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HASTUR

by R-one studio

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Josef Liesler (1912-2005)—Between Heaven and Earth [oil, hardboard, 1975]

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The Sun on April 23, 2024 // Steven Christensen

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Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park

1960-64

Denys Lasdun & Partners

http://www.modernistlondon.co.uk/lasdun-mini-guide.html

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“Self-castration was a one-way road to ritual impersonation. In the mystery religions, which influenced Christianity, the devotee imitated and sought union with his god. The priest of the Great Mother changed sex in order to become her. Transsexualism was the severe choice, transvestism less so. In ceremonies at Syracuse, men were initiated in Demeter’s purple robe. In ancient Mexico, a woman representing the goddess was flayed and her skin put on by a male priest. The Great Mother’s eunuch priest was called “she.” Thus after Catullus’ Attis castrates himself, the pronouns shift from masculine to feminine. Today, etiquette requires one to refer to the urban drag queen as “she,” even when he is in male dress.”

– Camile Paglia, Sexual Personae 

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“Dionysus, Apollo’s antagonist and rival, is not among Homer’s Olympians, though he is the son of Zeus. The Apollonian Olympians, I said, are eye-gods. Dionysus represents obliteration of the western eye. Heir to the Great Mother of chthonian nature, he is, with Osiris, the greatest of the dying gods of mystery religion. Out of his worship came two rituals of enormous impact on western culture, tragic drama and Christian liturgy.”

– Camile Paglia, Sexual Personae

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Philosophy This is my philosophy: That philology is superior to philosophy. That etymology reveals more than epistemology. That aesthetics is supreme over ethics. That mythology is more important than "religion". That anthropology tells us more about ourselves than theology. That priests, poets, and politicians have weaponized "truths" far better than any philosopher could have ever dreamed (and oh how they dreamed/and oh how they tried...). That moral and metaphysical "truths" are just byproducts of blood and symbols––forever in a state of flux and forever at war.

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from inside a cave in the Ozarks in totality

l Joshua Kwekel l Ozark National Forest

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Equilibrium (2002)

Costume Design: Joseph Porro

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"In the great ages, man had vital relation with man, with woman: and beyond that, with the cow, the lion, the bull, the cat, the eagle, the beetle, the serpent. And beyond these, with narcissus and anemone, mistletoe and oak-tree, myrtle, olive, and lotus. And beyond these with humus and slanting water, cloud-towers and rainbow and the sweeping sun-limbs. And beyond that, with sun and moon, the living night and the living day. Do you imagine the great realities, even the ram of Amon, are only symbols of something human? Do you imagine the great symbols, the dragon, the snake, the bull, only refer to bits, qualities or attributes of little man? It is puerile. The puerility, the puppyish conceit of modern […] humanity is almost funny. Amon, the great ram, do you think he doesn’t stand alone in the universe, without your permission, oh cheap little man? Just because he’s there, do you think you bred him, out of your own almightiness, you cheap-jack? Amon, the great ram! Mithras, the great bull! The mistletoe on the tree. Do you think, you stuffy little human fool sitting in a chair and wearing lambswool underwear, and eating your mutton and beef under the Christmas decoration, do you think then that Amon, Mithras, mistletoe, and the whole Tree of Life were just invented to contribute to your complacency?"

– D. H. Lawrence, Aristocracy

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Bettina von Arnim — Networking the Fathoms (oil on canvas 1986)

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(NEW) dorado 900 megapixel

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by Reza Afshar