... and lost Eurydice forever

The Archangel Michael vanquishing Satan but make it yaoi, based off Riccardo Quartararo’s painting.

Two Friends Discuss Angels

anatomy of a comet by oscar woodiwiss

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The skull of the Magdalene at St Maximin in France

angel plumbers

The Christian Martyrs (1871)

— by Gustave Doré

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I’ve collected quite a few vintage dragons – see what treasures they’re guarding!

think this has to be one of my favourite headlines of anything ever

The best thing about that article is that there gets to be a point where you’re like surely. Surely we can’t get sexier and less-martyr-y than this. And that point is about a 3rd of the way through the piece.

Adding one of my faves not included in the article:

Nicolas Régnier (1591–1667) Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irène, c.1625,

Saint Sebastian, Juan Carreno de Miranda, 1656

saw this on Twitter and started laughing so hard I had to stop walking to cough up a lung I've never been this hysterical in my life

Alexander Girard, Shadowbox with crosses, 1960-69. © Alexander Hayden Girard. Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Key of the Tarot: there are four suits, wands, caps, swords, coins or pentacles, corresponding to the four cardinal points of Heaven, and the four living creatures or symbolic signs and numbers and letters formed in a circle; then the seven planetary signs, with the indication of their repetition signified by the three colours, to symbolize the natural world, the human world and the divine world, whose hieroglyphic emblems compose the twenty-one trumps of our Tarot. In the centre of the ring may be perceived the double triangle forming the Star or Seal of Solomon. It is the religious and metaphysical triad analogous to the natural triad of universal generation in the equilibrated substance. Around the triangle is the cross which divides the circle into four equal parts, and thus the symbols of religion are united to the signs of geometry; faith completes science, and science acknowledge faith. By the aid of this key one can understand the universal symbolism of the ancient world, and note its striking analogies with our dogmas. One will thus recognize that the divine revelation is permanent in nature and humanity.

A fun meme for y'all

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Pog as slang comes from the twitch emote, taken from a video with pogs in them. What is a pog? A small cap from a juice drink that is traded and used in games by 90s kids. The juice drink was called POG, short for passion fruit orange guava. Passion fruit was named after its flower, the passion flower. Passion flowers were called "flower of the five wounds" in Portuguese, eventually being translated as passion fruit by the English in reference to the passion of Jesus, aka his last moments alive before being crucified.

I love history, language, words, communication, and humans.

Greek mythology paintings by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)

Ishtar Bruce Pennington Inanna: Ishtar Sumerian Mother Goddess