PATH OF THE CYCLE

KALIGRAPHY OF CHAOS

[deathandmysticism]

A book of cheerful cats and other animated animals, 1903

[venustapolis]

Art by Thomas Daniell, 1808

[mysteriis-moon666]

The Rider on the Pale Horse - Stephen Gooden

[danskjavlarna]

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Archival advertisements reveal the trends of their time: here’s my collection of vintage ads.

[dungeonlust]

Art by • Julien Delval

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As for their might, it arises from their large physique and their numbers. On account of their straightforwardness they easily come together in great numbers, because they always share in the vexation of their neighbours whom they think wronged.

Strabo — Geographica, On Celts

[danskjavlarna]

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From mountain climbers to mountain spirits, mountain temples to mountains in the sky, here’s my range of vintage mountains.

[aurevoirmonty]

"Good and evil, like life and death, are unreal things, action and struggle are the only things that give meaning to existence."

Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg

[oldpagesclub]

Františka Doubravy illustration for 1931 "Mourek - the history of the cat boy"

(book from my private collection)

[thekimonogallery]

Traditional door decorations, Terauchi-cho 

[deathandmysticism]

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, 1916

[holespoles]

Jun Kumaori (Junkuma)

"chasing its tail too much"

「しっぽを追いかけすぎて」

[a0ra]

“Bravery is the foremost Virtue of Shakespeare’a Heroes; from it springs both that Heroic Attitude to Life and contempt for the cowardly masses who pursue the pleasures of life and would rather live long in cowardice than, if they must, die young in Bravery.”

— Heinrich Bauer

[a0ra]

“Beowulf calls Sigmund’s and Sinfjötli’s deeds foul as well as fair, the Völsunga saga portrays the two as outlaws living in the woods by robbery. The old Indo-European notion that warriors bear a burden of sin was thus still alive in northern Europe through most of the Middle Ages. So was the custom of sending young men as wolves into the wilds for training in survival and conquest of new land. Sigi, Sigmund’s grandfather, was such a wolf-warrior guided by Woden. Sigmund and Sinfjötli are thus true-to-type wolf warriors: of ambiguous morals, boundless strength, and fierceness in battle. They were also men to whom Woden’s presence brought the power and magic that was in the beginning.”

— Michael Speidel, Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's Column to Icelandic Sagas

[a0ra]

“What you have inherited from your fathers, earn it in order to possess it.”

— Goethe, Faust

[a0ra]

"And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally"

Friedrich Nietzsche

[a0ra]

“People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.”

— Hermann Hesse