Thoth as cynocephalus.- From tomb of Amen-her-khopshef, near Der-el Medina, Luxor (XXth dynasty, 12the cent, B. C.
Dante and Virgil on their journey to the underworld.-Illumination for the Inferno, Canto XVII, Codex Urbanus Latinus.
Pagan rites of Transformation in the Middle Ages, with serpents.-Gnostic design.
Creation of Adam from the clay of the prima materia.- Schedel, Das Buch der Chroniken (1493).
The union of "Irreconcilables": marriage of water and fire. The two figures each have two hands to symbolize their many different capabilities.- After an Indian painting.
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