Wehrmacht Luftwaffe MG crew with their MG42.
Katar dagger with a pair of mounted percussion pistols, India, mid 19th century.
from Peter Dekker’s Mandarin Mansion
CVM. PATIENTIA (with Patience).
Ourobouros: “Serpens qui caudam devorat” (serpent that eats its tail) represents many things, including totality, the cycle of life, and the “conjunctio oppositorum”- the union of opposites. “Cum patientia” sums up the struggle between self-knowledge and self-deception.
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