#The Conference of the Birds

[cauls-antique-pepperbox-pistol]

Happy time prison day!!!!!

[carmine-golde]

Enoch O’Connor moment

Finally got around to drawing a fandom-favorite! Here’s my version of Enoch, with bonus clay guys :)

[trainwrecksys]

Sometimes I wonder if Bentham and Millard would get along. But I then remember the only times they’ve really had anything to do with eachother is when Millard put a knife to Benthams throat and when Millard bashed Benthams rhyming… so actually nevermind

[rose1water]

His part is Mercy and ours is endless praise.

— Farīd al-Dīn ʻAṭṭār, The Conference of the Birds

[evil-feather]

HAPPY LOOP DAY FROM DEVILS ACRE! <3

Visited the place where the loop is, while I was in London and my best friend took these for me :)

[grenadaee]

I just think that Eva Green...

always comes to mind when fan casting any dark, beautiful, seductive witchy character. Not to stereotype but she's just got that face and energy that's perfect for that sort of a role. And also her voice good Lord

[butterfliesareamyth]

I just finished reading The Conference of the Birds and I wanted to draw Noor. It's light in her hands.

[nateconnolly]

Maybe the real Simurgh was the friends we made along the way

[loneberry]

“I’d rather be with you in Hell than without you in Paradise.”

—The lovelorn sheikh in Attar’s The Conference of the Birds

[myartisdangerous]

What shadow is ever separated from its maker? Do you see? The shadow and its maker are one and the same, so get over surfaces and delve into mysteries.

- Attar, The Conference of the Birds

[nmnmrsz]

Painting by Habiballah of Sava, ~1600.

Attar, The Conference of the Birds, ~1177.

The birds must cross seven valleys in order to find Simorgh, who lives on the mountain Qaf: 1. Yearning / Quest (the Wayfarer casts aside all dogma, belief, and unbelief), 2. Love (reason is abandoned for the sake of love), 3. Gnosis / Insight into Mystery (worldly knowledge becomes utterly useless), 4. Detachment / Independence (all desires and attachments to the world are given up. Here, what is assumed to be 'reality' vanishes), 5. Unity (the Wayfarer realizes that everything is connected and that the Beloved is beyond everything, including harmony, multiplicity, and eternity), 6. Wonderment / Bewilderment (entranced by the beauty of the Beloved, the Wayfarer becomes perplexed and, steeped in awe, finds that he has never known or understood anything), 7. Poverty / Fulfilment in Annihilation (the self disappears into the universe and the Wayfarer becomes timeless, existing in both the past and the future).

«.... You came as thirty birds and therefore saw these selfsame thirty birds, not less nor more; If you had come as forty, fifty – here. An answering forty, fifty, would appear; Though you have struggled, wandered, travelled far, it is yourselves you see and what you are.' (Who sees the Lord? It is himself each sees; What ant's sight could discern the Pleiades? What anvil could be lifted by an ant? Or could a fly subdue an elephant?) 'How much you thought you knew and saw; but you now know that all you trusted was untrue. Though you traversed the Valleys' depths and fought with all the dangers that the journey brought, the journey was in Me, the deeds were Mine – You slept secure in Being's inmost shrine. And since you came as thirty birds, you see these thirty birds when you discover Me, the Simorgh, Truth's last flawless jewel, the light in which you will be lost to mortal sight, dispersed to nothingness until once more you find in Me the selves you were before.' Then, as they listened to the Simorgh's words, a trembling dissolution filled the birds – The substance of their being was undone, and they were lost like shade before the sun; Neither the pilgrims nor their guide remained. The Simorgh ceased to speak, and silence reigned. .... All shadows are made nothing in the one unchanging light of Truth's eternal sun' .... Those who can speak still wander far away from that dark truth they struggle to convey, and by analogies they try to show the forms men's partial knowledge cannot know. (But these are not the subject for my rhyme; They need another book, another time - And those who merit them will one day see this Nothingness and this Eternity; While you still travel in your worldly state, you cannot pass beyond this glorious gate.) .... You have no knowledge of what lies ahead; Think deeply, ponder, do not be misled .... Blindly they saw themselves and deaf they heard - But who can speak of this? I know if I betrayed my knowledge I would surely die; If it were lawful for me to relate such truths to those who have not reached this state, those gone before us would have made some sign; But no Sign comes, and silence must be mine. Here eloquence can find no jewel but one, that silence when the longed-for goal is won. The greatest orator would here be made in love with silence and forget his trade, and I too cease: I have described the Way - Now, you must act - there is no more to say.»

[cauls-antique-pepperbox-pistol]

💎💙 INSTEAD OF HIDING IN A SHELL, WHY MAKE YOUR LIFE A LIVING HELL? 💙💎

I am 22 now! Originally wanted to post something else for today, but this was so much more fun to work on and I love how this turned out (kind of new colouring technique discovered? Question mark?)

Already had this done like over a week ago and could barely wait to post it

[daniellesreadingnook]

Another day, another podcast episode. Click the link above to hear my thoughts on a very good, very popular series by Ranson Riggs!!

[trainwrecksys]

[jacques-le-fataliste-23]

Petr Sís, The Conference of the Birds Via: https://www.facebook.com/peter.sis.art/posts/pfbid02wg2svJxx7f6PsrBvpMv1TFhMy1WbEtz7vHQUViq7BXNuf57D9U6J3HPyXobT9spfl

[msperegrinesimp]

Perekoo art

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miss Peregrine's just reading the transcript with her girlie~

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