Lord Rust's Remains

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Maxfield Parrish - "Cascades, Quiet Solitude" (1959)

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By Emilia Dziubak

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where are you, max

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Luis Dominguez (1923-2020), ''The House of Secrets'', #125, Nov 1974 Source

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Pascal Blanché

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Canaanite clay plaque dated ca 1400 BC, Late Bronze Age. The figure represents a nude goddess, identified by various names like Astarte (star, queen of stars), Asherah (tree, wooden pole, standing upright), Ellat (the goddess), Kedesh (holy), also mother of the gods, mistress of animals and other epithets. Depicted with the Hathor wig and emphasised pubic triangle, she is adorned with a necklace and holding what are likely papyrus flowers or water lily (lotus) by their long stems.

Part of the collection at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

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Artist: Julia Lillard

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Louis Braquet, “Necromancer,” 2018

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firexit

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The Bab Ballads, 1898

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[fitsofgloom]

I did not realize that the great Zacherley hosted a “Mighty Hercules” cartoon hour on WPIX-11 back in his Big Apple days. That’s one cool ghoul!

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In Greek mythology, Typhon is the ultimate embodiment of volcanic chaos and the deadliest monster to challenge Zeus. Born to Gaia and Tartarus, he is characterized by a colossal dual nature: a muscular human torso that transitions below into a mass of writhing, coiled vipers instead of legs. His hands end in clusters of living, fire-spitting serpent heads, and his jaw is capable of breathing devastating sheets of flame, elements that ancient Greeks used to allegorically explain the destructive, scorching forces of nature. Due to his chaotic rebellion against the gods, he was ultimately defeated by Zeus's thunderbolts and imprisoned beneath Mount Etna, linking his eternal, trapped fury directly to volcanic eruptions. Historically, Typhon was heavily conflated with Set, the Egyptian deity of dark chaos and storms, which explains the symbolic crocodile appearing at his feet.

This specific engraving comes from Willem Goeree’s Mosaize historie der Hebreeuwse Kerke, published in Amsterdam in 1700, where Typhon is analyzed not merely as a classical myth, but as a pagan, historical reflection of biblical evil and the Fall.

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The student's room. The pink fairy book. 1897. Illustrated by H.J. Ford.

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