#sun chariot

[pagan-stitches]

Finished sun goddess tapestry

[celestialtitania]

apollo watching percy drive hermes' car into pillars and scratching it along the wall: that kid is NEVER getting behind the wheel of the sun chariot aka the real reason he's gonna pick thalia to drive

[magicae-est-realis]

Had a lot of fun drawing Apollo's Sun Horses after a fun conversation with @poltergeist-in-the-water-heater

[tired3mrys]

If I don’t see someone make an edit of Thalia driving/crashing Apollo’s chariot (sun bus?) to the theme tune of The Magic School Bus for PJO season 3 I will be rioting

[akkar2]

Trundholm Sun Chariot (Nordic Bronze Age, c. 1500-1300 BC)

Source: Wikipedia

[lesbianbanana]

so I did a lil bit of art inspired by @literallyjusttoa sun horses lol

[that-rascal]

friendly reminder that Thalia and Percy have the same taste in men: Luke Castellan and Apollo ;)

[bloodraven55]

hold up let me cook

[sunchariotemotes]

Could we perhaps get checks and X ? or yes and no?

you most certainly may, dear star!

✘ and ✓

no and yes

[pagan-stitches]

Sun Goddess Tapestry (the sun maiden’s journey): A Breakdown of Motifs

The top two panels represent the sun goddess in the day time and summer half of the year.

The Fire Symbol:

From Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe by Mary B. Kelly, 1996 (personal library)

Bird motif

“Because the soul was supposed to fly to heaven, birds represented the soul of the dead person.  Ritual towels, embroidered with birds symbolizing the ancestors were hung from an upstairs window to attract to the soul to return home.  These towels are sometimes embroidered with the symbols of the grave marker as well.”

From Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe by Mary B. Kelly, 1996 (personal library)

In the upper panel the bird symbolizes the living soul and is surrounded by sun bursts and the sown field motif (nestled between tail and wing).

From: When They Severed Earth From Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth by Elizabeth Wayland Barber (personal library).

Sun Chariot

During her journey through the day time sky the sun maiden drives a chariot pulled by horses:

This article is a great read on the sun chariot and sun boat/shallop in Northern Russian embroidery.

I have framed the sun chariot on either side with sun trees and sun flowers.

Solar Wheel motif

I used this motif to divide the panels showing the sun goddess in her day time/summer time aspects and night time/winter aspects.

The solar wheel is surrounded by highly stylized goddess figures that have morphed into the tree of life.

From Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe by Mary B. Kelly, 1996 (personal library)

Sun shallop motif (in red):

I chose this motif to represent the sun at night and during the winter half of the year.

At night the sun goddess travels the underworld in a boat (shallop) pulled by swans. See the sun chariot motif above for a link to traditional Russian costume’s article on the sun chariot and the sun shallop in northern Russian embroidery.

Grave marker motif (in blue):

I chose the grave marker border to symbolize the sun goddesses journey through the underworld.

“Another spring rite known throughout Russia is the “day of Memory”. Celebrated around Easter time in early spring, it is the day for remembering the dead and the ancestors.  Women cut branches to cover the graves, particularly the graves of their mothers.  Spring embroideries depicting women holding branches in their hands were then tied to the grave markers.  These markers have a very ancient peaked-roof motif which appears in the embroideries as well.  Research shows these graves to be at least a 1000 years old; they have survived in just this form into the present day. The grave markers provide another example of a motif whose survival, like the goddess motif, comes down to our day from pagan times.  Originally in the pagan religion the dead were cremated and the ashes of the dead were placed in a small ceramic jar on a shelf, protected by the overhanging roof.”

From Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe by Mary B. Kelly, 1996 (personal library)

Bird motif (in blue):

The birds here in the lower panel symbolize the souls of the ancestors.

[illustratus]

Apollo and the Sun Chariot by Pinckney Marcius-Simons

[dreamconsumer]

Apollo an the chariot of the Sun. By Jean Jouvenet.

[akkar2]

Trundholm sun chariot (Nordic Bronze Age, c. 1500-1300 BC)

[allegorypaintings]

A Dance to the Music of Time

Artist: Nicolas Poussin (French, 1594-1665)

Date: ca. 1634-1636

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Wallace Collection, London, United Kingdom

Description

Although trained in Paris, the French painter Nicholas Poussin spent most of his career in Rome. This painting was created for a Roman patron, Giulio Rospigliosi, later Pope Clement IX. A circle of figures who symbolise the Seasons dance to the music played by Father Time on his lyre. Autumn, usually represented by a woman, is here represented as Bacchus, the god of wine. Two putti, one blowing bubbles and the other holding an hour glass, allude to the transience of human life; the double-headed herm, depicting the youthful and mature Bacchus, points its old head towards the dance, while its young head looks out of the composition to the future. In the sky, the sun god Apollo rides across the morning sky in his chariot, preceded by Aurora (dawn) and followed by the Hours.

[mythologypaintings]

Apollo and Aurora

Artist: Gerard de Lairesse (Dutch, 1641–1711)

Date: 1671

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Largely forgotten today, De Lairesse was celebrated in his lifetime as a painter and advocate for an idealizing manner based on the study of classical antiquity. This work, likely destined to hang over the mantelpiece in a grand Amsterdam home, depicts the sun god consorting with the goddess of the dawn, a popular subject in French and Italian painting at the time. The attractively individualized young faces have led to speculation that they may be disguised portraits of a newly married couple.

[gay-david-tennant]

discourse? nonono, in this house you get DISK HORSE