#gorgoneion

[deinocheirus]

The other half of how Debbie and friends see one another, stars indicate self perception. First part here.

They sure have some conflicting opinions of each other.

#Debbie the Gorgon #jovia Pierce #vireo #Eva #Gorgoneion

[orkazh-arts]

Drop dead Gorgeous Gorgon 😎🐍

#medusa #gorgon #greek mythology #greek myth #greek myth memes #greek myth art #greek myth pun #ancient greece #ancient greek mythology #medusa gorgon #snake #athena #poseidon #gorgoneion #gorgo #perseus #ancient greek #medusa art #roman mythology

[lionofchaeronea]

Fragment from an Apulian red-figure volute-krater, depicting a woman's head (gorgoneion?) in relief. Artist unknown; ca. 350-320 BCE. Now in the Museum der Universität Tübingen, Germany. Photo credit: ArchaiOptix/Wikimedia Commons.

#classics #tagamemnon #art #art history #ancient art #Apulia #Apulian art #South Italy #South Italian art #vase painting #krater #fragment #red-figure #relief sculpture #gorgoneion #Classical Period #Museum der Universität Tübingen

[logandria]

✨Medusa ✨

(an illustration for a silk scarf)

#athena did medusa SO dirty omfg #athena is the patron saint of internalized patriarchy #rage #grief #power #medusa #Gorgon #gorgoneion #roman mythology #illustration #greek mythology #art #digital illustration #digital painting

[temperamentalgreen]

I tried making a fun character within @deinocheirus awesome and zany Graeco-Roman world! 

This is Flora!

She was the goddess of flowers and a nymph of the Islands of the Blessed (Elysium). She was the wife of Zephyros the West-Wind and she is known as Chloris to the Greeks and she was a pretty important deity to the romans and I think she is interesting!

According to Ovid she was the one behind multiple figured in mythology turning into flowers and plants - "I first made a flower from Therapnean blood [Hyacinthus the larkspur flower], and its petal still inscribes the lament. You, too, narcissus, have a name in tended gardens, unhappy in your undivided self. Why mention Crocus, Attis or Cinyras' son, from whose wounds I made a tribute soar?’"And that she helped Juno conceive Mars (without the help of Jupiter), and in return he gave her a grand position in Romulus!

So taking from that, in this world she seems to view the lives of the gods as her personal soap opera or telenovela even intervening to save some of her favourite characters and avoid a sad storyline...by turning them into plants (basically infecting them with some of her clones, more on that below) Her eyes can shoot out and branch into different segments to give her a view of everything around her stationary position, she likes to watch lovers.

She tends to stick and attach herself to objects like a barnacle to a ship, usually bigger gods and monsters too and feed off of their blood.

According to Ovid "as she talks, her lips breathe spring roses" which I like to interpret as her making smaller clone children of herself that Grow up and do the same, spreading like an infestation (usually to the annoyance and irritation of the host). She's completely sessile and relies on her host for travel, she's happily content with this and besides sticking onto folks going on with their personal lives makes for juicy hot gossip

Her general starfish/flower form can fold into a shape similar to the head of a rabbit head...a very, very toothy rabbit head (as seen in the little paper mock-up i made below) they are her favorite snac- I mean sacred animal. It's not uncommon to see humans and mortals walking around with these overgrown "rabbit heads" it's usually an attempt for a fat overgrown Flora to stick and stay onto her small host

Her design is based on Lice/Ticks, barnacles, Starfish, flowers, a stereotypical southern meemaw and my aunt Flora. She likes cigarettes, soap operas and romance novels with a pretty blonde fella on it!

My drawings are a little crude, but I really had a lot of fun! Check out @dimetrodone's work their art is awesome, like something from a whacky 90s cartoon!!

#gorgoneion #fanart #Flora #Gods I really love this fun little universe #deinocheirus #Mythology #art #character design #Minerva is my favourite character #nudity #kinda?

[medusaspeach]

The head of a Gorgon is an apotropaic symbol in Greek art, meant to protect the wearer from evil and ill omens.

Based on images of the Gorgon frequently seen on ancient Greek shields and stone statue carvings. 🏺🌿 twitter 🌿🏺

#greek mythology #gorgoneion #sketch #drawing #medusa's peach #i hope i wrote that correctly

[thesorceresstemple]

A Roman polychrome wall painting fragment Circa 1st Century A.D. Preserving a medallion decorated with a Gorgon mask encircled by confronting snakes with intertwined tails, a border of overlapping circles above.

#gorgon face #medusa #gorgoneion #antique rome #museum artifact

[mumblelard]

the second coming of clarice ot last night i dreamt that a group of red-shouldered hawks from down by the river came to me while i was sitting on my porch. they started to tear off parts of my calf with their beaks in a way that felt peaceful and right until they were joined by the two eagles that nest near the lake and the pain and panic immediately became so unbearable that i kicked myself awake

#clarice #come come again #gorgoneion #gone gone again #north fulton county #georgia #end of messages #yesterday i cried on encountering a big old tree fallen on the farmhouse long abandoned it had watched over for near on a hundred years #now i'm walking by the river watching the rowers racing in the rain

[missagonyy]

Male Gorgon

I’ve tried multiple times to draw a male Gorgon, but I always add too many snakes, haha. Oh well, here’s the Gorgon anyways. His eyes are kinda creepy open, then again - you shouldn’t be looking a Gorgon in the eyes anyway 😅🐍

👁️👁️

#medusa #gorgons #male gorgon #gorgon #greek myths #myths and legends #greek mythology #creatuanary #mythical creatures #bestiary #gorgon oc #snake hair #creatuanary2024 #fantasy oc #fantasy sketch #ancient greek #gorgoneion #monster oc #dungeons and dragons #dungeons and dragons oc #dnd art #dnd character #dnd ocs #oc artwork

[cyberantiquities]

collage, gouache, and nine-year-old copic marker refill ink straight from the bottle on paper; 2023.

[Image description: A collage made from a photograph of an interior. On a bookcase are the words ‘through the cliche of emulation revealing a reality some fall prey to the dangerous decadance of history becoming confined to the world of the divine or the dead. transformed into animal-headed vessels of metal and glassware their reflections will be preserved in present-day windows’. On the right is the body of a woman with the head of a blue gorgon, and above is a frame containing a photo of a museum framed by leaves. In another room, an expanse of blue with a big dark dot shows behind another frame. There is a blue edge to the whole image.]

#gorgon #gorgoneion #medusa #tagamemnon #Greek Mythology #greek mythology art #greek myth #collage #artists on tumblr #classics #gouache #gouache painting #art #ink #alphonse mucha #body horror #collage art #monster girl

[deinocheirus]

Been drawing how Debbie and friends loosely view one another. Stars are for self perception. Other part here.

Fun exercise to do with your characters.

#Asterion #Xia #Thayer the slayer #Pegifer #gorgoneion #I will post the second half tomorrow!

[traggalicious]

7 hrs of work 🥲 worth it for this babe tho

#medusa #greek mythology #classical mythology #procreate #artists on tumblr #art #digital art #character art #gorgoneion #medusa gorgon #medusa doesn’t fuckin die au #women <333333 #traggy’s shit #HamARTia #Tortured Darlings

[violetmoondaughter]

At the origin of the Myth of Medusa there is probably the ancient apotropaic symbol of the gorgoneion, the head of the gorgon.

Gorgoneion is a grinning mask with glaring eyes and protruding beast-like tusks and pendent tongue used in antiquity to banish evil spirits from temples. The origin of the symbol is probably a cultus object, a ritual mask used as the vehicle of the divine power. The big wide-open eyes were used in the past to recall the idea of the divine eye always watching. Gorgoneion was in fact seen as an underworld bogey. The figure is depicted in the typical fashion of the Mistress of Wild Things, the dark side of the Great Mother. She is the snake goddess, the snakes in her hair represent the chthonian symbol of rebirth and sexuality while the wings symbolize the divine power and transformation. These powerful symbols were used since antiquity to depict the ancestral divine feminine control over life and death. The apotropaic power of the gorgoneion comes from the representation of the divine energy always watching and scaring away with its monstrous figure.

The rise of patriarchal society and the subsequential change from a divine feminine power to a divine male power brings the necessity of demonizing the ancestral powers and iconographies. The figure of the gorgon endures a change from the goddess of snakes to a monstrous creature defeated by the male hero Perseus. The myth of medusa tells us the story of a woman punished for her beauty, for her feminine power, and transformed into a monstrous creature by a goddess. The gorgon’s name in the myth is Medusa, which in ancient Greek means Protectress or Guardian and she is transformed in a winged creature with serpents’ hair and the power of petrify people with her gaze. For patriarchal society this supernatural creature must be defeated and subjugated to male power, and for this reason in the myth Perseus, after killing her, will use her head as a powerful defensive weapon on his own shield.

With the myth of Medusa, the highest divinity of ancient religion became a harmful bogey to be slayed to represent the female oppression. Patriarchal society used the female figure of Athena to legitimize female oppression and retells the apotropaic gorgoneion symbol as a male hero trophy only indirectly connected with the female power of a goddess.

#witchcraft #witchblr #italianwitch #strega #paganism #witches of tumblr #pagan witch #gorgoneion #medusa #medusa gorgon #ancient symbols #symbols #sacred symbols #great goddess #occultism #esoteric #ancient religions #snake goddess #gorgon #serpent

[lionofchaeronea]

Archaic Greek terracotta antefix in the form of a Gorgoneion. Artist unknown; 6th century BCE. Now in the Museo archeologico regionale, Gela, Sicily. Photo credit: Sailko/Wikimedia Commons.

#classics #tagamemnon #Ancient Greece #Archaic Greece #classical mythology #Greek mythology #Gorgon #Gorgoneion #art #art history #ancient art #Greek art #Ancient Greek art #Archaic Greek art #Magna Graecia #South Italian art #antefix #terracotta #Museo archeologico regionale (Gela)

[hermanubis]

GORGONEION

#pixel art #pixel illustration #limited palette #gorgon #gorgoneion #greek mythology #medusa #samhainianart #hermanubis #samhainian #eyes

[bugcowboyart]

//GORGONEION 1// 2021

a protection medallion— and if the gorgon’s head doesn’t work, you will always have your teeth.

Personal art inspired by trauma and the many gorgons in the Met Museum open access collection (my favorite being a pottery stand signed by Ergotimos from 570BC).

Available >HERE< as a sticker.

#gorgoneion #gorgon #piercings #greek mythology #Ancient Greek pottery #ancient Greek inspired #Ancient Greek popsocket….