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Now come, Zagreus Sabazius, Πορφυρογέννητος, stained with living blood. Almighty god, Scarlet Thunderer, Dragon Lord, endless Aion, patron and protector of human life, he who guides into the eternal cycle. Master of the Cosmos, One who embodies All as Above so Below.

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The Masque of Red Death, sculpture by Emil Melmoth

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"You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents — you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering."

— Aeschylus, Eumenides

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"On a clear night, when Nyx in the heavens shows to men all her stars in their brightness and no star is borne faintly gleaming at the mid-month moon."

— Aratus, Phaenomena 468 ff

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Duane Michals

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Evelyn de Morgan, Sleep and Death, The Children of the Night

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Poison Ivy

Art by Joshua Swaby

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"Nor yet might we surrender you from these seats of sanctuary , and bring upon ourselves the dire, abiding vengeance of the all-destroying god Moros, who, even in Haides, does not set his victim free."

— Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 412 ff

art by @retiredpeach

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Lady Nyx’s aesthetic

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Madison Julius Cawein, “Nocturne”

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Graveyard of the Melodies by João G. Santos

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Unknown Author 

Triple Hécate, ca.389, marble, 75 cm

Louvre Museum Inv. AO 22263

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Persephone Melitodes

— Persephone, The Honeyed-One 🍯🌷

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Sacred fruit

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"For, alone of gods, Thanatos loves not gifts; no, not by sacrifice, nor by libation, canst thou aught avail with him; he hath no altar nor hath he hymn of praise; from him, alone of gods, Peitho (Persuasion) stands aloof."

— Aeschylus, Fragment 82 Niobe (from Stobaeus, Anthology 4. 51. 1) (trans. Weir Smyth) (Greek tragedy C5th B.C.)

art by Gar_randia, divider by @uzmacchiato

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Oh, great Persephone, fairest of maidens, Whose realm is below, dark but filled with splendor, She who rules the Underworld with power and grace, Her beauty and grace a sight to embrace. And with Hades, King of the Dead, had a son's noble birth, Zagreus, the mighty god of life and of earth.