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The minute I heard about a Greek rainbow goddess I ran to my sketchbook

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A Byzantine Gold Collier with Emeralds, Sapphires, Amethysts and Pearls, from a workshop in Constantinople (late 6th-7th Century AD).

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Offering to Lady Aphrodite

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bree kish by isabel malia

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Recently got back from my study abroad in Greece, and I have sooo much drawing inspiration at the moment

Here's a doodle of my design of Dionysus, based on something I saw in Thebes

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annie's x clio peppiatt: the midnight dress

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Nature + Fiddler

This month's (June) exclusive sticker club artwork. There are a few slots still open!

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Portrait of Urania🌙

Author unknown (British School, 19th century)

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μαίνομαι

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♡✿ beach dividers !

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Jesus inspired by those little tiny Jesus figures

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Iris Chrysopteros

(χρυσόπτερος "golden winged")

Goddess of the rainbow and personal messenger of Queen Hera. Her name contains a double meaning, being connected with the Greek words iris "the rainbow" and eiris "messenger." She can travel on the rainbow bridge to deliver messages from the gods.

In flower language, Iris symbolises hope, wisdom and trust. They bloom in early summer, butterflies and hummingbirds love them.

(e-offering to lady Iris)

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butch aphrodite

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🌈 ⋆.˚ Happy Pride from Iris! ⋆.˚ 🌈

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unspoken things

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To Zeus Eleutherios, the Liberator

Zeus Eleutherios, divine liberator of mankind

You who breaks chains and brings freedom to the masses

It is you who gives us the strength and the understanding to free ourselves from tyranny

And it is you who intervenes to free humankind from the yoke of slavery and oppression

In these times of trouble I turn to you, that you might grant to us your guidance and intervention now

To you I pray, oh lightning-wielding patron of the freedom struggle

I beg of you, bestow upon us the strength, the skill, the power, and knowledge to free ourselves

To free our world from the tyranny of fascism, imperialism, and zionism,

To overcome and destroy oppression in all its forms

Grant the people inspiration, that we might be able to rise up and defeat those who hold us down

That we might be delivered from all those who exploit, murder, and marginalize

Just and Revolutionary Zeus, who with your son Dionysos, carries the title of Liberator

May all the enemies of the people be laid low, may they be disarmed and disempowered

May they pay for their crimes in this life, in this generation, and not the next

Bring swift justice and vengeance on those who deceive us,

and upon the forces that render us complicit in violence and the destruction of our siblings

May all who defile the Sacred Earth with bloodshed and pollution be cast into the deepest depths of Tartaros

Oh great King of the Heavens, wolf-like and serpentine, avenging the wrongs and corruption of mortal leaders

It is to you I pray, that we shall arrive at freedom in our lifetimes

And that through your divine inspiration we may build the struggle to create a better world

Strike down with your shining scepter all those in power who subdue the coming of justice

That our path to freedom be one not far from us, but near at hand

Oh Lord Zeus, you who delivers freedom and justice, hear this my prayer

(Art by Heinrich Friedrich Füger)

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Mercury (Simeon Solomon, 19th century)