Genuinely People Act Like Working With Both Angels (and Other Similar Figures) And Demons Is Some Sort

Satan as the Fallen Angel

Painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830) in red, white, and black chalk, this creation of phenomenal artistic mastery is a part of a larger group of art pieces. The full collection consists of six different paintings depicting scenes and characters from Milton's Paradise Lost. One is currently at the Royal Academy of Arts, one at Louvre, one in Private Collection, and two are lost.

Satan in this depiction stands in his full humanised glory - imagery typical of the late 18th century Romanticism when the fallen angel lost his beastly, animalistic appearance in art. His features here remind one more of David or Apollo Belvedere in his majestic, heavenly beauty caught right before the fall.

Even if you can’t hear your deities, they hear you

Even if you can’t see your deities, they see you

Even if you can’t feel your deities, they’re there and they love you

And you should, as the core of it all, let go of expectations for your Deities. Let go of what you’ve consumed from the books, let go of authorities, let go of explanations, let go of the neatness - and embrace chaos. Embrace the wilderness which is in itself God, call a name and wait for an answer. What voice sounds like home?

Gods will come multifaceted, iridescent, impalpable. Gods will break rules and expand where a mind burdened by expectations can’t follow. A chimera of a myriad faces might not want to always show only one side. Gods will change. Gods will surprise.

If the nature is untamed, so are its Deities. The wilderness has many names for each of them, a prism to choose a side of. Feeling over explaining, embracing over conforming, preparing over expecting.

Italian artist Lorenzo Quinn created a gigantic pair of hands reaching out of Venice’s Grand Canal (2017)

Caryatid

The upper part of one of the caryatids that flanked the Lesser Propylaea of the sanctuary of Demeter and Kore at Eleusis. The caryatid was made in Attica in about 50 B.C. Eleusis Museum, Greece

Monumental Relief with the Nine Muses Italian, Rome, 16th century

Marble. 105 by 220cm., 41½ by 86½in.

Theodoros Angelopoulos: ‘Landscape in the Mist’ (1988)

Dionysus and Ariadne (through the seasons)

while i’m sure it’s certainly cool to be chosen by a deity for worship/devotion, i think there’s something beautiful about choosing them instead. having little to no signs from a deity, but seeing them and saying “yes. yes. yes. you are the one i want to devote myself to. work on myself for. be a part of your life as you are mine.” as a practitioner and then setting forth. i personally feel like we don’t have many options in life, so it’s nice to be the one to decide.

*punches the air* i love gods of complexity! *does a kick flip* i love gods that don't automatically fall into "does no wrong" and "only does wrong" categories *does a handstand* no purely good or evil for me! i want more reflections of us as humans! we are capable of love and hatred, construction and destruction, and so are the gods! *turns into a dragon and spits out a jet of flame* being complex does not mean we should give up trying to understand or venerate them! respect people who also want gods like this in their lives!