The Color of Pomegranates (Նռան գույնը) , 1969
Vistāra - The Architecture of India Exhibition Catalog The Festival of India, 1986
Galdrakver (‘Little Book Of Magic’) The ‘Little Book Of Magic’ is a seventeenth-century Icelandic manuscript, written on animal skin and containing magical staves, sigils, prayers, charms and related texts.
It is known to have once been owned by Icelandic Bishop Hannes Finnson who was alive from 1739 until 1796 and known for having a vast library containing many volumes of magic related texts and manuscripts. Full manuscript here.
A computer representation of Jupiter’s atmosphere, sourced from NASA’s 1978 Aeronautics and Space Report.
Guido von List, Armanen Runes, 1902
“The Armanen runes, or Armanen ‘Futharkh’ as Guido von List referred to them, are a row of 18 runes that are closely based in shape (though not necessarily name, let alone interpretation) on the Younger Futhark. They were "revealed to” the Austrian occult mysticist and Germanic revivalist Guido von List in 1902, and subsequently published by him.“
The very notion of culture is an artifact created by bracketing Nature off. Cultures — different or universal — do not exist, any more than Nature does. There are only natures-cultures, and these offer the only possible basis for comparison. As soon as we take practices of mediation as well as practices of purification into account, we discover that the moderns do not separate humans from nonhumans any more than the totally superimpose signs and things.
[…] Absolute relativism presupposes cultures that are separate and incommensurable and cannot be ordered in any hierarchy; there is no use talking about it, since it brackets off Nature. As for cultural relativism, which is more subtle, Nature comes into play, but in order to exist it does not presuppose any scientific work, any society, any construction, any mobilization, any network.
—Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern
— Ursula K. Le Guin, from “A Rant About ‘Technology’”
“There is a harmonic relationship that resonates between all the spheres of space, from the smallest to the largest. Think of all the protons vibrating and resonating with each other. Think of all the electrons vibrating and resonating with each other. Then think of all the planets, all the solar systems, all the stars, the galaxies, the superclusters that vibrate and resonate with each other in the universe. Imagine then the number of octaves existing between the proton and the universe. We are very clearly bathed in the music of the spheres.”
Nassim Haramein
Folk figures, Lucie on the left, Barbora on the right (From the Ethnographic Museum in Prague)