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Photographer Captures Perfectly Timed Shot of Whale Sneaking Up on Unsuspecting Whale Watchers
https://mymodernmet.com/viral-whale-watching-photo-eric-smith/
For the first historically documented metal mirrors, we have to wait a long time: but they too make their appearance on time about six thousand years ago, in Mesopotamia, and are made of polished copper
Copper = CU (cuprum-copper of the isle of Cipro-→birthplace of Venus*)
*There are several myths about the birth of the goddess, but the best known are those handed down by Hesiod and Homer. Hesiod claimed that she sprang from the seed of Uranus, god of the sky, when her genitals fell into the sea following the castration perpetrated by her son Saturn to avenge Gaea, his mother and wife of Uranus. The blood and semen they contained became foam from which Venus emerged near the island of Cyprus (aphròs in Greek means foam). According to Homer, however, Venus would be the daughter of Jupiter and the nymph of the oceans Dione and was born from a shell that came out of the sea.
In reality, already in the early Renaissance frames (for mirrors and paintings) were decorated with shells and acanthus leaves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus
Aphrodite is the Greek version of Venus (wich is Roman)…
interestingly enough the Latin words that indicate poison and poisoning derive from Venus
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In cauda venenum*
*The poison is in the tail
An expression originally referring to the Scorpion and commonly used in a -Figurative- sense to mean that the final moment of something is the most difficult, that the bad comes last, and the like, or, more often, to indicate that the end of a speech reveals the controversial character previously disguised, or contains the words that most directly want to strike a person….