“Oiseaux de feu” centerpiece in homage to Igor Stravinsky’s Ballet
René Lalique
1922
[Source: Musée Lalique Facebook]
LALIQUE WHAT THE HECK MAN
(this is like an egregious nexus of personal mythology things right here)
Hannibal Lecter / Will Graham “2.10 Naka-Choko”
Achilles bandaging Patroclus’ arm by the Sosias Painter
![myowndeliverance:
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literature meme - five poets [5/5] - Anne Carson
“ XV. Total number of things known about Geryon
He loved lightning He lived on an island His mother was a Nymph of a river that ran to the sea His father was a gold Cutting tool Old...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/e34f2286511f271e8a5e5d949c573629/tumblr_o9urd0t9o31rxbm65o1_540.png)
literature meme - five poets [5/5] - Anne Carson
XV. Total number of things known about Geryon
He loved lightning He lived on an island His mother was a Nymph of a river that ran to the sea His father was a gold Cutting tool Old scholia say that Stesichoros says that Geryon had six hands and six feet and wings He was red and His strange red cattle excited envy Herakles came and Killed him for his cattle
The dog too
[Autobiography of Red]
CHORUS : Why are you so in love with
things unbearable?
Sophokles,
Elektra (tr. by Anne Carson)
Ammit (/ˈæmɨt/; “devourer” or “soul-eater”; also spelled Ammut or Ahemait) was a female demon in ancient Egyptian religion with a body that was part lion, hippopotamus and crocodile—the three largest “man-eating” animals known to ancient Egyptians. A funerary deity, her titles included “Devourer of the Dead”, “Eater of Hearts”, and “Great of Death”.
Ammit lived near the scales of justice in Duat, the Egyptian underworld. In the Hall of Two Truths, Anubis weighed the heart of a person against the feather of Ma'at, the goddess of truth, which was depicted as an ostrich feather (the feather was often pictured in Ma'at’s headdress). If the heart was judged to be not pure, Ammit would devour it, and the person undergoing judgement was not allowed to continue their voyage towards Osiris and immortality. Once Ammit swallowed the heart, the soul was believed to become restless forever; this was called “to die a second time”. Ammit was also sometimes said to stand by a lake of fire. In some traditions, the unworthy hearts were cast into the fiery lake to be destroyed. Some scholars believe Ammit and the lake represent the same concept of destruction.
