Esoterica Collection (page 5)

TROPICAL ISLANDS - Laccadives Bangaram island, with traditional boat. The Laccadive group (sometimes called the Lakshadweep) in the Indian Ocean

Staffa The hexagonal basaltic columns which form the cliffs of Staffa Island and which are often believed to have carved by giants or made by the ancient magicians

TROPICAL ISLANDS - Maldives Bandos, with girl of beach

TROPICAL ISLANDS Palm Island, in the Grenadines of te west Indies. Beach and boats

TROPICAL ISLANDS Tropical storm gathering in Polynesia

CAVE PAINTINGS Paintings on the cave wall of one of the sacred sea shore caves of Easter Island. Date unknown

Footprint in the sand on a desert island, such as was seen by Robinson Crusoe

TROPICAL ISLANDS French Polynesea. beach scene on Morea, off Tahiti

TROPICAL ISLANDS Beach on Penang island, Malaysia. Couple in distance

Greek Medicine The healing tree of Hippocrates on the island of Cos

GREEK MEDICINE. The Asklepeion, perhaps the oldest surviving hospital (orignal Greek, but in its surviving form, Roman) oin the island of Cos. Here herbal medicine and sleep-healing were practiced

Greek Mythology Hippocrates The healing tree of Hippocrates at Cos on the Island of Cos

TROPICAL ISLANDS French Polynesia. Beach at Rangiroa. tourist complex

POLYNESIAN MYTHOLOGY Polynesian painting on wood. displayed on a roadside on the island of Tahiti

Patmos, Greece. The Monastery of St John, on the island of Patmos, where St John is believed to have written the Apocalyptic vision

NOSTRADAMUS - TITLEPAGE Titlepage of Les Vrayes Centuries et Propheties de Maistre Michel Nostradamus, printed in Amsterdam in 1668

NOSTRADAMUS - Titlepage of Nostradamus Prophecies in the (Amsterdam) 1668 edition. The two vignettes show the execution of Charles I and the Great Fire of London

CAVE PAINTINGS Paintings of maidens (cloud maidens, or lightening princesses) on the walls of the cave below the rock palace at Sigiriya, Sri Lanka. 5th century AD

Easter Island - The raised upright giant statues below the ancient volcanic quarry on Easter Island. - © Charles Walker / TopFoto

Easter Island Birdman Mythology Part of the huge dwellings on the rim of the volcano Rano Kau marking the site called Orongo where the rituals of the birdman were observed

MYTHOLOGY - OVID The titlepage of Ovids poem, Metamorphosis, turned into English by George Sandys, 1627. Sandys did the greater part of his translation in America

ASTROLOGY - ECLIPSES A woodcut illustrating the effect of one of the seven eclipses which occured in the Dark Yeare of 1652 - three of which were visible in England

NOSTRADAMUS - Fantasy portrait of Nostradamus with hour-glass

Constellation Map Denderah A nineteenth century engraving of the roof zodiac or constellation map in the Temple of Hathor Denderah Egypt

POLYNESIAN MYTHOLOGY Detail of Polynesian statue in private collection on the island of Kauai

NOSTRADAMUS - ST REMY. Rue de Nostradamus in St Remy, where Nostradamus was born. To the left is a fountain, above which is a bust of the savant

Easter Island - Birdman cult - Birdman images mingling with Christian symbols on the facade of the church at Easter Island - © Charles Walker / TopFoto

UFOs Unidentified flying objects in the skies on 7 August 1566 (the month after the death of Nostradamus), over the city of Basle, Switzerland. Loose reprint, after a broadsheet published in 1566

Arthurian - Dozmary Pool - The haunted pool of Dozmary, on Bodmin Moor. It was in these waters that King Arthur is supposed to have thrown his sword, shortly before he died

NOSTRADAMUS -. Portrait of the French clairvoyant, Michel Nostradamus (1503-1566)) at the age of 59. The Prophecies of Nostradamus, which were first published in 1555

Portrait of Nostradamus, seated at his desk, within a rectangular surround decorated with the images and sigils for the twelve signs of the zodiac

NOSTRADAMUS - TITLEPAGE Titlepage of Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus - a version of the edition printed in Lyons by Benoist Rigaud, in 1568

Fantasy, combining element of the early nineteenth century Epinal print with the opening page of the Propheties

Greek island - Pothia - capital of Kalymnos 2006 Charles Walker / TopFoto
Greek island - Pothia - capital of Kalymnos © 2006 Charles Walker / TopFoto

Greek Islands Delos Faucet in the form of a lions mouth on the remains of a house on the island of Delos

POLYNESIAN MYTHOLOGY Polynesian wood painting displayed on the roadside, Tahiti

United States Early map of America. Hand coloured woodcut of the New World, from the 1538 edition of Sebastian Munsters edition of Solinus

OBSERVATORIES - Easter Island The so-called houses on the edge of the volcano at Orongo, which are in fact observation passages for sighting sunset, moonset and various starsets

CAVE PAINTINGS Frescoes (detail) of the cloud maidens, or lightening princesses, on the cave walls of the great Lion Rock at Sigiriya, Sri Lanka. 5th century AD

PICTOGRAPHS - SPACE-MEN. Native American pictographs, some depicting animal-gods of the kind said by von Daniken to represent spacemen or astronauts - see, for example

Buddhism The largest cast metal statue of Buddha in the world in Lantau Island at the Po Lin Monastery

Easter Island A few of the upright giant statues near the ancient volcanic quarry, on Easter Island © Charles Walker / TopFoto

Easter Island - Statue on Easter Island. - TopFoto / Charles Walker
Easter Island - Statue on Easter Island.- © TopFoto / Charles Walker

Portrait [presumably originally an ink drawing] of Michel Nostradamus by Honore Daumier. From Almanach Prophetique, Pittoresque et Utile pour 1848. From the library of David Ovason

NOSTRADAMUS - TITLEPAGE The True Prophecies or Prognostications of Michael Nostradamus, by Theophilus Garencieres - the first complete transtion into English of the Propheties

NOSTRADAMUS - PORTRAIT OF NOSTRADAMUS Portrait woodcut, as frontispiece to the Life of Nostradamus, in the Jean-Baptiste Besongne (Rouen)

Easter Island Bird Cult Heads of two bird headed deities fresco fragment in the Museum of Easter Island

HOROSCOPES - WILLIAM BLAKE The horoscope of the English mystic, artist and poet, William Blake, who was born in London, at 7.45 pm on 28 November 1757 (figure 00)

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