Things Bright And Fine

Hermes devotee, musings on the gods when the mood arises, plus whatever ends up here when I forget to switch back to my main.

[artandbeauty71]

EVERYONE LOOK!!

Baby Hermes w his turtle bestie🥹🥹🥹

[androphonos-theoi]

maybe i can form my thoughts better later but i have to get this out now; the myths ARE relevant in helpol, you don't have to be a mythic literalist or anything and in fact people indeed can and do take it too far, HOWEVER -

they detail the aspects of the universe, what place the gods, daimones, and important mortals have. the stories tell important lessons, such as don't succumb to hubris and impossible pride. even the basic ones detail why the gods have that place in the universe. like after the titanomachy how zeus got the sky, poseidon got the ocean, and hades got the underworld.

then there's also different cosmogonies like orphism where the idea is venerating figures who have gone down to and come back from the underworld, like orpheus himself. its myths are also different

and that's not even getting into the thing i always say about aphrodite's parentage, because she's a daughter of ouranos by hesiod but by zeus and dione by homer (and in fact goes to complain to her mother after diomedes stabs her in the iliad) (dione is a titaness)

so i guess my whole point here is. myths ARE important. we cannot just fully ignore them. i am not saying you have to believe in them or even believe they literally happened (we don't know), but they DO have a place within hellenic polytheism.

[medusaspeach]

lil sketch dump - Athena, Ares, Zeus, Hades, Poseidon

More explorations coming soon. I have decided to make a height chart of the Olympians in order to force myself to design them. And I figure it will be handy for future projects.

[agapidraws]

🏛️The Olympians🏛️

13. Hestia / Εστία

(Yep, I didn’t stop at twelve.)

[medusaspeach]

"Lord of the silver bow, now hear my prayer! Great guardian of Tenedos and Chryse and sandy Cilla! Mouse Lord! If I ever built temples to your liking, ever burned fat thighs of oxen or of goats for you, fulfill this prayer for me, and let the Greeks suffer your arrows to avenge my tears!" (Homer. Iliad, trans. wilson)

Apollo sends a plague to the Greeks, my piece for the 2026 edition, Sing! O Muse Zine.

[tractim]

hermes and little dionysus as the magician card for the dionysian tarot deck ☤

[laikaru]

[agapidraws]

🏛️The Twelve Olympians🏛️

13. Dionysus / Διόνυσος

[agapidraws]

🏛️The Twelve Olympians🏛️

12. Hephaestus/ Ήφαιστος

[agapidraws]

🏛️The Twelve Olympians🏛️

8. Hermes / Ερμής

[medusaspeach]

Apollo sending a plague to the Greeks WIP

[echo-loves-flowerboy]

[medusaspeach]

Homer, Iliad 5. 385 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) "[Zeus speaks :] ‘Many of us who have our homes on Olympos endure things from men, when ourselves we inflict hard pain on each other. Ares had to endure it when strong Ephialtes and Otos, sons of Aloeus, chained him in bonds that were too strong for him, and three months and ten he lay chained in the brazen cauldron; had not Eeriboia, their stepmother, the surpassingly lovely, brought word to Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him.’"

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[starweaverblog]

My contribution to make people buy Euripides "The Bacchae" because it's one the finest works of his showcasing Dionysus power to its fullest

[temperamentalgreen]

⚖️⛈️Zeus Pater🪶🏺

He has been a lot on my mind with the April rains here

It's also my birthday today!!

[medusaspeach]

(very stylized) Tiber Apollo study

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Zeus wooing Hera sketch~