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van-dalism · 4 months

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i've gone through like 5x dionysus designs, but i think i'm happy with this one the most!

#5th january 2024 #my art #dionysus #greek gods #greek mythology #mythology art #mythology #myth art

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salmonella-destroyer-of-worlds · 9 months

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#funny post #funny #funny pics #funny pictures #dankest memes #myth art #coffee #pepe the frog #dank memes #meme #dank #silly #humor

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uchuukinoko · 2 months

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"Yes lady Anahita! All waters are your domain 🌊" . . . Anahita ruled over the flowing waters, and the aquatic animals were considered her own. But the most important of them was the otter 🦦 (known as "udrag" in Middle Persian). This creature was so sacred that killing it was a great sin. In some descriptions of Anahita, she was even depicted wearing a cloak made of the skin of a water otter💫

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myth-of-light · 3 months

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Statue of Palutena

Inspired by the Statue of Athena

#palutena #kid icarus #lil medusa #myth art

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useless-catalanfacts · 2 years

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Illustration: “Dama Blanca” by Anna Ribot-Urbita for the 2017 calendar of Catalan mythology. Source.

The White Lady of Auvinyà (Andorra) - La Dama Blanca d’Auvinyà

This legend takes place during the Middle Ages in Auvinyà, a village in Andorra. This village is located right next to the border, where there is one of the entrances to Andorra. South of that border, the lands were possession of the County of Urgell (Catalonia).

According to the legends, in the old times there was one family in charge of taking care of the border. It was a big family with plenty of members to do the job, but through the generations the family became smaller. In the end, only one woman of that family remained, the rest of the family branches had died without heirs. When this last woman died, the border entrance became guarded by a mysterious woman who dressed all in white.

There are different legends that talk about invading armies who wanted to conquer Andorra. Some legends talk about the Islamic kingdoms of the Cordova Caliphate, who at that time often led attacks towards the north with the objective of conquering more land or, at least, looting the towns and take their inhabitants as slaves. Other legends talk about the Bishop of Urgell (the feudal lord on the other side of the border) looking to expand his territories.

The following legend is told of both a powerful Moorish general or the Bishop of Urgell. He reached the border with Andorra with the intention of conquering it (in the case of the general) or making Andorrans his feudal subjects who would have had to pay high taxes to him (in the case of the Bishop). He stopped to drink from a fountain, and the White Lady appeared and told him to follow her. They walked into the forest alone, so nobody knows for sure what happened there. The powerful man ran away scared, back to his army, and immediately told them they had to leave. They retreated and didn’t dare to go near Andorra again.

But years later, the protagonist of this encounter with the White Lady had died and his successor decided to try again, unaware of the real reason for the retreat. The general/Bishop reached the border at night, but was never seen again.

From that moment on, Andorrans had been freed from the rule of the lords, but soon the inhabitants of the area became terrified because a wolf was attacking their flocks and homes, killing the animals and people that it encountered. The very few who had seen the wolf but escaped alive talked about its eyes, which they describes as the ferocious eyes of a desperate man. The inhabitants of Auvinyà organized a hunting party to hunt the wolf, and they managed to corner him and kill him.

A few days later, the man who had killed the wolf got ill and went delirious at night. Some legends say that he was seeing visions of the wolf and that was causing his illness, so the Andorrans invoked the White Lady to ask her to cure him. The White Lady couldn’t save him, but she explained that soul of the powerful general/bishop who had disappeared years ago had been trapped inside the ferocious wolf. The hunter died, but he did so knowing that his sacrifice had liberated Andorra from the invasors, because death took away the last remain of the danger because the invasor’s soul would not be roaming Andorra anymore.

The White Lady keeps the promise that, as long as she exists, Andorra will remain an independent country.

Similar legends about “white ladies” appear in other areas of the Pyrenees like the Occitan damas blancas, and seem to be related to the Germanic mythology that led to the French dames blanches, the German Weiße Frauen and the Dutch Witte Wieven.

Sources: the blog Mitologia Catalana and the book Andorra, el meu país by Albert Puigoriol via La Tribuna.