#physis

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Physis

[thatssomegoodart]

Greek myth AU designs that I have yet to draw (Post 3) + lore

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Gaia Primordial goddess Goddess of the Earth

pretty woman with hair made of flowers :)

Hemera Primordial goddess Goddess of the day

Cloud lady :3

Nyx Primordial goddess Goddess of night Wife of Erebos

Hercore

Pontus Resident deity of the sea Husband of Thalassa

Hair and beard made of water

Crab claw horns

Thalassa Primordial goddess of the sea Wife of Pontus

Seaweed clothing

Created all sea creatures

Aether Primordial god God of the blue light of the sky

Gets along well with his sister Hemera

Chaos Primordial goddess Goddess of the atmosphere and the chaos of the cosmos

Made birds

Supernova remnant swirls around her, a black hole halo spinning behind her

Erebos Primordial god God of darkness Husband of Nyx

Loves his wife

scarf is made of starlight, given to him by his wife

Physis Primordial goddess Goddess of nature and the natural order Mother Nature

Appears cold and cruel, but underneath that is beauty and balance.

Charon Ferryman of the dead Chthonian god

Wears a crown of dead leaves; nobody knows what he truly looks like, except sometimes theres a faint green glow from under his mask

The Erinyes Chthonian goddesses Three winged goddesses of vengeance

#1 is a barn owl, #2 is a Nikolski's Viper, and #3 is a tawny owl and a black Mexican moccasin

Hades Chthonian god God of the dead King of the underworld Husband of Persephone

Flower crown of marigolds were given to him by his wife (fun fact, marigolds symbolize the connection between the living and the dead)

Loves his wife and loves his dog

Hypnos Chthonian god God of sleep Twin brother of Thanatos

Sleeps way too much

Yes, you get eye bags under your eyes from oversleeping too

Has a pink poppy petal in his hair

Makes people fall asleep, with opium instead of sand

Has wings on his shoulders

Thanatos Chthonian god God of peaceful death Twin brother of Hypnos

has a gentle touch

stays with those who are alone on their deathbed

his sisters, the Keres, are the goddesses of violent death

Clotho Chthonian goddess Youngest of the Moirai / Fates

is a dusky turtle dove

spins the thread of human life

Lachesis Chthonian goddess Middle sibling of the Moirai / Fates

is a dusky turtle dove

measures the thread of life

Atropos Chthonian goddess Eldest sibling of the Moirai / Fates

is a dusky turtle dove

often covered in African death's head hawkmoths

cuts the thread of human life

Eurynomos Chthonian god God of carrion and carrion-eaters

is a Eurasian griffon vulture

stripped flesh off the corpses of the dead

"flesh devouring daimon / spirit" (that was in my physical notes)

Persephone Chthonian goddess Goddess of spring, the dead, and grain Queen of the Underworld Wife of Hades

is a deer

was given a glass eye and her sword + her cool sword belt and sheath by Hades

loves her husband, mom, daughter, and Cerberus

yes i made her shorter in the image so you can see all the details

Acheron Chthonian god God of the river Acheron and lake of pain

brother to Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Pyriphlegethon

Lethe Chthonian goddess Goddess of the river Lethe (underworld river of oblivion and forgetfulness)

The dead drink from her waters to forget their mortal lives (although most people wisely drink from the lake Mnemosyne, where the titaness Mnemosyne resides)

Very merciful goddess

Is also very ethereal and graceful

Good friends with Hypnos ^ her river borders Hypnos's cave, so she sits on the shore and hums as Hypnos sleeps

[sciencewithliv]

Hello everyone! This is my science blog because, well, I’m a nerd

I am a Biology Major looking to specifically go into the study of genetics, but I love all sciences and know things about majority of them. I’ve been doing a big research project recently so - I needed a place to yap about it

If you have any science related questions, I will be happy to answer them :3

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CYBERNETICS AND PURPOSE - A CRITIQUE BY HANS JONAS

i've had a lot of free time on my hands while searching for a job (which is hellish, by the way), so i decided to use this time to make things that i think are cool.

this essay, "cybernetics and purpose," encapsulates a lot of what the philosopher hans jonas was trying to elucidate upon the reader- this idea that nature cannot be confounded with techne in any sense of the word. i'm drawn to this essay in particular because it feels so apt for our time, given we're building machines designed to imitate humanity. in this way he's absolutely right in his analysis. no matter how large of a machine anyone can build it does not have the faculties of self-preservation, metabolization, and emotiveness present in humans- or any other thing from nature, for that matter.

there are a few more of these excerpts i'd like to get around to doing; k-punk, deleuze, lucretius, husserl, DFW, (my king) carlo michelstaedter come to mind. but this is what i've been doing for the past three days.

[tonreihe]

“Animals and the way of tracing their tracks, thereby engaging with the consummation of their ‘life,’ belong in φύσις, which one renders inadequately as ‘nature.’ The word φύσις means: emerging from out of itself into the open, into the free emerged standing-there of appearance, and giving itself within appearance to the free, and thereby still following a rule. Accordingly, ‘to unfold’ is the essence of play. Play belongs to φύσις. The nymphs, who play the game of ‘nature,’ are the playmates of Artemis. The sign of ‘playing strings,’ and perhaps of play generally, is the lyre. It appears in the shape of a bow. For the Greeks, who experienced ‘appearance’ as being, the lyre ‘is’ therefore the bow. The bow sends forth the death-bringing arrows. The Huntress, who tracks the living so that it may find death, bears the signs of play and death—lyre and bow. Her other sign, ‘the torch,’ is, as the fallen and extinguished torch, the sign of death. The Light-Bringer is the Death-Bringer. Life and death, like light and night, correspond to one another, in that they at the same time ‘contradict’ one another. Artemis the elevated one, through her appearing, lets this ‘contra-diction’ peer into beings as a whole. She is the appearance of the oppositional, and nowhere and never is she disposed to balance the oppositional, or give up the oppositional entirely in favor of one side. The Light-Bringer is, as the Death-Bringer, the appearance of the oppositional. She is this because she originally lets the unfamiliarity of strife peer into the familiar. Artemis is a bringer of the essential strife, έρις. This strife is not only unresolved; rather it belongs to the essence of strife to strive-against each resolution and every attempt at such.”

—Martin Heidegger, Heraclitus: The Inception of Occidental Thinking, Logic: Heraclitus’s Doctrine of the Logos

[eskwander]

Nietzsche, a synthesis.

[ryoten07]

1300×1620mm

I saw the "Physis"