Lavender Witch

[layersoflife]

Audrey Niffenegger, Raven Girl

Artist: Audrey Niffenegger http://audreyniffenegger.com/ Illustrations from Audrey Niffenegger’s Raven Girl

[layersoflife]

Audrey Niffenegger, The Changeling

3-color etching w/ photogravure & aquatint 2012 Edition: 20 Price: $1200.00

Artist's Website

[huariqueje]

Cathedral    -   Peter De Koninck, 2014.

Belgian,b.1963-

Color button printed on Zerkall glued on panel , 150 x 190 cm.

[cheshirelibrary]

[spiritsdancinginthenight-deacti]

Torso of a fertility goddess (yakshi) From the Great Stupa at Sanchi. Indian, Sunga period 25 B.C.–A.D. 25

[just-asian-art]

Yakshi

Mathura area, India

Kushan period, 2nd century CE

Red sandstone

[arjuna-vallabha]

Yakshi and elephants of the Sanchi stupa, Madhya Pradesh, photo by Anandajoti Bhikkhu

[macrolit]

Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it.

Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (born in this day in 1875)

[postsatire]

The man crying is George Gillette, tribal chairman of the Mandan, Arikara, and Hidatsa tribes of North Dakota in 1948. He was forced under the threat of death of all his people to sign over the tribes’ homeland on the fertile floodplain of the Missouri River in order to build the Garrison Dam.

The final settlement legislation denied tribes’ right to use the reservoir shoreline for grazing, hunting, fishing or other purposes, including irrigation development and royalty rights on all subsurface minerals within the reservoir area.

After the dam was constructed, the three tribes were scattered, their communities and extended families flung to different shores of the 200-mile-long Lake Sakakawea.

This is what your freedom and democracy is built on.

[gacougnol]

Emilio Scanavino La Porta 1973 Oil on canvas

[wehadfacesthen]

Ella Fitzgerald singing at Mr. Kelly’s, Chicago, 1958, photos by Yale Joel

[books0977]

The Samian Sibyl with a Putto (1651). Guercino (Italian, 1591-1666). Oil on canvas. National Gallery, London.

The sibyl was an oracle of Apollo from the Greek island of Samos who prophesied that Jesus would be born of a virgin, as the inscription on the scroll indicates: “Hail Zion, chaste maiden who has much suffered.” The painting was made for Gioseffo Locatelli of Cesena in 1651.

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

“The Sibyl, with frenzied mouth uttering things not to be laughed at, unadorned and unperfumed, yet reaches to a thousand years with her voice by aid of the god.” Heraclitus, 5th century BC. Delphic Sibyl by Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel.

[arjuna-vallabha]

Scenes from the Story of Narakasura, Folio from a Bhagavata Purana, Nepal

[adelphe]

An Introduction to the Grasses of New Zealand by H. H. Allan, 1936

[philippinespics]

Zamboanga, Philippines

[ourlesbianlives]

Kitty Tsui, 1988