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"Sovereign goddess, lady of the nether abyss, mother of gods, queen of the earth, queen of fecundity... As the primordial humidity, whence proceeded (sic) all, Belita is Tamti, or the sea, the mother of the city of Erech, therefore, an infernal goddess. In the world of stars and planets she is known as Ishtar or Astoreth."
M. P. Blavatsky, ‘Isis Unveiled’

www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/ishtar.html

Unrelated to the quote above, which, though pertaining to the origin of the word 'Easter', is in any case fairly random , a friend recently asked me where the ‘peace’ poster at the bottom of my blog page comes from. Just in case anyone else is interested, this is the story. Before beginning study for a master’s degree at the start of 2007, I completed a one-year post-graduate diploma in 2006: the AUT’s Graduate Diploma in Computer Publishing and Design.

http://intouch.aut.ac.nz/intouch/CourseInfo/knowledge_base/kb_sub.php?articleid=18§ionid=7

One of the course assignments was to design two magazine advertisements. The magazines had to be actual publications that targeted two specific and dissimilar demographics but we could choose whatever product we liked. I picked these magazines:

‘Pavement’ – a lifestyle/fashion publication for 18 to 35yrs
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/6/story.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10411515
and:
‘The Third Age’ – a lifestyle publication for 50+yrs
http://www.grownups.co.nz/life/music-reviews/

The 'product' I chose was peace and the poster at the bottom of my blog is the one designed for ‘Pavement’ magazine. Josh Crowther, the model appearing in the poster, is the son of a good friend. Josh plays drums for ‘The Twitch’ an Auckland based 'alternative' thrash-rock band who won the ‘NZ 2005 Battle of the Bands’ and went on to take out the number two spot at the ‘2005 World Battle of the Bands’ held in Hong Kong.

Above: ‘The Twitch’s' album "What the F**k is Going On?"

Check out their space at:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=36048258
and:
http://www.muzic.net.nz/artists/1742.html

Above:"Go placidly amidst the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be found in silence"

This is the second poster I did, for ‘The Third Age’ magazine. The quote comes from a poem first published in the 1920s called the ‘Desiderata’ (Latin for “things to be desired”), http://hobbes.ncsa.uiuc.edu/desiderata.html written by Max Erhmann © 1952.

Above: 'The Twitch' rock 'The Dogs' Bollix'

http://www.dogsbollix.co.nz/