Word: serpents
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William Blake's sketch of a thief in the toils of a serpent was included in a collection of old masters' drawings at the Durlacher Gallery. It shows the British mystic at his most frightening. Blake learned Italian in old age simply to read Dante, illustrated The Divine Comedy both to complement and criticize Dante's philosophy. For Blake, hell was on earth, not in the afterworld, but still he found it real enough. In Blake's drawing of Brunelleschi, the attacking serpent is not so much an infernal punishment for Brunelleschi's thieveries...
...your Billy Graham cover, I think Artist Chaliapin slipped on his Biblical background . . . "And the Lord said unto the Serpent . . . Upon thy belly shall thou go . . ." Your cover shows the serpent minus its legs, tempting...
...Reader Murray's herpetology is just as impressive as his exegesis: the serpent was cursed after the temptation but Chaliapin, in the tradition of most artists, chose to show the serpent the only way Adam's children have ever seen...
Cuauhtemoc; below are a plumed serpent (the god Quetzalcoatl) and various Indian types. Other walls are crowded with Mexican heroes, symbols of Indian deities and illustrations of Communications Ministry activities-railroad locomotives, bridges, telegraph lines...
...come immediately when they were sick or hurt. She told them about the school. And wherever she could she would wage a persistent Protestant war against the voodoo gods, Papa Legba (who is interlocutor between men and the gods), Maitresse Erzulie (of love) and Damballa Wedo (the good serpent of the sky), and against the houngans (priests) and mambos (priestesses) who served them...