iopanosiris:

Roberto Ferri, Nigredo

In alchemy, nigredo, or blackness, means putrefaction or decomposition. The alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher’s stone all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter.

In analytical psychology, the term became a metaphor ‘for the dark night of the soul, when an individual confronts the shadow within’

aux-amours-diluviennes:

“Eve” by Walter Crane, from The graphic arts of Great Britain, by Malcolm C. Salaman & Charles Holme, London, Paris, New York, 1917.

plarabee:

Lilith by Deiv Calviz…

baroness:

Death grips

(buy this here)

roofbeams:

from my paper on joan of arc