#chariot in the sky

[nemfrog]

Carried through the sky by a team of doves. A manual of cheirosophy. 1885.

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[illustratus]

Aurora and Cephalus - (French Neoclassical School, Circa 1810)

[knightofleo]

Oklou | harvest sky feat. underscores

[artandthebible]

Elijah Fed by the Raven

Artist: Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (Italian, c. 1480-1548 or after)

Date: c. 1510

Medium: Oil on panel transferred to canvas

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, United States

Description

This painting of Elijah Fed by the Raven is taken primarily from 1 Kings 17, but other moments are also superimposed. In the upper right-hand corner you can see a raven feeding Elijah, as commanded by God, during the drought God was imposing to demonstrate to the people that their false Baal worship would not bring them the bounty they desired. The huge black bird seems to have a chunk of bread or a roll in its beak for the prophet.

Opposite the raven, in the upper left of the painting, you can glimpse a scene from the end of the Elijah adventures: Elijah's translation to heaven in a chariot of fire with horses of fire (2 Kings 2). Elijah's blessing of perpetual presence with God is an early pointer to God's power and plan eventually to defeat the forces of death and Sheol that fight to separate us from God and the community of faith.

[belivinginyourselfistherealmagic]

Shiny Chariot preformer in Sky!

She is like the Aurora of Sky LWA AU

Just her shows use hacking/illegal mods that look incredible but unknown to her but known to Croix give players bugs

Talking about Croix here's how she would look:

Crabs are her new roombas :D

[aidenwaites]

Actually I think one of my favorite tropes as a whole is "small cast of characters trapped in very isolated, very small setting during a horrific/dangerous/impossible scenario" its just that the stakes are much higher when they're in space

[muggleriddle]

Random thought of the day: modern day Ralph Lanyon would really enjoy Amyr and Tamara Klink’s books (and in Tamara’s case, her Instagram would make him buy a sailboat and winter out there in the Artic as she’s doing now)

[potatoesandsunshine]

stop because when i think about heartache by the number i get a new flavor of crazy. it's already so fucking awful when cass visits her caravan wreckage but just! the pieces falling into place! and she sent you to the crimson caravan company for work initially!!! to the people that murdered all her employees and all her coworkers and everyone she might've made conversation with at the bar where everyone's complaining about the same stuff! hello! can anyone hear me!!!! WHAT a questline!!!

[poligraf]

« Elias the Prophet » by Nicholas Roerich

[pinksilvace]

you think that since Solaris is a sun god and god of time, their job is to make sure the sun rises and sets everyday? or do they share that role with Chip

I'd say it's a joint effort. Chip, being daytime (and the Earth cough cough), welcomes the sun and guides it across the sky; Solaris, being time, controls and measures the planetary cycles, with the sun being the king of our solar system.

[yuelun]

The Chasm combat music plays... during Guizhong's death scene in her trailer.

I'm losing my mind, it's fine. Worst thing is, I have semi-logical thoughts, but this just adds to them in a logical but also illogical way.

[illustratus]

The Empire of Flora by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

[prolibytherium]

One of my all time biggest pet peeves with historical(ish) fantasy is when the writer constructs a religion with a clear bias that it's stupid and false and therefore only the Stupid People and/or commoners believe in it and all the smart/elite main characters are like, quasi-atheists or otherwise just routinely flout established religious conventions of orthodoxy and/or orthopraxy because they're Too Smart for it or etc.

It's usually an extension of assumptions that people in the past were just less intelligent than in the contemporary, just being like "I know that the sun is a star millions of miles away that the earth orbits, but this ancient religion describes it as a chariot flying through the sky" and not really bothering to learn the context and just (consciously or subconsciously) settling on 'that's a crazy thing to think and was probably believed in because they were Stupid'.

And that whole attitude pisses me off so much. People were as 'smart' 10,000 years ago as they are today. These beliefs aren't just desperate, random flailing to explain phenomena that could not directly be accounted for either, it's not like people just looked at the sun and went "Uhhh I don't know what the fuck that thing is, actually. I guess it might be a chariot or a boat or something?? Yeah let's go with that." and based entire religious practices on this. Every well-established belief system exists within broader contexts of cultural values/subjective perceptions of reality/knowledge systems/etc, and exist as part of a historical continuum of religious practices that came before. Even when not Materially Correct, they have context and internal logic, they're not always dead literal with zero levels of allegory, and they're never a result of stupidity.

[judahmaccabees]

[ellevandersneed]

90% of doomscrollers always stop just one post before the clouds of uncertainty part and the shining bridge to the future manifests itself. the chariots, clad in shimmering gold, glide across the sky. Golden flecks of sunlight kiss the doomscrollers pallid cheeks, retuning them to a rosy hue of healthiness and mirth. Apollo stretches his hand out to them. the pain is gone, the winter has passed. spring is carried on the backs of rabbits and in the fur of honeybees. the nightmare is over

[thewitchness]

Though the world doesn't need a break like it did in 2020, I foresee a lot of artisan shops popping up again as strikes continue.

december???? what next??? 2024?????