Visio Smaragdinaさんのイラストまとめ

The two faced god Janus gives his name to the month of January and he is the god of beginnings. In his statue in ancient Rome, the shape of the right hand signified the number 300 the left hand 65, totalling 365 the number of days in the year. Hand shapes symbolised numbers.

Evelyn de Morgan, one of the Pre-Raphaelite sisterhood, participating in a spiritualist session to receive messages from “the other side” via automatic writing, gelatin silver print, c. 1910. She produced some fantastic works such as “Queen Eleanor & Fair Rosamund”

@petermarkadams I loved your fantastic book Mystai, another beautiful pruduction from the incomparable @scarletimprint . By happy coincidence I had planned to visit Pompeii this week, just after I received my copy so I got to see the frescos in the Villa of Mysteries in person.