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5 days ago · The relationship between text and art is much longer than we can imagine. Upon exploring ancient ruins, archeologists often find combinations of text and images, sometimes reminiscent of present-day comic strips. However, in all these cases, the written word and image are meant to support one another, with either the artwork illustrating the ...
2 days ago · Over the centuries, the term underwent a considerable narrowing-down of its original meaning and eventually, during the Second Sophistic, came to designate the description of works of art. However, ancient ekphrasis, in the broader sense of detailed and lively description, had a rich afterlife throughout the Middle Ages (e.g., in Geoffrey ...
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🍷 Welcome to /r/Dionysus! 🍷 Dionysus (also known as Bacchus, Liber, or Fufluns) is a god of spiritual liberation, political freedom, and ecstatic joy. You may also know him as the god of wine, theatre, festivals, and the wild. He originated in the ancient Mediterranean but today has worshippers all over the world.
6 days ago · Satan. Satan, [a] also known as the Devil, [b] and sometimes also called Lucifer in Christianity, is an entity in Abrahamic religions that seduces humans into sin or falsehood. In Judaism, Satan is seen as an agent subservient to God, typically regarded as a metaphor for the yetzer hara, or "evil inclination".
3 days ago · — Scholar of esotericism Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke The ONA are strongly critical of larger Satanic groups like the Church of Satan and the Temple of Set, whom they deem to be "sham-Satanic" because they embrace the "glamour associated with Satanism" but are "afraid to experience its realness within and external to them". In turn, the Church of Satan has criticised what they alleged was the ...
3 days ago · Broader canon. Bible portal. v. t. e. The Book of Enoch (also 1 Enoch; [a] Hebrew: סֵפֶר חֲנוֹךְ, Sēfer Ḥănōḵ; Ge'ez: መጽሐፈ ሄኖክ, Maṣḥafa Hēnok) is an ancient Hebrew apocalyptic religious text, ascribed by tradition to the patriarch Enoch who was the father of Methuselah and the great-grandfather of Noah.
2 days ago · The Last Man would likely have been a noted text to any readers attentive to the Shelleyan narrative, a text which could certainly have been available to the Brontës. ‘The novel’, Morrison considers, ‘was at the heart of Regency culture, as well-established formulas reached an ever-expanding audiences … women were the main consumers of ...
