Francisco Goya, Witches in the Air, 1797-1798
Month: July 2013
In Chinese mythology and culture, the three-legged crow is called the Sanzuwu and is responsible for the sun’s passage across the sky.
A three headed monster in an alchemical flask, representing the composition of the alchemical philosopher’s stone: salt, sulphur, and mercury; from Salomon Trismosin’s ‘Splendor solis’. Watercolour painting.
Male combat become cosmic sex war against the Mother (Cohn (R126) . Tiamat and Apsu’s progeny disturb the peace. Apsu plots to smash them but Tiamat objects and he is ‘put to sleep’ by Ea. Later when Marduk again disturbs the gods with his storm winds, Tiamat is persuaded to attack and gathers an army of serpents. Marduk agrees to go to war if he gains kingship over all the other gods. Victorious, he splits Tiamat apart to become the Earth and sky. The patriarchal repression of the Mother Goddess is achieved in the victory of civic order over primal chaos in kingship.
I’ve always been fascinated by the idea of the head of Mimir. It puts Odin firmly in the company of Hermes, Thoth, and other deities that crave knowledge.
It’s why I included Mimir in Of Little Faith. In the story, Odin comes back in the modern age and uses Mimir kind of like his own personal Google.
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Picture: Odin’s Secrets, a painting by Sam Flegal depicting Odin communing with the preserved head of Mimir.
While the revolution will be certainly televised, it strikes me that there is a strong possibility that the revolution will also be crowd-funded.
Alan Moore (via kickstarter)