Godysseyさんのイラストまとめ

A powerful onmyōji can make a shikigami a physical form from anything, be it wood, paper, or wax, and all he has to do is impart it with some part of a soul to do their bidding. These constructs act as familiars, as onmyōji are similar to wizards. #MythologyMonday

🖼️: M. Meyer

Does the woman who has your eye have hooves? La Diablesse does, and soon, she'll have your soul, too. Seducer of men on multiple Caribbean islands, her tell is men catching sight of her hooves under her dress as she leads them away from towns. #WyrdWednesday

🖼️: A. Silva

Echidna is the Mother of Monsters, spawning more monsters in Greek myth than any other. With the tail of a snake, she produces beasts such as Scylla, the Hydra, the Chimera, Cerberus, the Colchian Dragon, and more. #WyrdWednesday

Among the people of North China and beyond, the Siberian tiger is a symbol of patriarchal power and monarchal power, said to have the character for king, 王 on its very body. In modern China the endangered animal's body parts are used for medicine. #MythologyMonday

🖼: R. Tan

The Knights Templar derive their name from the Temple Mount and their headquarters in Al-Asqa Mosque, deriving authority from the Temple of Solomon. Pop culture states their power came from some mythic relic found there. #TempleThursday

Wanderers of the Sahara and Arabia speak of mirages revealing passages to the world of the Djinni, where cities of glass or emerald stand in the desert, inviting but dangerous for mortals like you or I: careful to never come close, lest they take you mind and soul. #WyrdWednesday

"We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?"
"Come buy," call the goblins
Hobbling down the glen.
"Oh,...
You should not peep at goblin men."

-Christina Rosetti, "Goblin Market" #LegendaryWednesday

Clever Elissa, called Dido in popular history, was told she could have as much land for her city as an oxhide could cover. So she ripped it into threads and used the threads to mark the future walls of Carthage, outsmarting the Berber king. #MythologyMonday

Train station and school bathrooms are a hot spot for Japanese school kids playing with ghosts, going in at dark or after school on hopes of drawing the attention of train-split Teke-Teke or bpood-draining Aka Manto, sometimes speaking to them. #FaustianFriday

🖼: M. Meyer

A major part of the Odyssey is a reflection, a meditation on the choices Odysseus made and how they kept him from going home: after all, he had years to reflect while trapped with Calypso. #MythologyMonday

🖼: W.F. Russell