Tag: Roman

  • The Hourglass of Saturn

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    Some Questions What if time were a constant governed by a mechanical device? What if somewhere from deep in the pleroma between Indra’s faceted jewel’s there was a perfect machine regulating the flow of immediate experience? How would it function? What would it look like? Some Thoughts The Hourglass of Saturn is a very literal…

  • Hermanubis

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    Hermanubis is a syncretic Roman Egyptian statue. It resides at the Vatican in room four of the Gregorian Egyptian museum. The museum was founded in 1839 by pope Gregory to help preserve artifacts from Rome and the Villa Adriana, also known as The villa of the Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli. Hermanubis was one of the…