rage to the wicked, wisdom to the good

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[die-rosastrasse]

Various stars & moon details from my gouache paintings 🌙✨

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Ariadne and Dionysus.

Period: Late Roman/Late Antiquity

Date: A.D. 3rd-5th century

Place of origin: Achmim, Egypt

Medium: Wool on linen, colored knitting

[athenaion]

i spent last night with some muslim friends celebrating chaand raat (literally "moon night") and having henna done and my henna design is a little snake curled around a moon and given that the attic calendar celebrates 4/9-4/10 noumenia/agathos daimon, i am tickled pink by the timely little agathos daimon on my hand. little good spirit. tiny friend. khaire!

<3

[mikeybooch]

In this house, we do not subscribe to the convention of vilifying Demeter in the myth of Persephone. 

[hestiashearthfire]

Morning devotions.

[hestiashearthfire]

Oui yogurt jars make great, inexpensive canisters that also look great!

[mikeybooch]

“When the earth blossoms with all manner of fragrant spring flowers, then from beneath the murky gloom shall you come again, a mighty marvel to gods and to mortal men.”

-Homeric Hymn to Demeter

A companion piece to the illustration of Hekate and Demeter I did a couple of months back.

[artemis-potnia-theron]

Artemis Phosphorus (Bringer of Light) ✨️

(Diana Awakening Apollo [1910] by Carl Bertling)

Callimachus refers to Artemis as “Queen” and asserts that when Artemis was a young girl sitting on her father Zeus’ knees, asking him to allow her to keep her maidenhood forever and receive her bow and arrows, she also asked him to be Phosphorus, or “Bringer of Light,” which became one of her many titles (Callimachus, Hymn 3.1). One of her most popular temples as “Bringer of Light” is at Messene in the sanctuary of Asclepius (Pausanias 4.31.10).

Zeus is more than delighted to give her all that she asks for: “three times ten cities and towers more than one live vouchsafe thee — three times ten cities that shall not note to glorify any other god but to glorify the only and be called of Artemis. And thou shall be Watcher over Streets and Harbors” (Callimachus, Hymn 3.28).

Thus, in addition to her being Phosphorus, she is also Enodia, “Protector of the Mariners.” Consequently, Artemis is not only “Saviour” through mercy — that is, people do not only pray to her for protection and peaceful death — but she is “Saviour” in a way that is omnipresent. As the “Bringer of Light,” her luminance literally saves ships, harbors, and all those who depend on these facilities to survive. In her role as Sôteira, Artemis inhabits the personal spaces of her community of worshipers.

As a goddess of mercy, she is invoked as Phôsphoros, meaning “Bringer of Light,” and she is often Hêmerasia or “She Who Soothes.” ... it is significant that her ritual worship expanded from “Huntress,” or goddess of wilderness, to the “Saviour” of her supplicants and the “Protector” of communities and cities.

- She Who Hunts: Artemis: The Goddess Who Changed the World by Carla Ionescu

[elefsina]

"At the temple in Brauron, Artemis' followers worshipped her as a goddess of protection during childbirth and of female children until puberty. Women who traveled from afar to make offerings to Artemis at Brauron for protection during childbirth would dedicate prized possessions to the goddess as well as a set of clothing upon successful birth. Gems, mirrors and rings have been recovered from the spring and the stream at Brauron, which shows the importance that was placed on the help Artemis could give in this matter. Interestingly, the clothes of women who died in childbirth were offered to Iphigeneia, at a shrine which was near the main temple at Brauron."

Artemis: Virgin Goddess of the Sun, Moon & Hunt by Sorita D'Este

[30fury]

hail to hermes, swift as he goes down the road, kicking up party posters around the children's feet, alighting each doorstep with a kiss of laughter &

hail to artemis and apollo, humming to themselves as they watch from above, sparks in the sky as the sun sinks deep and the moon rises &

hail to dionysus, standing in the kitchen with wine-red teeth, catching the drunk and steering them to safety, twirling dancing women with a firm hand &

hail to hekate, who travels where the barriers thin to gossamer pale, cross-legged at the crossroads, dogs with milky eyes licking at her heels &

hail to hestia, the light flickering at home, welcoming the child and the mother and the father, the drunk and the ride home, the friends and the family and everyone in-between, all who collapse in the living room to count their blessings and collect their beings &

hail to the gods, as the cold draws nearest to the skin; hail to the gods, as the year comes closing in.

[elefsina]

She is nature embodied; Potnia Theron, Mistress of Animals. She is the birth of lambs in spring, she is the food that sustains us when the earth dies again each year, she watches and shelters over animals within and without. She is nature in her cruelty. She is nature in its life. She is the butcher. She is the deer being hunted, the hunter who chases it, and the arrow who hits its mark. She is the forest fire, the fire, and the person watching it. She is the cruel embrace the wild gives; she is its endless addicting impossibility. All we want is to return to nature, and all we fear is the wild unknown, from the safety of our beds and inside our walls. She is the creature watching us, and the dog keeping us safe. She is the mountains, the jagged peaks, and the deep abyss gaping before us.

[starweaverblog]

Leto with her children, Artemis and Apollo 🌜☀️

[sawbeaver]

From Hermes to Virgin Mary

*Mixed Dionysus myth from the Orphism.

[mikeybooch]

“…Hekate, with a torch in her hands, met Demeter, and spoke to her and told her news: ‘Queenly Demeter, bringer of seasons and giver of good gifts, what god of heaven or what mortal man has rapt away Persephone and pierced with sorrow your dear heart? For I heard her voice, yet saw not with my eyes who it was. But I tell you truly and shortly all I know.’

So, then, said Hekate. And the daughter of rich-haired Rhea answered her not, but sped swiftly with her, holding flaming torches in her hands.”

-Homeric Hymn to Demeter

[athenaion]

odin, allfather, lives in my head rent free. he's the only norse deity I feel particularly called to, and I think it's because of my deep love for the runes and the connection I feel to the music of wardruna.

he appears to me as ansuz, and I know odin is speaking to me through the runes. he gaurds me, at certain times, and he carries me through painful moments. he has known pain and he understands my own.

he is othala. heritage. knower of all that has come, and all that will be. one-eyed yet he is a seer.

odin-zeus also appears in my mind. the runes call him sowulo; brightness, sunshine, illumination. the One in my mind is not zeus is odin is zeus is odin, but both, at once. as though harihara - the merged deity that is half shiva, half vishnu. a divine father; a wild king. harihara represents all of creation and what is to come. odin-zeus is wilder. pure kingship and paternal instinct. he is alive, reachable, the palpable heaviness of an oncoming storm.

i wonder if odin-zeus is a manifestation of something beyond either of these fathers. pure masculine energy itself.

why does this call to me now? why does odin warn me of miscommunication, of forgetting the past?

the runes have not told me everything yet. neither are they going to. this is where we end, for now.

hail odin, allfather, who speaks through the runes!

[aaaangel444]

by jackie bassett

[candlesandcrossroadss]

Lamp in the form of a bust of Hekate