Spirals in ancient cultures (part 1). From left to the right, from top to bottom: Malinalco, Mexico - Nine Mile Canyon, Utah - Sarasău, Romania - Thrace, Greece - Newgrange, Ireland - Egypt - Igbo, Nigeria - Sanchi, Madhya Pradesh, India - Ban Chiang, Thailand
Agnes Giberne - The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars.
I was NOT psychologically prepared to read Eisenstein’s screenplay for Ivan the Terrible. There’s a “deleted scene” where Fyodor Basmanov chases a Zemshchina girl who (understandably) thinks he’s trying to sexually assault her until he says “no, I just want your earrings,” then he takes her earrings and and holds them up (I’m going to say probably to his own ears), then his father comes in and takes them away. This emotionally destroyed me for reasons I can’t fully articulate.
I have a folder called Time is a Flat Circle in which I collect evidence of humanity. Here is most of them.
in my island spring is just an illusion, a brief ghost of summer, that conquers winter - while in the rest of the world flowers are blooming, here, the omnipresent sea reminds us that these are its lands of summer and we are subjected with its everchanging moods
Ivan The Terrible Part 1 and 2 + art parallels
“Eagle Over 100,000 Acre Plain at Susaki, Fukagawa” - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857 (detail) // “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” - Hans Holbein the Younger, 1520-22 (detail) // “Portrait of Giuliano de’ Medici” - Sandro Botticelli, 1478 // “The Lamentation over the Dead Christ” - Sandro Botticelli, 1490-92 (detail) // “The Demon Downcast” - Mikhail Vrubel, 1902 (detail) // “Fair Rosamund and Eleanor” - Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1920
i saw the best necromancers of my generation destroyed by lesbian situationships
overgrown bat, occultist, alchemist, aspiring potion maker, least but not last, poet.
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