Mills of God

Roman-era depiction of an animal-driven flour mill.[1]
An edge mill with two millstones. Katherine Maltwood portrayed a similar arrangement in her bronze, The Mills of God (1918/9), which was inspired by the suffering of the Great War.[2]

The proverbial expression of the mills of God grinding slowly refers to the notion of slow but certain divine retribution.

  1. ^ Urnholder of the miller Publius Nonius Zethus (1st century C.E.), found in Ostia Antica, now in the Museum of the Vatican.
  2. ^ Rosemary Alicia Brown (1981), Katherine Emma Maltwood (PDF), Victoria: Sono Nice. University of Victoria Art Collections M964.1.357