#nativity scenes

[keepxsolxinxsolxinvictus]

The Caganer

[charlesreeza]

Among the most interesting Neapolitan crib figures in the collection displayed at the National Museum of San Martino are those that were referred to in the 1960s as the “deformi” because they had physical differences and apparent mental problems. This group includes an old woman with a hunched back, a young man whose facial features suggest Down Syndrome, a woman with dwarfism, and a bow-legged man with prominent neck goiters. Following later restoration and reinterpretation, these figures were recognized as portrayals of conditions that were more common at that time in people who were accepted as part of every community. The sculptors were willing and eager to represent realistic faces and bodies in all their variety.  A few exceptions resulted from clumsy restorations that attached disproportionate parts from broken figures to others that had missing pieces.

Photos by Charles Reeza

[septembergold]

[djbcadventures]

We have 28 Nativity Scenes from all over town, plus two from home that are showcased here.

[alphie-in-the-sky]

[daylerogers]

We Need To Get It Right

The island country of Malta in the Mediterranean Sea has celebrated Christmas for centuries with people crafting what are known as Nativity Cribs, the name common years ago for the feeding box used by livestock, now called mangers. In 2020 a competition was held, with ten of these beautiful scenes displayed at the Museum of the Bible, and it’s been hosted by this museum for the past several…

[demidevildonnie]

nativity scene

[thegreenleavesofspring]

So, let's talk nativity scenes.

I've been looking for a nativity scene for... three years now, give or take. Maybe a little more. Ever since I got my own place that I could decorate for Christmas.

The ones I found in department stores were clearly made by a machine programmed by a blind man who had only the vaguest approximation of the human form an no idea at all of the human face.

Or they included the Magi but disregarded the shepherds; a disturbing trend for a Christian symbol, to discard the humble, the ordinary, the skilled, in favor of the wealthy academicians. (Who weren't even there in time for the birth anyway, honestly, most belated baby shower ever.)

This year at the local Fair, the first week of November, the local beekeepers had their stall set up. And they had a beeswax nativity set. It didn't include the shepherds, still, but at least it didn't have the Magi. And despite it just being undyed candles, it was beautifully molded. I purchased it. (And an angel, who was sold separately.)

I unboxed it and set it up today. And yes this whole post was a leadup to saying my brand-new nativity scene is emitting waves of a sweet scent and I like it. ^_^

(Although I might have to get a scrap of flannel to lay across the Baby Jesus, all my mom instincts are recoiling in horror at the single strip of cloth laid across this baby's diaper area, with Him set directly on hay. Baby needs a blanket!)

[beif0ngs]

- Okay, out with it. What’s with your family’s weird brother Ben fetish? - He... You... were the best of us, and you died too soon. Just know that we were never the same without you. So, I’ll take every second of whatever version of you we’ve got.

[tomicscomics]

12/29/2023

Fun Fact: LET ME HOLD THE BABYYYYY!!!

JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. Jewish laws have a lot of stuff about impurities and uncleanliness.  After giving birth, for example, a mother becomes impure for a time (forty days after having a boy, or eighty for a girl).  During this time, the mother can't enter temples (dwelling places of God) or touch anything sacred. 2. In this cartoon, Joseph reads about the above impurity laws from a brochure.  At first, it seems like he's just informing his beloved wife of their religious duties, but in fact, he's only using it to build up an argument of why HE should be the one holding the new Baby Jesus.  After all, if Mary is legally impure, doesn't that mean she can't hold Jesus, since He's sacred?  Of course, by that logic, the manger could be considered a temple, since it's the current dwelling place of God-made-Man, but Joseph wisely avoids arguing this point.

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I’m putting up this nativity scene this year

[mysharona1987]

Gee, almost like many Evangelicals have always been a bunch of hypocritical fucks that don’t mean a word of what they say.

Although we should have figured that out when they declared Donald Trump, of all people, their righteous leader.

They will never say a word about the IDF wiping out 2% of Christians in Gaza and the West Bank.

[flovoid]

CRIMINAL VS DETECTIVE

a detective who is obsessing over solving a case involving a ‘criminal’ who steals precious monuments but does bring these items back under a ‘one’ condition…

which is forcing officers of the law in san myshuno to reveal their deepest injustice secrets, that are long hidden from the public eyes..

[bonebabbles]

average day in the tiktok warriors fandom

he's. he's literally described on the page as enjoying the feeling of making cats viciously maul each other. He gets "validation" for his feelings constantly through Gray Wing and his other sycophants kissing his ass, and still maliciously and intentionally torments them. He beats women and children for telling him no

What they want is BREEZEPELT. This describes BREEZEPELT. BREEZE. PELT.

The cat who is ACTUALLY reprimanded by authority for being angry all the time?? The one whose dad screeches at him for having basic needs?? A character who is explicitly shown to be manipulated by an evil force because they're the only ones who validate his feelings??

THAT Breezepelt?? Ringing any BELLS?

Lemmie guess. Tiktok probably doesn't like Breezepelt much because if you acknowledge that he's a child abuse victim, you can't keep woobifying Crowfeather into a sad boy. Lol.

[notbecauseofvictories]

have I somehow ruined myself for perfectly average movies? I watched both Robots (2023) and The Deer King (2021) and both of them were fine---Deer King was better, but suffered from trying to jam too much into a single film; Robots should have been more black-humored, delighting in its lazy sociopaths and their vaguely squalid world. But that's it, that's all they were---fine. Just fine.

Does this mean I have to watch exclusively Films now? I can't get into a movie unless it's black and white, or two hours of characters speaking sideways and having neuroses at each other?

[rescatada]

The Birth of Christ by Burmese artist Kyaw Phyu San