#salus

[roibindallbhride]

Trying to Find Stand in Statures for Deities is a Pain in the Ass

Sometimes trying to find a statue to represent a Deity is frustrating as Hell, especially when You know You aren't going to find a statue specifically made for said Deity. I'm currently looking for and am failing to find a decent enough statue to represent Damona, and it's driving Me up a wall!

I mean, I'm aware that there is evidence of a broken statue that was found for Damona that appears fairly similar to that of Sirona, but honestly I'm uncomfortable with going with the easiest option. I'm aware that Sirona is commonly syncrenized with Salus and/or Hygieia, based on Roman Interpretation. I know where I can buy a statue of of Hygieia, but once again, I'm uncomfortable about doing so, even if the fledgling side of My Galic Polytheist practice ends up delving into Gallo-Roman Polytheism for whatever reason.

Being too uncomfortable with the easiest option, I started looking for Fairy Girl statues that featured Cows, but I haven't found any so far. I have no idea if Damona has any connection with Fairies at all, I looked in that direction first because I have had a ton of luck so far when looking at Fairy statues to help fill in the gaps when I'm trying and failing to find a statue for a "Celtic" deity. Any attempt at finding a statue of a Woman that features a Cow keeps leading Me into interesting territory. For the most part, statues of Hindu Goddesses keep showing up, which is not what I'm looking for at all.

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[reflectedshine]

❝ Our future is not built atop despair and resignations.

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[twofielder]

Coin of the Day #443 (7/21/2025)

A rough old dupondius…

Roman Empire

AE Dupondius - 25mm 10.16g

Maximinus I Thrax 236-238 AD

Rome Mint

Obverse MAXIMINVS PIVS AVG GERM

Bust of Maximinus I right, radiate, draped, cuirassed

Reverse SALVS AVGVSTI S C

Salus seated left, feeding snake coiled around altar out of patera

RIC IV 86

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Some art of my oc Kiera with her snake, inspired by a statue of the Roman goddess, Salus 🐍💙

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[divine-cricetinae]

Actually I'm obsessed with the eldritch abomination magical girl do you have like more on that story? Like a synopsis or doodles that didn't make it to the post cool if not it just seemed so up my alley

yes I do! I won’t be able to pack it all in one post but I still got some juicy deets :)

slight body horror warning for some images below

Our Heroine Briar frank is a hermit, like a major hermit. She’s a fan of the occult and macabre who has a not so great view of life. Sick of the monotony and not much going for her social wise she decides to follow a random ritual she found on a sketchy forum. It was probably bullshit but god she was hoping for at least a little zest in her cramped apartment

who knew it would actually work? And furthermore-

-who knew a simple misspelling causes a completely different entity to appear? The sparkle filled and cutefied Cthuwu! her entrance caused Briar’s room to distort into what simply could be described as a psychedelic nightmare, inflict her with momentary madness, and had an almost fatal misunderstanding in which she got thrown into a completely different dimension, afterwards she was eager to receive an explanation, to which they were very happy with giving one.

it turns out heaven has been planning a do over on humanity for a long time after witnessing our chaos below and is finally arriving down on earth to grant us with loving salvation, of course in its eyes the only ‘salvation’ that could possibly save us is…death. It doesn’t help that whatever their sending is causing mass insanity to those who live to witness it’s ‘mercy’.

Now most other powerful beings aren’t blinking an eye at this, as to them its like a colony of ants being exterminated after a few millennia of them making a very big hill. Cthuwu however, finds humanity charming and worthy of life enough to want to defend it against this extermination…The only problem is on the power scale of beings she is..definitely on the lower side of it. So her plan?

Recruit as many otherworldly creatures to her cause as possible! And she needs Briar as her conduit for that.

Of course Briar doesn’t have much of a choice in this matter considering this elder god could easily turn on a dime if refused. so reluctantly, she took up the mantle of ‘magical girl chu chu Cthulhu’ to bring any monster-of-the-week she can find on humanity’s side while dealing with heaven’s army.

and even worse? She starts to yearn for connections, for people to be around her and like being around her…And It turns out those creatures might be a little bit of what she needs.

-whenever she gains the support of one they’ll leave a piece of themselves with her that is grafted onto her body and grants a new ability, along with a promise of their support in any particularly dire battle.

of course if they’re less…complying..Theres always the old fashioned way.

Yet she’ll need a lot of support if she wants to stop whats coming.