Yes, that’s Lana Turner playing pagan priestess to a horned guy wielding a golden snake and a spiked club.
It does not get more pagan than this.
The movie is “The Prodigal“, from 1955 – sort of an apocryphal take on the Gospel parable.
Pulp Gospel, if you like.
I’m currently using this picture as photo reference for a story I’m writing – I hope it inspires you too!
I normally collect a lot of photo references when I write.
Internet is great (Pinterest is great!)
I fill whole folders, whole CDs of images – places, buildings, clothes, animals and plants, tools, jewels, weapons, old illustrations of beasts and creatures… and of course, faces.
Finding the right face for my characters helps me feel more precisely the way they speak, act, move.
Gives them a sort of mass, of reality.
Of course, one has to allow for some maneuvering space.
It’s hard to find the perfect face – and looking for it might be time consuming and futile.
And yet, sometimes one finds a face that’s absolutely perfect.
Like… like this…
I was absolutely awed by this face.
This is indeed the perfect face for my character, Amunet, in my Aculeo & Amunet stories.
This beautiful lady is a model, and her name is Idda van Munster (Aida Dapo).
I’m posting this image here as a tribute to her beauty, and a sign of gratitude for being of inspiration for my work.
Today marks the first year of Karavansara – yes, this blog was launched on the 20th of January 2013.
In these cases it is common to recite a string of numbers – so here goes.
Karavansara has 291 posts online (including this one) which were viewed roughly 21.000 times.
544 comments were posted.
Karavansara has little less than 300 followers.
It gets an average 1500 unique views per month.
Not bad, not bad at all. Continue reading
Lair of the White Ape
“Soon after the last of their Mediterranean adventures, Aculeo and Amunet leave Tarsus and the agents of the Cult of Isfet behind, and ride north into the Caucasus, seeking a safe place in which to winter. This is the bailiwick of the Twelfth Imperial Legion – Duodecima Fulminata… “
Historical detail is important. Great post on Black Gate.
New findings in Egypt!
Today’s prompt is not a true prompt – more a general source of inspiration.
It’s the back cover of an old collection of stories by Harlan Ellison.
Read it.
Be inspired.
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