Oliver Marinkonski is a tremendously talented digital artist from North Macedonia. As an avid lover of mythology, to take his native Slavic deities and monsters and create models of them in the style of Greek and Roman art. It didn’t stop there, as he wondered how he can reimagine the figures of Greek myth with a clever and often modern twist to them. His works are absolutely stunning, if sometimes a bit unsettling.
1. Hades (Pluto), Greek God of Death
2. Aphrodite (Venus), Greek Goddess of Beauty, Love and Passion
3. Ares (Mars), Greek God of War as Patton
4. Satyrs Were Known as Rowdy Party-Goers in Myth
5. The Snake-Haired Gorgon, Medusa
6. Mermaids Are Often Synonymous with Sirens Who Entice Sailors into a Watery Doom
7. The Philosopher
8. Perun, Supreme God of the Slavic Mythology, Is Very Similar to Zeus
9. The Leshy Is a Slavic Trickster Spirit of the Forest
10. Persephone, Greek Goddess of Spring and the Underworld
11. Veles Is a Slavic God of the Earth and Is Associated with Cattle
12. Devana Is a Slavic Goddess of the Hunt and is the Equivalent of Diana
13. The Alkonost Is a Slavic Creature, Similar to Sirens and Harpies, Who Is Associated with Storms
14. Koschei the Deathless Is an Evil Wizard and Warlord from Russian Legends Who Evaded Death by Sealing and Hiding Away His Soul Inside a Needle’s Hole
15. Morena Is the Slavic Goddess of Death, Rebirth and the Changing of the Seasons
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