gods & monsters

“name one hero who was happy ... ” i considered. heracles went mad and killed his family; theseus lost his bride and father; jason's children and new wife were murdered by his old; bellerophon killed the chimera but was crippled by the fall from pegasus' back. “ ... you can't ... ”

[yanniangniang]

Hades (for @tokyocannibals)

   ancient Greek chthonic god of the Underworld

[facinaoris]

Magnificent Warrior Queen of Faeries.

[medievalthymes]

moodboard: hel

↦ norse goddess of the dead and underworld

[fyeahmyths]

Modern witches.

[fyeahmyths]

Destruction goddess.

[omagpies]

I love Artemis 🙏

[caleblukelinillustration]

Artemis, Iphigenia, and Agamemnon

3 Layer Screenprint on 15x11 Stongehenge

[birdsofrhiannon]

[the-god-of-illusion]

Chinese mythology from A to Z:

[Y] - Yanluo Wang (閻羅) is the ruler of the underworld. He is also passes judgment on all the dead.

[paintingispoetry]

Waterhouse, Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus, 1891

[marianas-art-world]

Celtic Mythology | Rhiannon

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[the-god-of-illusion]

Chinese mythology from A to Z:

[X] - Xiwangmu (瑤池金母) or the Queen Mother of the West was the dispenser of prosperity, longevity, and eternal bliss took place during the second century BC when the northern and western parts of China were able to be better known because of the opening of the Silk Road.

[fanbynature]

Slavic Mythology

↳Chernobog /Черният Бог/

His name means ‘Black God’. He is a dark demonic deity, a hideous shadowy figure dressed in black who only appears at night. The lord of evil, Chernobog causes calamity and disaster, bringing bad luck and misfortune wherever he turns. There is no hidden agenda — he just enjoys being a black-hearted villain. He is the Darth Vader of Slavic mythology. His opposite number is Belobog, the White God of Goodness. The two of them are in eternal conflict. Chernobog is feared all over Russia as a being of pure nastiness, in the same evil club as Ahriman or Satan. Not many would pray to such a deity, but one early passage reveals that people would spit curses into a bowl during feasts to keep him at bay. What a wonderful idea — a holy swear box.

Chernobog is so utterly malevolent that few writers dared to jot down details of his foul deeds. All we have are shadows and rumour and hints. It’s almost as if early priests invented him as a Slavic Satan figure to keep the locals terrified. Could this all be a blackwash?

[facinaoris]

Mother and Father of the Gods.

[theapotelesma]

The names of Sekhmet, Egyptian goddess war, lions, healing, plague and the sun/fire.

[scarletarosa]

Nordic Deities: Frigg

Goddess of marriage, fertility, wisdom, motherhood, swamps, marshlands, weaving, and spinning.

[chimeride]

Hecatoncheire (iopotrichomorph), the eigntieth Known One.