The Baphomet Boulevard

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a) Baphomet in Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie' (1856) by Eliphas Levi 

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b) Angelus (1857-1859) by Jean--François Millet
 

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  1. Perpignan Station (1965) by Salvador Dali. (Still to come, but well, you can see the obvious connection with the Angelus anyway in that painting without anyone having to spell it out)
 
 
 
 
 
c)  See: 'Alice meets the Caterpillar' for Alice In Wonderland (between 1862-1864) by Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll)?
 
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d)  The Mad Hatter Tea Party by John Tenniel for  Alice In Wonderland?
 
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e)  'Executioner argues with the King about cutting off the Cheshire Cat’s head' by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland (Published 1865)
 
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f) 'The Baker listening to his Uncle' for Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of The Snark (Published 1876) by Henry Holiday 
 
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h) Perpignan Station (1965) by Salvador Dali.
 
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i) ) See: The Spell IV (work 331) (1977) by HR Giger

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j)  See: Supposed "Mayan" artifact showing contact with extra terrestrials, Side B as seen on America Unearthed.

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k) My timeline:
 
k.i) Knowledge of Giger's work
First of all I knew about the Baphomet from Gigers' The Spell IV and how it was based upon the Baphomet in Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie' (1856) by Eliphas Levi. This all came to the surface when I bought Giger's Necronomicon in the early 1990s  
 
k.ii) 25th October 2019
I made the connection between the Baphomet and the ancient Egyptian Sema-Tawy 

k.iii) 19th January 2020 
At the National Gallery, I recognised the painting La Resurrezione di Cristo (1475 - 1479) by Giovanni Bellini as one of those with echoes of the Henu Barque and looked to me as if Dali had used it for his painting Perpignan Station (1965).
 
k.iv) 21st February 2020
I had decided that there appeared to be a connection between the Baphomet and the Henu Barque like the one of the Papyrus of Ani, since these Henu barque connections often occurred. 
 
That day I made the Baphomet connection with Millet's Angelus

k.v) 13th December 2020 
Exploring the supposed "Mayan" artifact showing contact with extra terrestrials, a lot of these seem to show an understanding of connections between Giger's and Tenniel's work, often via Ernst Fuchs. 
 
Rather than having imagery comparable to ancient art, I usually find them connecting with things that had been created before they were discovered
 
Here I worked out a Tenniel's The Mad Hatter's Tea Party connection with Giger's The Spell IV. 
 
k.vi) 4th February 2021.
I worked out that Tenniel's 'Executioner argues with the King about cutting off the Cheshire Cat’s head' appeared to reference La Resurrezione di Cristo (1475 - 1479) by Giovanni Bellini
 
k.vii) 5th February 2021
I worked out that Alien Stage 3 , version III, Front view (work 373) (1978) by HR Giger  referenced Tenniel's 'Executioner argues with the King about cutting off the Cheshire Cat’s head'

k.viii) 12th December 2021
 
k.viii.a)  Temple of the central collective consciousness central
Then came a visit to the Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser exhibition at the V&A museum on the 12th February 2021  
 
Visiting the exhibition might as well have been a visit to a temple of the collective consciousness central because of the effect that Tenniel's illustrations appeared to have on Western society ever since.  

k.viii.b) Dodgson's caterpillar on mushroom 
 
There I noticed Charles Dodgson's curious illustration of the caterpillar on the mushroom.
 
Curiously it looked different from Tenniel's illustration as if Tenniel went a completely different direction with it not wanting to make it seem like the Baphomet.
 
I really wondered what Dodgson was up to. 
 
Perhaps it was supposed to be inspired by art nouveau but that would have been too early or was it inspired by weird Celtic imagery
 
k.ix) 13th December 2021
That morning I was sure that there had to be the Baphomet connection with the caterpillar on the mushroom illustration and had noticed how La Resurrezione di Cristo (1475 - 1479) by Giovanni Bellini had been used in Tenniel's 'Executioner argues with the King about cutting off the Cheshire Cat’s head'

k.x) 18th December 2021
 
k.xi.1) The Hunting of the Baphomet
After being presented with the idea of interesting connections to be made with Henry Holiday's illustrations for  Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of The Snark by Snrk.de, I decided to go hunting for the Baphomet amongst the few that were done and realised that it had to be 'The Baker listening to his Uncle".
 
k.xi.2) Baker listening to his Uncle connection
 I  could see how it was also partially based upon Dodgson's weird caterpillar illustration, Tenniel's 'Executioner argues with the King about cutting off the Cheshire Cat’s head' and Bellini's La Resurrezione di Cristo has been used as well.  
 
k.xii.3) Hand me downs with confusion
This seemed interesting to think about how it looked as if this information about sources of reference had been handed across and then I was confused about how the Baphomet appeared to have been referenced by Tenniel for  the March Hare and teapot for The Mad Hatter's Tea Party, it wasn't what was used in the Uncle illustration.

k.xiii) 19th December 2021
Seeing how Bellini's La Resurrezione di Cristo  had somehow been used in both Tenniel's 'Executioner argues with the King about cutting off the Cheshire Cat’s head' as well as Dodgson's 'Alice meets the Caterpillar', as well as Holiday's 'The Baker listening to his Uncle", then it occurred to me that they ought to have used it because it had been used in the Baphomet. 
 
With that came the understanding that Dali's Perpignan Station from 1965 was tied up with the Baphomet since I had connected already connected that with Bellini's La Resurrezione di Cristo
 
Perhaps tied things up in an elegant knot.
 
l) 21st December 2021
I came to realise Illustration for Airlines written by David H Keller (published in Astounding magazine, v04n10, January 1930) by Wesso also referenced  'Executioner argues with the King about cutting off the Cheshire Cat’s head' by John Tenniel for Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland (Published 1865)
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  1. wmmvrrvrrmm22 December 2021 at 06:00

    "The Baphomet Boulevard" was posted on December 16th 2021

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