Stories differ whether Atlas carried the world, held pillars apart that balanced the earth or held the heavens from crushing the earth.
I am a traveler and have an addiction for maps.
What better than a globe of the world. Maybe a little out of date with a few country names, but hey that happens. Berta loaned it to me.
Bronze Atlas crouches under both sides of the globe.
The best part is it lights up. Oh the dreams I’m having as I circumnavigate the world. Where do you dream to travel?
To view the word from different angles go to Our World Tuesday.
THE GEORGE F. CRAM CO., INC. 1964 INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, Cram Lighted Globe Supported by Twin Atlases HANDSOME POST U.A.R. GLOBE MADE OF PLEXIGRAS WITH LITHOGRAPHED SURFACE. MOUNTED IN A CAST BRONZE FULL RING MERIDIAN FITTING INTO A PAIR OF GROOVED CAST BRONZE ATLAS FIGURES SUPPORTING THE WORLD ON THEIR BACKS. THE ATLASES ARE MOUNTED ON A SCULPTED WALNUT BASE 15″ LONG, 5.25 INCHES DEEP AND 1.25 INCHES HIGH. A PULLCHAIN BENEATH THE GLOBE SWITCHES ON THE INTERNAL LIGHT.OCEANS FINISHED IN MEDIUM BLUE WITH ECLIPTIC, INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE, TROPICS OF CANCER AND CAPRICORN, AIRLINE DISTANCES AND ANALEMMA. EGYPT NAME ARAB REP. EGYPT.
I have maps in every drawer. I love to just sit and look at them and wish wish wish I could visit every place in the US I can find. Such a wanderlust, I am.
Do put highlighter lines on the roads you’ve traveled? I do, and get a thrill seeing more of them covered. So much to see in so little time.
So many places to go, so little time ;>)!)….Just happy we have fulfilled as many travel dreams as we have! Love the wonderful globe with Atlas supporting it…. We have that same collection of red atlases you do…one for each state we’ve spent more than a week in! Were just talking the other day about how much we loved those books and how now with GPS and google maps and stuff people probably won’t be owning them any more.
Hope all your immediate travel dreams come true (and long-term ones too for that matter).
Those Gazetteers are the best for traveling in the states. Don’t own GPS, maybe someday. I’m amazed how many people don’t know how to read a map.
That is a beautiful globe and I, too, love maps. Even with the GPS mounted in the car I feel lost if I don’t have a map of the area we are traveling in. I like to see the relationships of one place to another. I keep a large atlas on the coffee table so I can look up places in the news.
Don’t own GPS, yet. But I’d still need paper maps. Like you, I want to see the Big picture. I so need a world atlas.
Great post and I love the globe lit up. I have so many places I would like to see, I have a large bucket list. Some of the main ones are Australia, New Zealand, and a safari in Africa. Parts of South America and a road trip in Alaska. But, I could go on and on. Have a wonderful week and fun planning your next trip.
You gotta’ have a dream.
I love maps too and have been dreaming over them since I was a kid…a long, long time ago. I would love to visit Norway, Iceland and Eastern Europe the most. After that, I’d like to see the rest of the world. 🙂 Although I have already been to almost every U.S. state, most Canadian provinces and the United Kingdom, I’d love to see that all over again too.
Eastern Europe is definitely on my list. And I want to visit Russia but only in the summer.
There are many places I would still love to see but the Grand Canyon has to be high on the list 🙂
I see those old globes of the world often go for ridiculous prices at auction nowadays! Keep well. Diane
I saw this glove, c1964, listed for $450.
Sure hope I get to show you around Grand Canyon one day.
Wonderful post for OWT ~ very appropriate and unique ~ love the globes you have ~ (A Creative Harbor) ^_^
I just love maps, atlases, and globes of all different types and especially aerial photographs. I get to work with them and I play with them also.
Cool globe, I like that it lights up. I mark my maps with different colored highlighters, too.
Isn’t it fun to see your maps fill up with colored lines of places you’ve been?
I have a feeling your dreams will come true, Gaelyn! Mary is already throwing out possibilities for spring. The N Rim is high on our list.
I sure hope so. On both accounts.
I like maps and globes too. My globe is a 1960s one so way out of date. I have a more current atlas but I also kept my parents 1950s one. Interesting seeing the changes.
Gaelyn, I am the old fashion gal. Although we have the GPS, I still use maps. I learned how to get from one point to the other by using the Thomas Guide, no google maps to print.
Atlas sure did carry the whole world in his shoulders.
Oh, BTW, you have to change the link to your new blog on your blogger profile. It still has the old blog’s link.
Hi Gaelyn, lovely post. I, too, have a globe of the world (also with rather outdated country names) back home in SA. Grant and I have fold-up maps of South Africa, the UK, Kenya, The Sudan and now Tanzania. I love Africa and especially Kenya and may get back to tour it extensively one day! But for now we’re planning a bike trip (at lunch today!) for our holiday in SA in November. Have a great day. (Oh your lit-globe is SO cool!) (((Hugs))) Jo
Oh boy, another SA road trip. How long will you stay this time?
I would much rather travel with a map than with a GPS.
The weight of the world on one’s shoulders is likened to having anxiety over something that one is attached to concerning the future. If one shrugs the worry off, then the earth and the individual rights them selves up on its and their own without having to carry or care for each other. Instead of possessing or shouldering the earth, one can change the paradigm and merge with the earth where the earth is centered in one’s open heart. That would make for a cool looking globe display.
Atlas stands up to release the weight of the world.
Yes exactly, that’s my point and concern. People are attracted to gods and metaphors that establishes or exhibits a state of feeling. In a neutral state or in a heavenly state or in a place of bliss or being, there is no weight to lift because the world is as light as a feather. Its like people who enjoy a man nailed to a cross. This is disempowering because the center of the cross where well being exists is stamped by a dead man and a martyr. And so people carry this vibe by focusing on it. So in the case of a man having to lift up a world that is heavy only reflects that which is on the mind of the person giving it importance and creedance. This is fine, but it is then the paradigm that the person lives in and worships, unless they are just visiting to see what an artificial realm of density and gravity feels like. It could then be a game to see how to counter the weight, or we can point to a person who will save us from the weight with his mighty strength and courage, which then gives away that power that we each have within us.
Haha:) Getting antsy for another trek?:) Love studying maps and reading books about secret and far away places. Right now I dream of Montana and Florida…and Alaska. Foreignly….I dream of Mexico City, Ecuador or Argentina. Now if I could only get all the money to get these trips going:)
You have to have a dream to make it come true.
I still have a few paper maps but most of my map work is now done with Google Maps. With that available and some 3×5 card notes I have been all over the Lower 48, almost all of it OFF Interstate.