the locusts from the abyss
illustration from an anglo-norman prose apocalypse, england, c. 1315–25
source: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Selden supra 38, fol. 69r
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Text: I visit the future to find the cure for this terrible plague, but the town, my own family refuses to give it up. “You said it won’t work unless you figure it out yourself. But you left yourself one hint.”
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aesthetic | apollo
god of the sun, archery, healing, plagues, poetry, and prophecy and truth
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The ancient world was a deadly time to be alive. Plagues, epidemics, venereal disease, and war amongst others kept mortality rates high and life expectancy low. Death in ancient Rome and Greece was an everyday thing.
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Deaths Knell.
Or
The sick mans Passing-bell.
William Perkin, 1664
British Library
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"Hi, Satan here. I just want to remind you that God is the one responsible for plagues, floods and pandemics.
I'm only in charge of orgies and metal bands."
If you can thank god, you can blame god.
If you insist you can't, then you don't recognize your god as a being with agency. That is, like a child, humans must excuse and alleviate your god of its responsibility, because it's incapable either of understanding it or bearing it. When you cannot, or will not, blame your god and insist on shielding it from the responsibility of its actions, you're parenting your god. When you only thank your god, you're infantalizing it.
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Estimated 28.5 million dead thus far during our ongoing pandemic (per Economist models)—including the near three quarter million dead in just the last 3 months—places it third among modern (through 20th century) epidemics:
⒈ 1918 Flu: est. 17-100 million
⒉ HIV/AIDS: 43 million to date (over 40+ years)
⒊ Covid-19: 28.5 million to date (over 4+ years)
⒋ Third Plague (Bubonic): 12-15 million (over 100+ years)
⒌ 1968 Flu: 1-4 million
⒍ 1957 Flu: 1-4 million
⒎ 1918 Russian Typhus: 2-3 million
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What's with these damn masked bands and singers??
Coming up in here
Being awesome and whatever
Jerks
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Hey.
Sorry if I’m interrupting anything.
I’m just curious.
I saw all these memes and posts about the plague of frogs during the recent Passover week. (I’m not Jewish myself, I was raised Catholic but I’m not religious, idk what to believe tbh)
And it got me wondering.
Would frogs be considered kosher or not?
Assuming you know I mean. (Sorry if I’m wasting time)
I’d say probably not with the whole plague thing but idk.
Hence why I’m asking.
not a problem at all! the question of whether frogs are kosher actually has nothing to do with the plagues. there are very specific guidelines for which animals are considered kosher.
no reptiles or amphibians are kosher. any water-dwelling creature must have fins and scales in order to be kosher.
(land animals must have split hooves and chew their cud. birds are... more complicated, the torah lists 24 specific types of birds that are not kosher, but you can imagine the difficulty in trying to accurately translate biblical hebrew bird names and identify which modern day species they refer to)
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Deep Water Prompt #3200
Time travel is strictly regulated, to avoid plagues of Time Sickness. It’s a terrible way to go, an infant one day, an old man, or a schoolboy the next, delirious with fever from the strain.
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Seventh Plague of Egypt by John Martin
In the Bible, Moses calls down ten plagues before the pharaoh is persuaded to free the enslaved Israelites. This work, one of Martin's grandest paintings, depicts the seventh: "And Moses stretched forward his rod toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and fire rained down onto the earth." Moses and his brother Aaron are at the left upon the foreground balustrade while the anguished Egyptians, including the pharaoh, cower amidst the towering buildings of Thebes. Inspired by Turner, Martin produced a series of these dramatic ancient or biblical scenes. In this case, he drew upon some of the earliest illustrated publications on Egyptian monuments to create an authentic setting.
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