[vitterdotter]

I truly believe being able to name the world around you is integral to animism. learn the names of plants and flowers. learn how the rocks and soil you walk over daily form. sit with the streams and rivers, learn where they flow to and from. learn the names others have given, and give them your own as well. animism is interconnectedness, and one simple step is learning the names of your neighbors

[theserpentspsalm]

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Mandrake, crucifix.

Date: 16th century (?)

Medium: Wood, grasses

[wormleaf]

i really want both of these as posters i love an ancient depictions of women and goddesses so much

[portalibis]

Alchemical hermaphrodite from: “The Book of the Holy Trinity,” c. 1467

Telegram / Facebook / Sacred Ibis fb group

[portalibis]

Uroborus, by Peter Proksch

[luci-lle-e]

Mandrake Folklore - 3 - days and hours.

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Let him take care to choose the day and hour when he will strive to capture the elusive mandrake. Alas, even the best authors will hardly help him dispel his doubts, for their tomes abound in contradictory instructions.

According to one, Saturday is the auspicious day. According to another, it is Friday, the day of Venus, that is suitable, since the mandrake is a plant with aphrodisiac properties. A third asserts that before undertaking anything, it is important to wait for sunrise and refutes the opinion of the first, who considers the darkness of night favorable. As for the fourth, he states that it is impossible to find this root except shortly before the rising of the Pleiades, which are seven stars, that is to say, around the beginning of September, and not at any other time of year. But the latter thinks on the contrary that, being busy blossoming during the holy night of Christmas, she offers only weak resistance to the one who seeks the honor of abducting her.

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(in "La Mandragore" A.M Schmidt.)

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@no-technique

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[portalibis]

Hilma af Klint, Tree of Knowledge, No. 7b, c. 1913-1915

[weepingwidar]

Ryan Driscoll (British, 1992) - The Serpent (2026)

[miamaimania]

Adrian Arleo ✺ Ceramic — hand-encrusted form

[charnel-grounds]

Joseph René Gockinga (1893–1962), “Visitation”

pen, brush & black ink on paper, n.d.

source

[oldsardens]

Tristram Hillier - Trouvaille

[vesperalia]

"HERESIES OF FIRE" [Digital Collage; 2026] --- {Prints Available}

[luci-lle-e]

@clemubu

[ducissatenebrarum]

Pluto and Proserpina in the Underworld

Illumination from

Le livre des échecs amoureux moralisés, c. 1496–1498 by Robinet Testard.

France.

This medieval depiction of classical mythology features the rulers of Hell on a throne shaped like an owl's head, the three-headed dog Cerberus at their feet, alongside musicians and tormented sinners.

Collection: National Library of France (BnF, Paris)

[weepingwidar]

Ryan Driscoll (British, 1992) - Untitled (Figure Concept of Felled Star) (2026)

[enchantedbook]

"Mélusine" from Les grandes Sataniques de l'histoire de la Légende by Roland Brévannes, 1907.

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