WyrdKraft

The forceful, intentional crafting of one’s destiny.

[constanzarte]

Ferdinand Leeke - The Rhinemaidens, 1913

[wyrdkraft]

What murmurs Wotan over Mimir’s head?

Already the spring boils …

[saayawolf]

Art by Majara_

[constanzarte]

Jean-Léon Gérôme, Diógenes.

[wyrdkraft]

[constanzarte]

John William Godward, Athenais. 1908

[wyrdkraft]

"Brünhilde is a sort of “split-off” from Wotan, part of his personality, just as Pallas Athene was an emanation of Zeus."

[constanzarte]

The Flood, by Paul Merwart

[constanzarte]

William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), The Nymphaeum (1878)

[wyrdkraft]

"Paracelsus tells us in “De pygmaeis”44 that Melusina was originally a nymph who was seduced by Beelzebub into practising witchcraft. She was descended from the whale in whose belly the prophet Jonah beheld great mysteries."

[classicalcanvas]

Dawn (1899) by Alphonse Mucha

[oldpaintings]

Heart of Snow, 1907 by Edward Robert Hughes (English, 1851–1914)

[classicalcanvas]

Dusk (1899) by Alphonse Mucha

[wyrdkraft]

[symbolism-art-history]

Venus and Cupid (1902) by Henri Fantin-Latour

[wyrdkraft]

"To such a daimonion man falls an abject victim unless he can categorically reject its seductive influence at the outset."

“Regina coeli, sive tu Ceres, alma frugum parens, seu tu coelestis Venus … seu Phoebi soror … seu nocturnis ululatibus horrenda Proserpina … ista luce feminea conlustrans cuncta moenia.”

[the-enchanted-little-star]

[wyrdkraft]

A spectral raven knocks nightly at his door...

[classicalcanvas]

Ariadne (1898) by John William Waterhouse

[wyrdkraft]

The Crown, the corona borealis, the Wreath of Ariadne, beloved of Dionysus.

[shuttered-gallery]

"Walking in Elysium" by Emile Corsi, 1886

[twirld]

The Model (1897) Stewart Carmichael