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Ares as a modern aristrocratic warlord

AZ Factory | Spring/Summer 2022

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Demeter (Δημήτηρ) was the goddess of the harvest, fertility, agriculture, nourishment, growth, nature and the seasons in Greek mythology. Endowed with the power to bring feast and famine to the world, she was said to have the ability to control the seasons and transform the face of nature. In fact her powers were able to influence Zeus (king of the gods) into making Hades (god of the dead) bring her daughter Persephone up from the underworld. She had been playing with some Nymphs, whom Demeter later changed into the Sirens as punishment for not having interfered, and the ground split and she was kidnapped by Hades. Life came to a standstill as the depressed Demeter searched for her lost daughter with the aid of Hecate (goddess of magic). Finally, Zeus could not put up with the dying earth and forced Hades to return Persephone by sending Hermes (messenger of the gods) to retrieve her. But before she was released, Hades tricked her into eating six pomegranate seeds, which forced her to return for six months each year. When Demeter and her daughter were together, the earth flourished with vegetation. But for six months each year, when Persephone returned to the underworld, the earth once again became a barren realm. (Marchesa Spring 2020 Ready-to-Wear Collection)

Temple of Garni, Garni, Armenia

Goddess of winter’s death.

Our Wish for the End, Me, Digital Collage, 2020

Kiyoko Hata | Ruffles 

“but dreams have ensavaged me.”

Nymphs (Νυμφη meaning ‘Girl of Marriageable Age’) were female spirits of the natural world and minor goddesses of the forests, rivers, springs, meadows, mountains and seas in Greek mythology. They were the crafters of nature’s wild beauty, from the growing of trees, flowers and shrubs, to the nurture of wild animals and birds, and the formation of grottos, springs, brooks and wetlands. Nymphs were also companions of the gods. Dionysos (god of festivities) had his wild-eyed Maenads and Bacchae. Artemis (goddess of the hunt) was accompanied by a band of huntress nymphs, Hecate (goddess of magic) by the dark Lampades of the underworld, Poseidon (god of the sea) by the Nereides, and the goddesses of Olympus by a bevy of nymph handmaidens. (Zuhair Murad Spring 2016 Haute Couture Collection)

Tim Walker

Odessa, Ukraine | syndrom__stendalya 

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a w i t c h ought never to be frightened in the darkest forest, because she should be sure in her soul that the most terrifying thing in the forest was her.

Hydrangeas, 1901