Images

An illustration portraying the Baba Yaga. The image comes from the traditional Russian fairy tale called Vasilisa the Beautiful that discusses the adventures of a young girl who encounters Baba Yaga upon being expelled from her home by her...

A detail of a 1909 painting showing a marooned mariner by the artist and writer Howard Pyle (1853-1911). To be marooned without food or water, sometimes even without clothes, was a punishment given to a mariner or pirate who had seriously...

An illustration of a victim walking the plank by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). Published to illustrate Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main in Harper's Magazine, 1887.

Captain Keitt, a detail from the frontispiece of The Ruby of Kishmoor, written and illustrated by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). First published in 1908.

Ptolemaic (2nd century BCE) mosaic emblema from Alexandria with the depiction of a dog seated next to a gilded vessel. This mosaic is made in the opus vermiculatum technique, using small, closely set tesserae. Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities...

This infographic illustrates the legendary lineage of the Kuru Dynasty of Hastinapur, as described in the Mahabharata, one of the world’s oldest and longest epic poems. Through kings, princes, and sages, the family tree captures the dynastic...

Wodan and Frea (Odin and Frigg) stand out and look out of a window in the heavens, inspired the Origo Gentis Langobardorum. Illustration from 12 of the book Walhall, die Götterwelt der Germanen by Emil Doepler, published by Martin Oldenbourg...

Relief showing Frigg, Odin's wife, the goddess of love and destiny, who makes plants and trees promise that they will not harm her son Baldr. Part of a series of 16 beautiful and unique wooden reliefs by Dagfin Werenskiold, depicting Norse...

Paiwan's shaman boxes. Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, Taipei, Taiwan.

Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines, Taiwan.