“Adam and Eve Eating the Forbidden Fruit” (detail), Willem Vrelant, early 1460s. Open content by The J. Paul Getty Museum.
Place: Bruges, Belgium (Place Created)
Date: early 1460s
Medium: Tempera colors, gold leaf, and ink on parchment
Object Number: Ms. Ludwig IX 8 (83.ML.104), fol. 137
Dimensions: Leaf: 25.6 × 17.3 cm (10 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.)
Alternate Title: Arenberg Hours (Group Title)
The serpent or dragon coiling along a central axis is a rather recurring image around the world:
The Hesperides in the garden. Here the apples are on a tree, and the dragon Ladon looks more like a single-headed serpent.
London E 224, Attic red figure hydria, ca. 410-400 B.C.
Photograph courtesy of the Trustees of the British Museum, London via perseus.tufts.edu.
Alleged sami drum from Sweden. Depicted in Olof Rudbeck den äldre's book Atlantica (1689); later metioned in Ernst Manker's Die lappische Zaubertrommel (1938); pages 35-38. Drum lost, or no present location known.
Public Domain by Manker (1938); Huge collection of Sámi drums here.
A világfa (world tree) erected in Gödöllő, Pest, Budapest metropolis. CC-BY-SA by Zizzi via Wikimedia Commons.
Caduceus. Public Domain.
Rod of Asclepius. by CatherinMunro. CC BY-SA.
Stone Libation Vase of Gudea, Patesi of Lagash (c. 2350 B.C.). From Jastrow, Morris Aspects of religious belief and practice in Babylonia and Assyria, 1911 G.P. Putnam's Sons, Pl. 4. A votive offering to the god Ningishzida. The elaborately sculptured design consists of two serpents entwined around a staff, backed by two fantastic figures, winged monsters with serpents’ heads and tails ending in a scorpion’s sting. Green steatite. Found at Telloh and now in the Louvre. See De Sarzec, Decouvertes, Pl. 44, Fig. 2, and pp. 234-236; Heuzey, Catalogue, pp. 280-284.
Fig. 64. Left: Single time frame at pinch of six plasma filaments. Center: Helical pattern from line tracing of filaments. Right: Portion of engraved bone from a site in France, presumably from the Magdalenian culture. The section shown is about 1/5 the length of the bone, which is found together with two other bones, display most of the plasma-column instability evolution. Engraved bone photo courtesy of D. Cordova.
Christmas Tree
"Jacob's Dream" by William Blake. 1805, pen and ink and water colour. 37 x 29.2 cm. Catalog Butlin 438.
Olmec Stone Rod Depicting a Jaguar-Headed Snake - PF.6188
Origin: Mexico
Circa: 900 BC to 300 BC
Dimensions: 15.25" (38.7cm) high
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Stone
Via Barakat Gallery.
Origin: Mexico
Circa: 900 BC to 300 BC
Dimensions: 15.25" (38.7cm) high
Collection: Pre-Columbian
Medium: Stone
Via Barakat Gallery.
Photo of experimental plasma lab instability: "Kink occurs when the central column becomes sufficiently long to satisfy instability condition", from the presentation, "Simulating Astrophysical Jets in the Laboratory" Courtesy Prof. Paul Bellan, KTTP & Caltech. Via Thunderbolts
"Relief with Phanes" ca. 2nd Century A.D. Modena, Museo Civico Archeologico. The first bestower of life in the universe, Phanes emerged from the cosmic egg at the beginning of time. For the adepts of Orphism he represents a new era of salvation: the band of the zodiac symbolises eternal time, while the serpent entwined around it represents the rapid course of human time. Via Museo Galileo.
The Phoenix~leopardsnow
Turris Babel, Athanasius Kircher
Athanasius Kircher. Ars magna lucis, 1665
Alchemy
Hermes Trismegistus, by Johfra. Hermes Trismegistus is the purported author of the Hermetic Corpus, a series of sacred texts that are the basis of Hermeticism. Likely a syncretic combination of…
Alchemical Illustration – Bodleian, MS. Ash. Rolls 52. Detail of George Ripley (c1415-1490). Alchemical Roll. 16th/17th century.
Airesis. Ars Regia
Clavis Artis, Tav. 2
Alchemical scroll
Birth of the Philosopher's Stone. An illustration from the book "The Follies of Science at the Court of Rudolph II, 1576-1612" published in 1904, written by Henry Carrington Bolton. Not in copyright.
Via flickr.com
Petroglyphs. Sears Point Archaeology Site. Yuma County, AZ, USA. © chris_crssd via Flickr.
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