[C] - Cāngdì (蒼帝 “Green Deity” or “Green Emperor”) is the manifestation of the supreme God associated with the essence of wood and spring, for which he is worshipped as the god of fertility. His animal form is the Bluegreen Dragon.
⋆* –♕; greek myth / modern aphrodite ▸ imagined in summerpastels❜
sometimes she returns to the sea, even now. in the passenger side of lovers’ cars or gazing from the balconies of bright motels, she watches the beach grass sway and the waves roll to the shoreline in cycle. you’ll find her at the boardwalk waiting to be kissed at the the peak of the ferris wheel, or beneath canted umbrellas, tilting her shades down the bridge of her nose as someone just as lovely passes by. the world may change – but she does not.
I thought I’d share a new series I started on my instagram (same name as here) and it’s dedicated to unusual mythology characters.
Sirin is a mythological creature of Russian legends, with the head and chest of a beautiful woman and the body of a bird.Sirins sang beautiful songs to the saints, foretelling future joys. For mortals, however, the birds were dangerous. Men who heard them would forget everything on earth, follow them, and ultimately die. Sometimes Sirins are seen as a metaphor for God’s word going into the soul of a man. Sometimes they are seen as a metaphor of heretics tempting the weak.
“Rax Odran genderless deity of freedom, revolution, justice, and individuality. Often praised or worshiped by the punk community. Rax Odran’s righteous cry can be heard in peace and equality protests, in the words of punk bands and shouts of rockers seeking justice against those who’d take away others freedom and liberty. Rax walks with the downtrodden, the outcasts, the beaten and the abused and fights along side them to bring a better tomorrow ”
hel | …to apportion all abodes among those that were sent to her: that is, men dead of sickness or of old age. She has great possessions there; her walls are exceeding high and her gates great. Her hall is called Sleet-Cold; her dish, Hunger; Famine is her knife.
