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RedReplicant photostream on Flickr: “God the Father fishing for Leviathan”, 12th Century: Herrad of Landsberg’s Hortus deliciarum: 19th C reproduction drawings. In the Public Domain.

This is a very unusual depiction of God the Father using Christ, who is strung on a line of Old Testament prophets who predicted the messiah, as the hook to ensnare Satan or “Leviathan.” Herrad was a nun and scholar whose book interpreted the history of the world. It is more than likely that she illustrated the book in addition to authoring it.



• Jul 27, 2010 link notes tagged: art  communcation  vintage  engraving  illustration  ancient  Leviathan  God  Jesus  religion  monster  mythology  Satan  Evil  Hobbes  symbol 

What has not cankering Time made worse?
Viler than grandsires, sires beget
Ourselves, yet baser, soon to curse
The world with offspring baser yet.
✖ Via The Odes by Horace, tr. John Conington, London. George Bell and Sons. 1882, book 3, poem 6.

As quoted by Immanuel Kant in part one of his essay Religion within the boundaries of reason, 1794.



• Jul 22, 2010 link notes tagged: time  History  progress  decay  good  evil  nature  man  human  society  community  future  generation 
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Wikimedia Commons: “Destruction of Leviathan”, 1865 engraving by Gustave Doré.



• Jul 20, 2010 link notes tagged: art  engraving  classic  Gustave Doré  monster  sea  god  evil  satan  destruction  Hobbes  Leviathan  representation 

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