#laimdota

[solar-satan]

These are screen grabs from the 1988 Lāčplēsis rock-opera of the characters Laimdota , Lāčplēsis, and Kangars. It's literally the most 80's thing I've ever seen and I love it to pieces, the costume design is iconic.

If anyone ever feels bored I totally recommend hitting up the recording of the rock opera on youtube its so much fun.

I've just had to accept how lame I am because I'm having the time of my life making these.

[my-academia-onegin]

Time is the cheapest and yet the most precious thing we have, because due to time we have everything.

Rainis

Pictures from “Uguns un Nakts” (1911)

[solar-satan]

Sometimes I think about the period of time in the rock opera Lāčplēsis when Lāčplēsis still has all his friends, before him and Laimdota fall in love, before Kangars gets corrupted by devils and Koknesis gets kidnapped.

I think it must be really lonely to be the hero of an epic , to have everyone depend on you and everyone you love be at risk because of you.

If this were a show it would be the calm before the storm , the time before an all consuming destiny takes over, where they can pretend to be normal people for a while

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[unhonestlymirror]

Vija Artmane as Laimdota in "Uguns un nakts", 1965

[balticmythology]

Laimdota and Spīdola, charachters from Latvian national epic Lāčplēsis portrayed by photographers Līga Pētersone and Guntis Bērziņš, stylist Kitija Potaičuka. Watch the making-of video here.

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