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Poems by Matsuo Bashō (1644-94)
Still alive I am
At the end of a long dream
On my journey,
Fall of an autumn day.Do not seek to follow in
the footsteps of the wise.Seek what they sought.
Everyday is a journey, and
the journey itself is home. -
Auguste Rodin's (1840-1917) unfinished sculpture "Gate of Hell" will be inaugurated at the Quirinale stables in Rome on October 15, 2021. On loan from the Rodin Museum in Paris, the «Inferno» exhibition will remain open until 9 January 2022.
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Charon carries souls across the river Styx - by Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (1835-1890)
In Greek mythology, Charon or Kharon (pronounced /ˈkɛərən/; Greek Χάρων) was the ferryman of Hades who carried souls of the newly deceased across the river that divided the world of the living the world of the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or danake, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. Some authors say that those who could not pay the fee, or those whose bodies were left unburied, had to wander the shores for one hundred years. In the catabasis mytheme, heroes — such as Heracles, Orpheus, Aeneas, Dionysus and Psyche — journey to the underworld and return, still alive, conveyed by the boat of Charon.
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200,000-Year-Old Hand Art Found Near a Tibetan Hot Spring (gizmodo)
A three-dimensional scan of the Quesang print panel, showing the depth gradient of the prints. An international team of researchers has reported the discovery of hand and foot prints from Quesang, in the Tibetan Plateau. The fossil impressions, which date to between 169,000 and 226,000 years ago and seem to have been created intentionally, could represent the earliest known art of its kind. Called parietal art, this form of ancient visual expression typically crops up on cave walls but can also be made on the ground, as appears to be the case for the recent Tibet discovery.
