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by Svetlana Rumak
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Magic scroll
Ethiopia
Early 19th century
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One-eyed Odin with his two ravens Huginn (from Old Norse ”thought”) and Muninn (Old Norse “memory” or “mind”)
From the 18th century Icelandic manuscript SAM 66 in the care of the Árni Magnússon Institute in Iceland
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Italie du Nord
Tarot dit de Charles VI : La Lune Fin du XVe sièclePosted on August 20, 2010 via COULEURS with 69 notes
Source: yama-bato
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Page 21 of Computus Runicus
Posted on August 20, 2010 via DCCCLXXXVIII with 358 notes
Source: orlan
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Painted 19th century Tibetan mandala of the Naropa tradition, Vajrayogini stands in the center of two crossed red triangles, Rubin Museum of Art
Posted on August 20, 2010 via reblololo.tumblr with 64 notes
Source: reblololo
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by Stefan Eggeler for a 1922 edition of Gustav Meyrink’s Walpurgisnacht
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Early Anglo-French Cards (16th c.)
Posted on March 18, 2010 via Uncertain Times with 44 notes
Source: uncertaintimes
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You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation…and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else.
—Hermann Hesse(via mindsshottogether) (via treehuggingarchitect)Posted on February 22, 2010 via minds shot together with 76 notes
Source: mindsshottogether
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man… I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.
Posted on February 20, 2010 via Caves of Lilith with 22 notes
Source: cavesoflilith
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OTSIR BÖÖ - SHAMAN This is said to be the Mongolian shaman Otsir Böö from Bajangol, standing at the cross-roads of “Kiahta-Urgan near the mountain Mankhatai”. The photograph was taken by Finnish ethnographist, Sakari Pälsi in the 1910s. We are not quite sure of the geographical details. (via Witchcraft - Otsir Böö)
Posted on January 13, 2010 via chanel no. fly with 37 notes
Source: uta.fi
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Star Quilt by Jeanie Tomanek
Painter, illustrator, maker of clocks & teller of tales, who travelled in a house on wheels to the edge of Dartmoor and now sits there amongst books and paint finding beauty in otherness..
This will be a sketchbook of ideas, visuals to inspire, and snippets from my own journey.
http://intothehermitage.blogspot.com
