#goddess statue

[theroyalgardens]

[retrogamingblog2]

Zelda Goddess Statue spotted in the middle of São Paulo, Brazil

[succulentsiren]

[thesorceresstemple]

[korokcrossing]

keeping the goddess company

[mochiwei]

Day 5: Sacred

Print available here!

[tashacee]

Her Chosen Hero

Tried something a bit different with this one! Lineless art and block colours rather than shading haha. But also I tried to pack a bunch of symbolism into it too - Link looks out at the viewer instead of at the goddess, because he chose to fight not for her but for his friends.

Hylia is not a living, responsive goddess but is made of stone, unchanging before pleas and bathed in the light of her glory. She is different to mortals, focused on the bigger picture of millennia rather than the comparatively minute suffering of her Hero.

The pillars of her temple and the light of her radiance make a cage, reflecting the Hero's time in prison and also how he is trapped in a destiny he did not choose. His sword drips blood - both of that which he has slain, but also his own, that will finally buy his world peace, but he is also lit by the goddess's light, her favour resting on his shoulders.

......thinking of doing a Skyward Sword companion piece tbh.

[celestedoesarttm]

I swear I sat down to draw, blacked out, and then woke up an hour later at midnight with air-dry clay on my fingers and this little beauty before me… it’ll take a few days for her to dry, but I can’t wait to paint her!!! :) I’ve been playing TOTK again and I recently started taking a comparative religions class, so i’ve got religion in LOZ on my mind a lot right now. There’s just so many interesting moving parts…the Triforce, the three goddesses, Hylia and her incarnation as Zelda, Demise, the Fierce Deity, Majora, the remnants of Christianity in the really early games, the various statues in TOTK and BOTW…so many avenues of exploration for an intrigued theologian