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The Fan

The fan is about as old as civilization itself.  Sometimes it is said it is “as old as hot weather itself.”  Found in the 14th-century BC Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun’s tomb were eight fans, which in ancient Egypt were called “shuwt” to mean shadow or shade, and “seryt” to mean a royal or military standard.  The…

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Androgyny

It is said that Hermaphrodite, the child of Aphrodite and Hermes, was born so remarkably beautiful that the freshwater nymph Salmacis forced herself upon him in order to keep him forever.  This androgynous boy of a woman’s body with male genitals had long symbolized for the ancient Greeks and Romans erotic love, passion, and lust. …

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Attar of Roses

These perfumes: musk, clove… all from the hyacinthine shadows      of those tresses. You think you hear      a nightingale’s song… No. It is the voice      of the Rose. – Fakhruddin Iraqi (1213 – 1289), Divine Flashes A classic theme within the Persian artistic tradition is that of the rose and the nightingale: the rose representing the…

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Roses of the Orient

The Persian poet Sheikh Saadi Shirazi in 1258 wrote The Gulistân, or Rose-Garden, whose leaves, as he said, “cannot be touched by the tyranny of autumnal blasts, and the delights of whose spring the vicissitudes of time will be unable to change into the inconstancy of autumn.”  Saadi told how, after spending the night in…

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