Finnishyourcheese

honeyspider:

favourite faces for favourite mythic ladies: Artemis with Lena Headey

Afternoon sunlight filters down through the canopy and shadows creep across the forest floor. There Artemis waits: Silent. Still. The stag appears and her fingers shift imperceptibly on the bow. Her breathing is quiet: Slow. Steady.

She closes one eye to aim. The stag has no time to react before it’s hit, and Artemis gives chase as it attempts to flee. She loads and fires the second arrow even as she runs. It hits true, straight through the heart, and the stag goes down.

Somewhere high above, Olympus is feasting. Let them banquet. Artemis chooses venison on an open fire and a bed of asphodel beneath the poplars.

thewitchescauldron:

Flidais

She is the Celtic (Irish) Goddess of the Woodlands and wild things. Her name itself means “doe, and she rides a chariot drawn by deer. Flidais owns herds of deer and cattle, and is equated with the Greek Pantheon’s Artemis. Flidais is said to have a coracious sexual appetite. Her consort Gergus Mac Roich needed 7 human women to satisfy his sexual needs when Flidais was elsewhere. Her daughers were Fand, Be Chuille and Be Teite. 2 were considered Witches, and one was a Faery Queen. All of them were said to have sexual proclivities like their mother.

(via manticoreimaginary)

omgthatartifact:

Diana with Fawns

France, 1930s

Christie’s