Philosophical Mercury (Mercurius) c.1400 copyHippocrates title page Froben Press 1538
The opening decoration and invocation to Allah from a 16th century manuscript of Avicenna’s Canon
The earliest known depiction of a Siberian shaman, produced by the Dutch explorer Nicolaes Witsen, who authored an account of his travels among Samoyedic- and Tungusic-speaking peoples in 1692
Sami Shaman with his drum
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus from Michael Maier’s Symbola aurea mensae – Frankfurt, 1617
