Andvari.

Man Ray—Rayograph (The Kiss)

The Peacock complaining to Juno (1881) by Gustave Moreau

Athena coming out of Zeus head - Athenebrunnen in Germany

A white robed figure, with hood and mantle thrown back, glided ghost like, published in the Observer, 1893.

📸 Asen Velikov

Horia Dumitrescu and Ștefan-Marius Milcu, Cercetări antropologice în Ținutul Pădurenilor: Satul Bătrîna (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Republicii Populare Romîne, 1961)

source: Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Ms. Berol. germ. quart. 357. p. 41

Emil Bührle Collection, Kunsthaus Zürich

Käthe Kollwitz, Parents, from the series War, 1921–22, published 1923

Edvard Munch, The Woman and the Bear, 1908-09. From Edward Gorey’s bequest to the Wadsworth Atheneum. 

The song is performed on wedding ceremonies, at midnight, by older women, addressing the bride. It is believed to date back to pre-Christian times, which is indicated by it's tonality and use of pentatonic scale. The melody was first recorded in the 19th century by Oskar Kolberg, who traveled all around Poland collecting ethnographic material. Thanks to him we know the song was known across all of Poland, by both nobility and common folk.

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Inga woman's clothes, Colombia, Tatiana Jacanamijoy

Zenit 122 + Fujicolor C200

"Sypanie piaskiem" is an old custom from the rural parts of Poland that consists in drawing protective or decorative symbols with sand.

Source: British Library

Roma girl from Vranje, southern Serbia, 1960-70s