Lethe

6 June 2011

Draft/Progress:


Old sketch again! Something I started a whiiile and bored to finish it. I’ll update it later again when I’ll find out how to work my scanner, since it seems a little bit dark.
“Lethe” is a semi-god in Greek mythology representing oblivion and forgetfulness. She was a fountain in the underworld “Hades” where the dead could go and drink in order to forget their previous life. She was also the sister of “Death” and “Sleep”, the deities that lifted the bodies of the dead warriors from the battlefield and two of the few winged deities in Greek mythology, thus her wings.
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Τέτοιαν ὥρα οἱ ψυχὲς διψοῦν καὶ πᾶνε
στῆς λησμονιᾶς τὴν κρουσταλλένια βρύση·
μὰ βοῦρκος τὸ νεράκι θὰ μαυρίσει,
ἂ στάξει γι᾿ αὐτὲς δάκρυ ὅθε ἀγαπᾶνε.
~Λορέντζος Μαβίλης


Edit/Tools: ballpoint pen and 0,1 fine marker on a A4 tracing paper.

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