We start this new approach with Erebus. Exploring unexpected blendings is my biggest curiosity.
Today I pose a question: how might the Greek gods be represented through architectural or design styles and how does that perspective influence their worship?
🔳Erebus is the personification of darkness and another name for the realm of Hades, it's also the foggy darkness that surrounds the Underworld and the first stop of souls in their journey.
Son of chaos and husband of Nyx.
Many styles come to mind for Erebus, but the one that sticks the most to me is Brutalism, a movement born after WW2 aimed to solve problems.
Its philosophy is based on straightforward, massive, angled, and clean structures that reject ornaments or details, no more than the structure's exposed raw materials and parts. This represents honesty and functionality.
⁉️And how can we visualize this in deity work or the practice in general?
💀Sometimes darkness and truth are not something we like but need.
💀To be bold in actions and decisions.
💀And, in some cases, the function is more important than the shape of anything we possess or perform.
