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The rockdwellers came also from their self-vaulted caves, bearing all the name of Pan their father the ranger of the wilderness, all armed to join the host; they have human form, and a shaggy goat's head upon it with horns. Twelve horned Panes there were, with this changeling shape and hornbearing head, who were begotten of the one ancestral Pan their mountainranging father. One they named Kelaineus (Blackie) as his looks bore witness, and one Argennos (Whitey) after his colour; Aigikoros (Goatgluts) was well dubbed, because he glutted himself with goat's-milk which he pressed from nannies udders in the flock. Another masterly Pan was called Eugeneios (Longbeard), from a throat and chin which was a thick meadow of hair. Daphoineus (the Bloody) came along with Omester (Eat-em-raw); Phobos (the Fright-away) with shaggy-legged Philamnos (the Lamb's Friend). Glaukos with Xanthos, Glaukos glaring like the bright sea, with a complexion to match. Xanthos had a mane of hair like a bayard, which gave that name to the horned frequenter of the rocks. Then there was bold Argos with a shock of hair as white as snow . . . Along with these came Phorbas (Fear) to join their march, savage and insatiate." Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14. 67 ff (trans. Rouse) (Greek epic C5th A.D.)

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Victor Fleming - 1941 - USA

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Ernesto García Cabral

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Eugène Cyrille Brunet: Messalina (1884)

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Mary Frank.  Figure Study, circa 1965-68. 

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1946  George Petty 

The Panther Girl  For M-G-M’S Ziegfeld Follies

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Head of a woman wearing a mask and high cap on which devils dance, 1692

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“the owls are not what they seem!” Maarten Donders

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“The Green Man”, 1200’s AD, Early Gothic, Bamberg Cathedral, Germany.

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“The Satanic trinity: the Dragon (the ‘Anti-God’), the Beast (the ‘Anti-Christ’), and the False Prophet (the ‘Anti-Spirit’).  From Rightly Dividing the Word by Clarence Larkin, 1921.

It’s a revelation: my collection of vintage biblical imagery.

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Photo by Horst P. Horst 1951

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Dryad’s saddle for dinner. Swipe thru for forest-to-table (at Andorra Meadow (Wissahickon Environmental Center)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdUVNZKDAzEgH8AptFLCnM1PmKLt_5FMpZtvlo0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=