Chaos in Paradise Lost
The ruler of the unformed abyss who welcomes ruin as a recovery of lost territory.
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Death in Paradise Lost
The crowned shadow guarding Hell, whose appetite turns towards the human world.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Earth as Nurse in Atalanta Fugiens
The globe-bodied nursing figure in Maier’s second emblem personifies earth as a source of nourishment.
Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens (1618)
Los and the Spectre in Blake's Jerusalem
A furnace worker who confronts his divided Spectre and compels it to join the labour of creation.
William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion; retained monochrome facsimile
SourceNight in Paradise Lost
The ancient consort of Chaos, seated in the court of the unformed deep.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
SourceOrc in America: A Prophecy
Blake’s chained, transforming youth becomes the fiery power confronted by Albion’s Angel in the revolutionary poem.
William Blake’s illuminated mythology in America: A Prophecy
Sikah, the Agnostic Priest
The black-draped figure whom Spare names Life’s Knowledge and, with a name, the Agnostic Priest.
Austin Osman Spare’s allegorical drawings and verse in Earth Inferno (1905)Sin in Paradise Lost
The half-human, half-serpentine gatekeeper who recognises Satan as her originator.
John Milton, Paradise Lost
The Clod of Clay in Thel
The nurturing earth that tends the Worm and invites Thel into its house without compelling her to remain.
William Blake’s illuminated poetry
The Cloud in Thel
The passing Cloud that describes disappearance as renewal through dew, flowers and a returning life.
William Blake’s illuminated poetry
The Four Winds in the White Bear Tale
The East, West, South and North Winds who carry the girl towards the castle beyond ordinary reach.
Norwegian fairy tales: Old Tales from the North
The Lilly in Thel
The small flower that answers Thel’s fear of extinction by describing care received and nourishment given.
William Blake’s illuminated poetryThe Worm in Thel
The helpless, infant-like creature whose vulnerability draws the Clod of Clay’s care.
William Blake’s illuminated poetry
Urania
The Muse of astronomy as a statue, object of youthful fascination and dream guide in Camille Flammarion’s Urania.
Camille Flammarion, Urania; translated by Augusta Rice Stetson, undated Boston illustrated edition
Urizen
The secluded power whose divided world is narrated and pictured in Blake's illuminated Book of Urizen.
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