HINDUISM : Advaita Vedanta Advaita Vedanta is the culmination of Hindu thought. This philosophy stems directly from the experiences of great mystics Indo-Aryan that 4,000 years later wrote the Vedas and the Upanishads. Vedanta means precisely adhering to the genuine teaching of the Vedas, while Advaita means' non-dualist. " The first codification of this doctrine was about Shankara in 800 AD.
Recall that in Hinduism the term indicates the individual soul, Atman, Brahman, and the term indicates the supreme principle, without any form or definition ("neti, neti" that is "not this, not this).
Advaita Vedanta proclaims simply the identity of Atman with Brahman and the illusion of the whole world of sense: both the phenomenal universe, our consciousness and bodily being, that our experiences are actually illusory. Man's task is to break the illusory veil of Maya and awareness of this identity (lighting).
man, therefore, the Advaita Vedanta, is just like the prisoner of the "Myth of cave "by Plato, who swaps the shadows on the wall to the reality away from light and immersed in the shadows of a pseudo.
The Rishis (sages Hindu ascetics) retreated alone into the forest to meditate and get the awareness of ' identity of Atman and Brahman. The results of their experiences are exactly the Vedas: "Tat tvam asi," You're the one, says the Upanishad Chandogya written 1000 years before Christ to the comment of the Veda.
600 years before Christ Siddhartha Gautama the Buddha for the first time made public the path to enlightenment that so many Hindus consider genuine Hinduism to Buddhism as a heresy, but on this we would be very to discuss.
report some very significant steps taken from the Upanishads, on Advaita Vedanta:
"This supreme Brahman, the universal atman, huge house with everything that exists, anything thinner than thin, steady: in truth and yourself, for Thou art That "(Kaivalya Upanishad, I, 16).
"When it is known the supreme atman, which rests in a hidden place, without parties and without duality, as a witness, and being free from non-being, the atman reaches the universal condition" ( Kaivalya Upanishad II, 23-24).
"This Atman is not can be learned through teaching, nor by sacrifice, nor by many lessons ... This Atman is not attainable for one who lacks determination, that it divests itself to illusions, or performs an illegal asceticism. "(Mundaka Upanishad, III, II, 3 and 4).
" He who knows that supreme Brahman, that he becomes the Brahman "(Mundaka Upanishad, III, II, 9).
" Through the mere study of the scriptures or the scholarship can not be realized Atman, nor by the intellectual debates and classroom "(Katha Upanishad, I, II, 23).
" The wise, having studied the treaties of religious and secular knowledge, desert such treaties, as one who leaves the skin looking for the seed "(Brahmabindù Upanishad, 18).
" We must stop the mind in the heart until it is not possible to silence this condition is the true knowledge and liberation, everything else is merely wordy literature "(Brahmabindù Upanishad, 5).
" Yes, I know only the sacred texts, venerable master, but I do not know what the Self (Atman ). By great masters like you I have learned that the man who knows the Self beyond all pain. I am in a state of pain. Want to please a revered master, to let me pass all pain "(Chandogya Upanishad, VII, I, 3).
" Everything you study is not a set of words "(Chandogya Upanishad, VII, I, 3).
" In a frightful darkness enter those who live in ignorance and darkness even worse those who have only a theoretical knowledge "(Svetasvara Upanishad, IV, IV, 10).
" It is through knowledge that we will reach more than the casual. Science reveals to us the divine knowledge of the reality that transcends the senses, it reveals the principle, the uncaused cause of all, the One who has no form or name "(Mundaka Upanishad, I, I, 6).
"Without sound, formless, intangible, not decay, without taste and smell, without beginning or end, immutable, eternal, transcending all nature, ineffable. Those who can make it, and they only, are free from the jaws of death "(Katha Upanishad, I, III, 15).
"Reality, Knowledge, Infinite is Brahman. In the world of perishable things: name, form, time, space, causality, one that does not perish is the Imperishable. He that abideth forever even beyond the name, form of time-space and causality, and that is designated by the word that, he named the supreme Atman. I can not be seen in the forms of space, the breath of life and other restrictions. They are free form, the name and action. I am Brahman, the fact of existence, consciousness and bliss. This is the Real Science "(Sarvasara Upanishad).
Kabbalah The Cabala (Kabbalah," what has been received ") is the Jewish esoteric tradition. She was born in the Jewish communities of the diaspora from sixth century AD. Just at this time appeared the main kabbalistic text, the Sepher Yetzirah. Later in the thirteenth century AD, the Zohar appeared that many consider the fundamental Kabbalistic text. In these texts you try to express words and place in a doctrine of organic the experiences of the great Jewish mystics.
Kabbalah regards the secret aspect of creation and is based essentially on the concept of the Sephiroth (singular = Sephirath).
They are the powers of the divine, but they are contained in the divine itself. They are emanations of En Sof, the hidden God, infinite, unknowable. Although emanating from God, are part of God himself. The
are ten Sephiroth, and are meant as a hierarchical tree of life. The nearest to En Sof is Keter (crown) followed by Binah (understanding) and Hokhmah (wisdom) at a lower level are Gevurah (strength) and Hesed (mercy), then the fourth level the tree of life find me Tiferet (beauty), there are lower Hod (glory) and Netzach (eternity), the sixth level is Yesod (foundation), for there last Malkuth (the kingdom). The material component of the Sephiroth increases as one moves away from the principles laid down by En Sof.
While Sephiroth are part of the Divine, all that is below Malkuth is not a member, so, while the Sephiroth talking about adoption, for this world than we talk about creation.
The ten Sephiroth are connected by twenty-two paths corresponding to the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet and to twenty-two Major Arcana of the Tarot.
According to Kabbalistic tradition, En Sof contracted to make its energy in the form of Sephiroth. The contraction was necessary because it was the All En Sof and there would be room for anything else. The enactment of Sephiroth takes place in a timeless reality, because time exists only in the lower world to Malkuth.
The Sephiroth are perceived by the mystic in his rise from the nearest Malkuth the material world to climb to higher depending on the degree of knowledge that he attains.
As you can see the Kabbalistic doctrine has much in common coll'emanazionismo Platonists Plotinus, but also with Gnosticism as the concept of Sephirath can be compared to that of the Gnostic Aeon.
The Sephiroth are derived from En Sof for adoption. The Tree of the Sephiroth is Qadmon Adam, the primordial Adam. Keter is its crown and generates Hokhmah and Binah. Hokhmah is the primordial wisdom is the intelligence and Binah, the womb, the Divine Mother. Binah receives the seed from Hokhmah and generates the seven lower Sephiroth. Keter, Binah Hokmath and form the head of the heavenly body Dell'Adami Qadmon. The pair of Hesed and Gevurah are the arms. Tiferet is the central part of the body. Netzach and Hod are the legs. Yesod is the male genital organ, the generative force of the universe. Are channeled through Yesod, to the last Sefirah, Malkuth light and the strength of the preceding Sephiroth. Malkuth is also known as Shekinah. From top to bottom, the Sephiroth represent the drama of emanation, the transition to the creation by Eni Sof. From the ground up, the Sephiroth form a ladder leading up to the One.
esoteric Jewish literature in the Shekinah means the manifestation and the presence of God, it indicates the immanence of God in the world, His eternal presence.
Esotericism mean that the Jewish God really possesses anthropomorphic traits, such as emotions and feelings, and consider those who still live in a relationship with God in the form of an interpersonal relationship as "handicapped" Spiritual, children not yet grown.
We would also like to point out that the process of enactment is traced backwards from the mystical Jewish in his asceticism.
PIU 'speed of light? We know from Einstein's theory of relativity that the speed of light (300,000 miles per second) is a no: no material body can travel at speeds in excess in the Universe, which would place an insurmountable limit to We hope to make contact with other civilizations, given the vast distances that characterize the Universe (like that of our nearest galaxy is 2 and a half million light years).
If in the equations of this theory is put to the speed values \u200b\u200bgreater than 300,000 km / s are obtained negative values \u200b\u200bfor the time: you go back in time!
When these equations are placed in the variable "energy" (momentum = mass x velocity) imaginary numbers [imaginary numbers are defined in Algebra as the square roots of negative numbers], you get the speed higher than the speed of light.
E 'was then formulated the following scientific theory: in our space-time particles of matter can not exceed the speed of light and therefore were defined BRADIONI. But there is a Space-time, the particles of matter can not travel at speeds less than that of light and have therefore been defined tachyons. So the speed of light would always be a limit, but for two "Space-Time" different.
Now, to clarify the mass-energy equivalence equation E = M x C x C (where E is energy, M the mass and C the speed of light), we know turn matter into energy (see H-bomb, nuclear power plants, etc. ..) and we also do the opposite situation. But for now, what do we know only subatomic particles that transform into photons (massless particles that make up light). To hope use these considerations to travel in space, you should first transform the bodies of large mass into energy (photons), then tachyon, then, arrived at their destination, and finally back into photons in material bodies.
may seem like science fiction, but there was a disturbing phenomenon to say the least: the spin is the rotation of an electron around its axis, so there are two types of spin. Often induces an electron an electron near prendre his own spin without it already has. Well, this happens instantly, regardless of the distance between the two electrons, and at speeds exceeding that of light. So the famous
Hyperspace, the fantasized by writers of fiction, nothing more than the world of tachyons.
Time will tell!
E = M C ² x E = M x C ²
[C ² is Bill C-squared and indicates CXC]
It 's the formula due to Einstein that establishes definitively the equivalence of mass and energy. For example, in the middle of all the stars, and then also at the center of the Sun, four hydrogen atoms, because of the enormous pressure inside the star, they combine to form a helium atom. The mass of a Helium thus formed is, however, slightly less than the sum of four hydrogen atoms. The loss of mass is is transformed into energy and therefore the stars radiate a huge amount of energy into space. In the formula, the letter C indicates the speed of light is 300000 km / sec and is the highest speed reached in the Universe. When you approach the speed, time slows down. In fact, in particle accelerators like CERN is observed that if you accelerate a particle (eg muon) at a rate of 99.5% of that of light, its life expectancy increases by 10 times. This is because space and time are not two separate entities, but are only two aspects of one reality which physicists call the "spacetime".
The equivalence between Mass and energy is used successfully in nuclear reactors to produce electricity and, unfortunately, in atomic bombs. In particular, the H-bomb, it exploits the fusion of hydrogen in a helium atom, as the interiors of stars.
THE SPEED 'OF LIGHT The light propagates in space at a speed of 300,000 kilometers per second. E 'was shown by the theory of relativity Einstein's special that this is the highest possible speed in the universe. When you approach the speed, time slows down. In fact, in particle accelerators like the CERN Geneva Note that if you accelerate a particle (eg muon) at a rate of 99.5% of that of light, its life expectancy increases by 10 times. This because Space and Time are not two separate entities, but are only two aspects of one reality which physicists call the "Spacetime . The light in certain physical experiments behaves as if it were made of particles (photons, mass almost nothing) and other physical experiments behaves as if it were made of waves. These waves, unlike sound waves propagate in a vacuum, however. We speak therefore of wave-particle duality. In fact, the theories are true, and two: they are our attempt to describe unknowable reality. The speed of light is an enormous speed, but compared to the vastness of the Universe, we realize that is not true. Already come from the Sun to our eyes, the light takes 8 minutes, so the Sun's image that we see now is actually the sun as it was eight minutes ago.
The closest star to us (considering not the Sun) is Proxima Centauri which is 4.2 years-light. This means that when I look at that star, I see it as it was about 4 years and three months ago, because this is the time that his image has taken to arrive at my eyes and then to my brain. But if I go with her eyes to observe a faint haze located in the constellation Andromeda , well that's the Andromeda galaxy (consisting of 300 billion stars) is 2 and a half million light years, then see how it was 2 and a half million years ago, when that image is playing on Earth there was still the Man!
But Andromeda is one of the galaxies nearest to us: there are galaxies away from us millions and billions of light years. When we look at the telescope which is a galaxy a few billion light years, probably see an object has disappeared with all possible civilizations that they were (think that the average lifetime of a star as the sun is 10 billion years).
As you can see, just look up to heaven to go back in time: time and space are inextricably linked.
PLATO: THE MYTH OF THE CAVE AND Some men are chained in a cave since childhood with his back exit, and then forced to look only toward the end wall. Upon exiting the cave there is a high wall around the opening half. Behind this wall of men carrying on the shoulders of statues representing all sorts of things. Behind these men burns a great fire in the sky and the sun shines. The projects focus on the bottom of the cave only the shadows of the statues, because the men who carry them are hidden from the wall. The voices resound as an echo of the carriers at the bottom of the cavern to which the prisoners think they are the voices of the shadows of the statues. Prisoners are therefore convinced that the shadows cast on the bottom of the cave are the only existing reality.
One of the prisoners can escape. He turns and heads for the exit of the cave and discovers that the statues and shadows are not the true reality. Leaving the cave, he saw the external reality, he discovers that even the statues are the reality, but only imitations of real things. Finally, after being accustomed to the bright light which was not used, he discovers that all things are visible due to sunlight.
At first he decides to stay forever in that wonderful place, but then remembers the terrible situation of his comrades and return them to explain the truth. But back inside the cave, his eyes now dazzled by the light, most do not distinguish the shadows of the statues.
Then the companions deride and despise him and continue to make the highest honors to those that best distinguish the statuettes. Finally, annoyed at his attempt to free them and bring them out of the cave, kill him.
SYMBOLS:
-slaves chained rappresntano Man.
-The cave is our fantasy world.
-The shadows of the statues representing all the things in the world of sense.
-chains are ignorance and the passions that we nailed to this life.
-Fire represents the arche, the first principle that allows the existence of things of the sensible world, namely the principle that allows us to see the shadows of true reality that is of Ideas.
-The Sun is the supreme Idea, the Supreme Good, that makes everything knowable.
In the second part of the myth of the cave is very clear that the two choices is presented to those who have attained enlightenment: either remain in been reached or return to bring the truth to men.
In Theravada Buddhism, the latter figure coincides with that of "Bodhisattva" and as the Buddha, because of his compassion for mankind, to temporarily surrender his state of enlightenment to make known to all sentient beings on the path towards Truth to free them from the chains of this illusory world.
In this light, Christ can also be regarded as a bodhisattva.
' POSSIBLE that an asteroid hits the Earth? In the past the Earth has been hit by asteroids. The most striking example is the Tunguska incident in Siberia on June 30, 1908 7:14 of a meteorite of about 30 meters in diameter fell in the area. The result was the killing of some 65 million trees over an area of \u200b\u200b2150 square kilometers. The sound of the explosion was heard up to 1000 kilometers away and the huge glare caused by the impact was seen even at much greater distances. In London it was midnight, but the sky lit up like daylight.
Luckily the meteorite fell in an uninhabited area. What would happen if he fell on a big city?
65 years ago, millions of tourists and became extinct on our planet, the dinosaurs that lived 160 million years. Their extinction was due to the fall of an asteroid probably 10 miles in diameter. This asteroid fell on the Yucatan, Mexico, causing a crater of 180 kilometers in diameter. His fall resulted in the development of huge quantities of dust which spread throughout the atmosphere of our planet. The Sun is "dark" for tens of years and the intense cold caused the end of the dinosaurs.
A similar event also happened 250 million years ago and caused the almost total extinction of life on our planet.
These events can be repeated? How likely is that a large asteroid will strike it down again on Earth? Scientists estimate that some 100,000 asteroids and comets wander near the earth. Of these, 20 000 are a possible threat of an impact with Earth. NASA telescopes currently available, allowed to now identify and observe a third of these celestial objects, about 6330. "Bringing in these encounter during their journey to Earth orbit and in the future could become a possible threat to our planet," said NASA's Lindley Johnson experienced.
On the other hand, if you look at the surface of the Moon or Mercury, you see that are characterized by hundreds of meteorite craters, but these two celestial bodies are devoid of atmosphere. The smaller asteroids can not reach the Earth's surface because they are burnt, crushed and pulverized due to the enormous friction that arises when they enter the atmosphere. The craters caused by asteroids larger in their impact with Earth are difficult to identify because of erosion over the centuries of weather (wind, rain, snow, hail, rivers and streams due to erosion, etc. ...).
A threat to the Earth he ran March 2, 2009, when an asteroid about 40 meters in diameter was increased to 63,500 kilometers from Earth, very short distance in astronomical terms, but the worrying fact is that NASA had identified only February 27!
The next event is expected to be kept under control in 2036 when the asteroid Aphosis (390 meters long) crosses the orbit of the Earth. The certainty in the path of this asteroid will have only in 2029.
The NEAT (Near Earth Asteroid Tracking) is the organization that is responsible for controlling the asteroids, but that remains to be considered for now have not been yet identified all the asteroids exist.
canonical Gospels and Apocrypha the Council of Nicaea convened by Emperor Constantine in 325 AD, the Catholic Church adopted the four canonical Gospels and rejected all others. To insist that the gospels should be four was Irenaeus of Lyon, a theologian of the second century, who stated that, as there were four corners of the earth and the four winds, so there could be no more than four or less than four Gospels.
The canonical Gospels all derive from a "source Q," which was a collection of sayings of Jesus that circulated among early Christians. The Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles were written between 50 and 60 AD. 70 were written after the Gospels of Mark and Matthew, and finally between 90 and 100 of John. The Tradition of the Church believes, however, that the first Gospel to be written was that of Mark. In any case, the first original manuscripts of the four Gospels which we possess now go back to the second century AD.
Researchers say that in later times there have been many additions and manipulations, it is very difficult to recognize in these writings than has been actually said by Jesus Doubts about authentic historical value of the Gospel accounts arising the fact that some critics say that they would be transcripts of previous oral transmission, written down several decades after Jesus' death
All the gospels rejected by the Church are called "Apocrypha". The oldest of the canonical Gospels is the Gospel of Thomas and Sophia of Jesus certainly the oldest of Matthew's Gospel are the Gospel of Peter and the Secret Gospel of Mark. Background to the Gospel of John is the Gospel of the Hebrews and the Gospel of the Egyptians. Between the end of the first century and the second century were then written to the secret book of James, the Gospel of the Ebionites, the Gospel of the Nazarenes, the Gospel of Basilides, Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of the Savior, the Apocryphon John, the Gospel of Judas, Gospel of James, the Gospel of Truth, the Gospel of Philip, and Pistis Sophia.
There are also some lost gospels, of which only knows the name: the Gospel of Andrew, the Gospel of Marcion's Gospel Cerinthus, the Gospel of the Twelve.
After the death of Jesus arose many sects "Christian" doctrines that were often different between them and that were based on this or that gospel. The majority of these seven totally rejecting the Old Testament and believed that the God of the Bible was a lesser god and that Christ had come instead to let us know the Father Hidden. These seven were broadly defined Gnostic.
From the third century onwards, in the struggle for supremacy doctrine, what then emerged calling itself the Catholic Church. This called heretical sects and all the others, which enjoyed strong Roman Empire, was finally over.
Given that almost all the early Christians were Jews, it is clear that we had to get the identification of the God of the Bible preached by Jesus with the Father Hidden And so the Church also adopted as canonical texts of the Old Testament.
phrases attributed to Jesus in the canonical Gospels according to which He had come to change and not to abolish "the law and the prophets", were clearly added in later centuries, not to mention then the phrase "You are Peter and upon this rock I will build my Church" that was added even later.
Within the Church the word "apocrypha" took on the meaning of "false", while the true meaning of this word is "hidden." The Greek word is APOKRYPTEIN: APO = all hide = KRYPTEIN.
For Irenaeus of Lyons, he himself confessed that the canonical Gospels were devised to combat "certain" heresies heresies so that concern ideas much earlier than the doctrinal content of the canonical Gospels. Moreover, these Gospels are associated with "certain" evangelists of his time alone and then in the same Catholic Encyclopedia admits that the "canonical" in any way can not be written by people that binds them to this day.
Then there is the bad faith of the Catholic storografia on the Gospel of Thomas to 340 AD when Irenaeus of Lyons (d. 202 AD) mentions it specifically with the Gospel of Judas in 180 AD!
In fact, in 180 AD, Irenaeus, on several occasions, he cites no less than 30 gospels that were circulating in his time.
Saturnia, My Holy Mother 
If greek Olympus Zeus, Hera was next, in the Etruscan world are Unial or Uni, next to Tinia. For Uni were bestowed the titles of Queen or Sospita, the auspicious or saving. Uni was the god who protected all aspects of female life but also the sailors, as evidenced by the shrines erected in his honor in the ports, was also entrusted with the protection of cities and births. In Rome, the Greek goddess Hera was identified with Juno - Juno, Juno, Juno - and formed with Jupiter, equivalent to Zeus and Minerva, consideration of Athena, known as the Capitoline Triad, venerated on Capitol Hill. Junones had many names: Juno Regina Juno or Augusta, as Mrs. universe, Juno Lucina as a bearer of the light of day, but also the patron saint of giving birth and procreation and population growth; Matrona Juno as the protector of married women; Juno Moneta as memory and warning of dangers or Juno Juno Iuga Pronuba, protector of marriage and the marital bond; Sospita Juno, saving, Juno Opigena. which helps in births; Juno truthful, sincere, and more. Juno was also the Romans called Saturn and was considered the most important Roman goddess of the Roman religion: the bride and sister of Jupiter, it seems that no source, Juno was the female equivalent of Genius. Since ancient times, every woman would, under this name a guardian spirit or simply a duplicate of herself representing the very essence and expression of its prolific nature.
Under the name of Saturnia, she appeared to me qualifying Goddess of Wisdom, that is my only sabiduría and Holy Mother who already relied on appeal: - sabiduría, Wisdom, my mother!
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Sospita 
Under the name of Juno Sospita (in Latin , Juno SISP, CIE "propitious") was particularly Saturnia revered in ancient Lanuvium , where, on the top of the hill of S. Lorenzo, in 1914, were discovered the remains of a temple Italico. A shrine, famous throughout the Lazio old, was built in Lanuvio , Sospita in honor of Juno, the goddess of salvation, already in the Archaic period and was one of the most important Lazio . The goddess was depicted with his head covered with a goatskin, the calcei repandi feet (shoes with spikes raised oriental type), a shield in the left two lobes (the so-called shield Biloba, Mycenaean origin) and a right lance. Juno was so revered in its two valences: matronly and warrior, so similar to the Hera of Argos, whose worship according to tradition, was imported from Diomede. Goddess was worshiped too chthonic, which manifested itself in a singular worship of the serpent, reared in a cave near the temple. It once a year during the celebrations of the gods, were to be made of Lanuvio girls to prove their virginity: it was a propitiatory ceremony for the world had agrario.Roma Juno Regina Mater Sospita a tutelary deity of societas her as his res publica: the remains of a temple erected in his honor are now incorporated in the Church of St. Nicholas in Prison, in the Forum Holitorium, and also another temple was to be built on the Palatine. The shrine's complex Lanuvini stood on the acropolis and was crossed by a long way principalis (now Via di S. Lorenzo), which extended to the limits of the town. The remains of the temple-type alae and the Tuscan order, witness various stages, ranging from the late sixth century BC (as documented in some primary phases clay female head, preserved in the British Museum in London) at the age average Republican ( IV-III century BC) and finally to the middle of the first century BC. The foundation, in part preserved, are built of limestone blocks. The right wing has unfortunately fallen to the valley, the terrace wall. During the last part of the fence, in reticulated work, and the system of terraces built to stabilize the hillside. The provision of terraces also gave sanctuary to the scenic aspect, the shrine's distinctive architecture of Lazio in the late Republican era, of which notable examples are the monumental complex, still partially preserved, of Palestrina (the sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia) and Tivoli (sanctuary of Hercules). Also in this period belong the walls visible in the Villa Comunale and the arched portico, framed by half Doric, preserved in the Villa Sforza. This porch, partly rebuilt at the beginning of 900, originally included two floors is made of reticulated not very regular, from the middle of the first century BC After the door opens to the porch, which leads to a complex system of tunnels and rooms carved into the rock, perhaps identifiable with the cave in which we honor the sacred serpent. The sanctuary fell into disuse soon: Pliny, already in the first century AD, remembers him in a state of bleak abandonment although a restoration, built by Hadrian, is testified by an inscription. With the edict of Theodosius, who decreed the closure of pagan temples were destroyed also the temple and the shrine of Juno Sospita. A temple was dedicated at the Forum Holitorium , built around 195 BC by Gaius Cornelius Cetego . A ' antefix depicting the goddess was found in Rome to Antemnae , where probably there was a place of worship of Juno Sospita. The 1 February was considered his dies natalis .
Saturnia Juno Juno Moneta and Queen 
In Rome, the Capitol, in an area unknown hour, stood the temple of Juno Moneta, or "warning, advising, where he established the exchequer. Built in the tradition Camillus in 343 BC, after defeating the Aurunci in the place where there was already an older area of \u200b\u200bworship, connected to the sacred precinct of the geese, the stars, according to Plutarch, the famous rescue of the Capitol from the siege of the Gauls, the temple Juno Moneta stood approximately where the church is now dell'Aracoeli. It seems that the remains (walls of limestone blocks and cement structures in place) in the garden at the side of Via di San Pietro in prison and the Senatorial Palace, can be attributed to this temple. The term "money" from the verb "Moneo," namely: "admonish" apparently derives from a warning addressed to the Roman goddess of Saturnia in the war against Taranto in 272 BC Near the temple was built Mint (III century BC) and the expression used to indicate, to monetam , near the temple of Juno Moneta, was, to money, the name of "money". The temple of Juno Regina in Campo Marzio, Latin : or templum, Juno Regina aedes, a temple of ' ancient Rome, dedicated in Campo Marzio the goddess Juno . It was located near the C IRCO Flaminio . The console Marcus Aemilius Lepidus vowed to build a temple in 187 BC during his last battle against the Ligurian and dedicated it in 179 BC, while censor the December 23 . A porch connects the temple of Juno Regina, and a temple of Fortuna , perhaps the temple of Fortuna Equestrian . Was probably south of the portico of Pompey , on the eastern side of the circus Flaminius. The temple of Juno Regina on the Aventine, in Latin : Juno Regina templum or aedes, a temple of ' ancient Rome, mostly on the Aventine hill the Goddess Juno . Marco Furio Camillo vowed to erect a temple to Juno Regina of Veii "during the conquest of Veii And after the conquest, split the vote, building, in 396 BC (the dedication took place on 1 September ), a temple to the goddess on ' Aventine where contained the wooden statue of Saturnia, taken away from the city itself Camillo defeat. Later the temple was named repeatedly in relation to gifts and sacrifices resulting from prodigy. The temple was restored by Augustus , but it is further mentioned by sources and was in the upper part of clivus Publicius; two inscriptions belonging to the procession of lustral 207 BC were found near the church of Santa Sabina (CIL VI, 364 and CIL VI, 364 ). (From Wikipedia).
The Capitoline Triad 
Despite the Aeneid is a pattern of hatred of Juno against Aeneas and his people, because she knows that the city of Rome, which the descendants of Aeneas merge will be the ruin of Carthage, city \u200b\u200bsacred to you, Saturnia, Juno, was considered the greatest female deity of the Roman religion. She was venerated in the Capitoline Triad as a protector of the state. The largest temple of ancient Rome, was dedicated to the Capitoline Triad composed by the gods: Jupiter, Juno and Minerva. It was started by the first Etruscan king, Tarquinius Priscus, and maintained by Tarquin the Proud. The inauguration took place only during the first years of the Republic, in 509 BC, the consul Horace pulvilli. The size of the building (53 x 63 m approx.) Make it the largest temple ever built in Tuscan style. The facade and the two sides have six columns arranged in three rows, the back side was blind. Above the pediment was the chariot, always in terracotta, attributed to the sculptor Etruscan Vulca, probable author of the famous Apollo of Veii in the Museum of Villa Giulia. In 296 BC, the chariot clay was replaced with a bronze, the work of the brothers Ogulnia perhaps, the same which is assigned the Lupa Capitolina. The cult statue, probably inspired by that of Zeus at Olympia, the work of Phidias, is instead attributed to the sculptor greek Apollonios. A copy of the Capitoline Triad is now on display in the Museum of Palestrina. The building has undergone many restorations, including that caused by Silla. The archaic temple was destroyed by several fires after which it was rebuilt in marble. Some coins of Marcus Aurelius and a relief now in the Capitoline Museum, which presents four columns in front, give us a picture of the last phase of the temple. The roof was covered with gold leaf, removed during the barbarian invasions. Recent excavations in the Garden and Romano in the Palazzo Nuovo, have brought to light much of the base of the temple, made up of square blocks of old hat. The Triad identified the greatness of Rome and its superiority even from a religious perspective.
ATLANTIS the only two documents mentioning Mythical CONTINENT OF ATLANTIS IS THE TIME AND Critias of Plato. HEREIN THE ORIGINAL PART OF THE TIME that addresses these issues. Please note that PLATO STAY 'for three years in Egypt and had many contacts with Egyptian priests.
BACKGROUND: Critias THAT "THE YOUNG" He tells that when you were a child, his grandfather, also named Critias SO-CALLED 'THE OLD "I had told a fascinating story. The WAS THE GRANDFATHER hears from the Father DRAPIDE which in turn had heard by Solon (the famous Athenian lawgiver OF 600 BC). SOLON HAVE heard the story from an old Egyptian priests when he went to 'A SAIS IN ANCIENT EGYPT. ECCO TEXT:
"Solon, you Greeks are like children, an old man among the Greeks there! You are all young people spiritually, in your minds because you have no old opinion formed by long tradition and no knowledge graying of time. And the why is this still occurred and will occur much destruction to humanity in many ways, the biggest with fire and water, and other children for countless other causes. and so many big companies are registered here that you will admire, but there is one that surpasses them all in importance and value. For they say our word that your city stopped a huge army that was advancing against tyranny throughout Europe and Asia together, from outside, from the Atlantic sea: so that sea was navigable in fact, because there was an island opposite to what is called (as you say) Pillars of Hercules. That island was larger than Libya and Asia put together, and from it the sailors of that time could go to other islands, and from them on the whole opposite continent around what was then a real sea. In fact, everything is on this side of the bit we're talking about, looks like a harbor with a narrow mouth, but there is really beyond the sea and the mainland surrounding it could well be considered a continent. In this island of Atlantis had formed a great and extraordinary monarchy, which dominated across the island and many other islands and regions of the continent also ruled on this side of the strait, Libya to Egypt, and Europe to Tirrenia. This power, therefore, concentrated all his forces, set about to enslave a time with a single blow your and our land and throughout the region on this side of the strait. Just at that time, Solon, the power of your city became famous among all men for the value and strength. Overtaking in fact everyone in the generosity and the arts of war, the first head of the Greeks, then inevitably it alone because the others had withdrawn, although the extreme danger junta succeeded in defeating the invaders and triumphed over them, and prevented those who were enslaved were not yet have never been enslaved, and generously gave freedom to all of us who live on this side of the borders of Heracles. "But after huge earthquakes and disasters occurred, the occurrence of a single day and one terrible night, when your army was swallowed whole by the earth, and the island of Atlantis sank into the sea and disappeared, which is why, even now, that sea is now inaccessible and unexplored, as there is the obstacle mud deposited in the slums that the island sinking. "Critias
IN HAND, IS A RATHER LONG DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTINENT disappeared.
ACCORDING TO THE PRESS Egyptian priests to Solon THE EVENTS DESCRIBED REFER TO 9600 BC. THERE ARE NO OTHER DOCUMENTS
speaking SPECIFICALLY FOR THESE EVENTS, BUT MUST KEEP IN MIND THAT PLATO (400 BC), AUTHOR OF TWO DIALOGUES AND 'ONE OF THE MOST' GREAT PHILOSOPHERS OF HISTORY OF HUMANITY 'AND THEN someone you trust.
UPON WHICH THE LAST 'doing and' THE STORY OF AN ENORMOUS Cataclysm happened in history the Earth's past, and 'REPORTED IN THE SACRED TEXTS OF ALMOST ALL RELIGIONS.
The poor dissemination of scientific culture means that it is a widespread belief that man is different from other animals that inhabit this planet. A major responsibility in the spread of this belief is the three religions "elementary" (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) that are based on the concept of a God puerile "Personal". In particular, the Bible is full of sacrifices and acts of torture inflicted on animals: The God of the Bible like the smell of animals slaughtered and burned for him: oxen, sheep, goats, doves were killed mercilessly. The belief in the existence of the soul has a rather unique premise: only man is "endowed" blood and no animals! In Genesis it says that on the sixth day are created by this God anthropomorphic animals and then the man destined to rule over them, as on all creation. It makes you think that this God did not know the boundless immensity of the universe and believed that this small insignificant planet was all creation, in spite of all the knowledge of modern astrophysics, with regard to our animal friends, the Theory of evolution. On the other hand, the early Church was not even with human beings: Giordano Bruno was burned alive just because they postulate the scientific truth of 'infinity of possible worlds.
We now know that humans, like other inhabitants of this planet, do not count anything in the economy of the Universe: we all live on a tiny insignificant planet along with other eight planets revolving around a star that is located on the outskirts of a galaxy composed of 200 billion stars and galaxies (many of our much larger) are billions in the universe. So the root cause of torture, oppression, abuse, murder suffered by our animal friends come from a profound ignorance. How many times I have heard the phrase "time is an animal." Fortunately different is the attitude of a half billion human beings who follow Buddhism and Hinduism, religions that stand for the greatest respect that the faithful have for animals in this environment is considered a serious sin of killing an animal. Who knows the animals know how great is their intelligence and sensitivity. They would be incapable of committing some of the terrible actions that human beings are capable of doing to other human beings. While the Jains organized hospitals for animals in the sixth century before the birth of Christ and the Buddha preached compassion for all living beings in the same century, Pius IX, in his time, did not allow the creation of an organization for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The reason: the man has no duties towards animals. Even San Francisco, the most attentive to the problem of animal suffering, called a disciple, who had cut off the legs of a live pig, to apologize to the owner for have damaged his property and said not a word for the animal suffering. Sant 'Agostino said instead: "Spending time from killing the animals or destroy plants is the height of superstition". In those countries it is frequently the case of Italian priests avid hunters do not realize that this God as the ministers of justifying the killing for fun. The Jesuit Thomist Viktor Katherin writes. "The brute has no rights whatsoever. The man has no duty to the brutes. As we have duties to creatures that we can at our whim to pieces, roast and eat? The intrinsic reason is that the animal is not that person is not rational creature, subsisting per se, but a mere means to our end. " We read about "Famiglia Cristiana": "The animals, which are personal spiritual beings have no rights." The list of wastes of the Western world pose the Comboni missionaries among the first items the pet food. It goes on and on, but I prefer to close with the wish and hope that the progress of scientific knowledge has quickly right about superstitions and religions and a basic sentence of Mahatma Gandhi: "Size and moral progress of a nation can be judged by the way they treat animals. "
Saturnia Juno / Was 
more traditional iconography see Saturnia in the role of matron, majestic and solemn, sometimes with the head or turreted crown, often with a pomegranate or scepter surmounted by a cuckoo. His emblems were the cow, the Milky Way, the lily, the iridescent peacock's tail full of eyes, a symbol of vigilance and ability to see, so the prophecy, which had features. The epithet boôpis , "from bovine eyes," and blues that often accompanies the name of Hera in Homer, said his connection with the agricultural world and the values \u200b\u200bof fertility and wealth associated with it, but the cow sacred image was long associated with the Great Mother as the giver of nourishment while the Milky Way Galaxy or from the greek "gala," milk, reflects the belief, prior to the appearance of the deities Olympus, that the Milky Way came from the breasts of the Goddess as Queen of Heaven, from the time that Heracles unwittingly nursed. This conception is then joined the mythology of Age. According to myth, was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea, was born on the island of Samos and in Argos and was hidden in Arcadia because his father did not devour, the Seasons were her nurses. He grew sweet and beautiful, with a perfectly shaped milky skin, deep eyes, silky hair. Every living thing on earth was sacred, but his pet was the peacock, symbol of the sun. The peacock, a native of India crossed the Babylon, Persia and across Asia Minor to arrive at Samos, in the sanctuary of Was. In fifth century. a. C. was paid for a ticket to see it. In all the countries crossed was known for ruthless demonstrated ability as a hunter of snakes, so it was believed that just assimilating and transforming the poison, the peacock feathers produce the characteristics of his shimmering tail. The flesh, which is considered incorruptible, was administered to patients as medicine. It was beautiful and lived happily in the midst of lush greenery, but someone had decided to disturb his peace. Zeus, his twin brother, killed his father, ran to her and began to woo her without success, until he got the idea of \u200b\u200bbecoming a cold-footed, the goddess who picked it up and warmed to his breast. Then God, resumed their appearance and made her violence, forcing it to accept a shotgun wedding. Since the great pre-Hellenic goddess worshiped at Samos and in Argos were called simply "Era (from" herwa "ie, protective) Robert Graves already seen this violence in the memory of the conquest of Crete and Mycenaean Greece by the Hellenes. It is said that some of them came to Crete as a fugitive, he enlisted in the Royal Guard, conspired to es'impadronirono palace of the kingdom. The official history mentions two sacks which could be summed up in this episode: in 1700 BC and 1400 in a. C. Mycenae and finally fell in 1300 a. C. Of course, there may be a reason only mythical the Indian god Indra becomes cuckoo to woo a reluctant nymph and the cuckoo is a symbol of power which are found at Mycenae. Nevertheless it is significant that Zeus can not govern without her: rape in making them accept a marriage that the Goddess did not want to, but that it was essential to the balance of the world. The male and heavenly power of Zeus, represented by lightning, while raising the terror does not cure it 'generates, according to the greek myth, and everything about the land remains the undisputed domain of the Goddess, even goddesses, while God remains King of heaven. Zeus, Jupiter of the Latins, to his desire to produce offspring, weaves an unbroken chain of reports and this gives rise to endless wars and rivalries, not only among women, but also because of several husbands who are not always willing to step aside in the face of God, especially when they turn to gods. We need a regulator element, and this is their way one of the most amazing creatures of Olympus: Athena. Titanessa daughter of Zeus and Metis, which was swallowed by the lover heaven with the fetus she was carrying. When the time came for the birth, Zeus went to Libya, on the shores of Lake Triton, and ordered the trust of Hephaestus deal a telling blow on the head of the ax. Of course they did so, and what was his amazement as they saw a young man who leaped from the wound in arms throwing the cry hundred warriors! The girl was called Athena, her eyes were clear from day one s'affianca willing to his father in the government of the world. At first it was annoyed beyond measure, not because of the adulterous affair, but for the usurpation of the mystery of all women represented by the party - you could tell me - he said - I would have given birth myself! - But then suddenly the two women born between deep and mutual sympathy. If Athena, needless to say, is the reason, rationality, all humans (but also the woman!) Can do when he is able to silence the voice of their tyrannical instincts, the field in which this right from the most stable and lasting married life is just the fruits of the August pair. Since its inception, Athena, the favorite daughter of Zeus, uses most of its energy to heal and to rationalize his relationship with Hera, which s'affianca with filial devotion. Even in a situation more complicated as the birth of Heracles. Zeus had fallen in love with Queen Alcmene, a virtuous woman who would never betray their husbands, therefore, God took on the appearance. When the poor girl realized that she had been deceived, just fearing the wrath of Hera, he preferred to leave their child in a camp outside the walls of Thebes, in what today is called "plain of Heracles." Fortunately, but someone tells of a previous agreement, at that moment came in flat walking Athena and Hera. - View my dear - said the first taking him in her arms - which amazingly tough kid! His mother must have lost his mind to leave him like that! Come, you who have so much milk, give this poor little creature! - When Hercules bites the Goddess, she shows her breasts for the pain and her immaculate milk oozes from all sides here then the stars appear in the sky and the lilies on the ground shaking and Alcmene, in which Athena gave the boy and was recommended to have care and growing well, according to the will of great Zeus, who wanted to make a hero and improve the human race through him. It was, the Goddess of heaven and earth fertility, wife and sister of Zeus, could not be completely ousted from the project because of her husband, so that Hercules will not be able to climb Mount Olympus until she not only accept its existence, but it will solemnly. And there's more: the greek name "Hercules" means "glory of Hera". So perhaps most remarkable action of the Goddess will accept Hercules, the Hercules to the Romans. At first glance, this episode is grossly anti-feminist, but without the milk of Hera, some believe, Hercules, however strong, would have been a mortal whose very strength became a failure when, blinded by the 'Ybris " killed his own beloved children mistaking them for monsters. The story of the turbulent marriage of the August pair is shown at The National Gallery in London from a little known masterpiece by Tintoretto, "The Origin of the Milky Way", painted in about 1580, for the Emperor Rudolf II and kept in Prague Castle until the arrival of the Swedish troops in 1648. Here the Roman Jupiter, Juno takes advantage of sleeping for the breast her son Hercules, because only by sucking her breast, the child can aspire to immortality. The epilogue is the same: the baby is extremely voracious, and the Goddess wakes up, the milk is sprayed into sky, giving rise, in fact, part of the Milky Way and immediately fell to the ground where the lilies grow. A tale of late, that the Romans had taken from Diodorus Siculus, Theocritus, and Apollodorus, seems a reworking of the greek myth. According Homer, was the younger brother was to seduce Zeus , with the help of Aphrodite and convince him to marry her. The wedding took place on the highest peak of Mount Ida, in Asia Minor. At that time the two lived in the palace of Ocean and Tethys who had received them from the hands of Rea and had hidden them. Brother and sister went up in the bridal chamber secretly, without their parents. According to another version of the wedding occurred at Ocean, the western edge of the world but not in secret, in fact all the gods offered gifts, among them the land that gave the tree of golden apples then known as the apples of the Hesperides . He was admiring the prodigious tree, keep it established that a snake in the Garden of the Gods and the Hesperides tried to steal it. The inhabitants of Samos, arguing instead that the wedding would take place in their island and the feast would last three hundred years. According to another version of the myth, Zeus was to want to approach and seduce was turned into cuckoo. Under a storm unleashed by the God himself rested on the mountain then had Thronax the name or Kokkixo Kokkigion (Monte Cuckoo), on which was was walking. Trembling and shivering with cold, flew into the cuckoo's lap was that of pity, he warms with his clothes. Then Zeus resumed his true form and tried to make her his mistress, but resisted until the Goddess did not get a concrete proposal of marriage. Another story the other hand, tells us that the wedding took place on Mount Cithaeron in Boeotia. Zeus took his bride there Evia island and hid the nurse Macride. Mount Cithaeron Macride deceived her by saying that protecting the embrace of Zeus with Leto. It was said that was regained virginity every time you Kanathos bathing in spring water, near Argos, and could have children without male intervention. She gave birth alone Typhoon for revenge against Zeus, who gave birth Athena from his head. It was also were the sons of Hephaestus , Ares, Hebe and Iliria. Among the epithets that were assigned there were also those of Pais (the girl), Cher (the lonely), Teleia (the old) Gamela, Zygi, Syzygia, etc.. In the epic literature, from Homer on, was Juno-plays a role of great importance stems from the myth of Paris . Hera, Athena and Aphrodite, had gathered in a meeting on Mount Ida playful and meeting Paris had asked to judge which of the three was the most beautiful. Before the trial, each made a promise to the young man was and Athena promised him to do so that conquer and rule over various cities but Aphrodite promised him the love of the most beautiful woman in the world, the Spartan Elena, wife of Menelaus. As is known, Paris chose Aphrodite and Helen kidnapped with the help of the Goddess triggering the Trojan War. Hera and Athena, offended by the choice, sided with the Greeks and were all over the Homeric cycle irreconcilable enemy of the Trojans. E 'often highly ironic how Homer describes the irascible and cantankerous of Zeus was struggling with extremist in defense of the Greeks against the Trojans. The great God, rather than human behavior, often tries to avoid discussions with the wife-sister, but every now and then is forced to face it and do not hesitate to bring to bear their own ways with more authority or to threaten at times abrupt. It seems that was because he hated the Trojans descendants of Dardanus , born of one of the many adulterers Zeus, the one with the Pleiade Electra , was offended when Zeus, invaghitosi the Trojan youth Ganymede , the was taken up into heaven by giving the role of bearer of the gods, already carried out by Hebe, the daughter of Zeus and was the same. Pets You are most frequently associated with the goose, the crow and the lion.
Saturnia Juno / The legend of the golden age Unial 
If greek Olympus Zeus, Hera was next, in the Etruscan world are Unial or Uni, next to Tinia. To her they were bestowed the titles of Queen and Sospita, that is saving and protecting all aspects of female life. It was also a patron deity of sailors as evidenced by the shrines erected in his honor in ports. She had also entrusted the protection of cities and births. In Rome, Saturnia formed with Jupiter and Minerva, the so-called Capitoline Triad revered on Capitol Hill. It was the most important female deity but it seems that originally, was the equivalent of Genius. Since ancient times, every woman would have, under the name "Juno", a guardian spirit or simply a "duplicating" their essence and expression of its prolific nature. Saturnia-Junones, had many names: Juno Regina Juno or Augusta, as masters of the universe; Juno Lucina, as a bearer of the light of day, but also the patron saint of giving birth and procreation and population growth and Juno Matrona, as protector of married women; Juno Moneta was as memory and warning hazards and rescue in memory of the arc by the Capitoline geese sacred to her awoke the garrison. He was also called "Juno Iuga" or "Juno Pronuba" as the protector of marriage and the marital bond. It was "Juno Opigena, which helps in births," Juno truthful "that is sincere, and more. The cult of Unia, abbreviated Uni, was one of the most important of Etruria: the "Liver of Piacenza" occupied the box immediately below Tinia. It seems that the name derives from the Latin Juno. The cult was reserved in almost every city in central Italy. Its primary functions are protection of birth and city and was honored with the titles "Queen" and "Pause." Testimonies of his cult are in the severity, extent of Tarquinia (VT), Pyrgi (RM), the shrine of the mid-sixth century. BC (later than that of gravity). The notes in gold leaf in Etruscan and Phoenician characters show that Unial was honored as a main deity and equated with the Phoenician goddess Astarte. E 'can be assumed that Unial was a deity that protected all aspects of female life and that probably represents a protecting deity of sailors (also in this like Hera), as evidenced by the shrines erected in his honor in ports.
Hesiod in "Works and Days", says that in principle, at the time ruled Cronus, the god of the Latin Saturn, there was a race gold. The men still lived like gods, free from worries, free from toil and misery, did not know the old and young and remained intent on banquets and parties. Now is the time to die, slowly fell asleep. They did not have work and assets belong to all equally. They lived the abundant harvest from the land and offered peace. The age of 'gold was the kingdom of justice and good faith and remained to indicate the beginnings of humanity' in which the gods lived next to death. The doors had not yet been invented, since 'the theft did not exist and men had nothing to hide, in fact, Juvenal says that once "no more feared thieves" and people lived "without closing the orchard." We ate only vegetables and fruits, since 'no one thought to kill. Rome was identified with Cronus and Saturn put the eta 'gold at the time that this God who reigned over Italy was still called Ausonia. Zeus began with the reign of the 'age' of iron and gold race disappeared. Since then, the earth and the men were the prey of every wickedness: - Victa iacet pietas, et Virgo CAED madentes last caelestum, terras Astraea reliquit ( Won lies the pity, and the virgin Astraea's left - the last of - the ground drenched with blood) - as we read in Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, vv. 149-150. The crimes of humanity ', the goddess Iustitia routed and forced to leave the ground, where he lived with family' together with the mortals fled 'in the sky where it became the constellation Virgo . Astrea is, in fact, the name of the constellation Virgo at the time the kingdom on earth. In the fourth eclogue Eclogues of Virgil, speaking of Astrea, announces the coming of a child who will rebuild the world (v. 5.7): - (born again the largest order ever. Already back to the Virgin, comes the reign of Saturn, and already the new progeny descends from heaven).
The Temple of Juno in Agrigento 
In Agrigento, temple of Juno stands on top of south - east of the hill from the east began a series of temples. The shapes of the Temple of Juno, reminiscent of the temple of Concord which is slightly smaller and probably a few years earlier (450 BC). Was damaged by fire in 406 BC and restored in Roman times. It was further devastated by an earthquake during the Middle Ages. Built in local limestone, is Doric, hexastyle periptero with 6 x 13 columns and 25 columns erected preserves, such as those of the north side of the lintel. The temple to the extent stylobate m. 38.15 x 15.90 and is placed on a powerful base, given the slope of the land to the north, reaches its maximum height at the corner of the north - west. According to a recent study by his foundation is a hornet's nest. The columns are high m. 6.36. Within the peristyle is fully engaged with the naos and opisthodomos portico in antis (length overall 27 x 56 m, width. 9.45) between cell and porch is a door flanked by two piers with ladders service. After a reconstruction occurred at the end of the century. XVIII, pillars of the peristyle are partly in the northern side of the case and dell'epistilio frieze, and partly in the other side. Missing elements of geison and mum. The roof had to be covered with marble tiles and marble floor had to be pure, whose plates were inserted into the bottleneck at the base of the columns. Of uncertain date is still the base with three steps on the bottom of the cell from Roman times or even modern. In front of the eastern facade of the temple, right on the edge of the rocky cliff, is a monumental altar of sacrifice (29.80 m. x 5.25), which is complete with a staircase of 10 steps. The name of the temple is, like that of other monuments Agrigento, conventional. Specifically, the architecture of this temple is an obvious concern for perfection rigorous artistic.
