Bergama in the depth, seen from the Pergamon, with a twist to get theater and temple remnants in the image.

Hospital ground from antiquity, the Asklepeion in Bergama

A history of healing. Here the inner (wo)man and the outer (wo)man were treated. In the first hospital.

Galen, or Galenus, was from the city, Pergamon, Bergama and he started preparing medicines from plant mixtures. The beginning of pharmacies. There is a statue honoring him https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galen

Some Turkish words have a lot of meanings. Look at öz for example: https://translate.google.com/?sl=tr&tl=en&text=öz&op=translate

If you click on the translate link you will see there are 42 meanings given.

Characteristic of the Asclepeion was the practice of incubatio, also known as ‘temple sleep.’ This was a process by which patients would go to sleep in the temple with the expectation that they would be visited by Asclepius himself or one of his healing children in their dream. During this time, they would be told what it is that they needed to do in order to cure their ailment. At the very least, they would wake up having not been directly visited by a deity and instead report their dream to a priest. The priest would then interpret the dream and prescribe a cure, often a visit to the baths or a gymnasium.^[3] The preliminary treatment for admission into the Asclepions was catharsis, or purification. It consisted of a series of cleansing baths and purgations, accompanied by a cleansing diet, which lasted several days.^[4] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asclepeion

In the nearby Bergama, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergama, the ancient Pergamon https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon, now mostly in Berlin https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pergamon_Museum there is an Asclepeion ruin.

As now https://www.timesofisrael.com/snow-blankets-jerusalem-transforming-city-into-winter-wonderland/

Studyıng by the sea

Dogs playing

Mercator projection colonized our minds by shrinking tropics & expanding high latitudes, Africa is really really big edition. (https://mobile.twitter.com/70sBachchan/status/1466553521734447105 )

https://www.openculture.com/2021/10/the-impossible-map.html

Thanks to Jayati Gosh https://mobile.twitter.com/Jayati1609: https://socialeurope.eu/the-price-increases-that-matter-for-the-poor

The nightmare of endless houses and nobody there. All built for the summer, i guess. Nobody has an actual view of the sea, except for the few lucky ones who came first. And the building goes on and on. If the utilities keep up? It does not seem ecologically sound.

Everyone wanting to be close to the sea in summer. I imagine it is hot and crowded then.

It was cold, just above freezing and sometimes the wind was mighty. Another 40 km or so of 5 hours pedalling.

Anyhow

I spoke with a Chechen hotel director who had seen dolphins this morning on his run.

Took finally a picture of an ibis from close up enough for my iPad.

Rainbowday —- gökkuşağı (from gök (“sky”) +‎ kuşak (“belt”))

The end of the raınbow ıs where ı was sıttıng by the sea near ısland Cunda yesterday:

It is predicted to be rainy today. Breakfast with kingfisher