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I love this…the lotus all around, and goldfish. Goldfish symbolize prosperity, freedom, good fortune. And the lotus symbolizes divine purity and resurrection as it grows from the mud to reach the sun through the water, to become the most beautiful of flowers. -A.
Artist: Victor NIzovtsev
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Siren Song series by Victor Nizovtsev. 1965
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andmymouthisanhourglassofblood:
Odilon Redon. The Smiling Spider
1881 (230 Kb); Charcoal, 49.5 x 39 cm; Musee du Louvre, Paris
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Love, love, love webs…and their makers. :)
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“If ambiguity is the hallmark of the sacred, the role of myths, as René Gerard purports in his La Violence et le Sacré (1972) is to generate differences and contrasts, to distinguish between the two faces of the sacred. Therefore, from the viewpoint of the oldest texts which are true to the spirit of the myth, Medusa is a representation of the Other by virtue of her absolute and terrifying difference. At first sight, her monstrous ugliness and her petrifying stare certainly bear this out.” (source)
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“As well as being the very symbol of ambiguity, Medusa’s head is also one of the most archaic mythical figures, perhaps an echo of the demon Humbaba who was decapitated by Gilgamesh. Everything implies that it is a ‘representation’ of the most meaningful aspect of the sacred. Insofar as it is the role of literature to assume responsibility for the sacred, each era, when confronted with the mystery of the ‘origins’, has re-examined Medusa’s head with its mesmerizing stare as something which conceals the secret of the sacred.” (source)
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Medusa, drawn by
George Patsouras (Blog)
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The Gates of Calypso by Michael Anderson
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