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And here are the last two bachelorettes: the sisters, Emily and Haley!💎🌻
Now to make my way through the boys... 😅

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Today’s prompt is all about the heavens! I decided to paint a harpy, everyone’s favourite feathered personification of storm winds. They range in description from pretty maidens to ugly monsters, and they lived in either the Strofades, Crete or the Underworld.

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Perun is the Slavic god of thunder, lightening, and the sky. He was said to live at the top of the world tree, where he could survey the mortal world and the underworld.

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2021-02-19

Toni Morrison used to talk about truth & myth. Like the old myth of Black slaves flying back to Africa, & reclaiming their freedom. Folklorists sought such tales, & artists, such as the Dillons, capture how the power of flight, for Black lives, endures.

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2021-02-19

There has always been a symbolic link between the sky and those at sea. A red sky would have different meanings based on time of day. The moon & stars would be crucial for navigating especially on the open sea

Painting by J. M. Turner, Fishermen at Sea, 1796

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2021-02-19

Inca goddess Mamma Quilla or Mother Moon cried tears of silver. A fox fell in love with her but when she squeezed him close, his blood formed the dark patches of her seas...

🎨Comerre

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The 1560's saw some peculiar celestial events occur in Europe. In 1561 in Nuremberg (L) people had multiple interpretations (many religious) about the strange lights (most likely they were sun dogs). In 1566 in Basel (R) similar sightings were reported.

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In Aztec religion, Tezcatlipoca was the god of the night sky, the night winds, hurricanes, the north, the earth, obsidian, enmity, discord, rulership, divination, temptation, jaguars, sorcery, beauty, war, and strife.

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It's [Jacob Peter Gowy, The Fall of Icarus]

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In many places in (ruins of ancient forts, magic fountains...), and especially on dates such Saint John's Eve, a hen appears with seven golden chicks. They are thought to be a mythological reflection of the Pleiades.

Artwork by .

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Today marks this years entry of the sun in Pisces. The constellation's brightest star, Eta Piscium, Alpherg or Kullat Nunu, is 294 light-years from Earth, 316 brighter times than the sun. Kullat Nunu is from the Babylonian ‘Nunu’=‘fish’ and ‘kullat’=bucket

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The Horrible Folk comics are monologues for broken choruses, concerning devils, the landscape, old stones, older gods, ordinary murder and many of the other crimes of man.
https://t.co/JNnJ2e5goW

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FENRIR & THE MOON The most infamous of the many in Norse mythology, Fenrir is the son of the god Loki and the giantess Angrboda. It is Fenrir who, in addition to killing Odin & destroying much of the world, will eat the sun and the moon during Ragnarok

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Dante and Beatrice meet twelve wise men (including Thomas Aquinas, King Solomon, Boethius, Bede) in the Sphere of the Sun (miniature by illustrator Giovanni di Paolo), Canto 10, in what is an important episode in Paradiso and the whole Divine Comedy. 1/2

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Arianrhod is a Welsh goddess of the moon and stars. Her name means ‘silver wheel.’ She is believed to carry souls to the afterlife to await rebirth. Her palace is 'Caer Arianrhod,' a title also used in Welsh for the constellation Corona Borealis.

🎨Anne Stokes

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Art by from Early Haunts of 'The Wild Huntsman' a German Poem written by Gottfried August Burger. Based on the folklore of the cursed Wild Hunter, he's doomed to be pursued to eternity. Also an inspiration behind Washington Irving's Sleepy Hollow.

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Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight.

The idea of wishing on a star seems to be a very ancient one.
The rhyme has been referenced by artists from Steinbeck to Madonna. (🎨 C M Barker)

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In Slavic mythology, the morning star is called Zorya Utrennyaya (among many names). She is said to open the gates of Dažbog's palace each morning to let the sun start its journey.

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When the Sun used to live as a man among the San of the Kalahari the world was dark. When he lifted his arms bright light escaped from his armpits. Eventually he was flung into the sky & now lights the entire world.
Brian Froud Illustration

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