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Going Down
By Dan’el
/ January 21, 2025
“Gate of Dreams.” 2024, acrylic on canvas, my work. It is great good fortune to go down As the sun…
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The Last Return: A Bedtime Story
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
“Falling Angel,” d.nighting, 2017, acrylic In a time before childhood,Long ago and far away,At the center of things,A fair child,…
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The Book of Generations: On the Origin of Dragons
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Sumerian seal from Tell Asmar, in modern Iraq, c. 2700 BCE, showing a solar deity slaying a 7-headed dragon at…
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Forbidden Knowledge
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
William Blake, The Book of Job: When the Morning Stars Sang Together, 1826 When I was a child Who thought…
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Et Ego in Cimmeria
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
An Ottoman Geographic Drawing, Katip Çelebi, Jihanumma (1650s) Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the…
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A Pearl at the Throat of the Sky
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Dragon Pearl ceiling from Zhihuasi (Temple of Wisdom Attained), Beijing, 1444. Preserved, with addition of lamp, at Nelson-Atkins Museum of…
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Sunlight Returns to the River
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Vincent Romero, Untitled, c. 2008 How like that honeyed shimmer–The greenwhite aspen’s shudder, glimmerSerpentine pulse of wind on dusk-flickered sedgesBlue quiver of…
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To hir of Many Names
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Astarte Syriaca, 1877. A sonnet accompanying the painting can be found at http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=133 How gently you…
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On Transmigration: A Fancy
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
After certain experiences, death for hir is no longer in question.Sie can no more cease to be, though hir body…
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Waking Up from Nightmares
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Mama said you like to play with demons It’s not true, child,It’s not a game anymore. I think I saw…
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Valentine’s Day
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Started off safe, with late wakingOn the wings of bland deceiving dreamsBut demons don’t always wait for coffeeAnd my demon…
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In Balance: A Gnostic Folly
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
fieldey – Sky Burial, 2015 I met a traveler, sunblind, coin-eyed, who said The Falling Ones are the Watchers of…
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Watchers and Giants
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
fieldey – Sky Burial, 2015 I met a traveler, sunblind, coin-eyed, who said The Falling Ones are the Watchers of…
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Harvest Song of the Reapers of Dagon
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Jules Breton – Song of the Lark, 1884 As was done in the days of the mothers So is done…
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Beauty’s Beasts
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
A long time ago, but not so very far from here, in a little cabin in the midst of a…
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The Ghost of Lovers Gone
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Thomas Cheesman, “Lady Hamilton as the Spinster,” 1901 The crickets stopped chirpingAn hour ago, the same endless secondYour breathing slowed…
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Ouroboros in Mid-July
By Dan’el
/ September 6, 2024
Edmund Dulac, “A Loaf of Bread,” illustration for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, 1909 Long hot dunes of daysVibrate, reverberateSnaking…
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How The Rain Returned
By Dan’el
/ September 6, 2024
Patrick Hennessy, Exiles, 1943 The rain won’t fall today, but leaves will fall. Cigarettes ash from ennui hands And careless…
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River’s Edge
By Dan’el
/ September 6, 2024
Author, 2015 Sapphira sets down her sand castle; it crumbles to a pyramid, then a pile, then a beach. She…
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Rapture and Render
By Dan’el
/ September 6, 2024
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, A hawk in an old pine tree, c. 1845 460, QDSh LIHVH, means “Set apart for god.” Rapture,…
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Poetry
Going Down
By Dan’el
/ January 21, 2025
“Gate of Dreams.” 2024, acrylic on canvas, my work. It is great good fortune to go down As the sun…
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The Last Return: A Bedtime Story
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
“Falling Angel,” d.nighting, 2017, acrylic In a time before childhood,Long ago and far away,At the center of things,A fair child,…
Read More
Forbidden Knowledge
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
William Blake, The Book of Job: When the Morning Stars Sang Together, 1826 When I was a child Who thought…
Read More
A Pearl at the Throat of the Sky
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Dragon Pearl ceiling from Zhihuasi (Temple of Wisdom Attained), Beijing, 1444. Preserved, with addition of lamp, at Nelson-Atkins Museum of…
Read More
Sunlight Returns to the River
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Vincent Romero, Untitled, c. 2008 How like that honeyed shimmer–The greenwhite aspen’s shudder, glimmerSerpentine pulse of wind on dusk-flickered sedgesBlue quiver of…
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To hir of Many Names
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Astarte Syriaca, 1877. A sonnet accompanying the painting can be found at http://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=133 How gently you…
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Waking Up from Nightmares
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Mama said you like to play with demons It’s not true, child,It’s not a game anymore. I think I saw…
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Valentine’s Day
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Started off safe, with late wakingOn the wings of bland deceiving dreamsBut demons don’t always wait for coffeeAnd my demon…
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In Balance: A Gnostic Folly
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
fieldey – Sky Burial, 2015 I met a traveler, sunblind, coin-eyed, who said The Falling Ones are the Watchers of…
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Watchers and Giants
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
fieldey – Sky Burial, 2015 I met a traveler, sunblind, coin-eyed, who said The Falling Ones are the Watchers of…
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Myth & Fiction
The Book of Generations: On the Origin of Dragons
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
Sumerian seal from Tell Asmar, in modern Iraq, c. 2700 BCE, showing a solar deity slaying a 7-headed dragon at…
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Et Ego in Cimmeria
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
An Ottoman Geographic Drawing, Katip Çelebi, Jihanumma (1650s) Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the…
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On Transmigration: A Fancy
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
After certain experiences, death for hir is no longer in question.Sie can no more cease to be, though hir body…
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Beauty’s Beasts
By Dan’el
/ September 19, 2024
A long time ago, but not so very far from here, in a little cabin in the midst of a…
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The Hermit in The Garden
By Dan’el
/ September 6, 2024
Iassen Ghiuselev, VIIII: Der Eremit, from Tarot of the III Millenium, 2000 Who am I? I was here before you,…
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After The Stars Fell
By Dan’el
/ September 6, 2024
Witold Pruszkowski, Falling Star, 1884 They were the last two humans on earth. All the others had left when the…
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The Gods of Wisdom
By Dan’el
/ September 6, 2024
The gods of wisdom sit silent.Kneeling, supplicant, I name my plightDescribe the ins and outs, the ramifications,The complications,In tortured detail,the…
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Esoterica
Rapture and Render
By Dan’el
/ September 6, 2024
Utagawa Kuniyoshi, A hawk in an old pine tree, c. 1845 460, QDSh LIHVH, means “Set apart for god.” Rapture,…
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Project notes, working procedures, results. Open-source inspiration and a grimoire in the making.
- The Shemhamphorash: The 72 Angels of the Explicit Name
- The Nuctemeron Genii: Dreams Before Creation
- Seven Heavens: The Archangels of the Heptameron
- On the Knowledge and Conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel