Monday 19 November 2018

Mumbai Literature Festival: Neil Macgregor



Time To Start Something New

Sky is your Canvas and Words are colors to paint your Picture

Literature: Mirror Of Society

Literature presents a picture of social political cultural influences of current times



Neil Macgregor

He has been Director of the British Museum since August 2002.



What Things Can Tell Us : Neil Mcgregor 



History of the World in 100 objects 

Ideas To Words To Objects/Things

Objects/Things show how the world has changed gradually over time 


1 st object known to man Hand Axe 

Man born in Africa: Hand Axe enables man to migrate out of Africa 




Tools To Money

2. Tools to Money that takes Man out of Poverty


First Global Currency: Mined By Spain

Spanish Money was used as domestic money in 

Asia, Latin America, America and Europe


Spanish Silver in UK: Holey Dollar 





                           Silver 5 shilling 'holey dollar' made from a Spanish 8 reales coin.

                                                                 Money To Greed 


 This drum originated in West Africa and was collected in Virginia probably between 1730 and 1745.
The drum today symbolizes the importance of music in African-America, both now and at the time of the slave trade. American colonists tried during the seventeenth century to enslave Native Americans but because of Native vulnerability to Old World diseases such as flu and smallpox, Africans were instead imported as slaves. 
 It was collected by a Reverend Mr Clerk on behalf of Sir Hans Sloane, founder of the British Museum. Sir Hans Sloane entered the drum in his catalogue as a 'drum made of a hollowed tree carved the top being brac'd wt. peggs & thongs wt. the bottom hollow from Virginia'. It is one of the earliest known surviving African-American objects.

                                               Money To Books That Change The World 
                                                             Karl Marx: Das Kapital 
                                                 Origins Of Das Kapital: London Museum


Lenin Discovers Karl Marx in London Museum 

Jacob Richter aka Lenin 



Ideas To War



Portugal: First European Nation To Establish Colonial Empire And Last To Leave



Portugal In Africa 




Portugal - Mozambique War 


Mozambique: Throne Of Weapons 



War To Global World

African Football Player: English Team: Chinese Jersey: Global Fans


Things tell us better than anything else 

World is one like never before 

Boundaries have melted 

Man is living in One World for Good and Bad 

History with Objects can present the World Objectively




Living With Gods: Neil Macgregor 

Objectively To Subjective Presentation Of The World 



Living With The Gods 

Gods: Holder Of Subjective Beliefs  Influences Nature  Of Man



Religion is best understood as a Story 

Religious Narrative takes us through Time

Religious Narrative gives us a sense of Community 

Religious Narrative in a Community: Poetic Truth/Myth /Reality


40, 000 year old Lion Man is the First God known to Man 

Religion began in Germany

Oldest Evidence: Physical representation of an idea

Making an idea real by carving it on a Stone 



40, 000 Years Ago To Man In Space 



Interesting Facts On God

1. Soviet Union hostile to Religion.

 Church recognized as Corrupt Power Of The State 

Church aka Instrument Of Oppression


Church Of Salvation blown up on Stalins Order 

Later in the Century Religion is again recognised in Russia

                                                  Church Of Salvation Rebuilt 








2. Guadalupe: Patron Saint Of Mexico

Mexico

Francisco Cordoba discovers Mexico



Spain Destroys Aztec Culture and Exports Christianity To Mexico

1591: Our Lady Of Guadalupe


Mexico rebels against Spanish Crown in 1820



Our Lady Of Guadalupe To First President Of Mexico Guadalupe Victoria




Mexican Flag: Our Lady Of Guadalupe The Serpent Killer 

1 st Mexican Flag 




1591 To 2018 

Most visited Pilgrimage Shrine in the World



3, St Nicholas To Santa Claus



St Nicholas: Helping 3 Impoverished Maidens To Santa Claus


First Reference To Santa Claus: Children's Poem Published In New York 1821




4. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer


NY stores commissions the song to encourage Sales 

Robert L. May created Rudolph in 1939 as an assignment.  The story is written as a poem in  the same meter as "A Visit From St Nicholas"  (also known as "'Twas the Night Before Christmas").

5.                                                                      Christmas Tree 

                                    German Royal Family Introduces Christmas Tree to the World 

                                                   

                Christmas Tree Credits: Prince Albert Of Germany and Queen Victoria 



Gods: Imagination to Stories shaped by man 

Stories created from imagination makes a society that man wants to be a part of 

Religion is the ideal of society which all want to have 

Religion shows us how to venerate it 



LIFE  IN A NUT SHELL 

Objective Reality Vs Subjective Reality





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