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[Kamilah Hauptmann]

If the artists and sculptors used people as models, they just used good-looking ones and then enhanced them to look heroic.

Hello modern advertising.

 

[Free]

Like many cultural items, the Romans borrowed the Greek Poseidon for their god Neptune.

That's a superficial view.

Proto-Indo-European beliefs, back to earliest bronze age times as they spread through Northern Mediterranean and Western European population centers, were a major influencer over the religious evolution of native peoples in those locations. It's far likelier the major aspects of a local god's origins, descriptions and capabilities as we understand them today were shaped then, rather than by later (mid-iron age) cultural influxes.

That's not to say there were no aspects adopted from later influences. The Etruscans were not seafaring, not at first; hence their god Nethuns was the god of wells and fresh water. Only later was he given dominion of the seas. (And it's the Etruscans the Romans took most of their religious practices from, not the Greeks.)

The actual images of the gods are just idealized humans, in the way Hemsworth and Evans are in the MCU

Hemsworth and Evans are actors, not gods. If they are idealized or deified that's the fault of the culture we live in, not its religious beliefs.

If you want to look at gods and dysfunctional personalities, you really don't have to go digging into dead religions to find them. In the Old Testament, Yahweh has a hell of a set of personality disorders. After all, even Zeus didn't go wiping out nearly all of Earth's mortals over a snit.

 

[danielravennest]

Hemsworth and Evans are actors, not gods.

They were *chosen* for their roles because they fit a certain ideal body type.

 

[Free]

They were *chosen* for their roles because they fit a certain ideal body type.

Really??? And I thought they were appointed their roles by divine mandate. Go figure.

(I guess it's a shame their acting skills were never taken into consideration.)

 

[Isabeau]

Another “Neptune-like” image.

Or maybe old Russian guy in a steam room?

Or just some rando in a pool looking for mood ring…

 

[Khamon]

They were *chosen* for their roles because they fit a certain ideal body type.

Hemsworth can act, and does, but Evans has always only been cast because he fit the suit.

 

[Lexxi]

Like many cultural items, the Romans borrowed the Greek Poseidon for their god Neptune. In earlier forms, Poseidon dates back as far as Greek culture can be traced (c. 1450 B.C.), but his story as we know it today comes from Homer around 700 B.C., where after overthrowing their father Cronus, Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades drew lots for ruling the world. Zeus got the sky, Poseidon the seas, and Hades the underworld.

The actual images of the gods are just idealized humans, in the way Hemsworth and Evans are in the MCU, or body-builders and football players are in mundane sports. Classical mythology assumed the gods had "perfect" and immortal bodies, but they shared the dysfunctional personalities of mortals. That made for better story-telling. If the artists and sculptors used people as models, they just used good-looking ones and then enhanced them to look heroic.

Doesn't seem that enhanced. And I'm not talking about the micro penis, but how he looks like a regular dude in a chariot (or, like the regular dude in your mosaic tile image).

 

[Innula Zenovka]

The short video report of his work (on the BBC page) is worth watching. It started as a lockdown project, apparently, since then there wasn't much work for a wedding photographer.

 

[Free]

Oh, what it would all lead to...

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Rajan the last ocean-swimming elephant: Jody MacDonald’s best photograph

‘He had been used for logging on the Andaman Islands. When I found him, he was 60, living in retirement – and loving his swims’

www.theguardian.com

Evernote link

 

[Sid]

On November 8, 2011 this photograph by Andreas Gursky was sold for $4,338,500 at Christie's in New York City.
For inquiring minds, it is the river Rhein.

 

[Free]

On November 8, 2011 this photograph by Andreas Gursky was sold for $4,338,500 at Christie's in New York City.
For inquiring minds, it is the river Rhein.

You'd think he could have snapped a larger swath of it for that much money. And a busier location.

 

[Sid]

There are 6 existing prints. 4 Copies made it into a museum, the other 2 are in private hands. They are 73 inch x 143 inch big.
The artist edited out a factory and a dog walker digitally. It is the Rhine somewhere near Düsseldorf. The photo's name Rhein II (Rhine II).

 

[Lexxi]

So someone pai

There are 6 existing prints. 4 Copies made it into a museum, the other 2 are in private hands. They are 73 inch x 143 inch big.
The artist edited out a factory and a dog walker digitally. It is the Rhine somewhere near Düsseldorf. The photo's name Rhein II (Rhine II).

So someone paid $4,338,500 for a fake photo? huh.

 

[Sid]

An artist's impression, they call that.

 

[Free]

So someone paid $4,338,500 for a fake photo? huh.

Look how much we've paid for having a fake president.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

 

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[Innula Zenovka]

Peak District: Frozen 'fish eye' forms on rock

Photographer Leigh Pugh says he has never seen anything like it before.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Innula Zenovka]

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