#athos monastery

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Monks Walk To The Mountain Monastery of Athos, 1905 Art by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi

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Travel poster for Mount Athos, featuring the Monastery of Simonos Petra (1949).

[godlovesyousoiloveyou]

The righteous have no sorrows that are not turned into joy, as sinners have no joy that is not turned into sorrow.

+ St. Dmitri of Rostov

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Night on Mount Athos - Nocturnal ascent on Mount Athos

by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi

Monks walk to the Mountain Monastery of Athos

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The cliffs of Mount Athos have been home to a community of monks for over 12 centuries. Their way of life has barely changed, living lives of worship and self-sufficiency.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Hermann Corrodi. Nightly Walk of the Monks to the Mountain Monastery Athos. 1888  ::  [Mikhail Iossel]

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“Life hasn’t just begun. Art never had a beginning. Always, until the moment of its stopping, it was constantly there. It is infinite. It is here, at this moment, behind me and inside me, and, as if the doors of an Assembly Hall were suddenly flung open, I am immersed in its fresh, headlong omnilocality and omnitemporality, as if an oath of allegiance were to be sworn without delay. No genuine book has a first page. Like the rustling of a forest, it is begotten God knows where, and it grows and it rolls, arousing the dense wilds of the forest until suddenly, in the very darkest, most stunned and panicked moment, it rolls to its end and begins to speak with all the treetops at once.”

― Boris Pasternak

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How else would we be able to make progress if we had no difficulties to overcome?

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Βορειοδυτική άποψη της Ιεράς Μονής Σταυρονικήτα, όπως φαίνεται από τη γειτονική Ιερά Μονή Παντοκράτορος,Άγιο Όρος

Stavronikita Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery at the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece, dedicated to Saint Nicholas. It is built on top of a rock near the sea near the middle of the eastern shore of the Athonite Peninsula, located between the monasteries of Iviron and Pantokratoros.

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#travel#blue#sea ##athos#greece🇬🇷#travelinspiration #naturephotography #february #Monastery # #travelpic #travelphotography (la Mount Athos) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpDmGxXN4Zd/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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82 Year Old Man Lives His Entire Life Without Seeing a Woman

82 Year Old Man Lives His Entire Life Without Seeing a Woman

82 Year Old Man Lives His Entire Life Without Seeing a Woman. 5 Quick Facts about Mihailo Tolotos Mihailo Tolotos was born in 1938Mihailo Tolotos’s mother died during child birth.At only 4 hours old, he was left on the steps of a monastery on Mount Athos.Tolotos was adopted by the monks of the monastery.He lived for 82 years without seeing a woman. Read on to find out why! This story may leave…

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Some of you might have been wondering what has happened to Giorgos and his updates.

On the one hand, I didn't have much free-time to organize. On the other hand, there was really nothing to give you an update about. But here is a little update with some more "successfull" screenshots.

So, he reached his peak of 95 kilos / 210 or so pounds in mid May. But, he was planning to do a trip to the monastery on the Athos Peninsula. He had the trip on the last days of May, walking for hours under the scarching Greek sun, with little food and no alcohol near. Looks like he rapidly lost 5 kilos / 10-12 pounds, reaching his "ideal" weight of 90 kilos / 200 pounds. The first four pictures are from early June, around this weight.

Then, he found himself a new job and passion - construction. That's right, he started to work at his father's housing company, building houses and apartements with his two hands. He also had to move to Athens, but he keeps visiting home back to his village on the Peloponnese. Pictures 5-6 are from this time, late June-early July. New environment, without mama's cooking, and the little time to eat made him lose another 5 kilos / 10 pounds, falling back to 85 kilos / 188-190 pounds. Then he vanished from socials (I thought he had a love affair, but he stayed single whatever happened).

The last four screens are rather recent (mid July). He seems to have accomodated to the new environment, seems to have figured things out, and I'm positive he got confident enough to "care about his body" some more. He is allegedly still 85 kilos, he looks kinda proud of his weight loss (he brags about him to anyone calling him fatty - 10 kilos in less than two month is still quite impressive - I'm afraid he gets too cocky about it and will keep up "dieting"), but he still won't give up on the belly.

To be honest, his ten kilo weight loss hardly shows. Of course, that belly would look a lot softer and a lot more like Giorgos, but he still has a lot of it. He has finally found himself a passion, and hopefully it's just a question of time till the late-night gyro-runs start to show. It's also the middle of the hottest summer ever recorded in Greece, and don't forget that he is a physical worker now - I actually find it surprising he didn't go lower than where he is now, and that he is still looking out of shape. Somehow his muscles don't seem to develop, maybe because of the inappropriate diet he is following.

And you know what this means? Instability. He has no balance. His body knows that it can't go lower and has to keep storing the amount of bodyfat he is having. And I'm counting on that as soon as summer is over, his hunger will grow (as people are bilogically installed to craving less energy during the summer and more in the winter). As we know him, he won't probably be able to hold himself back, especially during the holidays. You remember how he ballooned up to 95 kilos before Christmas? And he didn't even care.

Anyway, this might mean less updates until something interesting happens (e.g. no more constructions for a while / going back to a sedentary lifestyle, getting homemade meals, probably a girlfriend who can cook for him?). I still have some "material" to post if anyone is interested but it would take some time and patience to make it publishable.

[godlovesyousoiloveyou]

“If a person wants to get an idea about the pyramids of Egypt, he must either trust those who have been in immediate proximity to the pyramids, or he must get next to them himself. There is no third option.

In the same way, a person can get an impression of God: he must either trust those who have stood and stand in proximity to God, or he must take pains to come into such proximity himself.”

+ St. Nikolai Velimirovich

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Art that presents the Byzantine Empire from another perspective

Alexander the Great chases hairy women with dogs, 14th c. Greek Institute of Byzantine and post-Byzantine Studies.

The Mandrake. From De Materia Medica, a book written by Dioscorides, a Greek doctor in the Roman army, 50-70 AD. National Library of Austria. (That’s the whole Roman Empire still, but I couldn’t leave it behind.)

Personification of the Winter, 5th c. Found in the Baths of Argos, Greece. 

The month of April with the zodiac sign Aries, 1346, Vatopedi Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece.

Dionysus is born from Zeus’ thigh, 12th c. , Panteleimon Monastery, Mount Athos, Greece (Photo credit: Antonio Guiomar).

Hippocrates of Kos (460 - 377 BC), artwork dates to 1341 - 1345. National Library of France. 

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[ancientorigins]

In this age of gender fluidity, the 1,000-year-old ban on women, and let’s not forget female animals, in Mount Athos in Greece seems more than obsolete. Especially when you find out why.

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Monks Walk To The Mountain Monastery of Athos, 1905 Art by Hermann David Salomon Corrodi