Stills from the music video for The Strokes’ “At the Door” (directed by Mike Burakoff, animated by Benjy Brooke, 2020). (via YouTube/TheStrokes)
Space is but a mode of our human Sense, so likewise Time; there IS no Space and no Time: WE are—we know not what;—light-sparkles floating in the ether of Deity!
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, 1836
The gods did not reveal, from the beginning,
All things to us; but in the course of time,
Through seeking we may learn, and know things better,
But as for certain truth, no man has known it,
Nor will he know it; neither of the gods,
Nor yet of all things of which I speak.
And even if by chance he were to utter
The perfect truth, he would himself not know it;
For all is but a woven web of guesses.
Xenophanes of Colophon, 5th century BCE
Illustrations of mythological creatures and monsters (Nathan J Anderson, early 21st century).
(via Deviant Art)
Image from Marisa Ranieri Panetta’s Pompeii: History, Art, and Life in the Sunken City showing a detail of a photograph of a 1st century fresco depicting the god Bacchus and an agathodemon (aka agathodaimon aka agathodaemon) in front of Mount Vesuvius—originally from The House of the Centenary in Pompeii, currently displayed in the Archaeological Museum of Naples (photo by unknown, 2005).
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Illustration of the Egyptian goddess Hathôr (aka Ahtôr, Atar, or Athyr—the equivalent of Aphrodite & Venus) (Charles Edwin Wilbour, mid 19th century).
(via WikiPagan)
Card depicting Cybele, the fertility goddess—from in Ancient Feminine Wisdom: Of Goddesses and Heroines card set (Kay Stevenson & Brian Clark, 2003).
(via Land of Goddesses)
Illustration of the Yoruba/Umbanda orixá (god) Oxalá (aka Orixalá , Orixaguinã, Gunocô, Obatalá, Oxaguiã, or Oxalufã)—the god associated with the creation of the world and the human species (Mikael Quites, 2016).
(via African Digital Art)
Reliefs depicting the Roman god Mithras (based on the Proto-Indo-Iranian god Mithra and the Vedic god Mitra) killing a bull in the Tauroctony, with Sol and Luna watching—first image photographed in unknown location, second image photographed in Musei Vaticani, Rome (unknown artists/sculptors, 1st to 7th century CE, photographed in the early 21st century).
(via Wikimedia Commons & Core Spirit)
Front and back cover to Baba Raul Canizares’ Eshu Eleggua Elegbara: Santeria and the Orisha of the Crossroads (unknown designer/artist, 2000).
(via Amazon)
Charts depicting the seven vibrational lines of the Brazilian Umbanda religion (various artists, early 21st century).
Photograph of a 1st century fresco in the Herculaneum, depicting white-robed priests of the Roman Cult of Isis performing a water ritual while chanting multiethnic devotees line the steps of the goddess' temple—from What Life Was Like When Rome Ruled the World (unknown photographer, late 20th century).
(via Wikimedia Commons)
Oxóssi - Odé—an illustration of the Brazilian/Portuguese Hunter God Oxóssi (the Yoruba òrìṣà odẹ Ọ̀ṣọ́ọ̀sì aka Oshosi / the Santería God of the Hunt Ochosí) (André Hora, 2018).
(via Pinterest)
Everything is overflowing with Gods.
Proclus, 1st century CE
Illustrations of astrological signs/gods based upon their descriptions in Picatrix (aka غاية الحكيم Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm aka Picatrix: The Goal of the Wise)—originally published in the 11th century CE by an unknown author (Et Sint, 2015).
(via Et Sint in Signa)
Painting depicting the Umbanda orisha Yemọja aka the Yoruba/Candomblé Orixá Yemanjá aka the mythological Greek princess Danaë (Linda Falorio, 2017).
(via Fine Art America)