For all the little windows of insight into man offered by True Detective, Maggie setting up Rust on dates with women that look like her is an under appreciated one.
The Bindweed
Walter De La Mare
The bindweed roots pierce down
Deeper than men do lie,
Laid in their dark-shut graves
Their slumbering kinsmen by.
Yet what frail thin-spun flowers
She casts into the air,
To breathe the sunshine, and
To leave her fragrance there.
But when the sweet moon comes,
Showering her silver down,
Half-wreathèd in faint sleep,
They droop where they have blown.
So all the grass is set,
Beneath her trembling ray,
With buds that have been flowers,
Brimmed with reflected day.
“At the time of the summer solstice, and when day and night become of equal length, the Wild Hunt again passed in the wind and rain, for Wodan was also lord of the rain, and used to ride on his cloudhorse, so that plentiful rains might refresh the earth.”
~Wilhelm Wägner, 1884 ᚬ
Closeup of the recently found die stamp from Kent, with an Odinic horned figure.
Many aspects are nearly identical to those of the Torslunda Plates; the way the beaks of the ravens interlock, the feet, and the detail on the belt. Shows how much of a pan-Germanic motif it was. 𐘾
Newly found copper alloy die stamp from Kent bearing the spear-dancer image of Woden. Comparable size to the panels on the Sutton Hoo helmet, meaning the helmet could have been made in England.
@BarkLikeADuck Really cuts to the heart of the show’s message about civilization being born at the point of the outlaw’s knife, or from a band of wolves.
@hope_pead KC has a lot of sightings, including one of the mystery airships in the 1800s. There’s also supposedly a lot of underground tunnels beneath the city.
@CoelingAurochs@Lightstream01 I like MacManus’s version with his killer the sorcerous Brodar and the atmosphere of the battle being influenced by subtler forces.
St. Hubert’s Keys were sacramental objects used to brand rabid dogs to cure them of their madness and to cauterize the fatal disease in their bite victims.
This (blurry) mural at the foot of the Tomb of Oedon in Bloodborne is a copy of a mural at Château d'Amboise depicting St. Hubert. Patron saint of hunting, hunting dogs, and opticians, Hubert was called upon to cure rabies.
@Sagnamadr@AnInnes3 My only contribution to the discourse is that I am skeptical of medical professionals. I don’t know all the details, but the doctors told my parents that one of my sisters was likely to have DS and suggested abortion. They carried to term and she’s completely normal.
Yeah if I am ever brutally slain in a random attack and my family comes out to say that hatred and violent reprisal “isn’t what he would have wanted”, just assume the state got to them and get as many as you can