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The *real* original of the Pondering the Orb meme.

GF Watts, ‘The All-Pervading’
1887–90

CERBERUS, the happy three-headed dog who guards the gates to the underworld, by William Blake, 1824-27. Insane but cute.

WATER and AIR, Hendrik Goltzius, 1586

EARTH and FIRE, Hendrik Goltzius, 1586

This is AI generated art of Persephone goddess of the underworld

“Abraxas is the sun, and at the same time the eternally sucking gorge of emptiness, of the diminisher and dismemberer, of the devil.”

CARL JUNG, the Red Book

The Fall of the Rebel Angels, 1621
By Lucas Emil Vorsterman after Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Hell, from the series The Four Last Things by Jan Sadeler I (1575-1600). The ‘demons’ here look more like satyrs.

‘The Blessing of Pan’ by Lord Dunsany (1927). A vicar of an English village tries to prevent his flock from falling away from the Christian faith and back to that old time religion- animal sacrifice and worship of the great god Pan at the standing stones. Art: Sidney Sime.

‘They are surely there, the divine people, for only we who have neither simplicity nor wisdom have denied them, and the simple of all times and the wise men of ancient times have seen them and even spoken to them.’

WB YEATS
art: Iris Compiet