Wicker Man Ending

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A whole concert of grunting

"Howard Roark built a temple to the human spirit. He saw man as strong, proud, clean, wise and fearless. He saw man as a heroic being. And he built a temple to that. A temple is a place where man is to experience exaltation. He thought that exaltation comes from the consciousness of being guiltless, of seeing the truth and achieving it, of living up to one's highest possability, of knowing no shame and having no cause for shame, of being able to stand naked in the full sunlight. He thought that exaltation means joy and that joy is man's birthright. He thought that a place built as a setting for man is a sacred place. That is what Howard Roark thought of man and of exaltation..."  

"I condemn Howard Roark. A building they say must be part of its site. In what kind of world did Roark build his temple? For what kind of men? Look around you... When you see a man casting pearls without getting even a pork chop in return - it is not against the swine that you feel indignation. It is against the man who valued his pearls so little that he was willing to fling them into the muck and let them become the occasion for a whole concert of grunting, transcribed by the court stenographer." 

Ayn Rand - The Fountainhead

Moonset Over Superior

"It could be said that the very structure of the cosmos keeps memory of the celestial supreme being alive. It is as if the gods had created the world in such a way that it could not but reflect their existence; for no world is possible without verticality, and that dimension alone is enough to evoke transcendence."

Mircea Eliade - The Sacred and the Profane

The Jack Pine - Tom Thompson

"Jesus said: If they say to you: 'From where have you originated?', say to them:'We have come from the Light, where the Light has originated through itself'."

-The Gospel according to Thomas

Allies Day - Childe Hassam

The West Wind - Tom Thomson

Blue Genitian - A.Y. Jackson

The mysterious "blue rose" in the middle is called the "flower of wisdom".

Explication of the Title

mundus, according to Plutarch, a pit in Rome dug by Romulus (traditionally sited in the Comitium) in which he put first fruits and earth from each country from which his followers came, afterwards filling it up and putting an alter on it. In other Italian cities it was the name given to a pit dug to give access to the manes (of the Underworld). The Roman mundus was closed with stone except for three days of ill omen, 24 August, 5 October, and 8 November, when mundis patet, 'the pit is open'. This pit seems to have been called mundus Cereris or Cerealis, 'pit of Ceres'.

- The Concise Oxford  Companion to Classical Literature