Two Satyrs by Reubens
It’s that time again– don your flayed hide and dust off your cat-o-nine-tails. Lupercalia is here!
Decadent blessings to you dear reader!
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Kiss the Goat
Posted in etsy with tags crowley, gothic jewelry, gothic rosary, gothic valentine, lupercalia, pagan rosary, pan, unvalentine, valentine's day on February 13, 2012 by purlygrrrlAzrael’s Trumpets
Posted in inspiration with tags angel of death, azrael, coil, evelyn de morgan, goth, gothic jewelry, morbid, peter lamborn wilson, preraphaelite on January 20, 2012 by purlygrrrl“When the soul sees Azrael, it ‘falls in love’, and its gaze is thus withdrawn from the body as if by a seduction.”– Peter Lamborn Wilson
This is one of my favourite Coil Songs– I’ve received much comfort from it. It, as well as the painting by Evelyn de Morgan, inspired the Azreal’s Trumpet earrings.
The Angel of Death by Evelyn de Morgan
Azrael's Trumpets by Feral Strumpet on Etsy
The Sound of Home
Posted in York with tags bells, cathedral bells, etsy, gothic jewelry, handmade, rose windows, york minster on December 13, 2011 by purlygrrrlIf there is a sound I associate with the city of York, it’s the bells of the minster. They have little religious significance to me, and probably because of that they often seem a kind of aural ambush of the sublime, arriving suddenly and permeating the little streets with echoing peals that are quite haunting. Just the other day the bells played a rendition of Greensleeves and then another melancholy carol– something that sounded much like Eliza’s Aria (which will now forever be known as the Lloyds TSB song).
I like to imagine the bells are summoned from the Minster itself, deep beneath the doomstone, and that they are the song of the many greenmen secreted in the mansory. But really, it’s an athletic endeavor, the ringing of the bells. In the two towers there are 56 bells, the most bells of any English cathedral. You can read about the bells and their ringers on the ringer’s site. Listening to the bells reminds me of my favourite Tarkovsky film, Andrei Rublev, set in Medieval Russia, where the casting of a bell is an almost magical act.
After standing in the rain (ill advised– I caught cold) spellbound by the sound, I was inspired to make these earrings in tribute.
York Minster Rose Windows, Handmade Earrings by Feral Strumpet on Etsy
