It’s the last photo of Jaraaghil photo series… u can see a rather big room of one of the carved houses and a unique shelf carved into its wall… do u notice its harmony with the whole shape and structure of the room…?

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This photo shows a region of the valley where the carved houses have a level entry with the ground and the entries to houses are in the same level with the ground…  but access to this region wasn’t easy and one had to cross many pathways in order to reach here…

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It’s the view seen from the inside of one of the houses…

Imagine waking to such a view everyday…

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All of the houses which’ve been carved into this wall have entries from above…  and have a water canalizing system beneath them which the water from the river is running in it…

Only some of the many stories and floors which are vertically connected to each other have windows or openings to the light outside, and the rest are hidden inside the heart of this wall of the valley…

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It’s one of the pathways of one of the houses with a vertical entry from top…

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It’s a rather poor panoramic view of the previous photo’s interior view…

All of the rooms, windows and entries were built by carving into the stone… and since this region has a rather cold climate, having a good heat isolation system should’ve been a crucial matter for them… and it may’ve been destroyed throughout the ages…

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Jaraaghil, the village carved into the canyon walls…

Well… these series of photos which I’ll put here by the name of Jaraaghil… I mean this photo and the next 5 posts are about a Village in the foothills and canyons of Sahand Mt., near Khosroshahr town…

It’s an ancient village and residential site in one of the the valleys of the Sahand Mt. and the whole village is carved into the wall of the canyon, and some of the houses were accessed from top and had with a very unique kind of door design; their entry was built onto their top, and the entrance was vertically done to the house…

This photo shows one of the regions where the houses were nearer to ground and were accessed by climbing…

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The Roof of the Earth…

The intellectual
searches for meaning and synthesis,
and desperately tries to dissolve
the great paradoxes of life.
The person close to Tao
- needing neither meaning, nor synthesis -
lives in harmony with paradoxes,
for they are the broken language of the spirit
pointing at the ineffable…

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It’s another HDR shot from our apartment’s rooftop… the sky was so amazingly beautiful and strange… as it is the most important element of this photo… a view that shows the massiveness of the sky in comparison to the earth beneath it… just like a tall roof of a great hall… the roof of the earth… Thanks again go to Negari von München for the idea and the naming of this photo as the “Das Dach Der Erde”…

A Harmony of Paradoxes…

A wise man knows himself to be
more precious than fame,
and so, obscure, remains…

The Taoist sage consists of paradoxes that would mortify most people, but do not seem to bother him at all:

The sage

- is detached, yet compassionate;
- enjoys life, yet does not cling to it;
- is a perfectionist, yet indifferent to success or failure;
- is a man of honour, yet avoids reaping honour;
- ignores ethics and morals, but lives a life of the highest moral order;
- does not strive, yet achieves;
- knows the answers, but prefers to remain silent;
- has the innocence of a child, but incredible inner strength.

These paradoxes are in harmony in the sage, the same way nature itself seems to be a harmonious blend of paradoxes. This makes it difficult to describe the sage in conventional terms and categories. In fact, in most societies the sage’s qualities would be seen as negative, even harmful.

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I had difficulty finding a proper name for this photo… but it somehow evoked a sense of complexity in me… something not peaceful, but just a few minutes ago I asked for help from one of my online friends, and she shared her feelings about this which was the same as mine but she was able to express them much more better than me… Thanks for the help Negar, Negar kuchulu… yeah Harmony & Paradox, thanks…

For me the down-left of the photo showed a sense of Harmony and calmness… and the rest of the photo just implied a sense of chaos and unrest…

It, too; somehow looks like an illustration of Magnetic Field or something anyhow of that nature…

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