Olive Wood Tobacco Smoking Portrait Pipe Bust of Mephistopheles by Oguz Simsek. Traditional scholars of Germanic mythology commonly use the spelling “Mephistopholes, ” based on a transliteral understanding of the 15th century spelling of the character. The word may derive from the Hebrew?????? Which means “scatterer, disperser”, and tophel, short for????? (top¯el seqer) which means “plasterer of lies”. The name can also be a combination of three Greek words: µ? As a negation, f?? (pho~s) meaning “light”, and f???? “Philis” meaning “loving”, making it mean “not-light-loving”, possibly parodying the Latin “Lucifer” or “light-bearer”. Inside the Faust legend. The name Mephistopheles is associated with the Faust legend of an ambitious scholar, based on the historical Johann Georg Faust. In the legend, Faust makes a deal with the Devil at the price of his soul, Mephistopheles acting as the Devil’s agent. The name appears in the late-16th-century Faust chapbooks- stories concerning the life of Johann Georg Faust, written by an anonymous German author. In the 1725 version, which Goethe read, Mephostophiles is a devil in the form of a greyfriar summoned by Faust in a wood outside Wittenberg. From the chapbooks, the name entered Faustian literature. Many authors have used it, from Goethe to Christopher Marlowe. In the 1616 edition of Marlowe’s The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Mephostophiles became Mephistophilis. Mephistopheles in later treatments of the Faust material frequently figures as a title character: in Meyer Lutz’ Mephistopheles, or Faust and Marguerite (1855), Arrigo Boito’s Mefistofele (1868), Klaus Mann’s Mephisto, and Franz Liszt’s Mephisto Waltzes. There are also many parallels with the character of Mephistopheles and the character Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. M-089-olive – Mephistopheles Pipe. Polished with natural Carnauba wax for shine. Overall Length: 170 mm / 6. Bowl Height: 67 mm / 2. Bowl Width: 43 mm / 1. Chamber inside, diameter: 20 mm /. Chamber inside, depth: 48 mm / 1. Your postal service principally requires a signature upon service of the goods. It is therefore necessary that the recipient is available to accept the package. If you want a custom pipe please contact me. Here is a small selection of the available models. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Tobacciana\Pipes\Estate”. The seller is “oguz-simsek” and is located in this country: TR. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Body Shape: Sculptural
- Handmade: Yes
- Modified Item: No
- Country/Region of Manufacture: Turkey
- Brand: Oguz Simsek
- Filter Size: No
