H2onE2's Blog – May 2009 Archive (2)

Burning man is a metaphor to the Universal Sacrifice, but also references the early followers of the Christian religion, burned as martyrs for their beliefs. This was done for entertainment by the Roman Caesars; particularly Nero. To understand the Universal Sacrifice and his executioner first requires an explanation to the psychological background of sacrifice and human’s subconscious desire to the deed. Investigate the political and economic benefits to providing a public sacrifice,… Continue

To be honest I am never completely sure what importance the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse has to the world, at least not at the start of an examination. I instead let the extrapolated metaphorical archeology and the represented philosophy within the art determine the answer. The Horsemen appear in the Christian Bible in chapter six, the Book of Revelation and represent Conquest, War, Famine and Death. References to the Horsemen show up in popular media characters like the…

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