Veronica Childe

Art, folklore, history, literature, metaphysics, mythology, poetry, comparative religion. Tweets are very sporadic these days. Thank you for visiting 💗

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"For hate is not conquered by hate; hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal."
- Dhammapada v. 5

Avalokiteśvara, Bodhisattva of Compassion.
Tibetan Thangka, 15th c.

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'Solar System' quilt by Ellen Harding Baker of Cedar County, Iowa, US, 1876, used as a teaching aid for her lectures on astronomy in the small towns of her state. The applique quilt is embellished with wool-fabric applique, wool braid & silk embroidery #womensart #QuiltArtWeek

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Happy Equinox! The Sun moves into Libra at 21:03 EDT/1:03 UT (Sept 23). Here's a great image depicting Pluto and Persephone reunited, returning to the darkness of Hades after her days spent in the Sun. Art by Juliette Lestrange and Andy Larsson.
#mythology #astrology #Libra

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August 6, 1946 Princess Elizabeth initiated as an honorary Druid into the ancient Welsh Gorsedd by Archdruid Crwys Williams at the National Eisteddfod of Wales, Mountain Ash, Glamorgan. RIP.
Image: British Pathé

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Harvest season in full swing now

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@Davenewaccount1 Hopefully you vanquish your enemies but don't make any new ones 😊

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“Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker."
- C.S. Lewis
Art: Howard David Johnson
#FairyTaleTuesday

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Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
- W.B Yeats

Photo: Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, Fairies and Their Sun-Bath, Cottingley Fairies Series, 1920
#FairyTaleTuesday

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Centaur with Cello, 1910 #redon #odilonredon https://t.co/4qj1TOz5kR

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Today the Sun enters the Mutable Earth sign Virgo. Here in The Sieve Portrait, Quentin Metsys the Younger depicts Queen Elizabeth I as Tuccia, a Vestal Virgin who proved her chastity by carrying a sieve full of water from the Tiber to the Temple of Vesta. (England, 1583)

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Ingres, 'Napoleon I on His Imperial Throne,' oil on canvas, France, 1806.
Napoleon Bonaparte, born on this day August 15, 1769
#neoclassical #art #Napoleon #OTD

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@FairyTale_Tues @fairytaleflash Have a wonderful day, I will miss you today!

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@Terquem 😊

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On his journey to liberation, Buddha practiced many austerities including fasting. He ultimately realized that to achieve freedom from Maya the focus needed to be on honing the mind and he abandoned such harsh practices, instead cultivating the Middle Way.
#MythologyMonday

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Art above: Fasting Siddhartha, Gandhara Period (300-500 CE), schist, Lahore Museum, Pakistan.

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Thalia was one of the Muses, the goddess who presided over comedy and idyllic poetry, portrayed as a young woman with a joyous air, crowned with ivy, wearing boots and holding a comic mask in her hand.
The daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne.
#MythologyMonday
Fresco from Pompeii

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Sacred to Circe, this lovely plant grows in damp woody areas and is known as Enchanter's Nightshade (Circaea lutetiana). Not really a nightshade, it creates dainty burrs which stick on clothing and fur - as hard to remove as a tricky enchantment. Pretty but tricky! #Gardening

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"The Hunt" or "Diana and Her Nymphs," (ca. 1926) by Robert Burns (1869-1941). Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art.

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Mercury, trickster god and psychopomp is capable of moving across all thresholds and boundaries. Here he is shown with Psyche as he delivers her from Hades to spend immortality with her lover Cupid in Olympus.
Art: Reinhold Begas, Mercury and Psyche, 1878
#mythologymonday

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A Man Who Loved Seagulls an excerpt from Osho’s Just Like That https://t.co/ke005bY3Iy

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@SoniadoRosario4 ☺️ A great cat!

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One of literature's most famous and cunning tricksters, Behemoth: "He who had been a cat, entertaining the prince of darkness, now turned out to be a slim youth, a demon-page, the best jester the world has ever seen." Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita
#FairyTaleTuesday