On 7/13/2012 7:34 AM, C.H.Ling wrote:
> 1974 with Olympus XA? As I remember XA was introduced since 1979.
Yeah, I just discovered that last night on the eSIF. I did take an XA to Mexico
on later trips, but it can't have been
on this one. :-)
Back then, when I was 30, I thought I'd remember everything, and didn't keep
notes or a travel journal. As it turns out
all these decades later, I do remember the important stuff, but less important
details and especially the time lines are
less clear.
I think it must then have been my then almost new OM-1, probably with 50/1.8,
although I may have had the 100/2.8 by
then - or was that the next year?
My late wife was half Mexican and born in Mexico City, and we visited fairly
often. Here she is at the Museum where the
fountain images were taken later in the day.
<http://galleries.moosemystic.net/MooseFoto/index.php?gallery=Travel/Mexico/Mexico_City_and%20Taxco_1974&image=Nov74P3-Mexico_16oof20.jpg>
The quote above her head is from the Popol Vuh, a collection of
mytho-historical narratives of the K'iche' (Quiché/Maya)
kingdom in Guatemala's western highlands (Whose descendants Tina has so
beautifully documented.) An appropriate source
for quotation in the major museum of the anthropology of Mexico and Central
America.
English translations vary quite a bit, depending in part on whether they are
from Spanish translations or the original
text. Here are a couple:
"Thus let it be done! Let the emptiness be filled! Let the water recede and
make a void, let the
earth appear and become solid; let it be done. Thus they spoke. Let there be
light, let there be
dawn in the sky and on the earth! There shall be neither glory nor grandeur in
our creation and
formation until the human being is made, man is formed."
"Let it be this way, think about it: this water should be removed, emptied out
for the formation of the earth's own plate and platform, then comes the sowing,
the dawning of the sky-earth. But there will be no high days and no bright
praise for our work, our design, until the rise of the human work, the human
design,"
Travelin Moose
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What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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