#psykhe

...I wanted to do something fun and it cost me a several days of energy- and very little reward lol even though I "figured it out" (stars, I hope so)

So um. Persian Psykhe because @faer1etale inspired me (and said inspiration caused frustration as it was extremely hard to find anything of Ancient Persian women and I wanted to stab my pencil into a wall)

I based her of off Achaemenid women specifically (or at least tried to)

...if this is wrong, just tell me flat out. Give me some references, I'm tired boss

Enough sulking ig uh- I thought it'd be fun to have her veil be covered in butterflies. I wasn't really feelin' the giant crown on her, so I went with something simpler (let me have this) The end of her earrings are supposed to look like a cocoon

Her clothes have geometric flowers on em

Her face (not the best at drawing faces but yknow) is supposed to be a lil square. I wanted her to have a thinner nose and thin eyelashes, which she makes thicker-looking with make up (I read that they use Kohl to do it, but idk)

Then I drew her in Assyrian (Median?) attire because why not. And gave her the giant crown on this one.

ORPHIC HYMN #58

TO EROS

I call upon you, great, pure,

lovely and sweet Eros,

winged archer who runs

swiftly on a path of fire,

who plays together with gods

and mortal men.

Inventive, two-natured,

you are master of all:

of the sky’s ether, of the sea and the land,

of the all-begetting winds,

which for mortals the goddess

of grass and grain nurtures,

of all that lies in Tartaros,

of all that lies in the roaring sea;

you alone govern

the course of all these.

O blessed one, come to the initiates

with pure thought,

banish from them

vile impulses.

“Hail Psykhe! Breath of Life, Wife of Eros, and Butterfly-Winged Goddess. Grace me with your presence and guide me through my transformation. Lend me your courage, your determination, and your intelligence so that I may survive my metamorphosis, and become whom I’m meant to become!”