And so this is Christmas (war is over)

For weak and for strong (if you want it)

For rich and the poor ones (war is over)

The road is so long (now)

And so happy Christmas (war is over)

For black and for white (if you want it)

For yellow and red ones (war is over)

Let’s stop all the fight (now)

-Happy Xmas by John Lennon

happy first full day of yule ✸

Luxor

by Dario Mekler

In the heart of Egypt, Ozymandias looks over his kingdom, Karnak in his throat and the Temple of Luxor in his Stomach.

The Nile cuts the city in two. The western arm of dead queens and kings, of spirits and generations past.

In the East the living, the temples and the harvests, wars and politics.

Uaset for the ancient Egyptians, Thebes for the Greeks, Al Uqsur for the Arabs.

Graphite and digital

More cities in:

https://www.dariomekler.com.ar/cities-and-ideas

(+part 2)

The Flayed Angel (circa 1749)

— by Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty

Lewiston Evening Journal, Maine, March 7, 1917

when I drew this comic 3 years ago I had NO idea how far it would reach. I'm happy to finally share a corrected version with proper abbreviations, and even MORE state names of indigenous origin ♥️

however, the goal of this comic was to inspire people to do your OWN research on indigenous history. To question everything we have been taught, and everything that has been pointedly left out. This erasure, this “forgetting”, of history is not just of the past… it is happening now. - Across so-called Canada, the US, and US-occupied islands, native women are victims of murder at 10-12x the rate of non-native people, and are the most likely to go missing without being searched for by the law. - Native reservations have the highest rates of poverty in the US, with over HALF of tribal homes with no access to clean water (with more joining this list by the year) - Native people are 6-10x more likely to be unhoused than the rest of the population, and native teens suffer suicide rates higher than any other demographic. This list of modern day genocide goes on (thank you for compiling @theindigenousanarchist <3) and yet take a look at those environmental stats!

Native people manage to do SO much for the planet as a whole - thanklessly - and with all this stacked against them. Don't even get me started on kin fighting in south america. Could you imagine if there was help? #landback is resistance to genocide, and it is the key to saving our warming earth.

So look into it and the other hashtags, cuz a cartoon goose ain't a substitute for a proper education. Love to my grandparents who always kept a map of tribal territories of turtle island on their wall, to speaking on our Tsalagi & Saponi heritage. Love & solidarity forever, happy research, and happy #indigenouspeoplesday

LANDBACK.ORG

(Also, if you care to support the artist, I'm publishing a book ! and writing another - a fantastical afroindigenous graphic novel - that I post exclusively about with tons of other art on my patreon.)

The Beauty of Moths

— by Pieter Cramer (1721–1776)

I'd like to introduce you to LJS 57, a compendium of Astronomical text in Hebrew, written in Spain around 1391. It's an interesting combination of astronomy and astrology, and illustrates how the division between "science" and "not science" was not nearly so clear in the past as it is today. It has some fantastic illustrations of constellations!

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SEKHMET

First born of Ra. She was the lion goddess of war and vengeance. Also from disease and medicine. She was a symbol of strength and power, and it was said that her breath created the desert.

Posted a new video and it’s not a christmasy :D

I recently was soo engulfed by information on modern patriarchy that it made me furious (on extreme mode) so here I am expressing anger in healthy way🤷‍♂️🧘‍♂️ Found an interesting illustration as well so we can explore discrimination and feminism in Victorian era :)

One of the first sketches I did after watching the series in the summer. I missed the warmth in their relationship then, that’s why everything is so fluffy here.

Constantinople 

by Darío Mekler

Queen of the cities. Capital of the eastern roman empire. All times and events occuring simultaneously. Hagia Sophia (the head) at the center being transformed into a mosque by the adding of minarets after its conquest. (I´ll be animating the movement in a coming up animated version) A chained golden horn and the Galata tower at its right arm (left of the image). The circus maximus and the port at its left arm (right of the image). The defense of the city at the center from a column of crusaders at the right and a column of ottoman troops at the left. Floating over the city Constantine, Justinian, Theodora, St Helen (Mother of Constantine). ... and some byzantine discussions spread throughout.

Graphite and digital color

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-Orlando Furioso-

Collected Studies on the Pathology of War Gas Poisoning (1920)

— by Milton C. Winternitz, Robert A. Lambert