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DruulEmpire

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Shazam, Matam
« on: October 01, 2006, 04:52:50 AM »
No idea who Matam is, but on today's (10/1/06) evidence, he has just become one of my favorite expressionist painters!

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traX

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Re: Shazam, Matam
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2006, 02:06:40 PM »
A name with a lot of overtones...
Matam is a city in Senegal,
a district of Conakry, Guinea,
a businesspark in Haifa, Israel,
a Shia congregation Hall in Bahrain ("The Hussainia"), or the
term used in South Asia for the act of self-flaggelation during the Shia Festival of Muharram (remembrance of the battle of Karbala where Muhammad's grandson Husayn ibn Ali was martyred - Many of the male participants congregate together in public for ceremonial chest beating (matham) as a display of their devotion to Husayn and in remembrance of his suffering).
Does fine graphics, Mr "beat my chest"...

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Re: Shazam, Matam
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2006, 06:11:50 PM »
Oh, *that* sort of self-flagellation....
rtpoe

Gently I stir a white feather fan,
With open shirt sitting in a green wood.
I take off my cap and hang it on a jutting stone;
A wind from the pine-tree trickles on my bare head.

-  Li Po, Summer in the Mountains