Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
George Orwell (via therealbornfree)
Month: December 2013
Manuel Orazi (Italian, 1860-1934)
Calendrier Magique, text by Austin de Croze, 1895
Pentagrams, Stars of David, Satan as a goat, seals with Aztec faces, naked women at Sabbat…
No one knows why this calendar was created for the year 1896, or if the rituals it describes were real or imagined.
The address on the cover is the birthplace of Art Nouveau, Samuel Bing’s Paris shop where great artists like Les Nabis would meet and display their work.
http://anubis4_2000.tripod.com/Symbolicon/CalindrierMagique/CalendrierPortal.htm
Ave Babalon
Freyja by Zachary Zimmerman
Finally finished this last night. Took a Hel of a long time.
Graphite on paper.
A.L. Aubert
Baba-Yaga
1898
Head. Plaster painted. 31 x 33 x 32
The state Russian Museum
“Mouth puller”. In Medieval times these were placed at doorways and windows to scare off evil spirits (and discourage intruders). This one can be found at St. Louis School Dundalk, in Ireland.