A giant skull furnace burning scrolls, surrounded by blindfolded figures in a dark lake, with a serpent wrapped around a crumbling tower.

Foreground: A massive, rusted furnace shaped like a human skull, partially submerged in a lake of blackened tar. Its jaw is forced open, and scrolls, books, and parchments are being shoved into the mouth by cloaked figures. Flames glow from the eye sockets, and screams or Latin scripture pour out in smoke, forming abstract runes in the air. Midground: The cloaked figures around the furnace are blindfolded, chained at the neck to each other, forming a circle—a cult of forced enlightenment. Their robes are stitched with symbols from logic, metaphysics, and empiricism—but they’ve been burned and branded into the fabric. Background: In the distance, a crumbling ivory tower (like the Tower of Babel) splits down the center. From the split rises a giant, malformed serpent made of flowing philosophical text, eating its own tail—an ouroboros of corrupted knowledge. See more