#Cleopatra the alchemist

[potnialabyrinthoio95]

Cleopatra the Alchemist (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα; fl. c. 3rd century AD) was a Greek alchemist, writer, and philosopher. She experimented with practical alchemy but is also credited as one of the four female alchemists who could produce the philosopher's stone. Some writers consider her to be the inventor of the alembic, a distillation apparatus. She appears to have been active in Alexandria in the 3rd century or 4th century A.D. She is associated with the school of alchemy typified by Mary the Jewess and Comarius. These alchemists used complex apparatus for distillation and sublimation.

Art by Sato Futaba author of the historical mangas "Utae, Erinna!" and "Anna Komnene"

[iorbitmyheart]

Your fantasy 🌊🌺💋

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[brother-hermes]

HEN TO PAN: ONE IS THE ALL

The alchemist is ultimately seeking liberation from the “dualistic” nature of reality by unifying their conscious and subconscious mind; union of opposites. Some alchemists felt that dualism was a hindrance to spiritual awakening. They believed that by meditating on the spirit of Mercury- the substance that permeates all matter- we can free ourselves and escape death/rebirth.

[annachum]

Not every lady is a warrior, and that's okay

Snow White isn't a warrior - she is a lady diplomat, and later ruler And that's okay

Cinderella isn't a warrior - she is a lady, artist, and later ruler, and that's okay

Aurora isn't a warrior - she is a lady, diplomat and later ruler. And that's okay

Jane Bennet isn't a warrior - she is a lady and artist. And that's okay

Meg March isn't a warrior - she is a homemaker, artist and lady. And that's okay

Hurrem Sultan isn't a warrior - she is a lady, diplomat, ruler and strategist. And that's okay

Lucrezia Borgia isn't a warrior - she is a lady, cultural patron and diplomat. And that's okay

Maid Marian isn't a warrior - she is a lady, cultural patron and diplomat. And that's okay

Cleopatra VII isn't really a warrior - she is a lady, alchemist and ruler. And that's okay

Scheherazade isn't really a warrior - she is a lady, storyteller, ruler and diplomat. And that's okay

Laura Vlahos ( Clint Barton's wife ) isn't a warrior - she is a medic. And that's okay

Cosette isn't a warrior - she is a lady and artist. And that's okay

Queen Guinevere isn't really a warrior - she is a lady, strategist, cultural patron and ruler. And that's okay

Millie ( 7 Brides ) isn't a warrior - she is a homemaker and agriculturalist. And that's okay.

Christine Daae isn't a warrior - she is a performing artist and lady. And that's okay

Duchess ( Aristocats ) isn't a warrior - she is a lady, socialite and musician. And that's okay

Lady Jocelyn ( A Knight's Tale ) isn't a warrior - she is a lady and diplomat. And that's okay

Padme Amidala isn't really a warrior - she is a lady, ruler, diplomat and politician. And that's okay.

A lady can be impressive even without swinging a weapon

[birdbrain-npts]

Alchemy ID Pack

Pt: Alchemy ID Pack /end pt

Pfp mask by me // Image

Names: Alchemy, Apollo, Artephius, Aur, Aurora, Aurum, Basil, Cleopatra, Copper, Crocus, Curtis, Gold, Goldie, Goldy, Helio, Iron, Issac, Izumi Lead, Mercury, Nemean, Newton, Rosaura, Savanna, Silver, Sovanna, Tin

Pronouns: al/alchemy, alchemy/alchemys, char/charcoal, charcoal/charcoals, chem/chemicals, chemical/chemicals, copper/coppers, gold/golds, heraldic/heraldics, iron/irons, lead/leads, mercury/mercurys, silver/silvers, tin/tins, toxic/toxics, transform/transforms, ⚗️/⚗️s, 🪙/🪙s

Titles: prn who studies / preforms alchemy, prn who transforms metal to gold, prn who works with metals, the alchemist, the chemist, the sorcerer, the witch, prn who is a sorcerer, prn who loves gold, prn that studies the elements / metal

Genders: Alchimagiworldgender, Alchemapprentia, Genderalchemist, Y/nalchemist, Alchemist System, Royalchemic, Prialchemic, Alchemicesse, Aur, Aren, Aeris, Fera, Lan, Mera, Sana, the Alloy Alignment System in general

Other ids: Alchemist Occuden, Interdimensional Chemist Occuden, Invigoldpile,

Text in bold is Names, Pronouns, Titles, Genders, and Other ids rrespectively

Requested by Anon

Tagging @id-pack-archive

[sporesdoingart]

sporeling oc :)

this is cleopatra (she/her)! her backstory is that she was a dragon hybrid (specifically the wingless east asian inspired variant so she didn’t have wings to begin with) who was on a ship that got taken over by a storm. she washed up half dead at the shores of the mushroom island, and mother spore saved her and took her in!

because she was originally a dragon hybrid she still has some magic (weaker fire magic) and she is also a very talented alchemist!

she’s pretty nice and definitely the “mother” of the group, but also won’t hesitate to go batshit and is very sarcastic at times

she likes annoying HEP, having tea with mother, and particularly bugging the mayor.

she also may or may not have an unattainable crush on false (which definitely gets in the way of annoying HEP sometimes)

anywho sporelings au is by @sporelings-au (i also just realized that my username fits really well with this lmao)

[whocookedthelastsupper]

“The work of many gifted women known to history by name is a salutary reminder that, as the majority of the human race, women have always commanded over half of the sum total of human intelligence and creativity. From the poet Sappho, who in the sixth century B.C. was the first to use the lyric to write subjectively and explore the range of female experience, to the Chinese polymath Pan Chao (Ban Zhao), who flourished around A.D. 100 as historian, poet, astronomer, mathematician and educationalist, the range is startling. In every field, women too numerous to list were involved in developing knowledge, and contributing to the welfare of their societies as they did so: the Roman Fabiola established a hospital where she worked both as nurse and doctor, becoming the first known woman surgeon before she died in A.D. 399.37 In various fields, too, women emerged not simply as respected authorities, but as the founding mothers of later tradition: Cleopatra, "the alchemist of Alexandria," an early chemist and scholar, was the author of a classic text Chrysopeia (Gold-making), which was still in use in Europe in the Middle Ages, while the Chinese artist Wei Fu-Jen, working like Cleopatra in the third century A.D., is still honored today as China's greatest calligrapher and founder of the whol school of the art of writing.”

-Rosalind Miles; Who Cooked The Last Supper?; The Women’s History of the World

[vanilla-cigarillos]

Women in Alchemy

Like many aspects of history, woman have been widely removed from the narrative of alchemy’s history. However, this false narrative hides the extraordinary impact that female figures had in the world of alchemical practices.

Michael Maier (German physician and counsellor to Rudolf II Habsburg, a notable alchemist) named women who were able to create the famed Philosopher’s Stone. 

Mary the Jewess

A.k.a. Mary the Prophetess or Maria the Copt; Mary the Jewess was an early alchemist who became known from the works of Zosimos of Panopolis (Greco-Egyptian alchemist). On the basis of this work, Mary the Jewess lived between the first and third centuries A.D. in Alexandria. She is noted as one of the first alchemical writers, with her works not being dated later than the first century.

Mary is credited with the invention of multiple kinds of chemical apparatus, and is considered the first true alchemist of the Western world. She believed that metals had two different genders, and that if you were to join these two together a new entity could be made.

Axiom of Maria

One becomes two, two becomes three, and out of the third comes one as the fourth

Carl Jung notably used this axiom as a metaphor for individuation, and wholeness.

Inventions

Tribikos

An alchemical still (alembic) with three arms used to obtain substances purified by distillation

Still used today in chemistry labs

Kerotakis

Device used to heat substances used in alchemy, as well to collect vapors

Bain-marie

A.k.a. “Mary’s bath”

Limits the maximum temperature of a container and its contents to the boiling point of a separate liquid (essentially, it is a double boiler) 

Cleopatra the Alchemist

A Greek alchemist and philosopher active in Alexandria during the 3rd or 4th century A.D. It’s notable that this is not Cleopatra VII, rather this is a pseudonym for an unknown author (or even a group of authors). Despite her hidden identity, Cleopatra the Alchemist is a foundational figure in alchemy, her influence perhaps even pre-dating Zosimos of Panopolis.

Cleopatra the Alchemist is most noted for the Chrusopoeia of Cleopatra, a lone sheet document containing only symbols, drawings and captions. Examples of the imagery seen are the Ouroboros, an inscription saying:

One is the Serpent which has its poison according to two compositions, and One is All and through it is All, and by it is All, and if you have not All, All is nothing.

There are also drawings of “dibikos”, an instrument similar to a kerotakis.

Another is a symbol of the eight-banded star, and many believe the drawing of these star symbols and the crescent shapes above them are a depiction of turning lead into silver.

Paphnutia the Virgin

Living around the time of 300 C.E., Paphnutia was an Egyptian alchemist referred to in the letters between Zosimos of Panopolis and his sister, Theosebeia (also assumed to be an alchemist). Within these letters, Zosimos criticizes his sister for associating with Paphnutia, someone he considered to be uneducated and incorrect in her practice of alchemy. 

Little else is known about her, aside from the possibility that she could have also been a priestess. It’s also theorized that she was connected to a school of alchemy that competed with that of Zosimos.

[adrianastrix]

So! The Chrysopoeia of Victoria Harvey is a comic that I already started in Portuguese (if you want to see its prologue, it's here) about those small adorable pests above: from left to right, Victor "Vic" Harvey, Cristóvão "Chris" de Sá, Zico Fernandes, Natalie Smith and Anne Louise Saint Anne, as they go to magic school and grow up, come of age, stumble on mysteries about the school founders, fangirl over old-timey swashbuckling comic characters and navigate the complicated word that will lead to their world's version of the Second World War.

The plot is mostly centered on Vic, hence why it's her on the title.

"But Adriana, the title says 'Victoria' and your character lineup says 'Victor'."

Well, the title of the comic is a play on the artifact known as "the chrysopoeia of Cleopatra", a manuscript with a single page detailing Cleopatra's (the alchemist, not the queen) recipe for producing gold ('chrysopoeia' means 'the making of gold'). Vic lives in the aptly named Alchemy Village and the whole comic is structured around the making of the Philosopher's Stone (the first step of a classic chrysopoeia). I'll tell more about it as I publish the episodes.

I'll let you guys decide why I'm giving the comic a title about a multi-step complex process of turning things into better things and, eventually, into the bestest thing possible.

This is what I've been mostly doodling about, so now you guys know enough to not be TOO out of depth.

Welcome to De Garoustés School of Magic Fundamentals. It'll be fine. Probably. Eventually.

[inspiredrawaw]

Guess whooose back on their alchemy bullshit again with 17 tabs open in google about alchemy

Such as how it is believed that the ourobourous in alchemy is a symbol for gold making because of the word chrysopoeia being written next to a symbol of an ourobourous in a manuscript written by Cleopatra the alchemist (not the Egyptian Queen someone different) the manuscript being known as Chrysopoeia of Cleopatra

She is also 1 of 4 female alchemist who is believed to have produce a philosophers stone

With chrysopoeia meaning artificial gold making

[hiding1ntheforest]

Notes on Symbology: Mercury, Life And Death

Mercury is an element that has long fascinated me, particularly due to it’s metaphysical significance and what it represents. This element has captivated alchemists from ancient Egypt to medieval Europe. Mercury was the prima materia- the progenitor of all other metals. Referred to as quicksilver, it was used for transmutation and became a crucial element in the science of practical alchemy. Mercury is represented by the astrological symbol for the Roman god of the same name.

Alchemical symbol for Mercury.

For me, the element of mercury is a Wodenic symbol. The symbol itself depicts the horned god. Archaeological findings often portray Woden with two horns protruding from his head. These horns may signify Woden’s ravens, Hugin and Munin, who represent memory and thought. In spiritual alchemy, mercury has long been associated with the spirit and mental capabilities including intelligence, wisdom, memory, and creativity. Amongst the Romans, Mercury has been depicted donning a winged helmet. Mercury journeyed throughout the many realms, especially the underworld. The element could easily transform into a liquid or solid. To the ancient alchemists, this represented life and death. Additionally, mercury corresponds to the lungs. Mercury signifies the breath of life, which Woden gifted to the first man and woman, Askr and Embla.

Anglo-Saxon Woden pendent, 6th century AD.

In alchemical manuscripts, snakes are symbolic of mercury. A particularly notable symbol of the Roman god Mercury is the caduceus, a staff with two snakes wrapped around it. Furthermore, the caduceus is present in the alchemical symbol of mercury. Cleopatra the Alchemist illustrated an ourboros to represent the philosopher’s stone. The ourboros represents the never ending cycle of life, death, and rebirth. In Germanic mythology, the midgard serpent, Jormungandr, is wrapped around the world biting it’s tail.

Coin featuring the caduceus, Turkey, 1st century AD.

Cleopatra the Alchemist’s ourboros, 3rd century AD.

So, in general, what does mercury represent? Mercury is the journey of life and death. It is creation, our origin point, the very beginning. I connect mercury to the ginnungagap, the void that existed before the cosmos. The void exists between the realm of fire and the realm of ice, reminding me of the cold and hot extraction methods used to produce mercury from cinnabar. Mercury is the unification of opposites- life and death, hot and cold, liquid and solid. Moreover, it is the power of one’s mind. The thirst for knowledge, deep contemplation, and generative creativity are all found within mercury. The element is the beginning, the end, and the voyage in between. It is our first breath and the final breath that escapes us. It is the horned god, the allfather, divine wisdom.

Ulrich Ruosch Manuscript, Switzerland, 1680.

[genderqueerswagfight]

Who is in the bracket. I need to project on to my blorbos.

here's a list of everyone who will be in the bracket, NOT in order because i lost my bracket and have to remake it, but these are all the players im putting out on the field

Klavier Gavin (Ace Attorney)

Tachibana Hinata (Fabiniku)

Loid Forger/Twilight (Spy x Family)

Juno Steel (The Penumbra Podcast)

Iruma (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun)

Kashima Yuu (Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki Kun)

Magnus Bane (Shadowhunters TV 2016)

Viola/Cesario (Twelfth Night)

Rem (Death Note)

 Double Trouble (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

 Garnet (Steven Universe)

Godot (Ace Attorney)

 Alex Fierro (Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard)

 Fiona (Shrek)

 Adrien Agreste (Miraculous Ladybug)

 Howl Jenkins Pendragon (Howl's Moving Castle)

 Fujimoto (Ponyo)

 Aziraphale and Crowley (Good Omens)

 Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archive)

 Francois (Dr. Stone)

 Kirby (Nintendo)

 Nanamine Sakura (Toilet Bound Hanako Kun)

 Luna (Vanitas no Carte)

 Kenjaku (Jujutsu Kaisen)

 Jessie and James (Pokemon)

 Loki (Norse Mythology)

 Luz Noceda (The Owl House)

 Neo Metal Sonic (Sonic)

 Khensu (Cleopatra in Space)

 Vinnie Dakota (Milo Murphy's Law)

 Avery (Pokemon Shield)

 Mikitaka (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure)

 Bugs Bunny (Warner Bros)

 Maxwell Klinger (M*A*S*H)

 Whisper (Yokai Watch)

 Batsubami Rei (Kakegurui)

 Yuka Ayukawa (Blue Period)

 Stacey (Kikai Sentai Zenkaiger)

 Mizuki Akiyama (Project Sekai)

 Deidara (Naruto)

 Scarecrow (The Wizard of Oz)

 Chris (Thomas Was Alone)

 Testament (Guilty Gear)

 Envy (Fullmetal Alchemist)

 Kuranosuke Koibuchi (Princess Jellyfish)

 Link (Legend of Zelda)

 Yoo Joonghyuk (Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint)

 Aoi Kureha (Paradox Live)

 Mae Borowski (Night in the Woods)

 Phosphophyllite (Houseki no Kuni)

 Kyza (Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn)

 Idia Shroud (Twisted Wonderland)

 Lake (Infinity Train)

 Winston Bishop (New Girl)

 Mr. Finch (Person of Interest)

 Nightshade (Transformers: Earthspark)

 Callum (Subway Surfers)

 Haruhi Fujioka (Ouran High School Host Club)

 Haruka Tenou (Sailor Moon)

 HiMERU (Ensemble Stars)

Wataru Hibiki (Ensemble Stars)

 The Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms)

 Kris, Frisk, and Chara (Undertale/Deltarune)

Teruki Hanazawa (Mob Psycho 100)

again these are NOT IN ORDER! the actual bracket should be out ugh. whenever i have time to remake it. if u have any complaints abt any of the characters pls tell me bc i probably wont do anything about it but i love drama

[brother-hermes]

ALL IS 1: SCIENCE, RELIGION & MYSTERY

To say All Is One is a bit trite. If we want to illustrate everything as one we must be willing to link disciplines that seem at odds with each other together. Can we reconcile science dogma? Alchemy can. Probably the easiest way to connect the worlds of religion and science is to start from a place both fields of study can agree on; the infinite size of the universe being the easiest. Alchemists and philosophers alike have given us a rich tapestry of ideas to draw from. Let’s rock through history and link the Magi of Egypt to the astronomer Giordano Bruno with a few stops in between.

[douglysium]

GudaGuda Style Practice

I wanted to practice my line quality and drawing in the GudaGuda style so I drew a bunch of different Fate ocs in the GudaGuda style. This was my first time doing this and it was very experimental so I apologize if anybody’s characters look wonky. I definitely would have done some differently in hindsight.The characters in order of appearance and with each creator’s Twitter @’s are-

@Omegazplayer- Amelia https://docs.google.com/.../1bQDTIGhLzoVu2e9uMWn2Za9.../edit

@mochio_bonio- Hang Tuah https://docs.google.com/.../12mjNkmjnhIIeLgGRvSlVVLh.../edit

@corvusium- b̶n̶y̶ Krypton https://toyhou.se/15126317.master-krypton

@alioathereal- Ana https://twitter.com/alioath.../status/1632601560579465216...

@yuki_setsura- Anita https://docs.google.com/.../1_Sy20u2ofNnUYo6NLssMH1X.../edit

Shout out to Setsu’s hijab tutorial: https://twitter.com/yuki.../status/1634435595194998784... 

@IketheNinja14- Cleopatra(The Alchemist not the pharoh) https://docs.google.com/.../1Cr69DeCq49w5h1UshoUwmsM.../edit 

Me- Shaka Zulu https://docs.google.com/.../1F1eWTJZItB1gibCdiDrRFYr.../edit

Me- Yasuke https://docs.google.com/.../1M7V-XS0S_hePGtpLHY3abI.../edit

@Gibger28- Tlahuicole https://twitter.com/Gibger28/status/1240531943290093569

[maddiesbookshelves]

23 books in want to read in 2023

Thank you @midnightlibrarymouse for tagging me ☺️

1 - La Passeuse de Mots, A.J. Twice

2 - The Priory of the Orange Tree, Samantha Shannon

3 - I'm Glad my Mom Died, Jannette McCurdy

4 - Page Boy, Elliot Page

5 - Bel Ami, Maupassant

6 - 1984, George Orwell

7 - The Name of All Things, Jenn Lyons

8 - At least of of the Jules Verne I own

9 - Lore, Alexandra Bracken

10 - A Venom Dark and Sweet, Judy I. Lin

11 - Le Maître Nécromant, Carmen Messmer

12 - The Secret Sunshine Project, Benjamin Dean

13 - Les Souvenirs d'un Crabe, Alix Froger

14 - Les Orphelins du Rail, Fabien Clavel

15 - Six Crimson Cranes, Elizabeth Lim

16 - Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos

17 - The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

18 - Alive, Chandler Baker

19 - Les Voies d'Anubis, Tim Powers

20 - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins

21 - Monsters of Men, Patrick Ness

22 - Deeplight, Frances Hardinge

23 - In the Afterlight, Alexandra Bracken

Some of them are for my reading challenge, but most of them are books I've owned for a while but haven't read yet (and the last few are books I started but never finished) 🥲

I'm tagging @profiterole-reads @therefugeofbooks and @cleopatras-library 👀

Feel free to completely ignore this or make your own even if I didn't tag you!

[myckicade]

I should have been in bed nearly two hours ago, but this thing is haunting me.

I'm going to repeat some points I've already posted, but some things bear repeating.

That was the worst series finale I have ever seen. I thought the finale of Preacher was an ugly little fiasco. My word. It will be hard to top this one! Holy frickle-dickles.

(The X-Files, Supernatural, Fullmetal Alchemist... I'm used to pain, but this tempted me to break out the Jack Daniels).

So, yeah. Ding-dong, the cunt bag... -s are all dead? What was the fucking point of that? EZ, completely expected, especially when it was said, 'We've all been talking'. It was a bit of a push for the poetic, that EZ would pull a Mark Antony quote, then get Julius Caesared. (I feel like I made a comment about that last season, but it might have been a verbal conversation). Anywho. I just don't understand the point of the rest. (After a few hours of sleep, I might be able to gather what they were going for, but we shall see). Taking out Bottles, of all people...

I see some fix-it fics in my future. Some out of spite.

I liked Potter in Sons. I did. He was responsible for his share of shit, but his character was well-written. They ruined him in Mayans, so hard. He's come across half-crazed, and tipping off his axis. I'm so disgusted that he's still walking around, King of the Fucking Hill. If ANYONE needed to catch a bullet - aside from EZ - it was old Pot-Ash.

*ahems*

I'm actually really mad that Emily got her way, too. Not just because of Miguel, but because of the utterly simplistic way it went down. (Let's face it, that wasn't a terribly inventive plot she cooked up). Killing Miguel was just the quick way to tie up another useless loose end, leaving the Gallindo family no different than the rest of the story.

Fucking. Pointless.

List of Other Pointless Things Bugging Me:

* Letty's rage. Don't get me wrong, I'm over the damned moon that she and Sally are in the clear. But, that Letty found Sally, and the bloody trailer, and just... abandoned everything? C'mon.

* Bringing Taza back. Again, y'all know I was ELATED to see the bastard, but not to get him on-screen again?? I find solace in the fact that I didn't have to watch him die.

* Angel spotting the pictures and letters in Miguel's hand during Felipe's funeral. I had hope, and it went NOWHERE. As expected. As usual.

* Sofia's pregnancy, and death. I assume the pregnancy was to make her pointless death more tragic, but it was still a waste of time. (Bitch is no Cleopatra). If EZ had found out? Yeah, maybe. I know the broad was a loose end, too. No question. Had to eradicate (nearly) all that was EZ's. It was just the same writing as the rest of the season:

Sloppy, and lazy.

* The war. That wasn't a war. That was a bunch of kids taking turns beating each other up on their way home from school.

* The pipeline. There was no fixing that shit, and we spent the bulk of the FINAL MOTHERFUCKING SEASON on it.

There's more, but my brain aches for rest.

A Couple of Things I Enjoyed:

* Marcus getting the chance to be a good father. It was nice, given his relationship with Jax Teller. He saw a father lose it all, and now he's getting to have it all. Bonus Dad Points for doing the skin-to-skin contact with the baby. That was just beautiful. ❤️.

- It was also a reminder to keep at the birth control. 🤣. When Marcus started talking about not getting to see his son's children, I got to thinking about how the guy I'm seeing is two-and-a-half decades older than me, and... Yeah. Math, indeed. You didn't need to know that, but there it is!

* That was a nice chat on the bridge. It was. Brought me back to my own childhood, and moments where I had to stay strong to protect my own brother. Solid, believable stuff, right there.

Dude. Was that really all that I enjoyed?

Fuck the J.D. It's time for the Jose Cuervo.

Catch y'all on the fic side.

-Mycki