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In this week's Drabble of Art we travel to Japan to appreciate the ethereal beauty of Hasegawa Tōhaku's screen 'Pine Trees'.
If you've not read the previous drabbles in the series then you will find them here:
http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/p/a...
Pine Trees by Hasegawa Tōhaku
Walking through the mist transforms the familiar surroundings into the surreal. The pine forest normally fills the valley with its lush, green texture, but in the morning, when the river’s mist hugs the ground in its damp clasp, there is no colour.
Only the endless wall of grey.
Shapes are formless, the mighty trees only recognisable only as I approach them. The damp drains my spirit. I cannot even smell the sap from the trees. The closing mist presses against me, its chill touch absorbing all sound.
But all is transient. The sun rises and the world of colour returns.
For this week's Drabble of the Gods we hop over the Irish Sea to meet Badb. I've taken part of the translated Second Battle of Motura as the basis of this drabble.
If you've not read the previous drabbles in the series then you will find them all here:
http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/p/d...
Badb
I am the crow of doom, the mist of war and the screams of the dying.
I shall not see a world that will be dear to me.
Summer without flowers,
Cows will be without milk,
Women without modesty,
Men without valour,
Captures without a king.
Woods without mast,
Sea without produce,
Wrong judgments of old men,
False precedents of law,
Every man a betrayer,
Every boy a reaver.
Son will enter his father's bed,
Father will enter his son's bed,
Everyone will be his brother's brother-in-law.
An evil time!
Son will deceive his father,
Daughter will deceive her mother.
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We return to a biblical theme with one of William Blake's series of paintings from books of the bible. The Book of Revelations has been the inspiration for many a fine horror story, so seems a fitting choice for this latest drabble in the Drabbles of Art series.
You can read the previous drabbles in the series here:
http://thecultofme.blogspot.co.uk/p/a...
The Number of the Beast is 666 by William Blake
And from the earth rose a second beast, this one horned as a ram. His words moved the world to fall under the sway of the first beast.
He summoned fire from heaven to fall upon the earth. With other great wonders he deceived mankind into making an image of the first beast.
The image was granted life and he slew those who refused their worship. Those who cast their lot with the beast were marked forever.
Wisdom allows you to count the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.