On the left is a person in a grey-green hood and robe, standing at a large wooden structure like a pulpit. On the person's shoulder is a thin, dark, winged, demonic creature with horns. In front of them, facing this person, seated on a long wooden bench, are three men in blue, red, and pink clothes respectively, and red and blue hats. Behind them are seated three women in hooded robes, one in green, the others in blue. And behind them is a man in grey-green, knee-length robes with a matching hat, a thin staff in his right hand, a dark-coloured hog caught by the rear leg in his left hand. In the background, above a plain wall, we see blue sky with long, thin wisps of cloud.
“The world indeed is sacred; but paradoxically, one cannot see the sacredness of the world until one discovers that it is a divine play.”
~ Mircea Eliade.
Image: Dante's Divine Comedy / Giovanni di Paolo / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
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