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[primordialnyx]

500 Picspams Challenge | #004 | Tarot Cards: Major Arcana ↳ The Fool

Upright, the Fool represents new beginnings and opportunities. It is a sign to take that leap of faith. Reversed, the Fool represents holding back. It may also mean acting recklessly in order to ‘live in the moment’.

[moremyth]

Le Fous

[primordialnyx]

500 Picspams Challenge | #032 | Biblical & Jewish Mythology ↳ Cain and Abel

In the Book of Genesis, Cain and Abel were the first two sons of Adam and Eve. When God asked them to each make a sacrifice, he favored Abel’s instead of Cain, the firstborn. In which, Cain killed Abel, the former becoming the first human to be born and the later becoming the first to die.

[moremyth]

Cain Abel, sons of Adam and Eve.

[primordialnyx]

500 Picspams Challenge | #005 | Biblical & Jewish Mythology ↳  Purgatory

Purgatory, in some Christian beliefs, in the middle state between heaven and hell. It is a place where those who’ve held God’s grace and favor but are still imperfectly purified are left to undergo expiatory purification. In Judaism, the closest equivalence is Gehenna.

[moremyth]

This is pretty sweet!

[primordialnyx]

500 Picspams Challenge | #172 | The Four Horsemen ↳ Death

what is your death but an old belonging,

- Anne Sexton

[moremyth]

Hells yeah!

[minus-moscow]

Sumerian/Mesopotamian Deities

Marduk - is the Mesopotoamian god of water, vegetation, judgment, and magic. His consort is the goddess Sarpanit. He is also regarded as the son of Enki and Damkina and the heir of Anu. He was the patron deity of the city of Babylon, and as that city came to be the political centre of the Babylonian world, so too Marduk’s powers rose to great importance. The traits belonging to gods who, in an earlier period, were recognized as the heads of the pantheon passed to Marduk, in particular those from Enlil, and he became head of the gods. During Sumerian times, his name was probably pronounced Marutuk (Marduk was a Babylonian spelling) and he is associated with the planet, Jupiter.

[moremyth]

Fascinating

[thewinedarksea]

myth moodboards: mavka

a type of female spirit in ukrainian folklore. the spirits known by this term represented the souls of girls who had died unnatural, tragic, or premature deaths; they often appear in the form of beautiful young women who lure men into the woods and kill them.

[moremyth]

Very cool.

[roryglimore]

GREEK MYTHOLOGY ➝ A G A T H O D A E M O N

              ↳ spirit of vineyards and fields. 

[moremyth]

This is perfect!

[calliestephanides]

Lilith (/ˈlɪlɪθ/; Hebrew: לִילִית‎‎ Lîlîṯ) is a dangerous demon of the night, who is sexually wanton, and who steals babies in the darkness. The character is generally thought to derive in part from a historically far earlier class of female demons (lilītu) in ancient Mesopotamian religion, found in cuneiform texts of Sumer, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, and Babylonia.

[moremyth]

Adam's first wife!

[primordialnyx]

500 Picspams Challenge | #207 | Biblical & Jewish Mythology ↳ Azazel

Azazel was known as a fallen angel, according to the Book of Enoch. In Judaism, he was responsible for introducing humanity to forbidden knowledge, such as making weaponry. He was then cast out of heaven. The name ’Azazel’ is less known in Christianity, having the name translated as “scapegoat” or “wasteland”. 

[moremyth]

Very cool!

[lucysunderground]

myth moodboard || hecate

Goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts, and necromancy Daughter of the Titanes Perses and Asteria, from whom she received her power over Heaven, Earth, and Sea

[moremyth]

Beautiful board!

[aredhels]

mythology family ♥︎ asmodeus for @maugrim

asmodeus was the king of demons in jewish mythology. according to the apocryphal book of tobit, asmodeus, smitten with love for sarah, the daughter of raguel, killed her seven successive husbands on their wedding nights. following instructions given to him by the angel raphael, tobias overcame asmodeus and married Sarah. the talmud relates that solomon captured the demon and pressed him into slave labour during the construction of the first temple of jerusalem. other haggadic legends depict asmodeus as a more beneficent figure.

[moremyth]

Dark and evil, I love it!

[elains]

MYTHOLOGY MOODBOARDS • NYX for anonymous

“The great roots of night grow suddenly from your soul, and the things that hide in you come out again”. — Pablo Neruda, from The Light Wraps You.

[moremyth]

Gorgeous!

[sproutaesthetics]

english folklore | HERNE THE HUNTER

a ghost associated with windsor forest and great park in the county of berkshire. he is said to wear antlers, ride a horse, and rattle chains. the earliest mentions of herne comes from shakespeare’s the merry wives of windsor, and it has been suggested that he had once been the leader of the wild hunt

[moremyth]

Very cool.

[hawktims]

modern mythical creatures | faeries

A fairy (also fay, fae, fair folk; from faery, faerie, “realm of the fays”) is a type of mythical being orlegendary creature in European folklore, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural, or preternatural.

Fairies are generally described as human in appearance and having magical powers. Diminutive fairies of one kind or another have been recorded for centuries, but occur alongside the human-sized beings; these have been depicted as ranging in size from very tiny up to the size of a human child. 

requested by @darkestmeliah

[moremyth]

Very cool!

[allmythologies]

greek mythology: gelos

gelos is the god or personified spirit of laughter. he was a companion of dionysos.

[moremyth]

Cool <333333

[thebellekeys]

World Mythology: Fey, Faeries, and Fairfolk

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind, run on the top of the disheveled tide, and dance upon the mountains like a flame.”

- adapted from The Land of Heart's Desire by William Butler Yeats

[moremyth]

So much blue, very pretty!

[allmythologies]

mythologies → time & fate deities

[moremyth]

Nabu is just too pretty!!!