Gritale a este mundo infame que no le darás un segundo más, que conmigo te iras hasta el final del infierno para jamás regresar y que de mi mano tu destinó vas a labrar.
Bajo la luna carmesí relucen los ojos de un asesino, anhelante, pero paciente en medio de la oscuridad, dejando que las almas crucen para hallar un destinó bajo el juicio de su cuchillo.
Ojalá un día pueda cantar a dueto con la muerte, poder ser su acompañante en una noche de silenció y darle sentido a quienes desde lo oscuro esten dispuestos a escuchar.
Described as a dagger for ‘esoteric rituals’ the dagger features a straight, double-edged blade with a triple fuller, engraved with floral motifs. The bronze hilt is depicting Death wrapped in a mantle and a snake on the quillon. The wooden scabbard is covered in brown velvet with brass mounts decorated with bas-relieved floral motifs.
“Naturally a Japanese child, when sent in the dusk to draw water, will do so with fear and trembling, for this limp, floppy apparition might scare the boldest.” From Books and Bookmen (1886) by Andrew Lang, a collector of Japanese bogie stories
“TheBorremose bodies are three bog bodies that were found in the Borremose peat bog in Himmerland,Denmark. Recovered between 1946 and 1948, the bodies of a man and two women have been dated to the Nordic Bronze Age.”
The photo originally appeared in the November 1928 issue of National Geographic. The original caption was: “With huge cadaver masks, imitation tiger-skin skirts, and enormous claws, this performer and his seven similarly garbed companions strike terror to the hearts of spectators in the Old Dance. They are assistants of Showa the Deer, messenger of Yama”. The picture was taken in 1925, when Joseph Rock visited Choni monastery in Gansu province, where he based himself for two years while undertaking his unsuccessful attempt to reach the mountains of Amnyi Machen. During that time he witnessed the “devil dancers” of Choni.
Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), ‘De l'est à l'ouest, de l'ouest à l'est’ (’From East to West, from West to East’), “La Grande Guerre par les artistes” by René Georges Hermann-Paul, 1914-15
