Man, Myth and Magic Collection

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CAVE PAINTINGS Detail of cave paintings of a stag, from the Axial Gallery of Lascaux caves, France. Computer/artwork graphic by James Thorn

THEOSOPHY - THOUGHT-FORMS - ASTRAL PLANE Occult vision of the music of Gounod, being played on a church organ. Paintings of thought-forms were originated by a group of Theosophists

Cave Art - Lascaux - Prehistoric cave painting of running horse, from the cave system of Lascaux (Axial Gallery). Computer/artwork graphic by James Thorn

CAVE PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS. Prehistoric cave painting of Horse from Lascaux (Axial Gallery). Artwork and computer graphic by James Thorn. Copyright CWC

The demon-forms of Behemoth and Leviathan as visualized by William Blake in his Illustration to the Book of Job, 1825. The hippopotamus-like monster is Behemoth

Reputed portrait of Joan of arc, from the original, formerly in the Church of St. Maurice, Orleans - also Jeanne d Arc (1412 - 30 May 1431)

CAVE ART. Prehistoric painting of Bison on the walls of Lascaux cave

ASTROLOGY - NOSTRADAMUS The schema of the cosmos [Mundus Elementaris] according to the late mediaeval cosmology: an engraving from Johann Daniel Mylius, Opus Medico-Chymicum, 1618

ATLANTIS Map according to the polymath Athansius Kircher ( 1602 - 1680 ) who based his account of the lost continent on the writings of Plato. From Kirchers Mundus Suberraneus - 1678

Easter Island - Group of megalithic statues on Easter Island. - TopFoto / Charles Walker
Easter Island - Group of megalithic statues on Easter Island.- © TopFoto / Charles Walker

THE ROYSTON CAVE Templar cave at Royston, Hertfordshire, possibly used by the Knights Templar. Discovered 1742 Images of the Crucifixion

Greek Mythology. Venus, Cupid and Pan. Ancient greek statuary of Venus, Cupid and Pan in the National Museum, Athens. From the sacred island of Delos. May be Roman copies

Easter Island. Statue, with traces of carvings on body

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

CAVE ART. Pictograph of a lizard-man carved by shamans or indian artists, on the so-called Newspaper Rock in Utah, USA

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

Easter Island - early maps - Lithographic reproductions of 18th century sea charts of Easter Island. Private collection. - © Charles Walker / TopFoto

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

NOSTRADAMUS - SAMPLE QUATRAINS Within a hundred and fifty years of the death of Nostradamus (1566), the main body of his quatrains had been adjusted an edited into what was regarded by most editors

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

Easter Island - Birdman cult - Birdman carvings on the wooden statue of a Christian saint in the church at Easter Island. - © Charles Walker / TopFoto

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

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

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

NOSTRADAMUS - Statue of Nostradamus in Salon, the town where he lived and died. The statue is in Place de Gaule, and was sculpted in stone by Joseph Re, in 1867

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

NOSTRADAMUS - PREDICTION OF NOVA. In Quatrain 2: 41 (published 1555), Nostradamus
NOSTRADAMUS - - PREDICTION OF NOVA. In Quatrain 2:41 (published 1555), Nostradamus predicted the Nova, or New Star, of 1572

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

ROSICRUCIAN - CHAKRAS - ZODIAC The image of Cosmic Man and Woman with the planetary centres which correspond [almost] to the charkas of the Oriental system

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)

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