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Unicorn puppet created by Gergő Lengyel and Filmefex Studio for Death Of a Unicorn.
Video Source : Stan Winston school of character arts Facebook page
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"Girl Carrying Bull (Europa)" from Belarusian artist Vladimir Fokanov.
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Studies show that engaging in ritualized behavior significantly improves outcomes on measures of grief and feelings of control, even when the person participating in the ritual has little or no belief in the ritual’s power. Just a reminder for no one in particular.
Research has revealed that, while rituals are universal across human cultures, the content and actions of those rituals vary widely even when they have the same intended purpose. This suggests that it is not the actions that matter, but that you are taking any action at all and naming it ritual. It can be an elaborate ritual with dozens of moving parts and participants, or it can be as simple as lighting a candle alone with the intent to remember someone.
The healing is in the doing.
Greco-Roman curse doll
2nd century CE
I had the opportunity recently to revisit an interesting artifact at the Louvre. It is a small nude female figurine with hands and feet boun
Pencil, ink crayon, ink, and I think some gouache and paint marker?? on paper.
The Deified Elagabalus holds their severed mortal head. Obviously I looked at a lot of Beardsley to draw this. I am never not looking at a lot of Beardsley though. You can buy a print of this one here. Oh no wait, I've not listed it! I've just been taking them to cons. Well, I guess you'll be able to buy a print of this from the aforementioned "when I get around to listing it". lol
Oyster mermaid~
ah fuck, so sorry ma’am-
In her last years, along with her sons, daughters and grandchildren, she added at least 16 tigers to Ranthambore’s population. What would have happened to Ranthambore without her is unimaginable, but she rode out the crisis years, and finally handed the prime range of the lake areas to her daughters to fight it out. She moved several kilometres away to lead the last years of her life. Her teeth were worn out — one was broken, and as the years rolled by, she lost all of them and still managed on occasions to kill and eat deer. Though she was helped by the park management, I still could not believe her ability to survive. By the end of 2015, she was the world’s longest living wild tigress. I saw her in early 2016, scaling a mud wall with such surety — it was just astonishing. Twice in her last year of life, she walked back to her original range of the lakes, spending a week each time at her old haunts. Few other tigers fought with her. They seemed to accept the fact that she was the grand old lady of the lakes.
— Valmik Thapar, “The Machli I Knew: Remembering the grand old dame of Ranthambore National Park”
The turn of the century was very troubling for tigers. Big hauls of tiger skins were reported across India and the booming illegal trade in China had put a price on every tiger’s head. It was in this climate that Machli conceived her first litter. There was a severe drought in 2002 and most of the lakes were drying out; it was at this time that the tiger–crocodile conflict was at its peak. One hot afternoon, while Machli and her cubs fed on a sambar deer, an enormous crocodile tried to join the feast. Machli’s devotion to her cubs was legendary, and to protect her food and her cubs, she raced towards the 12-feet crocodile. Her ferocity was unimaginable and the battle lasted nearly an hour. Machli smashed its head with her powerful paws — the crocodile died a slow death but Machli had rewritten the natural history of tigers for the world to see. It was the first recorded encounter of a fight between these two predators and remains etched in the annals of natural history. Fateh Singh had been proven right — she became a star as several BBC documentaries recorded her life. She was the tigress of the lake and entertained every visitor with her unruffled demeanour. More than anything else, she stirred the soul of those who saw her. Her base for herself and all her litters was the ruined Mughal summer palace at Rajbagh on whose balconies she lazed and watched the world go by. Today, her daughters do much the same.
In Ranthambore, tigers lounge in ancient forts, hunt around heritage lakes and have their meal under centuries-old domes
David Hoskins - “The Inauguration of Isobel Gowdie”
Robert Budzinski has the right idea.
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A Roman figure of Isis-Fortuna, ca.1st century AD, bronze, 18.3 cm
Private Collection (Sotheby's, London)
Don Quijote x Mœbius
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Prehistoric Headdress from Britain, c.8000 BCE: this 10,000-year-old headdress was crafted from the skull and antlers of a red deer
This headdress was discovered at Star Carr, which is an archaeological site located in North Yorkshire. More than 30 other deer-skull headdresses (also known as frontlets) have been unearthed at the same site, all dating back to the Mesolithic period, c.9000-8000 BCE.
Above: one of the other headdresses from Star Carr
According to this article:
The most famous of the Star Carr finds are the enigmatic headdresses crafted from deer skulls, with holes drilled into them and parts of the antlers removed. Some headdresses are smaller than others, and could have been worn by children.
The headdresses are uncommon artefacts, with only three similar objects known elsewhere (in Germany), which raises the question of why there are so many at Star Carr.
Above: deer-skull headdress from Star Carr
The holes that were carved into each skull were likely used to secure the headdress onto the wearer's head.
Above: another frontler from Star Carr
The purpose and significance of these artifacts remains unclear. Some experts believe that they were worn as hunting disguises, while others argue that they served a ceremonial purpose. Those two theories may not be mutually exclusive, as this author points out:
The initial dichotomised interpretations offered by Dr. Graham Clark as to the frontlets’ purpose have characterised their discussion for the vast majority of the latter 20th century as either a shamanic headdress or a hunting disguise. More recently, however, researchers have critiqued this dichotomy, noting that many hunter-gatherer worldviews afford little meaningful distinction between functional and symbolic actions.
It can be argued that as shamans are widely regarded as playing a key role in negotiating human/animal relations and hunting luck, an artefact which aids the corporeal transformation of a human body into that of a deer could be used in both capacities interchangeably. Certainly, the contexts into which the frontlets were being deposited at Star Carr suggests that a complex set of meanings were attached to them.
Sources & More Info:
The British Museum: Headdress
Current Archaeology: A Survival Story: Prehistoric Life at Star Carr
Star Carr Volume Two: Studies in Technology, Subsistence and Environment: Antler Frontlets
Star Carr Archaeological Project: Antler Headdresses
York Archaeology: Mesolithic Marvels: Conserving the Star Carr Headdresses
PLoS One: Technological Analysis of the World’s Earliest Shamanic Costume
Archaeologica Baltica: The Cult of the Deer and "Shamans" in Deer-Hunting Societies