{"id":2762,"date":"2008-12-09T23:32:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T22:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/?p=2762"},"modified":"2016-01-09T13:38:25","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T12:38:25","slug":"naga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/2008\/12\/09\/naga","title":{"rendered":"Naga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Naga\" src=\"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/gallery\/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&amp;g2_itemId=16430&amp;g2_serialNumber=1\" alt=\"Two or one giant snakes in red and blue carry the world as yin and yang with their heads\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/>\n <small>by JunoMagic<br \/>\n Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives-ShareAlike license<\/small><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Naga<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wrapped in my coils, I carry the world<br \/>\n in figures of eight.<br \/>\n Beyond time,<br \/>\n beyond space,<br \/>\n beyond strife \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<br \/>\n <em>nirvana<\/em> elusive.<\/p>\n<p>Born into mud, I soak up the sun.<br \/>\n Storms scrape my skin,<br \/>\n hail pounds my husk,<br \/>\n droughts drain me dry.<\/p>\n<p>My breaths measured,<br \/>\n my movements constrained,<br \/>\n my heart broken,<br \/>\n I glimpse life \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<\/p>\n<p>understand \u00e2\u20ac\u201c<br \/>\n <em>and ascend.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Song of the day:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 430px; text-align: center;\">\n<object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"426\" height=\"327\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"env=embed&amp;widget=19f4af0465ccc1f233ebf67d11f16b83&amp;playlist=578693d92c6165f2e548825ab10f0fca&amp;vuid=embed\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.mixwit.com\/flash\/widgets\/shell.swf\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"426\" height=\"327\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mixwit.com\/flash\/widgets\/shell.swf\" wmode=\"transparent\" flashvars=\"env=embed&amp;widget=19f4af0465ccc1f233ebf67d11f16b83&amp;playlist=578693d92c6165f2e548825ab10f0fca&amp;vuid=embed\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/www.mixwit.com\/m.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixwit.com\/?e\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEyMjg4NjE2MzM3NTAmcHQ9MTIyODg2MTYzNTM3NSZwPTE4NDMzMSZkPSZnPTEmdD*mbz*5NDEwMDYwNTVmOTg*YTViYTIxNzgyNzVmM2YzNmE*MQ==.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Link(s) of the day:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"offsite link\" href=\"http:\/\/books.google.de\/books?id=au_Vk2VYyrkC&amp;pg=PA428&amp;lpg=PA428&amp;dq=naga+snake&amp;source=web&amp;ots=r_C0G8bXHh&amp;sig=O5vd6R_XBZFGEg0U_ENWg2Ug2m0&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;resnum=6&amp;ct=result#PPA428,M1\" target=\"_blank\">Naga\u00e2\u20ac\u201dSouth Asian Folklore<\/a> | <a title=\"offsite link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.santosha.com\/asanas\/naga.html\" target=\"_blank\">Naga-asana\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe Cobra pose<\/a> | <a title=\"offsite link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kamat.com\/picturehouse\/designs\/5406.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Naga Mandala<\/a> | <a title=\"offsite link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smithsonianglobalsound.org\/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=11641\" target=\"_blank\">A Naga-Swaram Snake Charmers Melody<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8230;and my wish for you today is:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Within pain, within loneliness, within the transience of all being, may you find the riches of understanding and compassion.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Before you leave a comment, you may want to read <a href=\"http:\/\/juno-magic.livejournal.com\/583315.html#cutid2\">THIS<\/a> note.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":194,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,124],"class_list":["post-2762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-junomagic","tag-advent-calendar","tag-advent-calendar-2008"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/194"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11950,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2762\/revisions\/11950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juno-magic.fancrone.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}