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09-27-2014, 05:55 PM

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courage2

p***enger

Join Date: Nov 2012

Location: NYC

Posts: 19,067

Good evening, friends!

Welcome to Stayingsober72& Timeforchange7 & Longpasttime ! Whether you’re new to SR, new to this thread, just coming back, counting days or years, we’re glad you’re here!

Congratulations to 1NewCreation on 25 mega-months, and to all, congratulations and thanks for today!

Here’s the list of those who’ve made part of their commitment to sobriety include posting on this thread from about 8:30 p.m. September 26 to 8:30 p.m. on September 27, NYC local time:

1newcreation
afloatsober
altoids
Alysheba
aussieblue
BarbieKen
biminiblue
calico
casinva
charleesavedme
Coldfusion
courage2
DaneK
Dee74
EJM824
ElGato
ForMeForThem
Gilmer
Goat
gracetuesday
Grateful11
grtgrandpa
HeartsAfire
Hevyn
Kaneda8888
Kiya
Longpasttime
Mags1
Missy7
mystified
MyTime86
NewLeaf
rachelle77
Resolv
sickofthiscrap
SnoozyQ
SoberLeigh
Stayingsober72
sthlondonab
tgirl
Timeforchange7
tootsl1
VikingGF
Waterfalls2014
yukonm

I apologize for any errors on the list.

Mythical, magical, and divine birds. Tonight’s bird is the ibis, of the family Threskiornithidae. There are 28 living species of ibis, a large, wading stork-like bird, but I’m just going for the big one, the African ibis.

The ibis was a sacred animal in ancient Egypt. It was associated with Thoth, god of wisdom, knowledge and writing, who was often depicted with the head of an ibis. There was a cult around the ibis for hundreds of years starting in about 600 BC, which at its peak was using an estimated 10,000 birds per year in religious rituals. Birds were killed, mummified, and placed in Egyptian burial sites. This painting by Sir Edward John Poynter (1871) shows an Egyptian slave feeding sacred captive ibis. A statue of Thoth can be seen at the upper right.

Thoth was the scribe for the Egyptian gods, and by the Hellenistic period when the Greeks adopted him as Hermes Trismegistus, he'd been credited with authorship of all works of religion, philosophy, astronomy,astrology, mathematics, geometry, land surveying, medicine, botany, theology, government, the alphabet, reading, writing, oratory and magic. As if that weren’t enough, Thoth was a psychopomp, one who guided others to the afterlife. So, it was pretty important to have an ibis in your tomb! Not only that, you’d want a well-fed ibis as your guide to the afterlife, wouldn’t you? There’s a fascinating story by the National Geographic on xray and forensic examination of ibis mummies – 4 million of which have been found at a single set of Egyptian catacombs (Pictures: Bird Mummies "Fed" After Death, Stuffed With Snails). Look closely at the image below and see if you can make out the snails used to stuff the dead ibis’ stomach!

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone here again tomorrow!