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    Replica - Epica
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    Pulled under at 2000 metres a second - Anathema
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    Harmonium - Anathema
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    I don't know why but I have a feeling Kopaka is going to grant the wish Pohatu asked him...and I am not sure if I would be saddened by that or not. It looks so right, in a way.
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    An eternity of lies - Paradise Lost
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    Gonzalo Guerrero was a Spanish explorer in late 15th/early 16th century. While travelling from Cuba to the then unknown Mexico, the ship he was in wrecked and only about twenty of the men on board washed ashore on the Yucatan coast, only to be to caught by local mayans who sacrificed most of them, except Guerrero and Geronimo de Aguilar, a friar, who became slaves for different lords, in different cities. Spaniard returned from time to time, and both captives were asked to aid the mayans in fighting them off, but while Aguilar, later, refused to help them anymore in that matter, Guerrero did, and was so helpful that he earned his freedom, married a mayan woman and had children, and would even become a city governor. When Hernan Cortes came, and, having heard of at least two Spaniard living among the Maya, sent letters asking for them to join him in his conquest for upper Mexico, the Maya let Aguilar go, and visit Guerrero. But Guerrero refused to go, insisting that he could no longer be accepted among Spaniards, that he had a family to take care of, and showing pride for his children. After Cortes conquered the Aztecs in the north, and returned south for the Maya, Guerrero led his mayan men to victory countless times, but in the end he and his city, and his allies, succumbed to the sheer superiority of the Spanish army. He was presumably shot in the head by an arrow. I just find his story to be so much fascinating. He fought against his own people, he betrayed them, in a way, to defend a tribe he did not belong to, that accepted and loved him nevertheless. Is he to blame for what he has done? Was it worth anything in the end?
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    Der mitternachtslowe - Therion
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    yeah well you're pretty boring >:[ >:[ >:[ Yeah, I know. Icon was good though! Winter sun - Windhand
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    Forever failure - Paradise lost I found Draconian times to be pretty boring.
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    Black magic rituals and perversions - Electric Wizard
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    As I already told you on Facebook, "this is ####### gorgeous"! I think this is one of your most brilliant creations to date, on par with...that one, blue with the tri-claw. Sorry, I'm not good with names! Edit: Okay, I checked, I'm talking about Tsunami beast
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    Well, that's heart-breaking. You, sir, are really talented. Never before have the Toa Nuva looked so human. One can relate with any of them... I think forging weapons is, canonically, more of a Ta-matoran business, but I guess Nuparu just likes it, so that's fine. Really looking forward to what's Kopaka up to in New Atero.
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    Please leave (yesterday) - El-P
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    Morning Light Mountain - Keldian
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    I recently finished Jostein Gaarder's Hello? Anyone there? . It is aimed at children and it's amazing. All schools should consider having their students read it in order to understand basic evolutionary science, astronomy and to avoid the rise of weird beliefs, while at the same it stresses the importance of spirituality. It kinda reminds me of Douglas Adams works, but softer.
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    3/5 Mellow, relaxing and mildly psychedelic. Really nice but not exactly my kind of thing. The video looks kind of dumb, though.
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    In their capital Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs had a statue of a god with wide palms pointed upwards, molded like a bowl, supposed to receive the still warm and throbbing hearts of human sacrifices. At one point, in order to receive clarity from gods about the arrival of the 'bearded white men' (which was corresponding with a prophecy about Quetzalcoatl's return), as Maya merchants who first saw the Spanish talked of them, as many as 10000 hearts were loaded on the bowl at once.
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    Adrift in the ocean - YOB
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    She makes me a killer - Die Antwoord
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    (Am I allowed to double post?) I liked this one. Mostly descriptive, and you did a good job at that. I can picture the caves of Onu-Koro-Nuva really well. Did you draw inspiration from Paolini's Inheritance cycle for the Crystal Palace? The dwarves there have something very similar in their underground city in the mountains...
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    Pyre of gods - Tarot
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    Prepare the ground - YOB
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    Until the end - Breaking Benjamin
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    Iä iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Just extraordinary. Other than me being a sucker for almost anything lovecraftian, there's two reasons I'm in love with this, which can be summed up as 'literary accuracy'. You saved our and your sanity by not depicting the Old One itself, just a servant, and as such you were allowed to work with red, rather than green (also the boat is really cute).
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    Christendom - Paradise Lost
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