Lady of Beasts - text by Enheduanna
The Erlkönig
Marax
Clauneck
Sphinx
Madonna and Child
Geomancy Mnemonic Images
Images representing the 16 geomantic figures, sourced from “famous” works of art roughly between the Renaissance and the industrial revolution. Each image was picked to fit the theme and shape of the geomantic figure.
Amissio, the Loss - "Woman with Dead Child" by Kathe Kollwitz, 1903
Albus, the White - "Enoch" by William Blake, 1806
Acquisitio, the Gain - "The August Century Magazine Midsummer" by Joseph Christian Leyendecker, 1896
Caput Draconis, the Dragon's Head - "Dragon and Tiger" by Hashimoto Gahou, 1895
Carcer, the Prison - "Prisoner's Round" by Vincent van Gogh, 1890
Cauda Draconis, the Dragon's Tail - "The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun" by William Blake, 1804
Conjunctio, the Conjunction - "The Kiss" by Edvard Munch, 1895
Fortuna Major, the Major Fortune - "Joan of Arc Listening to the Voices" by Eugene Thirion, 1876
Fortuna Minor, the Lesser Fortune - "Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog" by Caspar David Friedrich, 1818
Laetitia, the Joy - "The Garden Gate" by Claude Monet, 1881
Populus, the People - "Cliff Dwellers" by George Bellows, 1913
Puella, the Girl/the Distaff - "The Spinner" by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1873
Puer, the Boy/the Sword - "Bonaparte, First Consul" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1804
Rubeus, the Red - "Bacchus" by Caravaggio, 1598
Tristitia, the Sorrow - " The Angelus" by Jean-Françoise Millet, 1858
Via, the Road - "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Grant Wood, 1931