#moluccas

[coffeenuts]

[randomstateofminds]

🖼️ Saturday morning view, Hunimua Beach.

📍 Liang Village, Central Moluccas.

🗓️ May 2023.

[olessan]

[asdfjasklfjdkla]

tonight in lancer homebrew we have made WORM

[tentacion3099]

South Moluccan gunman stands guard as he allows one of the hostages to collect food left at the entrance of the consulate - 1975 Indonesian consulate hostage crisis, in Amsterdam.

[rattyexplores]

The Rubbish Bird

So called because of their new natural habitat, Australian rubbish bins.

Threskiornis molucca

18/03/23

[hasellia]

I present to you the runner up for Australia's 2017 national Bird of the year competition. Everyone give them a chippie.

nothing has fucked me up more than knowing the australian white ibis has a near-identical sister species called the african sacred ibis. the african sacred ibis is associated with thoth, ancient god of wisdom and reason. the australian white ibis is most commonly referred to as a “bin chicken”.

[manga-ranga]

Thoughts on Guardians of the Dream Patch on WoW

Cool, we get to see the Wild Gods again and go into the Emerald Dream

Q'onzu is a bastard that radiates the confidence and arsehole-ry of a bin chicken fresh out the dumpster

.......wait, why is there no bin chicken Wild God?

ARE THERE BIN CHICKENS IN AZEROTH!?

*designs a thing

Lore wise... how would they work...

Molucca (in tribute to the native bin chickens of Australia)

Lore theory #1

A wild god of resilience, adaptability, and resourcefulness. Molucca is the paragon of adjusting to any change that comes its way and walks the lines between life and death, growth and decay. A fearsome and ancient wild god that seldom interacts with others as she is feared for being seemingly unstoppable. She does see eye to eye with Jani, Loa of Scavengers

Lore theory #2

The bronze dragons fucked up with the timelines

(as my cousin said "Someone chucked a bin chook through the wrong time portal")

[herpsandbirds]

Australian White Ibis (Threskiornis molucca), family Threskiornithidae, order Pelicaniformes, QLD, Australia

photograph by Kristeen Schulte Baggetto

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold ancestral crown, Moluccas people, Indonesia, 15th-17th century

from The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

[randomstateofminds]

🖼️ Sunset.

📍 Ngurbloat Beach, Ohoililir Village, Southeast Moluccas.

🗓️ December 2021.

[moths-daily]

Hello! Can you do Thyas Juno please? Thank you!

Moth Of The Day #256

Thyas juno

From the erebidae family. They have an estimated wingspan of 70-90 mm. They can be found in the Indian subregion, China, Japan, Korea, Thailand, Borneo, Java, Sulawesi and on the southern Moluccas.

Image sources: [1] [2]

[mapsontheweb]

Spaniards and Portuguese in India and the Malay Archipelago, 1498-1580.

“Historical atlas”, William Shepherd, University of London Press, 3rd ed. 1924

by cartesdhistoire

Muslim merchants from Gujarat, based in Cambay, dominated maritime trade in the Indian Ocean in the 15th century, supported by Hindu and Jain financiers and an organized network of correspondents. The Malabar coast, a major pepper supplier, served as a hub for commercial interactions between Arab merchants from the Gulf of Aden or Oman and Chinese merchants – or their intermediaries – from Sumatra and Malacca. Muslim merchants primarily engaged in the spice trade.

The arrival of Vasco da Gama in Calicut in 1498 disrupted this system. In 1502, King Manuel entrusted him with commanding a second expedition aimed at eliminating all Muslim presence in the Indian Ocean. The Sultans of Gujarat and the Deccan sought assistance from a Mamluk fleet to counter the Portuguese, but it was defeated before Diu in 1509, paving the way for Portuguese conquests of Goa in 1510, Malacca in 1511, Hormuz in 1515, Diu in 1535, and Daman in 1539.

The Portuguese occupied the southwest coast of Ceylon from 1505 to access cinnamon, establishing a fort in Colombo in 1518. They controlled the north, west, and south coasts of the island, key areas for the cinnamon and precious stone trade.

The Moluccas were another target because the Banda Islands produced nutmeg, while Ternate and Tidore produced cloves. The Portuguese established privileged relations with the sultans of Ternate and Tidore, facilitating their settlement in Amboyna and Timor, despite the capture of Malacca from Sultan Mahmoud Shah.

The Portuguese monopoly endured until the emergence of the English East India Company and the Battle of Swally in 1612.

Meanwhile, Spain remained engaged in the spice race, aiming to connect America to the Moluccas and their spices. Following expeditions in 1525 (Loayza) and 1528 (Saavedra), Spain secured a definitive return route in 1565 (Urdaneta) and established settlements in the Philippines in 1571.

[ltwilliammowett]

Boat model made of cloves, it was made in the Moluccas (now part of Indonesia) in the 19th century

The object represents a prau, a type of ship called Orembai or Arombai in the Moluccas, which was used by local monarchs for official occasions such as state visits. The production of clove (boat) models and other objects originated on Ambon in the early 18th century, during the time of the flourishing spice trade by the VOC and the colonial rule of the Netherlands in Indonesia. Shipwrights and other artisans worked on these objects as a pastime, using the materials available to them in abundance.

They then sold them to Dutchmen, who often brought them home as souvenirs. This tradition lived on well into the 20th century, as a result of which several variants are now known in museums and collections throughout the Netherlands.

[mutant-distraction]

Matt Laughton

Australians Swamphen

The Australasian swamphen (Porphyrio melanotus) is a species of swamphen (Porphyrio) occurring in eastern Indonesia (the Moluccas, Aru and Kai Islands), Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. In New Zealand, it is known as the pūkeko. The species used to be considered a subspecies of the purple swamphen.

[smithsonianlibraries]

Illustrations of frogs from Thomas Barbour’s A contribution to the zoögeography of the East Indian islands (1912).

The frogs in question are: Moluccas frog (top), Horst's tree frog (left), Papua wrinkled ground frog (right), Papua frog (bottom). Full text available here.