Caligula Syndrome

A Multitudinous mass of masques, mania, musings, mutterings, mini-mutilations (and anything else you could possibly ever possibly hope to dream of) , and all from the glitter-and-gloom art-obsessed chimera brain of a po-mo homo/fledgling tattooist.

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Statue of Hermanubis

Marble statue of the jackal-headed god Anubis (Hermanubis), associated with mummification and the afterlife, holding the Caduceus of Hermes in his left hand, dating from the 2nd century. Now in the Vatican Museums and Galleries.

In classical mythology, Hermanubis was a god who combined Hermes (Greek mythology) with Anubis (Egyptian mythology). He is the son of Set and Nephthys.

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Poeticon astronomicon, 1488

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Faun with Kid.   Roman copy of a Hellenistic original belonging to the second School of Pergamus (160-150 B.C.). It was discovered in Rome in 1675. marble. Museo Nacional del Prado. Spain.      http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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We Have Such Sights To Show You by AdeHughesArt

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The Return of the Living Dead (1985) Directed by Dan O'Bannon

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Virgil Finlay (1914-1971), “Worlds of IF”, March 1968 Source

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Lawrence W. Chaves, “The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater” by Thomas De Quincey, 1932 Source

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Lawrence Sterne Stevens (1886-1960), “Famous Fantastic Mysteries”, Vol. 8, #5, 1947  Source

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Ex libris by Uchnar Peter

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Virgil Finlay illustration for “The Lighthouse,” by Edgar Allan Poe & Robert Bloch.

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The End of Elfintown by Jane Barlow

London

MacMillan & Co.

1894

Artist : Laurence Housman

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Laurence Housman, The Reflected Faun

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drawings by nell brinkley 🕷