Man up until a few years ago I hadn't seen The Lost Boys in it's entirety and now it's "cryyyyyyy little sister" in the shower every morning.

I retell the Arthurian tale of the Saracen Knight Sir Palamedes and his quest for the elusive “Questing Beast”. Taking cues from Aliester Crowley’s unique mystical interpretation, Saracen and Satyr continues in the tradition of the occult fascination with this timeless cycle.

Nice find. It could still be a cura, even with 7 pegs. What does the bowl (tekne) look like? It appears to come to a more triangular point. In which case it could be a kind of dede saz.. Ultimately these labels are applied rather arbitrarily across the spectrum of bağlama types..

I'd only heard of the theory that it derived from the Eastern Turkic, "Tengiz". Illuminating article.

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Last time I saw this was on bebo....

Surely Lowery's "The Green Knight" right?

Hi Malina, you're in luck! My next few paintings will be scenes from the Persian poet Nizami's romantic epic "Panj Ganj" (five treasures) among others. My plan is to have an accompanying write up for each of these on my website.

Absolutely. Lovely drawing btw.

A fellow luminance user! 🥂

I really want to be positive about bluesky, especially since it's one of the few places artists can post without ai scrapping. But it's basically impossible to be seen if you don't have an established following..

It is ultimately an imagined world but a deeply cosmopolitan one, and quite often daring in the way it plays with the tropes and expectations of an otherwise deeply patriarchal society (in earlier versions of this story, she is simply trampled by Bahram Gur).

The astonished King is finally forced to concede the point. I love this story for several reasons. We see the expectations of medieval Persian chivalry, ethics and Kingship turned on their head. It isn't only a woman embodying these values better than the king himself, but a foreigner at that.

He performs a series of improbable feats but is told that this is all down to practice, something that wounds the King's ego. He exiles her but later finds her carrying an ox over her shoulders, which she learnt to do over the course of her exile.

I've named this painting "The Sedition of Fitna", after a character in the Haft Peykar, the romantic epic by the Persian poet Nizami. A Chinese slave girl of the famed Sassanid shah Bahram Gur, Fitna accompanies him in his regular hunts where the Shah attempts to impress his muse.