i believe its in virgil, he has hecate say “i, being beseeched by thy prayers, came hither”. to me beseech is like “beg”, “beseeched” implies slight pity. this affected my view of the divine - its the opposite of “be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid”. you can also beg
watching a small toddler run: their cheeks are so fat that the force of their only slightly bent legs pounding the earth cause both cheeks to reverberate. the force of the impact with the ground is running up their entire body and exiting through their cheeks. fantastic creatures
absurd detail to notice here but these are stock graffiti fonts (all the double letters are the exact same). they didn’t even get someone to actually draw any of this. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/977672a84c031a5ba13ff27add4ec218ce443a45e6ea6339c46c02d8c6265cc2.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e9ea7ad0b50569dd3835f8e6a83b164bf4b43980bc46af9710a450b290670742.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/e32c25d28129045b6dd3d9a61d3746f4342c8ef6d8b2fe8c79fcb50b7f7bf5c0.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b11a18478a65cf9318b963c3405cd276665c284c8a8ded64edd6b1ae186c7e8a.file
to have an image of something gives you power over it. you can see it, engage with it - it was already real, but now you're able to look at it. i believe this is intuited in our language: to capture an image, to capture a likeness, you captured it: thats possession, by force. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/a358155033ae50305d54ceb2c5db370848ccfcedfd300f246afd4b04e2be969a.file
an image of the devil is, in and of itself, satanic. an image of a demon is in and of itself promoting something about demons. there is probably something true to this, but the inverse is also true. catholic art, probably due to its history, seems to have retained this knowledge https://hell.twtr.plus/media/c44d66cdd139313ce3e9ea607db503c9e0229e55108d6b871bac0b33942052f9.file
this model is different from the model of images and image making found in modern american religion, in my opinion. thats my people group, and for a variety of reasons, we don't see images this way. consider how most modern american christians would see an image of the devil. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/d1eff1f6cc208c30e45930970f6278472ece25240542c0ea7f84d93b02f75974.file
the person wearing it in a ceremonial context now embodies "disease". now you can look at it. see it. you can engage with it in your own context. art books only really write about these cultures in this way, but this is true for everyone, and always has been.
paradoxically, these are the main things you wrestle against, in a way. you can't grab "the law" but the law can obviously grab you. so, one conception of art like this is that it gave form to these things. you can't see "disease" as a concept, so, here's the disease mask.
people, in general, are governed by unseen forces. these things you can't actually see often have more of an effect on you than the real actual things you see and touch. disease, famine, economics, the government, death itself, you cannot touch these things, you can't grab them.
that's unfortunate, because it does them a great disservice. of course they're all from different contexts, cultures, all that - but there is something unique that the mask represents, that i occasionally feel that my own spiritual paradigm and context, modern america, forgot. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/f23fdbd9d8a30962cb4707b23f260c5ff00f5ba5e2d36844f260f931ac102adb.file