"The ideas ruins evoke in me are grand. Everything comes to nothing, everything perishes, everything passes, only the world remains, only time endures."
The Pic : Roman Agora of Athens, in a rainy morning of March 2023
"For juveniles like us at the core of Hellhammer and early Celtic Frost, who were quite obsessed by the concepts created by Boris Vallejo, Frank Frazetta, HR Giger, Ron Cobb, Robert E. Howard, H.P. Lovecraft and Aleister Crowley, an utterly dedicated sword and sorcery movie such as the original Conan The Barbarian (1982) fell on deeply fertile soil. I owned every Conan book by Howard, including the unfinished ones completed by L. Sprague de Camp et al, and in spite of the fact that Conan The Barbarian deviated quite significantly from Howard's original stories, John Milius' film managed to capture the spirit of Conan's Hyborian Age to astonishing perfection.
My contemporary obsession with this movie thus at times approached alarmingly fanatical levels. Likely among the mildest of those were various visual, musical and lyrical references to Howard's prose, as can be found on Morbid Tales, Emperor's Return, To Mega Therion, and Into The Pandemonium.
This was all of course eons ago, and it is thus by now as much an ancient saga as Conan's story was when Howard wrote it down under the guidance, as he said, of Conan's ethereal spirit. But some of my closest friends back then walked this path with me, just as some of my friends of today share such sentiments."
Reinhard Heydrich leaves his home for the office.
On the right of the door:
"You are not today and are not tommorow. You are 1,000 years in front of you and are 1,000 years after you"
Wolf Sorensen
- PATRIOS POLITEIA -
Origin and Meaning
‘ancestral constitution (or way of life)’, slogan apparently used in the late 5th cent. bc at Athens by proponents of oligarchy, as a reassuring but fraudulent way of justifying constitutional change. The fraud lay in the implied claim that earlier reformers like Solon and Cleisthenes had denied full citizen rights (see citizenship, greek) to thetes, confining them to hoplites (zeugitai) and above. Such general nostalgia for the imagined world of Solon and Cleisthenes is found in the 4th cent., and some of the tradition about the 5th cent. may reflect 4th‐cent.
MEMORIA DE LA SANGRE (2017)
With English Subs
"Documentary film that tracks down the traces of Jacques de Mahieu, a nazi refugee who lived in Argentina. He was an intellectual, scientist and archaeologist, obsessed to prove that the civilizations of America are of Aryan origin, descendants of Vikings who arrived in the continent centuries before the Spanish. His story is related to esoteric Nazism and the Aryan myth of creation, ancient secret societies, legends of lost civilizations, and even the mystery of Atlantis."
THE PIC : A black-figure Calyx-Krater from Attica, c. 530 BCE
THE MOTIVE: Homer Iliad - Book XVII
Two rival groups of warriors fight over the dead body of Patroclus.
According to the Iliad, Patroclus enters the battle with the weapons and armour of Achilles. After killing many Trojans, Patroclus 'wits removed by Apollo, after which Patroclus were hit with the spear of Euphorbos. Hector then killed Patroclus by stabbing him in the stomach with a spear. The battle of two armies erupts over the dead body of the fallen hero.
"Vlad was not very tall, but very stocky and strong, with a cold and terrible appearance, a strong and aquiline nose, swollen nostrils, a thin and reddish face in which the very long eyelashes framed large wide-open green eyes; the bushy black eyebrows made them appear threatening. His face and chin were shaven but for a moustache. The swollen temples increased the bulk of his head. A bull's neck connected [with] his head from which black curly locks hung on his wide-shouldered person."
Nicholas of Modruš
(Pope's representative at the courts of King Stephen Tomašević of Bosnia and King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary)
SEE ALSO:
THE SUPERIOR NEGOTIATION SKILLS OF VLAD TEPES
