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child of hecate pngs ! free to use! credit not needed but appreciated :)

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PERSEPHONE, QUEEN OF THE UNDERWORLD

“Tell them that you weren’t hungry, tell them you followed the pomegranates seeds because hey tasted like blood, like love.” [x]

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mythology family ♥︎ dirae for @cthod

the dirae are the goddesses of vengeance, the roman counterparts of the greek furies/erinyes. the three sisters are called alecto (punisher of moral crimes), megaera (punisher of infidelity, oath breakers, and theft), and tisiphone (punisher of murderers).

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Vanitas, 1680 by Carel Fonteyn (Flemish, c.1640--?)

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MYTHOLOGY MOODBOARDS • NYX for anonymous

“The great roots of night grow suddenly from your soul, and the things that hide in you come out again”. — Pablo Neruda, from The Light Wraps You.

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Styx by Pandora Young

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Coming Home, acrylic painting by Jason Limon

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— Franz Kafka, The Castle | The Lovers of Valdaro

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Hades & Persephone (2023)

This piece still means a lot to me! It took around 7-8 years to finish. When I first started this I didn’t feel like I had the ability to finish it the way I wanted. So it took a lot of patience and determination!

Timeline: - Sketch: 2015-16 - Draft: 2017-18 - Lineart: 2020-21 - Colors: 2022-23

Maybe sometime I'll post the original sketch and lineart as well!

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"[The Titanis] Asteria (Starry One) of happy name, whom [the Titan] Perses (Destroyer) once led to his great house to be called his dear wife. And she conceived and bare Hecate. Tender-hearted, bright-coiffed. The maiden daughter of Perses, Brimo [Hecate] Trimorphos."

— Hesiod, Theogony 404 ff, Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 19, Lycophron, Alexandra 1174

art by Sam Gushue

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Zagreus-Summanus

Summanus is the god of nocturnal thunder in ancient Roman religion. Georges Dumézil stated that Summanus represent the uncanny, violent, nocturnal, mysterious and awe-inspiring element of sovereignty of the gods. The name Summanus is thought to be from Summus Manium "the greatest of the Manes" → "Zagreus, highest of all the gods" (Alcmeonis), "Sabazios, Master of the Cosmos" (Strabo). According to some, Summanus is linked with Pluto → "Now [I came] to bid farewell to Zagreus and to his sire, the hospitaler" (Aeschylus). Saint Augustine records that in earlier times Summanus had been more exalted than Jupiter. Mount Summano, located in the Alps near Vicenza, is traditionally considered a site of the cults of Pluto (i.e. King Hades), Summanus, and the Manes (i.e. chthonioi). The area was one of the last strongholds of ancient Roman religion in Italy. The mountaintop is frequently struck by lightning. The mountain itself has a deep grotto named Bocca Lorenza, in which, according to local legend, a young shepherdess became lost and disappeared. The story might be an adaptation of the myth of Proserpina, who was abducted by Pluto.

Hello, Zagreus. Once more I found you among the hundreds of your names.

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Ellen Terry 'Choosing' (c.1864) by George Frederic Watts

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mythology aesthetics

CHAOS

Chaos refers to the void state preceding the creation of the universe or cosmos in the Greek creation myths, or to the initial “gap” created by the original separation of heaven and earth. Chaos was the first of the primordial deities, followed by Gaia (Earth). From Chaos came Erebus (Darkness) and Nyx (Night).

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"Adrasteia's seat and Ida resound with lowing oxen and bleating sheep, and the whole plain roars. ‘There is a great goddess Nemesis, who has obtained as her portion all these things from the Blessed.’”

— Aeschylus, Fragment 79 Niobe (from Strabo, Geography 12. 7. 18), Strabo, Geography 13. 1. 13, Antimakhos (Antimachus)

art by irkallan

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Lord Hypnos 🤍💙🩵

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Claude Dalbanne, 1877-1964

Les Parques (The Fates), 1907, oil on canvas

Lyon, Musée des Beaux-Arts

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Park of Souls, Mount Parnitha, Greece | Ph: Eurokinissi