The Worm of Autumn

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"The Worm of Autumn is the harbinger of death, and death comes to us all. Us mortals, that is. How can one leave the acceptance of that? What would be the point?"

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Zuni

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Johann Heinrich Füssli - Satan flieht, von Ithuriels Speer berührt

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Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6-9, 1945

A melted statue of the Buddha

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Illustration of The Horned Women, collected in Joseph Jacobs’ Celtic Fairy Tales.1892 by John D. Batten

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LEMOYNE, François Hercules and Omphale 1724 Oil on canvas, 184 x 149 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris

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Keiss Castle by SkylerBrown

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Note the baetylus, square incense altar and a ram. Inscription in Latin alphabet. Also absence of a caduceus but presence of two palm trees/pillars. Stele of Tanit 

 Museum of Nabeul

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Statue group of a satyr, a maenad, and Eros Roman Late Imperial Period 3rd–4th century A.D.

MFA

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Witches scene by Laszlo Neogrady (1900-1962)

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot

The Muse: History, c. 1865, oil on canvas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Head of Saint John the Baptist

Sculptor: Alonso Cano (1601-1667)

Granada Cathedral, Spain

[Vintage postcard, ca. 1908]

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In 1809, during the Battle of Cegar, Serbian revolutionaries were attacked by Turkish forces near the city of Nis. Rather than be captured and impaled by the Turks, Serbian leader Stevan Sinđelić ignited a powder magazine with his pistol, killing himself along with all the Serbian rebels and Turkish soldiers around him. The turks skinned Sinđelić and his men, then built a tower and embedded their skulls in the walls.

Originally there were 952 skulls, but many have been removed and buried or stolen by souvenir hunters. Today there are only 54 skulls remaining. The one enclosed in a glass container is said to belong to Sinđelić.

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Scarab Inscribed with a Crouching Ibex, Egyptian Art

Rogers Fund, 1911 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Steatite

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