pterou

Updated: May 5, 2025

To the unprogressive ritual element it brought these conceptions, itself he pterou dunamis, the power of the wing an element of refinement, of ascension, with the promise of an endless destiny. While the ritual remains fixed, the aesthetic element, only accidentally connected with it, expands with the freedom and mobility of the things of the intellect.

Walter Pater - The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry