Father got up at five in the morning to prepare tea for us. Then by breakfast we had a whole pot of drink for the whole day. Its preparation was a real ritual. My father took pressed slab Georgian tea, about twenty centimeters wide, forty centimeters long, four centimeters thick. It’s unclear whether this tea brick is black or green. I still don’t know where he found it. The brick consisted mainly of tea branches. So my father broke them into several small pieces and crushed them in a mortar.

2022 is the centenary year of Pier Paolo Pasolini. The centenary of Maria Callas awaits us next year. These two artists managed to create not just a great interpretation of the Greek myth, but to bring to life the tragedy of the 20th century on the screen. In 1953, Maria Callas sang the role of Medea in the opera of the same name by Luigi Cherubini for the first time in her career. However, she sang the wrong word, or rather the wrong word at all.

In this short note, we will continue to examine references to ancient Egyptian culture in the recently released mini-series “Moon Knight” (dir. Mohamed Diab). For those who have not read the previously published notes or watched the series: Moon Knight is about the mercenary Marc Spector, who suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Mark (along with his other personalities) has been drawn into the secret feuds of the Egyptian gods, and must stop the impending disaster.