Month: October 2013

metalonmetalblog:

Sankai Juku group of japanese dancers performing Butoh.

Butoh is the collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement inspired by the Ankoku-Butoh movement. It typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion, with or without an audience. There is no set style, and it may be purely conceptual with no movement at all. Its origins have been attributed to Japanese dance legends Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.

tarot-sybarite:

This 7-card layout provides an excellent source of advice, when you come to a crossroads where you need to make a decision.

The Decision Game spread resembles a fork in the road. The significator shows where you are right now, and the 2 paths indicate 2 possible futures laid out chronologically. If you should choose to do what you are thinking about doing, this path is apparent in the 3 cards on top, #3-1-5. In case you decide not to exercise the option you were thinking about, the bottom row indicates the outcome in Cards #4-2-6.

What I hate is ignorance, smallness of imagination, the eye that sees no farther than its own lashes. All things are possible. Who you are is limited only by who you think you are

Egyptian Book of the Dead  (via flesh-of-burning-love)

paintagram:

“Amenti with the Amadios”

Interior illustration for “Guildhalls of the Deathless”, published by Onyx Path publishing.

Thanks to William Vaughn Tupper and the Boston Public Library for some of the photography used on these.

Thanks to King Diamond & Mercyful Fate for making me sing “AAAAAAAAAAAAH AAAAAAAH EGYYYYYYYPT” for 3 hours straight while working on this series.

vikings-shieldmaiden:

The Valkyries (“Choosers of the Slain”) are beautiful young women, mounted upon winged horses and armed with helmets and spears. Odin needs many brave warriors for the oncoming battle of Ragnarok, and the Valkyries scout the battlefields to choose the bravest of those who have been slain. They escort these heroes, called the Einherjar to Valhalla, Odin’s hall.

The Valkyries are also Odin’s messengers and when they ride forth on their errands, their armor causes the strange flickering light that is called “Aurora Borealis” (Northern Lights).