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Even DEATH doesn’t know the answer to that question. By the way, where’s death’s pale horse? Not a white horse. That’s pestilence or perhaps something else – there’s some controversy.
Yes indeed, Death rides on a Pale Horse (or sometimes Green, depending on the interpretation). But as it turns out, Pestilence is a relatively new fabrication, and the two are sometimes held to be one and the same.
In the original interpretations of the Bible, the White Rider was Conquest, who came before the other three to sunder the realms of men and make way for complete chaos and anarchy, which in turn led to the arrival of the other three Horsemen, War (Red), Famine (Black) and Death (Pale).
Since “Conquest” doesn’t really fit with the other three, most interpretations now replace him with Pestilence, and thus Conquest is now more of an apocryphal horseman than anything else, despite originally being the first of the four.
Just spit-balling a theory here.
Consider the “horrors of war”. Regardless of who wins, there will be casualties and anybody caught between is basically screwed. But what about after? If we assume that one side wins, they would punish the losers for the damage inflicted (keep in mind the time period). That would include the innocent farmers and whatnot who never even saw the battlefields. War kills the soldiers, Conquest makes everybody else suffer too.
I love the compositional choices in this one. I think it’s my fav or close to the top of the list. The open sky, freedom felt on a rooftop and curious moon match the mood of the conversation.
Interesting. I like the rooftop scenes. Reminds me of the little black kid in ‘Bloom County’.
Oliver Wendell Jones.
the life guy is probably named “Breath” or something rhyme-y like that.
Even DEATH doesn’t know the answer to that question. By the way, where’s death’s pale horse? Not a white horse. That’s pestilence or perhaps something else – there’s some controversy.
Yes indeed, Death rides on a Pale Horse (or sometimes Green, depending on the interpretation). But as it turns out, Pestilence is a relatively new fabrication, and the two are sometimes held to be one and the same.
In the original interpretations of the Bible, the White Rider was Conquest, who came before the other three to sunder the realms of men and make way for complete chaos and anarchy, which in turn led to the arrival of the other three Horsemen, War (Red), Famine (Black) and Death (Pale).
Since “Conquest” doesn’t really fit with the other three, most interpretations now replace him with Pestilence, and thus Conquest is now more of an apocryphal horseman than anything else, despite originally being the first of the four.
I still don’t get the distinction between War and Conquest’s portfolios…
Just spit-balling a theory here.
Consider the “horrors of war”. Regardless of who wins, there will be casualties and anybody caught between is basically screwed. But what about after? If we assume that one side wins, they would punish the losers for the damage inflicted (keep in mind the time period). That would include the innocent farmers and whatnot who never even saw the battlefields. War kills the soldiers, Conquest makes everybody else suffer too.
I love the compositional choices in this one. I think it’s my fav or close to the top of the list. The open sky, freedom felt on a rooftop and curious moon match the mood of the conversation.