Brigid the Smith
Brigid or Brigit (/ˈbrɪdʒɪd, ˈbriːɪd/ BRIJ-id, BREE-id, Irish: [ˈbʲɾʲiːdʲ]; meaning 'exalted one'), also Bríg, is a goddess of pre-Christian Ireland. She appears in Irish mythology as a member of the Tuatha Dé Danann, the daughter of the Dagda and wife of Bres, with whom she had a son named Ruadán.
She is associated with wisdom, poetry, healing, protection, smithing and domesticated animals. Cormac's Glossary, written in the 9th century by Christian monks, says that Brigid was "the goddess whom poets adored" and that she had two sisters: Brigid the healer and Brigid the smith. This suggests she may have been a triple deity. She is also thought to have some relation to the British Celtic goddess Brigantia.
Saint Brigid shares many of the goddess's attributes and her feast day, 1 February, was originally a pagan festival called Imbolc. It has thus been argued that the saint is a Christianization of the goddess, or that the lore of the goddess was transferred to her.
Personally I believe Brigid to be associated with the star Sirius, which is the brightest star in the February nights. or possibly Orion's belt, considering she is a trio of sisters. Finally her father, The Dagda is described as a Giant with a club.
Ishtar/Inanna
Inanna is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war, and fertility. She is also associated with sensuality, procreation, divine law, and political power. Originally worshiped in Sumer, she was known by the Akkadian Empire, Babylonians, and Assyrians as Ishtar (and occasionally the logogram 𒌋𒁯). Her primary title is "the Queen of Heaven".
She was the patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the city of Uruk, her early main cult center. In archaic Uruk she was worshiped in three forms: morning Inanna (Inana-UD/hud), evening Inanna (Inanna sig) and princely Inanna (Inanna NUN), the former two reflecting the phases of her associated planet Venus. Her most prominent symbols include the lion and the eight-pointed star. Her husband is the god Dumuzid (later known as Tammuz), and her Sukkal (attendant) is the goddess Ninshubur, later conflated with the male deities Ilabrat and Papsukkal.
When the Moon Occults the Pleiades
This is a digital concept drawing illustrated in Photoshop without reference. The beauty of digital illustration is that you can resize or redraw an element that you are not happy with. The Final drawing will then be drawn or painted in a different medium.
Pan has a Connection with the Constellation Sagittarius and a possible connection with the Moon. where as the Nymphs are connected to the Pleiades System. So my theory is that this story has a relationship between an occultation with the Moon and the Pleiades in the star sign of Sagittarius.
The Success of Shamat
The Epic of Gilgamesh is an epic tale from ancient Mesopotamia. The literary history of Gilgamesh begins with five Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames”), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC).
Gilgamesh was a tyrant king, which nobody could compete with in battle, apart from the wildman Enkidu. However, being a man of the wild, Enkidu has no care for the outside world. So a Beautiful Harlet named Shamat is used by the Hunter to use her attractiveness to tempt Enkidu from the wild, and his 'wildness', civilizing him through continued sacred love-making. Brought to a water source where Enkidu had been spotted, she exposes herself to Enkidu. He enjoys Shamhat for "six days and seven nights" (a fragment found in 2015 and read in 2018 appears to indicate that they had two weeks of sexual intercourse, with a break spent in discussion about Enkidu's future life in Uruk).
Unfortunately for Enkidu, after this long sexual workshop in civility, his former companions—other wild animals—turned away from him in fright at the watering hole where they congregated. Shamhat persuades him to follow her and join the civilized world in the city of Uruk, where Gilgamesh is king, rejecting his former life in the wild of the hills. Henceforth, Gilgamesh and Enkidu become the best of friends and undergo many adventures (starting with the Cedar Forest and the encounter with Humbaba).
When Enkidu is dying, he expresses his anger at Shamhat for making him civilized, blaming her for bringing him to the new world of experiences that has led to his death. He curses her to become an outcast. The god Shamash(the Sun) reminds Enkidu that Shamhat fed and clothed him before introducing him to Gilgamesh. Enkidu relents and blesses her, saying that all men will desire her and offer her gifts of jewels.
The Castration of Uranus
This just started out as a doodle to practice my drawing skills without reference, before I knew it it was a complete drawing.
In Greek Mythology Gaia was the supreme self created Goddess. She is the personification of the Milky way and Mother Earth. She would be like Nun to the Egyptians, Ninhursag to the Sumerians, Danu to the Celts and Hindu.
Over time when Gaia got lonely, she created Uranus from Herself. Uranus would rule the Sky and Gaia would rule the Earth and together they went on to create the first Pantheon of Greek Gods.
However Uranus Hid all the children in a safe place causing Gaia great pain. So Gaia devised a plan and created the adamantine Sickle which her youngest Son Cronus who equates to Saturn, Hence the Halo. Cronus used the Sickle to castrate his Father. Then took power over his Domain. The Penus of Uranus was cast into the sea, creating the Goddess Aphrodite who represents Venus.
