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Hermes Eriounes

granter of good luck 🍀

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Ancient Greco-Roman veils my beloved

I will die on the hill that no one should stop you from wearing a PIECE OF FUCKING FABRIC if you personally wish to. Your body, your beliefs, your culture, your history, your choice. No matter the religion or lack there of, race, gender or culture.

I do occasionally wear my head scarf and tbh I want to wear it more, I want more pretty ones to cycle through.

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Gorgeous Details of Regency Era Dresses

Embroidered Details

Piped, silk pelisse • Museum of London. • c. 1823

Lovely Hem Borders

Beautiful Bodices

Dress • British • c. 1818 • Metropolitan Museum of Art, Costume Institute

Left: Evening dress • 1815 — Right: Ball gown • American • c. 1820

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Friendly reminder that you don't need to be on any “level” of witchcraft to worship the Hellenic gods because

1. Being a polytheist or a pagan doesn't equal being a witch.

2. These deities were worshipped by literal children back then as there was no fear of them being harmed.

If someone is telling you “this deity is for beginners/advanced practitioners/whatever” then they're either misinformed or they're purposefully trying to seem spiritually above you so you consider them as some sort of spiritual guide.

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Thelma Todd in Air Hostess (dir. Albert S. Rogell, 1933)

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🫀ATAEGINA🫀

Like many other ancient deities, we don't know a lot about this goddess, but it is believed that her cult spreaded mainly in the southwest region of the Iberic peninsula (which nowadays we consider Portugal and Spain). It's believed Ataegina had connections with nature and the cycle of birth and death, reason why she was later syncretized with the Roman goddess Proserpine.

Another variations of her name are Ataecina or Atégina.

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Como muchas otras deidades, no sabemos mucho sobre esta diosa, pero se cree que su culto se extendió principalmente por la región suroeste de la península Ibérica, (lo que hoy consideramos que es Portugal y España). Se cree que Ataegina tenía cierta conexión con la naturaleza y el ciclo de la vida y la muerte, razón por la que posteriormente sería asociada con la diosa romana Proserpina.

Otras variaciones de su nombre son Ataecina o Atégina.

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I want to draw better -> I should properly study anatomy -> I know i'm never gonna go to art school so why should i bother myself -> Not happy with my art -> I want to draw better -> I should properly study anatomy -> I know i'm never gonna go to art scho

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Girl photographed by Hugh Mangum c. 1909

Mangum’s photographs are notable for their informality, which was unusual for the period. I just adore the series of this girl, she’s such a beauty.

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i absolutely need to draw a pretty edwardian lady wearing this 🪷🪷🪷

Dress ca. 1910

From Kerry Taylor Auctions

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🏺🏺PERSEPHONE🏺🏺

Another drawing, this time of Persephone! 🫀🫀

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I sketched some Greek gods for a postcards project earlier this month ^-^ These are Dionysus, Ares, and Artemis

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simply ✨✨yes✨✨

going to the british museum and shaking my head the whole time so the people in the gallery know i disagree with it

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🪴🪴MINTHE🪴🪴

In Ancient Greek mythology, Minthe is a nymph with a minor role in the story of Persephone and Hades. This is my interpretation of her, inspired by Pre-Raphaelite art 💙💙

Check to see my drawing of Persephone!!

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Anselm Feuerbach (German, 1829-1880) Plato's Symposium, Detail, 1869

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The Hesperides 

The Hesperides in the garden. Here the apples are on a tree, and the dragon Ladon looks more like a single-headed serpent, Attic red figure hydria, ca. 410/400 B.C.

The British Museum (London),  Inv. E 224

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~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.

Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region

Period: Ilama Period

Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100

Medium: Ceramics

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🏺THE MYSTERIES OF ISIS: SYNCRETISM IN ANCIENT ROME PT.2🏺

Left: Priestess of Isis,John Cheere (18th century), National Trust Collection. Right: Priestess of isis, Museo Archaeologico Regionale, Palermo, Sicily.

As we've seen in the previous post, foreign gods made their way into Roman culture. In the case of Egyptian gods, they were usually adopted by the Greeks before arriving to the Italic peninsula.

In this post, we're going to talk about the mysteries of Isis. Unlike typical religious practices, which were often public services, mystery rites promised their followers a closer connection to a particular god.

Isis wasn't the only nor the first god to have a mystery rite. In fact, it surged as a way to honour the foreign godess in a somewhat "familiar" way.

The Eleusinian (honouring Demeter and Persephone, also known as Kore) and the Orphic mysteries (Orpheus) had an earlier development in Greek culture and would become the most famous mystery rites.

Wall painting depicting Isiac rites.

The practices of the cult was, as the name suggests, a mystery. Participants had to swear a vow of secrecy, and, as a consequence of its private character, many things are unknown to us.

The rites heavily focused on death and belief on the afterlife, and also recreated the myths surrounding the godess Isis, like the murder of Osiris.

One of the only accounts of the mysteries of Isis is depicted in The Golden Ass. In Book 11, Lucius, the protagonist, is transformed back into a human guided by the Egyptian goddess. In return, Lucius becomes part of the cult.

As other pagan cults and worships, the mystery rites died out when Christianity rose to power.