Month: June 2014

The cave is not simply a metaphor for the realm of the dead, although it grants access to that realm among others. Neither is it an allegory for the fertility of the earth, although again it includes such meaning. The cave, whether a man-made hole or a natural grotto, is an inclusive symbol of containment. It contains not a part of the other world, but all of it. Within such a cave are granted visions of the entire Universe, and a complete cast of supernatural beings are encountered.

Jake Stratton-Kent via When We Met The Neighbours: The Whisky Rant (Part 7)

mini-girlz:

Two Hellenistic terracotta female figures 
Circa 3rd-1st Centuries B.C.
One a figure of Venus, of Anadyomene type, standing naked, the weight on her left leg, the right leg slightly bent, her arms raised in the act of arranging her hair, circa 3rd-2nd Century B.C., 11in (28cm), repaired with some restoration; the other figure draped in a chiton with a himation over her shoulders and caught under her left arm, her hair centrally-parted and dressed with a diadem, with curls falling at the shoulders, standing on the remains of a reel-shaped base, a large vent behind, some white slip remaining, circa 1st Century B.C., 10½in

(26.7cm) high

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