#japetus

[koishiarts]

mythology stuff im prolly doin nothin with. here's some titans

[marine-indie-gal]

Little Personal take on the Roman Counterparts for the Greek Titanesses and Titans. Even I myself manage to come up with some Fan-Made Name Counterparts for some of these Other Gods instead of having the same counterparts have the same name as each other.

UPDATED: 11/4/2023; Since I no longer made a concept where Pontus and Thalassa were Titans (which I did regret making up that choice), I’ve decided to now stick with the Other Water Gods (who are the Parents of the Nereids) in my AU as Titans.

Titanesses and Titans (c) Greco-Roman Mythology SpongeBob Depiction of The Titans (c) Me

[rosewind2007]

Back in 2021 the Science Museum promoted their “never been seen” project, where you could be randomly assigned an item from their online collection which had zero clicks—then you got a pixelated image you could click on to get details—it was a nice way of engaging people with unappreciated items

I clicked and got a rather unexciting looking oblong

I clicked on it and got a calling card which was described as belonging to Japetus Steenstrup

Carte de Visite portrait of Japetus Steenstrup

Now call me weird (you wouldn’t be the first) BUT that name rang a bell, the sort of bell Sir Ralph the Rover might hear ringing his knell*

i checked, and then I contacted the Science Museum to let them know that this Japetus was no other than Kraken-man!

And the Science Museum (to my utter delight) let me know they’d updated their description accordingly:

Yay Science Museum!

*Sir Ralph the Rover tore his hair,

He curst himself in his despair;

The waves rush in on every side,

The ship is sinking beneath the tide.

But even is his dying fear,

One dreadful sound could the Rover hear;

A sound as if with the Inchcape Bell,

The Devil below was ringing his knell.

Poem: Inchcape Rock, Robert Southey

[h0bg0blin-meat]

All the basics of Greek myth

The gods/godesses their roles,ther relationship etc etc

Okay. So first of all we all know about the 12 Olympians, i.e., Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Demeter, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Athena, Aphrodite, Hermes. Hephaestus and either Hestia or Dionysus, plus Hades.

Now before these Olympians there were the Titans, which included Kronos, Rhea, Oceanus, Coeus, Japetos, Crius, Hyperion, Theia, Themis, Tethys, Phoebe, and Mnemosyne, all of whom came from the Primordials, Ouranos and Gaia.

Along with them the other primordial gods included Khaos, Tartarus, Erebus, Eros, Nyx, Aether, Hemera, Pontus and Ourea.

Now this is an extremely brief explanation of these three generations of deities. I’mma get into a little more detail into their relations by whipping out Hesiod’s Theogony/the Greek Creation Myth (cuz his version is considered the standard creation myth for this pantheon till date), which sums about everything up pretty well actually so… Kudos to our fellar.

So according to this myth, in the very beginning, there was only chaos, from which we get the personified and deified version of it called Khaos. But soon after Gaia, Eros and Tartarus pop up, and then Khaos creates two more deities, namely Erebus and Nyx, who then, together, proceed to create Hemera and Aether, while Gaia creates Ouranos to partner up with, and they both, again together, whip out

The male titans, namely Kronos, Coeus, Japetus, Crius and Hyperion.

The female titans, namely Rhea, Themis, Tethys, Phoebe and Mnemosyne.

Three cyclopses, namely Brontes, Steropes and Arges.

Three Hekatonchieres (monstrous giants of immense strength and power, each having fifty heads and a hundred arms), namely Briareos, Kottos and Gyges.

Now all of these three sets of kids have one common thing, hating on Ouranos, for some reason that gets later uncovered. The reason is mostly him kidnapping his monstrous-looking kids and hiding them in secret places under the Earth (which, here, is Gaia).

Gaia got sick of this shit and produced a sickle out of adamant and asked her kids to teach Ouranos a lesson, but among these kids, only Kronos stood up to do it and so he did. Hid inside Gaia and when Ouranos came to lay with his wife, his lil kid popped up and castrated him, his two little thingies falling into the ocean, leading it to foam, and from that foam was born our beloved Aphrodite. Sensational. From his blood arose the Erinyes (chthonic goddesses of vengeance), the Giants and the Meliai (nymphs of the ash tree).

Now Kronos had full control over the cosmos from Ouranos, and was producing kids (i.e., Hestia, Poseidon, Demeter, Hera and Hades. Zeus wasn’t born yet) with Rhea. But his dad and Gaia had prophesized that one of his own kids would overthrow him, and from there we get the famous Kronos-swallowing-his-kids myth. And ofc, Zeus gets saved from the swallowing thingy with the help of his mom and grandparents, and then raised in seclusion in a cave below Mount Aigaion in the city of Lyktos of Crete. Also Kronos doesn’t know about this cuz Rhea wrapped up a huge stone in baby’s clothes and gave it to him saying it was the last kid, aka, Zeus.

(Chiron is also one of Kronos’s kids, and hence Zeus’s half-brother, paternally cuz Kronos once turned himself into a horse to mate with the Oceanid nymph, and one of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, Philyra, who mated with him in the usual human-nymph form, and hence we get him as a centaur.)

After Zeus grew up fully, he forced Kronos (Gaia did something to help with this, like give him some kinda poison secretly to make him puke his kids out-) to release his siblings. He then released the Cyclopses (who were still trapped with the Hekatonchieres btw), and then gave him his signature thunderbolt. This is when the great war called the Titanomachy happened between the Titans and Zeus and his siblings, over the control of the cosmos. This war went on for years, and in the 10th year, Zeus even released the Hekatoncheires, who also helped him overthrow the titans. Zeus threw his thunderbolt at the previous generation of gods, hence defeating them and throwing them into Tartarus, thus ending the war.

There was another threat to him tho, and it was Typhon, son of Gaia and Tartarus. But Zeus defeated him too and threw him into Tartarus as well.

Then my mans got elected as the king of gods (as he should), and had his first wife Metis. But after knowing that he had the same fate as Kronos, i.e., a son of Metis would overthrow him, he swallowed his wife (while she was pregnant with Athena, and hence later on we see Zeus HIMSELF giving birth to a fully-grown Athena from his mind) and that’s how he ended the cycle of succession. Smart move but I need justice for Metis >:<

Now for the new generation of Olympians, i.e., Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hermes, Dionysus and Hephaestus (also let’s add Persephone too), here’s how it goes. (Athena and Aphrodite were already covered above)

Apollo and Artemis were twin kids of Zeus’s 6th wife, Leto, who was the daughter of Coeus and Phoebe.

Persephone was born from the union of Zeus and Demeter. (there are other versions to this myth too)

Dionysus was born from the union of Zeus and Semele (a mortal woman), but he was again stitched to Zeus’s thigh to save him from Hera, who was deadlocked in killing him (cuz ofc Zeus cheated on her with another woman), and later births Dio himself. (there are other versions to this myth as well. For example, another myth says he was born from the union of Zeus and Persephone.)

Hermes was born from the union of Zeus and Maia (Atlas’s* daughter)

Ares, Hebe and Eileithyia were born from Zeus and Hera.

(*Atlas was one of the kids of Japetos and Clymene, who’s an Oceanid, and hence one of the daughters of Oceanus and Tethys.)

Now I haven’t mention what these deities are the gods of, because even though they are known for maybe one of two things they govern over (like Athena for wisdom and war, or Apollo for sun and music), their designations are actually pretty broad, and this post is long enough so ykw I’mma ask you to check out theoi.com and the theogony section of Wikipedia for further info :)

Thanks for the ask I had fun writing this lmao. (Might’ve made errors or stuff so correct me in case yall spot any)

[brookston]

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Jutta (Austria)

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Japetus (Denmark)

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Raafael (Finland)

Françoise-Xavière, Gratien (France)

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Zénó (Hungary)

Flaviano, Francesca (Italy)

Donalds, Donis, Saulvedis (Latvia)

Dovilė, Gedvydas, Ksavera, Zenonas (Lithuania)

Ingar, Ingemar (Norway)

Beata, Drogomir, Flawian, Franciszka, Gryzelda, Honorata, Ksawera, Ksaweryna, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Petru (Romania)

Anna (Russia)

Adela (Slovakia)

Demetrio, Francisca (Spain)

Jonatan, Natanael (Sweden)

Anastasia, Stasia (Ukraine)

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Armed Forces Day (Vietnam)

Be A Lover of Silence Day

Brussels Calling Day (Belgium)

Capricorn zodiac sign begins

Chipmunks Day

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Forefather's Day (Plymouth, Massachusetts) [Unless Sunday, then next Monday]

Hari Ibu (Mother’s Day; Indonesia)

Horn & Hardart Day

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National Mathematics Day (India)

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The 10 Days of Wanking begins [ website ]

Unity Day (Zimbabwe)

Yuletide Lad #11 arrives (Gattapefur or Sniffer; Iceland)

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National Cookie Exchange Day

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4th Thursday in December

Anklopfnachte (Germany; Thursday before Xmas)

National Regifting Day [Thursday before Xmas]

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Anastasia of Sirmium (Orthodox Church)

Berzelius (Positivist; Saint)

Bootsy Collins Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Cyril and Methodius (Christian; Confessors)

Day Sacred to the Lares (Ancient Roman Household Gods)

Eimhin (Christian; Saint)

Ernan, Son of Eogan (Christian; Saint)

Frances Xavier Cabrini (Outside US; Christian; Saint)

Hanukkah Day #4 (Judaism) [thru Dec. 26th]

Henry Budd (Episcopal Church USA)

Hunger (Christian; Saint)

Ischyrion (Christian; Saint)

Khoiak Ceremony for Raising the Djed Pillar (Osiris Festival; Ancient Egypt)

Lottie Moon (Episcopal Church USA)

Marc Polo Day (Pastafarian)

O Rex (Christian; Saint)

Wolfgang the Seal (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Dismal Day (Unlucky or Evil Day; Medieval Europe; 24 of 24)

Egyptian Day (Unlucky Day; Middle Ages Europe) [24 of 24]

Fortunate Day (Pagan) [51 of 53]

Sakimake (先負 Japan) [Bad luck in the morning, good luck in the afternoon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [60 of 60]

Premieres

Cast Away (Film; 2000)

Lady Liberty (Film; 1971)

Matrix 4 (Film; 2021)

Meet the Fockers (Film; 2004)

The Mummy (Film; 1932)

My Neighbors the Yamaha’s (Animated Film; 2000)

Night at the Museum (Film; 2006)

O Brother Where Art Thou (Film; 2000)

Passengers (Film; 2016)

Philadelphia (Film; 1993)

The Pilgrim’s Progress (Novel; 1678)

The Point, by Harry Nilsson (UK Musical Play; 1978)

The Post (Film; 2017)

Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faun, by Claude Debussy (Orchestral Work; 1894)

Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony; 1808)

Symphony No. 6, “The Pastoral,” by Ludwig Van Beethoven (Symphony; 1808)

True Grit (Film; 2010)

Watershed Down (BBC Mini-Series; 2018)

Wiegenlied (a.k.a. Brahms’ Lullaby), by Johannes Brahms (Lied; 1869)

Today’s Name Days

Jutta (Austria)

Časlav, Flavijan, Honorat, Toma (Croatia)

Šimon (Czech Republic)

Japetus (Denmark)

Vambo, Vambola (Estonia)

Raafael (Finland)

Françoise-Xavière, Gratien (France)

Francesca, Jutta (Germany)

Anastasia, Natasa, Zoilos (Greece)

Zénó (Hungary)

Flaviano, Francesca (Italy)

Donalds, Donis, Saulvedis (Latvia)

Dovilė, Gedvydas, Ksavera, Zenonas (Lithuania)

Ingar, Ingemar (Norway)

Beata, Drogomir, Flawian, Franciszka, Gryzelda, Honorata, Ksawera, Ksaweryna, Zenon, Zenona (Poland)

Petru (Romania)

Anna (Russia)

Adela (Slovakia)

Demetrio, Francisca (Spain)

Jonatan, Natanael (Sweden)

Anastasia, Stasia (Ukraine)

Asta, Astrid, Trista, Tristan, Tristen, Tristin, Triston (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 356 of 2022; 9 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 4 of week 51 of 2022

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ruis (Elder) [Day 27 of 28]

Chinese: Month 11 (Dōngyuè), Day 29 (Ji-You)

Chinese Year of the: Tiger (until January 22, 2023)

Hebrew: 28 Kislev 5783

Islamic: 28 Jumada I 1444

J Cal: 26 Zima; Foursday [26 of 30]

Julian: 9 December 2022

Moon: 1%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 20 Bichat (12th Month) [Berzelius]

Runic Half Month: Jara (Year) [Day 13 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 2 of 90)

Zodiac: Capricorn (Day 1 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Capricorn (The Goat) begins [Zodiac Sign 10; thru 1.19]

[wachsurfer2018]

Saturn und Iapetus

[wonders-of-the-cosmos]

Iapetus is the third-largest natural satellite of Saturn, eleventh-largest in the Solar System, and the largest body in the Solar System known not to be in hydrostatic equilibrium. Iapetus is best known for its dramatic "two-tone" coloration. Discoveries by the Cassini mission in 2007 revealed several other unusual features, such as a massive equatorial ridge running three-quarters of the way around the moon.

Iapetus was discovered by Giovanni Domenico Cassini, an Italian astronomer, in October 1671. He had discovered it on the western side of Saturn and tried viewing it on the eastern side some months later, but was unsuccessful. This was also the case the following year, when he was again able to observe it on the western side, but not the eastern side. Cassini finally observed Iapetus on the eastern side in 1705 with the help of an improved telescope, finding it two magnitudes dimmer on that side.

Cassini correctly surmised that Iapetus has a bright hemisphere and a dark hemisphere, and that it is tidally locked, always keeping the same face towards Saturn. This means that the bright hemisphere is visible from Earth when Iapetus is on the western side of Saturn, and that the dark hemisphere is visible when Iapetus is on the eastern side. The dark hemisphere was later named Cassini Regio in his honor.

The original dark material is believed to have come from outside Iapetus, but now it consists principally of lag from the sublimation of ice from the warmer areas of Iapetus's surface. It contains organic compounds similar to the substances found in primitive meteorites or on the surfaces of comets; Earth-based observations have shown it to be carbonaceous, and it probably includes cyano-compounds such as frozen hydrogen cyanide polymers.

source

Images: NASA/JPL; Gordan Ugarkovic, Ed, Kevin Gill

[cosmonautroger]

[dressup-fanart-n-stuff]

-Titans (made in Pixie Scene Maker)

 They are the sons of Gaia and Uranus and ruled the very ancient greek world.

 Cronus

 King of titans

Married to Rhea

Father of Zeus, Poseidon, Hades, Demeter, Hera, Hestia and Chiron

 Hyperion

 Titan of sun

Married to Theia

Father of Helios, Selene and Eos

 Japetus

 Titan of the underworld

Married to Asia

Father of Atlas, Epimetheus and Prometheus

 Krius

 Titan of cold

Married to Eurybia

Father of Astraeus, Pallas and Perses

 Koios

 Titan of wisdom

Married to Phoebe

Father of Leto and Asteria

[fresherbrine]

Iapetus

[kernaka]

All butterflies were raised on a beautiful farm and were collected and preserved after they passed away and lived a full live🧚🏻‍♀️🦋

[thewondermentofillustration]

Peder Severin Krøyer (1851 – 1909) - Professor of zoology, Japetus Steenstrup gives a lecture, 1895, oil on canvas

Johannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup (1813-1897) was a influentual zoologist, biologist and professor in nineteenth-century Denmark. He was an expert on cuttlefish, barnacles and cephalopods. In 1842, he discovered the principle of the alternation of generations in some parasitic worms.

[librarycompany]

Happy #CephalopodWeek! So you're probably wondering, "What does this monkfish? have to do with cephalopods?"

This illustration (left) of a Monachus Piscis is from Pierre Belon's 1553 edition of De Aquatilibus, a book of animals that live in and near the water. This "sea monk," based on Norwegian eyewitness accounts, was later thought to be a giant squid.

What, you don't see the resemblance?

Image 1 from: Pierre Belon. Petri Bellonii Cenomani De aquatilibus. Paris: Charles Etienne, 1553.

Image 2: Japetus Steenstrup's comparison of a common squid, ca. 1854. From Wikimedia Commons.

[dr-lokidottir]

Titan Cronos: the best king humanity has ever had.

In this post I would like to talk about the bravest of the titans: Father Time Cronus, a divinity prejudiced and little understood by lovers of mythology and pagans, especially Hellenic pagans. Sources can be found at the end of the blog in APA.

Without further ado, let's get started:

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Who is Cronos?

Chronos, in ancient Greek, χρόνος is THE time. It can also be called Eon or Aion, which means "eternal time". He is also called "Father Time". Chronos is the time: hours, minutes, seconds. The changes of eras and history itself, the changes of seasons, and even the very power of Black Holes and Space-Time itself.

Cronus is the youngest of the Titans, yet the most powerful and brave of all. He is part of the first generation of Titans, all children of the goddess Gaea (Earth) and their tyrant father, Uranus, the god of the heavens. Cronus reigned during the Golden Age (we'll see why that age was named like that, and rightly so!).

He is usually represented with a sickle or scythe, as it is the instrument he used to castrate his father Uranus, and take his place as king.

Chronos by Santo Saccomanno 1876, Cimitero monumentale di Staglieno.

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The bravest of the Titans.

Cronus hated Uranus, and Uranus hated his children: at birth, he locked them in Gea's womb so that they would never see the light. Even after having had his children, the Titans, he had more children with Gaia, the Hecatonchires and the Cyclops, and just because they seemed nasty to him, he threw them into Tartarus.

Gea, having harbored so much hatred and resentment for Uranus, created a giant flint sickle and secretly gathered all the Titans. She tried to convince them all to assassinate their evil father, but they were all extremely fearful, except for one, yes, Cronos!

And she spoke, cheering them, while she was vexed in her dear heart :

‘My children, gotten of a sinful father, if you will obey me, we should punish the vile outrage of your father; for he first thought of doing shameful things.’

So she said; but fear seized them all, and none of them uttered a word. But great Kronos the wily took courage and answered his dear mother :

‘Mother, I will undertake to do this deed, for I reverence not our father of evil name, for he first thought of doing shameful things.’ (Hesiod, Theogony 147 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.))

"When Uranus met Gea, Caeus, Hyperion, Japetus and Crio immobilized him, Cronus attacked him with the sickle and castrated him. From the blood that splashed on the Earth arose the Giants, the Erinias and the Meliades. Cronus threw the sickle (which gave rise to the island of Corfu) and the amputated genitals of Uranus into the sea. Around them, a foam emerged from the limb, from which Aphrodite emerged."

Fresco of Giorgio Vasari and Cristofano Gherardi (ca. 1560):The castration of Uranus. Sala di Cosimo I, from the Palazzo Vecchio (Florencia).

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The Golden Age.

Well, it was called "The Golden Age" for a reason, wasn't it?

The term golden age comes from Greek mythology and was first picked up by the Greek poet Hesiod. It refers to the myth regarding an initial stage of the ages of man in which man would have lived in an ideal state or utopia, when mankind was (believed to be) pure and immortal. In literary works, the golden age usually ends with a devastating event, which brings about the fall of man, in other words, with the accession of Zeus to the throne. It is up to you to interpret this as good or bad. Personally, I love Zeus!

One of the most remarkable facts is that even animals could talk to humans. Death was not painful, etc.

"First of all the deathless gods who dwell on Olympos (Olympus) made a Golden Race of mortal men who lived in the time of Kronos when he was reigning in heaven. And they lived like gods without sorrow of heart, remote and free from toil and grief: miserable age rested not on them; but with legs and arms never failing they made merry with feasting beyond the reach of all evils. When they died, it was as though they were overcome with sleep, and they had all good things; for the fruitful earth unforced bare them fruit abundantly and without stint. They dwelt in ease and peace upon their lands with many good things, rich in flocks and loved by the blessed gods. But after earth had covered this generation--they are called Pure Spirits (daimones hagnoi) dwelling on the earth (epikhthonioi), and are kindly, delivering from harm, and guardians of mortal men; for they roam everywhere over the earth, clothed in mist and keep watch on judgements and cruel deeds, givers of wealth [i.e. agricultural bounty]; for this royal right also they received." (Hesiod, Works and Days 109 ff (trans. Evelyn-White) (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.))

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Long ages before even cities existed . . . there existed in the time of Kronos, it is said, a most prosperous government and settlement . . . (Plato, Laws 713a (trans. Bury))

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"[Animals could speak like men] in the reign of Kronos (Cronus). But anon, they say, Zeus changed all things to the contrary and in no happy mood, Zeus, the just, dispensing injustice, he robbed four-footed things of speech and, as if we had not strength enough even to bestow on others, he changed this hapless race to human kind . . . (Callimachus, Iambi Fragment 1 (from Oxyrhynchus Papyri 7) (trans. Trypanis) (Greek poet C3rd B.C.))

The Golden Age, h. 1530 by Lucas Cranach el Viejo.

But... He ate his children.

And rightly so, even I would have done it.

Cronus, like many other divine beings, is proof that even titans and gods can have fear, anxiety, that they can overthink a lot and actually be afraid. That honestly, rather than pushing me away or considering him a villain, brings me closer to him.

Let's think: why did Cronus ate his children?

It is well known that Uranus, his father, cursed him or gave him the prophecy that this would happen: his sons would assassinate him and put an end to his reign. Personally, I consider that Cronos, rather than being distressed by the fact that his throne would be taken away, was more distressed by the part where he was killed by all of them. We can even talk about a trauma in the relationship with his father and the fear that the same thing would happen to him. Come on, having empathy is not difficult at all.

So, as a person with anxiety, he simply reacted trying to avoid something that could harm him: in his desperation, he devoured his babies. I mean, if someone tells you that someone is going to kill you, you would probably have a similar reaction, you would want to run away or finish that person off.

Zeus won the battle of the Titanomachy, many titans (for no apparent reason) were sent to Tartarus.

What many ignore is that Zeus forgave his father (more than forgave, I think they had a long father-son talk over tea and cookies) and made him king of the Elysian Fields. Imagine how beautiful and benevolent Cronus is to be king of such a beautiful place.

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Well, that would be for now. You can find more information in my profile. I hope it will be of much help. Thanks for reading me!

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All these tracks were ripped from cassettes that I've picked up in the last year or so.

Apologies for any tape fuzz, and I hope you enjoy the mix and have a happy and safe new year 🙏🏻

Radha and Friends - Peace on Earth (New Zealand, c.1987) Peter Pritchard - Golden Harvest (New Zealand, 1987) William Bowden - The Mantle of the Sky(Australia, 1994) Robert Rankin - Over the Snowies (Australia, 1994) 宗次郎 Sojiro - The Huang He Civilisation (Japan, 1986) Joyous Path - Tranquil Dawn (Australia, 1994) Japetus - Eclipse (Australia, 1984) Emese - Om Mani Padme Hum (Australia, 1987)🕉🔥 陈国华 Mark Chan - Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Singapore, 1991) Ash Family Music - Vortex, Gateway to Ascension (United Kingdom, c.1980s)

(Descent to Kailash 岡仁波齊之靈)