Wicked Witch of the West

Today is Chytroi, the final day of the festival of Anthesteria. Chytroi were utilitarian cooking pots, and on this day a special porridge was cooked and offered to the spirits of the dead, who had been participants with the living in the festival. Libations were poured at the graves of family and other beloved dead, and offerings were made to Hermes Chthonios. The last act of the Anthesteria festival was to proclaim to the spirits of the deceased who had joined in the celebrations, “‘Out! Out! Anthesteria is over!” 

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Featured image: Hermes Psychopompos by the Kind of Tymbos painter. White figure lekythos, Attica, Greece, 470 BC. Archaeological Collection of Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany. Image link: X (Photo: Dennis Graen) License: CC BY-NC-SA

e-offering for Lady Hestia Potheinotáti¹, beloved goddess of the hearth, home, and altar.

i thank you for ensuring my coziness on days when it's needed most. i honor your role in fostering the spaces where i find comfort. blessed be.

better burn your dead, lest the rot and crows eat them

🖤🤍💀❄️ JULGHOST 🤍💀❄️ 🖤

My biggest tribute art for Papa Copia so far.

I was inspired by old master painter Viktor Vasnetsov, the scandinavian Julgoat, the mythological Wild Hunt and of course Copia's bewitching fashion sense.