Heart of Albion – Tales from the Wondrous Head

It also appeared to depict an angel with a rather large sword dressed as a Jester but then, the less said about that the better…for now at least.

There was also an intriguing Pietà, depicting the effect of blasphemy upon the ‘body’ of Christ. The various blasphemers are shown coveting the parts of the Christ’s body which their calumnies have torn asunder… Needless to say there are fourteen such miscreants and if the Doom in some respects reminds us of the Egyptian ‘weighing of the heart’, then this scene cannot but remind us of the dismembered Osiris…

Interesting, when one considers that at the time these walls were painted, to all intents and purposes nobody was supposed to have heard of either the weighing of the heart or the dismemberment of Osiris…

To celebrate the  new year we are running a…