#mythological references

[itseghost]

kiss from an angel of death

i really hope 2 finish this painting one day but i just have not been able to get around to it even though i do like how its turning out haha

(yes, i know than's costume should be flipped so what i drew on the right is on the left, i plan on flipping the composition and fixing stuff from there, bc i dont want the wing pauldron covering their faces teehee)

#hades #hades game #thanzag #thanatos #zagreus #hades fanart #digital painting #greek mythology #my art #artists on tumblr #itseart #i reaaaally want to finish it #i planned this as a print initially too haha #wanted to try painting something more classical looking #but i think i just need better reference for the lighting #wil probably. look at leyendecker tbh #plus they are so special 2 me

[strawlessandbraless]

Something about how Dean never had any faith in god because he put it all in Cas

#I’m sorry #i don’t know why i’m like this #innuendo #but also like very serious #never capitalize the g in god when referring to Chuck #supernatural #spn #dean winchester #destiel #mythology #castiel #deancas #misha collins #jensen ackles #spn crack #chuck shurley

[notacluedo]

Long hair won out in the end rip all the short haired Menelaus truthers

Art used as reference from littleulvar on twitter: https://twitter.com/littleulvar https://twitter.com/littleulvar/status/1210636583713591296

#His hair is looking ORANGE #Homer like his hair is auburn :/ it’s auburn if u reduce the saturation smh #He turned out weirdly viking esque?? I think it’s the braided hair ?? #Majestic if I do say so myself #Menelaus #greek mythology art #my art #the Iliad #trojan war #Greek myth #a #Also an ATTEMPT was made at Bronze Age armour #I don’t know if my reference was reliable #fuck it we ball

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

A-Qing, the little fox.

#better drawn mdzs #mdzs #a-qing #I needed to draw her happy one last time #i also really wanted to try my hand at drawing Hanfu. Clothing is still hard for me but I learned a lot! #the process was 1) get idea from the fox hairpin extra 2) thumbnail 3) look up references 4) accept that this is nearly an impossible task #5) do it anyways. For A-Qing #It has also been a while since the last better drawn mdzs. I've been getting better! B*) #I chickened out of having this be a ‘draw this in your style’ prompt….Perhaps in the future! #I want to improve a little more first I think. Psychically beaming my beloved mutuals to re-kick off DTIYS in my stead #I adore how A-Qing is associated with foxes! She is cleaver and quick to adapt! A trickster in many regards! #There is absolutely more to analyze here but I'm not well versed about Chinese mythology

[seireiteihellbutterfly]

Sunflower Valentine

artwork by @eu--lalia

Higurma Masterlist

Imagine leaving Higuruma a bouquet of sunflowers on his desk on Valentine's day.

He'll quickly deduce that whoever left them was making a play on his name and his career as a lawyer. So it's someone he knows.

Although he'd prefer roses if someone was leaving him flowers, he's flattered nonetheless that there's a person believing he's bouquet worthy.

The little card that came with them says 'To balance out your gloominess'.

He'll chuckle to himself 'Gloomy? I'm not gloomy. Broody perhaps.'

The rest of his day is spent trying to figure out who sent them, and he'll have a goofy grin on his face whenever he glances at them. He'll try his best to draw attention to them every time someone comes in the room, like he's not so discreetly saying 'someone sent me a Valentine's bouquet!'

"Pretty bouquet." You comment as you walk in to hand him a report.

"Oh, noticed them did you? Looks like I'm popular around here," he'll drawl, trying not to look too pleased with himself.

"Or it could mean someone doesn't want to look at you again."

His smugness fades. "What do you mean?"

"Oh cmon, you know the old Greek tale? Apollo turned his lover Clytie into a sunflower so that he'd never have to look at her face again after she betrayed him to a sea nymph."

His cheer immediately drops and you feel bad for him. "But I doubt that. Very few people know that fact. I'm sure whoever sent them intends to see your face again. Perhaps the next day morning."

"Next day morning?" he sounds confused.

You nod your head. "Yeah. Sunflowers need to be plucked in the early morning otherwise they wilt. So maybe whoever sent them was hoping they'd see your face the next morning after you've... Wilted."

You give him a playful smirk and walk out.

"Wilted...? What...?"

It takes a few seconds before the cogs in his brain start work.

"Hold on now y/n!"

He scrambles out of the office behind you.

Sunflower divider by @animatedglittergraphics-n-more

#jjk higuruma #higuruma hiromi #higuruma x reader #higuruma x you #hiromi higuruma #jujutsu kaisen higuruma #hiromi jjk #hiromi x reader #jujutsu kaisen #jjk #hiromi higuruma x reader #jjk hiromi #Jjk valentines #valentine's day #jujutsu kaisen fanfiction #jjk fluff #higuruma fluff #jujutsu kaisen fluff #jujutsu kaisen imagines #bathtub lawyer #greek mythology reference #sunflower lawyer

[wolfythewitch]

sketchin

#art #sketch #hector of troy #the iliad #help i cant find proper armor reference i dont think im usign the right keywords #greek mythology #also i dont think the shield is tall enough to do this on but we're going to Ignore that

[yannisdesk]

Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera during the Judgement of Paris.

#shinee #greek mythology reference #lol #lee taemin #choi minho #key #kim kibum #judgement of paris

[ivi-ivisek]

FNAF DCA The tree and the frog AU

Sun and Moon are one of the oldest maybe even the oldest spirits of nature, meaning that they are also the most powerful among their kind. Sun and Moon were not brothers but very good friends who share forest and shore, bonded for as long as they've existed, helping one another to take care and protect their lands and everything that lives in there. They remember times when humans foraged and hunted in their domains with spears and arrows

But time's changed. humans slowly deviated from old wasy and start loosing the conection with nature. But that was fine maybe there was a rulebreaker or two but it was fine. They dealt with rulebreakers accordingly and they were more than happy to guide those who wnated to follow the old ways.

Sun and Moon raised many generations, taught them all necessities to survive and be one with nature. They used to be highly respected by humans. But it was getting worse and worse. Humans become greedy, selfish, arrogant, thinking that they can do and take whatever they want.

Moon become more aggresive and less generous and forgiving. For him all humans were the same - corrupted, too much to be helped. He thought that it would be better if all humans were gone. So what if he just wipe them off... Sun and Moon argued a lot about this. Sun agreed that rulebreakers have to be punished but what Moon was doing wasn't about punishing anymore, it was just hatred towards humans. One day they had very serious quarrel over what Moon did so they stopped talking to each other.

The old-time friendship is now broken, will it ever heal? Maybe with a little help things may get better. Only time will tell....

Hejkal/Leshy Sun

The guardian and ruler of the forest

Commands all flora and fauna of his forest

Shapeshifter - can change into any local forest flora or fauna and change his size to be either as small as a blade of grass or as tall as a tree

Vodník/Vodyanoy Moon

The guardian and ruler of the waters

Commands all flora and fauna of his waters

Shapeshifter - Can change into any local aquatic or semiaquatic creature

#fnaf dca au #the tree and the frog au #dca the tree and the frog au #fnaf moon #fnaf sun #leshy sun #hejkal sun #vodník moon #vodyanoy moon #slavic folklore #slavic mythology #digital art #my art #character reference

[captainfairygodmother]

No no no, you don't understand. "We've got forever to figure out what the rest means" is Charles making sure that they don't end up like Orpheus and Eurydice, even if it's subconsciously because he never finished the ending of the myth. Because if Charles would have stopped to think through what Edwin fully meant by what he said, or stopped to think through how he feels and give him a longer response based on that, even for just a second of consider, the demon monster thing would've gotten to Edwin. The confession was to Charles what Orpheus turning to find Eurydice was. "Oh if Charles actually reciprocated Edwin's feelings he would have told him then" is the exact same vibes as "If Orpheus really loved Eurydice he wouldn't have turned around", in the sense that no, because Charles and Orpheus loved Edwin and Eurydice so much, even if for the former it was something that would never develop into more, they did what they had to. The only difference is that Edwin and Charles have "forever to work out the rest", they survived to be able to have at least that, while Orpheus and Eurydice don't, and are deemed a tragedy.

#dead boy detectives #edwin payne #edwin paine #charles rowland #paynland #painland #does this actually make sense or am i just waffling a load of nonsense here? #greek mythology references/allusions are my favourite thing ever #orpheus and eurydice #charles not giving himself time to 'properly' respond is him making sure he doesn't 'turn around' and lose Edwin to the demon #on a funnier note what the hell even is that demon doll head scorpion thing and does it have a name because what???

[lesbianshepard]

there's a lot to say about the modern depictions of medusa and all, but one of my biggest pet peeves is that it also portrays perseus as some sort of macho glory seeking ass who kills women for clout. like, he was protecting his mom. his mom was being forced into an abusive marriage and he took on a seemingly impossible task to save her.

#m #i saw someone on twitter refer to him as an example of toxic masculinity #and i was like WHAT #of all the figures in greek mythology????? #like im not gonna say you cant use a cool monster lady like medusa as a symbol of female empowerment #she's cool as hell you can reimagine stuff idc #this is just a minor thing

[bottombaron]

i think i've hit the limit of my Persian knowledge trying to translate Al Qolindar and it's driven me mad...

#wwdits #what we do in the shadows #nandor #nandor the relentless #nandermo #this HAS to have already been translated right?? RIGHT???? #there’s no way i’m the first person to attempt this #but hey if there’s any native persian speakers here that have any guidance i’d love to hear it! #al = ال = The (or dynasty) #that one was easy #(i suppose it could also reference the ‘al’ vampire like demon from persian mythology? but that seems like a stretch) #qol/qolni was the most difficult due to the english spelling #i believe that it is actually 'khanne' (خانه) which means 'home' #(but then you could also go down the 'Khan' route for 'king' #as a reference to Al Qolinidar being a 'khanate' like the Ilkhanate that ruled over Iran at the time #but i think thats when my eye started to twitch) #then you have dar = دار = have #so khanne (= خانه = home/house) + dar (= دار = have) #ال خانهدار = #the housekeeper (or housewife lol) #but omg there's SO many variations that there could be it really needs a learned parsi ear to translate Kayvan's pronunciations #or an actual official spelling #preferably in persian pls

[jadequarze]

Starting the year with a mythology AU

#jade draws #critical role #cr3 #critical role fanart #mythology au #cr au #imodna #imogen temult #laudna #originally i was planning to post this earlier but ehhh #this will be a good way to reference my art journey for this year tbh #may we have a gentle and somewhat less eventful new year

[butlerkitty-art]

older atreus, baby baldur, & Hel concepts from 2022

#god of war #gow #gowr #god of war ragnarok #god of war 2018 #atreus #atreus gow #baldur god of war #baldur gow #ignore the brisingr being on the freya design here it was an early version before i remembered what it is #but also notice i tried to incorporate a bunch of Vanir wear into Baldur. freya trying to give her son some of her culture while she can #its not super well defined in Hel's design but her vitiligo is supposed to loosely follow Kratos' tattoo & thus Deimos' birthmark #hel in mythology being described as having 'blue' skin reminds me #that 'blue' was also an ancient term used to refer to dark skinned people #maybe her face is half blue and half white because she has vitiligo? #and the vitiligo covers half her face because it follows the family mark?????????? #idk #i never posted it cus i felt rlly embarrassed bc someone else posted an idea similar to it first LOLLLLL #anyway mullet atreus w/gay little braid supremacy

[fruitjuucy]

Pentheus and the Maenads

Scene from Euripides’ The Bacchae

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#men looking pathetic in distressing situations is becoming a theme in my art i think #that’s fun #the reference for this looks kooky crazy btw #the bacchae #dionysus #illustration #book illustration #Greek mythology #Euripides #bacchus #maenadic #historical illustration #art #my art #artists on tumblr #original art

[may-be-made-of-arsenic]

for Odysseus’ name to become synonymous with journey; Odyssey- he has lost his humanity; even after he dies and his body burnt to ashes on a pyre he won’t enter Hades. he will be damned to a thousand more journeys, a thousand more trials and a thousand more deaths. his spirit floats through the plays that recite his journey, echoes through the songs sung about him, his pain seeks through every epithet. Sacker of cities. Great glory of the Achaeans. Mastermind of war. Master mariner. Man of pain.

he will be damned time and time again to suffer and reach home for it to be torn out of his grasp each time. he will reach where the river styx fades into Hades and see the descent and before he can feel relief he is back where he started. He is in Troy. He is in a boat in an unfamiliar land, but it has his name. He is in Troy again, but not the same one he raided and burnt. he is floating through the aether. he is not a man anymore. nor is he monster. he is a Thing, an Ideal; akin more to Thanatos or Hypnos or Eris in he is no longer Odysseus he is the personification of journey.

If there truly are three deaths; one of the mind, one of the heart, and one of the memory. then Odysseus has become immortal and yet he begs for death. he no longer knows whether he begs for the peace of Hades or to truly be forgotten, to truly cease to be

#greek mythology #greek myth #odysseus #the odyssey #yes this is about the moon thing #this feels like a mischaracterization but #idk #this isnt accurate to greek myth #the line about troy but not the same troy #that’s a reference to how i think there’s a few towns around the US at least named Troy #one’s in Virginia

[wolfythewitch]

no longer you

#art #animatic #epic the musical #odysseus #eurylochus #the odyssey #greek mythology #epic changes some details but i did try to include references to stuff in the odyssey haha #Youtube