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Various depictions of the demon queen Lilith by the artist Iren Horrors.
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November 30, 2023 at 9:20 AM
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Amongst the overgrown gardens of Fureai Sekibutsu no Sato in Japan lurk over 800 statues of human figures - a mixture of Buddhist deities & friends of entrepreneur Mutsuo Furukawa who commissioned them ...
📷Ken Ohki
April 4, 2024 at 6:08 PM
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"The Book of Taliesin" is a collection of medieval Welsh poetry allegedly by the 6th-century bard Taliesin. The Narrator claims to be the spirit of poetic inspiration, who has seen all of history, including the events of the Bible and Welsh folklore.
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The Book of Taliesin
October 19, 2023 at 12:48 PM
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The daily hashtags that get used across the social media platforms are #MythologyMonday #FairytaleTuesday #WyrdWednesday #LegendaryWednesday #FolkloreThursday #TempleThursday #FolkyFriday #FolkloreSunday at least that I use. There are others, too, but I'm less regular on them or don't do them.
September 9, 2024 at 2:11 PM
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Mayan & Aztec Priests wore headdresses made from beautiful, rare feathers of birds such as Quetzal, Cotinga & Kingfisher of the Central American rainforests as the birds were believed to be able to soar up towards the gods ...
📷St Louis Art Museum & WeltMuseum Vienna
May 9, 2024 at 3:44 PM
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"Should twenty thousand dragons rise,
I'd fight them all before your eyes!
And now I'll slay the Dragon,
My wonders to begin,
A fell and fiery Dragon he, But I will clip his wing."

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📷Plaque found in the grounds of @NorwichCastle
February 29, 2024 at 3:31 PM
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Having spent the first four decades of his life in the world as a Crusader and warrior, Brother Cadfael became a monk at Shrewsberry Abbey as its herbalist; his unique background make him ideal to solve obscure and obscene crimes at the height of England's Anarchy #TempleThursday
Derek Jacobi, who played Brother Cadfael in the BBC adaptation; I've started reading the series and he does not fit my reckoning of Cadfael at all, but the series still rocks
May 16, 2024 at 11:45 AM
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Though many people claim that King Arthur sleeps in Avalon, others theorize that Arthur and his warriors sleep in a cavern deep underground, or that Arthur's ghost leads the Wild Hunt across the sky, or that he has been reincarnated as a raven watching Britain.
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British raven
October 26, 2023 at 9:20 AM
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Margaret the Demon by the artist Iren Horrors.
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An elegant demon by Iren Horrors
November 30, 2023 at 11:21 AM
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Many of the pre-Christian cultures of Britain placed their dead inside cairns or megalithic tombs. The later Christians feared these tombs, often imagining them as the enchanted halls of fairies or the lairs of dragons, many of which were inspired by pagan gods.

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Megalithic tomb in Britain
October 26, 2023 at 8:12 AM
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In one Welsh legend, King Arthur discovered an altar floating in the ocean, and unsuccessfully tried to use it as a table. When Arthur realized the altar belonged to St. Carannog, he returned it in exchange for the saint ridding the land of a troublesome dragon.
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A statue of St. Carannog in Llangrannog, Wales
February 29, 2024 at 7:26 PM
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In one Welsh legend, King Arthur discovered an altar floating in the ocean, and unsuccessfully tried to use it as a table. When Arthur realized the altar belonged to St. Carannog, he returned it in exchange for the saint ridding the land of a troublesome dragon.
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Statue of Saint Carannog in Llangrannog, Wales
December 7, 2023 at 9:08 AM
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Religious works by Marc Chagall - The Crucifixion - Abraham and the Three Angels - Dream of Jacob ...
April 11, 2024 at 5:33 PM
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For centuries, estates in Europe had garden hermits, men who were paid to stay on site and live as a recluse on estate land, living in anything from a hut to a chapel. These garden hermits were for novelty but also provided advice. #TempleThursday #FolkloreThursday
A garden hermit emerging from his hut of dirt and stones in a German depiction, dressed in a toga, shielding his eyes from the morning light
July 6, 2023 at 3:00 PM
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According to the Red Book of Hergest, while engaged on a quest Arthurian knights Cai & Bedwyr consult various animal "Ancients of the World" before being assisted by the oldest and wisest of them all - the one-eyed Salmon of Knowledge of Llyn Llyw ...
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March 7, 2024 at 3:27 PM
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The 6th-century British saint Cadog supposedly performed a miracle on the collar bone of the dead Pictish king Caw to bring him back to life. Caw claimed to have been suffering the fires of Hell, and so converted to Christianity. He later fathered St. Gildas.
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Statue of St. Cadog as represented at Belz in Brittany
January 18, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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A nunnery was one of the few places a woman could go in the Middle Ages to receive an academic education. It's why in "Le Morte d'Arthur," King Arthur's sister Morgan le Fay learns her sorcery from being raised in a nunnery.

🎨Frederic Sandys
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Painting by Frederic Sandys of Morgan le Fay casting her sorcery
November 9, 2023 at 5:02 PM
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Revered by both the Shinto and Buddhist religions, Inari is the Japanese goddess of agriculture and fertility. According to myth, she first arrived in Japan riding on the back of a white fox, and benevolent foxes known as zenko continue to be her messengers. #TempleThursday

📷: Levi Meir Clancy
Statue of a fox holding a scroll outside Fushimi Inari-taisha, a Shinto shrine in the Japanese city of Kyoto
April 4, 2024 at 11:49 AM
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In the "Divine Comedy: Paradiso," Dante sees the blessed souls in Heaven arranged in the shape of an immense white rose that shines with God's light. The queen of the rose is the Virgin Mary, who in Catholic symbolism is often represented by a rose herself.
🎨 Gustave Dore
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Gustave Dore's depiction of Dante and St. Bernard staring at Heaven's White Rose, from Dore's illustrations of Dante's "Divine Comedy: Paradiso"
February 1, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098 - 1179) was a German Benedictine abbess, also known as a writer, composer, philosopher, physician, and mystic. She founded scientific natural history in Germany. Hildegard is venerated as a patron saint of writers and musicians.
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Medieval illumination of St. Hildegard sitting in her nunnery as red tendrils of energy reach down towards her, symbolizing her divine vision.
November 9, 2023 at 4:09 PM
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The ruins of various buildings from many time periods have been found on Glastonbury Tor, England. Famously, two coffins were allegedly uncovered in the 12th-century that claimed to be those of King Arthur and Guinevere. Some people claim that the Tor inspired legends of Avalon.
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A photo of Glastonbury Tor
December 14, 2023 at 4:32 PM
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In 1419 a Ming treasure voyage returned to China with a qilin (or Kirin), a symbol of prosperity and Heaven's blessings. The Yongle Emperor downplayed this for two reasons: he did not want an excess of gifts, and because he likely knew it was a giraffe. #TempleThursday

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The "Qilin" as recorded by Ming artist Shen Du, a very well made portrait showing that this is clearly a giraffe. As my 15th century Chinese is not good, I cannot translate the text.
May 2, 2024 at 1:54 PM
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"God of concrete, God of steel,
God of piston and of wheel,
God of pylon, God of steam,
God of girder and of beam,
God of atom, God of mine,
All the world of power is thine!"
- Reverend Richard G. Jones, "God of Concrete, God of steel" (a British Methodist hymn)
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October 19, 2023 at 7:49 AM
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In ancient Greece, the Gorgoneion was a special amulet or symbol that depicted Medusa's head, and was said to protect people from evil. It appears frequently on classical Greek art, and is a reference to the goddess Athena, who wore Medusa's severed head on her breastplate.
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The Winged Gorgoneion from Olympia, originally an apotropaic shield decoration
October 12, 2023 at 2:35 PM
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The Three Wise Men who appear to Jesus are often named Caspar, Melchior, and Balthazar. Their ages are sometimes retrospectively 60, 40, and 20 (to represent the Three Ages of Man) and their places of origin respectively Asia, Europe, and Africa (to represent the known continents).
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A painting by El Greco of the three Wise Men adoring the Baby Jesus
January 4, 2024 at 9:44 AM