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Throughout history, famous temples have been destroyed, only to be rebuilt even more elaborately. Well, I didn't destroy my first Temple beads, but I've built some more and they are getting better! The Japanese built a Shinto shrine called Horyuji in the year 607 AD, but its buildings were made of wood and burned in the year 670 AD. The rebuilt wooden shrine's main hall, called the Kondo, was still standing in 2002. I'll bet when I look it up, I'll find it is still standing, a timeless tribute to the Way of the Kami. The tribes of Abraham have their temples, too. Herod the Great rebuilt the Temple around 37 BC. It was even more ornate than the original. It was a monument to the holiness of Yahweh, who was so holy that no one except one priest entered the most sacred temple once a year. Christians say GOD now, but once his name was so holy it wasn't even pronounced. . .and temples were tributes to this holiness. I can't wait to try to recreate Herod's Temple in glass, because just like the Asian
Yellow for the wisdom of equanimity. Blue for the mirror-like wisdom. Green for the all-encompas... wisdom. Red for discriminating awareness wisdom.
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Buddhists construct temples called Stupas. Stupas have characteristic shapes and colors . Buddha's teaching are incorporated into the Japanese amalgam of religions, but he is not the only focus. Here I've used the Stupa colors and Japanese temple shape.
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After putting this baby into the kiln about 1:45 a.m. last night, the colors really woke me up this morning at 7 o'clock! I love bright colors now, and these are incredibly intense !
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More sedate colors than the Far Eastern Temple for the Buddha, a different shade of respect. Still a tribute to holiness, but in a more somber, thoughtful way.
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Cobalt lines on dark brown, which really has a reddish tone. Very calming in your hand.
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Small temple and Kondo (main hall) of the Horyuji shrine complex. Okay, haven't ever been there and have only seen the picture of the Kondo, but I'm thinking I need to recreate a whole compound in etched ivory glass. Whatcha think?
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This small temple happened by accident, all because the bead release was breaking off the mandrel while I was trying to melt more glass. Well, that meant code inspectors said this building would not be stable with more floors!
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Okay, actually, the bead release breaking didn't mean I couldn't add more floors...but if I had, they would have been stuck to the steel mandrel and this bead would have been a flowerpot decoration!
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This is my tribute to the main hall of the Horyuji shrine. That shrine was built in 607 AD, rebuilt in 670 AD, and probably still standing. Think my beads will last that long?
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Oh, my , I just discovered more temples, gorgeously elaborate temples! Don't know how I'm going to recreate the feel of those Hindu temples with all the layers of gods and goddesses! So, to start with, I just tried to capture the glorious colors!
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Oh, it's a shame I can't put the temple pictures in here beside my glass temples, just so you can experience the incredible detail and color of the real temples! This is just my meager attempt to pay tribute!
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Thanks for stopping by to visit with AngelinaBeadalina! I'm really just plain ol' Angie or Ang, but the catchy name does suit me in the sense that I'm a motormouth who loves to play with words almost as much as I love to play with glass! You can find me here at BeadArtists.org, in my Etsy shop, or in my daily blog. You can get links to those places at www.angelinabeadalina.com (click on it above). Please pardon the use of my "official" website as a traffic control signal at the moment-- at least, that's what it makes me think of when I look at it. . . lots of directions to other places where there are updates on a daily basis. Tech-stuff would not be one of those things that I love or that comes naturally to me ;) Well, enough rambling for now, come on in, look around. . . have fun exploring my glass experiments and ideas. Peace, Ang
Angie Garren
Southern Illinois, the Little Egypt
of the MidWest
IL 62848 US
http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5223637
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