PhotoHunt: Support
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Can anything be more apt than this?
This is Atlas carrying the world. In Greek mythology, he was punished by Zeus to bear the weight of the Earth on his back.
According to Wikipedia:
One of Heracles’s labors was to collect the apples of the Hesperides. Heracles went to Atlas and reasoned with him. Eventually, Atlas agreed to collect the apples, and Heracles was left to carry the weight. Atlas tried to leave Heracles there, but Heracles tricked him and Atlas was left to carry the heavens forever. In his epic Odyssey, Homer refers to this Atlas as “one who knows the depths of the whole sea, and keeps the tall pillars who hold heaven and earth asunder..”
This is why a book of maps is called Atlas. A book containing maps of the world is called World Atlas.
This statue is somewhere in Manhattan. Photo taken by my trusty digital camera.
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there you go! u learn something new everyday. thanks for that info - most appreciated n that is a lovely pix!
I am reading Atlas Shrugged right now…the cover of the book has Atlas and the globe! Excellent. Most excellent photo.
My Photo Hunt is posted. Stop by if you can, would love to have you visit with me. Have a great weekend.
PERFECT! This shot is the best fit for the theme that I’ve seen all day!
Great job and nice shot.
Happy Hunting. Hope you can stop by and visit me.
that is the most supportive photo
Now that greek character is the EPITOME of support.
That’s perfect for today’s Support topic! Bravo!
Cheers, Klaus
and i say perfect, too, aileen. i am not alone in thinking that this is the best as far as the takes that i’ve seen. very informative, too.
@mistyeiz
it was my pleasure. i learned, too. i knew who he was but i had to look up the story of why he was punished.
@hootin’ ani
what a coincidence! is that a mythology book or it some other novel?
@crazy working mom @ sarge charlie @ write from karen @bingskee
thank you so much. actually it was a last-minute entry. i thought i wouldn’t join this week’s photohunt because i had no idea what to post, but then i browsed through the photos in my laptop and saw this. i thought, hey, this is perfect!
Perfect choice for this week’s PH theme!
Here’s mine . . .
http://3garnetsn2sapphires.blogspot.com/2008/07/photohunt-support-and-some-blog-awards.html
hehehehe I need support lol!
@karen of sillymonkeez
thanks!
@manilenya
why? bakit?
kidding lol!
Rockefeller institute galing yan. just across it is another statue. sino nga ba? l
atlas shrugged was penned by Ayn Rand. She has another book with a more interesting picture on the cover.: Yung american bald eagle casting a long shadow forming the iconic nazi eagle holding a swastika. everytime I read about bush and the neocons trampling american civil liberties in the name of peace and order, that cover of Rand’s book comes to my mind. I used to see it in national bookstore even before 911. the picture was prophetic.
My second daughter’s (Sabine) second name is Ayn. ..But I do not agree with her philosophy.
@TK
um, maybe you are right. i did go to rockefeller center. basta sure ako na sa fifth avenue ko nakita ang statue na ito.
i don’t know ayn rand’s philosophy deeply enough to comment on it. objectivism, right?
now i’m curious. i want to read atlas shrugged..
Oy, Manha-an? So, have you gone to 42nd Street yet?
um, i don’t really remember which street was which. but 42nd street intersects with fifth, seventh, and madison, right?
i guess i have.
hindi na sya red light district ngayon abaniko. dahil kay giuliani. It’s the only good thing I can say about the man. next topic.
um, di ko alam pinag-uusapan nyo. *confused*
how can someone be more supportive than a man who can actually carry the world? hehe…
exactly.
Quite incidentally, they call our first vertebra, the bone just below our skull, the atlas, for the same reason. Excellent photo!
really? i didn’t know that. now you’ve sent me on a research spree!