I do not know exactly when I took these photographs, certainly a few years ago now. It is not so easy to capture low light distant images without a tripod. Many were so underexposed so as to be completely black. Quite an interesting process to reveal the hidden images, grainy and so resembling the garish contrast of night-vision goggles. The revealing of distant mysteries. Creatures of the Abyss. Phosphorescent trails. The cave, plant sight lit. Eyes open or shut?
THE STONE’S TALE
1
First Commandments.
The first descent
From Sinai
Tutmoses made,
(said these tongues of stone,
Buried in the vaults of space,
Uprised, upraised, given voice
By faith and silent yearning),
He turned Lord Asar, Green Osiris,
Bursting green fire, plant enthused,
Vegetal, spilt his seed,
Red pomegranate lips,
Entwined his heart and loins
With lust of God,
Forgot himself,
Became unmanageable –
Lightning and cloud –
Unintelligible, a roaring message
No one dared listen to,
So they laughed and kept dancing,
Keeping warm by firesides,
The complaints of camels
And obedient women.
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simonhlilly 
I have been watching “The White Queen ” and “The Real White Queen and Her Rivals”; lots of this wonderfully wrought architecture alongside the history – both real and conjunctured. Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
The architecture : the outer framework for the psyche of any Age, perhaps. For all our vaunted progress, we still stand in awe of what they created in the Middle Ages without electricity….makes yer wonder sometimes…..
Those were the days of elegant political extravagance and bribery of God! So unlike the tawdry plastic monoculture today, devoid of complex symbolism and hope.
wow Simon! You’ve struck and sucked me in!
He he!