Mare Nostrum

Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea

[7pleiades7]

A Water Baby, (Detail), (c. 1895), by Herbert James Draper (English, 1863 – 1920), oil on canvas, diameter: 68.5 cm (26.9 in), Manchester Art Gallery

[abgael661]

[nobrashfestivity]

Irving Penn (1917–2009), Ginkgo Leaves, New York, 1990. Dye transfer print. Image/sheet: 22¾ x 19½ in (57.8 x 49.5 cm). This work is from an edition of twenty-two.

[oathtoblood]

“Odin is god of men: the men, living and dead, of the werewolf brotherhoods. He is god of the Männerbund, of the Wild Army, the standard features of which are the cult of the dead, animal transformations, and orgiastic rites.”

— Kris Kershaw, One Eyed God

[memories-of-ancients]

Axe head, Scandinavia, 11th-12th century

from The MET

[chou-chous]

chou-chous //

[allthingseurope]

Toledo, Spain

[tinyuglyworld]

Udmurtia, western Russia

[sabinerondissime]

[portalibis]

Labyrinth on the portico of the cathedral of San Martino at Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

"Here is the labyrinth which the Cretan Daedalus built, from which no one who entered could ever find the way out, for inside it the Minotaur devoured them, and it was closed by Ariadne’s thread."

[gacougnol]

André Steiner Lily 1933

[pam3pr]

Two thousand year old Thracian chariot with horse skeletons - found in Karanovo, Bulgaria - 2008

[memories-of-ancients]

Head of a ceremonial war hammer, France or Italy, circa 1550-1625

from The MET

[sergeyvoloshin]

GEORGIA, Svaneti, September 2014

[illustratus]

Jason and the Argonauts by Poly Bernatene

[urbnite]

[die-rosastrasse]

Architecture of Prague is truly mesmerizing

My photography, November 2025