Category Archives: The Sacred

The Hotohoto Festival at the Great Shrine in Izumo Province

Posted on February 28, 2015 by ubu507

No. 42 from the series Pictures of Famous Places in the Sixty-odd Provinces Ichiryusai Hiroshige, 1853, woodblock print Gibbes Museum of Art

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Her body is encircled by a snake

Posted on September 19, 2014 by ubu507

Country of Origin: India Date/Period: 2nd C BC – 2nd C AD / Eskenazi Collection Terracotta statue of serpent goddess / Werner Forman Archive / Bridgeman Images

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Divine Nature

Posted on August 19, 2014 by ubu507

Due to the canny subtlety of her efforts And the fiery nova of her beauty She’s become a specific imaginative compulsion A constellation of effects calling the Earth to witness the exercise Of her illusory energy on the Uncertainty of … Continue reading →

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Elevation

Posted on June 10, 2014 by ubu507

The world attracts you through your senses, and as long as you do not see the Sacred in the objects of your senses, you live in an awkward position, which scarcely helps you in procuring your spiritual elevation. — Sri … Continue reading →

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Through

Posted on June 7, 2014 by ubu507

Angels strip you They take everything Japanese women in white Covering their mouths Giggling as they pull Off your clothes . The door’s just big enough To crawl through More of a tunnel really . On the other side There’s … Continue reading →

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Virgin Annunciate

Posted on March 19, 2014 by ubu507

Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) c. 1410-15 Italian, c.1370-1425 Tempera and gold leaf on panel 31-5/8 x 17-1/2 in. (80.3 x 44.5 cm) Norton Simon Art Foundation,

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The Blocked Room

Posted on February 13, 2014 by ubu507

I wish I knew what you wanted. You block the road and won’t give me rest. You pull my lead-rope one way, then the other. You act cold, my darling! Do you hear what I say? Will this night of … Continue reading →

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Transformation Mask

Posted on January 24, 2014 by ubu507

unknown Kwakwaka’wakw artist (Kwakwaka’wakw) Late 19th century, red cedar, fur, leather, paint, abalone shell, and string Portland Art Museum

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Country Girl Leaning against a Ladder

Posted on December 19, 2013 by ubu507

LEGA, Silvestro c. 1885 Oil on canvas, 38 x 29 cm Galleria dell’Arte Moderna, Palazzo Pitti, Florence Beholding in many souls the traits of the divine beauty, and separating in each soul that which is divine from the taint which … Continue reading →

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Saint

Posted on November 11, 2013 by ubu507

BELLINI, Giovanni Madonna and Child with Two Saints (detail) c. 1490 Oil on wood Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice