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How the fuck have I never seen this before?! It's sooo majestic ♡

Moonbows

A moonbow, also known as a lunar rainbow or white rainbow, is a rainbow created by moonlight rather than sunlight. It's formed when light from the moon refracts and reflects off water droplets, like those in rain or mist, creating a visible arc of light in the sky. Moonbows are generally fainter and less colorful than regular rainbows, and they are much rarer due to the need for specific conditions like a full or near-full moon, clear skies, and dark skies.

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aphrodite is everywhere

𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏

she is there when you take care of yourself.

she is there when you treat yourself.

she is there when you laugh with others.

she is there when you show just that little bit of extra love to your loved ones and your pets.

she is the goddess of love and is there in any expression of love, whether that be self love, platonic love, familial love, romantic love, or any form of it. she is here with us, with the animals. and she loves us.

take care of yourself lovely, she's here <3

𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏𓂃﹏

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Dionysos

Since 1827

Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781–1841)

Berlin

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The youthful Bacchus

17th century

Italian master around 1600/1610. Follower of Caravaggio

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Bacchus and Ariadne

Victor Honoré Janssens (1658–1736)

Oil on panel

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Apollo and Dionysus shake hands in their shared sanctuary of Delphi

*image from greek vase painting 

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- Hermès attachant ses sandales, François Rude (1834) Louvre, Paris

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I saw a post asking about what the Theoi remind people of, and instead of reblogging and adding a huge list and clogging it up, I thought I’d make my own little personal documentation of feelings that the Olympian Theoi remind me of/inspire within me:

Zeus: The feeling of confidence as you walk into a room. The feeling of taking the tempest in your heart and turning it into a power that you can use to set things right.

Hera: The feeling of love for your family (whether it’s by blood or not). The gentle run of fingers down your cheek as someone cares for you when you feel alone.

Apollon: The feeling of such immense joy that you feel as if sunlight is bursting from your chest and your heart will leap right out. Smiles so big and bright that it hurts. The desire to run into the fields and open your arms to the sun.

Hermes: The feeling that every step that you take is as if you were walking on clouds, light, free, agile. A smirk to yourself knowing that you’re about to tell a good joke. The feeling of being surrounded by happy friends who feel like family.

Poseidon: The feeling of pure power as you stand towering above the water. The deep desire to dive in and let the sea foam consume you. The feeling of mist spraying over your skin as you close your eyes.

Artemis: The feeling of adrenaline pumping through your body as you clench your fist. Lying on your back in the forest and gazing up at the sky through the dense leaves above you as you hear the sounds of the Earth.

Ares: The feeling of fire rising in your chest like a phoenix after you’ve had your air knocked out of you. A final push, ignited by the last drops of the fight that you carry in your heart.

Athena: The feeling of confidence after you finish your plans. The way you strongly step in front of a friend to defend them, to protect them. The feeling of pen on paper, the steady stream of knowledge leaving your mind.

Aphrodite: The feeling of holding someone in your arms that you care about deeply. Tucking someone’s hair behind their ear as they work. Fixing a friend’s shirt. The feeling of your eyes meeting with someone you know across the room, and a smile rising to your face and butterflies fluttering in your stomach as you see them.

Demeter: The feeling of joy as you embrace someone you haven’t seen in a long time. Telling stories and laughing at dinner with the people you care about, offering food to your friends to try. The ache in your heart as someone you love departs on their journey.

Dionysos: The feeling of having as good of a time that you can, because you know you have to work the next day. Being in a car and singing with your friends as loud as you can. The smell of pine and the rustle of leaves.

Hephaistos: Being so focused on a project you lose track of time. Sweat dripping down your brow, cracking your knuckles. The feeling of giving someone a handmade gift that you worked hard on. Doing something anonymously to benefit others, without the glory.

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Gustave Doré 

Maenads in a wood, 1879. French, 1832-1883 (details)

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Ariadne & Dionysus

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Διόνυσος

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Fairy of the oak, from the cartoon "Hungarian Folktales"

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Satyrs making wine.

Greek black-figure amphora. 540 bc

Museum der universitat Wurzburg