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PETRA (Jordan)
Petra (from πέτρα "petra", rock in Greek; Arabic: البتراء, Al-Butrā) is an archaeological site in Jordan, lying in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah (Wadi Araba), the large valley running from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It is famous for having many stone structures carved into the rock. The long-hidden site was revealed to the Western world by the Swiss explorer Johann Ludwig Burckhardt in 1812. It was famously described as "a rose-red city half as old as time" in a Newdigate prize-winning sonnet by John William Burgon. Burgon had not actually visited Petra, which remained accessible only to Europeans accompanied by local guides with armed escorts, until after World War I.
Geography
Rekem is an ancient name for Petra and appears in Dead Sea scrolls such as 4Q462 associated with Mount Seir. Additionally, Eusebius and Jerome (Onom. sacr. 286, 71. 145, 9; 228, 55. 287, 94) assert that Rekem was the native name of Petra, supposedly on the authority of Josephus (Antiquities iv. 7, 1~ 4, 7), Pliny the Elder and other writers identify Petra as the capital of the Nabataeans, Aramaic-speaking Semites, and the centre of their caravan trade. Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress but controlled the main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Bosra and Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf.
Excavations have demonstrated that it was the ability of the Nabateans to control the water supply that led to the rise of the desert city, in effect creating an artificial oasis. The area is visited by flash floods and archaeological evidence demonstrates the Nabateans controlled these floods by the use of dams, cisterns and water conduits. Thus, stored water could be employed even during prolonged periods of drought, and the city prospered from its sale.
Although in ancient times Petra might have been approached from the south (via Saudi Arabia on a track leading around Jabal Haroun, Aaron's Mountain, on across the plain of Petra), or possibly from the high plateau to the north, most modern visitors approach the ancient site from the east. The impressive eastern entrance leads steeply down through a dark and narrow gorge (in places only 3-4 metres wide) called the Siq (the shaft), a natural geological feature formed from a deep split in the sandstone rocks and serving as a waterway flowing into Wadi Musa. At the end of the narrow gorge stands Petra's most elaborate ruin, Al Khazneh ("the Treasury") hewn directly out of the sandstone cliff.
A little farther from the Treasury, at the foot of the mountain called en-Nejr is a massive theatre, so placed as to bring the greatest number of tombs within view; and at the point where the valley opens out into the plain the site of the city is revealed with striking effect. Indeed, the amphitheatre has actually been cut into the hillside and into several of the tombs during its construction, rectangular gaps in the seating are still visible. Almost enclosing it on three sides are rose-coloured mountain walls, divided into groups by deep fissures, and lined with tombs cut from the rock in the form of towers.
Length: 230
Rating: 4.80 (135 ratings)
Tags: Petra Jordania
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PETRA Farewell Acoustic Set
SCHLITT & VOLZ, two disntinctly different vocal styles, sand and fog, come together to make something so AUDIBLY AESTHETIC it can only come from ABOVE. The full mellow-cello-medley from the 'Farewell' album. Some AWESOME CLASSICS played LIVE one last time like only PETRA can do!!
Length: 573
Rating: 4.90 (234 ratings)
Tags: Petra Farewell Acoustic Medley Greg X. Volz John Schlitt
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Petra: A Tribute - 33 Years of Christian Rock
This is a tribute to the best Christian Rock band of all time. Petra was formed in 1972 and retired in 2005. Hundreds of hits and Millions of fans. Please enjoy my tribute to this rock legend.
Official band website: http://www.petraband.com
Length: 262
Rating: 4.70 (305 ratings)
Tags: Petra Tribute Music Christian Rock Band
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Petra Coloring song
-- Lyrics --
Red is the color of the blood that flowed
Down the face of Someone Who loved us so
He's the perfect man, He's the Lord's own son,
He's the Lamb of God, He's the only one
That can give us life, that can make us grow,
That can make the love between us flow.
Blue is the color of a heart so cold
It will not bend when the story's told
Of the love of God for a sinful race
Of the blood that flowed down Jesus face
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can keep our hearts from growing cold.
Gold is the color of the morning sun
That shines so freely an every one
It's the sun above that keeps us warm
It's the Son of love that calms the storm
That can give us life that can make us grow,
That can turn our mornings into gold.
Brown is the color of the autumn leaves
When the winter comes to the barren trees
There is birth, there is death, there is a plan
And there's just one God, and there's just one man
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can make our sins as white as snow
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can turn our mornings into gold.
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can keep our hearts from growing cold.
That can give us life, that can make us grow
That can make the love between us flow.
Length: 170
Rating: 4.90 (65 ratings)
Tags: Petra Coloring song Red color blood Double Take life Jesus colour Never Say Die colouring
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PETRA - Love
PETRA - LOVE
from Album BEYOND BELIEF (1990)
Length: 242
Rating: 5.00 (136 ratings)
Tags: petra love gospel music
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Arsen Dedić - Petra (novi singl!)
Nakon dva uspješna projekta objavljena pod okriljem izdavačke kuće Croatia Records u posljednjih šest mjeseci -- kajkavski spomenar Arsena Dedića pod nazivom "Moje popevke" s najljepšim pjesmama krapinskog festivala koje su proizašle iz pera našeg cijenjenog kantautora, te CD sa glazbom iz filma Nikole Stojanovića "Belle Epoque ili posljednji valcer u Sarajevu" -- Arsen Dedić neumorno radi na svom novom studijskom albumu!
Na albumu će se naći 15 novih pjesama, a u eterima radijskih postaja već se može ćuti prvi singl budućeg albuma - "Petra". Riječ je o pjesmi koju potpisuju Arsen Dedić i Nikša Bratoš, a koja najavljuje još jedan veliki projekt čovjeka za kojeg je Vjeran Zuppa u jednom od svojih eseja napisao 'Arsen je jedna od tri najvažnije osobe u suvremenoj hrvatskoj kulturi'. Kao gosti na albumu pojavljuju se Petar Grašo u pjesmi "Ima, a ne zna", te Edin Karamazov na lutnji u skladbi "Posljednja želja".
Novi studijski album je još jedan glazbeni projekt u bogatoj riznici Arsenovih izdanja o kojem će se dugo pisati i pričati, a koji autorski gotovo u cijelosti potpisuje sam Arsen, osim jedne pjesme za koju stihove potpisuje Zvonimir Golob. Aranžerski i producentski posao povjeren je autorima poput Nikše Bratoša, Muca Softića, Stipice Kalogjere, Ante Gele, Talijana Valtera Svilottia, Saše Lukića, te Arsenovog sina Matije Dedića.
Posljednji studijski album "Na zlu putu" Arsen Dedić objavio je 2004. godine i taj je album 2005. godine osvojio tri Porina -- za album godine, za najbolji album pop i zabavne glazbe, te najbolji aranžman.
Length: 199
Rating: 5.00 (19 ratings)
Tags: Arsen Dedić Petra Rebus Amigo Gabi Novak Petar Grašo Croatia Records
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