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a little thoughts, shapes and random doodles i've put down during the week, not too much thought put behind it, just drawn with offermosen "in mind", a start anyhow

We talked a bit about having transparent pages in the zine, how about printing images reminiscing of underwater lake/myr/mosse, a kind of dead scene/space with just parts of particles/soil floating around? Maybe something dumped on the seabed, like on the pictures below? It could be a nice way to connect it to the present, so it doesn't feel 100% järnåldern. What do you think?

Just from a quick search on flickr:

1. Renskallar, sönderslagna för uttagande af hjernan, men med hornen qvarsittande vid pannbenet; dessa voro nu så uppstälda bland stenarne, att de bildade ett tätt snår af renhorn, hvilket gaf offerhögen dess egentliga prägel.

2. Renskallar med genomborradt pannben, uppträdda på käppar, som voro instuckna i högen. Någon gång voro på dessa käppar en mängd ansigten utskurna, det ena öfver det andra.

3. En mängd andra renben, deribland äfven mergben, krossade för mergens uttagande.

4. Ben af björn, bland hvilka märktes labbarne och det endast halfflådda hufvudet af en björn, som blifvit skjuten så nyligen, att köttet ännu ej hunnit förruttna; bredvid detta björnhufvud funnos två blykulor upplagda på en sten.

5. En massa jernbitar, t. ex. sönderbrutna yxor, bitar af jerngrytor, gamla knifvar, metalldelen af en söndrig munharmonika o. s. v., och slutligen

6. De mäktiga väsenden, åt hvilka all denna härlighet blifvit offrad.

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root parasites

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more pics!

Subjects to investigate more pt. 2 (mycologi)

(from "The History of Mycological Illustration", click for link, there is ALOT of reference pictures!)

Fungi.mycologi.spores.small mushrooms.psilocybin etc. that grows on dead/rotten woodwork, close up of the spore systems, decomposed, diseased woodwork/rot systems.
all of this can be linked to stubber/and other things concerning the forest-floor.

mycology(on wiki)..
is the branch of biology concerned with the study of fungi, including their genetic and biochemical properties, their taxonomy, and their use to humans as a source for tinder, medicinals (e.g., penicillin), food (e.g., beer, wine, cheese, edible mushrooms) and entheogens, as well as their dangers, such as poisoning or infection. From mycology arose the field of phytopathology, the study of plant diseases, and the two disciplines remain closely related because the vast majority of plant pathogens are fungi.

mangrove/roots systems/random

Subjects to investigate more (ramblings)

Root systems/different types of roots, parasitic plants, plant diseases, hamadryad/dryad (greek mythology) + kodama (japanese mythology), mycorrhiza (a type of fungus-root inhabiting tree roots or vice versa (?)), dendroid (fr. svensk wiki: Dendroiden däremot är en man som liknar ett träd (i vissa fall är ett träd), huden är ofta barkliknande och håret av skägglav eller dylikt., "offerplats"/offermosse" (fictivious thought: sacrifice influencing the nearby nature - manifestation - how? (?)),

random botany-related pictures (linked to source)