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Witchcraft and the Gay Counterculture, by Arthur Evans, a rare book, very worth reading

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AUTUNM 1918

William had lost count of how many palms he had to grease to get that marriage certificate, but now Goldie was officially a war widow, and little Arthur was the first legitimate Evans of this generation. The baby boy was a welcome addition to the family, the Evans house didn’t feel like itself without its share of occupied rooms and the sound of babies laughing.

Evangeline and Teddy did everything they could to accommodate Goldie and Arthur. Evie found Goldie absolutely fascinating, she had the mind of a doctor, the spirit of a soldier, and the mouth of a sailor. The two women quickly got along, and it was nice to have a friend living in the next room. Teddy, on the other hand, was completely enchanted by little Arthur, the boy didn’t even have space to notice that his mother wasn’t particularly affectionate, because whenever he wasn’t in Amelia’s arms, he was in Teddy’s.

Evangeline felt lucky to have married such a caring man, but it was hard to watch him with that baby and not think about her own struggles to conceive. Having lost two children, even with so much time between one pregnancy and the other, made her fear for her fertility. Fears that she obviously didn’t share with her husband, Teddy didn’t even know about the first child.

That same autumn, shortly before winter arrived, all the Evans currently living in Brindleton Bay gathered to hear the latest news on the radio, and burst into collective cheers when they heard those blessed words. The world could finally breathe again because, on that cold autumn day in 1918, the Great War had officially come to an end!

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For your perusal and enjoyment; Minoan sealstones from Knossos, seeming to show an Artemis or an Atalanta sort of figure.

Or, well, some completely different lady archer with nice cans motif we don't understand because we can't read Linear A.

This is from an early 1900s copy of Arthur Evans' books on his excavations at Knossos. He's a sucker for incredibly obvious fakes like the Boston snake goddess, and really reaches to see scenes from later Greek myth in seal-stones- but he shows a lot of material that seems to have fallen out of circulation in later books that just seem to summarise each other.

#minoan #mythology #artemis #atalanta #greek mythology #bronze age #knossos #arthur evans #archaeology #ancient civilizations

Émile Gilliéron (CH, 1850–1924)

Ladies in Blue fresco, Reproduction

The Prince of the Lilies, or the Lily Prince or Priest-King Fresco

The Knossos throne room (supposedly Minos')

This group of three women was originally restored by E. Gillieron (father) on the basis of other fragments of frescos. The facial outline of the "Cup-bearer" fresco supplied the model for the faces of the "Ladies in Blue". Excavated before 1914, Knossos.

The Prince of the Lily was assembled using various frescoes (Evans demanded results to impress and keep fund-raising)

Gilliérons (father & son) relocated to Athens, in 1877, where they produced archaeological illustrations for Greek and foreign excavators, designed commemorative postage stamps for the inaugural Olympic Games (1896 and 1906), and served as an art tutor for the royal family of George I.

Gilliéron worked for Heinrich Schliemann and gained a reputation as the best archaeological illustrator working in Greece at the time.

He became the chief restorer for Arthur Evans at the Knossos Palace. For over three decades, Gilliéron worked with his son, and successor, also named Émile, creating reproductions of frescoes and other artifacts.

Greece, before and after its liberation struggle, was a playground for archeologists/treasure hunters. Following Evans' discoveries, a "Cretan fever" spread over the Western world, thus creating a huge market for official copies, smuggled originals and forgeries. Gilliérons' prices skyrocketed.

An Odyssey History Documentaries 2022 production with the misleading clickbait title "Was Europe's First Advanced Civilization Faked? | The Secret of the Phaistos Code" is exposing the early ambiguous archeological approach, historical background and Gilliéron's talent to recreate free of accuracy illustrations and restorations, i.a.

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/258137

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Gilli%C3%A9ron

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_of_the_Lilies

https://mymodernmet.com/minoan-palace-of-knossos-crete/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phohy3fEq7U

#Emile Gillieron #collage #illustration #gr #archeology #restoration #mystery #Crete #Arthur Evans #fake

PALAZZO DI CNOSSO: Il palazzo di Cnosso si trova a Creta e, realizzato con blocchi di pietra calcarea, risale al 2000-1450 a.C. ed è stato ritrovato da Arthur Evans. Al massimo splendore raggiunse addirittura i 20000 metri quadrati di ampiezza. All'interno c'era un cortile, la sala del trono, la sala della Regina e i magazzini. La presenza di questi ultimi testimonia la grande importanza del commercio per la civiltà minoica, infatti, essendo Creta una terra povera di materie prime e di terreni coltivabili, la loro fonte di guadagno e di materie era il commercio, per questo avevano bisogno di grandi spazi di conservazione.

CURIOSITA': La piantina del palazzo di Cnosso è contorta e non rispetta alcun principio di simmetria, a differenza di quelli mesopotamici, per questo è soggetto del mito del labirinto del minotauro.

#minoans #cnosso #architecture #crete #arthur evans

Peggy Moffitt photographed by Arthur Evans for Blow-Up (1966)

#Peggy Moffitt #Arthur Evans #Blow-Up #vintage #old hollywood #ladybegoodscan

1878 - Knossos is uncovered by Μίνως Καλοκαιρινός* - Crete

* Kalokairinos (left), further excavated in 1894 by Arthur Evans (right)

An aesthetic history of Eastern Mediterranean archaeology

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“The visitor coming to Knossos can see on the left side piles of unworked stones with mortar; there were many such piles arranged in two rows, clearly of Roman date, and tradition calls them 'Royal'. These structures were demolished by Ottoman soldiers and their material, especially the white stone (marble), was used for the building of the barracks of Herakleio”

Minos Kalokairinos