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Briana Chen Mason AKA Valorette, wife of @Fervorman1
#shirtcutmeme
#GingerAsian
#indiecomics
Inti, God of Creation (but not the Creator), was central to the holy city of Cusco, and thus the whole Incan Empire. Represented by a solar disc, the sun god survives in the symbols of many Andean nations and cities, and continues to illuminate to this day. #FolkloreThursday
Brennu-Njáls saga, or Njál's Saga, is an epic tale of escalating violence that culminates with a savage house-burning in southern Iceland, giving Njál the "burnt" nickname that has since lasted through the ages. #FolkloreThursday
#FolkloreThursday Áillen Mac Mídhna was a fairy that would break into the Hill of Tara each Samhain, lull the people to sleep with his harp and burn the fort to the ground. He was finally vanquished by a young Fionn Mac Cumhaill, who then became leader of the Fianna as a reward.
Each day the sun dies and is reborn, as Ra leads the solar barge into the Duat at night. Within the Duat Ra is renewed by his attendants, while Set fights Apep the Chaos Serpent. If he succeeds, sun god Ra is renewed, bringing morning light. #FolkloreThursday
🖼: A. Hodyrevskaya
Have a sunny Midsummer! The Devs are off to celebrate the nightless night!
In Finland, Midsummer eve is time for love spells. Eleanna has collected seven flowers that she will place under her pillow to see “the one” in a dream.
#juhannus #midsummer #FolkloreThursday
Here is Wūscfrēa -- The Lord of the Wisht or Wist..
What is the Wisht? It’s that thing that brings our dreams.
Said the be born of fire, he floats to us like smoke.
Join me tomorrow at 7:30 to find out more.
#FolkloreThursday
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#FolkloreThursday Reported in 1907
To find if your lover is true, touch fire to one of his letters. If the flame is bright and clear, he will be true; if the blaze is small and blue, he will forsake you."
The #Celtic Goddess Áine is the bringer of wealth, love and growth. Feasts were held in her honour on #Midsummer Night to bring an abundant harvest and protect from evil. She sometimes appears as a red mare.
#FolkloreThursday
Prometheus is the Titan God of fire, in Greek Myth.
He created humans from clay, defied the Gods by stealing their fire and giving it to humanity.
He's intelligent and a champion of humankind, as well as the author of the human arts and sciences.
#FolkloreThursday #Fire
#FolkloreThursday In Slavic folklore, the Firebird (Žar Ptica) was a magical glowing bird, whose feathers can light up the whole room. https://t.co/VYzKLPmKhD
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#FolkloreThursday #InsectWeird #GothicBugs #InsectWeek21
The Pyrallis is an insect resembling a large fly with four(!) legs that Pliny wrote lived in copper-smelting furnaces on Cyprus. It draws its lifeforce from the #fire and if it flies out of the flames it instantly dies🔥
Prometheus Carrying Fire (1630s) by Jan Cossiers (Flemish, 1600 – 1671). Prometheus stole fire from the gods so that he could give it to mankind, thereby leading to the development of civilisation. #FolkloreThursday
Today is #InternationalFairyDay, so here are a few illustrations by the inimitable Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. Tomorrow, the 25th of June, just so happens to be the 61st anniversary of her death.
#GothicFairies #FolkloreThursday
In Finnish, the aurora borealis is called revontulet, meaning “fox fires." The mythical tulikettu, or firefox, runs through the snowy hills of the far north, its tail whipping colorful sparks into the sky. No hunter can catch the firefox, as it's fast as wind. #FolkloreThursday
[Art] Liliane Floret via /r/DnD https://t.co/hihxzbjoXE #DnD #rpg
@redwyrmofficial @BrookletGames @CataleyaVi @Transduin @qdnoxa As to portrait work, here are original party portraits from... 2019 or 2020, I genuinely don't remember, and the WIPs of their redraws.
Loretta, party wizard: I'm still proud of the B&W one, but you can definitely see an evolution in style & skill. I got better with clothes!
@heresvix - Their necklace is a gift so they can go to other dimentions/worlds if they wish by using the special lakes in each of the lands
- Although he can't fly, he is able to glide thanks to his fathers genes making him one of the %30 of the Lunar Deloretta that can do that