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Spoopy season is coming 🕯️🎃

𝔟𝔯𝔦𝔪𝔪𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔴𝔥𝔦𝔪𝔰𝔶

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Truuuuuth

I adore how in every Hymn to Artemis or Apollo the poet takes a paragraph or so to go: And I would like to take this opportunity to say that they have a mum that loves them to bits and that they would absolutely kill for

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artemis timeeee :3

i tried to make it almost similar to my apollo illustration but i kinda had to much fun with this piece that i made it maybe too blue

but anyways im still very proud of it :>

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I’ve received thanks and questions about why I included Artemis Ephesia in the Wisdom of Artemis Oracle.

Artemis Ephesia holds one of the oldest and most complex forms of Artemis’ worship. Unlike the familiar Greek Olympian huntress, she was honoured in Ephesus as a mother-protectress with Anatolian roots. Her image was a column-like form covered with animal and zodiac reliefs, flanked by lions, with rows of globes. Scholars debate whether these were bull scrotums, bee eggs, breasts, or something else… but they all signal fertility and abundance. Artemis was not only a goddess of the hunt but also a guardian of birth, nurturing, growth, and the cycles of life.

Her temple at Ephesus became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It was a place where kings and common people looked to her for protection. The sacred statue, later carried to Selçuk, is argued by some to show her as a divine/cosmic goddess binding heaven, earth, and animal life together. Her worship emphasised Artemis’ role as life-giver and protector of women and children, expanding beyond the Greek vision of her.

I chose to include Artemis Ephesia in the Wisdom of Artemis Oracle because she reveals a truth about Artemis that is often overlooked: she’s not bound to a single image. She embodies duality. Artemis Ephesia guards fertility, rebirth, and the continuity of all life. Including her was not questioned for a single moment, hence why she is the epithet featured on card No. 2.

Artemis’ many epithets and spheres of influence remind us that she cannot, and will not, be reduced to one definition.

Hail the Great Mother, Artemis Ephesia!

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Foraging in the forest is where I listen to the land and share space with its spirits. The healing from that is beyond words.

This is sacred wild.

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Radiant Helios, All-Seeing Helios ☀️

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Receiving a gift from her love <3 <3

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To purify and consecrate cult statues is to welcome it for divine presence. Divine presence was linked to ritual care of the icon.🏺

Why did the Ancient Greeks create statues of their gods? Simply put-- so they could see them and know them, and comprehend them. In a similar way, a child will make drawings of their parents.

This logic also applies to modern practitioners of Hellenic Polytheism. We make, shape, and give form to the gods, who are ultimately formless beings whose natures we cannot fully comprehend-- and we make cult images and icons of them. We wash them, clothe them, offer them food and drink, because their icon represents their physical presence in a sanctuary or sacred space. We give form to the formless and seek to know that which is unknowable.

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Honouring Artemis & Hekate Kourotrophos (16 Metageitnion)

Artemis Kourotrophos is represented by card 5 [Nurture] in my indie deck ‘Wisdom of Artemis Oracle’; a deck that honours Artemis’ many epithets and invites you to connect her timeless wisdom to your own path.

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Hermes sketch

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Greek gold olive wreath, c. 4th century BCE. From Sotheby’s Auctions

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Apollo, the bright-voiced lord of song.

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Man on a mission

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Hail Athena. She draws me in so much, it’s hard to explain. Just look at her!

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Happy Venus Day — Hail Aphrodite 💖

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Celebrating Lesser Panathenaia.

Hail Athena Polias

My IG post about this festival here

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Hermes, god of boundaries, thieves, travel, and a divine trickster