I feel a bit guilty that I haven’t been posting on here recently. I was for a large part busy finishing our first book project in German about Iran, Iranian culture, humanist concepts in Iranian culture and mythology. Please check out http://www.irankulturpolitik.com in that context.

Other than that I worked on several small sized drafts for my political and philosophical essays about Animal Rights theory. And finally two other tasks are currently keeping me busy. We are preparing two projects for Farangis.de that I am gonna post about at a later date, and my insect protection initiative usually needs some special attention in the autumn and winter time.

I redid the design of this page in a “crazy” way a bit. The unfortunate thing now is, that some of the important context that I got posted on here seems to be “insulted” by the childish looking new design. I hope you, the reader, can apologize that.

If you are reading this and you happen to be into active revolution in the fields of Animal Rights, Humans Rights, Environmentalism : I am eagerly looking for creative contributions. If you feel your thoughts match ours somehow, then please contact me at mail [at] simorgh [dot] de .

* I found this youtube valid xhtml generator: http://www.tools4noobs.com/online_tools/youtube_xhtml/. Neat stuff!

By Magi Nabarz ( http://www.myspace.com/nabarz )

I call on Verethragna, as the Boar, may he rage through the ranks of the Basiji the Iranian Islamic police, may their riots shield shatter, may their helmets and viziers mist up, may their body armour fall, may their batons slip out or their hands. May they break rank and disperse.

I call on the goddess Anahita, lady of the waters, may she give courage to the demonstrators, may she help them to continue the struggle, may she provide love and nourishment to those already arrested and heading into the pits of the Islamic regime’s prison. May she bring light into prison cells.

I call on Mithra, may the lord of truth walk beside all who are fighting the Great Lie that is the Islamic regime, may he support all the bloggers who are telling the truth and let their messages reach out to wide world.

I call on the Sun at his height, may his light and warmth feed the fire and passion of the demonstrators.

I call on Atar, lord of fire, once again burn the three headed beast that stole the Divine Glory (right of rulership), may the right of rulership be returned to the people, and their voices and votes counted.

I call on Vayu, lord of wind, to blow away deceit, to interfere with police helicopters and stop them flying, to shorten the breath of the Islamic police and stop them chasing protestors. May the Basijis be out of breath, and tired.

I call on Tishtrya, the star Sirius, lord of rain, summer Solstice marks your time, Tir take thy form of Young Man/Woman, and march beside the Youth of the Persian nation, as they march towards black clothed police. Show them how you overcame the darkness before.

I call on Homa may she heal the wounded, may she remove the demonstrators bullets wounds, and baton bruises. May she fuse the demonstrators with ecstasy and joy and remove fear from their minds.

I fly to of mount Davamand and I call the gods of my Ancestors: Verethragna, Anahita, Mithra, Atar, Vayu, Tishtrya, Homa liberate your land of Persia. Return to thy rightful place and land, thy children in their time of darkness I beg of thee.

Come in their hour of need, and hold the line against the coming hordes, thy temples shall be rebuilt and past glory restored. You have not been forgotten.

All this I call at Summer Solstice, the height of sun’s power.

Summer Solstice is called Tirgan in Iran, or Persia.

Any political correctness melts with images of the Islamic religious police, the Basijis beating and killing protestors.

My creed of love and peace, takes a tea break.

I see my arms transform into hawk’s wings, my head into a falcon, each breath takes me deeper, as avenging Horus emerges. Shaking with love and anger for an oppressed nation. It’s Father’s day tomorrow, so I take the mantel of Horus, son risen to avenge all the father’s killed and imprisoned by Iranian government in last 30 years, Osiris slain and risen god. Horus with his right eye the sun and left eye the moon.

I flap my wings in face of Basijis and blind them, so their aim misses their target and the protestors; my croak a distraction to the black shirts.

I call on Verethragna, as the Boar may rage through the ranks of Islamic police, may their riots shield shatter, may their helmets and vizers mist up, may their body armour fall, may their batons slip out or their hands.

As Mithra Yasht says:
“We sacrifice unto Mithra, the lord of wide pastures, …. sleepless, and ever awake;
‘Before whom Verethraghna, made by Ahura, runs opposing the foes in the shape of a boar, a sharp-toothed he-boar, a sharp-jawed boar, that kills at one stroke, pursuing, wrathful, with a dripping face; strong, with iron feet, iron forepaws, iron weapons, an iron tail, and iron jaws;
‘Who, eagerly clinging to the fleeing foe, along with Manly Courage, smites the foe in battle, and does not think he has smitten him, nor does he consider it a blow till he has smitten away the marrow and the column of life, the marrow and the spring of existence.
‘He cuts all the limbs to pieces, and mingles, together with the earth, the bones, hair, brains, and blood of the men who have lied unto Mithra.
‘For his brightness and glory, we offer him a sacrifice worth being heard”.

So again I call on the goddess Anahita, lady of the waters, may she give courage to the demonstrators, may she help them to continue the struggle, may she provide love and nourishment to those already arrested and heading into the pits of the Islamic regime’s prison. May she bring light into prison cells.

I call on Mithra, may the lord of truth walk beside all who are fighting the Great Lie that is the Islamic regime, may he support all the bloggers who are telling the truth and let their messages reach out to wide world.

I call on the Sun at his height, may his light and warmth feed the fire and passion of the demonstrators.

I call on Atar, lord of fire, once again burn the three headed beast that stole the Divine Glory (right of rulership), may the right of rulership be returned to the people, and their voices and votes counted.

I call on Vayu, lord of wind, to blow away deceit, to interfere with police helicopters and stop them flying, to shorten the breath of the Islamic police and stop them chasing protestors. May the Basijis be out of breath, and tired.

I call on Tishtrya, the star Sirius, lord of rain, summer Solstice marks your time, Tir take thy form of Young Man/Woman, and march beside the Youth of the Persian nation, as they march towards black clothed police. Show them how you overcame the darkness before.

I call on Homa may she heal the wounded, may she remove the demonstrators bullets wounds, and baton bruises. May she fuse the demonstrators with ecstasy and joy and remove fear from their minds.

Brightest of Blessings!

Magi Nabarz

Every injustice that happens and that has happened in this world, has it’s consequences for those who inflict the injustice. Closing ones eyes towards injustice, won’t make a right of a wrong.

Poles are melting: http://www.polarbearsinternational.org, http://www.greencollareconomy.com/
Humans Rights: Stoning victim ‘begged for mercy’ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7708169.stm
Animal Rights: Rethinking Anthropocentric Politics. Draft prepared for presentation at Political Theory Workshop. Ohio State University. May 2008. Rafi Youatt http://polisci.osu.edu/intranet/poltheory/youatt.pdf

What I mean by “meaningful content” is that I believe arts should not be an aesthetical post-cartesianism which nevertheless STILL endorses a “cogito ergo sum” and divulges itself in a complex subjectivity.

To my view it is important that art relates to the “other phenomena” in this way:

=> A has a real (and in that way an expressedly objective) relation to B, where B is not simply “that what is seen” in the eyes of A.

=> B is real.

Arts currently seems to keep insisting on a message that equals:
‘What I see mainly relates to my or ai surrogate collective “subjective self”. And, my subjective self has an authority that is completely independent of the authority of “what else” exists in the universe.