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Art lifted up her head and was seated on her throne, and said, All eyes shall see me, and all knees shall bow to me. (William Hazlitt, on the Louvre)

Great art has dreadful manners. The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite things, visions that soothe, charm and beguile, but actually they are thugs. Merciless and wily, the greatest paintings grab yo...

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  • Ancient World
    • Great Pyramid of Giza
    • Hanging Gardens of Babylon
    • Statue of Zeus at Olympia
    • Temple of Artemis
    • Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
    • Colossus of Rhodes
    • Lighthouse of Alexandria
  • New
    • Giza Pyramid Complex, Egypt
    • Chichen Itza, Mexico
    • Christ the Redeemer, Brazil
    • Colosseum, Italy
    • Great Wall of China, China
    • Machu Picchu, Peru
    • Petra, Jordan
    • Taj Mahal, India
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  • Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
  • Vincent van Gogh
  • Salvador DalĂ­
  • Gianlorenzo Bernini
  • Georgia O'Keeffe
  • Andy Warhol
  • Joseph Mallord William Turner
  • H.R. Giger
  • Henry Fuseli
  • Caspar David Friedrich
  • Wasily Kandinsky
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  • ANNAPURNA (F)
    • food
  • BALRAMA/BALARAMA (M)
    • symbol of strength, ideal man, protector from desires, symbol of duty, honesty and simplicity
  • BHUVANESHWAR (F)
    • queen of the Phenomenal World (Bhuvan)
  • BRAHMA (M)
    • of the Trimurti, creator
    • four faces, old man, Brahmin
  • DEVI (F)
    • great mother goddess; creative force
    • DURGA
      • combats evil, rids the world of demons, d...
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  • ZEUS/JUPITER (JOVE)
    • son of Cronus and Rhea
    • supreme deity; sky (weather) men, oracles,
    • married to Hera
    • iconography: lighting bolt, eagle, oak(?), bull, scepter, cornucopia, aegis, ram, and lion
    • children: Amphion, Ares, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, Castor, Pollux Clytemnestra, Dionysus, Hebe, Hermes, Heracles, Helen, Hephaestus, Perseus, Minos, the Muses
  • HERA/JUNO
    • daughter of Cronus and Rhea
    • queen of the gods; special protectiveness of marriage and women, war; created the Milky Way
    • married to Zeus
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  • OCEANUS (M) + TETHYS (F)
    • bodies of water
  • HYPERION (M) + THEIA (F)
    • light/brightness
    • children:
      • Eos: the dawn
      • Helios: the sun
      • Selene: the moon
  • COEUS/POLUS (M) + PHOEBE (F)
    • wisdom in myth
    • children:
      • Leto/Latona: mother of Artemis and Apollo
      • Asteria: oracles, prophetic dreams, astrology, necromancy; mother of Hecate
  • CRONUS/SATURN (M) + RHEA (F)
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  • AGNI (M): fire, made the sun, filled the night sky with stars // shown with seven arms and a goat's head or as a red man with many arms and legs, riding a ram, belching and emitting light
  • INDRA (M): king of the gods, god of sky, storms and thunderbolts
  • MITRA (M): mediator between the gods and man; ruler of the day
  • SOMA (M): moon god; sacred drink
  • SURYA (M): sun god // dark red man with three eyeand four arms who rides in a chariot
    • SANJINA (F): wife; name means conscience
    • YAMA (M): son; god of the underworld - represents judgment by bringing happiness to the virtuous and righteous but bestowing suffering on sinners
    • YAMI (F): daughter; twin of Yami who resist her temptations
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  • MEDUSA
    • siblings: Stheno, Euryale
    • children: Pegasus, Chrysaor
  • CHARYBDIS and SCYLLA
    • from The Odyssey
  • SATYR
  • CENTAURS
    • Chiron
    • Nessos, and the rape of Hercules' second wife Deianira
  • SPHINX
    • Oedipus and the sphinx
  • NYMPHS
    • naiads (water nymphs)
    • dryads (tree nymphs)
  • HARPIES
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  • THE FIRST TRIAD: HIGHEST TRIAD
    • SERAPHIM
      • six wings and four heads; pure light; shine so bright humans cannot see them
      • guidance for humanitarian and planetary causes (love, light, fire, prevent negative energy from penetrating the divine
      • Metatron
    • CHERUBIM
      • guidance for divine protection, knowledge, wisdom (boundless love, knowledge, guard light and stars, angels of harmony and wisdom)
    • THRONES
      • many-eyed ones
      • guidance for relationships and planetary issues (create/sent/collect positive ener...
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  • THE MOIRAE (FATES): determine the course of human life
    • Clotho: spun the thread of life
    • Laschesis: held it to its fixed length
    • Atropos: cut it off
  • THE GRACES: enhanced the enjoyment of life by refinement and gentleness
    • Aglaia: brilliance
    • Euphrosyne: joy
    • Thalia: bloom
  • THE MUSES: memory and arts and sciences
    • Calliope: epic poetry
    • Clio: history
    • Erato: love poetry
    • Euterpe: lyric poetry/flute playing
    • Melpomene: tragedy
    • Polymnia: sacred poetry/pantomine
    • Terpsichore: dance
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  • AITHER/AETHER: (M) upper sky, space, heaven; consort of Hemera
  • ANANKE: (F) inevitability, compulsion, necessity; mate of Chronus
  • EREBOS: (M) mist of darkness; consort of Nyx
  • EROS PHANES/EROS PROTOGONOS: (vs. Eros of Aphrodite)(M) love
  • GAIA: (F) Mother Earth
  • HEMERA: (F) day; consort of Aether
  • HYDROS: (M) water
  • CHAOS/KHAOS: (M) lower air; mate of Ananke; from him all other airs were descended (Erebos, Nyx, Aether, Hemera)
  • KHRONOS: (M) time; first to emerge at creation
  • THE NESOI: islands
  • NYX: (F) night; consort of Erebos
  • OKEANOS: (M) river Okeanos
  • OURANOS: (M) solid dome of heaven
  • THE OUREA: mountains
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  • TLALOC
    • google eyes, fangs, serpent nose
    • rain, water, agriculture, fertility
  • QUETZALCOATL (M)
    • feathered serpent
    • creation, fertility, wind, patron of priesthood
  • HUITZILOPOCHTLI (M)
    • hummingbird
    • war, patron god
  • COATLICUE/TZITZIMITL (F)
    • earth goddesses
    • fed on human corpses
  • COYOLXAUHQUI (F)
    • leader of the star gods (Centzon Huitznahuas)
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  • CASTITAS vs. LUXURIA
    • chastity vs. lust
  • TEMPERANTIA vs. GULA
    • temperance/self control vs. gluttony
  • CARITAS vs. AVARITIA
    • charity vs. greed
  • INDUSTRIA vs. ACEDIA TRISTITIA
    • fortitude vs. sloth
  • PATIENTIA vs. IRA
    • patience vs. wrath
  • HUMANITAS vs. INVIDIA
    • kindness vs. envy
  • HUMILITAS vs. SUPERBIA
    • humility vs. pride
nov 12 2009 ∞
jan 24 2010 +
  • AMMUT (F)
    • head of a crocodile, body of a lion and hindlegs of a hippopotamus
    • devourer of the dead
  • AMUN/AMEN/AMMON (M)
    • crowned with ostrich feathers
    • creation
  • ANUBIS (M)
    • son of Osiris and Nephthys
    • jackal headed
    • embalming/mummification
  • ATON/ATEN
    • sun disk with rays that ended in hands
    • a form of Ra
  • ATUM (M)
    • double crown
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  • ACHERON: river of pain
  • ASPHODEL: indifferent and ordinary souls; wanderers
  • COCYTUS: river of wailing
  • ELYSIAN FIELDS: good and heroic souls (Christian heaven)
  • EREBUS: where the dead had to pass immediately after dying
  • LETHE (OBLIVION): a river of the Underworld, and who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness
  • PHLEGETHON: "stream of fire, which coils round the earth and flows into the depths of Tartarus" (Plato)
  • STYX: boundary between Earth and the Underworld; Charon (Kharon)
  • TARTARUS: dungeon of damned souls (Christian hell)
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