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Ixaxaar are releasing their final entry of Clavicula Nox, this edition dealing with forms of witchcraft in their most primal state. Nakialtu, Nocturnal Emission, and a few other paintings of mine as well as those of several others accompany the writings of various authors of the aforementioned subject.
For my father’s birthday I gave him rum, a cigar, candles, and a chicken. I had grandma deliever him his gifts and asked her to bring him back for a while, so I could say a few things to him. All in all a very productive evening.
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Aerial Toll Houses Part 2
art by Maruhana-bachi on deviantArt
Aerial toll houses refers to a controversial teaching held by many Eastern Orthodox Saints and Eastern Orthodox Christians, about the immediate state of the soul after death. According to this doctrine, “following a person’s death the soul leaves the body, and is escorted to God by angels. During this journey the soul passes through an aerial realm, which is inhabited by demons. The soul encounters these demons at various points referred to as ‘toll-houses’ where the demons then attempt to accuse it of sin and, if possible, drag the soul into hell.” The Aerial toll house teaching is somewhat similar to ones found in the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Both teachings are concerned with the time period immediately after death and describe the being’s encounters with wrathful deities in various aerial realms.
There is a total of 20 toll houses but the artist has only represented 15 of them. Toll houses in this post:
- Toll-house of remembering evil
- Toll-house of murder
- Toll-house of magic
- Toll-house of lust
- Toll-house of sodomy
- Toll-house of heresy
- Toll-house of unmercifulness
Welcome to Hell: Wicked Sand Demons from Dante’s Inferno by Marco Rizzetto
Dante’s Inferno – welcome to hell, a mixture of culture and amazingly intricate and evil sand sculpture art. Dante Alighieri wrote the 14th-century epic poem in which Inferno, meaning hell in Italian, is the first part of his Divine Comedy. The International Sand Sculpture Festival was held in Venice, Italy, on the beach of Jesolo Lido. The Sultans of Sand Worldwide brought together 18 incredibly talented master sand sculptors from 9 countries. 2,000 tons of sand were used to craft 24 different scenes from the 9 circles of hell in Dante’s Inferno. Some of these wildly wicked sculptures stood over 4 meters (13 feet) high and were built in only 10 days! While professional sand sculptors can carve out both amazing and sometimes bizarre creations, the intricate designs of these giant sand demons make this one of the most mind-blowing, bizarre, and unforgettable International Sand Sculpture Festivals ever. A very special thank you to photographers Marco Rizzetto and Gael Reignier for granting me permission to post their copyrighted pictures that show off all 9 circles of Dante’s Inferno. Get ready to traipse through the nine levels, “circles,” of hell: Limbo, Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Anger, Heresy, Violence, Fraud and Treacher
