#Magic Flowers

[wgm-beautiful-world]

[justanothernerdtje]

[littlehornedoak]

some magic flowers (Jan 12-15)

[rrcraft-and-lore]

Magical herbs in myths, and of course, therefore, in fantasy.

Long have there been stories of mystical flowers that imbue you with properties of: strength, cunning, wisdom, immortality or...bringing you back from the brink of death or just even from death itself, so long as you haven't been dead for too long.

Always those pesky terms and condition, eh?

This is the story of the Sanjivani Booti (or the Sanjivani flower). A magical flower that can save you from illness, injury, and of course, death!

We begin in the Ramayama (or Rama's Journey/The Journey of Rama). When Lakshmana is wounded by Ravana's son and nearly killed, Hanuman seeks sagely advice on what to do. The king of the varnas (monkey people) and monkey god himself is tasked with an adventure himself:

He must venture through what we know as the Himalayas to Mount Meru (think of this as the South Asian Mt. Olympus for those unaware of the mythology and need an easy comp).

There he will find the magical Sanjivani booti (flower) with which Lakshmana can be saved.

However, his quest would not be easy, and upon coming to the valley of flowers and the appropriate mountain area, he couldn't identify the flower in need.

So... he did what any badass god of strength and cunning would do. He LIFTED the whole mountain and yeeted off with it.

Interestingly, the mountain he yoted/yote? Off with left a scar and...the assumed mountain range from the stories in real life..bears a curiously similar scar ;)

Dronagiri Parvat - Uttarakhand India.

With his out of the box thinking, Hanuman was able to get back in time with the flower to save Lakshmana.

You don't just get magical flowers growing in your back yard.

You gotta quest for 'em in your epics, gorsh darnit!

[gal-with-pastels]

Some magical flowers that i’ve drawn from yesterday and today.

A fire flower that is seen only growing from spots with a current of Molten lava, It is shown to Burn brightly for 3 years once removed from its place of origin.

And a dream and night terror flower, one induces Pleasant dreams while the other Induces Terrifying nightmares. when put into Close Proximity with each other they cause anyone in the vicinity to have Blank dreams whenever they fall asleep.

[superkursunaskr]

[gorjee-art]

couple banners for horses <3

[pilferingapples]

some say the goat will end in fire some say in ice from what I've read on the Wikipedia page of past Goat-destroying efforts, I'm pretty sure none of us were reckoning on absolute swarms of hungry birds but birds are also great and will suffice

[tamrielf]

[fluffygif]

Unbelievably 🤍

[wgm-beautiful-world]

[happyheidi]

[7lizardsinacoat]

SAY HI, PACK OF PIXIES!

Every time I rewatch A Court of Fey and Flowers (or let's be real, any campaign Aabria Iyengar is in or runs), I had more and more wanted to paint her. So I did. Truly one of my favorite and most inspirational DMs, and a fashion icon to boot.

[clawmarks]

Alpenblumenmärchen - Ernst Kreidolf - 1922 - via Internet Archive

[unacunatura]

june22🌱2024 | eyes of Lina