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Old Belief
← Sirin and Alkonost
Two long bird feathers lying on whitewashed boards, one pale grey and one near black with a green sheen, angled slightly apart with their quills almost touching

two feathers side by side

One sings of joy and one of sorrow — or one lures to death and one consoles, depending on the print. The pairing is the point, and it is unstable.

Basis: The contradictory accounts of the two birds · AI-generated

More of this creature

Hand-coloured print pinned to a plank wall showing two crowned bird-women perched in an apple tree, their feathered bodies painted in flat red, green and ochrethe woodcut on the wall →Single apple branch in white and pink blossom against a bare white sky, no bird on it, two petals fallingthe apple branch →