[cultofthedarksun]

Odin dancing with a wolf-headed warrior

(7th Century AD)

[cultofthedarksun]

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924)

[metmuseum]

Dervish Ax. dated A.H. 1241/1825–26 CE. Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1904 https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/25577

[rosieandthemoon]

Carving on an old French church

[nemfrog]

Still from the Soviet documentary By the Caspian Sea. Close up. May 1930.

Internet Archive

[allaboutmary]

A vintage photograph of the altar of the Salus Populi Romani in the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome.

[ducissatenebrarum]

More from Physica Curiosa

more plates are online at the John Martin Rare Book Room at the University of Iowa.

[deathandmysticism]

Circle of Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Detail of Beheading of John the Baptist, 17th century

[pinkblanc]

Joe Van Wormer, The World of the Black Bear, 1966

[fiery-kitty]

Music – Josef Václav Myslbek (1907-12)

[secretrussianfolder]

[vindsval-blog]

[ducissatenebrarum]

Maestro dell'Avicenna,

Paradise and Hell (Paradiso e Inferno),

c. 1435.

Tempera on panel.

Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Italy.

[nemfrog]

Solar protuberances. Le soleil. 1875.

Internet Archive

[deathandmysticism]

Witch performing ritual, Historia de Gentibus Septentrionalibus, 1555

[nixonpartyhat]

[mawmenny]

Native American buffalo mask