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Queenly Deo, the sender of splendid gifts 🌾

To Demeter Eleusinia. O universal mother, Deo famed, august, the source of wealth, and various named: great nurse, all-bounteous, blessed and divine, who joyest in peace; to nourish corn is thine. Goddess of seed, of fruits abundant, fair, harvest, and threshing are thy constant care. Lovely delightful queen, by all desired, who dwellest in Eleusis' holy vales retired. Nurse of all mortals, who benignant mind first ploughing oxen to the yoke confined; and gave to men what nature's wants require, with plenteous means of bliss, which all desire. In verdure flourishing, in glory bright, assessor of great Bromios bearing light: rejoicing in the reapers' sickles, kind, whose nature lucid, earthly, pure, we find. Prolific, venerable, nurse divine, thy daughter loving, holy Kore . A car with Drakones yoked 'tis thine to guide, and, orgies singing, round thy throne to ride. Only-begotten, much-producing queen, all flowers are thine, and fruits of lovely green. Bright Goddess, come, with summer's rich increase swelling and pregnant, leading smiling peace; come with fair concord and imperial health, and join with these a needful store of wealth. --- The Orphic hymn to Demeter

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Portrait of Demeter, I was mainly practicing working with colors and drew from a lot of artistic references for this. Overall, I'm happy with the piece (despite how rough and messy she still looks) , and I had a lot of fun working on this for her

Κυανοχαίτης - Kyanochaítēs - dark-haired Poseidon, specifically of dark blue; potentially referring to the dark-blue of the seas

Ἐννοσίδας - Ennosidas - Poseidon the Earth-shaker as He was referred to by Pindar and Stesichorus, likely in relation to tremendous power of waves and earthquakes

Ἀσφάλειος - Asphaleios - the title of the God as He was known by in Tainaron where He had a temple and was worshiped as a protective Deity; literally unshaken

Γαιήοχος - Gaiḗochos - Poseidon the Earth-Holder, as He is the God who encompasses the Earth; possibly a title of Him as a protective Deity

Ελικώνιος - Helikonios - the title of the God as He was known in the Helike of Achaea where the cult roots from starting in the Mycenaean times; associated with the primeval aspect of the Deity as Master of high seas and earthquakes, this cult quickly spread to Asia Minor and the Black Sea

Αἰγαῖος - Aegaios - the title which the God was sometimes referred to as by different Ancient authors such as Plutarch; possibly connected to the word αἶγες - waves

Ἐρεχθεύς - Erechtheus - the name of an Ancient king of Athens and the title of the God Poseidon in reference to the Erechtheion (Ἐρέχθειον) - the temple of Athena Polias with a sacred salty well supposedly opened by Poseidon in His contest for the rule over Athens

Ἐπόπτη - Epoptis - the title under which Poseidon is sometimes referred to as supervisor (lit. Overseer) of livestock and agricultural production, as, for example, in Pylos, the Mycenaean state

Φύκιος - Phykios - the title given to Poseidon of Seaweed; the Greek word for seaweed is φύκι

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Illustration portrait commission of Zeus Aithiops and Hera for @olympianbutch. ✨

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