[–] contrary_mma_hipster 0 points 11 points 11 points (+11|-0) ago
Holy shit - great write up, but that's not a vulture in the Walton Ford painting, that's a chicken hawk!
[–] realityisinsanity 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
It goes back to Phoenix worship throughout the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East. The Canaanites I believe worshipped it.
[–] Factfinder2 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago (edited ago)
Yes. It's a red kite as noted on the painting itself: https://imgoat.com/uploads/3f390d88e4/67681.jpg
Here's the story of Leonardo DaVinci's odd earliest childhood memory that obviously inspired this painting (scroll down a little to Earliest Memory section): http://leonardo.wikia.com/wiki/Leonardo's_Childhood
It was Sigmund Freud's interpretation of that memory that brought in the vulture mistranslation and sexual connotations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci,_A_Memory_of_His_Childhood
Freud's analysis: https://biblioklept.org/2012/04/24/freuds-psychosexual-study-of-leonardo-da-vincis-vulture-fantasy/
[–] swordfish69 0 points 13 points 13 points (+13|-0) ago
Great post, remember that Alice Walton is also a member of the Art in Embassies group that many prominent Washingtonians (and members of the Comet Ping Pong inner circle) are members of. Her museum gives her board the ability to send certain artwork (including massive, cumbersome structures) overseas.
http://www.fapeglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/press-release-april-16.pdf
[–] Dauphin 0 points 6 points 6 points (+6|-0) ago (edited ago)
I would look into the locations of WHERE Walmarts are built. I remember it becoming a HUGE issue in Arizona. Walmart kept building stores on INDIAN BURIAL GROUNDS.... Random stores out in the middle of the desert. They then "close," but the entire infrastructure is left in tact. People always thought they were doing this to use one day as a FEMA camp or something... but I just realized, they are almost always near the border and I bet they are human trafficking hubs... Holy fuck!
https://www.facingsouth.org/2009/09/wal-marts-history-of-destroying-sacred-sites.html
They actually have quite a history of building Walmart over scared Indian land and burial sites... GREAT WORK!
[–] TippyHome 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
I just posted in the "Holiday Cheer" thread about a cousin of ours working on the "mothballed" WalMarts on the East Coast. Could get no answer from anyone about who was going in there after they finished working on them. He is red-pilled, big time. Something really is weird about them and all the tunnels, too. Scary. But, if you try to get answers, people call you names and tell you that you are crazy and looking for conspiracies. (But, from last week, we now know that the Mueller probe fix was in--via all the text messages we are now seeing exposed. Not our imagination, at all. They had ultimate power for thirty years. Always was sure she was getting in. It's all over her face when she came out in that purple-lapeled suit after the election. She had "oh, crap" written all over her face.)