Literature and movies (2)

Cleopatra

Cleopatra was Pharao of Egypt, and consequently woshipped as a living goddess (reincarnation of Isis).
My personal favorite movie is the 1934 production with Claudette Colbert, made by the famous Cecil B. DeMille.

Elisabeth Taylor as Cleopatra

Cleopatra's story has fascinated scores of writers and artists through the centuries. No doubt, much of her appeal lay in her legend as a great seductress who was able to ally herself with two of the most powerful men (Caesar and Antony) of her time.

Literature-Drama

Among the more famous works on her:

Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1607) by William Shakespeare

All for Love (1678) by John Dryden

Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) by George Bernard Shaw

The Death of Cleopatre by Ahmed Shawqi

Films

The earliest Cleopatra-related motion picture was Antony and Cleopatra (1908) with Florence Lawrence as Cleopatra. The earliest film on Cleopatra as the main subject was Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, starring Helen Gardner (1912).

Among the film/TV works inspired by the Queen of the Nile:

(1917): Cleopatra: Theda Bara (Cleopatra), Fritz Leiber (Caesar), Thurston Hall (Antony). Directed by J. Gordon Edwards. Based on Émile Moreau's play Cléopatre, Sardou's play Cléopatre, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.

(1934): Cleopatra: Claudette Colbert (Cleopatra), Warren William (Caesar), Henry Wilcoxon (Antony). Oscar-winning Cecil B. DeMille epic.

(1946): Caesar and Cleopatra: Vivien Leigh (Cleopatra), Claude Rains (Caesar), Stewart Granger, Flora Robson — Oscar-nominated version of George Bernard Shaw's play. Leigh also played Cleopatra opposite then-husband's Laurence Olivier's Caesar in a later London stage version.

(1953): Serpent of the Nile: Rhonda Fleming (Cleopatra), Raymond Burr (Mark Antony), Michael Fox (Octavian).

(1963): Cleopatra: Elizabeth Taylor (Cleopatra), Rex Harrison (Caesar), Richard Burton (Antony). Oscar-winning block-buster most (in)famously remembered for the off-screen affair between Taylor and Burton and the at-the-time massive $44 million cost.

(1974): Antony & Cleopatra: performed by London's Royal Shakespeare Company. Starred Janet Suzman (Cleopatra), Richard Johnson (Antony), and Patrick Stewart (Enobarbus).

(1999): Cleopatra (movie): Leonor Varela (Cleopatra), Timothy Dalton (Caesar), Billy Zane (Antony). Based on the book Memoirs of Cleopatra by Margaret George, it is less faithful to history than the earlier versions

Claudette Colbert as Cleopatra

Literature and Movies (1)

Olinka Berova  as She

Women worshipped as a Goddess.....

A well known story is  'She'  written by H. Rider Haggard.
'She' takes us to the deepest interior of Africa, searching not for treasure but for the secrets  of a woman's love.
In Rider Haggard's greatest romance a father's mysterious legacy to his son, brings Leo Vincey and his two fellow-adventurers to Africa. Travelling through crocodile-infested rivers, across volcanic plains and marshes they reach the vast, eerie catacombs of the kingdom of Kôr, where they encounter She, the white Queen of the Amahaggar people. A woman of legendary beauty, bewitching and destructive, She has waited two thousand years for the rebirth and return of the man she loved. And this man, she believes, is Leo Vincey.

Powerful, intense and visually magnificent, 'She' was written  'at a white heat' in six weeks, in 1886. In it Rider Haggard creates an unforgettable, archetypal woman, 'the femme fatale.

The movie
'She' is a 1965 film made by Hammer Film Productions, based on the novel by H. Rider Haggard.It was directed by Robert Day and stars Ursula Andress, Peter Cushing, Bernard Cribbins, John Richardson, Rosenda Monteros and Christopher Lee. The film was an international success and led to a 1968 sequel, The Vengeance of She, with Olinka Berova in the title role.

Ursula Andres  as  She

Codex 4

In Second Life it is possible to perform the ceremony of Body Worship.
This happens in my Throne Room.

This ceremony is written by slave Branco, who is not active in SL.

1. slave climbs staircase to the throne on his knees, kissing each step
2. slaves bellies as soon as he reaches the throne room 
3. slave greets Goddess Yanara:   "Adored Goddess, this humble slave worships You, Divine Queen, this humble slave glorifies You, Divine Majesty, this humble slave obeys You"
4. slave kisses floor onder Goddess Yanara's Feet (12 times)
5. slave crawls around Goddess Yanara  and kisses the hem of her gown 12 times
6. slave is ordered to remove Goddess Yanara's shoes; he takes off the right shoe, kisses it 6 times, and thereafter the left shoe in the same way
7. slave is ordered to remove Goddess Yanara's gown.
8. slave worships Her feet, kissing each foot 6 times
9. slave worships Her knees, kissing again 6 times
10. slave worships Her thighs, kissing again 6 times
11. Goddess Yanara turns around, and slave worships Her buttocks in the same way.
12. Goddess Yanara turns again, slave worships Her hands and arms.
13. slave is ordered to stand and to worship Goddess Yanara's breasts, kissing each breast 6 times
14. slave sinks on his knees kissing Goddess Yanana's belly from breasts to belly button.
15. slave worhips Goddess Yanara's labia, kissing 12 times 
16. Goddess Yanara sits on throne, and slave prostrates in complete adoration at Her feet.

Application for slaves

This is only for slaves in Second Life.
As I am not interested in quantity but in quality of my slaves, applicants have to fill in an application and to send it back to me.

SLAVES APPLICATION 

This humble slave …………. (name)  begs Sacred Goddess Yanara to become a slave to serve Her Divine Majesty.

This humble slave will obey all the rules, within this limits ………….(limits)

This humble slave accepts humiliations, degradations, mockery, ill-treatments.

This humble slave accepts to purchase some items, such as

• ancient Egyptian tunic   (SL Market Place , silks for men = 79LD)
• a collar                            (Temple of the collar, for free)
• a wooden yoke               (Z&A Punishment log = 50 LD)
• a feather fan with animations (Market Place, feather fan Ostrich = 120 LD)
• an animated tray
• an animated penis

This humble slave accept to serve completely naked  and shaved.

You can read and learn all the rules in this blog

Codex 1    http://goddessyanara.blogspot.be/2012/08/codex-1.html

Codex 2    http://goddessyanara.blogspot.be/2012/08/codex-2.html 

Codex 3    http://goddessyanara.blogspot.be/2012/08/codex-3.html  
Codex 4    http://goddessyanara.blogspot.be/2013/01/codex-4.html

5000

Today, January 22, this blog welcomes visitor number 5000.
Thank you all for your attention , Ladies and Gentlemen, and also for the remarks, pictures and texts you sent to me.

Ancient Egyptian punishments

There were many laws in Egypt, for there was a lot of punishment for breaking a law. One of the punishments was one hundred strokes of the cane, and if the crime was worse, five bleeding cuts were added. Other punishments included branding, exile, mutilation, drowning, decapitation, and burned alive.
The worst crime was tomb raiding as the treasures of the tomb was sacred. A lot of punishment in ancient Egypt were fatal, such as drowning, decapitation, and burned alive. Pharaoh General decided what would happen to the criminal.
The ancient Egyptians did not leave us a code of law, but they lived in a society where good and evil were distinguished and acutely felt. Literary texts towards harmony in society, but the crime and the punishment was often severe exist.
Nor riches, nor the nobility raised a person above the law. High treason committed by powerful nobles and officials were treated harshly. Armed with sticks, the police guarding public places, at times making use of dogs or, more rarely without doubt, trained monkeys.
Prevention of crime and the apprehension of criminals was the duty of local officials and police. They have opened investigations following complaints from citizens. During the Old Kingdom, there was apparently no professional judges. The cases were tried before the courts of scribes and priests appointed for this purpose, with officials, or even sometimes two viziers of the President.
The concept of Maat was significant in the legal framework. Maat, the goddess of the world order represented truth, balance and justice in the universe. This concept allowed that everyone, except slaves, should be considered equal before the law, regardless of the position of wealth or social status.
Minor offenses such as personal attack could see a person whipped, be sold as slaves, or sent to a worker in one of the countries construction projects or mines. There are cases where the culprits had their hands, nose, tongue and feet cut off as a punishment.
Also the role of punishment continues after death. After the death of Egyptian life was to prepare him / her for the journey into the afterlife. They mummified body, provided the deceased with food and other items to support him / her.
The Ib (heart) the individual has acknowledged the good and bad deeds of the deceased to the gods, and was examined by the god Anubis. During the ceremony weighing-of-the-heart, Ib was then weighed with the feather of truth (Ma'at). If the heart is heavy, it was eaten by the demon Ammit.

happy new year

Goddess Yanara wishes you all a wonderful 2013