The language of birds is very ancient, and like other ancient modes of speech, very elliptical; little is said, but much is meant and understood.
— Gilbert White, from Letter XLIII, Selborne, 9 September 1778, The Natural History of Selborne (1789)
Frans Snyders 1630s
“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
F. Dostoevsky
“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
Rizwan Saddique
“What would an ocean be without a monster lurking in the dark? It would be like sleep without dreams.”
― Werner Herzog
Fingal’s Cave, Island Of Staffa, Scotland, 1884-85
Thomas Moran
The Tree at Benevento, the Gathering Place of Witches
Giuseppe Pietro Bagetti
early 19th c.
Based on folklore of Benevento being the gathering place of Italian witches
Congratulations to THE CARS for their
#RockHall2018
induction. In memory of the beautiful Benjamin Orr who passed away in 2000 due to pancreatic cancer.
Electric angel rock and roller
I hear what you're playin'
Dweller on the Threshold 1915
Arthur B. Davies
Avant-garde painting portraying the ethereal "guardian of the threshold" of esoteric traditions.
She is standing before a mirror therefore it becomes clear that the ambiguous landscape is not in front of us but rather behind us.
In the Book of Enoch, Mount Hermon is the place where the Watcher class of fallen angels descended to Earth to take wives among the daughters of men. Their offspring were known as the Nephilim. The summit of Mount Hermon is on the border between Syria & Lebanon.
#FolkloreThursday
“Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. ”
― Lord Byron
#BOTD
art from Carl Jung's Red Book