it made such an impression on him that he said all of his albums have “dedicated to the butterfly” written somewhere inside them. the reason he retained this, in his view, was that at that moment, when he made that oath, he was the most pure version of himself. this guy: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/b6a055a871e5d948b54167a1e6c5ddc472cc34e23a24fa529c068310700f6e2e.file

at this funeral, they swore they would work to get to heaven, so they could meet the butterfly again and apologize - or, if butterflies don’t go to heaven, they would petition God on the butterfly’s behalf to change this. this is something he retained for his entire life. why?

this was an extremely large, epic creature to two small children, and they decided to keep it in their room, caught, for one night, and then release it. unfortunately, it died in the night. they were so distraught at this cosmic transgression that they had a funeral for it.

in his autobiography, one member of ICP describes an incident from his childhood that informed his own spiritual anthropology - that is, the nature of man in this particular lifetime. when he was a kid, he and his brother would catch bugs. one time they caught a large butterfly. https://hell.twtr.plus/media/4dc9a68d02564fecfab3e8055c28e55d25d44d83cfbd8688b9c46596c5a7103f.file

as absurd as that sounds, its important to consider that folk religion is never top down, and its almost never intentional. “the folk” don’t set out to articulate or encode their intuitive beliefs about life into anything. they just do it. it just happens via the life process.

whether art is good or not is subjective. what can be objective are categories, if you define them. this all means that this, what you see in the image below, is in some sense a spiritual phenomenon. it has an aspect of folk religion: an ethics, a cosmology, and a mythology: https://hell.twtr.plus/media/78739971648407b20d549a1bb52598724f940b5dd9a9568e33a4c86f5a642e6b.file

disturbingly large berries for sale at the market. zero sense of propriety left in this culture. even the fruit is, i am sorry to say it, pornographic.

st jerome: reading man with pen knife: reading guys in the dark: also reading its nice when someone finds their calling https://hell.twtr.plus/media/3d8c4292b40f975a6f7fd2ad25f734b96d3ae4bbc07640ae80b97940f189aab2.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/26b6bf75361b37c47117dab16e87a1d8f245e0dd39630615f24d9fb609978759.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/6c087d4d7f06c9c280369b5c407c0cfe6b12c34025a96e0f68851bf42bad705b.file https://hell.twtr.plus/media/0f910ceb36bc95871b25f9505535e47b4c3414dbeae982cec2f6931b05fd3a11.file