#40 - Magic Cows, Ancient Stones and Mosaics in Ravenna: Finding Stillness in Italian Fields

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hi bow hi bow

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my best day and peace be with you and upon you

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I'm Mark

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and I'm Maria and this is Juicy Magic on the daily

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we're standing in a field with some really nice cows

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they're not real cows

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they're really cool cows yeah

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yeah

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just outside of a very ancient Christian temple

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uh we're in Ravenna

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Italy close to the coast and uh

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also home to the tomb of the author of Dante's Inferno

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that's Dante of allegory

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so inside just across from us is a very ancient uh

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church was brought to this area in the 4th century

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and there's some incredible mosaics inside

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and a lot of noisy school children as well

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that's why we're out that's why we're out here

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with a nice view of the church

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uh but they have some really nice school

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Roman mosaics there yeah

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mosaics and the baptism site

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that's really ancient yeah

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an ancient baptism site

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and you know they think that because the

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one of the martyrs here was

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was crucified that he must have been Jewish

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because the offense for death

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for a Roman citizen was decapitation

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and they reserve the uh

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more cruel way of killing someone with crucifixion

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for early Christians

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and people who are considered non Romans

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which brings us back to

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misidentifying the self as the body

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or your nation or your

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sex or gender just misidentifying the body as the self

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and all the labels that come with it

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Roman Jew oh I have brown hair brown hair yellow hair

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big teeth short teeth

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one of my teachers once said that

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if everyone was the same color

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and size and shape people would argue over whose teeth

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were longer or shorter

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good reminder

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so we're gonna make it a short one

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we're making our way out to San Marino

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we just want to say hello and check in uh

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wanted to give you a nice view of a beautiful field

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with some awesome there's 1

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2 3 4 5 cow sculptures and uh

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maybe you can do a an edit and add the uh yeah

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I can yeah you can add the basilica here as well and um

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the parking was free

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so you know when you get to these these famous places

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there's just a lot of pandemonium and crowds and

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and actually in scripture and

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and saintly persons do advise that it's

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for good reason

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it's better to kind of keep away from the crowds

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it's a lot of noise and energy and confusion and and uh

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we find it much more peaceful in the fields

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with these cows than inside there

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with all the

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there's maybe three or four schools that come to

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check out the history

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and uh

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let's just say

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the children did not seem very interested

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ha ha ha as usual a lot of teenagers and teenager yeah

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but they got

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they got the reason to get out of the classroom yeah

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they did and to sort of mingle amongst themselves

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and flirt and all that stuff that young people do

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looking for happiness everyone's looking for happiness

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so let's get some happiness

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yeah let's do three gorongas yeah

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like three Hail Marys and call me in the morning

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ready yeah

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oh

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LA LA

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so from Ravenna Italy

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we say hi Paul

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hi Paul

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we're in Italy and heading towards back towards Greece

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so thanks for joining us and you have a great day

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and we hope that you're today that you're

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Haribo

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yeah show them the cows

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we love cows

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even statues of them