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[chthonioi]

"[The Titanis] Asteria (Starry One) of happy name, whom [the Titan] Perses (Destroyer) once led to his great house to be called his dear wife. And she conceived and bare Hecate. Tender-hearted, bright-coiffed. The maiden daughter of Perses, Brimo [Hecate] Trimorphos."

— Hesiod, Theogony 404 ff, Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter 19, Lycophron, Alexandra 1174

art by Sam Gushue

[lewiathans]

Athena 🦉🫒

[dopechaossea]

His ship was the giant Triton, the sound of whose conch affrighted the dark-blue water; its dipping figurehead the hairy trunk of a man to the waist, bellow the belly a great fish.

[mikeybooch]

@classicstober day 16 prompt: Typhon

There's nothing quite like mother's love...

In some sources, Typhon is the son of Gaea and Tartarus, but other versions of the myth say Hera bore Typhon to spite Zeus after the birth of Athene. When Typhon reached his full power, he challenged Zeus for dominion over the cosmos and very nearly overpowered the king of the gods. He represented devastating storms, and later became associated with volcanic eruptions. 

[artist-ellen]

SYN

Syn is one of the twelve handmaidens of Frigg, the queen of the Æsir. She stands as the vigilant guardian of Fensalir, Frigg’s hall, barring the entrance to any unwelcome visitors. As a divine protector of boundaries, she also plays a crucial role in legal matters, guiding and defending those who stand trial. Her name, meaning “denial” or “refusal,” reflects her role in upholding justice and truth, making her a symbol of integrity and unwavering vigilance. Syn embodies the power of protection and the sacred duty of ensuring fairness in all things.

(Text by Delia Gosforth, Illustration by Ellen Artistic)

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok.

These illustrations all made it into a Norse Goddess Coloring Book!

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There are also PDF copies available!

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[dopechaossea]

The wave of blue-eyed Amphitrite, roaring over the wine-dark sea.

[artist-ellen]

JöRD

Jörd, a powerful and enigmatic figure in Norse mythology, is the personification of the Earth and one of Odin’s many Jötunn lovers. As the mother of Thor, she plays a crucial role in the lineage of the gods, though little is recorded about her beyond this connection. Some sources suggest she is also the mother of Meili, another son of Odin, though less known.

Daughter of Nótt, the goddess of Night, and Annar, who may be Odin himself, Jörd bridges the divide between the Æsir and the Jötnar, embodying both primeval chaos and divine order. Though often overshadowed by other goddesses like Frigg and Freyja, her influence is undeniable; as the Earth itself, she nurtures life and provides a foundation for existence.

(Text by Delia Gosforth, Illustration by Ellen Artistic)

I am the artist! Do not post without permission & credit! Thank you! Come visit me over on: instagram.com/ellenartistic or tiktok.

These illustrations all made it into a Norse Goddess Coloring Book!

(Print Copy)

There are also PDF copies available!

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[casakhelone]

Achilles & Patroclus (2021)

Of all the art I've made, this is one of my most beloved pieces. I also created a plate version for a double-sided acrylic standee that had one side in the red-figure and the other in black-figure style painting.

Also I've never really spoke about it before, but I always wanted to make a Hector and Andromache piece to pair with this. Never got around to it, but maybe one day I will.

[diioonysus]

hebe

[ala-chrisgoods]

Day 25-Anchises

[theogonyofbeauty]

Iron Age by John Flaxman.

[oydsseus]

Greek Mythology Series ⤖ Day Three

The Fates  There are three conjoined Fates, robed in white, whom Erebus begot on Night: by name Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Of these, Atropos is the smallest in stature, but the most terrible. 

Zeus, who weighs the lives of men and informs the Fates of his decisions, can, it is said, change his mind and intervene to save whom he pleases, when the thread of life, spun on Clotho’s spindle, and measured by the rod of Lachesis, is about to be snipped by Atropos’s shears. Indeed, men claim that they themselves can, to some degree, control their own fates by avoiding unnecessary dangers. The younger gods, therefore, laugh at the Fates, and some say that Apollo once mischievously made them drunk in order to save his friend Admetus from death.

Others hold, on the contrary, that Zeus himself is subject to the Fates, as the Pythian priestess once confessed in an oracle; because they are not his children, but parthenogenous daughters of the Great Goddess Necessity, against whom not even the gods contend, and who is called ‘The Strong Fate’. 

( bottom image credit to x )

[starweaverblog]

Dionari and some Maenads (it's wine guys i swear-)

[ala-chrisgoods]

Day 27-Iliona

[da1su-am]

My Goddess aphrodite🥹💖‼️

[ivetteflowerblooom]

Muse, tell me the deeds of golden Aphrodite the Cyprian, who stirs up sweet passion in the gods and subdues the tribes of mortal men and birds that fly in air and all the many creatures that the dry land rears, and all that the sea: all these love the deeds of rich-crowned Cytherea. Of these Aphrodite cannot bend or ensnare the hearts. But of all others there is nothing among the blessed gods or among mortal men that has escaped Aphrodite.

Homeric hymn to Aphrodite.

[allmythologies]

modern greek myth: poseidon