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the queen bee and her drone priests

She tore the heart out of those poor drones. The ancient Greeks were always ready to incorporate strange gods into their own household of divinities. When they colonized Ephesus in Asia Minor in about 1000 B.C. , they found a … Continue reading

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THREADS OF HORROR FROM THE "EVIL GENIUS"

“What in effect Caravaggio is doing systematically and deliberately, for the first time in the history of art, is destroying the space between the event in the painting and the people looking at it…” “Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio (1571-1610) … Continue reading

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