https://eyjolfur.no/left-nav-—-desktop 2026-03-26T12:45:59+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2540144629784748436460944036330/IMG_0793.jpeg https://eyjolfur.no/nav-mobile 2024-08-18T14:58:29+00:00 always 0.5 https://eyjolfur.no/overlay 2026-03-12T12:47:41+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2245139337047912245802031190506/Saul-4.jpg https://eyjolfur.no/overlay-copy 2026-03-13T16:00:31+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2245139337047912245802031190506/Saul-4.jpg https://eyjolfur.no/overlay-copy-copy 2026-03-13T16:03:20+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2245139337047912245802031190506/Saul-4.jpg https://eyjolfur.no 2026-03-26T12:45:59+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg https://eyjolfur.no/shop 2026-03-13T16:03:20+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg https://eyjolfur.no/sider 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://eyjolfur.no/stamp 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://eyjolfur.no/pages 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://eyjolfur.no/souls 2026-03-13T16:03:20+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg The rational, “philosophic” or “aristocratic soul with reason firmly in command. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2241697327803967575628311761386/IMG_0578.jpeg The oligarchic soul is a degeneration of the timocratic soul and loves material wealth. She is ruled by her passionate part, which, however, is primarily interested in satisfying necessary desires. She greedy but thrifty. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2241698127581003635379631624682/IMG_0569.jpeg The democratic soul is unstable, a kind of combination of every other kind of soul. It is as if the soul-parts take turn in ruling. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2538484999666248505786892620266/IMG_0588.jpeg The rational, “philosophic” or “aristocratic soul with reason firmly in command. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2538498108844924487479748530666/IMG_0579.jpeg This is the timocratic soul, the first degeneration from best soul. She loves victory and is easily angered. She bows to the powerful and is hard on slaves. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2538499249204196380130519880170/IMG_0590.jpeg This is the tyrannical soul, a degeneration from the democratic soul. Reaon and spirit are completely subdued by passion. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2538522771459221506423005712874/IMG_0686.jpeg Here are Stoic human souls (the Crysippean version). They have eight parts: ruling part, five senses, voice and seed. They are parts of the soul of the cosmos. They are connected between one another and with the cosmos by sympathy. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2836252972626398901816938271210/IMG_0961.jpeg Two Cartesian souls interact with matter. Following Aristotle, Descartes distinguished between reason (whitish), imagination (colored lines) and the senses (colored dots). The external world (matter, extension) has no color, smell, taste, sound, these being altogether in the perceiving subject. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2837971051972919400079957496298/IMG_0975.jpeg Descent. Three Plotinian souls who have just desended from the intelligible world. They are very confused but also curious. Their bodies are abstracted out and their bodily form is merely for the purposes of illustration because Plotinian souls are immaterial substances. https://eyjolfur.no/other-philosophies 2026-03-16T14:13:48+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg The pre-established harmony of all things. Leibniz made this notion famous but the Stoics and Plotinus came close to expressing it well before him. The two cars lower their beams at the same moment independently. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2241697327803967575628311761386/IMG_0578.jpeg The oligarchic soul is a degeneration of the timocratic soul and loves material wealth. She is ruled by her passionate part, which, however, is primarily interested in satisfying necessary desires. She greedy but thrifty. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2241698127581003635379631624682/IMG_0569.jpeg The democratic soul is unstable, a kind of combination of every other kind of soul. It is as if the soul-parts take turn in ruling. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2538499249204196380130519880170/IMG_0590.jpeg This is the tyrannical soul, a degeneration from the democratic soul. Reaon and spirit are completely subdued by passion. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E2538522771459221506423005712874/IMG_0686.jpeg Here are Stoic human souls (the Crysippean version). They have eight parts: ruling part, five senses, voice and seed. They are parts of the soul of the cosmos. They are connected between one another and with the cosmos by sympathy. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2836252972626398901816938271210/IMG_0961.jpeg Two Cartesian souls interact with matter. Following Aristotle, Descartes distinguished between reason (whitish), imagination (colored lines) and the senses (colored dots). The external world (matter, extension) has no color, smell, taste, sound, these being altogether in the perceiving subject. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M2837674371143307521990362206698/IMG_0969.jpeg This is the state of mind of a Pyrrhonian skeptic: everything is unclear and indistinct, nothing feels quite certain. The painting is full of skeptic formulas such as “No more this (than that)”, “indefinite”, “maybe”. These are written in Greek and are suitably indistinct. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W2837971051972919400079957496298/IMG_0975.jpeg Descent. Three Plotinian souls who have just desended from the intelligible world. They are very confused but also curious. Their bodies are abstracted out and their bodily form is merely for the purposes of illustration because Plotinian souls are immaterial substances. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2838043686784026138461537112554/IMG_0965.jpeg The pre-established harmony of all things. Leibniz made this notion famous but the Stoics and Plotinus came close to expressing it well before him. The two cars lower their beams at the same moment independently. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2838066838148814918749778153962/IMG_0976.jpeg This is Providence as conceived by Plotinus (205–270 AD). Everything that exists happens around here is the result of the effort of Providence to make an optimal world. This effort is successful but we humans, because of our inborn limitations, will often find it hard to understand that the world is as good as can be. https://eyjolfur.no/pre-socratic-worlds 2026-03-13T16:03:20+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg Thales of Miletus, the first recorded philosopher (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/circa#English">c.</a> 625 – c. 545 BC) held that the bottom reality is water. He is also said that the world is full of gods. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2540144629784748436460944036330/IMG_0793.jpeg Fire was the key element for Heraclitus of Ephesus (fl. 500 BC). Opposites fight in an eternal struggle, nothing stays the same. Fire is the driving force. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2540146097167899267834646434282/IMG_0629.jpeg Parmenides from Elea (c. 515–c.459 BC) maintained that belief in change and plurality is sloppy thinkning: reality must be one and uniform. Hence, he likens it to a sphere. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2836326028724246795577257693674/IMG_0971.jpeg Thales of Miletus, the first recorded philosopher (<a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/circa#English">c.</a> 625 – c. 545 BC) held that the bottom reality is water. He is also said that the world is full of gods. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/H2836536528634495823707977880042/IMG_0959.jpeg Chaos assumes form is a common idea in ancient Greek thought expressed by such different thinkers as Hesiod, Plato and Aristotle for whom it is best known as matter taking on form. It is deeply ingrained in Pythagorean doctrines under the name of the One and the Dyad. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2837678847042842822802256761322/IMG_0856.jpeg Empedocles had a theory of evolution. He claimed that the first organisms were what we know as body parts, which were individual living beings. Thus, heads and limbs in the painting are organisms. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U2837684281103158800235681354218/IMG_0812.jpeg The body parts sought to connect, sometimes successfully, but as a rule the composites were monstrose and certainly unable to procreate. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2837714089805650061932552851946/IMG_0594.jpeg Empedocles from Acragas in Sicily (c. 494–c. 434) believed in cosmic cycles in which Love and Strife take turns in dominating. He was the first to propose that traditional four element fire, air, water and earth, which he called “roots”, as the building block of the universe. After a dominion of Love. Strife enters the scene as a vortex which separates the roots. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2837869772430425707000503800298/IMG_0857.jpeg There were, however, some successful combinations and these have given us the organisms that we know today. We see a fair example in the painting. https://eyjolfur.no/machines-in-landscapes 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg Machine and Nature ll. Oil on canvas, 2022. 50x50 cm. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1926004800740177596126673048042/Vandri-2023.jpg Chaos. Oil on canvas, 2022. 60x80 cm. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A1926005318577177233301206012394/Truarathofn-2024.jpeg An Icelandic Religious Ceremony. Oil on canvase, 2024. 35x70 cm. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1926006915290450765452574790122/Vandragangur-i-Arizona-2022.jpg Trouble in Arizona. Oil on canvas, 2022. 40x50 cm. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/E1926007674576883583411428856298/Gengur-hgt-2022.jpg Slow Motion. Oil on canvas, 2022. 30x40 cm. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D1926012883697602326030581043690/Hin-tvisyna-leit-2022.jpeg Hopeful 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I1926012883771389302325419250154/Fyrirfram-akvara-samrmi-allrar-tilverunnar-1999.jpg The Pre-Established Harmony of Everything 1999 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1926154534068628540979713217002/-Endurlaunari-2022.jpg Savior. Oil on canvas, 2022. 70x100 cm. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1926155348805974044509479440874/Bios-eroticos--2000.png Machine and Nature I 2000 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K1926209766534970791023360676330/-Volkswagen-2011.jpg They are Saved 2012 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1926228580756633192942954418666/A-heimlei-2011.jpg On an Uncertain way Home 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N1926229905214410941215050895850/Holpin.2022jpg.jpg Only Future, No Past 2022 https://eyjolfur.no/odysseus 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg Odysseus meets his Mother in Hades 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1926110493131235346078773875178/Krike-2023.jpg The Guileful Circe 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1926110493075895113857645220330/Polyfemos-2024.jpg Polyphemus 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1926110492946767905341678359018/Iaka-2023.jpeg Odysseus wakes up in Ithica 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1926110493057448369783935668714/Sirenur-2023.jpeg The Sirens 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1926110493112788602005064323562/Nasika-og-Odysseifur-2023.jpg Nausicaa brings Odysseus a Garment 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1926235501845882440250753880554/7..jpg Odysseus meets his Mother in Hades 2023 https://eyjolfur.no/beaujolais 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg A view to Sagnié 2005 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/W1926113514394319970450266198506/Beaujolais-2005.jpg A view to Sagnié 2005 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T1926113514412766714523975750122/Beaujolais-2--2009.jpeg Chatêau de Varennes 2007 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D1926113514449660202671394853354/Anna-Stina-i-Beaujolais-2001.jpeg Stína 2001 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A1926113514468106946745104404970/116155179_3445638475466985_4141631487199026996_n.jpg A view to Carreyves 2007 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1926113514357426482302847095274/Helene-et-Emile-1998.jpg Emil et Hélène 2003 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/U1926113514431213458597685301738/Beaujolais-stor-2005.jpg A view to Sagnié 2005 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1926113514320532994155427992042/Stina-og-Ulfur-i-bai-2004.jpg Les enfants baignent 2004 https://eyjolfur.no/landscapes-1 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg Forest Near Røros 1995 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1926120933914594089390150324714/Kleif-2022..jpg Kleif 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N1926120933803913624947893015018/Hross-2024.jpeg Bjarni’s Horse 2024 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1926120933822360369021602566634/Tharan-i-skoginum-2024.jpeg Tharan in the Woods 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M1926253080154138647704098902506/90.-Heimaklettur.jpg Heimaklettur 1968 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1926253421732498660583866175978/Fill-1962.jpg A Hardworking Elephant 1965 (Aquarelle) https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D1926253908099352908009904083434/Hros-2000.jpeg Horses Probably near Thingvellir 2000 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K1926254379450557479436366975466/Hross-2000.jpg Horses in Fog 2000 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V1926255218168670278788550300138/Vesturbrinn-1999.jpg November Morning in Reykjavik 1999 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1926258788812686906377908851178/50..JPG Forest Near Røros 1995 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2538321150169809339510283375082/IMG_0425.jpeg Úr Borgarfirði. Oil on canvas, 1996. 35x55cm. https://eyjolfur.no/from-brúarós 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg Sælból og Innra-Sæból ll 1963Sælból og Innra-Sæból (Homage to Cézanne) 1968 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S1926124267499502625738061058538/95.-Sbol-1967-.jpg Sælból og Innra-Sæból IV 1968 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/M1926124267481055881664351506922/117075961_3460104880687011_2277525459952120947_n.jpg Sælból og Innra-Sæból III 1966 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N1926124267444162393516932403690/Sbol-1961.jpg Sælból og Innra-Sæból I 1961 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z1926124267462609137590641955306/Fossvogur-1968.jpg Fossvogur 1968 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1926124267388822161295803748842/Sbol-1968.jpg Sælból og Innra-Sæból ll 1963Sælból og Innra-Sæból (Homage to Cézanne) 1968 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Y1926265883854732768766780051946/70.-I-soi.jpg Farmented Haddock and Potatoes 2000 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1926277508328765233872664596970/115770043_3461788533851979_8780690721984347882_n.jpeg Sælból og Innra-Sæból II 1963 https://eyjolfur.no/eruptions 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg Embers and Sparks III. Oi 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R1926127712945467225060692791786/Glur-3--2024.jpeg Embers and Sparks I. Oil on canvas, 2023. 35x70. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F1926127712927020480986983240170/Glur-2-2024..jpg Embers and Sparks II 2023 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1926127712890126992839564136938/Glur-1-2024..jpeg Embers and Sparks III. Oi 2023 https://eyjolfur.no/phantasy 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg Wicked beings 1963 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A1926133292495253711841350980074/Vi-sem-elgfroar-2000.-.jpg We as Centaurs 1999 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1926133292532147199988770083306/Hjordis-og-Hakon-1878.jpeg Dream (Homage to Pieter Brueghel) 1977 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G1926133292458360223693931876842/-.2020jpg.jpg ΤΡΕΙΣ ΥΠΟΣΤΑΣΕΙΣ 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K1926133292513700455915060531690/Illyi-1963.jpg Wicked beings 1963 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1926255218408477951746774471146/etta-folk-er-holpi-2022.jpg Happiness, Oil on canvas, 2022. 60 x 80cm. https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N1926295004899498450718986408426/Ball-i-Allanum-1971.jpg A ball in Allinn 1969 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/C1926295004549010313318504927722/Afrodita-og-kjuklingar-1986.jpg Aphrodite with Two Chickens 1986 https://eyjolfur.no/seals 2026-03-13T16:03:19+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X1924911908777709367363218248170/Bolva-vesen-2022.jpg Conjugal Love 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/O1926139091155466306144063263210/Madonna-og-barni-2022.jpg Madonna and Child 2022 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J1926139091266146770586320572906/35.Bios-theoreticos-2021.jpg Bios Theretikos I. 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