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the myth of eros and psyche
#akia art#olba#baxter ward#olba mc#thought this would be a fun parody/au! (ignoring the other trappings of the myth) 🤣#in hindsight the veil looks goofy but it worked in my head LOL#step 4 later maybe (i wanted to make sure i hadn't forgotten how to do illos#also all i initially rmbed and what inspired this was eros being a drama queen + psyche sicced w a million trials#but the finer details are wild af#i think eros/psyche is tame by olympus metrics but (my) modern sensibilities disagree 🤣 myth as allegory vs narrative ig
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Sometimes I like to imagine Ariadne and her siblings that had the chance to meet Asterius. Or that she knew to use the yarn thing because she went to visit him thorough her life...
#sketch#digital art#art#ariadne#asterius#minotaur#greek myth art#greek mythology#hades oc#hades game#the bits and pieces of the og concept behind Hades 1 left me wanting more of it#also a thing that's forgotten a lot is that Pasiphae was a sorceress too#i don't think she will pop in Hades 2 but it'd be cool if all “witches” made an appearance#ancient greek mythology#tagammemnon
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The ruined elven city of Myth Drannor has been alternately controlled by demons and dragons. (Jeff Easley cover art for Myth Drannor Adventures, from The Ruins of Myth Drannor box set by Ed Greenwood, TSR, 1993)
#D&D#Dungeons & Dragons#Jeff Easley#Forgotten Realms#wizard#demon#Myth Drannor#The Ruins of Myth Drannor#Myth Drannor Adventures#Faerun#Ed Greenwood#fiend#AD&D 2e#D&D 2e#dnd#Dungeons and Dragons#TSR
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I decided to draw my designs for Helen and Paris :)
There are some notes about the designs under the read more but I think I should stress this one up here: Paris is not short, Helen is just really tall (as in, at least 6'5" and YES you are seeing that number correctly)
Design notes:
"rich-haired helen", "helen of the lovely hair", etc. + the etymology of Helen's name being associated with a proto-Indo-European sun goddess = designing her hair to resemble literal rays of sunlight.
The height difference... listen, I wish I already had other characters drawn so I could put them altogether and you could see the full effect of Helen's height. Alas, you must use your imagination. As for the 'why': well, I have multiple answers for that. The main one being that I enjoy going along with the version of Helen that has Zeus and Nemesis for parents (as seen in cypria fragment 8). It's a fun way to portray some of her divine parentage, by having her be literally larger than life and very very tall. People probably listen better to a very imposing figure. Also, it creates interesting implications for certain events that happen (e.g. the kidnapping, Odysseus and Diomedes taking the Palladium from inside of Troy but not Helen, etc.)
Paris can have both short hair and long hair. The solution: put a phrygian cap on that man and tuck all that hair in it. Boom, problem solved.
Paris is wearing eye makeup because of course he would wear it.
The clothing designs are not set in stone at all and are the most flexible part of this for me. I did my sort-of-research-sort-of-freestyling thing here, mainly because these references were more about the body types/facial features/overall vibe for me. Which I'm happy with! At one point Helen was also wearing a red chlamys like Paris but then I reminded myself himations exist and corrected that lol. Helen can totally wear a cloak if she wants to (and I was half-tempted to leave it like that...)
One day I'll draw Paris in his very patterned elaborate clothing... today is not that day.
#helen of sparta#paris of troy#greek mythology#greek myth art#the iliad#trojan war#I'm sure there will be something I've forgotten to put in the notes but oh well! That's most of it I think!#let helen be tall okay. it's the least she deserves#my art#capri_art
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Myths
These are tales, myths of another time, another place... From the farthest reaches of Deepspace— They are chronicled as golden sands, shooting stars, and a lofty Tower. But you know it's just a story between you and him.
#love and deepspace#xavier#zayne#rafayel#shim seonghun#lee seoeon#giwook#shen xinghui#li shen#qi yu#seiya#rei#homura#기욱#ホムラ#祁煜#黎深#レイ#이서언#심성훈#セイヤ#沈星回#;myths#forgotten sea
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In light of my recent Asclepius and Apollo musings, I feel like it's the perfect time to post this, actually.
How do you build a human being?
Bold question. Foolish question. But a question it is all the same.
The memory of his father’s consternated expression is still bright behind his eyes, that unusually furrowed brow, the tension in his gentle jaw. He didn’t falter in his setting of Asclepius’ broken shin, hands perpetually steady and sure, but he hesitated for a conspicuously long moment as though reluctant to give an answer. In this body, he resembled Orpheus something fierce. The same flaxen curls of his hair, the same delicate eyelashes that stand stark against the dark brown of his skin. Often Asclepius wondered if his elder brother was nothing but a body built to suit their father’s preferences. The subtle wrinkle of skin around their eyes when they smiled was the same, and the steadiness of their hands, the soothing power of their presence.
And Orpheus did not bleed like Asclepius did. The blood in Asclepius’ veins were as red as any human’s, any mortal’s, but Orpheus seemed not to bleed at all. Even when he’d suffered the same fall down the crumbling cliff as Asclepius had. Even when his skirts had ripped and jagged stone sliced into his shanks.
Even so, Orpheus was unmistakably alive. His eyes were rich with grief fresher than any blood spilt from the worst of Asclepius’ wounds, his counsel too, was tempered with the wisdom of a life well lived. So even at the apex of his most perfect, inhuman beauty, Asclepius never once doubted that his brother was a human being. Just that he was more divine construct than flesh and blood. Just that their father had built for himself a son that would not break as easily as all the others.
His father stayed silent for so long that Asclepius assumed it would be one of the million questions that would go unanswered. Then, just when the last of his bandages had been wrapped -
“A human body is easy to build,” he’d had that faraway look on his face as he spoke, like he was speaking to the horizon. Or a version of Asclepius that was not quite here. Such things happened from time to time. “Any flesh would do. From men, or animals, or even monsters. Any flesh would do.” Their gazes had locked then, and Asclepius would never forget the flecks of gold which swirled in his father’s blue eyes, the weight of divine words rattling at the boundaries of their mortal apparatus, “But the breath of life, a living soul? That is beyond your means as a mortal man. You ought never seek it.”
(Asclepius would remember these words when he revives a man for the first time at the age of nineteen. He’s surprised to find that his father is wrong for once. Souls are easy to source when they’re already eager to return to their mound of flesh.)
#ginger writes#apollo#asclepius#orpheus#greek mythology#greek myth writing#pursuing daybreak posting#No because all this has done is make me think even MORE about Asclepius is this story because that man is Trying#Is he an idiot about it? Yes but that's what makes him compelling methinks#hyacinthusmemorial's 'Asclepius came back but he came back wrong' is SO TRUE LIKE BESTIE#Of all the mortals who ascend Heracles is perhaps one of the blessed few who gets to keep some aspect of his mortal identity#Because he suffered and lost and laboured for so long as a mortal#But Semele lost her name Psyche was completely transformed even Ganymede was robbed of his family#One can only imagine what Asclepius lost when he was brought back#Him as the constellation Ophiuchus is also interesting btw - the forgotten 13th zodiac#Ugh I'll start rambling but what an interesting man and what an interesting history#For posterity btw Asclepius is said to have brought back or attempted to bring back at least four people before Zeus vaporised him#Tyndareus Glaucus Hymenaeus and well Hippolytus#So it wasn't just the one time#Other accounts name a whole host of other people Asclepius revived or brought back from the brink of death#In my mind he's a scientist before he's a doctor and so he's always questioning - always pushing boundaries for better or for worst.
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Elminster in Myth Drannor - art by Ciruelo Cabral (1998)
#ciruelo cabral#dungeons & dragons#90s fantasy art#d&d art#elminster in myth drannor#forgotten realms#ed greenwood#fantasy novels#cover art#1990s#1998
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What hindu gods/deities are lgbt (I'm sorry if this is rude or ignorant I just wish to learn as I've heard some are)
Dw it's neither rude nor ignorant. Now before I start I do wanna say that almost all the queerness we see in Hindu mythology is highly subtextual most of the time, which is like pretty obvious cuz these were the ancient times. So this might lead to a varied number of interpretations, and I can only offer the same. But most of them are pretty convincingly queer, so let's get into it cuz why tf not. (This is gonna be a loooooong post so buckle up)
Vishnu
This fella is probably the most pan-coded deity in the entire pantheon. Extremely comfortable with both his masculine and feminine side, Vishnu can sometimes be considered one of the peak genderfluid icons out there. His avatar, Krishna, despite being referred to as the Parampurush (in other words the manliest man in the entire universe), his physical appearance (which is what is considered to be a very feminine body for a man today, i.e., slender and soft) breaks the stereotype of what masculine man should look like. There are paintings of him and Radha where I've stared for like a hot minute trying to figure out which one is Radha (mostly in grayscale cuz otherwise their complexions are a dead giveaway) and yet, he slays it like a badass.
Then we also have Mohini, the goddess of beauty probably the best seductress out there, and the only female avatar of Vishnu. Through her having a union (yk what they mean by that) with Shiva (AHEM subtext amirit), Vishnu gave birth to Ayyappa, and wouldja look at dat he has two dads, which was actually prophesized. Mohini in one of the versions of Mahabharata (not the original one) ALSO slept with Iravan (Arjun's son) the night before he was gonna offer himself as a sacrifice for the Kurukshetra war. Reason was that Iravan had a wish to get married and spend the night with his wife before dying, and wishing his wife would mourn for him after his death. So Krishna felt bad for him, turned himself into Mohini and married him. The next day she held her husband's body and mourned for him like any wife would. We can also go back to the time where he sported (make of that word what you will) with Arjuni (female version of Arjun) as well as the female version of Narad (for a year in the latter's case).
In short, we can see how chill Krishna is with his fluidity with sexuality and gender, so much so that it's hard to put a label on him sometimes, which is fine. But yes interpreting him as queer wouldn't necessarily be a preposterous claim after all.
Shiva
Tbh Shiva is also pretty queer-coded, given his union with Mohini (and yes he specifically ASKED Vishnu to turn into her and hence he KNEW it was his best friend after all), and him turning into a woman to join Krishna's leela that one time, which also denotes that he's pretty confident in his gender fluidity as well, to some extent. He also has a sort of female avatar, who's actually very underrated. I think it's called Shivani. Also no one can deny the tension between Shiva and Vishnu let's be real here. They even have a ship name- Harihar, PLUS that "Vishnu is in the heart of Shiva and Shiva is in the heart of Vishnu" line. Btw this was a joke, but now you know why they're one of the popular ships of Hindu mythology. I personally have very neutral stance to the kind of bond they share, whether you call it platonic or something else.
(Note that I personally do not consider Ardhanarishwar and Vaikunthakamalaja as any genderfluid thingy because I just see them as literal fusions of the two couples, but yes many consider these two fused versions of Parvati-Shiva and Lakshmi-Narayan respectively to be gender-nonconforming, or non-binary of some sort.)
Lakshmi
Why did I add her here? Because I have a feeling she might be bi, given the fact that her husband is also technically her wife, considering we take Mohini into account, who I'm pretty sure she loves just as much as she loves Vishnu. But again, that's just my take on it.
Agni
Now he's one of the more popular queer-coded Hindu gods, specifically known for his implied poly-esque relationship with his wife Svaha and Soma (the wind god). Now many sites on Google have claimed Soma to be his husband, but I am yet to find a scriptural evidence for that claim, so I suggest you to take their words with a grain of salt. But what IS true is that these two guys do share a pretty profound bond. There was also this one instance where Soma went to a mountain and Agni followed him. Then both of them at the top of that mountain, 'became one' (what does that mean? not sure but it sure as hell sounded romantic. anyways). Also Soma is considered the "seed" and Agni the "progenitor" hence releasing the "seed". Now again what does that mean? Idk but that's sus as hell for sure.
Plus, Agni is also very well-known to be the (oral) receptor of Shiva's (and sometimes Soma's but not sure about the second one) semen, which he then flung into Ganga cuz it was too hot to bear for him, and that's how Kartikeya/Murugan/Skanda (Shiva and Parvati's son and a God of war) was born. So yeah.
Mitra-Varuna
These two.... are another pair of popular queer-coded Hindu deities. They're almost always summoned and worshipped together, and you can say they have canonically.... well had a union, and good news is none of them became a woman for the deed. Their union is recorded in the Shatapatha Brahmana 2.4.4.19, where Mitra is said to have "implanted his seed in Varuna" (hmmm nothing homosexual going on here) during the waning moon. Many people consider this a metaphor for the cyclic nature of celestial phenomena so it's upto you to interpret it however you want.
Now they also give off that sunshine x grumpy vibe, with Mitra being the god of friendship, sun, daylight, dawn and stuff while Varuna is the god of the waters, moon, nighttime, dusk etc. Plus, the latter has anger issues but he has a bubbly Mitra (pun intended) to calm him down for dat :D.
They are also known for siring two sages, Agastya and Vasistha after they accidentally released and mixed their semen into a pot as a result of getting enchanted by Urvashi (one of the apsaras or celestial nymphs).
Budh and Ila
Budh is technically an AMAB non-binary (or intersex) deity (and technically the planet Mercury) born to Chandra (who's also synonymous to Soma most of the time) and Tara, to put it simply, and got cursed to be neither male nor female because Chandra had an affair with someone else's wife -_- (Tara was the wife of Brihaspati, or Jupiter, who was also the guru of the gods).
Ila is another genderfluid deity. Some versions of the myth says they were born a woman, some say they were born a man called Sudyumna, while some say they were born a woman, but since their parents wanted a son, Mitra-Varuna (who they preyed to) changed their gender and Sudyumna was born (but then there was some issue with the rituals, which led to the duo to turn him back to a woman, which is when they took the name of Ila. Ik, too much gendershifting going on, bear with me). Anyhoo they got this genderfluidity from Shiva's spell and every month they'd change sex from Sudyumna to Ila and back to Sudyumna and so on. Budh got enchanted by Ila and married her, and bore the Pururavas with her.
Later on, some versions say Ila permanently turned into a man with Parvati's boon. But personally interpreting, Budh was technically still married to Sudyumna so..... idk what happened to them afterwards tho. I hope they were still spouses...
#I've probably forgotten many others#im high on tiredness excuse me#feel free to add yall#imma go sleep#hindu mythology#hindu myths#hindu gods#vishnu#lord vishnu#krishna#krishnablr#hindublr#desiblr#lord shiva#shiva#lakshmi#mohini#agni#soma#mitra#varuna#hinduism#hindu#mythology#desi tumblr#desi tag#desi side of tumblr
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'Azure Dreamshaper' by Tia Masić.
Card art from the 'Forgotten Myths' trading card game.
#Art Of The Day#Art#AOTD#Tia Masic#Forgotten Myths TCG#Forgotten Myths#TCG#CCG#Dragon#Fantasy Art#Fantastical Art#Imaginative Realism#Year Of The Dragon#Chinese New Year#Lunar New Year
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Forgotten Realms: Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor Cover Art by Gerald Brom
#Dungeons & Dragons#D&D#Forgotten Realms#Toril#Faerun#Pool of Radiance#Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor#Covers#Cover Art#Dragon#Fantasy#Art#Brom#Gerald Brom#Wizards of the Coast
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this is the bgm i want as badly as 'the deep sea'
edit: i uploaded it on youtube for whoever wants it on repeat too.
#no way i made it 1:43#how funny#rafayel#rafayel love and deepspace#love and deepspace rafayel#rafayel lnd#lnd rafayel#rafayel lnds#lnds rafayel#rafayel lads#lads rafayel#rafayel l&ds#l&ds rafayel#love and deepspace#lnd#lnds#lads#l&ds#forgotten sea#rafayel myth#myth rafayel#whalefall city
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the more i brush up again on all of the lore on fen'harel the more convinced i am that there is far more to his entrapment in the prologue of dav than we know. it just does not make sense to spend 3 games building him up as a cunning, manipulative trickster, incapable of being trapped or outsmarted, always one step ahead of his enemies, capable of winning 4d mind chess, and then having him... get trapped. by some random. pushing... statues...... over..... theres just no way
#the eluvian being left open behind him in the first place is the biggest red flag to me#hes literally a brilliant strategist who excels at TRAPPING PEOPLE#we have like 5 myths just about him either escaping traps or trapping other people#i wonder if he lures and baits varric and rook to coming to the ritual the same way he baits the inquisitor into finding him in trespasser#so he can take the anchor back#and hes a LIAR#his entire Great Betrayer foundation myth centers on him fooling both the evanuris and the forgotten ones into thinking hes on their side#hes got something insane up his sleeve#i cant wait to find out what#solas#solas dragon age#dragon age#da:v#veilguard#veilguard spoilers
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Azimer the lich is quite insane and still believes he is the living headmaster of Myth Drannor's School of Wizardry (Looks like a Roger Raupp illustration, for Ed Greenwood's Gen Con XVII AD&D tournament adventure "Into the Forgotten Realms" in Dragon 95, March 1985)
#D&D#Dungeons & Dragons#Roger Raupp#lich#undead#Ed Greenwood#Forgotten Realms#Myth Drannor#Gen Con#Dragon magazine#Into the Forgotten Realms#Gen Con XVII#AD&D#1980s
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USA 1997
#USA1997#INTERPLAY#SSI#DREAMFORGE INTERTAINMENT INC.#WESTWOOD STUDIOS#BEYOND SOFTWARE#RPG#LICENSED#DUNGEONS & DRAGONS#IBM#THE FORGOTTEN REALMS ARCHIVES#POOL OF RADIANCE#CURSE OF THE AZURE BONDS#SECRET OF THE SILVER BLADES#POOLS OF DARKNESS#EYE OF THE BEHOLDER#DUNGEON HACK#HILLSFAR#EYE OF THE BEHOLDER II THE LEGEND OF DARKMOON#EYE OF THE BEHOLDER III ASSAULT ON MYTH DRANNOR#MENZOBERRANZAN#GATEWAY TO THE SAVAGE FRONTIER#TREASURES OF THE SAVAGE FRONTIER
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Erich Fromm on the necessity of fantasies and dreams.
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#Erich Fromm#Fantasies#dreams#fairy tales#quotes#The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Study of Dreams Fairy Tales and Myths
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Little idle thought I've been having recently but I think Cyparissus' story is very important for characterising Apollo and Apollo's love. It's so easy to think of love and loss as two ends of a spectrum, likewise, so often, death is seen as an ultimate and tragic end in love stories - something final and inescapably tragic, the only force that halts love by separating the lovers.
Cyparissus' story is... not that. Yes, the deer dies and one can conclude then that death is once more at the heart of separating two lovers, but I think Cyparissus specifically requesting to die, specifically begging Apollo to let him grieve forever even after Apollo has done his best to help Cyparissus move on from the accident and Apollo letting him is a powerful thing.
Because Apollo not only puts Cyparissus' wishes over his own, he's also able to see past his own building grief to immortalise Cyparissus in such a way that both grants him his wish and allows other people to glorify Cyparissus as well! And I think such a beautiful thing is something criminally overlooked!
It's become something of a joke that 'all Apollo's lovers turn into plants' but from a functional perspective, flowers are the most brilliant way to keep the spirit of a beloved thing alive. Flowers are like stars - as long as there are humans, humans will always contemplate the nature of flowers and as the god of poetry and song, Apollo creating opportunities for his beloved mortals to be remembered eternally even if they never seized glory in the traditional way is such an intimate and beautiful thing. Even then, Cyparissus is elevated to a similar status as Daphne with Apollo's actions - not merely a plant or flower but one that specifically symbolises him, one that is extremely fragrant and beloved by him. Just as Daphne's laurels were synonymous with glory and victory, Cyparissus' cypress became a emblematic of grief and remembrance. Even today, thousands of years later, people still view cypress trees as mourning trees and plant them in cemeteries and use the ash in incense burnt in remembrance of others. How's that for Apollo keeping his word.
#ginger rambles#I think we should talk more about how Apollo's ability to immortalise people into those coveted halls of memory is so often done out of love#and how it is the closest many of his beloved mortals will ever get to godhood but even that is leagues better than the hundreds of warriors#and kings and scholars who worked for glory their whole lives only to be forgotten and lost among the sea of time and history#And then you have Daphne and Hyacinthus and Coronis Cyparissus and Evadne even Branchus whose affair is marked with the sprawling arms#or trees and forests - who would ever say they were unloved?#Daphne is eternally interesting to me btw because like idk what anyone says it doesn't matter that Apollo was hexed to love her by Eros#Even if what Apollo felt wasn't 'true' love he did feel true regret and made real and true penitence. Apollo literally spent#the rest of his immortal days wearing Daphne's laurels and making her his symbol until she became so synonymous with gods and glory that she#became symbolic of the gods and their kings themselves! Like!! It's obscure knowledge now that gods like Zeus and Poseidon had their own#preferred plants to wear as wreath crowns because laurel-crown is so iconic as the Look of a greek god#how could you not see that as love? even if it's retroactive? Apollo worked so hard to give her the glory he robbed from her and people#still choose to focus on the chase + transformation and “oh well Apollo and Daphne wasn't a love story it was assault/a curse!!”#my brother in Christ it counted to Apollo so it counts to me too#anyway just something I've been thinking about#apollo#cyparissus#daphne#greek mythology#ginger chats about greek myths
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