The head/beginning that is not known..

Osumare is the Lord of all elongated things

Romuald Hazoumè
b. 1962, Republic of Benin
Rainbow Serpent (Dan-Ayido-Houedo)
2007
Mixed media and found objects
Courtesy the artist and October Gallery, London


Oxumaré (Òsùmàrè) é o orixá de todos os movimentos, de todos os ciclos.

Via : " African Cosmos: Stellar Arts shows how the sun, moon, stars, and the phenomena of lightning and rainbows inspired the arts of Africa for thousands of years." 



 

The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right

THEOREM XIX

"The Sun and the Moon shed their corporeal forces upon the bodies of the inferior Elements, much more so than all the other planets. It is this fact which shows, in effect, that in the pyrognomic analysis all metals lose the aqueous humour of the Moon as well as the igneous liquor of the Sun, by which all corporeal, terrestrial, and mortal things are sustained. "

spellwork...

fire walk with me

"Through the darkness of future past 

The magician longs to see. 

One chants out between two worlds 

Fire walk with me."

Vættir .....

Carvings of wights, by Michael Eli
with magickal input from savanna.

The Old Norse term vættir and its english cognate wights
literally mean 'beings' and relate etymologically to other forms
of the verb to be, like was and were.
Vættir and wights normally refer to supernatural 'beings',
especially landvættir (land spirits)
Landvættir (land spirits) are chthonic guardians of specific grounds,
such as wild places or farms. When Norse seafarers approached land,
they reportedly removed their carved dragon heads from the bows of
their longships, so as not to frighten and thus provoke the landvættir to
attack, thereby incur bad luck from them. 

the lies of sensation

Credo quia absurdum est

John Dee the Magician who stormed heaven

a great documentary on the "Astrologer" to Queen Elizabeth
featuring magician Alan Moore among others. It's dramatized
for television, but entertaining nonetheless...


"Such stuff as dreams are made on"

Medea's wondrous alchemy

images courtesy of the University of Glasgow Library

Lughnasadh

"Leigidh mi mo chorran sios
’S an dias biadhchar fo mo ghlac,
Togam suas mo shuil an aird,
Tionndam air mo shail gu grad,

Deiseil mar thriallas a ghrian
Bho ’n airde ’n ear gu ruig an iar,
Bho ’n airde tuath le gluasadh reidh,
Gu fior chre na h-airde deas.

Bheir mi cliu do Righ nan gras
Airson cinneas barr na h-uir,"


from the Carmina Gadelica

Alan Moore by Frank Quitely

as suggested to us by Farron Loathing

synæsthesia & alchemical spirit

Harry Smith " Mirror Animations "

"Smith approached life in an artistic manner, so that distinctions between art and life became meaningless. As with the surrealists, he rearranged everyday elements in new ways in order to show us how the fantastic was embedded in the mundane (and how “mundanity” was a consequence of how we perceived the world, rather than a reflection the external world)."

exerpt from
Alchemical Transformations: The Abstract Films of Harry Smith
by Jamie Sexton