#orpheus was a bird

[pazzesco]

The Great Pavement of Woodchester - The Orpheus - Roman Mosaic Floor

A 20th century reconstruction of the Great Roman Pavement of Woodchester. Especially noteworthy for its opulent design comprising approximately 1.6 million individually fired clay tesserae. Researched and made by Robert and John Woodward in the 1970’s.

The original Roman Great Pavement of Woodchester is believed to have been laid in around 325 A.D. It is by far the most elaborate of the several hundred Roman Mosaic Floor s known in Britain and the largest in Europe, north of the Alps.

The Story of Orpheus The Great Pavement depicts the story of Orpheus, the quasi-divine musician and singer of Greek mythology whose music had the power to move trees and subdue wild creatures. Orpheus is seated in the open side of the central octagon on the North/South axis of the floor. He wears a Phrygian cap, a striped tunic and breeches and a flowing cloak which billows from his shoulders. Immediately outside the octagon is a circle of birds including pheasants, peacocks and doves. Outside the bird zone is a band of laurel leaves encircled by a guilloche. The most dramatic feature of the mosaic is the animal circle. This contains eleven beasts stalking around the floor: a Lion, Lioness, Wild Boar, Horse, Elephant, Tiger, Gryphon, Bear, Leopard, Stag and Tigress, then follows the mask of Neptune with lobster claws sprouting from his head. On either side of him are the beautiful acanthus scrolls said to symbolize the waves of the sea. The circles are enclosed within a square border and four pairs of water nymphs are placed in the spandrels. At each corner of this central square is a stone pillar base. Outside the central square are twenty four geometric panels. Almost all the standard patterns used by the Roman mosaicists are to be found in this floor. The Great Pavement of Woodchester is one of some fifty Roman mosaics depicting Orpheus charming wild creatures. These have been found in all parts of the Roman Empire and range in date from the second century to the fifth.

#art #mosaic #mosaic tile floor #woodchester #orpheus #roman #roman empire #pavement #2nd century #greek #greek mythology #birds #peacocks #doves #bear #leopard #stag

[bonezoid]

is it too late for him

#i like drawing him bird-like #hence the feathers #idv #idv fanart #idv nightmare #idv orpheus #identity v nightmare #identity v orpheus #idv hunter #my art #artists on tumblr #digital art #doodle #sketch #fanart #art #artist #digital artist

[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

[asaintellee]

mattpheus for a friend so he doesn’t starve

I love. king x commander

#identity v #idv fanart #idv orpheus #fanart #mattorph #orpheus #idv matthias #idv louis #matthias czernin #king x commander #who is a monstrous bird in reality #freaky hollow i’m not clicking that #idv novelist #idv puppeteer

[solvnvceae]

no more later, we both know that’s a lie

#hadestown #hadestownedit #hadestown musical #musicalgifs #musicaledit #broadwayedit #broadwaydaily #orphydice #orpheus #eurydice #reevecarneyedit #eva noblezada #mine #it's a bird it's a plane it's a queued post!

[blood-teeth]

ALT TEXT: Elena’s thumb moves back and forth across the Traveler’s cheekbones. Back and forth. Back and forth. “Can I tell you what I thought about you the very first time I saw you?” She doesn’t wait for a response. “That you don’t hide your heart. That told me you were kind, that you love first and think last.” She smells Elena’s strawberry flavored lip balm, can taste the fragrance across her lips. Dizzy. “That you hold everyone you come across in your heart, and you won’t ever let them go. No matter how badly it hurts you.” She’s quiet for another moment. “I admire that. It’s a quality I wish I had."

#BEGGING EVERYONE TO PLEASE NOT FORGET ABOUT MY GAY COWGIRLS #blindly navigating my way back into social media like a bird opening its eyes for the first time #ive decided my eventual pitch of this book will be a sapphic orpheus and eurydice retelling but also silent hill and kentucky route zero #also i cannot BELIEVE the 4.99 a month to go ad free!! on TUMBLR.COM!!! #for a serious update: i'm on draft 3 and am getting ready to send it out to more eyes to read!! #Jinx has been helping me a TON with this #<3 <3 <3 #tell me if there's a way home #tell me if there's a way home update

[adora-birds]

orpheus and petey

#birblr #birds #pet birds #budgies #budgerigar #parakeets #cockatiel #id: orpheus #id: peter #id: nod #nod also was there

[neoplasm230]

LuchiOrph week day 1: matching skins

#they have matching necklaces :3 #nightmare is falconer’s favorite big scary bird #identity v #idv #idv luchino #idv professor #idv orpheus #idv nightmare #LuchiOrph #Orphino #luchiorphweek23

[havendance]

(Batman: Orpheus Rising #3) Narration: But he hated trying to be methodical and indifferent about the loss of life. He thinks, somehow Batman does it all. Somehow he shuts it all out--he must...but, how? Orpheus: Grid 24, 37 Cruise.

And that's the secret: that he doesn't, that that's just the illusion he casts. In reality Batman feels every death and holds them close and lets them weigh him down.

#batman #dc #batman: orpheus rising #gavin king #bats + birds + affiliated #comic panel hoard #carthago delenda est

[lycanthrop-ee]

self-restraint? nonono I've got plenty of that. yeah. just watch how long I can go without drawing bird loga- ah fuck. shit

#tss #ITS BEEN SO LONG SINCE I POSTED FANART WHAT HAPPENED !! #sanders sides #logan sanders #bird!logan #sanders sides fanart #original post #orpheus art

[duckapus]

So...getting the SMG Source Code kind of makes the Union of Scorned Avatars fall apart.

Lord Ramagog initiates a sudden-yet-inevitable betrayal and tries to take the Source Code's power for himself, because he never cared about Barry's "Memes ruined our lives" thing and was just using the group to try and gain Ultimate Power so he can conquer the multiverse, because he's actually legitimately evil and has made no effort to hide that fact.

Doppelganger Arle has realized that even if all the Meme Bullshit goes away her situation won't change because it's canon, so instead she wants to use the Code to make herself the only Arle and merge all the SMG universes and Adminspace so that all of "her" friends can live together and she can see them whenever she wants. She's completely nuts by this point, so there's currently no way to get her to understand that the Code isn't powerful enough to do that, and even if it was, doing so would have massive, horrific consequences.

As you'll recall, Frenzy doesn't know what he wants anymore, which is why everybody ended up in his universe in the first place.

Red stays loyal the longest, but then he gets knocked senseless...or rather, gets knocked back to his senses, because it turns out that 1) he's actually able to talk, and 2) he's been stuck in Crazy Stupid Mode this whole time and has no idea where he is, what's going on, or who any of these people are.

Tulip's family has their own shit going on, and the other non-Avatar newcomers turn out to be similarly unreliable.

Barry does not take any of this well.

#smg4 #smg4 ocs #the legacy arc #learning from history au #lord ramagog #doppelganger arle #frenzy the chupacabra #red angry birds #barry the blook #andrew orpheus #daisy orpheus #archie orpheus #tulip #union of scorned avatars #honestly i'm surprised they managed to stick together as long as they did

[vv-devildarling-vv]

Identity V _ Novelist & Nightmare

#identity v #novelist #nightmare #sims #ts4 #the sims 4 #idv #idv novelist #idv nightmare #raven bird #idv orpheus #orpheus #identity v fanart #idv x ts4

[birbs-draws]

Mr. “Orpheus” on the brain

#hi hello i like birds #nightmare idv #identity v #identity v fanart #orpheus idv #wingin’ it

[galaxyofender]

more hadestown au doodles, because this au is rotting my brain, and also me trying to figure out how the hell to draw martyn’s wing coloring

#galaxyofart #property police #evoshipping #trafficshipping #okay so #martyn is a common chaffinch #jimmy is a canary #that's the birds they're based on #both of them. songbirds <3 (also. i feel a joke about lovebirds could be made here too) #martyn's outfit is just eurydice's outfit but in green #and also i changed jimmy from the last drawing i did for this au #and i changed martyn's eyecolor to green #also made his hair longer and added a hairbow because i could not figure out a headband for this particular hairstyle #okay so in order from up left to the right #1 - just me trying to see how to color martyn's wings! references were used because i wanted it to look okay #2 - these birds gay! good for them! #3 - okay so. in come home with me orpheus gives eurydice a paper flower. this is that #4 - i dont think it's a thing for every recording of the musical but in the recording i watched persephone puts the red flower on- #-eurydice's hair and so i wanted to draw martyn with the flower on his head (but this time is jimmy who puts it there) #pp hadestown au

[sunfoxfic]

I'm a simple woman. I hear a bird mentioned in Hadestown and I start frothing at the mouth.

#ALL THE MENTIONS OF BIRDS ARE CONNECT I'M TELLING YOu #EURYDICE IS A SONGBIRD #AND ORPHEUS'S HEART IS A BIRD ON A SPIT IN HIS CHEST #AND WITH HADES AND PERSEPHONE'S MARRIAGE COMES THE CYCLE OF THE BIRDS AND THEIR FLIGHTS #(EURYDICE'S FLIGHT. EURYDICE'S. THE GIRL WHO HAD ALWAYS RUN AWAY.) #AND SHE'S THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE #THE ONE WHO DOESN'T GET A HAPPY ENDING BUT WHO SAVES EVERYONE ELSE #LITERALLY DON'T LOOK AT ME IF YOU CAN'T GET ON MY LEVEL ABOUT HADESTOWN'S MANY BIRDS #BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL ONE BIRD. THEY'RE ALL EURYDICE. #not ml #hadestown #okay back to being normal bc i just momentarily lost it

[fishlures]

my favorite among us character

#idv #identity v #nightmare #orpheus #i dont. know hid tags or even idv tags. #haha idv been taking over my mind #i obsess over bird man because he is stupid