Sui Generis

Living in Alabama. Loving Nature and Originality. Stick around for a spell.

[geek-ramblings]

[robintunney]

THE CRAFT (1996)

THE CRAFT LEGACY (2020)

[annamariehowlett]

You have seen children starve. You’ve seen people stand on each other’s necks just for the view. You know what it feels like when men blow each other up. Over a simple line in the sand. And yet, you and Jonas want to open that door again, bring all that back.

[justjoshingjeez]

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

Gustav Mahler

[justjoshingjeez]

Cauldron mug from Rogue + Wolf

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[leahberman]

wildwood

[lionofchaeronea]

Bronze statuette with silver eyes, depicting the goddess Aphrodite.  Artist unknown; 3rd - 1st cent. BCE (Hellenistic period).  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[arcusxx]

[justjoshingjeez]

[justjoshingjeez]

Pagan Otherworlds Tarot by Uusi Design Studio

[salomi]

Statue of Aphrodite

Roman copy of the 1st-2nd century AD from a Greek statue of the 3rd-2nd century BC.

The goddess of love is shown as though surprised at her bath. Originally, her arms reached forward to shield her breasts and pubis in a gesture that both concealed and accentuated her sexuality.

That statue, the first major Greek work to show the goddess nude, was celebrated throughout antiquity. This work has the same gesture of modesty and is similar to another Roman copy, the so-called Medici Venus.

(Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC.)

[justjoshingjeez]

An amazing (and short) book on the origins and evolution of Venus/Aphrodite by renown historian Bettany Hughes. There’s also a BBC film documentary version I highly recommend.

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[charmedsisters]

[circleofstones]

Priestess of Delphi (1891) by John Collier

[natgeofound]

Two dancers in costume stand between the columns of Poseidon’s Temple, Greece, 1930. Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams, National Geographic Creative