blinding radiance

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[nemfrog]

Mayan stone lintel at Menche. Elephants and ethnologists. 1924.

Internet Archive

[nemfrog]

"Venus appears largest when in the crescent phase." Natural History. December 1949.

Internet Archive

[mawmenny]

[therepublicofletters]

7.26.17 // Details of The Immaculate Conception by Cristobal de Villalpando at the Met.

[t8i72]

tg: t8i72

[samiaelsaid]

"Anubis Who presides over the God's Shrine", Jnpw ḫnty sḥ-Nṯr

(translation of the two rows of hieroglyphs above Anubis, in the middle)

Detail from the “House of Eternity” of King Horemheb, KV57, Valley of the Kings, west ‘Uaset’-Thebes

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/jackal-head-god-anubis-news-photo/89162141

[lascitasdelashoras]

Carl Jung ~ Illumination from the Red Book 1913-30

[oldartss]

The soul breaking the bonds that attach to the land by Pierre Paul Prud'hon (between 1821 and 1823)

[publicdomainreview]

The art of arranging marine algae into designs, bouquets, and even sometimes intricate little scenes, was surprisingly popular in the 19th century. See an album of such pictures by a woman named Eliza A. Jordson here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/album-of-seaweed-pictures-1848

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[xphaiea]

Moche funeral sculpture

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[oathtoblood]

“Odin is god of men: the men, living and dead, of the werewolf brotherhoods. He is god of the Männerbund, of the Wild Army, the standard features of which are the cult of the dead, animal transformations, and orgiastic rites.”

— Kris Kershaw, One Eyed God

[oathtoblood]

Shrine of Chthonic Deities (Agrigento, Italy)

[venustapolis]

Italian palace at dusk (Ferdinand Knab, 1893)

[memories-of-ancients]

Gilded silver chalice with enamel and pearls, Southeastern Europe, dated 1462

from The MET

[adamantinesickle]

the new jerusalem