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Even if you don't live in Lysergica ,you may have heard of The Wealthy Sisterhood of The Golden Temples", once were known as " Poor Fellow-Soldiers of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon" often shortened in " Templars " ,
And you may have heard of few internal changes after the attempt of King of France and the Pope to destroy the Order ( see viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7931&start=0 ), changes clearly reflected in the new name

This year to celebrate the anniversary of the foundation of the Sisterhood was organized the 1st Golden Temples Musical Marathon
For security reasons the public was discouraged to assist along the way , but nobody complained because is much more exciting assist from inside the running Temples , is a much more spectacular view even if very bumpy

And inside each Temple are opened space for public and supporters and stages for the jams of supporting musicians :
also in this occasion we were careful to avoid space time paradox,so we carefully created occasions for the Musicians to get totally stoned , so stoned to accept with nonchalance a well payed gig on a not too far planet called Lysergica

Honestly was not too difficult since most were rock stars from the 70 or the roaring 30 , and would be much harder find them sober

Sisters would never force or rape musicians, but the Wealthy Sisters of the Wealthy Sisterhood of the Golden Temples are so generous and charming and the Sisters huge collection of psychedelic drugs from all the Galaxy was so convincing , that all accepted promptly ...their memory would be not erased , more simply we took them completely stoned and after the performance (but few minutes later from Earth point of view,) we will bring them back even more totally stoned ...but with the memory intact and even a big Cheque in the wallet to confirm that the fabulous jam in Lysergica was not exactly a dream

Back to the Marathon ,The Rules of The Marathon are few and simple:
1)there is a route to follow , more or less
2)It is obviously forbidden for the Temples to fly, float or use anti-gravity
3) It is necessary to pass the most severe Lysergica anti.doping controls:
that means Temples should be sufficiently sober to stay erect and walk straight or sort of straight, anyway without support and without zigzagging too much

Below some photo of the running temples taken at various checking points

















and soundtrack was excellent , a cool group with Jerry Garcia to the guitar, Niccolo Paganini to the electric Violin ( The Sisters offered a Stradivari but Niccolo was irremovable , he saw the electric violin for the first time in his life and he grabbed so strongly that we had to let him play )

Then was a duet of Ravi Shankar with J Hendrix, only that Hendrix wanted to play the sitar while Ravi Shankar was refusing to let go Hendrix Stratocaster , and then become a trio, another musicians entered and sit to the Hammond , a nice promising Italian guy called Frescobaldi ...

And was music for all day and night ,with so many other groups ... Irene Papas singing with Black Sabbath , Jim Morrison accompanied by Nirvana , followed by Kurt Cobain & the Doors ,and another super group, Madonna & Lady Gaga singing with the choir of the Orthodox Monks of Mount Athos directed by Marlyn Manson

Only was a bit tension for the Led Zeppelin , Robert Plant had the flue so he could not sing and was replaced at the very last minute by Janis Joplin ...

Yes was some nice music for the first Golden Temples Marathon of Lysergica...


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I hope you like the new Temples

Thank Erisian... yes very good music ,even some jewels as the performance of Frank Zappa with Amalia Rodriguez and a multimedia show of Michel Jackson and Ginger Rogers in collaboration with the Tangerin Dream ...
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but i almost forgot... the Marathon started from the central square of Templarville a very characteristic little village :

PS sorry for the double post but the last concurrent passed the check point just now,
and i believe the last is one of the more interesting.

The innards details are almost steampunk



Hem... i was impatient to show , so impatient that i noticed only now to have uploaded the wrong size , except for this last
and i can't correct immediately , this was supposed to be a short pause and i have something pressing now...

In a Marathon there is always somebody left behind, we almost forgot the Oblique Temple of the Tinkling Symmetries that is just arrived to the checkpoint !



What next after the Marathon ? The winner ,The Temple of Midas ,proposed a free climbing Challenge but seems difficult to organize

EDIT ... I FORGOT TO SHOW THE WINNER ! ...corrected now

Here the winner entry in proximity of the final checkpoint in Mandelbrot Plaza
( You may notice the new "M" logo of the renewed Midas Temples )



And about the last i have to correct the last were



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Both were reported as MIA , instead arrived almost simultaneously at the very first checkpoint a few minutes ago

LAST EDIT

I just stumbled on a new idea :

I was perplex with my last so render so i flipped around ,...even upside down as below.
Now it doesn't seems that could be or better should be a Air Balloon on top ? a air balloon, or a Montgolfier , or any sort of translucent sphere