“Adam and Eve Eating the Forbidden Fruit” (detail), Willem Vrelant, early 1460s. Open content ..
The world axis, the pillar with a blazing apex, the sacred mount (or castle, where […]
Lettuces of Min at Abydos. CC BY-NC-SA kairoinfo4u via flickr. A similar photo by Mick […]
Cypriot cornelian scarab seal with two lions at Sumerian sacred tree under a winged sun […]
The Paracas Candelabra, also called the Candelabra of the Andes, is a well-known prehistoric geoglyph ..
A priest in prayer before the symbols for Marduk, chief god of Babylon, and Nabu, […]
Genie with a poppy flower. Relief from the Palace of king Sargon II at Dur […]
Plate. Persian, Sasanian, A.D. 225–630 Dimensions: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.) Medium or Technique: Silver-gilt. ..
Rongorongo pictographic signs. The captions in the right-most column are merely descriptive. Self-made. ..
Guishan Guanyin of the Thousand Hands and Eyes in Changsha, China. CC BY-SA by Alexandre […]
Winnemucca Lake petroglyphs. Credit: Benson, Larry V. and Hattori, E.M. and Southon, J. and Aleck, […]
Symbol in a Sami shaman drum. While I don’t really know where this particular one […]
Another “celestial barge”, this one from the final scene of Excalibur (1981). © Orion Pictures ..
John Singer Sargent, Atlas and the Hesperides, 1922-25. Oil on canvas, Diameter, unframed: 120 inches. ..
Thousand Hand Bodhisattva (Guan Yin) (千手观音). Fragment from the movie Samsara by Ron Fricke. © […]
Fig. 102. Symbol of the god Assur surmounting an Assyrian representation of the old Babylonian […]
Madison Belmont Building – Art Deco door by Edgar Brandt. decopix.com
Swedish kurbits folk pattern. Winter Carl Hansson’s painting from 1797 in the Zorn Museum in […]
Near Eastern, Mesopotamian, Assyrian, Neo-Assyrian. 883–612 B.C. Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The Assyrian ..
Jiroft Vase with Tree, Iran 3rd Millennium B.C. Via irangazette.com. It does not appear in […]