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01/03/2026

Raven Steals the Light
How day and night cam tp exist?
Inuit folktale explains this beautifully.
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25/02/2026

So here’s the full story 👇📜

This painting is based on a Welsh legend about Llywelyn the Great, a 13th‑century prince of Wales.
According to the folk story, one day Llywelyn returned home and found his baby’s cradle overturned and surrounding area stained with blood.
His faithful hound, Gelert, stood nearby with its muzzle dark from a fight.

Assuming the dog had killed his child, Llywelyn struck Gelert down with his sword.
But moments later, he found his child safe and awake — and a dead wolf hidden beneath the baby’s clothes.
Gelert had saved the child from the wolf, and was wrongly killed.

This tragic legend became widely known in Britain and inspired painters like Gourlay Steell to depict the story in the mid‑19th century, because Victorian audiences were captivated by themes of loyalty, tragedy, and regret.

For real — how many times have we judged too quickly?

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23/02/2026

- E1 - Abduction of Persephone by Hades

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Every week a new tale.

17/02/2026

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Lucifer has been cast out of Heaven.

Once the most beautiful of the angels.
Now fallen.

His wings begin to darken.
He covers his face, refusing to let anyone see him break.

He still looks proud — but he’s clearly hurt.
There’s anger in his eyes — but no victory.

This is a being in the moment of loss.
Exiled, wounded, and still refusing to bow.

What do you see in his expression?

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06/01/2026

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An old man lies on his deathbed.
His breath is shallow. Time is almost gone.
Two Jesuit priests stand beside him.
One keeps his gaze fixed upward, guiding his prayers.
The other presses his hand toward paper, urging a final signature.

The dying man believes his soul is being prepared for heaven.
He trusts the ritual. He trusts the voices beside him.

Alexandre Struys painted this scene in 1876, inspired by a personal story:
a relative of the artist, near death, surrounded by Jesuits during his final moments.
The painting became deeply controversial for its open anti-clerical message.
In Belgium, it was barred from the Paris Salon.
Outside the country, it was exhibited in England and Germany,
where it gained recognition despite censorship at home.

This work does not accuse quietly.
It asks who truly benefits in the final moments when trust is easiest to exploit.

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30/12/2025

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In this painting, we see a Roman soldier in Pompeii.
Everything around him is collapsing, yet he remains still at his post.
Mount Vesuvius has erupted.
The city is being erased.
Bodies fill the streets.
But he does not move.

This image was inspired by a real discovery.
During early 19th-century excavations at Pompeii, archaeologists found the remains of a soldier still wearing full armor, positioned near a city gate.
Many historians of the time believed he stayed where he was ordered to stand...

The city falls.
The mountain burns.
And still, he stands.

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28/12/2025

Did you know the Trojan War didn’t start because of honor or destiny…
but because one goddess wasn’t invited to a party?

Meet Eris, the Greek goddess of chaos and discord. One golden apple. Three goddesses. One terrible decision. And ten years of war.

This short dives into the myth behind Eris, the Judgment of Paris, and how divine pettiness reshaped Greek history.

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23/12/2025

So here’s the full story 👇📜

In the early Renaissance, the fool was not just a clown.
In European courts, the fool was often the only figure allowed to mock kings, clergy, and scholars alike — saying what others could not.

In art, the fool became something deeper.
A mirror of human blindness, pride, and the ease with which ignorance disguises itself as wisdom.

In The Laughing Fool by Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen, this idea takes shape.
The man laughs loudly while trying to hide his face, peering through his fingers as if choosing what not to see.
His jester’s hat with donkey ears marks him as a fool — a figure who pretends to be foolish in order to expose real foolishness.

On his shoulder rests a marotte, a small staff topped with his own face — a doubled self, often associated with vanity and madness.
In his hand, he holds eyeglasses with no lenses. In the 16th century, such empty glasses were a common visual joke, mocking false scholars who appeared learned but understood nothing.

He looks, but does not see.
He laughs — not at himself, but at those who believe they see clearly while remaining blind.

Because in the end, the fool does not pretend to be wise.
We do.

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18/12/2025

New Word of the Week
Lugubrious (adj.) – Intensely mournful, dismal, or gloomy. A heaviness that settles into the atmosphere, coloring everything with a quiet sorrow—like dim rooms, rainy windows, or the echo of a memory that refuses to fade.

A word for moods that feel too deep for simple sadness.

11/12/2025

New Word of the Week
Serendipity (n.) – The occurrence of happy or beneficial events by pure chance. Those moments when life gently surprises you with exactly what you didn’t know you needed—an unexpected meeting, a lucky find, a small joy quietly waiting around the corner.

A reminder that not all good things are planned; some simply find you.

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