Browsing: Ritual

Fanny Brate’s domestic interior explores womanhood, silence, invisible labor, ritual, memory, and the historical structures of female representation.

Ancient Mesopotamian sculpture accompanying the themes of divine hierarchy, kingship, ritual, cosmic order, fate, and the recurring threat of chaos.

Egyptian mythology connects creation, death, rebirth, Ma’at, ritual, the afterlife, and divine order within a cyclical understanding of existence.

A historical representation of Zarathustra accompanying the Gathas and their themes of Ahura Mazda, wisdom, human choice, truth, ritual, and responsibility.

Raphael’s The School of Athens includes Zarathustra with a celestial globe, accompanying the discussion of Aša, Druj, truth, order, and Zoroastrian thought.

Two embracing figures merge through red, beige, ritual gesture, and traditional dress, transforming intimate love into an image of continuity, threshold, and cultural memory.

A child and guide cross a strange forest through symbols of key, cloak, wheel, and halo, forming a silent allegory of passage and transformation.

A portrait of Eliade accompanying his concepts of hierophany, sacred space, the world axis, primordial time, ritual repetition, and initiation.

A Symbolic image representing the passage from historical time into sacred time through myth, ritual, repetition, and the return to origins.

A Mithraic visual context accompanying the encounter between Jung’s clinical image of a tube hanging from the sun and a similar motif in an ancient liturgical text.