Alex Jahen

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[ألأحداث ألإيرانية بالعربية @iranin_arabic]

¡Todos listo para apoyar a México!🇲🇽
#YSiSí
#Mexico

[Bosque De Chapultepec @ChapultepecCDMX]

Un #tzompantli es un altar de la época precolombina hecho a base de cráneos humanos, el cual sirve como ofrenda para Mictlantecuhtli💀

En 2021, decoramos la Puerta de los Leones con uno en honor a Coatlicue, como parte de las celebraciones del Día de Muertos.

[La Mode Unknown @LaModeUnknown]

The look of ✨️Madonna✨️ inspired by 'The Temptation Of St. Anthony. Fragment II' by Leonora Carrington (1945) at Met Gala.🪡

[DrownedMadonna @DrownedMadonna]

Madonna arrived at the 2026 Met Gala wearing a custom Saint Laurent creation by Anthony Vaccarello — and it was not just fashion. It was a direct, deliberate homage to one of the most extraordinary and underrated paintings of the 20th century: “The Temptations of Saint Anthony” (1945) by Leonora Carrington.

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a British-Mexican surrealist painter, novelist and mystic — one of the last surviving members of the original Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Her work fused Celtic mythology, medieval alchemy, Kabbalah, Jungian psychology and feminist mysticism into a completely unique visual language. She was, in many ways, the ultimate outsider: a woman who refused to be anyone’s muse, who escaped Nazis, survived a psychiatric asylum, and reinvented herself in Mexico, where she painted her most powerful work.

Carrington painted The Temptations of Saint Anthony shortly after arriving in Mexico, inspired by Hieronymus Bosch’s version at the Museo del Prado in Madrid — which she had seen in 1940 while fleeing the Nazi invasion of France. The painting was created for a competition for the film Bel-Ami (1947), where she competed against Salvador Dalí, Max Ernst, Dorothea Tanning and Paul Delvaux.

What makes Carrington’s version extraordinary is precisely what made it lose the competition: while the other artists painted tormented demons and horror, Carrington painted serenity. As the caption reads, she depicts “a serene anchorite, master of a hybrid community: demons transformed into angelic beings, a witch with a red cauldron, a goat pouring vital water, and the spiraling Queen of Sheba.” The alchemical fire and the faithful pig symbolise victory over temptation, merging Christianity, Celtic witchcraft and alchemy into a reflection of “resilience and cosmic harmony.”

Of all the figures in this painting, Madonna chose to be the Queen of Sheba: the spiraling, dark-haired figure at the centre of that enormous flowing veil, the one whose presence is the true engine of the entire scene.

In the Kabbalistic tradition — which Madonna has studied deeply since the 1990s — the Queen of Sheba is not simply a historical monarch. In the Zohar, the core text of Kabbalah, the Queen of Sheba is identified as Lilith herself — Adam’s first wife, created from the same earth as Adam, not from his rib. She refused to be submissive, spoke the divine name, grew wings and flew out of Eden. She was cast out, demonised, erased from the official story — and she became the most powerful feminine archetype in the entire Western mystical tradition.

Lilith is the original woman who would not submit. The first feminist. The one who chose freedom over paradise.

And here is where the circle closes completely.

Twenty-eight years ago, Madonna filmed the video for Frozen in the Mojave Desert and she appeared dressed in black, long dark hair, hovering above the ground, surrounded by crows and a black dog. She transformed, levitated, dissolved into liquid and was reabsorbed by the earth.

Every symbol in that video — the dark birds, the black dog, the three versions of herself, the desert — points to the same archetype: Hecate, Lilith, the primordial dark feminine that stands at the threshold between life and death, that cannot be possessed, that transforms everything it touches.

Madonna herself said she was depicting “the embodiment of female angst” — a mystical creature, neither alive nor dead, neither human nor divine.

Saint Anthony withstood demons and monsters. But what truly threatened him was not horror. It was the spiraling Queen of Sheba — serene, magnetic, cosmic.

[Porkirk @nimrodrigo]

@PopCulture2000s The Temptation of St. Anthony, Fragment II

[Manumanito @manumanito]

Madre Madonna haciendo referencia a Leonora Carrington por Saint Laurent me muero, y con el iconico tocado de Philip Tracy en forma de barco
#metgala26

[Cruz Contreras @cruzencanada]

KDH logra 2 nominaciones a los Oscar, incluida mejor película animada 🥹
Felicidades a todo el equipo de artistas 😭, en especial al increíble equipo de CFX (ropa y pelo) que hizo que mi experiencia en esta peli fuera inolvidable 🩶 사랑해요 🫰🏽

[Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo @Claudiashein]

En Palacio Nacional, recibí con mucho gusto a la directora ejecutiva de Citi, Jane Fraser; una gran mujer.

Conversamos sobre las buenas perspectivas económicas para nuestro país.

[Lic. Eneas @heyeneas]

Felicades a las ganadoras, la Santa Trinidad✨
@caoslasciva 🇻🇪, @be_calypso 🇨🇱 y la reina @NaylaDowns🇲🇽
#LMD #LaMasDraga7 #LaMasDraga

[Manumanito @manumanito]

Coronada y también de rojo di.

[Sabina Berman @sabinaberman]

Los fifís descubriendo que hay millones de chairos solventes económicamente.

😡

[Manuel Pedrero @YosoyPedrero]

🚨Fatima Bosch sobre la Presidenta @Claudiashein. Cada vez que compartes un panista entra en crisis.

[adrián marcelo @adrianm10]

Morena no lo está haciendo peor que la oposición.

La marcha “artificial”, otro error garrafal.

Hay desesperación en la derecha mexicana y todo porque no ha emergido un perfil que impacte en los jóvenes.

AMLO caminó el país dos décadas y formó un movimiento LEGÍTIMO que terminó envolviendo a segmentos en los que jamás había tenido eco.

La oposición quiere consolidar un movimiento desde la oficina y a billetazos y NO funciona así.

La cosa no va a cambiar con grandes oratorias o llorando dramáticamente en el Senado, HAY QUE SALIR a “ensuciarse” y a escuchar las VERDADERAS necesidades del mexicano de a pie.

Al PAN se le olvidó lo ACCIONISTA y al PRI lo REVOLUCIONARIO.

[Johnny Carmona 🧜🏼‍♂️ @johnnycarmona]

Suscribo al 1000%ta las palabras de @pegadoyconzeta, yo en 1997 tenía 17 años y viví cosas muy similares a las de Pedro y todos lxs niñxs LGBT que crecimos bajo el terror asqueroso de la canción de @MolotovBanda

[balu 🍰 @Balushortcake]

amo ser de izquierda, woke, progre, feminista, socialista, abortero, trans, pro palestina. me gusta la gente de pelos pintados, que visten diferente e incomodan a los demás con su discurso

[Baruch @datavizero]

Otro concierto de Juan Gabriel, para limpiar la mala vibra que quedó en el Zócalo.

[Ojito 👁 @elojoquetodolv]

Y es por estas cosas que nunca más voy a comer pulpo 🥹💗

[Maya @MagicianMurdock]

Si son tan felices con su coche por qué van con jetota, mentando madres, siendo hostiles con el peatón, ciclistas y otros automovilistas? si es un "símbolo de progreso" porque van amargados y se estresan? no que está muy cool tener coche y andar pa todos lados en él?🤔

[Daniel @RADICAL_TLAHUAC]

El cempasúchil, aquella flor que en sus pétalos guarda el calor del sol para alumbrar el camino de regreso a casa.🧡🕯️

📸 desde la zona lacustre de la cdmx.

[Luis Alberto @luigi_qb]

Que pases una linda tarde...