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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Popol vuh. English. Popol vuh. New York : Simon and Schuster, ©1985 (OCoLC)558165945 |
Document Type: | Book |
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Dennis Tedlock |
OCLC Number: | 11467786 |
Notes: | Translated from the Quiché. |
Description: | 380 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents: | This is the beginning of the ancient word -- This is the account -- How they planned the animals of the mountains. |
Other Titles: | Popol vuh. |
Responsibility: | translated by Dennis Tedlock, with commentary based on the ancient knowledge of the modern Quiché Maya. |
"The Popol Vuh, the Quiche Mayan book of creation, is one of the extraordinary documents of the human imagination and the most important text in the native languages of the Americas. It begins with the deeds of Mayan gods in the darkness of a primeval sea and ends with the radiant splendor of the Mayan lords who founded the Quiche kingdom in the Guatemalan highlands. Originally written in Mayan hieroglyphs, it was transcribed in the Spanish alphabet in the sixteenth century. This is the first unabridged English edition of the work, in Dennis Tedlock's widley prasied translation, with a full introduction and commentaries on the text." From the bookjacket.
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To be honest, this year has totally sucked.
It has been one of the crappest years in a long time.
I am still trying to make sense of some of the things that have happened, and I am still trying to figure out the reasons 'why' we have had to go through them.
Maybe I won't ever know what those reasons are though.
So what have I learnt this year?
- I am not too bad at organising stuff. The conference is one example. I sort of did ok with that.
- I have some anxiety issues. Not terrible. Not world ending/life imparing stuff. But it does sometimes effect me. Panic Attacks suck too.
- I have an incredible husband. I mean. I already knew that. But we are closer and stronger than ever.
- Ryley has taught me more about patience this year than ever.
- Braeden has taught me to try new things and to find my courage.
- I am stronger than I think I am-someone very close to me keeps reminding me of this.
- I have wonderful friends who continue to support us year after year.
- There is no place like home. It is where our heart is.
- I can do anything I dream of. I just need the confidence to do it.
- Be better at blogging!!! I will have the time and headspace next year to blog my heart away. I am actually aiming to have 100 followers next year. The first time I have ever aimed for anything with the blog really. But I am hoping to reach more people, and spend more time writing about the more..ahem..controversial things that I love to have an opinion on.
- Run in the Run Melbourne in July to support 4p Aussie Kidz. I better start training me thinks!
- Expand my vegie garden and hopefully be able to reduce my vegie costs by 50%. We managed it in 2010, but this year I just couldn't spend time in my beloved garden.
- Start our dream (some of you may already know what this is. For those that don't, stay tuned).
- We are really hoping to have no stays in hospital this year. High hopes I know. But fingers crossed.
I want to thank all my readers for spending time reading this little blog this year. I know the posts have been sporadic and a little all over the place. I love that my regular readers have spent time commenting and supporting us through what has been a very dark and difficult year. There have been some highlights too of course which included the conference and the joys of watching my kids grow and develop.
I wish you all a wonderful 2012, full of Faith, Hope and Love.
See you next year!!


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Kim Kardashian just might steal the show at Kanye West's New York City concert.
The Keeping Up With the Kardashians star stepped out looking hot with her man as they left his Soho apartment Saturday, showing off her svelte post-baby bod in a body-hugging black mini-dress and strappy stilettos.
Kanye, meanwhile, coordinated with his ladylove in black leather pants, a gray top and a printed blazer, as they headed to his concert in the Big Apple at Madison Square Garden.
It's been an eventful week for the soon-to-be Mr. and Mrs. West.
Although they left their little one home for tonight's festivities, their adorable 5-month-oldNorth was in tow with them last night as they grabbed dinner, with Kris Jenner also on hand for the meal.
Kim has been in attendance for all of Kanye's New York City concerts this week, rocking a sheer black top and tight pencil skirt to his Tuesday show at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, and a more casual ripped jeans and white top Wednesday for his performance.
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Prescott is a decidedly white-collar city, with fully 85.71% of the workforce employed in white-collar jobs, well above the national average. Overall, Prescott is a city of professionals, service providers, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Prescott who work in office and administrative support (13.22%), healthcare (11.48%), and sales jobs (8.65%).
Telecommuters are a relatively large percentage of the workforce: 7.68% of people work from home. While this number may seem small overall, as a fraction of the total workforce it is high relative to the nation. These workers are often telecommuters who work in knowledge-based, white-collar professions. For example, Silicon Valley has large numbers of people who telecommute. Other at-home workers may be self-employed people who operate small businesses out of their homes.
Residents of the city have the good fortune of having one of the shortest daily commutes compared to the rest of the country. On average, they spend only 18.16 minutes getting to work every day.
The citizens of Prescott are very well educated compared to the average community in the nation: 38.41% of adults in Prescott have a bachelor's degree or even advanced degree.
The per capita income in Prescott in 2010 was $29,120, which is wealthy relative to Arizona, and upper middle income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $116,480 for a family of four. However, Prescott contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
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It is the video camera for which you need no instruction manual: the ultimate point-and-shoot, YouTube-friendly, plug-in-and-upload mini-masterpiece that has taken America by storm – and it is on its way to Britain.
No more clunky cameras, dodgy cassettes or complicated, tangled wires. For those who love to record their lives, the task just got a whole lot easier.
The Flip takes just a second or two to start up, fits in your pocket and will operate anywhere on a couple of AA batteries. It has just three buttons, holds 30 minutes or an hour of footage, depending on the model, and the bigger of the two will retail for £99.99. However, it costs $149 in America, and some UK residents have already engaged in a bit of transatlantic arbitrage, with the help of the legion of British shoppers flying over to take advantage of the weak dollar.
From a standing start a year ago, the product now accounts for 13 per cent of all camcorders sold in the US. Sales are closing in on one million and accelerating.
The Flip goes on sale in the UK from Monday, in time for the summer holiday and wedding season. The makers are so optimistic that it will appeal to everyone from age five to 95 that they are shipping it to some unusual retailers. As well as traditional electronics stores, where the Flip will sit alongside chunky, hi-tech camcorders, it will also be on sale at branches of Toys R Us, which is hoping for brisk demand.
PC World is also stocking the Flip, and it will be available online from Amazon.co.uk and Play.com. Other high street chains are holding off to see if the initial launch is a success.
The American market, meanwhile, got sight of a second-generation product yesterday that could be arriving on these shores in a few months, too. Within hours of its launch, the ultra-slim Flip Video Mino was at No 4 on the list of best-selling electronic gadgets at Amazon.com.
"A guy in our office is going to take one on a stag do in a few weeks, edit the footage himself and then beam it out at the wedding," said Nikki Thompson, the publicist heading the Flip's British charge. "It is so simple to do. Of course, we're a bit worried that's not a good idea as far as the bride-to-be is concerned."
Flip users can plug the device straight in to the USB port of a PC or a Mac, edit their footage and upload it to video-sharing sites such as YouTube, MySpace or Facebook. Plug it into the television and you never have to watch You've Been Framed again.
The influence of the Apple Computer founder Steve Jobs, who infused the iPod with a desirability that no other music player has been able to match, is all over the Flip. Want it in orange, in pink? Sure. In fact, buy both. Accessorise. What colour pouch would you like to put it in? Want an underwater case for it, too? It is all a far cry from the geeky roster of specifications and features that have to be investigated before buying a traditional, more expensive camcorder, and it has rival electronics manufacturers running scared. Most of the big names, from Sony to Sanyo, have unveiled super-cheap camcorders in recent months in an attempt to catch up.
The New York Times technology reviewer, David Pogue, admits it took him time to notice the Flip phenomenon growing but he is a convert. "The lesson is one that the electronics industry seems to miss over and over again: that creeping feature-itis often impairs your product instead of improving it," he said. "In the Flip's case, the size, shape, ruggedness, low price and one-button simplicity take it places where no real camcorder would go. Purses, coat pockets, beach bags. Skiing, playgrounds, house walk-throughs, museums, casual interviews, YouTube stunts, classrooms, aeroplanes – just about everywhere but live performances and sports. The zoom just isn't good enough."
Its inventor, Jonathan Kaplan, set up his company Pure Digital Technologies in California's Silicon Valley in 2001 in partnership with a software developer, Ariel Braunstein. After a decade working on disposable camcorders, they struck gold with the Flip, which attracted private equity investment and a $40m cash infusion last May for marketing and production. It was the right product at the right time, as an entire generation brought up with camera phones and video-sharing websites came of age.
Mr Kaplan and his team now aim to push the Flip into the hands of people who have not previously been YouTube-savvy. "For the millions who share their lives online every day, it is more than a camcorder – it is a fun tool for communicating and creatively expressing themselves," Mr Kaplan said.
"US consumers have embraced the Flip's simplicity and convenience because it makes video incredibly fun for anyone. We anticipate a similar response in the United Kingdom."
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Having sold two million units since its launch in 2001, it is no exaggeration to say the iPod is a once-in-a-generation product that revolutionised music accessibility and sparked a wave of imitations. Executives at Apple led by Jon Rubenstein created the audio player out of the company's "digital hub", with the aim of placing "a thousand songs in your pocket". Ranging from the "mini" and "shuffle" models to the larger, original "classic" and "touch" with a colour screen, iPods are universally run with "iTunes" software downloadable from Apple.
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It didn't take photos or video. It had no infra-red, internet, "media" or games – apart from Snake. But it made calls, perhaps – with one of the best battery life capabilities of any mobile phone – more reliably than any of its thousands of successors. Though now considered to be a "brick", the Nokia 5110, launched in 1998, was the first truly popular mobile.
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At the time of its launch, this distinctly Eighties product was, believe it or not, the must-have portable accessory for the music lover. The idea of walking around with a selection of tapes is now unheard of.
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Though it was the 1908 "Model T", or "Tin Lizzie", that Henry Ford is reputed to have offered in "any colour as long as its black", the classic motor, produced relatively cheaply on an assembly line, is credited as that which "put America on wheels", and burst driving into the mainstream. The car, produced until 1927, was made in black because the paint dried quicker.
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The food pairing seminar is named "The Flemish Primitives" after the 15th and 16th century artists who were combining talent with new techniques.
I've blogged about the upcoming food pairing seminar in Belgium on January 5th previously, but there are a couple of important additions to the programme: Albert Adrià (El Bulli, Spain) and Ben Roche (Moto, USA) will also participate. Given the extensive list of other chefs and notabilities within the realms of molecular gastronomy and science inspired cooking that will be present, this is definitely the place to be on January 5th. Registering is online, and the early bid registration fee is €245 (rises to €295 from November 16th). More information is available from the website (also in html format).
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What Were the Causes of DéTente
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What were the causes of Détente?
The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) highlighted the underlying tensions between the USA and the
It also helped to accelerate the moves towards reducing these tensions
Détente was a more permanent relaxation of relations and was to develop after 1962
It was encouraged by both international tension and the domestic considerations of the two
Stimulated by initiatives taken by European leaders keen to reduce tension in Europe
Détente was to gather enough momentum to produce agreements that offered some
tangible evidence of greater cooperation
1. Fear of war
a. How did the Cuban Missile Crisis lead to détente?
It highlighted the danger of a superpower confrontation resulting in nuclear war. President
Kennedy's threat to use American nuclear missiles if Soviet missile bases were not withdrawn from
Cuba had cause anxiety across the world. With the nuclear arms race leading to the development of
ever more efficient missiles the fear of future war continued to increase.
b. What was MAD and explain how this contributed to Détente?
By 1969 the USSR had matched the capability of the USA for mutually assured destruction: each
superpower now had enough nuclear missiles to destroy the other in the event of a first strike by the
opponent. This situation not only posed a threat to the economic well-being of both superpowers
but also provided a balance of power that would, it was hoped, act as a deterrent. The necessity of
reducing the risk of future nuclear war pushed both East and West towards Détente.
2. The needs of the USSR how did the following all encourage the USSR to pursue a policy of
a. National security interests took priority over ideological considerations
Although ideological considerations pointed towards the inevitability of conflict between the powers
of communism and capitalism, national security interests were to be the overriding factor
determining Soviet foreign policy, and this pushed the USSR towards Détente.
b. The perceived weakness of the USA
In the aftermath of the Vietnam War, due to America's failure to win, the US was perceived as being
far weaker. Moreover, the USSR had also achieved a greater degree of parity in nuclear weapons at
this time, which allowed it to contemplate arms limitation agreements from a position of strength.
c. Eastern bloc concerns including the Czechoslovakian crisis in 1968 and strikes in the
Polish city of Gdansk
Accommodation with the USA would help stabilise the Soviet hold over Eastern Europe. Romania's
development of a more independent foreign policy, the Czechoslovakian Crisis of 1968 and strikes in
the Polish city of Gdansk in 1970 were signs that the Soviet hold on Eastern Europe needed
d. Sino Soviet split
If conflict was to occur with China, then the USSR wanted to ensure that the USA would not get
involved and that Western Europe was stable. Détente could help achieve this.
e. Low living standards in the USSR
The Soviet Politburo faced mounting economic problems and needed to divert resources away from
the military sector of the economy to deal with these. The Soviet population had failed to gain the
improvement in living standards they had been led to expect by Khrushchev and Brezhnev. With the
continuation of the arms race, the Soviet government found it difficult to transfer production capacity
in industry to consumer goods. Détente would provide the international background necessary to
make this possible.
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Mary Catherine Winchester (née Campbell) (born December 5, 1954) is a retired hunter, the daughter of Samuel and Deanna Campbell, the wife of John Winchester, and the mother of Dean and Sam Winchester. She was killed by the demon Azazel exactly six months after Sam was born, which spurred John into becoming a hunter to kill Azazel in revenge and raising their sons as hunters as well. 33 years later, after Dean reunited God and the Darkness, she was resurrected by the latter as a thank-you gift for Dean.
Mary was born December 5, 1954 to a supernatural hunter couple Samuel and Deanna, who had not planned for her birth but regarded her as a "blessing" regardless. Mary had a brother, but he is never named. His last known location was Greenville, Illinois, but his status is unknown. The family lived in Lawrence, Kansas.
Mary hated hunting; she sought to have a normal life so that she could be safe and raise a family. This caused tension between her and her father. When she fell in love with John Winchester, Samuel did not approve of their relationship because he believed John to be a naive civilian. Though Mary loved John, she did not tell him about the supernatural.
Unbeknownst to her, Mary met the future version of her firstborn son, Dean, in "In The Beginning". She noticed him following her and John on a date, and violently confronted him before he revealed that he was also a supernatural hunter. She then took him back to her house, where he had dinner with her family despite Samuel's distrust of him.
A reluctant Mary worked a case with her father and Dean. They learned that Charlie Whitshire had unwittingly made a deal with a demon in order to protect his father from abusing his mother. From Charlie's description, Dean realized that the demon in question was Azazel, who had killed Mary in the future. Dean made her promise not to leave her bed on November 2, 1983, the night she was supposed to die. However, when she learned that Azazel was targeting a friend of hers named Liddy Walsh, Mary and Samuel intervened, in the process inadvertently drawing Azazel's attention to Mary due to her skills and courage.
Mary was terrified by the demon's interest in her. She spent time with John to try to clear her head. While he was in the middle of proposing to her, her father Samuel, who was possessed by Azazel, interrupted. He killed John then revealed that he had also killed her parents, devastating Mary. He then pressured her into making a deal for John's resurrection and her having a normal life; in exchange, she granted permission for him to enter her house in ten years. Dean arrived too late to stop her, and was returned to his own time by the angel Castiel.
Mary later married John and retired from hunting. The couple lived together at 485 Robintree.
Mary became pregnant with Dean.
In "The Song Remains the Same", Mary's future sons arrived to prevent Anna Milton from killing John, thus preventing the birth of her youngest child, Sam, and the onset of the Apocalypse. Mary was vehemently against their presence because the last time she'd seen Dean, her parents were murdered. She also didn't want them getting her involved with hunting again.
Mary fended Anna off to protect John and distract Anna while Sam banished the angel with a sigil. During this fight, Mary exposed her hunting background to John, and was forced to reveal the truth about herself to him. John was upset that she hadn't told him earlier as well as being angry at her parents for endangering her life by raising her like that.
Mary led the rest of the Winchesters to a house her family had owned and kept stocked with weapons and measures against the supernatural for years. Sam taught her how to use holy oil to trap angels.
While preparing to fight Anna, Mary demanded an explanation as to why an angel wanted to kill her from Dean, who eventually revealed that the truth about himself and Sam to her. She was stricken with guilt and horror at the thought of raising them as hunters, but Dean revealed that she had been killed by Azazel and John trained them as hunters instead while seeking vengeance. Dean suggested that she try to flee with Sam before the demon came for them, but Sam himself stated that she should just leave John. While shocked by her sons' words, Mary remained steadfast that she could not leave John because she was pregnant with Dean.
Anna and fellow angel Uriel attacked after removing all the defenses the Winchesters had set up against them. Mary witnessed Sam's death at Anna's hands; however, when Anna turned to her, Michael possessed John, killed Anna, and sent Uriel back to Heaven. Michael also modified Mary's memories to remove her memory of meeting her sons as well as of the warning they gave her to ensure she would die as intended.
A family of her ownEdit
Mary gave birth to Dean on January 24, 1979.
A memory of Dean's from "Dark Side of the Moon" revealed that Mary and John's marriage was not as perfect as John later portrayed it as; at one point, they fought until John had to temporarily move out. She was upset by this, but a toddler Dean comforted her.
In 1980, Mary resumed hunting briefly to "tie up some loose ends." While in Emerson, Manitoba, Canada, Mary killed a werewolf she had history with and saved the life of a young boy named Asa Fox. As a result of the encounter with Mary, Asa was inspired to become a hunter himself.
Mary gave birth to Sam on May 2, 1983.
As seen in the teaser of "Pilot", Mary awoke on November 2, 1983 due to the sounds of Sam crying over the baby monitor. She entered his nursery to find Azazel leaning over the infant's crib. She mistook him for John and decided to let him soothe Sam so she could return to bed.
However, Mary noticed a light flickering in the hallway and a television still on downstairs. She discovered John asleep in the living room. Much to her horror, she realized that the person upstairs was an intruder and rushed back to Sam's nursery, interrupting Azazel as he fed her son his blood--this is what Mary had given him permission for in 1973 without realizing it.
Azazel used telekinesis to drag Mary up the wall and pin her to the ceiling, at which point he slit her stomach. She screamed briefly, alerting John, who ran into the nursery. She could not speak to warn him and stared helplessly at her husband and her youngest son before John noticed her blood dripping onto Sam and looked up; Azazel then set her aflame, burning her alive.
In lieu of her body, Mary's uncle put up a headstone to commemorate her in Greenville, Illinois, where he presumably lived. Sam and Dean never met her uncle. They visited her headstone in "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things".
After Mary's death, Azazel killed all of her remaining family, friends, and even acquaintances, such as her doctor, to hide his deal with her. Because her family and anyone associated with them died, Sam and Dean did not learn that their mother used to be a hunter until early in Season 4.
The memory of Mary and her death drove the remaining Winchester family to become hunters in order to track down and kill Azazel to avenge her. John continued to grieve for her even decades later, confessing in "Salvation" that he wanted her back. Dean's wish in "What Is And What Should Never Be" is for Mary to have never died, but he chooses to wake himself up from his dream when he realizes that a djinn has poisoned him in order to feed off of him until he dies. Dean avenged her at the end of the second season when he killed Azazel with the Colt. When undergoing demon blood detox in "When the Levee Breaks", a feverish Sam hallucinates her reassuring him that he is doing the right thing in drinking blood to kill Lilith.
Enemies of the Winchesters have been known to use the family's love and grief for Mary against them: besides the example of the djinn above, Zachariah used an illusion of Mary to make her sons suffer by manipulating their emotions in "Dark Side of the Moon", and in "Mommy Dearest" Eve assumed her shape to make a point about her love for her monstrous children.
For years after Mary's death, her ghost haunted the house she'd died in. Her death and Azazel's temporary presence drew a powerful, violent poltergeist to the house.
Mary's last chronological appearance as herself was in the Season 1 episode "Home", in which Sam's premonition led her sons back to their childhood home to hunt the poltergeist terrorizing the family currently living in the home. When the poltergeist tried to kill Sam, her ghost manifested, first as a flaming humanoid figure that walked out of the closet of the room that used to be Sam's nursery. She apologized to him for allowing Azazel to feed him blood. She confronted the poltergeist, telling it to leave her house and let go of her son, before she sacrificed herself to banish the poltergeist from the house. What became of her soul afterward is unknown: the psychic Missouri Moseley believed that she ceased to exist and Ash later tells Sam and Dean that he had not found her in Heaven. However it has been revealed that destroyed ghosts do in fact still move on to their destined resting places and perhaps Mary and John simply do not want to be found.
In Alpha and Omega, Sam and Dean visit Mary's grave before Dean goes to sacrifice himself to destroy the Darkness. After Dean helps the Darkness reconcile with God, the Darkness tells him that he gave her what she truly wanted so she will do the same for him. Shortly afterwards, Dean finds a resurrected and confused Mary in a nearby park.
In Keep Calm and Carry On, Dean is shocked by Mary's resurrection. Mary, not remembering her death or anything that came after it, is confused by Dean's presence and claim that he is her son. Dean tells Mary that he's not four anymore since she has been dead. Mary suddenly remembers her death at the hands of Azazel and lets up Dean who tells her that she has been dead for 33 years. Dean convinces Mary of his identity by reciting her family history and her history with John. Convinced, Mary hugs Dean and they sit on a bench in the park and Dean fills her in on all that she's missed over the last 33 years. Mary is stunned by the news that she met Dean through time travel twice and was resurrected by God's sister and met Dean while she was a ghost which she is unable to remember either.
After catching Mary up, Dean takes her to the Men of Letters bunker to meet Sam. Mary is shocked to find out that the Men of Letters are real as she'd only known them as a hunter's myth. Noticing blood on the ground, Dean hands Mary a gun and tells her to stay behind as he searches the bunker. Instead, Mary explores and hides when she hears someone enter. Emerging from hiding, Mary threatens Castiel at gunpoint until Dean defuses the situation. Dean explains to a shocked Castiel who Mary is and to the shocked Mary that Castiel is in fact an angel. After Castiel explains what happened before Lady Toni Bevell banished him, Dean searches through traffic cameras on the Winchester's laptop for the kidnapper's car. Mary is confused by the size of the computer before Dean locates the vehicle. Joining Dean and Castiel in the hunt for Sam, Mary goes with them to the bunker's garage where she recognizes the Impala as John's car and comments on how beautiful the car still is, treating the car in a similar manner to how Dean does.
Tracking the kidnapper's vehicle to the airport, the three question a man there about the kidnappers and Mary is surprised by Castiel acting violent when he's an angel. The man gives up the tail number of Toni's plane and Mary sits in a café and watches the changed world as Dean searches for information on the plane. When Castiel joins her, Mary tells him about how strange everything is to her, from the fact that she was resurrected at all to the world around her. Dean rejoins them and explains that the plane has a diplomatic registry, meaning that they can't access the flight plan. After Castiel spots a nearby veterinary clinic, the three realize Sam could've been treated there and kidnap the doctor for answers. After the man admits he treated Sam's leg wound for $100,000 but clearly holds something back, Mary orders Castiel to beat the answers out of him. The doctor finally tells them that he has Toni's phone number as she called to ask about the sedative he used on Sam and Mary watches with Castiel as Dean calls Toni.
Having failed to get anything from the phone call, the three make their way back to the bunker when the Impala is rammed by Ms. Watt in an SUV, knocking Mary unconscious. Castiel is able to determine that Mary is not seriously hurt before he and Dean are forced to fight Ms. Watt who has the upper hand due to a set of enchanted brass knuckles. As Ms. Watt prepares to kill Dean with his own gun, Mary regains consciousness and stabs Ms. Watt through the back with Castiel's dropped angel blade, killing her and saving Dean. As Dean and Castiel push Ms. Watt's SUV off the road, Mary sits inside the Impala door and stares at her hands before Dean tells her that they have a lead from Ms. Watt's cellphone. Mary tells him that she's not alright as she never wanted her children to become hunters, but Dean tells her that he and Sam have done a lot of good and the world is a better place with them in it as hunters. The three then set out for Aldrich, Missouri where Ms. Watt's cellphone points to Sam being.
In Mamma Mia, Mary arrives at the location Sam is being held, and finds both her sons being held captive by Lady Toni Bevell. Mary surprises Sam by her appearance before she gets into a fight with Toni. They are interrupted by the arrival of Toni's colleague, Mick Davies, who accuses Toni of misbehaving and apologizes to the gang for her behavior. Mick takes Toni away, allowing the trio, plus Castiel, to return to the Bunker.
In The Foundry, Mary begins to struggle with life 33 years after her death. Her sons, who had been raised with false memories of her, struggle as well with re-learning who their mother truly is. Mary decides to bury herself in hunting, and with her sons' help, she manages to solve a ghost problem. However, it is after the case if solve does she finally admit that she needs time alone. Sam and Dean are unhappy about this, but Mary leaves them regardless in order to find herself.
In Celebrating The Life Of Asa Fox, Mary travels to Canada to partake in the funeral of a hunter whom she once saved when he was a kid. Sam and Dean arrive some time after and Dean expresses shock when he finds out that Mary continued to hunt after he was born. Mary insists that she was only tying up "loose ends". While there, Mary meets Jody Mills and Billie. Billie offers her a one-way ticket Heaven, but Mary declines and returns home with her sons.
In First Blood, Mary learns from Castiel that he had lost her sons and she heavily blames him for this. Six weeks go by with no sign of Sam nor Dean. Mary helps deal with a werewolf hunt that Castiel failed. Later on, she and Castiel agree to work with the British Men of Letters in order to find Sam and Dean. With the help of Mick and Arthur Ketch, Mary and Castiel manage to locate Sam and Dean and travel to their location. The brothers reunite with them tearfully. On their way back, Billie confronts them over a deal Dean made about sacrificing one of them in order to escape the prison he and Sam had been kept in. Mary decides to offer herself in Sam and Dean's stead, only for Castiel to kill Billie to prevent either Winchester from doing so. He explains that the world, as well as himself, cannot risk losing them ever again. Sometime later, Mick Davies approaches Mary with an offer to work for him, by promising her a world without monsters.
In Stuck in the Middle (With You), the British Men of Letters gives Mary an assignment: retrieve The Colt from Ramiel's house. Mary enlists a huner named Wally to join her, as part of a trick to convince Sam and Dean and Castiel to help them. Mary does not explain the full story, lying that she wishes to simply kill a dangerous demon. The trio buy her story and they infiltrate Ramiel's house. While there, two demons ambush them and one of them kills Wally, while Sam and Dean manage to kill one demon each. Ramiel however, also attacks and stuns Mary with his yellow-eyes, which remind her of Azazel. When Ramiel goes after Castiel, Mary knocks him out by ramming him with a jeep. She then takes her sons and Castiel and flees. The four arrive at a barn, and set a trap for Ramiel. Unfortunately, his weapon, the Lance of Michael, enables him to break free and he proceeds to brutally attack each Winchester. When Mary stabs him with an angel blade, Ramiel is distracted long enough for Sam to kill him with the Lance. However, the Lance's effects are slowly killing Castiel, much to Mary's horror. Fortunately, Crowley arrives in time and destroys the Lance, which restores Castiel to full health. Later on, Mary complains to Arthur Ketch what the mission nearly cost her, but she hands him The Colt anyway, which she stole from Ramiel.
In Family Feud, Mary demonstrates her skills to Arthur who is thoroughly impressed. By the time she returns home, she is forced to confess that she is working for the British Men of Letters. Sam and Dean are not happy.
Skills and AbilitiesEdit
As a HumanEdit
Mary has been shown to have the general skills possessed by hunters. She was a very good observer, and immediately recognized when she and John were being followed by Dean. She has shown capabilities in hand-to-hand combat, even holding her own temporarily against an angel. She also appeared to be a fast learner, being able to create angel banishing sigils and setting them up on the same day she learned about the existence of angels and their weaknesses. When asked by Dean about her being good at hunting, she tells him that she is "very good" at it but didn't enjoy it. After her resurrection, Mary is shown to be a skilled fighter and extremely good at noticing little clues such as the fact that Lucas Kellinger, while leaving a frostbite handprint on her arm similar to other victims of a malevolent spirit, meant her no harm and was instead scared and trying to warn her. However, some of Mary's skills are behind the times as she lacks the ability to use a computer or a modern day cell phone and expects to have to physically go door to door and search through archives for information. While possessed by the ghost of Hugo Moriarty, Mary displayed a strong enough will to briefly overpower the possession, similar to what her husband and son have been able to do in the past. However, Mary could only hold the spirit back for a couple of minutes and quickly lost control.
As a SpiritEdit
Mary's Spirit lingered in their house in Kansas, where she cancelled out a particularly nasty poltergeist that not only proved difficult to purge, but also attempted to kill Sam. Her spirit appeared to be able to summon flames, reminiscent of her manner of death.
Mary was originally depicted as a loving, gentle mother. Her spirit showed great devotion to her children and was willing to sacrifice herself to save them. She was also playful and took pride in her sons' successes, as shown in "What Is And What Should Never Be". Mary also deeply cared about her husband, John, and visa versa. Mary was a fan of The Beatles, and believed that angels were watching over Dean.
In her younger years, Mary was a brave woman who fought the supernatural without hesitance. She fought against Anna Milton despite not being strong enough. She was also very protective of her friends, as despite wanting to leave the hunting world and be with John, she chose to rescue a friend under demon attack. Mary's devotion to the people she cared about would lead her to make a deal with Azazel for John's life, thus sealing her own fate.
Born and raised as a hunter, Mary was proficient in dealing with ghosts, demons and werewolves. She did not take pride in her abilities to defend herself and merely used her skill to protect others. She had long dreamed of a peaceful life surrounded by a happy family, going so far as to argue with her father, who wanted her to continue hunting. Mary indeed loved her children, and died trying to protect Sam from Azazel.
Upon resurrection, Mary was horrified to learn that her sons, now adults, had been raised as hunters by John because of her death, and that John himself was dead. Despite being in an unfamiliar world surrounded by people she did not know, Mary was quick to adapt if not simply to deal with more confronting situations. She acknowledged Castiel was an angel and accepted Dean's story that he was her son. Mary also fought against Toni Bevell to rescue Sam, showing that she still cared deeply for her sons.
However, Mary began struggling with living a world 33 years after her death. Many things have changed, but most prominently, her sons, who were no longer the little boys she remembered. She opted to bury these problems through hunting, and focused more on saving lives on her own than with a team. Eventually, Mary was forced to confess about her discomfort, how out-of-place she felt despite the warm welcoming. Much to Sam and Dean's misery, Mary left the bunker to try and figure things out.
As with every hunter, Mary continued hunting, but stayed in contact with Dean through phone calls. As shown recently, Mary enjoyed eating bacon and shared a lot in common with Dean. Mary's love for her children was so strong, that when Billie's deal with Sam and Dean required a Winchester to die permanently, Mary was willing to kill herself so her sons could live, though Castiel's intervention meant she didn't need to.
Physical AppearanceEdit
Mary has blonde hair, often kept in slight curls and undone. In her youth, she wore short-sleeved shirts topped with a jacket, and jeans. During most of her adult appearances, Mary is shown wearing her white nightgown, the dress she died in. In The Foundry, after her resurrection, Mary cuts her hair short for hunting so that monsters can't use it against her.
- Mary and John: Mary and John were married.
- Mary and Dean: Dean is Mary's first-born son.
- Mary and Sam: Sam is Mary's second son.
- Season 1
- Season 2
- Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things (gravestone seen)
- What Is And What Should Never Be (illusion)
- All Hell Breaks Loose - Part 1
- Season 4
- In The Beginning
- When the Levee Breaks (as hallucination)
- Season 5
- The Song Remains the Same
- Dark Side of the Moon (Illusion)
- Season 6
- Caged Heat (photo)
- Mommy Dearest (Eve in disguise)
- Season 8
- Trial and Error (photo)
- Man's Best Friend With Benefits (flashbacks only)
- Season 10
- The Prisoner (photo)
- Season 11
- We Happy Few (photo)
- Alpha and Omega
- Season 12
- Her actress, Samantha Smith, shares her name with fellow Supernatural actress Samantha Ferris as well as with her character Mary's youngest son.
- In the earliest drafts of the episode script for "Pilot", her and John's last name is Harrison. They both were first written as being in a car crash caused by a demon, where she doesn't survive, but John does.[1]
- She shared her year of birth with John.
- When she got sick, her mother used to make her tomato-rice soup. Mary later made the same soup for Dean when he would get sick.
- She was a fan of the Beatles. Her favorite song was "Hey Jude", which she sang instead of a lullaby.
- She and John initially hated one another, requiring a cupid to intervene and manipulate their emotions in order to breed them together and give birth to Michael and Lucifer's vessels.
- Her desire to lead a normal life was later inherited by Sam, who also fought with his father concerning the matter, though Mary's relationship with her father appeared more amicable. Mother and son also shared the same style of wielding and fighting using blades.
- Her biggest fear was for her children to be forced to become hunters like she was. Ironically, it happened as a direct result of her death.
- She did not believe angels existed until "The Song Remains the Same"; afterward, although Michael had wiped her memory, she bought an angel figurine to place in Dean's nursery and told him "angels are watching over you" every night when she put him to sleep--these were in fact her last words to Dean. Upon meeting Castiel in Keep Calm and Carry On, Mary is shocked to learn that he is an angel and to learn what angels are really like.
- Dean's fondness for pie might stem from her; in one of his memories in "Dark Side of the Moon", she offered him pie.
- In Keep Calm and Carry On, Mary reveals that she has heard of the Men of Letters but always believed them to be a hunter's myth.
- She loved the song 'Someday Soon, by Judy Collins'. Her husband John, would play it to her.
- With Mary's resurrection in Alpha and Omega, all members of the immediate Winchester family have been resurrected: Dean was resurrected after going to hell by Castiel and by the Mark of Cain, Sam was resurrected by a crossroads demon and Michael, and John was resurrected by Azazel.
- Mary is the first of the Winchesters to wield an angel blade, doing so against Anna Milton in The Song Remains the Same. However, Mary is unsuccessful in the attempt. She later wields Castiel's angel blade successfully against Ms. Watt in Keep Calm and Carry On, killing her with it.
- Dean implies that she likes (or liked, back in her youth) Led Zeppelin, as her interest towards John grew when she found out that he was a big fan of the British legendary band.
- Mary is shown to have similar taste in music to Dean: in the Foundry, when the song Born To Be Wild comes on the radio, Mary turns up the volume rather than changing the channel.
- As noted by both Sam and Mary herself in the Foundry, Mary has the same tendency to bury herself in hunting to avoid dealing with things she's struggling with as her sons. Sam puts it as "like mother, like sons."
- In Mamma Mia, Dean got a pie he was actually able to eat for one of the few times in the show from Mary.
- In Family Feud, Arthur Ketch calls Mary one of the best hunters he's ever seen.


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Lot 609: French Bronze Figure of Venus
Louisiana Purchase Auction - Day 2 of 3
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December 3, 2016
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Description: French Bronze Figure of Venus, 19th c., after Etienne Maurice Falconet, h. 16 in., w. 5 3/4 in., d. 6 in., rouge marble and ormolu base, overall h. 20 1/4 in


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