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« Reply #1035 on: June 20, 2023, 21:20:00 » |
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Another international example - why great care should be taken in looking around prior to construction - this from Heritage DailyDEITY OF DEATH STATUE FOUND DURING MAYA TRAIN CONSTRUCTION
ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY (INAH) HAVE FOUND AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC STATUE DEPICTING A MAYA DEATH DEITY FROM THE EARLY CLASSIC PERIOD (AD 200-600)
The discovery was made during construction works of Section 7 of the Maya Train near the village of Conhuas in the Mexican state of Campeche. Conhuas is situated in close proximity to the ruins of Balamku, a Maya temple complex which contains one of the largest surviving stucco friezes from the Maya world.
The statue is sculptured from limestone and may depict Cizin, also spelled Kisin, the Maya god of death, whose name is believed to mean “Stinking One.” According to Lacandon myth, when a person dies, Cizin burns the soul on his mouth and his anus until the soul disintegrates into nothing. |
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« Reply #1036 on: June 21, 2023, 09:44:37 » |
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Another international example - why great care should be taken in looking around prior to construction - this from Heritage DailyDEITY OF DEATH STATUE FOUND DURING MAYA TRAIN CONSTRUCTION
ARCHAEOLOGISTS FROM THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANTHROPOLOGY AND HISTORY (INAH) HAVE FOUND AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC STATUE DEPICTING A MAYA DEATH DEITY FROM THE EARLY CLASSIC PERIOD (AD 200-600)
The discovery was made during construction works of Section 7 of the Maya Train near the village of Conhuas in the Mexican state of Campeche. Conhuas is situated in close proximity to the ruins of Balamku, a Maya temple complex which contains one of the largest surviving stucco friezes from the Maya world.
The statue is sculptured from limestone and may depict Cizin, also spelled Kisin, the Maya god of death, whose name is believed to mean “Stinking One.” According to Lacandon myth, when a person dies, Cizin burns the soul on his mouth and his anus until the soul disintegrates into nothing. Sounds like a painful end |
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« Reply #1037 on: June 21, 2023, 14:16:07 » |
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The only deity they might dig up in constructing the Portishead line might be an effigy of St Dawn of Primarolo, coloured bright red, eating Richard Cotterell previous chair of ATA ..Advanced Transport for Avon.
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« Reply #1038 on: June 21, 2023, 17:49:48 » |
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The only deity they might dig up in constructing the Portishead line might be an effigy of St Dawn of Primarolo, coloured bright red, eating Richard Cotterell previous chair of ATA ..Advanced Transport for Avon.
Or St Marvin on the Mount Without (an Arenal)? He said Mass more often than the Pope, although usually with the word Transit after it. |
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« Reply #1039 on: June 21, 2023, 17:57:22 » |
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Gives a whole new meaning to that popular phrase people use when they can't deliver by Friday:
"Sick Transit, Gloria. Monday?"
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« Reply #1040 on: June 22, 2023, 20:18:40 » |
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Gives a whole new meaning to that popular phrase people use when they can't deliver by Friday:
"Sick Transit, Gloria. Monday?"
Caesar sic in omnibus. |
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« Reply #1041 on: June 23, 2023, 15:58:37 » |
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Or the complete version:
Caesar adsum iam forte
Pompey aderat
Caesar sic in omnibus
Pompey sic inat
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« Reply #1043 on: June 23, 2023, 19:12:52 » |
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As any fule kno.
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« Reply #1044 on: October 14, 2023, 11:25:59 » |
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From Somerset LiveSomerset rail line to be reopened as work to protect bats complete
A new ‘bat corridor’ has been created along a busy route out of Portishead as part of plans to re-open the town's defunct railway line. Trees have been planted along the A369 Portbury Hundred to provide an alternative bat corridor for the nocturnal creatures living along the route of the proposed new line.
A maintenance plan is now in place to ensure the saplings are fed and watered over the coming months. The work is part of a package of ‘ecology enabling works’ for the new MetroWest line. |
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« Reply #1045 on: October 14, 2023, 12:56:24 » |
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A maintenance plan is now in place to ensure the saplings are fed and watered over the coming months.
Hey! It's autumn (or early winter). Watering plan, really? |
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« Reply #1046 on: October 15, 2023, 09:23:23 » |
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A maintenance plan is now in place to ensure the saplings are fed and watered over the coming months.
Hey! It's autumn (or early winter). Watering plan, really? Ensuring plan really. From Somerset LiveSomerset rail line to be reopened as work to protect bats complete
A new ‘bat corridor’ has been created along a busy route out of Portishead as part of plans to re-open the town's defunct railway line. Trees have been planted along the A369 Portbury Hundred to provide an alternative bat corridor for the nocturnal creatures living along the route of the proposed new line.
"Holy pipistrellus pipistrellus, caped crusader!" "Yes, to the bat corridor, Boy Wonder!" (Music: Dinner, dinner, dinner, dinner...) |
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« Reply #1047 on: October 16, 2023, 09:07:03 » |
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Not good news about this new line, they have now decided they need to do a new business case to see if the line will pay if re opened as the previous one was done before covid so they want to see if it's now changed,
They hope to have the new full business case submitted by march 2024 with hopefully approval of this by summer 2024 September at the latest ,
So we are now potentially a year away from them starting the building work on the new line,
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« Reply #1048 on: October 16, 2023, 09:19:15 » |
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The need to complete the business case was always there from the point when the DCO▸ was granted. Has anything changed?
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« Reply #1049 on: October 16, 2023, 09:41:02 » |
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Not good news about this new line, they have now decided they need to do a new business case to see if the line will pay if re opened as the previous one was done before covid so they want to see if it's now changed,
They hope to have the new full business case submitted by march 2024 with hopefully approval of this by summer 2024 September at the latest ,
So we are now potentially a year away from them starting the building work on the new line,
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