Month: February 2014

blackpaint20:

The Beast with Seven Heads and Ten Horns, from the Apocalypse

Jean Duvet (French, ca. 1485–after 1561) Engraving

hellenismo:

Aphrodite reproaches Eros.
A Greek parcel gilt silver mirror- circa 2nd- 1st century BC.

larkfall:

Magic book, used by wizards of the Toba Batak tribe, North Sumatra, Indonesia. State Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, The Netherlands [Wikimedia, via Todo Libro Antiquo]

varlys:

Part of Eggjasteinen with runes carved in it, from the Viking age. Found in Sogndal, Norway.

chimneyfish:

The Yellow Cape, 1895

Odilon Redon

systemofaclown:

azspot:

Pat Bagley: World on Fire

Actually, I believe it’s pretty unclear who the good guys and bad guys are in all but the last example.  There are violent protesters and well-meaning civil servants (and vice-versa) in all three cases.

Ave Babalon

gardenofchos:

A fairly important sigil. Would greatly appreciate some help charging it.

ancientpeoples:

Scarab

600 BC

26th Dynasty

(Source: The British Museum)