'Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of French Heroes' by Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson, 1802. This painting was commissioned to adorn Bonaparte's country home at Malmaison.

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'He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.' - Colossians 1:17

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Sometimes, much like an actual Throne, people have days to rise in power. Luckily for that is today.

Throne is a classification of angels that represent God and his authority and justice. Appearing in the New Testament as far back as Colossians 1:16.

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Mirad que dibujo más guay de mi alter ego animalcrossiano ha hecho 🧡🍃🦝

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These are only a few of my OCs that I've actually drawn. Here are their names in order: Adira Panossian, Shay Falke, Cecilia Mary Sullivan Prieto, & Eshal Zoref. I like giving my children unique or long ass names.

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1853: Ossianic Society founded to preserve/publish MSs of Fionn cycle. Founding members: John O'Daly, William Elliot Hudson, John Edward Pigot, Owen Connellan, John Windele, William Smith O'Brien, Standish Hayes O'Grady. 1860, 746 subscribers.🎨Oisin by & ?

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Ossian's Falls a mythic waterfall.#painting

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James Macpherson (d. 1796) was "a mountebank, a liar, & a fraud”, Dr Johnson wrote & his "Ossian" was a forgery. It was, but it hit the European mindscape like a bomb and he became one of the foremost spiritual fathers of the Romantic Age. More on:
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“The word of Christ must live in you richly. Teach and warn each other with all wisdom”

Colossians 3:16a (CEB)

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Allegedly, Napoleon himself ordered the paining of "Malvine, Dying in the Arms of Fingal" from the Ossian cycle (around 1801) by Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, b. 1767

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The Dream of Ossian - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

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Here we have a gift I did for my friend character Kyro, a knossian one-man warmachine!

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For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.
Colossians 2:16

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Colossians 1:16 For in him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things have been created through him and for him.

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Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of the Fallen French Heroes, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson

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Today, Macpherson is often called a “faker” & “forger”. But much of the hostility towards him is because, shortly after the Jacobite rebellions, he staked a claim for the existence of a high culture.
(Img: Girodet, Ossian Receiving the Ghosts of Fallen French Heroes)

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“Ossian” inspired the brothers Grimm to seek out German folk-literature, & Elias Lönnrot to compile Finnish tales into the Kalevala. English scholars, aghast at the lack of ancient epics of their own, conscripted Beowulf (a story about a Geat, & set in Denmark) as “Old English”.

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James Macpherson, author/translator of the “Ossian” poems—in part derived from songs & legends from oral tradition—was born 1736. The poems were a global sensation, & are the founding texts of European & of modern
(Img: Ingres, Le Songe d’Ossian)

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