#roman god

[aeiousomehugs]

the shadow from my cabinet watches me sleep.

help: which Greek or Roman god do i name it after?

[beyondessence]

Saturnus is a farmer

[severin32]

Antinoos, the earthly god

Palazzo Grimaldi, Venice

[mr-e-gallery]

Edmond Simpson "Roman God" (06-26)

[brimo5]

Since I bore so often such complaints from the lips of mother Nature, at length I took pity on the world and decided to make man to cease from his oak-tree food; wherefore I have decreed that Ceres, who now, ignorant of her loss, lashes the lions of Mount Ida, accompanying her dread mother, should wander over sea and land in anxious grief, until, in her joy at finding the traces of her lost daughter, she grant man the gift of corn and her chariot is borne aloft through the clouds to scatter among the peoples ears before unknown and the steel-blue serpents submit them to the Attic yoke.⁠ (Claudian, The Rape of Proserpine, 3.45-54)

She is destined to be found.

[brimo5]

Dis with flames and ashes of the dead

Has inter sedes Ditis pater extulit ora bustorum flammis et cana sparsa favilla, ac tali volucrem Fortunam voce lacessit (Petronius, Satyricon, 120)

Amidst these infernal surroundings the ruler of Hades Uplifted his head by the funeral flames silhouetted And sprinkled with white from the ashes of corpses; and challenged Winged Fortune in words such as these (trans. W. C. Firebaugh)

From this place the father of Dis lifted his head, lit with funeral flames and flecked with white ashes, and provoked winged Fortune with these words (trans. Michael Heseltine)

[telicoffeenstuff]

WIP : you don't how TIRED i am by the Tumblr prudishness !!!

full wip lineart on Bluesky :

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