Another Underworld Hermes With The Souls Of The Dead As Butterflies 🦋✨

Phoebus  ☀️🌿🏹

Here’s Apollo of this year! I’m working on and off for this painting since Jan and decided to just let it go now, below cut are just my little process/commentaries

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The Abduction of Proserpine (detail) by Alessandro Allori, 1570.

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The All-Pervading by George Frederic Watts (c. 1887-90)

In the vast smoothness of my brain, I just realized that I forgot to cross-post this commission of Persephone.

The Goddess Who Saved a City by Fortunino Matania (1933)

just heard the news about the Pope.

Eternal Rest grant unto him O Lord, and may Your Perpetual Light shine upon him.

God allowed him one more Easter with the people before calling him home to the Risen Lord ❤️‍🩹

Monumental Relief with the Nine Muses Italian, Rome, 16th century

Marble. 105 by 220cm., 41½ by 86½in.

On the Edge - Aleks Stoller

And you should, as the core of it all, let go of expectations for your Deities. Let go of what you’ve consumed from the books, let go of authorities, let go of explanations, let go of the neatness - and embrace chaos. Embrace the wilderness which is in itself God, call a name and wait for an answer. What voice sounds like home?

Gods will come multifaceted, iridescent, impalpable. Gods will break rules and expand where a mind burdened by expectations can’t follow. A chimera of a myriad faces might not want to always show only one side. Gods will change. Gods will surprise.

If the nature is untamed, so are its Deities. The wilderness has many names for each of them, a prism to choose a side of. Feeling over explaining, embracing over conforming, preparing over expecting.

haha i love surrendering to the divine (is actively resisting the divine)