Inspiration Etc

[thatsbelievable]

[happyheidi]

[nosferatugirlfried]

this is my time to shine. i was looking up old slang for my friend and i found these two books on archive.org

this

and this

these are my faves

honourable mention for the 6-7 thing we have going on at the moment

[antoniabishop]

swans

[bobemajses]

Portrait of Asenath Barzani (1590-1670), a Jewish religious leader and poet in Ottoman Kurdistan

Asenath Barzani is considered the first female rabbi by some historians; additionally, she is the oldest recorded female Kurdish leader. After the death of her father, a great kabbalist, she lead the Mosul yeshiva, which produced many renowned scholars. Thus, she became the leader of the Jewish community in Mosul and all Iraqi Kurdistan. Barzani's writings are infused with deep mystical thinking and demonstrate a mastery of different languages. There are numerous stories about her, most of which have been found in amulets, which allude to her supernatural powers and miracles. After her death, many Jews made pilgrimages to her grave in Amadiyah in northern Iraq. Subsequently, Barzani was and still is an essential subject of Kurdish-Jewish pride and folklore.

[knight-of-skyloft]

Asnat Barazani was a highly educated and respected Torah scholar in late 16th and early 17th century Kurdistan. After her father’s death, he

[portalibis]

"I am the true green and golden lion, without cares; in me lies hidden all the secret [knowledge] of the philosophers."

"Leo Viridis (The Green Lion). It is Mercury (☿): and you should know that it is cold and moist. From it, God created all minerals. For it is the element and the Spirit, fleeing from the Fire (△)… it is the foundation in every body, raising it up, illuminating and converting it from one state to another; from color to color. It is the Living Water and the Water of Death, and the Virgin's Milk. And its operations are one way when it is alive, and another when it is dead. And it is the Dragon."

Art: Miscellanea Alchemica XXI, c. 1746, Wellcome Historical Medical Library

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[hellostuffedtiger]

All spies need to feel they are loved. One of the most powerful forces in espionage and intelligence work (and one of its central myths) is the emotional bond between spy and spymaster, agent and handler. Spies want to feel wanted, part of a secret community, rewarded, trusted, and cherished...Exploiting and manipulating that hunger for affection and affirmation is one of the most important skills of an agent-runner. There has never been a successful spy who did not feel that the connection with his handler was something more profound than a marriage of convenience, politics, or profit: a true, enduring communion, amid the lies and deception. - The Spy and the Traitor by Ben Macintyre

[classiclegend]

Merle Oberon

[dreamerfemme]

[ruedit]

По Тверской шли тысячи людей, но я вам ручаюсь, что увидела она меня одного и поглядела не то что тревожно, а даже как будто болезненно. И меня поразила не столько ее красота, сколько необыкновенное, никем не виданное одиночество в глазах. YULIYA SNIGIR as MARGARITA in THE MASTER AND MARGARITA (2024) dir. Michael Lokshin requested by @christsam 💐

[theprofessorofdesire]

Creatures from the Kennicott Bible, an illuminated manuscript copy of the Hebrew Bible, copied in A Coruña, Spain in 1476 by the calligrapher Moses ibn Zabarah and illuminated by Joseph ibn Hayyim 🔮🦇👼🏼🐉🐻🐊🐒🦚🪞

It is regarded as one of the most exquisite illuminated manuscripts in Hebrew and one of the most lavishly illuminated Sephardic manuscript of the 15th century. According to the historian Cecil Roth, one of the most outstanding aspects of this copy is the close collaboration it shows between the calligrapher and the illuminator, rare in this type of work.

In 1476, Isaac, a Jewish silversmith from Coruña, son of Salomón de Braga, commissioned an illuminated Bible from the scribe Moses ibn Zabarah who lived in Coruña with his family on behalf of his patron. He spent ten months to scribe the Bible, writing two folios on a daily basis. Illumination of the manuscript was the responsibility of Joseph ibn Hayyim, who is remembered thanks to this work.

The first documentation of the Jewish presence dates to 1375. Jewish population in A Coruña grew rapidly throughout the Late Middle Ages. It is thought that after the persecution of Jews in Castile, a large number of Jewish people took refuge in Galicia. The Jewish community in Coruña traded with Castile and Aragon, and in 1451 they contributed to the rescue of the Murcian Jews with a large sum of money, which could demonstrate the prosperity of the community.

[upennmanuscripts]

See the whole thing on the Internet Archive! (With plenty of info and a link to the record at the Bodleian Library, where the Kennicott Bible lives now. You can also download a PDF)

[veliseraptor]

english really needs a term for "study partner" that conveys an equivalent level of (potential) intimacy and intensity and closeness as "חברותא"

[itscolossal]

Affluent Genre Scenes Erupt in Chaos in Sabrina Bockler’s Uncanny Paintings

[matialonsorphoto]

Capaz Rosalia tenia razon

ig @matialonsor

[gentlemensarts]

[cosmonautroger]

Michael Eastman, Buenos Aires, 2017

[surfingkaliyuga]

Art Deco statues sculpted by Luis Perlotti as part of the gate at the Municipal Cemetery in Luján, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The gate itself was designed by Viktor Sulčič and erected in 1928.

[odetopictorialism]

Tore Johnson • Paris, 1940