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Just a place to share thoughts about spirituality, aesthetics, and things life is teaching me.
Praise the Gods. They are good.

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I lost access to @TheApollonian so I am having to start over. Please share so others who followed the original can find this.

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In case you wanted to see what a $120k piece of functional art looks like:
18th century Rococo wine cooler

https://www.1stdibs.com/furniture/dining-entertaining/wine-coolers/18th-century-rococo-german-painted-gilt-wine-cooler-form-swan/id-f_4368583/




The Apollo Necklace
Designed by Henry Wilson, 1904


Celtic Ring
4th–5th century BCE
Metropolitan Museum of Art


Egyptian Beadnet Dress
2551–2528 BCE




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"I am the eye with which the Universe
Beholds itself, and knows it is divine;
All harmony of instrument or verse,
All prophecy, all medicine, is mine,
All light of art or nature; - to my song
Victory and praise in its own right belong."
--Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hymn of Apollo"


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Attic Greek Sphinx shaped lekythos (oil-flask) 5th century BC with beautifully preserved colours revealing a pale face with blushing cheeks beneath golden curls. Hardly a middle eastern phenotype






I have come home.
I have entered humanhood, bound to rocks and plants, men and women, rivers and sky.
I shall be with you in this and other worlds.
When the cat arches in the doorway, think of me. I have sometimes been like that.
When two men meet each other in the street, I am there speaking to you.
When you look up, know I am there—sun and moon—pouring my love around you.
All these things I am; portents, images, signs.
Though apart, I am part of you.
One of the million things in the universe, I am the universe, too.
You think I disguise myself as rivers and trees simply to confuse you?
Whatever I am, woman, cat or lotus, the same god breathes in every body.
You and I together are a single creation.
Neither death nor spite nor fear nor ignorance stops my love for you...

—Excerpted from "Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Dead"   ©1988 Normandi Ellis, trans.



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