The phrase itself, and the underlying belief of interconnectedness with all creation, is a part of many Yankton Sioux prayers,and is found in use among Lakota, Dakota and Nakota people.
The phrase translates as “all my relatives,” “we are all related,” or “all my relations.” It is a prayer of oneness and harmony with all forms of life: other people, animals, birds, insects, trees and plants, and even rocks, rivers, mountains and valleys.
赤い着物をモチーフにしたポートレート写真のアイデアは、2011年3月の福島第一原発事故、そして今も続く危機的な状況を踏まえて生まれました。
放射能に国境は関係ありません。放射性物質は気流や、やがて雨や雪となる海水の流れによって、程度の差はありながらも世界中に拡散し続けています。
人種、国籍、文化、年齢、性別に関わらず、地球上の誰もが何らかの形で福島第一原発事故の影響を受けているのです。それは、拡散した放射性物質を呼吸時に体内に取り込んだり、汚染された飲食物を摂取したりすることによる身体的な影響かもしれませんし、心理的、感情的、社会的、政治的、経済的な影響かもしれません。
Red Kimono にモデルとして参加した人々は皆、アーティストや活動家の側面を持つ男性や女性で、年齢、国籍、人種的背景はさまざまです。どのモデルも芸者スタイルの化粧を施し、ビンテージの赤い着物に身を包んだ姿で撮影に臨みました。
Mussiro is a thick white paste extracted from the roots of the ‘N’tunkuti’ tree, traditionally worn by Makua women of Mozambique and Tanzania.
Historically it was worn to signify virginity or to indicate menstruation or an absent husband or sexual availability. It was used in ceremonies to mark the beginning of womanhood or in funerals.
Mussiro is also valued as a beauty treatment and is used from the puberty onwards to protect the skin against acne and wrinkles:
http://www.natgeocreative.com/photography/472660
European history has numerous examples of powerful women who used a mask of pale makeup to assert their high social status and to maintain power in patriarchal societies: Catherine de Medici (1519 – 1589) wife of Henry II of France, Queen Elizabeth I of England (1553 -1603), Marie Antoinette (1755 – 1793) wife of Louis XVI of France:
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, p489 Edited by Bonnie G. Smith
One of our oldest bipedal hominin ancestors, Australopithecus arafensis, e.g. ‘Lucy’, lived in eastern Africa about 3.8 and 3.0 million years ago.
According to the ‘Recent African Origin model’ modern humans began to migrate from Africa between 125,000 and 60,000 years ago:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spreading_homo_sapiens_la.svg
According to Shi et al. the first wave of human migration into Japan occurred more than 30,000 years ago, via Tibet:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2605740/
map here:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687770/figure/F1/
‘If a single flap of a butterfly’s wings can be instrumental in generating a tornado, so also can all the previous and subsequent flaps of its wings, as can the flaps of the wings of millions of other butterflies, not to mention the activities of innumerable more powerful creatures, including our own species.’
‘If the flap of a butterfly’s wings can be instrumental in generating a tornado, it can equally well be instrumental in preventing a tornado.’
Edward Lorenz, ‘Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?’, paper presented at the Global Atmospheric Research Program Conference, Boston, December 1972
‘Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children’s future. And we are all mortal.’
President John F. Kennedy , ‘A Strategy of Peace’ speech, American University, June 10, 1963
‘Nuclear explosions in the atmosphere are slowly but progressively poisoning our air, our earth, our water and our food. And it falls, let us remember, on both sides of the Iron Curtain, on all peoples of all lands, regardless of their political ideology, their way of life, their religion or the color of their skin. Beneath this bombardment of radiation which man has created, all men are indeed equal’.
excerpt from ‘Remarks of Senator John F. Kennedy at Wisconsin Association of Student Councils, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 2, 1960’.
More excerpts from this speech here
‘The DNA sequence in your genes is on average 99.9% identical to ANY other human being’
Dr Aaron Shafer, Stanford University, March 17, 2006
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