Used to be #TempleThursday a themed hashtag for posts about religion. Presently doing themes for #WordsOnWednesday. Art, literature and folklore are welcome.
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"I always thought unicorns were fabulous monsters, too! I never saw one alive before!"
"Well, now that we have seen each other," said the Unicorn, "if you'll believe in me, I'll believe in you. Is that a bargain?"
- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass"
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ALT Alice meets the Lion and the Unicorn in Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass." Illustration by John Tenniel.
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"Why do the leaves never fall here, or the snow? I tell you, there is one unicorn left in the world... and as long as it lives in this forest, there won't be a hunter takes so much as a titmouse home at his saddle."
- Peter S. Beagle, "The Last Unicorn"
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ALT The Unicorn stares at the moon. An image from the animated movie adaptation of Peter S. Beagle's "The Last Unicorn."
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"And a figure of pure fantasy has also broken through from Elidor ... Findhorn is a unicorn, with which ‘no man (may) mell’, according to the prophecy, save a ‘makeless maid’."
A review of Elidor. #YAFiction #WordsOnWednesday
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“The Unicorn ~ the wild, white, fierce, chaste Moon, whose two horns, unlike those of mortal creatures, are indissolubly twisted into one.”
Robert Brown Jr., The Unicorn: A Mythological Investigation (1881).
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This week, the theme for #WordsOnWednesday is the unicorn. What words of wisdom do we have about this glorious mythical creature?
(Illustration: the Hampton Court Unicorn)
This week, the theme for #WordsOnWednesday is the unicorn. What words of wisdom do we have about this glorious mythical creature?
(Illustration: the Hampton Court Unicorn)
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“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”
― Oscar Wilde, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray'
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"Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore
semper laus eius in ore meo"
Psalm 33:2 Gallican Psalter
Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque d'Amiens Ms. 18; The Corbie Psalter with canticles and litanies; 9th century; France N (Corbie, abbaye Saint-Pierre); f.28v @GallicaBnF
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“For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World (1851).
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“ She turned her back upon the throne where, well she knew, the Ruler of the Dead, Lord of her body and being.” – A. D. Hope, The Return of Persephone.
Led by Hermes Persephone, Queen of the Underworld and Hades’ lover, leaves them both to return to her mother.
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In Greek mythology the River Styx separates the Underworld and the world of the living. Charon the ferry man transports the souls of the dead across the river Styx, from this earthly world to the Underworld.
🖼️Félix Resurrección Hidalgo.
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“ She turned her back upon the throne where, well she knew, the Ruler of the Dead, Lord of her body and being.” – A. D. Hope, The Return of Persephone.
Led by Hermes Persephone, Queen of the Underworld and Hades’ lover, leaves them both to return to her mother.
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“For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, On the Suffering of the World (1851).
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O, Prince of exile to whom wrong has been done,
who, vanquished, always recovers more strongly,
O Satan, take pity on my long misery!
You who know everything, king of the #underworld ...
Charles Baudelaire #Poetry #WordsOnWednesday
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The glory days of the 1950s—1970s when writers like John Updike, Cheever and Raymond Carver made a living selling short stories are sadly fading into the past. But one day things will surely turn. The electronic will be boring and using our brains will once again be de rigueur.
Our theme for #WordsOnWednesday this week is - underworld. The underworld is often a subject for the arts and for mythology.
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“Thus gnosis cannot be acquired through one’s own efforts, but is granted by God. Like other Sufi authors, Tustarī understands maʿrifa to be the experiential, mystical apprehension of God or of the divine mysteries. He also extends gnosis to include the inner meanings of the Qurʾān, and to the signs or portents of God in creation and within the human being.”
— Dr. Annabel Keeler
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Al-Tustari, Sahl. Tafsir Al-Tustari: The Great Commentaries on the Holy Qur’an Series Volume IV. Translated by Annabel Keeler and Ali Peter Keeler. Louisville: Fons Vitae.
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In the Middle East and Islamic world, jinn hauntings are way more common than ghosts. And unlike ghosts, jinn are far more cunning attaching themselves to a place, person, object, or even lineage with subtle and unnerving appearances.
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ALT Winged jinn descending on sleeping man
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1st November is All Saints' Day: here is Christ in Majesty with saints, nuns, martyrs and confessors.
BL Cotton MS Galba A XVIII; The Æthelstan Psalter; 9th century; f.21r @BLMedieval
