SupremePunk #030
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This Punk is inspired by CryptoPunk #4967 and artworks of Kliun. The composition is the main focus in this artwork. SupremePunk #030 consists entirely of triangles. The elongated triangles and their colour, proportion and mutual arrangement of the parts immerse the piece completely in the dark and death-filled underworld of Hades. This SupremePunk itself is similar to a cave - gloomy and dark. So in the European Middle Ages the triangle facing upwards means solar and has symbolism of life, fire, flame, heat. The triangle facing downwards is lunar and has symbolism of water, cold, nature. In this SupremePunk the triangles facing upwards and downwards symbolise the underworld of Hades, which functions separately from the underworld itself.
"The surface consists of triangles"
Hades with Cerberus
Hades is the supreme God of the underworld of the dead. The image itself is similar to a cave - gloomy and dark.
Sharp and long triangles represented his control over the underworld and acted as a reminder that the gates of the Underworld were always locked so that souls could not leave. The three triangles on the left represent Cerberus, Hades' three-headed dog. Even if the doors were open, Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of the Underworld, ensured that while all souls were allowed to enter into The Underworld freely, none could ever escape. The dog is often portrayed next to the god as means of easy identification, since no other deity relates to it so directly. Artists often painted Hades as looking away from the other gods, as he was disliked by them as well as humans, that's why the figure of Hades is turned, but is looking straight ahead.
Jan Brueghel the Younger — "Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld", 1630
Hades himself is the guardian of his kingdom. Homer calls Hades "generous" and "hospitable", as no man is immune to his mortal fate. Hades did not allow any of his citizens to leave his kingdom. In the myths and legends of ancient Greece there was no division into heaven and hell. There was a single realm of the dead called Hades, deep underground. The souls of all the dead went there.
This is how the underworld was portrayed in the famous painting "Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld" by Jan Brueghel the Younger.
Among the Greeks, the delta(triangle symbol) symbolizes the door of life. There is no contradiction in this SupremePunk, as the underworld had its own life - life in the underworld of the dead.
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CryptoPunk #4967 that has been taken as a base
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