#group of three

[chooseonly1]

[private85]

[mascamaiorum]

Joseph Campbell, THE MYSTERY NUMBER OF THE GODDESS

The Indian (Sānkhya) philosophers recognized as arising three “qualities or characteristics” (guṇas), through the interrelation of which all of “nature” (prakṛti) was seen as motivated; namely, “inertia, mass, or heaviness” (tamas); “energy and vitality” (rajas); and the “harmony or clarity” (sattva) of any balanced relationship of the opposed two. In Pythagorean terms, the same three would correspond, respectively, to (1) the “unlimited,” (2) the “limiting,” and (3) the “harmony” or “fitting together” (harmonia) of any “beautiful order of things” (kosmos), whether as a macrocosm (the universe), microcosm (an individual), or mesocosm (ideal society or work of art). And the number representative in that system of such a visible order is 4.

The Pythagorean tetraktys, viewed as an upward-pointing triangle built of 9 points with a tenth, as bindu, in the center, suggests an Indian tantric diagram (yantra) symbolic of the female power in its spiritually alluring role recognized by Goethe in the last two lines of his Faust: “Das Ewig-Weibliche/Zieht uns hinan!”

The trinity here is not of three male divinities with the Virgin then as a feminine fourth but of the classical three Graces with Apollo as a masculine fourth. Both the names and the postures of the Graces tell of the qualities of their influence: (1) Thalia (“Blooming, Abundance”) unites and relates her opposed companions; (2) Euphrosyne (“Mirth, Festivity, Good Cheer”) moves away from the God to the descent, ninefold, of the Muses; while (3) Aglaia (“Splendor, Beauty, Triumph, Adornment”) confronts him, returning to source. Pico and Ficino revered these three as an exemplary triad archetypal of all the others of classical myth. In Pico’s words, “He that understands profoundly and clearly how the unity of Venus is unfolded in the trinity of the Graces, and the unity of Necessity in the trinity of the Fates, and the unity of Saturn in the trinity of Jupiter, Neptune, and Pluto, knows the proper way of proceeding in Orphic theology.” For as Edgar Wind points out in commenting on this passage, “it was an axiom of Platonic theology that every god exerts his power in a traidic rhythm.”

[kadacher]

[jesshasnofilter2]

I used an art textbook, graphite, black ink, white ink, brown toned paper, and LAYERS of charcoal.

And then I rifled through my shit to find my tattoo gun. This baby is goin in the flash-based binder.

[forgetful-nerd]

The real reason we’ll never get another Turtles Forever is because if these three met then they would absolutely destroy everything in their paths.

Also they’d verbally eradicate any villain’s self esteem in like 10 seconds.

[lazycranberrydoodles]

they are so in love and disgusting and also sarcastic bitches. follow for more / prev comic / next comic

[g1ngerbeer]

utopia

[chooseonly1]

[kiruvry]

again . can't for the life of me draw anything serious of this game

[flickering-nightfall]

Wiggles! Feel free to use them. -Drive link- has alternate versions.

The rest of the slugcats + an alt Moon are under the cut.

[mediumgayitalian]

i don’t think the big three kids are actually banned from teaming up during capture the flag. i think the stipulation is that they have to take the kids. so it’s like all the brightest and best fighters and most skilled members of camp, including those who have like. made even one plan in their lives, vs. ninety newly armed children who have been fed a breakfast of gushers in orange soda corralled by the most powerful and most impulsive demigods to ever live

[paunchsalazar]

Golden Deer

[ryvdraws]

every time i adjust the way i draw richies hair i level up