#oxylus

SWORDTEMBER #3 - AUTOMATON A robot wielding a sword resembling long obscure tech. One may tell it to use better weapons instead, such as guns. To this day it's stubbornly still attached, perhaps out of nostalgia.

Ok, I'll start posting stuff here. Just so I can kind of get a feel of how I want my tags and everything to be! I will organize the blog from the beginning this time. orz

eucanthos

Hamadryas' digital future -possibly-

Hamadryas / ἁμαδρυάς (sacred oak tree spirit. With Oxylus became mother of all tree nymphs that inhabit living trees and die with them).

Ernst Deger: Portrait of a Young Woman, 1835 [Angelic youth face mix, from Renaissance and Early German masters, used as iconography for spiritual propaganda (Christian)]

Tiepolo's Daphne (front) and Theodoor van Thulden after Rubens Apollo and Daphne 1636 mix

Nicolas Henri Jacob for Jean-Baptiste Marc Bourgery's Traité complet de l'anatomie de l'homme, 1831, Paris: Delaunay.

SNAKE Photo by Alexandra Von Fuerst

Burt Glinn Swing, Child and Gaudi Cathedral Barcelona, 1959

HAND Edita Vilkeviciute by Solve Sundsbo

Robert Mapplethorpe Lisa Lyon 1982 [strong arm]

Skeleton laskowski_t01-nlm

Erysichthon (Gr myth): Ἐρυσίχθων ὁ Θεσσαλός ("earth-tearer"), son of Triops, dared to timber the sacred oak (killing hamadryas nymph) inside a grove of Ceres / Demeter; as punishment, she sent Famine to posses his body and torment him by insatiable hunger. He sold all his possessions and even sold his daughter Mestra -Μήστρα- numerous times, taking advantage of her shape-shifting power (Poseidon’s gift). Never having enough to eat, Erysichthon eventually consumed himself.

[Eva, Daphne, Flora, all connect with tree narratives]

Dec 29 update

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamadryad

Hogwarts Houses as Gods and Natural Elements

Rꜥ - Ra, an ancient Egyptian Sun God. In later times he was merged with Horus, son of Osiris, with the head and association of a Hawk or Falcon. Father to Shu and Tefnut. He was believed to rule in all parts of the created world: the sky, the earth, and the underworld . Represents the Sun.

Indra - In Sanskirt इन्द्र , he is a Vedic deity in Hinduism, a guardian deity in Bhuddism and the king of first heaven in Jainism. He is celebrated for his powers, and the one who kills the great symbolic evil Vitra. God of lightning, thunder, storms, and river flows. Represents the Rain.

Ὄξυλος - Oxylus, or in ancient Greek Oxulos. A one-eyed man from Aetolia exiled after voluntary manslaughter. After assisting in invading Peloponnesus, he receives the fertile land of Elis. A Dorian fought Oxylus for the land and lost. The land became prosperous. Represents the Earth.

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today, it’s the last of the trees, the one which struck me as the most odd (and therefore the most intriguing!) on the testers, plus a bonus sample I couldn’t figure out at all when I put it on paper—after all those trees, it was much milder and mellower, and I guessed at “beeswax?” mostly from the name.

oxylus, on the left, has a note list of pine needles, juniper scales, vetiver, myrtle, soil, swamp water. chandlery, or so says someone on reddit who asked the perfumer, has notes of lavender, vetiver, benzoin, anise, champaca, tuberose, and yes, beeswax.

oxylus is another one that’s staining my forearm green, and on skin, as on my little paper scrap, it’s rather nice. the pineward shop site uses the word “riparian,” and sure, I can go with that; a sharp initial rush of sap, followed by a darker vetiver bloom.