Biden - Iohannis Meeting

Mount Attila, Artilla or Conner and Nut

I bet it is called Rainbow Serpent just because of the color of the rock contrasting with the collor of the image. Could it be it represents Mt. Attila.

How about this

Or this

Minimalistic Healthy Cooking: Cabbage

Hands on time: Half hour or more, depending on skills.

We call it simply cabbage. Angela and i. It has the same ingredients and largely taste of a dish that cannot miss during any holiday in Romania. The local version of cabbage rolls minus the wonderful flavour of pickled cabbage. Much easier to cook though.

Not complicated, not sophisticated, this recipe is good for those who never cook and want to try. Driven by the principle: Anything cooked at home in a reasonably decent manner, is better than anything fast food. Cabbage even better because it is low calories though loaded with vitamin C, minerals and fiber. It is a recipe developed by the two of us derived from family recipes in Romania, many Romanians would be surprised how it evolved. It can be used as side for meat.

Need one healthy fresh ripe cabbage (not exactly like this one, bought two days ago), a few carrots, half onion, parsley (optional), half bell pepper (optional), (either) tomatoes, tomato juice or paste or V8 (You probably figured by now. There are a number of ingredients that repeat in most of my recipes, for practical reasons, can only have so many ingredients in the fridge). Even canned pasta or pizza sauce leftovers will do it (though it will surely ruin the taste because of the number of ingredients they use).

One large cup of rice.

Spices.

(Please ignore what you see in some pictures on the counter on left upper corner. It is crystalized borax and sugar, for ants. For humans borax has the toxicity of table salt. In fact, it is used to preserve caviar. If i remove it, ants will come.)

Wash, peel the bad parts and cut thin aiming pasta like appearance.

Separately start some rice. Know how to cook rice? One big cup (300 ml) of rice, two same size cups of water. Boil the water, add the rice and set it to lowest setting, preferably with a clear lid to see if it's boiling. Simmering that is. For ten minutes. Never mix. By that time water will be absorbed by rice. Then stop the burner and let it sit for five more minutes. At the end can add some olive oil, parsley. Do not salt if you want to use it with soy sauce.

Put the cabbage in a big pot with half inch of water at the bottom. Grate some carrots, dice a tomato or two, add some tomato juice (optional), chopped parsley (optional), half onion, half bell pepper (optional), spices, salt. Put the lid on, set it to medium low, listen for the boiling sound. Because of the small amount of water at the bottom it will be mostly steamed, not boiled. Half hour to 40 minutes total steaming time for first ingredient, cabbage. Mix any time you want. I do it after i'm done adding all ingredients, this way i do not work twice. At this time, can add some olive oil.

There is something about combining the taste of rice and cabbage. It happens in the original Romanian recipe, i saw it at the Best Teriyaki restaurant in Beaverton where i ate of course best teriyaki ever. Many times, many years; there was a decent amount of lightly steamed cabbage with a bit of pepper on top next to the rice that made it special. Always wondered how they cooked that perfect rice (and finally figured it and i'm passing it to you). And of course the perfectly cooked meat.  (This recipe is strictly vegetarian though).

Corroboree Corroborate This

I've been intrigued by this word the first time i've encountered it search results regarding Australian indigenous people. Especially by a painting that i can't find anymore. Here's another one, equally interesting.I am familiar with the word from my extensive readings (at some time, one book a day) from the "Aventura" collection during the spring of 1980. Used mostly regarding "detective" work (nowadays i believe during communism detectives existed only in these writings) in adventure books for youth which probably imitated similar writings in the west. "this witness' declarations does not corroborate with the other" etc..

Last night i searched a bit on Romanian and French etymologies of the same word and both indicate Latin origin. And in Latin, according again to Google Translate, also with an important online French etymological dictionary, it means support, confirmation, which confirmed my first guess when i read those books and didn't have any dictionaries on hand. ("Empr. au lat. class. corroborare « donner force à, confirmer »").

Google's first quote from a linguistics site gives a very, how should i say, nonconventional? definition for the current word and etymology.

"The Latinate morphology may have had some influence on the English form of this word, but the word corroboree is borrowed (with small phonological changes) from an Aborigine word – a word from a group who lived near Port Jackson, NSW, and whose language does not exist anymore."

Why is this extremely important to me. Because it confirms for the first time the hypothesis of injection of non-European populations early in southern Europe, which could be the seed for this mysterious force, the Romans, who raised out of nothing or out of the well settled Indo European population in that time and place to one of the most aggressive and historically important empires in the history of our civilization. Whose demise in turn might have been brought by a population equally aggressive, from the same origin. The Huns of Attila. Again, another wave meeting the older self? Different "nations" of Australia, from the same genetically isolated population for more than 70 thousand years, one from North and one from South, fighting over the rich resources (gold, land, climate) of Europe?

In Ancient Australia (largely ignored by eurocentric historians) corroborees could have meant among other things, forging alliances.

And then my mind flew all day today towards more possible confirmation of this hypothesis.

One thing i remembered, is the name of emperor Caligula. Could been formed by two roots, one Cali, same as today's Kylie, and Gula, which is a frequent modern Hungarian name for people and places. Which is also the name of a Mesopotamian god, of healing i believe.

Corroborees where also a mean of connecting to the "dreaming", the central concept of the Australian indigenous culture and civilization.

Never mind, i found the original painting i was looking for. Done by a modern painter of Australian origin, it suggests some sort of deeper level of communications between the members of a group, through the dreaming of course.

Very intriguing are also the names of indigenous Australians.

Identifying a migration and other cultural and genetic marks of the Australian indigenous by tracing the skull deformation practice around the world.

Don't know how Google pulled this map out of this article, but i'm glad it did. It shows though carbon dating earliest known human skull deformation occurred in Australia. It also shows a migration may have occurred, at the end of the last Ice Age. It confirms my theory that tries to show that ice age are actually north-south alternating, with a complete cycle every approx. 26000 years. Don't know about the genetically isolated for 72k theory, but what i think it happened is a number of several nations spent last northern ice age in Australia easier then those in the other continents and kept more elements of the previous "flourishing age", an age similar to ours right now. That gave them some advantages over the others when the climate started to heat up in Eurasia.

Just remembered something. A picture i took in a museum in Oregon City. I wish i knew the dating of those artefacts.

Huns who nearly conquered Rome in 451 were known to practice this. However, to this day they are people among Hungarians who have a naturally deformed skull.

Can't finish this until i mention the Pama-Nyungan paradox. Around 5000 years ago, the current family of languages used by Australians, much younger than the population itself, spread across Australia, before its original speaking population disappeared. Where? The last migration out of Australia and into Europe of a group that was originally from Eurasia and spent the last "winter" in there, and then emigrated in waves back in the rest of the world? (Naga Sadhu of India could be just another example).

Talking about orange

Wait a minute. Forgot about Pangu and Pannonia. Presence of god Pan in Pelo_ponnesus, Greece.

Everybody knows. Penguins never lived in northern hemisphere.

And the penguin on Attila's shield

A Night at the Refuge