraved on the coins of various cities, in ancient regions such as: Aspendo (in Panfilia, on the eastern Mediterranean), Berrito and Tebe (in Troade: territory around the city of Troy, between the Scamander and the Hellespont), Olba (in Cilicia, between Armenia and Syria) and in some cities of Lycia (South-West, close to the sea).
The symbol of Trinacria was also used in Crete, Macedonia, and in Celtiberian Spain (area north-central), despite the lack of references to the local geographical situation. Homer, in the Odyssey, alluding to the shape of Sicily, uses the term Thrinakie, which comes from thrinax (three peaks). The thesis on the origins of trinacria has a substantial reference in the history of ancient Greece. The Spartan fighters carving in their shields a white leg bent at the knee: a symbol of strength. This image is in the paintings of ancient vases and is also in a monograph on the subject written in 1863 by the German philosopher KW Goettling.
The Normans, arrived in Sicily in 1072, exported the Trinacria in the Isle of Man, who chose it as a symbol to replace the previous one – a vessel – of Scandinavian origin. An example of the symbolic importance of the Trinacria in the history of Sicily has had on August 30th of 1302 with the establishment of the Island in the Kingdom of Trinacria, following the Peace Treaty of Caltabellotta, at the conclusion of the War of the Sicilian Vespers, that saw the conflict between the Angevins and the Sicilian allies with the Aragonese. The sovereignty of the Kingdom of Trinacria was formally assigned to Frederick II of Aragon (1227-1337), in fact, however, was independent from the rest of the Aragonese dominions in southern Italy.
The Trinacria is also present in the coats of arms of several noble dynasties the Stuarts of Albany in England (perhaps from their dominion over the islands in the Irish Sea, including the Isle of Man), the Rabensteiner (France), the Schanke (Denmark), the Drocomir (Poland) and that of Joachim Murat, King of Naples and Sicily, at the beginning of the Nineteenth century. The Trinacria is at the center of the flag of Sicily, red and yellow diagonally, officially approved in January 2000. The law states that the Sicilian flag is exposed to the outside of the Sicilian Parliament, Regional Government, Provincial Councils and Municipal Councils, Educational institutions of each levels, and the buildings used as polling stations on the occasion of the elections for the Sicilian Parliament.”
– Ninni Radicini
* Ninni Radicini has written and published articles on Greece and Germany (political-electoral-historical area). Articles on other topics have been published on various periodicals. He has written and published reviews and prefaces to books. Co-author of the book La Grecia contemporanea (1974-2006).
Photo: The Trinacria, symbol of Sicily, relief sculpture at Palermo. Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914).
“Aκράγας (Akragas) – Presso Agrigento. Our Greek Soul, that among the different souls we have, you are the oldest, the mother of our tongue, you who lives in us giving to our words the clarity of the ancients, the precision of reason, the strength and freedom of thought, our Greek Soul , which still are living in the ancient churches, and give to our faith the purity of ancient faith, the simplicity of belief, the ascetic, solitary pursuit of God, our Greek Soul, that in our hearts live and nourishes our loves with the passion of the ancient heroes, the perfection of the ancient goddesses, the uprightness of the supreme laws of love, the impetuous domination of nature, and the impetuous nature of every domino, Greek Soul, loving mother, careful nurse, and precious sister, revive in us and give us your essence, teach us your belief in the man, in his inviolable and violated freedom, in the power of reason and in the reason of good power, in the freedom of the individual and in the horror of domination for the dominion, you that before all the barbarians, teaches to us the love for beauty, her incorruptible ecstasy, her eternal perfection to us, your imperfect, illegitimate children of Trinakria.”
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