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William Anastasi, Self Portrait, 1967

Leaf-2017

Jacques Olivier - Alphabet de l'Imperfection et Malice des Femmes, 1665.

‘The Northern Constellations’ from Middleton’s Celestial Atlas (1842)

This chart illustrates the Male Body with the Microcosmic Orbit and Functional Channel Yin, with the Eight Forces and the detail explanation surrounding the figure.

Eliphas Lévi - Pentacle of Kabbalistic Letters, “The History of Magic”, 1922.

Tower of Silence. A Tower of Silence is a circular, raised structure used by Zoroastrians for exposure of the dead, particularly to scavenging birds for the purposes of Excarnation.  The 3,000-year-old Zoroastrian tradition Parsis follow regards all elements as Sacred, so burying or cremating a body defiles Nature. Instead, they practice Dokhmenashini, a system that includes the use of circular stone structures called Towers of Silence, or Dakhma. There, bodies are laid in concentric rows for the vultures to consume. They believe the dead are contaminated by evil Spirits, and the Soul is purified for it’s Cosmic Transition through the Mystic Eye of the vulture. Before the vultures began to disappear, a body could be reduced to bone within an hour. Now, however, bodies rot in the hot sun for weeks while smaller birds such as kites and crows pick at the remains. Within the tower’s high walls, bodies are arranged in three rows – men on the outer row, women on the second, and children on the inner row. The Dakhmas are capable of holding 250 bodies at a time. After a hungry flock of vultures picks the bodies clean, the bones are into the center well, called the Bhandar, where they are left in the sun to return to the elements. Putrefying matter is washed into channels at the bottom of the well that lead to four outer wells. There the water filters through a thick bed of sand and charcoal, leaving the other material to collect in the underground chambers. A small, “untouchable” sub-caste of Parsis called Khandhias are the only ones allowed to handle the bodies, as dead matter is considered “unclean.”

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Botticelli’s Venus as part of a slide show on buildings during the Festival of Lights in Lyon, France.

The Seven Bodies of Man.

Lace design by Margarete Naumann, c. 1919

Toadstool, 1936