Shin Hé Gimel Nun

Here come's Hannukah (so much funn-ukah).

The dreidel letters mean Nes gadol hayah sham -- "A great miracle happened there".
But in Israel, the Shin is a Pé : Nes gadol hayah po -- "A great miracle happened here".

It's Hebrew, but in the game each letter stand for a Yiddish word:

"Nun" = "nisht", or "nothing." You roll this you get nothing.
"Gimel" = "gantz" or "all." You get the whole pot.
"Hé" = "halb" , or "half." You get half the pot.
"Shin" is "shtel" or "put in." You have to put two into the pot.

Go figure.

Microlithic Monument

Not astronomically accurate, but aesthetically communicative.

This was a week before Saowen, and the sea colored the sky.

A man and his pet

The man has a pet. The pet is a hyena.

Ancient hands

The hands of women: left hands.
Negative images and positive.
And ancient.

Sunfish/Mondfisch

Another example of the perfection of nature brought low by human curiosity.


In English the creature is called "sun", in German, "moon".