‘Nerthanjali’, Town Hall, Avissawella, Sri Lanka. DDD 3771 Nayyandi vannama Kuweni.

'Kuweni' was a Queen of the mythical Yaksha clan of Sri Lanka. When the outlawed Prince Vijaya arrived from Lala in India, he was enchanted by Kuweni and took her to wife. Kuweni betrayed her own clan to Prince Vijaya, who defeated the Yaksha clan in battle. Vijaya wanted to marry a Princess of royal lineage, from South India and threw Kuweni out of his house. The heart broken Kuweni returns with her children, to seek succor with her clan. The angry Yaksha clan turns on her and kills her. The children are spared and according to legend become the 'Veddhas' - the aboriginal tribes of Sri Lanka.

This dance sequence relives the Queen Kuweni's last moments.
It is titled ' Kuwenige vilaapaya' - 'The wail of Kuweni'

Please click on the web-link below:-

https://youtu.be/ZocSh2JAWbs

Kurundu Elle - Water fall, Walapane, Sri Lanka.

A video I took of the waterfall in December 2015 - Philip G Veerasingam

https://youtu.be/MzAVA2xx1jk

History of same sex marriage.

http://www.livescience.com/50725-same-sex-marriage-history.html

Fizzy drinks and spread of cancer.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3381086/Sugar-fizzy-drinks-junk-food-increases-chances-breast-cancer-spread-organs-scientists-claim.html

Legacy of Neils Bohr.

http://www.livescience.com/51060-niels-bohr-legacy-lecture.html

Trepanation

 The History of One of the World's Oldest Surgeries

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Beautiful thoughts for the New Year

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Sign on a tree in Madrid

I am the warmth of the hearth on cold winter nights.
I am the shade screening you from the hot summer sun.
My fruits and restoring drinks quench your thirst as you journey onward.
I am the beam that holds your house;
The bed on which you lie and the timber that builds your boat.
I am the handle of your hoe,
The wood of your cradle,
The shell of your coffin.