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mythical: aphrodite

Hans von Aachen, ‘The Three Graces’

Medusa with the head of Perseus (details) Luciano Garbati.

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greek mythology | sleep deities

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“Stop! Here lies the empire of death.” Seen in the Paris Catacombs.

Louis Veray, (1885), detail of La Moissoneuse endormie Ph. Gerard Hermand

Fay Ku (Taiwanese, b. 1974, Taipei, Taiwan, based NY, USA) - Bitch Is Golden, 2010, Metallic Watercolor on Black Stonehenge Paper

"One of the Titans, according to Hesiod, he was the son of Crius and Eurybia, the brother of Astraeus and Perses, the husband of Styx. Pallas was sometimes regarded as the Titan god of warcraft and of the springtime campaign season."

→ Osiris was the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, ressurection, life, and vegetation. He was depicted with a pharaoh’s beard, partially mummy-wrapped legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crock and flail. He was the first to be assoicated with mummy wrap, after his brother Set, cut him up into pieces after killing him, his wife, found all the pieces and wrapped his body up.

Dying Achilles, 1884, Ernst Herter.

Russian Ark (2002) dir. Alexander Sokurov

the waiting/the kiss-nikiforos lytras

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