#the celestial globes

[gayassdbz]

Putting it out there for every random person who looks thru the tag I'm always here to talk about the kronos chronicles

[ltwilliammowett]

Terrestrial and celestial pocket globe, by Jack Adams, after 1833

[magicalshopping]

♡ Celestial Globe Transparent Sticker by CosmosKitty ♡

[artschoolglasses]

A Celestial Globe, from 1770, in the Deutsches Museum

Munich, Germany

[historysurvivalguide]

Astronomy Inspired Design in Media: Part 21

Helluva Boss (2021)

Don’t worry: no plot spoilers

The demons in Helluva Boss are inspired by the demons from the goetic grimoire Ars Goetia. In particular:

Stolas (also known as Stolos, Stoppas and Solas) is "a Great Prince of Hell, commands twenty-six legions of demons. He teaches astronomy and is knowledgeable about herbs, plants, and precious stones. He is often depicted as a raven or a crowned owl with long legs.

Sound familiar?

The decorations in Stolas’ manor are particularly beautifully done and are often clearly inspired by a combination of astronomy and plants.

The chandelier(? Lamp? Dining room decoration?) in the dining room appears to be a beautifully crafted brass/gold armillary sphere that even rotates on its axis

Armillary spheres are a common decoration for astronomy-inspired decorations, but a nice touch to this armillary sphere is the distinct angle it rotates at. In armillary spheres on Earth, this angle is the result of the tit of the planet (which on Earth is 23.5 degrees) and the surrounding arc represents the path that the sun travels around the Earth

In Stolas’ mansion, this armillary sphere sits at around 40 degrees. From an artistic perspective, I suspect this is to make the silhouette of the decoration read better to an audience. But it could also imply that hell is at a 40 degree tilt to its sun

This view appears in Season 1 Episode 7 “Ozzie’s” (3:27)

Ptolemaic armillary sphere from the Science Museum Group

There is a closer view in Season 2 Episode 1 “The Circus” (18:19)

The entire mansion is filled with astronomical devices and decorations

In the same episode (12:42) in Octavia’s room there is what appears to be an orrery on the ceiling of her bedroom. An orrery is a model to illustrate the relative positions/motions of the planets of moons in a solar system. Turns out hell has a lot of planets!

Since the orrery is on the ceiling it is hard to get a full view of it

The best view is probably in n Season 1 Episode 2 “Loo Loo Land” (2:48) where the center star is more visible

Orrery planetary model from the Science Museum Group

Finally, there is a device in this same episode that is easy to miss (I only noticed it while reviewing clips for more angles of the orrery). At 2:30, blink and you’ll miss it. Hard to see it fully but it appears similar to celestial and terrestrial globes with arcs for the path of the moon or sun

English terrestrial globe with Moon arm from the Science Museum Group

And yes, everyone should watch this show. All episodes are on Youtube

“Astronomy Inspired Design in Media” is Wednesday (as I find them)

[lebn]

Celestial clockwork globe. 1579, Vienna, Austria.

[artifacts-archive]

Celestial globe

Pakistan

1663

Celestial globe of brass with silver star positions, showing the traditional Islamic representations of the constellations, by Diya' ad-din Muhammad, Lahore, 1663.

[queen-mabs-revenge]

phase one of project 'the mood light of the spheres' underway

plan is to cover my two brutal overhead lights in lampshades painted to be celestial and terrestrial globes because why not?

gotta find a good celestial globe to work from to sketch out where the gold painted stars will go ✨

[patricida]

the idea was some sort of dark souls equivalent for the globus cruciger since crosses are inexistent as a religious symbol there, but i couldn't settle on wether to substitute it for flames (globus flammiger) or for a ring (globus anuliger), in both cases illustrating the triumph of light over the world (and both globes surrounded by an inescapable central white band). also trying to make them resemble the pendulum of time since its a symbol for the circular nature of history (and likewise of kingdoms)

[canis-majoris]

[shotbyshe]

May’22. Golden sunsets...they feel like a song.

[a-modernmajorgeneral]

Clockdriven celestial globe by Qi Mei-lu of Wuyuan, China, 1830, with horizon ring, pillars and base plus two keys. Marked with Chinese ascerisms.

Dated 1830, this celestial globe was made in Wuyuan, China by Qi Mei-lu. The metal globe depicts Chinese star patterns and is labelled in Chinese script. Inside the globe a clockwork mechanism turns the sphere in time with the Earth's rotation. The celestial globe is a three-dimensional model of the heavens on which the stars are plotted on the outside of a sphere. Originating in the Ancient World it was probably inspired by the discovery that the Earth was round. The globe could be used to teach and demonstrate various astronomical principles.

• Chinese celestial globe.

Date: 1830 

Place of origin: Wuyuan, China

[jackalgirl]

Proud enough of this, despite its flaws, to post it on its own. More here: https://www.tumblr.com/jackalgirl/765227813133549568/mostly-done-good-enough-for-now-v1-of-the

[syboubou]

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[ninibeingdelulu]

Lazy kisses ✧

Plot: Cuddling with your boyfriend .

An idle Sunday lazed by in sun-dappled tranquility, the midday silence cloaking your shared bedroom in a syrupy warmth.

Not even the hazy tick of the bedside clock intruded upon this blissful pocket of domesticity - save for the occasional breathy sigh escaping your lips as you lost yourself within the pages splayed before you.

Nestled amidst the cozily rumpled sheets lay Leon - your normally unshakable, clear-eyed sentinel anchored steadfastly against the world's roiling tides of nightmarish evil.

Yet within these achingly finite moments behind closed doors, even that stalwart facade softened into pure boyish vulnerability.

Gradually stirring from a deep, much-needed slumber after over a week's deployment, Leon drowsily burrowed tighter against your bare thigh with a mumble muffled by plush bedding.

Still smeared in the dregs of jet lag and weariness plaguing those steely features despite being worlds away from his latest harrowing operation.

Simply sinking deeper within your comforting presence with a reflexive nuzzle sent your chest swelling with boundless affection.

Those habitually hyper-alert gunmetal irises remained obscured beneath a heavy fringe of tawny lashes, angular jawline lax.

Leon Kennedy - the living epitome of unrelenting willpower and heroism borne from steel - reduced to nothing more than an endearingly rumpled mass in slackened repose beside you.

Just one innocuous shift of the mattress was all it took for those gunmetal blues to finally drag open through a squint, fixating upon your doting half-smile with a tender yearning.

The sort which inevitably dissolved every carefully maintained stoicism within their molten depths.

Reaching across the sliver of space between you, Leon toyed idly with a lock of your tousled hair, drifting nearer until your faces hovered a hairsbreadth apart.

Until his baritone burr ghosted over your parted lips like velvet rasping across satin.

"Hey...missed you," that chiseled visage tilted into yours ever-so-slightly, thumb sweeping reverently along your jawline with undisguised longing.

"Kiss me?"

Catching your giggle before it could fully bubble up, you nodded and carefully tucked your novel away.

Because the toweringly heroic, hyper-competent government operative you'd fallen so maddeningly hard for morphed into the gentlest, neediest lover once breaching your oasis's bounds.

Skimming the calloused pad of your thumb across his whiskered jaw, you felt that delicious familiarity thrumming beneath in the tautening of sinewy muscle and tendons as Leon initiated the achingly slow, unhurried collision of your mouths.

Yet with none of the commanding intensity one would expect from such an epitome of masculine fortitude.

Instead, the instant your lips brushed in gossamer friction, Leon melted like warmed honey into your soothing embrace.

Solid contours molding seamlessly against you as that impassioned heat blossomed steadily across your mouths and into hungry, writhing depths.

Sloppy and luxuriantly decadent, your limbs languidly tangling as scorching pants mingled on feverish cusp of perpetual collapse.

Silken muscle glided in achingly deliberate, indulgent strokes of worship. Chasing the maddening bliss only he could lure forth with such practiced reverence.

Wholly cherished and consumed, swathed in the rich cedar and gunpowder musk cloaking your senses, you both spun deliriously in a centrifuge of celestial descent - until rasping breaths and tender caresses ultimately pulled back the hazy veil.

Lids fluttered open in tandem, mere inches between your swollen, reddened lips as molten slate gray bore unguarded into yours.

A barely-perceptible smile ghosted across Leon's finely-hewn features - rare and infinitely more beautiful than any treasures hoarded across the globe.

"Thanks, gorgeous..." he purred, hoarse and thoroughly spent as you traded trembling inhales and exhales.

"Was needing that. Bad."

And with zero preamble, he reclined back into that sweet respite afforded between your cradling arms and heartbeat's lullaby like a contented infant - soaking in the solace and reprieve you alone could grant.

Peering down at your beloved, honed warrior recharging his depleted batteries while you tenderly sifted adoring fingers through his burnished forelocks, you couldn't help but shake your head through another helpless giggle.

Leon Kennedy.

The very man entrusted with safeguarding humanity from incomprehensible evil incarnate.

A deadly, hyper-lethal force to be reckoned with by hell's legions.

Yet in this sanctuary of love and tenderness you shared, he teetered forever on the precipice of simply dissolving into a huge, needy baby within your sheltering arms.

And honestly? You wouldn't have traded this meltingly sweet authenticity for all the universe's wealth and laurels.

[ashotasfireandasdeepastheocean1]

...ancient aRt ♡

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Celestial globe with clockwork (detail, 1579) The Met