#lunar deity

[brbcomicsseriesprojects]

Character design and concepts scribbles.

[blueapplesiren]

Diana, my self indulgent Mary-Sue OC. She is based HEAVILY on her namesake, the Roman goddess of the Moon, so I figured I may as well draw her wearing Roman garb. (Dress design was inspired by a mural found in Pompeii)

Drawn on paper with ink, colored with pencil crayons.

[fantasymythologypics]

Bulan is the Moon god of peace and calm in Ilocos

[sorapikayue]

This time it's just the Moon. Not Tsukuyomi or Mani , just an entity of the moon. Lately my mental health hasn't been the best. Thinking about Tsukuyomi sama lately has made me feel ugly and unworthy. I'm not beautiful. I have smile lines and jagged features. I am not worthy to stand before Kamisama and never will be. No skin care routine or diet can make me beautiful. Social media has shown me content that has me comparing myself to all the porcelain models with perfect faces while I'm fretting over how inflamed and gross I always feel I look. Tsukuyomi sama is associated with beauty and order and I am the opposite of that. And the harder I try to be that, the less beautiful I am. So I need to step away for a while so I don't lose my mind and can take a break from picking apart my appearance. But just thinking of the moon without all that crap is nice.

[belladonna-moon]

Moodboard for Hekate

[crazycatsiren]

I still find it hilarious that NASA's Apollo program brought humans onto the moon. You'd they would've named it Artemis or Selene.

[sillyfairygarden]

skyduo warmup 🫶

[artemis-potnia-theron]

🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘

Praise to the Light-Bringer and Divine Night-Wandering Huntress, Mistress Artemis Soteira...

If I have ever honored you with gifts of your great bounty or pleased you with my eternal reverence, most blessed and beautiful queen of beasts...

I beg your fire-eyed protection and soul-soothing presence, and I pray for a place in your heart, for you are the eternal keeper of mine.

Khaire, my Lady 🌙🦌🏹

🌘🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘

[sims195-blog]

Virtual Offering to Persephone

Ο Περσεφονη, Κουρη, Σωτειρα,

Εὐχαριστῶ ὑμᾶς διὰ τὴν ἀκρόασιν τῆς τελευταίας προσφορᾶς μου καὶ τῆς εὐχῆς μου. Εὐχαριστῶ διὰ τὴν προστασίαν τοῦ φίλου μου, Μιμ. Ταύτην τὴν προσφορὰν ἀναφέρω σοι. Ἐπαγγέλλομαι μέλλουσας προσφορὰς εἰς τιμὴν σοι ποιήσειν, ὅπως ἀνταποδώσω τὴν ἐπαγγελίαν μου.

[entropii]

Wandering healer, rumored assassin, AND killed the previous commander of the Selene.

[onyxtides]

A candle I’ve made for the wonderful goddess Nyx which is now in my shop. Made with an upcycled galactic drinking glass, so after burning you can have an awesome glass.

[lunathemacron]

been saving this piece so happy valentines day lol

[violetjedisylveon]

Gay Goddess Anyone?

I made some gay sun and moon goddesses it was supposed to be for pride month, but I didn't finish in time. Then I procrastinated posting for months.

@poeticallydisgraced for being the person I spammed about all the colors and for listening to my info dumps.

Moon Goddess, Esmeray/Lysimachia

(2 names thing explained below the cut)

Deific Domain:

Moon

Night

Magic, all kinds, Mother of Magic

Death

Souls

Hunting

Winter weather, i.e. snow, ice, blizzards ect

Sky, split with the Sun, specifically nighttime sky

Stars(fall under the nighttime sky)

Autumn

Winter

Nature

Ocean + water

Wild animals

Poison/toxins + their medical applications

Has some level of control over all aspects of life not under the preview of the Sun.

I really liked that little crescent moon thing if you can't tell, I put it anywhere I could. Lots more info on her under the cut!

Sun Goddess, Herema/Iris

Deific Domain

Sun

Day

Art, Mother of the Arts

Music

Light

Weather, winter weather is the Moon's domain

Sky, split with the Moon, specifically daytime sky

Spring

Summer

Civilization

Agriculture

Medicine, some overlap with the Moon

Has some level of control over all aspects of life not under the preview of the Moon

She's the new head of this pantheon I am making, (these are the only two I have finished at the moment, got an ocean deity in the making). She is short, a lot shorter than Esmeray/Lysimachia. Very important detail. Smol lil fox birb goddess with tall cat bat deer goddess gf.

Esmeray/Lysimachia's weapons and shield

She made all of these herself, her bow and her spear were the first she created and her main weapons, her bow folds in. Her scythe hook things was made with assistance of a harvest deity friend of hers, and the shield she made herself too. The sword she made as a gift for Herema to protect herself with.

All of them are sacred symbols, mortals have ceremonial mimics of it to be used for different rituals. Basically they are used to ask for her favor in something under her preview.

Herema/Iris's stuff(she doesn't really have weapons)

Not pictured but her lantern is included as an important artifacts.

She forged her sun staff out of sunlight in her ascension process, it was to prove her abilities and control over her powers, the sun(and by association, the moon) is the most important deity in this pantheon, together they possess some level of control over every aspect of existence, the other deities have a more focused control over smaller domains. But a lot of other deities are older and more experienced than Herema/Iris.

Her lantern is something she made as a newly formed entity, before she was discovered by the other deities, she used it to light her way as she wandered around kinda aimlessly for a bit. Her lantern is a very important symbol, in festivals they hang up mimics of it all around to give a village the light of the sun during the night. She carries a tiny sun in her lantern because it's too bright/hot for others for her to take out.

I really love these two and this world I'm building, I wanna make an animation with O Sol e a Lua for them cause that's kinda their dynamic.

Now for world building and the two names thing explanation!

Each deity has a personal name and a public name.

Public names are what the other deity's call them and what they are called by the vast majority of mortals, their personal names are shared with select deities they are particularly close with, and very select groups of mortals or non god non mortal creatures, something like nymphs or fae and other spirits like that.

The vast majority of mortals do not know they are calling their gods the wrong names.

Lysimachia is moon's personal name, Iris is sun's personal name.

I'm working on more background history and world building stuff but I can give you some basics about the gays!

Lysimachia and Iris are relatively new gods, they didn't exist at the outset of creation, the sun and moon as celestial bodies existed but no deity had control or influence over them, they had no life, which the earliest gods thought was weird because everything had a spirit or some deity taking care of it.

In absence of a reason why this happened, the two deities who's domain was close enough took on those roles, even though they had no control and were essentially house sitting the positions while the other deities searched for their missing members.

Those deities were the main fire deity and the deity of the afterlife(Queen of the Dead), those two are some of the oldest and most powerful, so they could keep opportunists from trying to take a role that was clearly meant for someone else.

Thanks for reading my little info dump thing! This is an idea I really like and want to expand on more eventually, I've got the ocean deity sketched already now I've just gotta draw it digitally!

Thanks and goodnight!

[yebreed]

Astronomical personifications in Chinese art are distinguished by impressive vivacity. These dramatic faces.

Jade Emperor Temple (玉皇庙), Fucheng, Zezhou, Shanxi. The Hall of the Twenty-Eight (Lunar) Mansions (二十八宿殿), colored clay, Yuan Dynasty.

[czortofbaldmountain]

Selene by Pietro della Vecchia

[belladonna-moon]

Another Moodboard for Hekate