Stag Handle Knife, Europe, 19th Century.

“I found myself, in truth, on the brink of the valley of the sad abyss that gathers the thunder of an infinite howling. It was so dark, and deep, and clouded, that I could see nothing by staring into its depths.”

Dante, Inferno.

Let There Be Light, Wynn Bullock, 1954

Vintage photo of Venus phases from the Helen Groger-Wurm Papers (World II series). © Open Research Library - The Australian National University, Canberra.

The Beautiful Woman Soothes the Serpent-King, from Andrew Lang’s The Violet Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1901)

Charles Baudelaire, from Sed non Satiata

Full moon / 2 July 2023

“I am the forest, I am ancient. I treasure the stag, I treasure the deer. I shelter you from storm, I shelter you from snow. I resist the frost, I keep the source. I nurse the earth, I am always there. I build your house, I kindle your hearth. Therefore, you people, hold me dear.”

— Inscription found in a 17th century forester’s house in Lower Saxony, Germany (via inatt)

Witches' Sabbath by Francisco de Goya, 1798 [x]

La Lune, c.1920