PURE SUNSHINE

1885 illustrations of Chinnamastā (छिन्नमस्ता - "She whose head is severed"), a sacrificial Hindu goddess who decapitates herself to feed her blood to devotees.

 The semi nude goddess holds her own head in one hand, a scimitar in the other. Her blood is drunk by herself and two attendants.

 She is a goddess of contradictions, and symbolizes both aspects of Devi: a life-giver and a life-taker.

 She represents death, temporality, and destruction, as well as life, immortality, and recreation. 

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The smell of an old book is the smell of its death.

The scent is caused by paper, ink and adhesives breaking down. As a book’s organic compounds degrade, they release chemicals into the air that we interpret as a combination of grass, vanilla, and almond.

Books also hang on to odors that tell the story of their history– like smoke, flowers pressed between pages, or water damage.