#hermes statue

[reno-matago]

Berthel Thorvaldsen • Mercury about to kill Argos (National Museum, Krakow Collection)

[tragediambulante]

Mercure attachant ses talonnières, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, 1744

[olympianbutch]

I am so incredibly charmed by the makeshift altar I fixed on my desk 🫶🏻😭

[kararadaygum]

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[aroaceacacia]

empires populates their kingdoms with living beings, things that move, villagers themed to the land they live in. armor stands are used as statues, as decoration. how horrific, then, cleo's work must be to them

[shitakimooshrooms]

Here’s an Empires SMP au idea. So they all go to a this extremely prestigious school that is in Animalia, and they are all children of diplomats or other famous people, except for Pix, who got in because of his insanely good grades. I imagine that Joel, Katherine, and Gem are the extremely high class, Fwhip is just below them because I decided that his father was the diplomatically elected king and that fwhip would not inherit the throne after his father passes, then below him is Joey(who’s father defeated Skeletron), Scott(who’s father is the most well known collector in the world, and whose mother is the head of the dye making industry), Shubble(who is the prized pupil of the witch academy, but she can’t perform magic off school grounds until a certain age so even though she finished the entire curriculum she still couldn’t do magic so she was enrolled in this school), Sausage(who’s father is the protector of Sanctuary), and Jimmy(who’s father is the one who enforces the world wide laws and such), then there’s Oli(who’s father is a well known musician), Lizzie(who’s mother is the mayor of Animalia so she got enrolled), and False(who’s father was an incredible architect who recently passed, False already had memory issues and hearing that her father died made her an amnesiac, but she had already been enrolled so she still attended, unaware of who exactly she is), and then finally Pix, who’s mother works in a library and who’s father is a history teacher, he who got enrolled because of his massive brain. I am probably gonna write this but maybe not. Please enjoy this au idea though!

[inkaitations]

Maybe this is just a me issue but can we talk abt when you see a Greek or Roman or what have you statue/figure in a store and your just kinda like:

Wow that’s beautiful! 😊 …Who is it

Bc I am always on the lookout for miniature statues I can use for devotional purposes if only I could figure out if it’s an Olympian or Greek hero or random angel meant to go outside by your daffodils.

Yall will be posting beautiful statues of Greek deities and trust me every time I come across those posts I am immediately in the caption like alr who dis ☝️🤨

[aerie-stims]

Hermes

🍇 🕊️ 🍇 | 🕊️ ☀️ 🕊️ | 🍇 🕊️ 🍇

[thecoffeelorian]

Friendly reminder that, just because you may be bored of a composer/musician, it does not give you the right to destroy other people for not being bored of them yet.

In other words, I'm not done listening to Lin Manuel Miranda's songs yet, and no amount of howling from strangers over the music alone will change my mind.

[reno-matago]

A day I won't forget..

Welcome home Hermès !

[conformi]

Charles M. Schulz, Linus van Pelt, 1952 VS Hermes Pio-Clementino | Belvedere Antinous, second century AD (copy of a bronze by Praxiteles)

[seafoamdesires]

May Lord Hermes fill your day with luck and safe travels!

[thewitchoftherock]

What happens when a classicist becomes an artist and dives into fandom?

Shit like this

[shitakimooshrooms]

I just thought of some great Empires s2 angst.

So imagine another calamity happened, and Lizzie is the only one to actually survive(because she’s a cat and has 9 lives) and so she’s looking for other survivors, but the only person she can find is Hermes. So she now has to break the news to Hermes that his parents are gone. She brings him back to Animalia, where together they rebuild. Eventually, the ghost of Pix comes to also help rebuild because his whole thing is recovering ruins. Eventually Lizzie dies, as she can’t live forever, but Pix and Hermes continue to protect Animalia and share the story of the founder and Mayor of the great empire.

At some point, Hermes ventures out for a little while so that he can bring any survivors or supplies from the other empires. The only things he finds are the creatures that belonged to the empires, but he was able to retrieve some things from Stratos. This is before Lizzie dies, so when she is met with Hermes returning with horses, cats, frogs, dogs,llama, and much more, she decides to build a place of tribute to Hermes, not a place of worship per se, but a place where even if he disappears for a long amount of time, he will be remembered.

Eventually, the animals that were brought to Animalia become more like the other inhabitants, and the empire expands to all the ruins, slowly building them back up.

Many generations have passed at this point, the founders are long gone, but their descendants still stand. The world may have fallen to ruin, but the creatures of the land did not give up.

There are still stories of their great savior, her memory immortalized in books, paintings, and a statue at the center of the new world. The only evidence of humans left is Pix, even though he is incorporeal. The last god alive, Hermes, tells the tales of the past, along with his not-quite-undead companion, as they search the lands for new life, in hopes to keep the world alive.

[sir-adamus]

fucking finally