Planets series - Venus

I had long planned a series on the Sol system's planets in my own interpretation - not so much Greco-Roman, but somewhat modern fantastic. Venus is a hellhole with acidic atmosphere and ninety atmospheres pressure at four hundred degrees celsius... the symbols include mythology, though.


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