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[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Clever and cute. Luved it.

[HONDO74]

This is kind of amusing so I put it here.

Giant spider hauls away man's pet goldfish for dinner
https://www.foxnews.com/science/giant-s ... y-goldfish

A South African man was attempting to impress his new date with his pet goldfish, Cleo, only to be stunned when a giant nursery web spider snatched the unsuspecting fish out of its pond and carried it away, The Sun reports.

Jérémy Schalkwijk was getting ready to show the fish, located in his pond in Barberton, South Africa, to Athina Yalias, when the spider lowered itself into the pond and used its fangs and front legs to carry the fish away. Stunned, Schalkwijk captured photos of the incredible event.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

Nicely proportioned snake.
The girls pretty good also.

[webenda]

This is kind of amusing so I put it here.

Giant spider hauls away man's pet goldfish for dinner
https://www.foxnews.com/science/giant-s ... y-goldfish

The Smithsonian calls the spider, "The Fishing Spider." They posted a video on the spider:> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CktmhnWnSJI

[webenda]

[webenda]

THE MAN IN THE MAZE

According to O'odham oral history, the labyrinth design depicts experiences and choices individuals make in the journey through life. In the middle of the "maze," a person finds their dreams and goals. When one reaches the center, the individual has a final opportunity (the last turn in the design) to look back upon choices made and the path taken, before the Sun God greets us, blesses us and passes us into the next world.

As told by Alfretta Antone:

Elder Brother lived in the maze ... and the reason why he lived in the maze was because ... I think how I'm gonna say this ... magician or oh, medicine man that can disappear, and that can do things, heal people and things like that ... that was Elder Brother ... Se:he ... they called him ... he lived in there ... but he had a lot of enemies so he made that, and to live in there people would go in there but they couldn't find him ... they would turn around and go back.

But in real life ... when you look at the maze you start from the top and go into the maze ... your life, you go down and then you reach a place where you have to turn around ... maybe in your own life you fall, something happens in your home, you are sad, you pick yourself up and you go on through the maze ... you go on and on and on ... so many places in there you might ... maybe your child died ... or maybe somebody died, or you stop, you fall and you feel bad ... you get up, turn around and go again ... when you reach that middle of the maze ... that's when you see the Sun God and the Sun God blesses you and say you have made it ... that's where you die.

The maze is a symbol of life ... happiness, sadness ... and you reach your goal ... there's a dream there, and you reach that dream when you get to the middle of the maze ... that's how I was told, my grandparents told me that's how the maze is.

[webenda]

Source: https://wilburwhateley.tumblr.com/post/ ... -homage-to

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

(Immediately above...) I've heard some medications can do wonders, nowadays.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

THE MAN IN THE MAZE

According to O'odham oral history, the labyrinth design depicts experiences and choices individuals make in the journey through life. In the middle of the "maze," a person finds their dreams and goals. When one reaches the center, the individual has a final opportunity (the last turn in the design) to look back upon choices made and the path taken, before the Sun God greets us, blesses us and passes us into the next world.

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Thanks Good-ol-Wayne, That's just about the best explanation about mazes I ever heard. I learned something.
Murph

[Rufus T. Firefly]

(Immediately above...) I've heard some medications can do wonders, nowadays.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Precisely.

[rogruth]

I was at the small, but enlightening and well laid out, museum in Gila Bend some years ago and heard a Tohono O'Odum (sp?) lady relate the best I can remember what Wayne has shown above. Gila Bend was my Air Force daughters first assignment. The museum-welcome center was run by an old gentleman who was then probably the age I am now. I would visit with him almost every day to find where I could visit around the area. He always
sent me to an interesting place.