THE ENTANGLEMENT

I! Tego arcana Dei

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The earth in space.  The beauty of the heavens. 1842.

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"Die Extreme" (The Extreme) by Oskar Garvens.

[the-entangler]

Jolly Mare - Il Senso

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Walter Molino

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my agents running forever

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Yu Sugawara

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“And in a lot of ways, the majority of our modern depictions of heaven are exactly that: human. Over centuries, the imagery of heaven has developed as theologians, artists, and laypeople attempted to understand the mysterious idea of life after death. From mere ascension to a place in the stars to Greek ideas of the Empyrean, we attempted to give heaven a true location or visual aspect for us to understand. The Renaissance and medieval eras, with their beautiful paintings and great literature contributions, also stuffed baggage and transported it to our present times. Icons or imagery in order to understand a truth are important to the faith and yet can also lead astray. Once blended with modern culture, heaven became an idealized, almost American dream-esque idea where your deepest desires come true. Suffice it to say, this couldn’t be further from the biblical idea of a new heavens and new earth, in which the afterlife is depicted as a re-creation of all things according to God’s desires and is very “earthy” as opposed to “out there-y.””

— In Suburbia as It Is in Heaven

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Labyrinth in Rheinis Cathedral (Gailhabaud) from: "Mazes and labyrinths: a general account of their history and developments" by William Henry Matthews

[the-entangler]

You retreat in time and space

[local-boob]

[1:25]

Alan Moore: I just thought [Glycon] looked gorgeous, he looked so smug. He’s got these kind of lidded eyes and this superior expression which I identified with in a certain way; and also, like i said, just the absurdity of this limbless serpentine body and this Paris Hilton head on top of it, it’s irresistible. [He’s] certainly the coolest, most rock and roll god that I have ever seen, I just fell in love at first sight.

Interviewer: What’s in it for you following Glycon?

Alan: I believe that every single individual human being should probably make their own peace with the universe. We’re all of us different emotionally, we’re different physically, intellectually – it would be really odd if we were all the same spiritually… That’s why I have a problem with religion per se because “religion,” the very word, comes from the same root word as “ligature” and “ligament,” and it means to be bound together in one belief, which I find a bit creepy and a bit unnatural.

[the-entangler]

Web Web - Morning Ritual

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[thomasmartinnutt]

Rachel Whiteread. Untitled, 2005

[scrambler]

Walter Molino, 1957

[tamawut]

cute illustrations in the book “Moon and Serpent Bumper Book of Magic” !!! 🌟🌌

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Bronze coin (diameter= 29 mm; weight= 16.89 g) of the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius (r. 138-161 CE). On the obverse, the bust of Pius. On the reverse, the snake-god Glycon, with the inscription ΓΛVΚΩΝ ΑΒΩΝΟΤΕΙΧΕΙΤΩΝ ("Glycon of the people of Abonoteichus").

According to Lucian of Samosata, in his satirical essay Alexander or the False Prophet, Glycon was an elaborate fraud concocted by one Alexander of Abonoteichus, who used a live snake, a human-appearing prop head, and adroit puppetry to convince gullible Paphlagonians that the god -- purportedly a reincarnation of Asclepius -- was giving them oracles. Charging a drachma and two obols per oracular response, Alexander became quite wealthy, and he even secured Rutilianus, governor of the province of Asia, as his son-in-law.

Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com | Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

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