Built On Pain

Mansa Devi Mansa Devi is a Hindu folk goddess of snakes, worshipped mainly in Bengal and other parts of North and northeastern India. (via Jatland Wiki)

Shiro Kasamatsu (1891-1991) Pine in Rain

Persian cross stitch pattern

The Life of Krishna Pattachitra on Patta (via Jaypore.com)

Apep or Apophis, an ancient Egyptian demon in the form of a snake. Illustration by Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois, published in ‘Pantheon Egyptien’ by Jean-François Champollion, 1823.

Werner Wilhelm Gustav Schuch (1843-1918), #Death on a horse in a battlefield

Waldseemüller map (1507). Detail.

Mexican symbols, Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880

The Valley of the Shadow of Death - 1867 George Innes

Yoshida Hiroshi (吉田 博), Taji Maharu no Yoru, dai-roku (Night in Taj Mahal, No. 6), 1932.

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MAZZOLINO, Ludovico The Incredulity of St Thomas c. 1522 Oil on panel, 38 x 31 cm Galleria Borghese, Rome

The infant Krishna seated in a lotus blossom circa 1700-10. Bahu (Jammu), Punjab Hills. attributable to an early Master of the Bahu School. (via sothebys.com)

Phoenicopterus roseus.

Luca Giordano, detail Perseus turning Phineas and his Followers to Stone, early 1680’s

Hiroshi Yoshida