[theancientwayoflife]

~ The Eagle and the Snake.

Period: Age of Justinian I

Provinience: Istanbul, Great Palace Mosaic Museum (Büyük Saray Mozaikleri Müzesi).

Medium: Floor mosaic

[1five1two]

Detail of paintings from Nebamun's tomb chapel. Theban Necropolis, Egypt.

[elexecution]

[weltenwellen]

Leila Chatti, from “I Went Out to Hear”

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[znj]

[lelif]

the beauty of life

- // @fairycosmos // ? // - // @cassidyshotchocolate // - // - // elsie de wolfe// @podencos // afternoon on a hill, edna st. vincent millay// rien ne va plus, margarita karapanou, tr. by karen emmerich// - // - // @ annalauraart on instagram// culpable, joy sullivan// - // @ jordanklancaster on instagram// @ niall.breen.comics on instagram// agatha christie// @plasticlove1984 //sweeter than fiction, taylor swift// the summer day, mary oliver

[paxamericana]

[dysphoresque]

“And Adam was more afraid of the gentleness than he had been at the violence, for it seemed to him that he was being trained as a sacrifice, almost as though he was being subjected to kindness before death...”

— East of Eden, John Steinbeck

[yas1n-deactivated20220717]

“تَهادُوا الحُبَّ غَيباً بالدُّعَاءْ.”

— Give love in secret by praying for one another.

[castratedvader]

Bataille, My Mother (transl. A. Wainhouse)

[ladytuarach]

Thank you @posttexasstressdisorder for the complete picture

[aurora-alice-deactivated2025112]

They love being worshipped. 🖤

[gael-garcia]

Hiam Abbass in Bye Bye Tiberias (2023, Lina Soualem)

[classicalcanvas]

Azure Grotto. Naples (1841) by Ivan Aivazovsky

[eraserheadadult]

my beloveds…

[yesterdaysprint]

The Enquirer, Cincinnati, Ohio, August 6, 1948