#Donald MacKenzie

[gatutor]

Pearl White-Crane Wilbur "The perils of Pauline" 1914, de Louis J. Gasnier, Donald MacKenzie.

[filministic]

The Martian (2015) dir. Ridley Scott

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[duranduratulsa]

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[thebunsquad]

Greyfriars Bobby | The Disney Debate (Ep. 95)

[queerasfact]

Happy birthday Freddie Mercury!

Here's Freddie in perhaps my all-time fave outfit of his, his cat vest. Freddie's friend Donald Mackenzie commissioned this hand-painted vest for Freddie, based on photos of his beloved cats.

Freddie was born on 5 September 1946. He passed away from AIDS-related illness at age 45. He would have been 78 today.

Learn more about Freddie in our queer history podcast!

[meeravandaseera]

According to folklore, using an "artificial" mermaid tail is still considered to be part of a true mermaid.

Edited "Sea Weeds" painting by Arthur Prince Spear, public domain, 1927.

If anyone doubts whether they're a "real" mermaid with just a fabric or a silicone tail, (at least I did when I used to swim with one) it actually could be considered to be a true tail of a mermaid if you look at the good ol' folklore!

Take the fin-wives of the Orcadian finfolk from the Orkney Islands. According to Orknejar, some say their tails were part of their body. Anyhow, others related that their fishtails are said to be a garment that only gathered together to form a tail-like end and that covered the entirety of their legs. On land, a fin-maiden's tail skirt would turn into a "beautiful embroidered petticoat".

Of course, remember the selkies who wore their sealskins in the sea and came on land to take them off.

According to the folk-tale "The-maid-of-the-wave", collected by Donald A. Mackenzie in his "Scottish Wonder Tales from Myth and Legend", the Scottish half-grilse (young salmon) mermaid called maid-of-the-wave, maid-of-the-sea or ceasg also had a large, bright salmon skin covering that she discarded ashore and wore only in the sea again. As it's mentioned in the tale, the maidens-of-the-waves also wore sea-blue garments ashore instead of their salmon skins.

The "Penguin Book of Mermaids" shares the lore of the karukayn, a mermaid from the belief of the Gurindji people in the Northern Territory of Australia. Those freshwater-maidens also have fishtails that they can take off and wear again once they go back into the waters.

According to "Water-beings in Shetlandic Folk-Lore, as remembered by Shetlanders in British Columbia" by James Teit, the mar-folk from the Shetland islands also had fish-like coverings for their legs which they discarded in their homes and when they went ashore.

The most common motif is that a mortal steals a waterperson's skin or hat (as found in the Irish merrows) to return back to the water. Without their skin or whatever they need, they cannot go back to the water, obviously. Mar-folk of the Shetland islands could not travel the seas without their fish-like covering, too. The aforementioned water-wife motif is even present in Australia, far away from Europe. In the legend related in the Penguin Book of Mermaids, a karukayn is taken by a man to be his wife as she had her tail smoked off. Like almost all folk-tales of the selkies etc, the karukayn returned back to the water later on.

Bloop, that shell-tacular lore is shrimply as vast as our oceans...

This only included some of the waterpeople who were capable of removing their tails. Obviously, there happen to be more in the sea.

I had originally published this on reddit via r/mermaid: https://www.reddit.com/r/mermaid/comments/1emp4ay/according_to_folklore_using_an_artificial_mermaid/

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Ed Kilgore at NY Intelligencer:

As you probably know, we’re beginning the final week of a dead-even presidential contest between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, with Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes being the most desperately sought prize by both campaigns. Team Trump is already having a difficult week in the Keystone State thanks to a crude racist joke about Puerto Rico that one of Trump’s comedian buddies told at his wild Madison Square Garden rally, which is not going over well among the pivotal bloc of Puerto Rican voters in northeastern Pennsylvania. Now, Harris has gotten a helping hand in the same vicinity from none other than House Speaker Mike Johnson, as NBC News reports:

[House Speaker Mike Johnson took a dig at Obamacare during an event in Pennsylvania on Monday, telling a crowd there will be “massive” health care changes in America if Donald Trump wins the election. “Health care reform’s going to be a big part of the agenda. When I say we’re going to have a very aggressive first 100 days agenda, we got a lot of things still on the table,” Johnson, R-La., said in Bethlehem while campaigning for GOP House candidate Ryan Mackenzie, according to video footage obtained by NBC News. “No Obamacare?” one attendee asked Johnson, referring to the law Democrats passed in 2010, also known as the Affordable Care Act. “No Obamacare,” Johnson responded, rolling his eyes. “The ACA is so deeply ingrained, we need massive reform to make this work and we got a lot of ideas on how to do that.”]

Health care is not at all an issue Trump wants Republicans talking about. The effort to repeal Obamacare was one of the less popular initiatives of his presidency and, not coincidentally, one of his biggest failures. It’s also one of the areas where Harris has outpolled him. He added to his problems during the September debate with his rival when he could cite only “the concepts of a plan” for replacing Obamacare despite having allegedly spent many years on his own yet-to-be-revealed proposal.

Worse yet, Johnson’s remarks very strongly suggest two things that are potentially dangerous to Trump in the eyes of swing voters: (1) He plans to make repealing Obamacare an immediate priority if Trump wins and Republicans control Congress, which likely means it would be rolled into a gigantic budget-reconciliation bill and steamrolled through to passage if possible, and (2) his party’s designs on health-care policy are radical, meant to replace the regulations central to Obamacare’s coverage guarantees with “free market” provisions almost certain to return the health-care system to the days when insurers aggressively discriminated against anyone old, sick, or poor. Johnson’s rhetoric will also give Democrats an opportunity to remind voters that the last “repeal Obamacare” package aimed to decimate Medicaid, the federal-state health-care program for poor people and a key part of the country’s social safety net

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is vowing to repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) if the Republicans get a trifecta. This is a wakeup call to vote Democratic, especially in the House and the Presidential race.

[thebeautifulbook]

Myths and Legend series. (Gresham. 1912-1924)

EGYPTIAN MYTH AND LEGEND by Donald A. Mackenzie

TEUTONIC MYTH AND LEGEND by Donald A. Mackenzie

CELTIC MYTH AND LEGEND: POETRY & ROMANCE by Charles Squire

INDIAN MYTH AND LEGEND by Donald A. Mackenzie

CLASSIC MYTH AND LEGEND by A.R. Hope Moncrieff

ROMANCE AND LEGEND OF CHIVALRY by A.R. Hope Moncrief

[goodoldroyalty]

1939 ROYAL TOUR - KING GEORGE VI & QUEEN ELIZABETH

Presentation of flowers to Queen Elizabeth by David Hanniwell and Eleanor Donald. Carl Hanniwell, then Mayor of Niagara Falls, is bending over, forcing the bouquet of flowers from David's hands. David refused to present the flowers because 'They are not wearing their king's hats' Hon. Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada (standing behind Dr. Hanniwell), found this to be amusing.

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Warwick Goble - “Indian Myth and Legend” by Donald Alexander Mackenzie, 1913.

[scotianostra]

October 2nd 1721 saw the little known Battle of Coille Bhan.

This was more of a skirmish in real terms, but history recall it as a battle, to me the numbers involved make it less so. The way I look at it is that this was also an attempt by the Government of the, still quite new, Union, to impose some sort of rule to the Highland Clans, in this instance it can also go down as leading from an often overlooked Jacobite uprising in 1719, called The “Little Rising“.

The background was that government forces had failed to take the lands of Mackenzie of Seaforth. The taxes being collected by Mackenzie's factor, Donald Murchison were being sent to Mackenzie himself who was living in exile in France for his part in the '15 Jacobite uprising, after which his lands were forfeited to the crown. It was decided that a second attempt should be made to seize Mackenzie of Seaforth's estates.

This time 160 soldiers of Colonel Kirk's regiment left under the command of a Captain McNeil, who unlike their predecessors who had been ambushed in Glen Affric, McNeil took a longer but easier route from Inverness to Dingwall then onto Strath-Garve and Loch Carron.Mackenzie's force were led by Colonel Donald Murchison who had led the ambush at Glen Affric, and I bloody wish my spell check didn't keep trying to make me say Africa instead of Affric!!!

Anyway the Colonel marched his men up a mountain pass called Mam Attadale, a "gallant" relative, named Kenneth Murchison volunteered to attempt an ambush with a small party of 13 at Coille Bhan (White Wood), while the bulk of the party should remain where they were.

Captain McNeil with 18 men of his government force advanced on Kenneth Murchison's position. They received fire in which several of the government troops were wounded and one was killed. McNeil persisted in attacking his enemy and eventually he defeated them and Kenneth Murchison's men withdrew, as they were unable to resist any further, there is no mention of the Jacobite's losses.

The long and short of it is, although Captain McNeil had defeated this advance force, he soon heard of the larger group of Mackenzies waiting at Attadale under the command of Donald Murchison, unwilling to take on these men, who also held the high ground McNeil, himself wounded retreated and high-tailed it back to Inverness.

Kenneth Murchison quickly rejoined Colonel Donald on Mam Attadale, with the cheering intelligence that one salvo of thirteen guns had repelled the hundred and sixty red-coats. No further attempts were made on Mackenzie of Seaforth's lands.

This episode confirmed the view in the south that the Jacobite clans equated with banditry and disorder, but Donald Murchison was also a bold man, reading on, in the History of The Mackenzies he appeared in Edinburgh two years later with £200 in back rents, looking for someone to take it over to France, he was not so stupid as to make himself conspicuous and is said to have been wearing "the garb of a lowlander", he did however spend two weeks in the capital, and although he was a wanted man went unmolested during this time.

Mackenzie of Seaforth, also known as William dubh MacKenzie or Black MacKenzie, like may other Jacobites during earlier uprisings, was later pardoned and returned returned to Scotland in 1726, he died in 1740.

During the '45 uprising, such was the split across The Highlands one of his sons fought on the Hanoverian side in the campaign, whereas a large part of the Clan Mackenzie followed the chief's cousin George Mackenzie, 3rd Earl of Cromartie chose to fight for the Jacobite cause.

The pics shows moorland and Lochcarron, the expanse of land that Clan MacKenzie enjoyed as their own, and their clan crest with the motto Luceo Non Uro (I shine, not burn). MacCoinneach the Gaelic name for the clan means son of the fair bright one.

[filministic]

The Martian (2015) dir. Ridley Scott

[dea-syria]

In a class of legends, "specially connected with the worship of Atargatis", wrote Professor Robertson Smith, "the divine life of the waters resides in the sacred fish that inhabit them. Atargatis and her son, according to a legend common to Hierapolis and Ascalon, plunged into the waters--in the first case the Euphrates, in the second the sacred pool at the temple near the town--and were changed into fishes". The idea is that "where a god dies, that is, ceases to exist in human form, his life passes into the waters where he is buried; and this again is merely a theory to bring the divine water or the divine fish into harmony with anthropomorphic ideas. The same thing was sometimes effected in another way by saying that the anthropomorphic deity was born from the water, as Aphrodite sprang from sea foam, or as Atargatis, in another form of the Euphrates legend, ... was born of an egg which the sacred fishes found in the Euphrates and pushed ashore."

--Donald A. Mackenzie, "Myths of Babylonia and Syria"

[emptymanuscript]

I have just discovered "Inaugural Poem for Donald J. Trump" by Joseph Charles MacKenzie.

I don't know quite how to parse how much I love this poem.

This is a thing of beauty.

Not in any way that the asshole who wrote it wants it to be .

But it is this perfect piece of zeitgeist projection and self deception. It is so... self-important and world skewing. This is the poem for the shadow work of our times. The false faith of the baseless lies we tell ourselves spun into a false idol that DESERVES to be cast in gold.

XD!

I'm not even kidding. Legitimately, I find this poem moving and fascinating, in the same way that I enjoyed the movie The Cell. It's beautiful in its fucked-up-ness. This is a monster's soul on display in orderly cross-section.

If you read this in 500 years and all records and context had been lost... this would read indistinguishably from some kind of Arthurian Fantasy. And the noble blood will rule again someday.

But with the context of reality... it's ridiculous. It's absolute delusion. Down to the structure of it. Down to the basic POV. MacKenzie is a poet from the US. Born and raised. It's not just the object (Trump) of the poem but the subjects (author and intended audience) who are mythologized into something utterly other than what they actually are: this glory-full descendant of true blooded aristocracy of occupied land.

This is like if Mel Gibson actually thought he was descended of Braveheart and that his movie told the truth as it happened to stir the blood of men who must rise up anew for the glory of Scottland... here in the US. And had purposefully made it in such a way as to denounce video games as a lesser form of art.

It's just... yeah... I can't do justice to this hilarious nightmare.

[kemeticdevotee]

Harper Song (from the tomb of Intef)

The harper's songs are a collection of poems from ancient Egypt, which were inscribed on the tomb of the deceased accompanied by a picture of a blind man playing the harp. It is speculated that these songs were actually played at mortuary festivals honoring the deceased. This particular poem is from the tomb of Intef, and was written during the Middle Kingdom.

He is Happy this good prince: Death is a kindly fate. A Generation passes, Another stays, Since the time of the ancestors. The gods who were before rest in their tombs, Blessed nobles too are buried in their tombs. (Yet) those who built tombs, Their places are gone, What has become of them? I have heard the words of Imhotep and Hordjedef, Whose sayings are recited in whole. What of their places? Their walls have crumbled, Their places are gone, As though they had never been! None comes from there, To tell of their needs, To calm our hearts, Until we go where they have gone! Hence rejoice in your heart!Forgetfulness profits you, Follow your heart as long as you live! Put myrrh on your head, Dress in fine linen, Anoint yourself with oils fit for a god, Heap up your joys, Let your heart not sink! Follow your heart and your happiness, Do your things on earth as your heart commands! When there comes to you that day of mourning, the Weary-hearted (Osiris) hears not their mourning, Wailing saves no man from the pit! Make holiday, Do not weary of it! Lo, none is allowed to take his goods with him, Lo, none who departs comes back again!

Translation done by Donald Mackenzie.