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I invite you to come explore my world and my area's. i would also invite you to come and see all my pictures and features I have created. Come and See look around you.The images that I have put on my screen are like Japanese peace places . and japanese tea garden. The images are very detailed they show the depth of the picture.

Athena is the Greek virgin goddess of reason, intelligent activity, arts and literature. Athena is the daughter of Zeus. She sprang full grown in armour from his forehead, thus has no mother. She is fierce and brave in battle but, only wars to defined the state and home from outside enemies. She is the goddess of the city, handicrafts, and agriculture. She invented the bridle, which permitted man to tame horses, the trumpet, the flute, the pot, the rake, the plow, the yoke, the ship, and the chariot. She is the embodiment of wisdom, reason, and purity. She was Zeus's favorite child and was allowed to use his weapons including his thunderbolt.

Her favorite city is Athens. Her tree is the olive. The owl is her bird. She is a virgin goddess.Murasaki Shikibu (978?-1026?), Japanese novelist, one of her country's greatest writers, and the author of what is generally considered the world's first novel, The Tale of Genji (first trans. by Arthur Waley in 6 vol., 1925-32). Little is known about the author (including her real name), except that she was married to Fujiwara Nobutaka and that she kept a diary of court life, which she transformed into a novel after her husband's death.

The Tale of Genji concerns the amorous adventures of the fictional Prince Genji and the more staid lives of his descendants. The novel paints a charming and apparently accurate picture of Japanese court life in the Heian period, during the reign of Empress Akiko, whom Murasaki Shikibu attended. Among the novel's chief delights are the portraits of the women in Prince Genji's life. These women are individually described, with their aristocratic refinements, talents in the arts of music, drawing, and poetry, and love for the beauties of nature. As the work nears its conclusion, the tone becomes more mature and somber, shaded by Buddhist judgments on the fleeting joys of earthly existence.

Word from Latin, which indicates the lands where the sun rises, as seen from Europe. The original designation were for the eastern parts of the Roman empire, the regions that later were turned into the Eastern Roman empire, and even later the Byzantine empire. This included parts of Balkan in Europe, Minor Asia, the Levant, and eastern parts of North Africa. In modern times, 'Orient' has been used to designate areas that do not belong to the Western cultural hemisphere, and has been expanded to cover the regions of East Asia, with China and Japan as the principal countries.

'Orient' is to some extent also used by people outside the Western countries, and there are many different views on what constitute the content of the word. Sometimes the word is used for the entire Muslim world, as stretching from Morocco in west to Indonesia in east. At times, 'Orient' has been used more for indicating exotic culture, and the quality of having a cultural difference compared to European cultures. This usage of 'Orient' has been addressed by Edward W. Said in his book Orientalism.

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