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Ariadne & Dionysus

Illustration for my original project. This is a reinterpretation of an old drawing, but with Dionysus in human form.

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hi do you have a link to the art piece that is your profile picture? wanted to reblog but couldn't find it!

Hello! I have two posts with this art: link 1 and link 2

Thanks for asking! :)

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Odette

Illustration inspired by Swan Lake ballet.

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every now and then i think about this article that i read which traced the origins of Dionysos back through the ages. and apparently, He's one of the oldest deities known from the Greeks, and His name was seen on Linear B tablets dating back to the Minoans.

this is interesting for two reasons:

Dionysos is so often seen as a "foreign God", who came roaring out of some mysterious mountain in the East. but He's also there with the Minoans, receiving pretty large sacrifices, almost 3500 years ago.

the Minoans were the civilization that Ariadne came from - they were named after King Minos, they were actively on Crete. i can only wonder how old the story of Ariadne and Dionysos is, then. Ariadne wasn't mentioned in the article, but some research shows that it's a not unheard of opinion that Her name is old, and there's a good chance it came from the Minoans.

these two things put together just kind of show how interesting Dionysos is when it comes to being a God of opposites. He's been worshiped in Greece for almost 3500 years, and yet He's a young foreign God. He's married to a mortal woman and yet Her name echoes back to the very birth of Her own mythic kingdom, with an origin that may mean "most holy". together, Dionysos and Ariadne are both eternally young and eternally old, and there's just something that sticks in my head about that, you feel?

anyways, here are the two articles that i used for this:

Ariadne - Wikipedia

The Shocking True Origins of Dionysos - by Spencer McDaniel

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“Mythical figures live many lives, die many deaths, and in this they differ from the characters we find in novels, who can never go beyond the single gesture. But in each of these lives and deaths all the others are present, and we can hear their echo. Only when we become aware of a sudden consistency between incompatibles can we say we have crossed the threshold of myth.

Abandoned in Naxos, Ariadne was shot dead by Artemis’s arrow; Dionysus ordered the killing and stood watching, motionless. Or: Ariadne hung herself in Naxos, after being left by Theseus. Or: pregnant by Theseus and shipwrecked in Cyprus, she died there in childbirth. Or: Dionysus came to Ariadne in Naxos, together with his band of followers; they celebrated a divine marriage, after which she rose into the sky, where we still see her today amid the northern constellations. Or: Dionysus came to Ariadne in Naxos, after which she followed him around on his adventures, sharing his bed and fighting with his soldiers; when Dionysus attacked Perseus in the country near Argos, Ariadne went with him, armed to fight amid the ranks of the crazed Bacchants, until Perseus shook the deadly face of Medusa in front of her and Ariadne was turned to stone. And there she stayed, a stone in a field.

No other woman, or goddess, had so many deaths as Ariadne. That stone in Argos, that constellation in the sky, that hanging corpse, that death by childbirth, that girl with an arrow through her breast: Ariadne was all of this.”

– Roberto Calasso, from The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

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Leo

Original art available: Etsy

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Original zodiac drawings available in my Etsy store

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Luna

Original art for sale in my bigcartel store.

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Noturna

Original art for sale in my bigcartel store.

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T. S. Eliot, from The Complete Works of T. S. Eliot; "The Confidential Clerk,"

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album moodboards: Flower of the soul (2024) // Liana Flores

while at my loom a-weaving my tapestries of light you placed your hand on mine and there was spun a web of night

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Rest in peace to the patron saint of magical weird children <3 you will be loved forever

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New York City ballet production of Midsummer Nights Dream

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Helaena Targaryen 🕷

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a little bunny looking at the stars in case you're having a bad day.

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