“Those Greeks and Romans,” he protested, “they are so overrated. They only said everything first. I’ve said just as good things myself. But they got in before me.”

- Attributed to Winston Churchill

Bollingen Tower, built by Carl Jung

Ipomoea cairica
Cairo morning glory

I don't blame them for calling it ست الحسن , the flowers are so pretty 😞🧡

Wir fragten die Erde.
Wir fragten den Himmel.
Wir fragten das Meer.
Wir fragten den Wind.
Wir fragten das Feuer,
Wir suchten dich bei allen Völkern.
Wir suchten dich bei allen Königen.
Wir suchten dich bei allen Weisen.
Wir suchten dich in unserm eigenen Kopf und Herzen.
Und wir fanden dich im Ei

أموت واعرف هالرجال شديسوي بالضبط...

The main figure was Hunayn ibn Ishaq حُنَين بن إسحاق (d. 873), later known in the West as Johannitius, a Nestorian Christian from the southern Iraqi town of al-Hira الحيرة. Hunayn, who travelled to the Byzantine empire in search of Galenic treatises and was said to wander the streets of Baghdad reciting Homer in Greek, was amazingly prolific. With his pupils, he translated 129 works of Galen into Arabic (and others into Syriac), providing the Arabic world with more Galenic texts than survive today in Greek.

- The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, by Roy Porter