#frazer

[frenchcurious]

Frazer Nash Mille Miglia 1952. - source Amazing Classic Cars.

[stone-cold-groove]

Beauty with a purpose! The massive front chrome grille and wrap-around bumper. Detail from a Frazer Manhattan ad - 1949.

[carnutzphoto]

1948 Frazer Manhattan 4dr Sedan

Seen at the Orphan Marques Car Show held on the campus of the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, MI. Held on August 23, 2025. Sponsored by the Pierce-Arrow Museum.

[wheelsgoroundincircles]

1954 Frazer Custom Convertible

[uscarssince1935]

1950 Frazer Manhattan Convertible

My tumblr-blogs:

www.tumblr.com/germancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/frenchcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/englishcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/italiancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/japanesecarssince1947 & www.tumblr.com/uscarssince1935

[donies]

FRAZER⚡️ | OC Doodle Dump

[maverynthia]

Limbus Company things of note:

If you don't know there's a book called The Golden Bough by James George Frazer. It's about religion and magic and influenced Yeats, T.S. Eliot and Lovecraft as well as the quack Freud and psychiatrist Carl Jung.

There's also the painting by JMW Turner from the Aenid by Virgil

It's also cited as the basis for the Golden Dawn form of ceremonial magic. Which of course appropriates heavily from the Qaballah and Jewish Mysticism.

And if you don't know all the Project Moon games have the Hebrew, Sephirot and Qaballah stuff to them. And then there's Vergil/ius and Dante. The game specifically uses Golden Bough and not Golden Twig, stick, branch.

Lest to say I'm thinking they pulled a LOT from Frazer and the whole Golden Dawn system of magic.

[zmaragdos]

ook ok ok

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i spent the better part of 3 hours of my life trying to figure out what this means

[Start ID: 14 F EN dies . vitios . ex . s . c End ID]

because Frazer lists the date like this, but does not elaborate on what it means anywhere in the Loeb, or in his expanded commentary from 1929 (nor does Ovid talk about the 14 January/XIX Kal Feb in the Fasti). on top of that "vitios" is not a word in latin (it looks like it should be, but "vitius" does not exist). as it turns out, it's an abbreviation for the adjective "vitiosus" (i.e. faulty, defective, corrupt), which Augustus used to mark January 14 which is, for those not in the know, like me until a few hours ago, MARK FUCKING ANTONY'S BIRTHDAY. (i only found this out when i read an uncited section in the wikipedia article for the julian calendar which stated that Mark Antony changed his birthday after the julian calendar reforms from a.d. XVII Kal. Feb to a.d. XIX Kal. Feb [i.e. he kept it on the same date, which we would render as Jan 14] BUT it turns out this is actually generally accepted as true, and this weird "dies vitios" abbreviation is actually seen in extant Fasti calendars, such as the Fasti Verulani in Veroli, Italy).

thus: Augustus made celebrating Mark Antony's birthday illegal, and codified it in the calendars to boot. 10/10 petty king behavior.

below: Fasti Verulani, zoomed in on 5 lines from its January column

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the first full line says: [F xi]x EN d vitiosus ex . s . c . anT . naTal

(i still can't figure out what the ex . s . c . is about, because there are so so so many possibilies for those epigraphic abbrviations, and, as that is unfortunatly not my wheelhouse, I'm unsure of their meaning)