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115. When your brothers hate each other so much that you need to exile one just to keep them from kinslaying
Herbert Leupin, advertising poster for Maya soap, 1948. Frederic Steinfels, Zürich. Switzerland.
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In Medieval folklore, the Ziphius, or “Water-Owl”, was a monstrous nautical creature said to attack ships in the northern seas. It possessed the body of a fish and the head of an owl, complete with massive eyes and a wedge-shaped beak. “Ziphius”, meaning “sword-like” in Latin, may refer to the beast’s fin, which was said to pierce the hulls of ships like a sword.
Today, the inspiration for the Ziphius is known as Cuvier’s Beaked Whale, a widespread species of beaked whale. Also known as the Goose-beaked whale, this creature is found as far north as the Shetland Islands and as south as Tierra Del Fuego at the tip of South America. It is the only member of the genus Ziphius, which bears the name of its legendary identity. Some additionally attribute the inspiration of the Ziphius to the orca or the great white shark, based on some depictions of the beast as a predator to seals.
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Nova Scotia Gothic
The fog rolls in, seeping through windows and under doors. You tell yourself there’s nothing waiting in the fog.
Everyone greets you as a friend, asking after your family. You don’t know any of them.
Each night, the beam from the lighthouse pierces your bedroom window. The lighthouse was decommissioned years ago.
On moonless nights, a flaming schooner sails across the bay. Everyone pretends not to see.
People leave for Away. They come back from Away. Where is Away?
Beneath the waves, the lobster waits. Soon, it will have its revenge.
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Sunrise Water Nymphs ~ Arthur Prince Spear
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Untitled, 2014.
Archival pigment print, 225x156cm.
previously featured here
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