The Lady Odin's Lair

Have you found yourself wondering about this symbol that Dante used in today's (8 July 2022) video:  BELIEVE ! (and have a great weekend) With the help of a friend, I was able to do a bit of sleuthing, and it pertains to a Russian Faculty of Higher Management. (Some advise me that it translates as Faculty of Higher Education.) But, no surprise, it's all in Russian. So it's inevitable that some intended meanings will be lost in translation.  Sigh .  Thankfully the Chrome browser was able to translate the website into approximate English, and I've cut and pasted sections over into this post so you don't have to go to that trouble just to see what it's all about. Note that there are no live links from the website, so if you're interested in contacting them or whatever, then you'll need to take those extra steps yourself. The blurb on their YouTube Channel offers this guidance as to what they offer: 9 stages that you need to go through to enter into interac...

This, and related posts, are primarily for my own deepening education. As westerners, we are rarely educated about Russia and Eastern Europe geography and cultures and I admit to being overwhelmed when it comes to (reasonably) quickly mentally placing a region when I read about something there. I have to remind myself that not EVERYwhere in Russia is like the stereotype of Siberia. With Russia revealing itself to be the current Karistus power-base, and with 3 of the 4 Brothers operating from here, it behooves those of us who consider ourselves  as Karistians, to increase our familiarity with what we can. It's bad enough that we rely on translators to render Russian writings into English - with a whole lot of depth lost in translation, no doubt - but at least I can educate myself geographically, going from the large overview and then eventually drilling down into the details of the regions, their people, their cultures, their histories, and their mysteries. So, to begin with, I aim ...