For our anniversary my girlfriend got me a preserved sheep heart and I got her a vintage lobotomy pick.
We're less Romeo & Juliet and more Gomez & Morticia. 😛
The places of the dead have such pretty words - abattoir, ossuary, necropolis, mausoleum, sepulchre, crypt, cemetery, mortuary, undercroft, tomb, charnel house, morgue, graveyard, boneyard, catacomb, shrine, crematorium, chapel of rest ...
"And there the children of dark #Nyx (Night) have their dwellings, #Hypnos (Sleep) and #Thanatos (Death), awful gods. Glowing #Helios (the #Sun) never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven."
Hesiod, Theogony 758
🎨 Detail of Sol Invictus on a Roman marble relief.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This is the best preserved of the column drums carved in relief. It shows a youthful winged #Thanatos (death), a draped woman, and a figure of #Hermes Psychopompos, leader of souls to the underworld.
🏛️ From the south-west corner of the later temple of Artemis, Ephesos. Dated ca. 325-300 BCE. Today in the British Museum.