Word: mekhitarian
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Paintings of the afterlife are minimized in the volume, says Author Arpag Mekhitarian, partly because "our modern sensibility is allergic to these half-human, half-animal beings . . . whose greenish skins signify at once the decomposition of the corpse and the rebirth of vegetable life." From the Garden of Ialu (bottom, opposite), the book reproduces only the fraction which shows a man plowing and might be an earthly scene. Actually, Ialu was a forerunner of the Greek Islands of the Blessed. The whole picture shows the souls of a man and wife eternally sowing and reaping and worshiping their gods forever...
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