#Birds in Myth

[wild-raven-and-crow]

The Three-Legged Sun Crow

The three-legged crow or raven is a god in many mythologies of East Asia including China, Japan, and Korea. It is believed to inhabit and represent the sun. The sun crow may also represent rebirth, guidance, and good fortune.

Media: watercolor (background sketch using .03 Copic felt-tip pen and pencil)

#birds #artists on tumblr #art #crows #myths #crow #legends #ravens #corvid #corvids #corvidae #watercolor #original art #my art #my artwork #yatagarasu #sun crow #golden crow #three-legged crow #korea #japan #china #mythology #Samjok-o #Yangwu #Jinwu #Asian mythology

[reasonandfaithinharmony]

Well, now I need to see this in the next season of 911 Lone Star lol

#😄 #911 lone star #911 ls #parrots #birds #animals #humor #911ls humor #usersteen #rmd tracks #my911ls #mythings

[aregebidan]

“who are you? i don’t even know your name” “don’t be in such a rush. you will give me a name someday. and i live in terror of that day” / “i’m afraid to turn around. not of your anger, though. i’m afraid i’ll see nobody” / “go on dreaming. when you dream about my likeness you create it” / “when you loved no one you never thought of death” / “give her proof of her love” “shall i?” “kill her before she sees you” “no!” “then kill yourself” “how?” “let her go”

literally who is doing it like them. no one. no one. no one.

#panna a netvor #turn my ashes into a fucking. dvd of this cinematic masterpiece #what if the beauty and the beast had reverse pygmalion and galatea but also reverse orpheus and eurydice— #—and also just the most banger lines to ever fuck the mind of man even in their depowered slightly clunky youtube english subtitle form #to understand the script in the original would be too much for me. i’d drop dead on the spot. i’m completely serious #what if. creation myth love story death tale gothic thriller. and there was exquisite music and a bird guy with an evil internal monologue #whose only wish ever was to be rewritten revised killed off and resurrected and irrevocably changed by love……oh i’m going insane #film

[cosmopoliturtle]

Simurgh

#birds #fantasy #myth #folklore #mythology #mythology art #artists on tumblr #full works

[madcat-world]

Roc - BenedickBana

#Roc #BenedickBana #giant #birds #legends #hunters #myths #teeth #dark fantasy #digital art

[artbyanca]

Aphrodite with a dove.

#Aphrodite #greek mythology #greek goddess #goddess of love #theoi #myth #mythology #dove #bird #portrait #pen and ink #illustration #art #artists on tumblr

[yoga-onion]

Legends and myths about trees

World tree - the source of wisdom of the ages

The world tree is a motif present in several religions and myths around the world. It is represented as a colossal tree which supports the heavens, thereby connecting the heavens, the terrestrial world, and, through its roots, the underworld. 

Many Eurasian mythologies share the motif of the "world tree", "cosmic tree", or "Eagle and Serpent Tree". More specifically, it shows up in "Haitian, Finnish, Lithuanian, Hungarian, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Norse, Siberian and northern Asian Shamanic folklore".

The World Tree is often identified with the Tree of Life, and also fulfills the role of an axis mundi, that is, a centre or axis of the world. It is also located at the center of the world and represents order and harmony of the cosmos. Each part of the tree corresponds to one of the three spheres of the world (treetops - heavens; trunk - middle world or earth; roots - underworld) and is also associated with a classical element (top part - fire; middle part - earth, soil, ground; bottom part - water).

Its branches are said to reach the skies and its roots to connect the human or earthly world with an underworld or subterranean realm. Because of this, the tree was worshipped as a mediator between Heavens and Earth. On the treetops are located the luminaries (stars) and heavenly bodies, along with an eagle's nest; several species of birds perch among its branches; humans and animals of every kind live under its branches, and near the root is the dwelling place of snakes and every sort of reptiles.

A bird perches atop its foliage, "often .... a winged mythical creature" that represents a heavenly realm. The eagle seems to be the most frequent bird, fulfilling the role of a creator or weather deity. Its antipode is a snake or serpentine creature that crawls between the tree roots, being a "symbol of the underworld".

The imagery of the World Tree is sometimes associated with conferring immortality, either by a fruit that grows on it or by a springsource located nearby. In some descriptions this "water of life" may also flow from the roots of the tree.

The world tree was an important element in shamanistic worldview as well, and it is said that the giant bird ... hatches shamans in the branches of the World Tree.

Some species of birds (eagle, raven, crane, loon, and lark) are revered as mediators between worlds and also connected to the imagery of the world tree. Another line of scholarship points to a "recurring theme" of the owl as the mediator to the upper realm, and its counterpart, the snake, as the mediator to the lower regions of the cosmos.

Northern Eurasian and Central Asian traditions wherein the World Tree is also associated with the horse and with deer antlers which might resemble tree branches.

Some scholars have pointed out that, from the perspective of evolutionary biology, the concept of a world tree may have originated in human thought. This is because our ancestors lived in trees for about 60 million years, and for them the trees were everything in the world. This is why the collective unconscious that the world is made of giant trees has remained with us to the present day.

木にまつわる伝説・神話 

世界樹 〜 時代の叡智の源

世界樹は、世界中の宗教や神話に見られる概念、モチーフである。天を支える巨大な木として表現され、それによって天と地上世界、そしてその根を通して冥界をつないでいる。

多くのユーラシア神話が「世界樹」「宇宙樹」「鷲と蛇の樹」というモチーフを共有しているとされている。具体的には、「ハイチ、フィンランド、リトアニア、ハンガリー、インド、中国、日本、北欧、シベリア、北アジアのシャーマン伝承」に見られる。

世界樹はしばしば生命の樹と同一視され、また、世界軸、つまり世界の中心や軸の役割を果たす。また、世界の中心に位置し、宇宙の秩序と調和を表している。樹木の各部分は世界の3つの圏（梢-天、幹-中世界または地、根-地下世界）のいずれかに対応し、古典的な元素（上部-火、中部-地、土、地面、下部-水）にも関連している。

その枝は天空に届き、根は人間界や地上界と地下世界や地底界をつなぐと言われている。そのため、この木は天と地を結ぶ媒介として崇拝された。梢には星や天体があり、鷲の巣がある。枝には数種類の鳥がとまり、枝の下には人間やあらゆる動物が住み、根の近くには蛇やあらゆる爬虫類が住んでいる。

その葉の上にとまる鳥は、「しばしば......翼を持つ神話上の生き物」であり、天界を表す。鷲は最も頻繁に見られる鳥で、創造主や天候の神の役割を果たしているようだ。その対極にあるのは、木の根の間を這う蛇や蛇のような生き物で、「冥界の象徴」である。

世界樹のイメージは、そこに生る果実や近くにある泉によって不老不死をもたらすことと関連付けられることもある。この「生命の水」は木の根からも湧き出るという記述もある。

世界樹はシャーマニズムの世界観においても重要な要素であり、「巨大な鳥は......世界樹の枝でシャーマンを孵化させる」ともいわれている。

いくつかの種の鳥（ワシ、ワタリガラス、ツル、ハシビロコウ、ヒバリ）は、世界をつなぐ媒介者として崇められ���世界樹のイメージとも結びついている。また、別の研究では、フクロウは天上界への媒介者であり、それと対をなすヘビは宇宙の下界への媒介者であるという「繰り返されるテーマ」が指摘されている。北ユーラシアや中央アジアの伝統では、世界樹は馬や、木の枝に似た鹿の角とも関連づけられている。

一部の学者は、進化生物学の観点から、世界樹という概念が人類の思考の中に元から備わっている可能性を指摘している。というのも、人類の祖先は約6000万年にわたり樹上で生活しており、その時代の彼らにとっては木々こそが世界のすべてであったと考えられるからである。そのため、こ��世界は巨大な木で出来ているのだという集合的無意識が、現在の我々に至るまで残っているのだというものである。

#trees #tree legend #tree myths #legend #mythology #folklore #world tree #bird #tree of life #water of life #sharamanism #nature #art #source of wisdom

[miumiins]

"And when he kisses her, he devotes the entire ocean to his beloved."

#miu draws #oc stuff #yomi tag #rafayel #UHHH #lnds spoilers #for his myth story #did his myth story wreck anyone else #bc frankly i've been constantly thinking abt it since i finished reading it #ch8 in particular broke me #also when i tell u that 'and when he kisses her he devotes the entire ocean to his beloved' made me BAWL #i was lichrally possessed when i worked on this the past couple of days #also ik the imagery included seagulls but we're not gonna talk abt that i can't draw birds #anyways rafayel has had me in a chokehold for nearly a month now i was truly blindsided by th

[theartisticendeavor]

Art by Justin McElroy

#Justin McElroy #Birds #Art #Fantasy #Firebird #Phoenix #Mythology #Myth

[mythical-art]

Sleeping Medusa, 1896 (pastel on paper) by Fernand Khnopff (1896, pastel on paper)

#Fernand Khnopff #Khnopff #Sleeping Medusa #sleeping #medusa #bird #hybrid #wings #fantasy #asleep #gorgon #woman #face #myth #mythical #creature

[wild-raven-and-crow]

Raven Brought Fire to the First Nations

Raven or Crow is remembered for bringing the First Nations fire. That first bird's courage and altruism still smolders in the hearts of its children.

Flames gave their voices depth, and flames painted elegant feathers in ash-velvet black, though the deep blue sky still shimmers in their wings, and the fire of the sun still burns in their eyes.

This is my watercolor of "The Rainbow Crow". The video I posted yesterday "Crow: The Legend" retells the ancient tale.

#birds #artists on tumblr #art #crows #myths #crow #legends #native american #ravens #corvid #corvids #corvidae #watercolor #original art #my art #my artwork

[entropii]

Crow robot who can't be fully perceived because they're covered in a dense mass of particles that confounds the eyes and even the most sophisticated of sensors and is also a cloud of knives.

(Please do not tag as your OC or any other character.)

#something something pilots on the front line tell tale of an ill omen #a bird-shaped void darting in and out of the stars #say in hushed whispers that if you ever see it pray that it's not coming for you #is it a myth who could say #refracted light #my art #oc #still thinking about names 🤔

[the-sunshine-dims]

So um, watched Sherberts pov, what the hell Quixis

#i cuaght icarus's name on heyhay's stream BUT MY GOD #quixis. i say this with all due respect. what the hell #also icarus BELOVED its such a good name and with all of the bird theming the myth about the boy who got to fly.. #seriously its so fitting and im just.. ahhh about it #fin draws #fsmp #fable smp

[needlittlepiggiesinmymarket]

More jean discourse… starts crying sniff sniff… SNIFF

They are so bad to and for each other the best and worst thing for each other disastrously in love

They are falling but maybe they’ll fall a little slower if they cling to one another tight enough

Starts punching myself in the nards I love them so much SNIFF SNIFF I cry I weep when I think about them I love Jean and Harry I wish facial hair was real

#disco elyisum #harry du bois #jean vicquemare #THEY MAKE ME CRY #strokes screen… jean and Harry…. the guys ever… #I want to over them in peanut butter and bird seed and send a flock of finches after them #Prometheus style (what the hell is a mythology? is it like myth busters?)

[madcat-world]

Reborn - CobaltPlasma

#Reborn #CobaltPlasma #phoenix #fire #birds #creatures #myths #fantasy art #digital art

[artbyanca]

Apollo and ravens.

#Apollo #greek mythology #greek god #god of light #theoi #ravens #birds #animal #nature #myth #mythology #pen and ink #drawing #illustration #art #artists on tumblr