Anubis, Ancient Egyptian god of cemeteries, embalming and afterlife.
A Worshipper Kneeling Before the God Anubis
Egyptian, ca. 747-525 BCE
Medium: Bronze
Now at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore:
Egyptian gods in animal forms :3 using illustrator.
Reference is picture from Wikipedia page with their name like Set_(mythology), Ra, Bastet, Sobek and Anubis.
Meanwhile, if you listen to the types of stories that dominate Western media, you’d think that the biggest issues facing LGBT people in the Middle East are based purely on their identity as queer. Many people in the West have ideas about how queer people in the region should come out or live their lives. Some non-Middle Eastern LGBT activists are so eager to “save” queers in the Middle East that they’ll speak over Middle Eastern queers themselves.
Here’s the problem: when queers and other vulnerable communities are painted as simply needing to be saved, the logical conclusion is that the West should come in and do the saving. Many of the narratives around LGBTQ issues in the region implicitly or explicitly support Western imperialism and foreign occupation, or only talk about queer issues by painting the rest of the Middle East as backwards or stuck in time. This often creates more harmful prejudice, rather than helping to alleviate the problem.
On this day, 12 March 1912, Polish Jewish resistance activist Ala Gertner was born. While an enslaved labourer at a munitions factory under Nazi occupation, Gertner stole gunpowder which she smuggled to prisoners at Auschwitz Birkenau to build grenades.
The resistance at the camp used these makeshift weapons, among others to destroy Crematorium IV and kill several SS officers. Gertner and three other women were executed for their role in the uprising in 1945.
This is a very informative article about the resistance at Auschwitz: https://libcom.org/history/life-centurys-midnight https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1371862419665571/?type=3
(via Scientists identify rain of molten iron on distant exoplanet | Science | The Guardian)
Wasp-76b is what astronomers call an exoplanet, one that orbits a star outside our solar system. Scientists have discovered that the local weather conditions include 2,400C temperatures, winds in excess of 10,000mph and a steady pelting of iron rain.
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Wasp-76b, which is 640 light years away in the constellation of Pisces, [has a Sun which] is an ultra-hot gas giant. It orbits its star at about 3% of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, resulting in scorching surface temperatures and the weird phenomenon of molten iron falling from the sky.……
Because the planet is so close in, it is “tidally locked” (like the Moon’s orbit about Earth) and only only ever shows one face, its day side, to its parent star, while its cooler night side remains in perpetual darkness.On the day side, which is 1,000 degrees hotter, molecules separate into atoms, and iron evaporates into the atmosphere to form metallic clouds. The extreme temperature difference between the day and night sides produces ferocious winds that carry the iron vapour to the cooler night side, where temperatures decrease to about 1,500C and the iron condenses and falls as rain that constantly peppers the planet’s gas surface and vanishes beneath it.
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The latest observations…compare the gases present in the leading edge of the planet as it passes across the face of the star and the trailing edge.For Wasp-76b, this revealed iron vapour at the leading edge, where the prevailing 10,000mph wind would be blowing from the day side into the night side. But the signal was absent from the trailing edge, suggesting that all the iron had rained down on the night side by the time the circulating wind came back around.
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