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The Nativity by William Blake (1757 - 1827)

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2024, Year of the Dragon

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Philosophy is really homesickness - the desire to be everywhere at home.

Novalis, Notes for a Romantic Encyclopedia

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“The individual soul should seek for an ultimate union with the soul of the universe.”

— Novalis.

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Pom Poko (1994) directed by Isao Takahata

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Adam and Eve by Mikhail Nesterov (1862 - 1942)

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detail, Holy Trinity, 1491-93 Sandro Botticelli

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Giotto (ca. 1267-1337)

"St. Francis' sermon to the birds", detail panel from "Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata", ca. 1295-1300

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mary in a flower crown, st gabriel of the sorrowful mother, pennsylvania, usa

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Harold Nelson - Undine and Aslauga's Knight. The Caxton Series, 1901.

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Circle of Jan Wellens de Cock - Landscape with Hermit (between 1500 and 1524)

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Ivan Aivazovsky: View of Constantinople by Evening Light (1884)

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Dream painted by Joan Brull (1863 - 1912)

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Mongolian manuscript from the 19th century, full of charts and diagrams that astrologers (generally Buddhist monks) would use to calculate the best time to do certain things, such as depart on a trip or remove a dead body from a dwelling: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-mongolian-manual-of-astrology-and-divination