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"Momento Mori"

Feels like a good time to post this one :3 Happy #AllSaintsDay!

Black Heart String. With a Bronze Holy Face of Christ and a Copper Papal Crucifix. Red Czech Glass Skull Beads and Antler Bone Beads. Irish Bog Wood Beads. #mementomori #rosary

November 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM Everybody can reply

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Project Unus Annus

@projectunus.bsky.social

Day 353/365:
'The Truth of Unus Annus'
#MementoMori

October 31, 2025 at 10:51 PM Everybody can reply

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Michelle F Mitchell | Sword Fern Studios

@swordfernstudios.bsky.social

Happy Halloween 🎃💀👻

Poisons and Parasites
Acrylic on birch
8x10

#halloweenart #spookyvibes #spookyart #skullart #fungiart #macabreart #spookyseason #darkacademia #mementomori #darkart #gothart #entomologyart #botanicalillustration

October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM Everybody can reply

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Mike Mort

@mikeemort91.bsky.social

Happy Halloween friends! Today’s theme is the annual #HalloweenFreestyle!

#Criptober #CriptoberWeekFive #CriptoberRevival #HappyHalloween #OctoberArtPrompt #OctoberArtChallenge #MementoMori

The words “Halloween Freestyle” in orange text across a multi colored space background.

October 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM Everybody can reply

Holiest Mallard

@holiestmallard.bsky.social

#art #ink #mementomori

October 31, 2025 at 7:23 PM Everybody can reply

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RCP museum

@rcpmuseum.bsky.social

Feeling spooky? Here are 3 Memento Mori to visit at the Museum: history.rcp.ac.uk/blog/feeling...
#halloween #mementomori #callingallskeletons

October 31, 2025 at 6:16 PM Everybody can reply

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Scotland's Churches Trust

@scotchurchestrust.bsky.social

Day 31 of #31DaysOfGraves - #MementoMori

We're ending this year's annual celebration of the art and heritage of grave memorials with this absolutely stunning 18thC stone from Garvald, East Lothian

Thanks to @annaandthedead.bsky.social for curating the themes again this year. Happy Halloween all! 🎃

October 31, 2025 at 6:07 PM Everybody can reply

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Freemasonry.Network

@freemasonrynetwork.bsky.social

Tonight, as light meets shadow and the veil grows thin, we remember one of the Craft’s timeless lessons — that life and death are but two faces of the same mystery.

💀 From darkness comes Light. ✨

#Freemasonry #MasonicLight #Halloween #MementoMori #Brotherhood

October 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM Everybody can reply

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happylittletrees57.bsky.social

@happylittletrees57.bsky.social

My old bones, Halloween  a hollow moon on the shore, new ghosts nest inside.
#Halloween #TurtleShell #MementoMori #Ghosts #EastCoastKin #Spine #ForestFloor #Haiku #BlueSkyHalloween

October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM Everybody can reply

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The Backtracker History Show

@alice.backtracker.co.uk

#31DaysofGraves Day 31: #MementoMori
At #ArnosVale cemetery in #Bristol, the Philpott family headstone features a draped urn, symbolising death’s finality, mourning & the soul’s passage to the afterlife. Took this photo recently, so I'm pleased I got to use it
#Family #Victorian #History #Grave

October 31, 2025 at 9:28 AM Everybody can reply

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Church Monuments Society

@churchmonuments.bsky.social

The wonderful #31DaysofGraves comes to an end with #MementoMori. Lots of memento mori imagery on this wall monument at Llanilltud Fawr, probably carved by Iolo Morganwg's father

Wall monument with winged cherub, hourglass, spider's web and skull

October 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM Everybody can reply

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Alison Spring

@acspring.bsky.social

#31DaysofGraves #Day31 #MementoMori The clasped hands on this stone, in Collace churchyard, symbolise the hoped-for reunion in heaven with loved ones.

A pointed grey gravestone sits in a grassy churchyard. At its head is a carved symbol of clasped hands. Beneath is the inscription "In Loving Memory Of ANN McLAREN Wife Of DAVID GRAY Who Died 16th February 1911 Aged 69 Years And Of Their Family ISABELLA Who Died 7th April 1889 Aged 9 Years And 8 Months CHRISTINA Died In Infancy The Above DAVID GRAY Who Died 10th April 1913 Aged 75 Years And Their Daughters ANN Who Died 14th January 1940 Aged 62 Years CECILIA Who Died 9th June 1946 Aged 87 Years"
Photo Credit: Mentiplay on Findagrave

October 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM Everybody can reply

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Lorraine

@wolfq4.bsky.social

For the 1st day of all hallows tide & last day of #31DaysOfGraves here is my final October grave
Beautifully symbolic graveyard sculpture in St Cuthbert's Kirkyard, Edinburgh with #MementoMori & 'vive memor leti' on either side of doorway, reminding us that life is finite
#Halloween
#skystorians

Photo of the entrance to a grave in St Cuthbert's, #Edinburgh
Photo credit: Lorraine Murray, 2024

October 31, 2025 at 8:05 AM Everybody can reply

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Jenny Hart

@jenniferirvinghart.bsky.social

#31DaysOfGraves day 31 and I think this is a #MementoMori - wilting flowers on the headstone of Sophia Palmer who I’m pretty sure is Sophia Bradford/Hegenbart/West/Palmer although the death certificate isn’t helpful & it’s circumstantial evidence that various family members all agree it is her

It is certain that Sophia married James Palmer because her sister Emma Jane Rae was a witness.
James Palmer’s death certificate lists his first wife as “Selina West” and marriage date is within two years. He died 20 years after 1892, so not surprising that informant was hazy about first wife details

October 31, 2025 at 7:41 AM Everybody can reply

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Debbie Cameron

@debsadelight.bsky.social

#31daysofgraves
Day31 #mementomori
‘remember (that you have) to die"

Morebattle Cemetery Kelso Scottish Borders
One engraved in the exterior wall of the church
Another on the cemetery wall
One a headstone
I think we get the message!

October 31, 2025 at 7:10 AM Everybody can reply

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Welwyn Archaeological Society

@welwynarchsoc.bsky.social

2/2 Many thanks to anyone who has followed my 31 postings. It has been fun going through my collection of #tombstone photographs. I couldn't resist a 2nd #MementoMori photo. These one is from All Saints, #Necton, #Norfolk. For those that care, both photos #Pentax K-3iii, SMC Pentax-FA 31mm Ltd lens

Black and white photo of the top of a tombstone. It shows a relief carving of an urn or possibly a sarcophagus. The 'urn' has a almost triangular shape with the narrow bottom sitting on a base and a curved lid. On the 'urn' are the words "Remember Death". The raking light causes deep shadows but also brings out the text and the texture of the carving.

October 31, 2025 at 6:11 AM Everybody can reply

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Welwyn Archaeological Society

@welwynarchsoc.bsky.social

For the last day of #31DaysOfGraves 2025 we have, appropriately, #MementoMori. This is from the Grimstead tomb in St Mary's churchyard, #Redbourn, #Hertfordshire. It is listed (historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-...). There is a #skull and bones, an #Ouroboros and a winged #hourglass. 1/2

A white marble panel from the short side of a chest tomb. There is a decorative shield-shaped frame within which is: at the bottom, three-quarter view of a skull sticking out of the ground with four bones behind, two with ball joints and two with hinge joints; on top of the skull an snake or dragon eating its own tail, i.e., an ouroboros, representing eternal life; the top two-fifths of the panel is a winged hourglass representing the flying passage of time. From either side of the top of the hour glass are rays coming down diagonally from something that might be clouds. These might be rays of light from Heaven?

October 31, 2025 at 6:03 AM Everybody can reply

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Remember It - Recuérdalo

@recuerdalo.bsky.social

#Tomb of Cardinal Cinzio Aldobrandini in the Basilica of San Pietro in Vincoli, Rome. #31daysofgraves 31. #mementomori #monument #memorial #funeraryart #photography #art #death

October 31, 2025 at 4:34 AM Everybody can reply

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It's Miss Yvonne

@itsmissyvonne.bsky.social

What were the ancient Celts of Britannia doing 2000 years ago at this time? Find out:
www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...
#samhain #samhuinn #otherworld #underworld #thedead #mementomori #Halloween #ghosts #spirits #MysteriesOfTheUniverse #MysteriesOfLife

October 31, 2025 at 3:47 AM Everybody can reply

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animate International

@animate.shop

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#ObeyMe #HazbinHotel #ALST #ALIENSTAGE #MementoMori #86EightySix #LCB #LimbusCompany #DGrayMan #TheSummerHikaruDied

October 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM Everybody can reply

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Devotee⚤✊🏻🚩

@devotee90s.bsky.social

Cenas pós créditos do filme M do #DepecheMode #MementoMori Tour... Ou eu soco a aceitação da morte, finitude e luto no 🆒 até a alma, ou eu não sei mais... Uma imersão a morte e cultura nessa arte do Depeche Mode.
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