Mithras Slaying The Bull, 2nd Century, Hall of Animals, Pio Clementino Museum

“As He rides in His chariot, He shines upon men and Deathless Gods, and piercingly He gazes with His eyes from His golden helmet. Bright rays beam dazzlingly from Him, and His bright locks streaming form the temples of His head gracefully enclose His far-seen face: a rich,

Apollo with the Hours, By Georg Friedrich Kersting.

Augustus at the Tomb of Alexander — Lionel-Noël Royer (1878)

"In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl. A great black shape against the fires beyond he loomed up, grown to a vast menace of despair. In rode the Lord of the Nazgûl, under the archway that no enemy ever yet had passed, and all fled before his face. All save one. There waiting, silent

Absolute slop. Plato and Aristotle were not some sort of unconscious christians, they were very consciously Pagan. Rewriting history like this is a very desperate attempt to make your jewish apocalyptic cult wearing a Solar Mystery cult's robe seem like it's not bullshit. - 🧵⏬

Faith bound to evidence dies when evidence fades. Faith born of truth endures, because it flows from the same source as reason and light.

“For spirit alone does not make noble; rather, there must be something to ennoble the spirit. What is that required? Blood.” —Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

"It is enough to have observed the following: That there is an equal and identical dominion of Helios and Zeus over the separate creation which is prior to substances, in the region, that is to say, of the absolute cause which, separated from visible creation, existed prior to

Diana the Huntress, By Bernardino Cametti.