interesting Lacanian-Marxist….illustration?
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interesting Lacanian-Marxist….illustration?
The Zhong Kui (鍾馗) story: According to Song Dynasty sources, once the Emperor Xuanzong was gravely ill. He had a dream in which he saw two ghosts. The smaller of the ghosts stole a purse from imperial consort Yang Guifei and a flute belonging to the emperor. The larger ghost, wearing the hat of an…
John Waterhouse’s Hylas and the Nymphs; see also “Should this Painting Have been Banned?”
No relation to the minotaur apparently, but literally a “bull with five horns” from Frankish mythology…I’m not 100% sure how/why I came across the fabled beast in my browsing but it definitely had something to do with research on evil Merovingian queens (one of which is pregnant in this illustration):
Tengu – 天狗 Wikipedia Tengu (天狗, “heavenly dog”) are a type of legendary creature found in Japanese folk religion and are also considered a type of Shinto god (kami) or yōkai (supernatural beings). Although they take their name from a dog-like Chinese demon (Tiangou), the tengu were originally thought to take the forms of birds…