#vulcan god

[flaroh]

🔥Io Vulcanalia!☄️

On August 23rd the Romans celebrated the 'Vulcanalia', a festival dedicated to Vulcan. Like his Greek counterpart Hephaestus, Vulcan was a blacksmith who forged the weapons of the gods, but in his Roman form, he was mostly associated with fires, especially destructive ones, and volcanoes 🌋

During the Vulcanalia the Romans worshipped him by creating large bonfires and throwing fish and small animals into the flames, hoping to appease him enough to keep wildfire (common at that time of year) away from their settlements. Almost all temples to Vulcan were initially built outside of cities (eventually cities like Rome expanded around them), for fear that they would be originators of fires if the god was displeased.

I've depicted him in a warm orange and red palette, with his blacksmithing tools, a pilos hat, and flames in the background. I like to think he's the most hench of the gods with all his blacksmithing work, so I gave him a cheeky one-clasp chiton to show off the goods 💪

Prints and Merch [X]

[non-main-branch]

You know. When Spock says things like “Vulcans have no emotions”, I think of the time I asked my language instructor for the difference between two words in the target language, because she had corrected me on using one in place of the other. I knew them to translate to “feeling” and “emotion” (I mean. The “emotion” word was literally a loan word). And I think we use those words very interchangeably in my dialect of English. She said that the word translating to “emotions” meant the expression of a feeling, whereas the word for “feelings” referred to the internal state of a person.

I think maybe at one point in English, and in maybe in other dialects of English than my own, there was/is this same distinction, because the verbs “to feel” and “to emote” do have different meanings to me. But I could see how an “emotion” could become indistinct from “feeling” in a culture where feelings are, for the most part, automatically emoted, like the Star Trek future world seems to be… at least, the very culturally-American window of it that we get to see.

I could also see how that would be confusing to someone learning the language, who perhaps might rely on etymology to understand nuances of a new language… such as the fact that to “emote” is literally from Latin prefix e/ex, meaning, like, outside. As in “exterior”. And I can see how someone who held this misunderstanding might continue to use the language with the definitions that most fit what they mean, even after learning that a subset of the speakers, ahem, illogically do not distinguish them. Even if a given person they interact with has no clear cut distinction between feelings and emotions in their culture, there are other cultures on earth that do distinguish them, so it’s worth maintaining that distinction for those who do. And for those who don’t, well, the distinction is not all that relevant to their interactions with Vulcans, as Vulcans do not emote in the first place, therefore it is not logically imperative to shed light on Vulcans’ very special very private feelings.

All this to say that, at some point, after Jim has undeniable proof (a bond with Spock) that Vulcans feel—and feel deeply—he says to Spock, “oh my god, Vulcans are so full of shit, they’ve successfully conned us all into thinking they don’t feel, and on top of that, they say they don’t lie!”

And Spock responds, “Jim, Vulcans have never claimed they don’t feel, only the true fact that they do not emote as humans do. Furthermore, it is my experience that the majority of people to hold this misapprehension come from cultures like yourself, which do not clearly distinguish between feeling and emotion. There are many earth cultures that do make such distinctions and as such are less inclined to dismiss the possibility of our having feelings, though given the private nature of our internal lives we have never sought to clarify this point.”

“… oh my god, Spock, they gotta know. We gotta tell people this.”

“please do not” *

Anyways, that’s my headcanon, please do wear it out

* Alternatively: “I would ask that you do not, Jim”

I see this being more aos vibes.

[s-c-r-ee-ch]

Apollo In The Forge Of Vulcan (detail)

By Diego Velazquez (1630)

[vanillashay]

~ "Mars and Venus Surprised by Vulcan" by Alexandre Charles Guillemot 1827 ~

I have no clue why but I have become obsessed with this painting... I need it.

[theythemmer]

Parted from me and never parted. Never and always touching and touched.

[its-always-sunny-in-city17]

Just finally watched TMP and dude. Duuuudeeee.

[purpleenma]

Vulcan Deities

When I saw this post by @timcurrysteeth about Vulcan Spirituality and their deities I inmediately knew I had to draw them.

I took it as a personal project to picture each deity and, in the future, create a series of illustrations of each one of them.

These are the initial sketches of the first 10 in the list, the designs are not final but I had a lot of fun working on them and thinking the elements I would add in each one based on their descriptions.

I highly recommend you give a read to the post, it's absolutely fascinating, as well as this second part.

This is going to be a long term project since I have several deadlines for other works but I hope to be able to update you soon enough with more sketches of the remaining deities!

[mythologypaintings]

Venus and Vulcan

Artist: Bartholomeus Spranger (Flemish, 1546-1611)

Date: ca. 1619

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria

Description

In Roman mythology, Venus was married to Vulcan, the god of fire, but they had an unhappy marriage and no children. Venus had many lovers, including Mars, Mercury, and Bacchus.

[mer-acle]

Hephaestus

I'm kinda trying to have full body illustrations of all the gods (without Athena being in every single one lol) So here's Heph.

I'm honestly quite partial toward the guy. I feel like I'm ignoring a bunch of his myths to make it so but well, little bit of Erechtonius erasure ain't never hurt anyone lol

Especially if it means Athena and Heph can be good siblings (I feel like shit rn i need some nice things okay)

[theshadowrealmitself]

I love the bodyguard x person they’re protecting thing a lot but so many fics with it are so intense and I want that type of dynamic in a very,,, non-intense setting but the bodyguard is still treating it as intense

Rn I’m thinking “Human transporting their knitted blanket to a planet that really values handmade goods so they hire a bodyguard just in case and the bodyguard is really intense about making sure the Human is safe while the Human is just enjoying the trip”

I haven’t settled on what type of species the bodyguard should be, made up species? Vulcan? Klingon? Romulan? Ferengi? Dalek?

[mournfulroses]

George Oppen, from Gods & Mortals: Modern Poems on Classics; "Vulcan,"

[archersartcorner]

Hear me out.... Spock and Saavik pretend tea party. I think Spock would be on the fence. Why not just have real tea? But he would play anyway, of course.

CUTEEEEEE CUTE PROMPT… Spock decides to just go with it because he notices Saavik seems to be practicing her manners during these “parties.”

[grvning]

Black ink ballpen Sarek study.

So THAT is where most of Spock's cuntiness comes from.

[bumblingbabooshka]

Tuvok going to bed apparently Inspired by this post: X [Patreon | Commissions]

[lichqueenlibrarian]

All the time in the world

[lionofchaeronea]

Vulcan, Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787)