hamaryades

a look from this season’s Givenchy Haute Couture… looks pretty inspired from a statue of Hecate doesnt it? Maria Carla Boscono is working the fuck OUUTTT of that dress, she’s pretty much the image of Hecate in my head so this is  A+++ for me. View high resolution

a look from this season’s Givenchy Haute Couture… looks pretty inspired from a statue of Hecate doesnt it? Maria Carla Boscono is working the fuck OUUTTT of that dress, she’s pretty much the image of Hecate in my head so this is  A+++ for me.

Hecate whom Zeus the son of Cronos honored above all. He gave her splendid gifts, to have a share of the earth and the unfruitful sea. She received honor also in starry heaven, and is honored exceedingly by the deathless gods. For to this day, whenever any one of men on earth offers rich sacrifices and prays for favor according to custom, he calls upon Hecate. Great honor comes full easily to him whose prayers the goddess receives favorably, and she bestows wealth upon him; for the power surely is with her. For as many as were born of Earth and Ocean amongst all these she has her due portion. The son of Cronos did her no wrong nor took anything away of all that was her portion among the former Titan gods: but she holds, as the division was at the first from the beginning, privilege both in earth, and in heaven, and in sea
Hecate, The goddess of witches and sorcery View high resolution

Hecate, The goddess of witches and sorcery

fuck yeah graduation day

fuck yeah graduation day

he goddess fierce Echidna who is half a nymph with glancing eyes and fair cheeks, and half again a huge snake, great and awful, with speckled skin, eating raw flesh beneath the secret parts of the holy earth. And there she has a cave deep down under a hollow rock far from the deathless gods and mortal men. There, then, did the gods appoint her a glorious house to dwell in: and she keeps guard in Arima beneath the earth, grim Echidna, a nymph who dies not nor grows old all her days.
— Theogony
Jupiter and Thetis, Ingres View high resolution

Jupiter and Thetis, Ingres

Nymphs surprised by the Fauns, Peter Paul Rubens View high resolution

Nymphs surprised by the Fauns, Peter Paul Rubens

There gathered round her every goddess, every Nereid that was in the deep salt sea. Glauce was there and Thaleia and Cymodoce; Nesaea, Speio, Thoe and ox-eyed Halie; Cymothoe, Actaee and Limnoreia; Melite, Iaera, Amphithoe and Agaue; Doto, Proto, Pherusa and Dynamene; Dexamene, Amphinome and Callianeira; Doris, Panope and far-sung Galatea; Nemertes, Apseudes and Callianassa. Clymene came too, with Ianeira, Ianassa, Maera, Oreithuia, Amatheia of the lovely locks, and other Nereids of the salt sea depths. The silvery cave was full of nymphs.
Hamaryades.
A tree nymph, a usual companion to Artemis and her hunts.

Hamaryades.

A tree nymph, a usual companion to Artemis and her hunts.

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