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I occasionally use a cane, and I’ve been meaning to spruce it up somehow. What better time than before the Trans March? And what better design than a thyrsos?

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Bacchus (정말 죄송합니다 디오니소스님 예림이 선정이 딸이에요 츄릅)

water color on paper 

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DIONYSUS, the god of intoxication, madness, and ritual ecstasy, presided over the world of the theater. the embodiment of numerous contradictions - a native greek raised and surrounded by foreigners, an ever-sober god of wine, a living god ridiculed as an effeminate ‘false-man’ - his cult in antiquity was often suspected and sometimes even repressed. the modern association of dionysus with violence, with the dark or subconscious elements of the human mind (though certainly rooted in some textual and archaeological evidence) nevertheless overlooks his other, equally prevalent characteristics: the god whose most frightening epithets included ‘raging,’ ‘bull-faced,’ and ‘man-slaying,’ could in the same breath be called ‘savior,’ 'liberator,’ 'the soother of cares.’

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Last night was my first foray into musical performance in a very long time. It was fortuitous that it happened on the first day of Thargelia, so I could celebrate Apollo with a decent amount of pomp and circumstance. (I am aware that I’m not celebrating in a perfectly traditional manner, but that’s just how it goes.)

On a related note, I’m torn about following the Athenian festival calendar. It feels almost right, but almost isn’t what I’m going for. It may just be my confusion over whether I’m a Hellenic Polytheist or a Dionysian, and if there’s even a significant difference in the first place.

I suppose I’ll develop a better understanding eventually. After all, I’ve only been doing religion properly (instead of only worrying about it) for three-ish years. I know I’ll never arrive at certainty, but maybe I’ll fall into some sort of groove - assuming that’s allowed...

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Leto and her son Apollo

By: Axel Linus

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Apollo Citharoedus of Leptis Magna

Time period: 1st century A.D

Found at: Leptis Magna (Tripolitania, Libya), Hadrian’s baths.

Currently in: Tripolis, Archäologisches Museum.

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dionysus suggestion #5

dress as grapes. just do it, pussy

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Nicolas Kalmakoff (1872-1955)  #Dionysos, Gouache, touche, pencil. gold and mixed Media on paper laid on cardboard, 1908.

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Robert Mapplethorpe, Snakeman, 1981

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Sorry for my disappearance. Have an apology goat.

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Since I’m a giant Classics nerd I made some Greek pottery inspired Easter eggs

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In therapy today I had a thought that should have been obvious: Having a plan will not make me invulnerable.

This comes at the perfect time, as I am currently recovering from a concussion I gave myself while making a salad.

Nothing will ever be 100% safe, and if I try to protect myself from everything, I won't even be able to eat my greens.

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“You kissed his mouth with mouths of flame: you made the hornèd god your own: You stood behind him on his throne: you called him by his secret name.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx (via xenopenthos)

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my first piece on an easel! my boi dionysus <3

(acrylics base, details with pencils and soft pastels golden paper, metallic pencil)

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Jubilation!

Dionysus, oh Dionysus!

Thy name a sweet and familiar liquor across my tongue!

A warmth blossoms and rips down to my stomachs pit, mixing and filling all my senses with that violet hue of intoxicating mirth.

With spring, like the emerging faces of flowers, you visit to me - to my greedy delight.

How long has our winter been, dearest Liberator!

How long my soul was parched of thy holy madness!

O'er kinder eddies of wind comes the song of Bulls returning to their field - to their herd. And so too have you returned to this lonely mortal.

I have so missed you.