polytheism, philosophy, culture, and other musings

Germanic and Celtic polytheist. paganism, history, Shakespeare, art and music I like. 🌾

[laurenillustrated]

American Girls! ★

I drew 10 of the original historical American Girls in my style! This was a fun little fan art series in between my other illustrations 🤭

In order: Felicity and Josefina, Kirsten and Kaya, Molly and Kit, Addy and Samantha, Julie and Rebecca.

[divinum-pacis]

Illona Ilae, of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, leaves an offering in front an alter below the Mauna Loa volcano as it erupts Thursday, Dec. 1, 2022, near Hilo, Hawaii. Glowing lava from the world's largest volcano is a sight to behold, but for many Native Hawaiians, Mauna Loa's eruption is a time to pray, make offerings and honor both the natural and spiritual worlds. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

[hagiomoto]

Don’t feel sad about the last Neanderthals.

The last Neanderthal man died while watching his mixed grandchildren play in the meadows with the sheeps. He was glad he no longer had to travel so far; there was enough food for everyone. The air was good, and it wasn’t very cold anymore.

[maidthings]

[memories-of-ancients]

Silver inlaid axe head, Scandinavia, 11th-12th century

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

[caitlynlizzie]

i sketched that one photo of hayden. makes me think of amber waves

@mothercain

[maedictus]

Éowyn 🍂

[joelchaimholtzman]

Painting of an Anglo Saxon warrior (female) that I made for myself a few years back! Got inspired by Germanic and Celtic regalia, an almost endless source of inspiration for these type of characters..

[darksilenceinsuburbia]

Eduard Bezembinder . St. Mary of the Woods- Collage, papercut, 18 x 24 cm.

[medusaspeach]

Finally finished this sketch! Some character and clothing exploration for Ariadne and (maybe) a couple of her sisters. 🐙🌊

aaand version sans the makeup.

*those skirts are such a puzzle mixed within an enigma wrapped inside a whatever for me I see so many widely different versions of the same design and I think I need to do more studies.

[kuutamosonaatti]

Making The Shining (1980)

[averysillygoose]

was anyone else a little disappointed that there wasnt more callbacks to the original barbie movies in the new barbie movie? like give me princess outfits PLS

[hestiashearthfire]

Didn’t post my Noumenia celebrations, but here’s Saturday house prayers with offerings of rice crackers, bay leaf, star anise, and an apple. Currently I can’t offer incense for safety reasons, so I thought I’d try sweet-smelling spices. Worked a treat!

[regging]

woman who would have been revered prophetess 4,000 years ago now relegated to clicking links, opening tabs

[dairedara]

Ode to Brighid

"O Brighid, fair daughter of the Good God,

Smith of shining silver and silvered songs,

The badgers, the snowdrops, they breach the snow:

Winter's crystal mantle, to welcome you,

Goddess! Patron of poets and plowmen alike

Take my prayer, let it be fuel for the flame."

[original composition]

[heatherwitch]

“Then laughter-loving Aphrodite and her handmaidens wove sweet-smelling crowns of flowers of the earth and put them upon their heads – the bright-coiffed goddesses, the Nymphs and Graces, and golden Aphrodite too, while they sang sweetly on the mount of many-fountained Ida.”

— The Cypria, fragment 6. (via myrtlerose)

[ire-illustration]

Brigid

[fierysword]

“I pray in words. I pray in poems. I want to learn to pray through breathing, through dreams and sleeplessness, through love and renunciation.”

— Anna Kamienska, from In That Great River: A Notebook (tr. Clare Cavanagh)