Reject Modernity, Embrace Antiquity 🏺🏛️🧿

(this used to be a Naruto blog dedicated to the Mist village but recently it has become a Greek mythology blog. if you would like Naruto content from this user please follow @askthemist , although it's currently dead, there's still a lot of hidden Mist village content to enjoy and the account will not be deleted)

[sgadank]

Been musing recently on how much I detest AI “art”, aka amalgamations of stolen artwork, so here’s a still from a “me in every universe” kind of thing I’m making for insta (which has taken 10x longer than originally planned…)🏺

The gif killed the original colours ;(

[floating-space-jellyfish]

A discovery at the temple

[buggeeart]

Recent studies! Part 1?

Of things I desperately needed to study… Especially backgrounds…

[theantiquariansarchive]

a bone figure of a standing woman, with lapis lazuli inlays in her eyes.

originating in egypt, from the Amratian culture, in the Naqada I period - roughly between 3,900 and 3,700.

The figure is currently on display at the British Museum.

[barbucomedie]

Marble Dedication from Melos, Greece dated between 100 - 200 CE on display at the British Museum in London, England

This dedication was made to Asclepius and Hygieia by someone called Tyche for the cure of an affliction of the left leg. Asclepius and Hygieia were the Greek gods of medicine, health and cleanliness worshipped at the shrine of Asklepios in Melos. The island of Melos became part of the Roman Empire during this time after the defeat of Macedonian forces. The Roman empire would have incorporated the local beliefs into their empire and so practices like this would have continued.

Photographs taken by myself 2024

[nutellapeachfish]

Heh, my heroes/j

Click for better quality cus tumblr suckz </3

[galusandmalus]

Happy 4th of July, when a bunch of rich white dudes said they didn't want to pay taxes to a bunch of other rich white dudes and made a big post that they frankly didnt actually seem to care about all that much. actions speak louder than words and holy shit was it quiet

i miss you Deganawida great peacemaker

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

source

[mythologyofthepoetandthemuse]

Happy Litha-Summer Solstice, when the sun is at his peak, a fiery day… ~The sun, Helios, is all seeing (pantepoptes), when asked he confesses to Demeter that he has witnessed the abduction of Persephone by Hades. The sun reveals the beauty of  the natural world as it really is, and self-awareness showing mercy to those who have faced the cold too long and have paralysed, the flowers bloom underneath the therapeutic sun, we enjoy the playfulness of the sun rays on our skin and something awakens inside of us, we long for the long summer days. The sun can be proven  ruthless at other times, showing also the decay and responsibilities, the gap or deprivation, it burns the uninitiated one…one cannot be forced to face the sun, but introduced to it slowly…provided material or spiritual sunglasses…the sun can open eyes, too much sun at once can blind…Jacques Derrida  in his “Memoirs of the blind” claims that “the sun resembles the eye, the most “helioform” of all sense organs to the intelligible sun, that is, to the Good.“~ Vera Bousiou Helios on his Chariot (detail) by Hans Adam Weissenkircher

[kyleesarthell]

The Sphinx & The Griffin

[apollomes-supremacy]

Some Apollo inspired by this post <3

[viktorello]

The Iliad, Book 1: Apollo sends a plague upon the Greeks.

[rudjedet]

*grabs tumblr by the face* hey, hey look at me. whatever you do, we are NOT pivoting to "well Hatshepsut COULD be trans because she never said she WASN’T" after we spent years undoing the whole thing where people shoehorn modern gender frameworks into the perception of ancient historical figures whose culture didn't have this framework. we are NOT going to use "don't put words in the ancients' mouths" as an excuse to say "it could still be true because she never said it was false". Hatshepsut - and before her several other female kings like Sobekneferu and Tawosret - only referred to herself with masculine pronouns when she grammatically had to, while she used feminine pronouns everywhere else she could, indicating that she likely didn’t consider herself as anything other than a woman per the ancient Egyptian constructs of such.

[dazed-cherry]

Petra

[greekbros]

(diorama concept ideas)

(can't tell if I want to make them ✨dreamy and pastel ✨ or just chibi and realistic)

(just more in world stuff for GreekBros)

(but all of the backgrounds will either be painted with watercolors or acrylic, hopefully matching the tone and design of the minis)

[polypharmakoss]

Atenea: Cógela, cógela… coge al mochuelo, no hace nada, y mira que mona es. Se llama Nictímene. Athena: Pick her up, pick her up…pick up the little owl, she’s not aggressive, and just look how cute she is. Her name is Nyctimene)

Roman marble statue of Athena, first half of the 1st century AC, Halsted A&A Foundation. Photo: Daniel Eggert (@DesigningDan).

Don't know how to explain how much I like this photo it's absolutely majestic. This can be used in so many contexts and situations ajajja. Thanks first person whoever depicted Athena that way, thanks to the sculptor and thanks to Daniel Eggert for this photo. I love it🤩 going to do some things with this photo🥰

I found this one in reddit🤣 also peak

[rhetthammersmithhorror]

L'Inferno | 1911

[greekbros]

(actor playing manticore: wwweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee)