The Witches By Hans Baldung (1510)

Splendor - Cristina Francov, 2016. #cristinafrancov #modernrenaissance

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Twenty years ago today the first cloned animal in the world, Dolly the Sheep, was born.

She was a very special sheep. @bbsrc can tell you why!

This GIF was made using a 15th century Flemish Book of Hours.

People are scared, people are angry, the world is a frightening place right now. No one knows what the future holds. Everyone wants to believe that certain people are agents of darkness. But the Universe works in funny ways. Maybe the things taking shape right now is the catalyst for change, maybe it’s only way to bring down the old ways, maybe it’s the last hurrah of the old age of Pisces, the masculine energy of the past 2000 years. Maybe there is hope…. We need to keep fighting for the world we want to live in going forward, but we also can be mindful of what is happening right now, and that is the system is bringing itself down, in the only way that a system built on greed, power and masculine domination can, by an individual that is not only greedy for money, but is greedy for fame, greedy for attention, greedy for validation of his own worth and being, this man in a sense embodies everything to do with the dominating masculine energy of the past two thousand years, so it’s only fitting that his own greed for attention will be what finally destroys it all, so that something new can take it’s place.  My vision for the new world is a nurturing, compassionate world where everyone is respected as people, not male and female or black or white or what they believe in, people are valued for who they are, not what they own. That the love inside them shines bright in their actions, that we heal all the rifts and pains that we as a people have placed upon each other because of our own insecurities. My vision is that love trumps hate.  These are just my thoughts, you don’t have to agree, my only hope is that you keep an open mind about what is happening right now, and that, if possible, you can hold this vision with me, so that we can manifest this together, which lets be honest, the only way that it will happen at all is that we all come together. 

The International Congregation of Lord Rayel #ufocult #angelusdomini #raymondlear #religiouscult #lordrayelexposed #lordrayel

Neil Simone

If you’re curious about Europe’s witch hunts and what Europeans believed about witches in general, Dr. Justin Sledge has an amazing set of videos on this topic: Witchcraft - The Witch Flight to the Sabbat - From Inquisitional Myth to Psychedelic Flying Ointment

Witchcraft - Malleus Maleficarum - The Hammer of Witches - History and Analysis of the Inquisition 

Demonology and Demonologists - Scholastics and Inquisitors - Foundations of the Witch Trials Witches Witch-Hunting and Magic in Early-Modern Europe (FIA Lecture) The Witch Trials and the Rise of Modernity and Capitalism - Sylvia Federici - Caliban and the Witch These are all great videos, and I recommend them because they go into depth that’s hard to find elsewhere. If the history of magic and witchcraft interests you, these will not disappoint!

“Rothschild Canticles”, turn of the 14th century ”An intensely illustrated florilegium of meditations and prayers drawing from Song of Songs and Augustine’s De Trinitate, among other texts, the Rothschild Canticles is remarkable for its full-page miniatures, historiated initials, and drawings, which show the work of multiple artists.” Source

Deep in the Swamps, Archaeologists Are Finding How Fugitive Slaves Kept Their Freedom

The worse it gets, as I wade and stumble through the Great Dismal Swamp, the better I understand its history as a place of refuge. Each ripping thorn and sucking mudhole makes it clearer. It was the dense, tangled hostility of the swamp and its enormous size that enabled hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of escaped slaves to live here in freedom.

We don’t know much about them, but thanks to the archaeologist hacking through the mire ahead of me, we know they were out here, subsisting in hidden communities, and using almost nothing from the outside world until the 19th century. The Dismal Swamp covered great tracts of southeast Virginia and northeast North Carolina, and its vegetation was far too thick for horses or canoes. In the early 1600s, Native Americans fleeing the colonial frontier took refuge here, and they were soon joined by fugitive slaves, and probably some whites escaping indentured servitude or hiding from the law. From about 1680 to the Civil War, it appears that the swamp communities were dominated by Africans and African-Americans. Read more.

Ancient ruins give us a fascinating window into the past..

Ancient ruins give us a fascinating window into the past: how people lived, the spaces they inhabited and their daily lives. Historians, architects and travellers alike marvel at these remnants of time past, but it’s often hard to get a sense of what these spectacular buildings would have looked like at their peak. We decided to step back in time and recreate some of our favorite ancient ruins in their original locations.

Identified from the top:

The Parthenon Athens, Greece / 432 BC

Luxor Temple Luxor, Egypt / 1380 BC

Nohoch Mul Pyramid (Coba) Quintana Roo, Mexico / 100 BC-100 AD

Temple of Jupiter Pompeii, Italy / 200 BC

Milecastle 39 (Part of Hadrian’s Wall) Northumberland, England / 100 AD

The Pyramid of the Sun, Teotihuacán Teotihuacan, Mexico / 200 CE

Area Sacra di Largo Argentina—Temple B Rome, Italy / 101 BC