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dozydawn · 4 months

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“A Palestinian home in the Old City of Jerusalem decorated with Hajj painting - marks indicating Muslim inhabitants have made a pilgrimage. The house is painted with red and green 'spots' two of the colours of the Palestinian flag, the other colours being white and black. The drawing centre left are of the Kaaba (Cube) in Mecca and the Al Aqsa Mosque (Dome of the Rock) in Jerusalem and possibly the Ibrahimi Mosque in Hebron. Jerusalem, April 1982.”

Photographed by Homer Sykes.

#palestine #homer sykes #1982 #1980s

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thieves-in-the-palace · 9 months

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They're really pulling some niche figures for these new Personas, huh?

Prosymna is one of three naiad daughters of the Greek river god Asterion. Along with her sisters (Acraea and Euboea), she served as a wet-nurse for Hera. The name Prosymna means "celebrate in song," which explains her harp-like design.

(Prosymna is also a genus of snake!)

Erytheia is one of the three (or four, or seven) Hesperides, nymphs who presided over evening and sunsets. The name Erytheia means "the red one." There doesn't seem to be much mythos surrounding Erytheia specifically, but her name was assigned to a small island northwest of Gilbraltar. (Nowadays it's part of Spain! The city of Cadíz can be found there.)

Preceded by Leucothea, Erytheia is one of the two (possibly 3?) P5X Persona to be rendered as a masculine entity despite being based off a distinctly feminine mythological figure. Not sure why they're doing that, but hey, the designs are great!

Syke is a bit of an oddball. While it would be easy to presume it's meant to represent Psyche, the Greek goddess of the soul…Psyche has already appeared as Metis' Persona back in P3 FES, so it's possible this one is a different entity. However, something worth noting: like the other Greek myth Persona in this post, Psyche came in a set of three, having been the youngest of three sisters.

Of what I've been able to dig up, Syke (or Syca) was also the name of a town in ancient Cilicia, a region in southern Anatolia. Another name for Syke was Setos, possibly based off the primordial sea goddess Ceto. Ceto is considered one of the oldest-known deities in Greek myth, and was mother to a myriad of monsters, such as the Graiae and Gorgon sisters.

Meng Po is the Chinese goddess of forgetfulness, tasked with ensuring that souls headed for reincarnation are reborn with no memories. To accomplish this, she serves a memory-wiping soup to souls crossing the Naihe Bridge out of Diyu, a subterranean maze that serves as an equivalent to hell in Chinese mythology.

This lore explains both the bowl and lantern in this Persona's design. The bowl represents the soup, obviously enough, while the lantern can be interpreted as symbolic of "guiding the dead."

Cleodora was one of the three Thriae, prophetic nymphs who lived in the Corycian Cave of Mt. Parnassus. Though the Thriae are often considered to be the "bee-maidens" (women bearing human heads/torsos and bee wings/lower bodies) described in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes, it's possible they're different trios; the Thriae predicted the future through throwing stones (pessomancy/mantic pebbles), while the bee-maidens predicted the future through casting lots (cleromancy).

The only info I can find on Cleodora as separate from the Thriae states that she was the mother of Parnassos, who invented a way to predict the future based on birds (ornithomancy).

#persona 5 x #p5x #persona 5 the phantom x #prosymna #erytheia #syke #meng po #cleodora #Kidd speaking #not aesthetic

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ludmilachaibemachado · 4 months

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Wings on the road | UK, 1975🌼🌼🌼

Photos by Homer Sykes🌼🌼

Via @wide.prairie on Instagram🌼

#60s icons #girlsofthesixties #60s couples #the beatles wives #paul mccartney #linda mccartney #paul and linda #wings #1975

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greenvincentine · 1 month

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"I think Mrs. Bonney has pinned me as the naive university girl. Talked until late last night in the kitchen. Adorable and quotable. Some of her wisdom for my report: 'You know Miss Allison, there's so many people who wonder, and they question everything, but never see. And there's those who never question but see everything.' Asked her what we'll see this weekend in the village. She laughed at me: 'Not so sure I would be asking just yet!"

Cambridge student Allison Winstead's diary entry, April 29, 1971, from Wheel of the Year: Rural England's Lost Pagan Festivals and Customs, Damien Fell, Stone Circle Press, 1974

images from Once A Year: Some Traditional British Customs Homer Sykes

#folk horror #english pastoral #hauntology

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gravalicious · 2 months

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Homer Sykes — The National Front 1970s-80s (2020)

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fayegonnaslay · 2 months

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Photo by Charles Harbutt, U.S.A.

Photo by Michelle Bogre, U.S.A.

Photo by Elizabeth Hamlin, U.S.A.

Photo by Richard Kalvar, U.S.A.

Photo by Ken Heyman, U.S.A.

Photo by Homer Sykes, England.

Photo by Ronald Wood, U.S.A.

#this is what makes us girls #girlhood #1960s #1970s #70s nostalgia #the family of woman #femininity #barbie #what was i made for #sisterhood #americana #timeless

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cosmicanger · 1 year

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South Beach, Miami (1999). Photographed by Homer Sykes.

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savage-kult-of-gorthaur · 1 year

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"...SEEN HERE STRUTTING HER STUFF AT THE BLITZ CLUB."

PIC INFO: Spotlight on then fashion student Wendy Tiger Pearson dancing at the Blitz Club, Covent Garden, London, England c. February 1980. 📸: Homer Sykes.

BACKGROUND INFO: The Blitz Kids at the Blitz Club were a group of people who frequented the Tuesday club-night in Covent Garden from 1979-80. They are credited with launching the New Romantic subcultural movement. There was an emphasis on style that was ensured by enforcing a strict dress code at the door. Crucially, the Blitz lay between two art colleges (St. Martin's School and Central School) and it became a testbed for student fashion designers who set London ablaze during the 1980s. The club was decked out in Second World War posters and thus the Clubs name.

PART II: "Fashion student Wendy Tiger Pearson worked at Granny Takes a Trip in the Kings Road, Chelsea. She was also a dancer at the Embassy nightclub in Bond Street, seen here strutting her stuff at the Blitz Club. Many years later Wendy can be found at a London university working in administration or on Saturday nights at the Chelsea Arts Club and still strutting her stuff."

-- HOMER SYKES (Canadian-born/British photographer)

Source: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6560111/amp.

#WendyTigerPearson #FashionStudent #DanceClub #Nightclubbing #BlitzClub #Nightclub #Fashion #Dancing #1980s #BlitzKids #CoventGarden #LondonScene #LondonEngland #London #Photography #HomerSykes #VintageStyle #Minidress

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hislopchino · 2 years

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Angus Deayton

Photo by Homer Sykes

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#Photo #Angus Deayton

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vecchiorovere-blog · 2 years

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Gira il tuo viso verso il sole e le ombre cadranno dietro di te. (Proverbio Maori) Homer Sykes, 1974

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nedsecondline · 1 year

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East London In The 1970s: The Photos of Homer Sykes — beetleypete

From his time as a student living in West London until the present day, Homer Sykes has travelled across the city to take photos in the run down working-class districts of Whitechapel and Spitalfields. These photos were taken during the 1970s. Photographs copyright © Homer Sykes The influx of immigrants to the area caused a […] East London In The 1970s: The Photos of Homer Sykes — beetleypete

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pastedpast · 1 year

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The focus of Homer Sykes’ photography is “primarily about Britain. The emphasis is on social documentary reportage, traditional folklore customs and annual events”. The breadth of his work can be found via his archive here.

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joeinct · 3 years

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