From the source: The lion was sacred to Ishtar, the Babylonian goddess of love and war. This striding beast is one of more than a hundred that once lined the lower portion of the walls of a processional way that passed through the Ishtar Gate in ancient Babylon. During the New Year festival, images of the gods were carried down this street, named ‘the enemy shall never pass’ (aibur-shabu in Babylonian). The lions provided a dramatic, heraldic approach to the gate and served as symbolic protectors and guides for those participating in the ritual.
3-Corona de Hierro de Lombardía (por la banda de hierro de su interior, supuestamente hecho de los clavos de la Cruz)
4-Corona relicario de San Luis de Francia
5-Corona de Blanca de Inglaterra
6-Corona del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico
Oro, gemas, arte y poder, todo unido… No es fantástico? Además son ejemplos extremadamente raros, la mayoría de las coronas medievales no han sobrevivido.
a silly bath-sharing comic I drew during a stream! I think it was @paranoidfridge and @airbornonawind who prompted something water-themed for this! and of course, I went with the most trope-y plot I could think of lol
it has a lil bit of nudity, but I guess everyone can handle a tiny ween and some nipples, right? 😛
The more common form of Vietnamese sword is the curved variety based on the Dao of China, known to collectors as a ‘guom’, but this rarer straight form is generally known as a ‘kiem’, related to the Jian straight sword of China.
Medieval Gold and Amethyst Bishop’s Ring, 14th-15th Century AD
In the medieval period it was commonly believed that amethysts had the ability to detect poison by becoming dim in color. They were also associated with the clergy being used in Episcopal rings which gave rise to them being known as “Bishop’s stones.”
@i-gwarth, my unending source of strongly-worded encouragements to get into LOTR suggested me to try giving Sauron my own spin. I went with pre whatever-the-heck-that-knight-in-the-movies-was version.
It needs work, we’ll see about that. I plan to read the Ring-trilogy once i get my hands on The Hobbit-book.
Wub, I only want this Tolkien stuff to consume your life and take over your every single waking minute because I love you!
On a completely unrelated note, @theotherwesley I have something to show you!
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had a long and tedious week, so here’s some maedhros I sketched to cheer me up. fave conflicted-murder-elf-looking-slightly-to-the-left. I’m always torn about his hair: I like all the headcanons abt him wearing it short post-thangorodrim I also like to picture him with the most impractically long fuck-you hairdo ever! but why choose whe he’s been around long enough to try everything. also, kintsugi-like customs but for covering scars w gold-leaf or something?? uhm. anyway, click-through for larger + descr.
“…I’ve also created a variety of music boxes and automata in my time… Take your pick!
It’s a weakness of mine; reproducing natural mechanics with engineered devices. I have quite a collection by now, all gathering dust in my workshop. The war effort has made it impractical to spend much time on frivolous devices, no matter how fascinating they are to build, or soothing to watch.”
MisbehavingMaiar: Tumblr Archive 