for Them;

devotional blog for the Theoi in all of Their splendor. sideblog.

[fantasyandadventure]

"He is Dionysos Dimorphos, 'dual formed', and Dionysos Dimetor, 'born of two mothers'. His dual nature bestows him with the authority of a liminal god: he who stands on the threshold between the worlds as a god of prophecy and initiation, and he who traverses the processes of birth, life, death and rebirth".

Dionysos: Exciter to Frenzy by Vikki Bramshaw.

[darkearthsuggestions]

Dare to carry the burden of the sun. If you opened your mouth and let it rest in your lungs, it would set your tongue aflame– but each of your words would run with burning liquid gold. It would pool in your pores as dense sheens of sweat, but it would wash away your sins and leave you new, cool and bare and clean. It will press upon your heart, skin, soul, like you are Atlas under the eyes of the Gods– a heavier weight than even the sky– but it will teach you to step light. If you carry the burden of the sun, you will see darkest hours. If you revel in your work, you will glow.

[fuckindiva]

Homeric Hymn to Hermes (tr. Hugh G. Evelyn-White)

[laprimevere]

Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Autumn - Dancing Bacchante. Oil on canvas, 1877.

[kxowledge]

Sophocles, Philoctetes

[lussekatter]

[gogozolo]

Thought the Apollo devotees over here would appreciate this art I made hehe

[bluereevesphotography]

APPLES!!

[elisebrave]

Hestia, goddess of the hearth

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Statuette of Aphrodite leaning on a column. Culture: Greek Period: Early Hellenistic Period Date: end of 4th century B.C.

[m-ellon-collie]

AMPHITRITE - goddess of the sea

Antonin Mercié (French, 1845-1916) (Designer) Émile-Philippe Scailliet (French, 1846-1911) (Sculptor)

PERIOD 1889-1900

MEDIUM ivory with gold, silver-gilt, baroque pearls and green jasper, coral (Ivory & Bone)

[90377]

Petit-déjeuner complet by Marc Andreu

[detailedart]

1-2. Mercury by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) | 3. Bust of Hermes at the British Museum

[caemidraws]

fast delivery…

[ivy-kissobryos]

“Dionysos - i have carved a mask from my own skin. i have anointed my flesh with cicada- song and draped snakeskin across my forehead as a crown. i smell of my mantle of goatskin and the wine that stains my lips, my throat, the trail ever downwards downwards. these bullhorns i grew myself in triumph and in agony - the sweetest pain, deep in the final turn of those dark halls, where the stars fall to fertile dirt to dream. i have cast all other masks to the killing floor, shattered into the barley and khernips and grapes that we crush beneath our restless feet. every feature of this face has been shaped with your name caught between my teeth. Dionysos - my mask is a grin, it is a scream, it is an endless sigh of wide-eyed desperate love.”

— Dionysos of Masks: for wingedferretlady (antlering)

[aqua-regia009]

Mercury / Hermes (Detail), 1866. Wood engraving by Jonnard after William Blake Richmond

[killing-the-prophet]

A view of the Pacific Ocean, as seen from Miyako, Japan, on September 24, 2019. Peter Cziborra