#mythology
The latest free reviews on Bogi Reads the World: a fantasy graphic novel that was a pleasant surprise, a small volume of queer prose poetry, and a vintage YA science fiction book!
https://www.bogireadstheworld.com/reviews-sina-lemus-hoover/
#Bookstodon @bookstodon #Books #BookReviews #BogiReads #ScienceFiction #SpeculativeFiction #Fantasy #GraphicNovels #Iran #Mythology #Latine #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #Queer #YA
Watching #3000YearsOfLonging & spellbound 🧞♂️
#storytelling #mythology #fantasy #literature #film #movies #Turkey #SilentSunday #Sunday #magic
#WritingWonders 6/4: MC POV: Last time you travelled?
Bran: Ha! Well, Bless me! I shouldn't have much reason to leave the Isle of the mighty, but for this awkward situation in Erinne. So off I went with the brave men of Britain across the sea. Well, I might do more sailing myself if I could find a big enough boat! Ha!! Lucky for me, the waters between here and Erin isn't all that deep, a mere 60 fathoms. A little chilly maybe, but an easy walk for one of my stature! HAHAHA!!
I listened to 2 episodes of the #feminist #sff #podcast "Breaking the glass slipper" today and both books sounded so exciting!
"The surviving sky" by Kritika H. Rao is a science #fantasy inspired by Hindu #mythology where humanity lives in plant-based cities high up that are sculpted by magical architects. The protags who have to save the world are a married couple with an interesting dynamic, and apparently the wife is full of rage 👀
`Each of us was thought to have a kind of detachable aura, like a shell, around us. It looked exactly like us and could wander like a ghost in places distant from our bodies. Encountering one’s #fetch had various meanings: If you met yourself in the morning, it meant good luck was coming; but if you ran into your exact image in the evening or near a graveyard, death was on the way. Those with second sight could see the fetches of other people as well as their own. The fetch was apparently distinct from the co-walker, which could be a fairy or ghost rather than an aura.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/IcySedgwick/status/1009730259770642437
Everything Wrong With #Deuteronomy 21 in the #Bible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm_Ul2m-UyA
#OT #judaism #lynching #2wives #animals #religion #dead #mythology #moses #sundayschool #atheism #atheist #legends
`In #Ireland the eel was a plentiful source of food during its annual spring migration. Said to grow out of horsehairs left too long in the water, eels were believed to have the ability to reincarnate themselves. They were sometimes said to travel across land to graveyards, where they slithered underground and ate the corpses. In Co. Clare, near Lisvannor, a monster eel called an Ollipheist or eascú crawled up from the water to sneak into graveyards and feast. It was pursued across the country by the outraged residents and finally killed near the cairn called Conn Connachtach in Kilshanny, some miles distant from the sea.
Eels appear in myth as well as folklore: The fearsome goddess ‘Mórrígan appeared as an eel to the hero #CúChulainn, perhaps in her role as a foreteller of doom. The monstrous Caoranach fought with saints and heroes from the depths of Lough Derg (“dark red lake,” called so after her blood shed copiously at her death).`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/McconnellEryn/status/1585150748564029441
#folklore #mythology @folklore
Hey guys! A HUGE folklore library, online and free. Happy Pride Month
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“Just as every #fairy mound had its queen, so also did it have a fool, the #Amadán, who served the queen loyally, even blindly, unaware of the difficulties he caused. It was the Amadán who could cause a stroke by the mere touch of his hand over human flesh. While some describe the Amadán as malicious—and certainly his behavior caused difficulties for his victims—he is more often depicted as too dim-witted to understand the (sometimes dire) consequences he wrought.
The fool also appears in oral folklore and in written texts as a hapless human simpleton, as in the story of “Shawn an Omadawn,” recorded by several early collectors, wherein a somewhat stupid boy winds up outwitting his more intelligent siblings or companions. In a tale from the Fenioan Cycle called the Adventure of the Great Amadán (Eachtra an Amadáin Mhóir), the fool was really the son of a king, dispossessed of his lands by invasion. Hiding in the wildwood, he grew into a hairy giant who, despite his unattractive features, married into the usurping family, only to kill his in-laws in retribution for their crimes. After many adventures and battles, the Amadán was restored to his own family and went forth to battle other giants.”
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
https://twitter.com/MinaStillwater/status/1592851574916644865
Jesus Fables | #Jesus #Myth-Telling with #Bible Scholar Richard C. Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICKWpqzo59E
Groundbreaking book: "#Resurrection and Reception in Early #Christianity." With a flair for #intellectual acrobatics, he fearlessly navigates the treacherous waters of comparative #mythology, unmasking the awe-inspiring parallels between the resurrection narratives of Jesus and the enchanting translation #fables of #Greek and #Roman #lore.
#SUNDAYSCHOOL #christian #religion
Otro de la serie "chica con cosas en la cabeza" #Rol #Krita #Mar_cuayada #Ttrpg #Asturias #Mitologia #mythology
New story live on my blog: #Hermes invents a new sport to hit on the beautiful god #Apollon:
https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-hermes-and-apollon-the-invention-of-wrestling-gay/
#mythology #erotica #gayfiction #gayerotica @mythology @smutstodon @lgbtqbookstodon #mlm #PrideMonth
Sacrifice, Society, Butchers, and Philosophy
#History #IndoEuropean #Culture #SocialHierarchy #Hierarchy #Community #Sacrifice #CreationMyths #Mythology
https://moderntraditional.com/2023/06/sacrifice-society-butchers-philosophy/
I wrote about Pandora’s box and the silence of the art object.
#WritingWonders 6/3: Art share!
I'm pretty sure I've shared this before, but the first image here is a map I made of Cantre're Gwaelod, the sunken city, from Book 1. The second is the cover for book 1.
The third image is where I'm at with character design for book 2. All characters here have been drawn to scale (actually I think Bran might be a little bigger but the paper was only so large.) As should be obvious, I'm not an accomplished illustrator 😅
#WritingWonders 6/2: Any fictional locations inspired by real-life.
Book 2 of Taliesin is mythological fiction. So most of the places are real historical locations. Cantre'r Gwaelod is a mythic kingdom built on Cardigan Bay.
Book 1 was set in Wales. A lot of Book 2 will be set in Ireland so I'm neck deep in research. I know the characters cross the River "Lidon" according to my source text but I'm trying to figure out if that's the same as the Shannon or not.
It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇
"If he [#Ampelos] joined with a yearsmate hunter to follow chase, Dionysos jealous held him back, lest another be struck like himself with a heartbewitching shaft, and now enslaved by love should seduce the fickle boy's fancy."
Nonnons, Dionysiaka 10.230
🎨 #Dionysos, supported by the satyr #Ampelus. Gaeco-Roman bronze, 1st century BCE-CE, today in the Royal-Athena Galleries, New York
Long, sunny, beautiful days like this always remind me of these lines from Milton:
“from Morn
To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve,
A Summers day; and with the setting Sun
Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star”
But so many things remind me of Milton and make me quote him.
The lines here link the devil Mulciber with Hephaestus, who fell on Lemnos thrown by Zeus in the Iliad.
Top 10 Monsters in the Bible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RLsCXAYm-s&list=WL
#mythology #legends #myths #KJV #bible #creatures #monsters #dragons #unicorns
June is the best month to join my #Patreon: not only will there be a story featuring the two-sexed deity #Hermaphroditos, I'm also pausing billing for July, so you get 2 months at the price of one. 🙂
There won't be a new story in July but a catalogue of 87 stories and 36 non-fiction articles should help bridge the gap. I write in about equal parts #mlm, #wlw, and wlm/mlw.
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
Mirror case depicting two women bathing before a statue of #Aphrodite on a pillar. The goddess is of the Aphrodite Anadyomene type, Aphrodite rising from the sea, her pose suggesting that she is wringing out her hair.
🏛️ Roman mirror case dated 110–117 CE, today in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #mythology #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @mythology @histodons
#CallForPapers: #ImaginaryBeings for a special issue of Imagining the Impossible: International #Journal for the #Fantastic in Contemporary #Media.
Wanted for this issue: original articles on the role of imaginary beings in #classical and #contemporary narratives.
#Fantasy #ScienceFiction #SFF #Mythology #Folklore #SpeculativeFiction #PopularCultureStudies #MediaStudies #Books #Television #Film #Games #Academics
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/05/26/imaginary-beings
A Deep in Japan podcast interview is in production on the life and times of Japan's great saint Kūkai, Esoteric Buddhism from India to East Asia, and Zen Buddhism. Meanwhile, you might like to listen to the Deep in Japan podcast on "Japanese Prehistory and Mythology" (2020) or Japancasting Episode 16, the recorded presentation “Encountering Famous East-West Bridge Persons across the U.S. to Japan” (2022), among the Multimedia links at https://japanned.hcommons.org/multimedia
#podcast #podcasting #Japan #Asia #Buddhism #religion #religions #mythology #philosophy #history #AsianReligions
Remembered to say “red rabbits day”, first thing this morning. Chuffed as I think I’ve only ever managed this once or twice since learning about it as a kid at school. After telling a colleague, I checked Wikipedia and found out it should be “white rabbit” ffs https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit_rabbit_rabbit #mythology
“From an ancient Taíno perspective, the hurakan was an expression of the fury of Guabancex, mistress of violent churnings of wind and rain, and one of the manifestations of Atabey (the consciousness of Mother Earth). Guabancex is chaos incarnate; yet, her power was not seen as merely a destructive force of death, but part of a transformational cycle leading to new life and balance.”
https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/abuelas-ancestors-and-atabey-spirit-taino-resurgence
“Hurricane” comes from the Taíno word “Huricán”, the Carib god who represents Guavava & Coatrische, the 2 messengers of Guabancex, the Taíno deity of wind. They controlled tempests and floods, and “accounts … show that offerings were made to her idol to appease [her] wrath, in order to avert tempests [from destroying the crops] rather than to bring rain.” (fr. “An Antillean Statuette, with Notes on West Indian Religious Beliefs”, J. Walter Fewkes)
#WritingWonders 6/1 Where's the 1st place you'd go in the #WIP ?
I'm jumping back to the Taliesin series I'm doing. For book 1 I'd head straight to Cantre'r Gwaelod to see if I got it right 😉
I'm just starting book 2, but I'd first want to hop over to Ireland and check out the house Matholwch builds for Bran, the giant. A monumental battle takes place all within the house, so I'm going to need to take notes on some floor plans.
Pan removing a thorn from a Satyr’s foot
Marble, 2nd century CE
#TheLouvre 🇫🇷
#PhallusThursday
#kunst #ArtHistory #Arte #ArtMuseum #ArtMatters #MuseumArchive #mythology #AncientRome #Paris
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
#Ganymedes feeding and caressing #Zeus in the shape of an eagle. Zeus will eventually abduct Ganymedes and make him his lover, immortal and forever young.
🏛️ Roman relief, late 1st century BCE, Hermitage Museum
#DayOfZeus #Zeus #Mythology #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt #antiquidons @antiquidons @histodons @mythology
#mythology #folklore #ghosts #yurei
@folklore
A reminder from #YureiHouseClothing❤️❤️❤️👻👻👻🩲🩲🩲
In pre-monotheist cultures they maintained a rigorous practice of offerings to the ancestors and the dead in general. Sadly, many of those practices have been forgotten and ghosts don't die! But they DO get hungry! Be a good folklore/mythology fan and offer something to your local dead today. You can support your local dead with many kinds of offerings. The dead shouldn't have to un-live in poverty!
`In #Irish #mythology, many characters had particular animals they were associated with. Ulster’s hero, #CúChulainn, had two special horses which pulled his chariot. Their names were Liath Macha, meaning the ‘grey of Macha’, and Dub Sainglend, the ‘black of Saingliu’. They were said to have emerged from the pool of Linn Liaith in the mountains of Sliabh Fuaid as a gift from the goddess, #Macha. This association with water clearly indicates their Otherworldly origin. Cuchulainn leaped onto their backs and rode them around the whole of Ireland in just one day, after which they were tamed.`
Source: Ali Isaac #Celtic
The cup-bearer, a rare exemplar of the ancient-modern Cycladic style: "The outstretched right arm, with the slightly flexed elbow, profters a small beaker. The freely extended hand is an extremely rare feature in Cycladic sculpting". 2800-2300 BCE #AncientArt #Art #sculpture #AncientGreek #Cyclades #Aegean #Greece #Ganymede #mythology #archaeology
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Hermes is putting his sandals on for #PrideMonth 🌈
🏛️ Gold finger ring engraved with an image of Hermes from the Greek colony of Tarentine in Southern Italy, 4th century BCE. Today in the MET, New York.
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology @mythology @antiquidons #ancientGreece
#Yahweh Inspired FALSE #Religions to Prepare for #Jesus?? (feat. Dr Dennis MacDonald)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ88sXZf9ao
For @ColdCaseChristianity J Warner Wallace, he used to consider the #Bible to be more like #mythology than #history... and not even original mythology at that. But now, the good detective seems to think that #God inspired all the false religions before #Christianity as a way to signal how really-real Christianity is.
Charles Edward Perugini's "Pandora's Box" shows the famous (infamous?) maiden setting evils loose, being so innocent...or is she? After all, behind that expression, maybe she feels like getting even in the most final possible fashion. Who among us has not been there?
#art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #beautifulwoman #beautifulgirl #mythology
It's #CupOfTeaSocial #QuizQuestion time! It's #Tuesday today (at least, it is where I am while I'm writing this, time is weird). In English Tuesday is named for Tiw (AKA Týr), who is a Norse god. What is Tiw the god of?
#scifi isn't prophecy anymore than #mythology is.
Stories of destructive #ai are reflections of our anxieties at the time, just like how myths of gods warring with titans reflect anxieties of ancient Greeks.
Working on revising my "Spin the Globe" #storytelling program this week. It's a program where I let the audience spin an actual globe and point somewhere, and I tell them a folktale or legend from that place.
🌏 🌍 🌎
(Yes, if they point at the ocean, I am prepared for that too.)
If anyone wants to try, spin and point, and I'll tell you what story I chose 😄
As a reminder, I dislike using the term "fairie" for spirits unless it's specifically about British/Celtic/French mythology and folklore. The term creates all sorts of associations which might not apply to spirits from German folklore, much less to spirits from other continents.
And I'd rather not view entities from global folklore and mythology through a primarily British lens. #folklore #fairy #spirit #mythology
In LEGENDS IN THE HEIGHTS: When your world just gets a whole lot bigger.
https://www.gocomics.com/legends-in-the-heights/2023/05/26
#serialized #comic #LegendsInTheHeights #MiddleGrade #MiddleSchool #LegendaryCreatures #CityOfLegends #Mythology #Cyclops
What if unicorns looked like this?
Like a strange 20th century chimerical cryptid.
Would they sill have graced the covers of Lisa Frank binders?? 🤔
🎨 : https://dice.camp/@weirdmedieval@bird.makeup/110395292633161470
#folklore #mythology #unicorn #medieval #history #illustration #cryptid #cryptids
The Wild Hunt is calling! Join Ether & Ichor and the upstairs neighbours' dogs for a ride with the eternal hunters across Scandinavia, the Pacific islands, the world of DC comics, and more.
https://vcaudley.blogspot.com/2023/05/ether-ichor-3x07-goat-riders-and-this.html
Everytime I rise I see you falling
Can you find me space inside your
bleeding heart
[Placebo - "Passive Agressive"]
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Illustration for "Rojo y Oro" - "Red and Gold" -, young adult book written by Iria G. Parente and Selene M. Pascual.
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Otra ilustración para "Rojo y Oro", novela juvenil escrita por Iria G. Parente and Selene M. Pascual.
Greetings, myth lovers! Join us next #Monday for our theme REVENGE 🗡️
Which myths are all about revenge? Tell us the #story in your toot and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
Your host @aimeemaroux is anxiously awaiting your toots with dramatic revenge #stories 😳
🎨 Medea, sculpture by William Wetmore Story, dated 1868–1880 CE
#mythology #folklore #folktale #legends #Storytelling @mythology @folklore @folklorethursday #NorseMythology #GreekMythology #EgyptianMythology #CelticMythology #AztecMythology #HinduMythology
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
This is the best preserved of the column drums carved in relief. It shows a youthful winged #Thanatos (death), a draped woman, and a figure of #Hermes Psychopompos, leader of souls to the underworld.
🏛️ From the south-west corner of the later temple of Artemis, Ephesos. Dated ca. 325-300 BCE. Today in the British Museum.
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology @mythology @antiquidons #ancientGreece
Thank you, myth lovers, for your #MythologyMonday stories about turtles and tortoises!
This is your host @AimeeMaroux signing off 👋
Join us next week here on #Mastodon for a new theme!
#mythology #folklore #folktale #stories #legends @mythology @folklore
His ear to heaven
Orpheus plucked birdsong sweet
On grass thick with snakes
#MastoPrompt Birdsong
#haiku #mythology
It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / #Tuesday!
"The gifts of Ares are swords and brazen tunics to array the limbs and helmets and spears and whatsoever things Enyo delights in."
Oppian, Halieutica 2. 24
🎨 Gem engraving depicting #Ares-#Mars in military dress standing, head facing left. He is holding his spear and leaning upon a round shield. Slightly convex surface.
#DayOfAres #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientRome #GreekRomanArt @antiquidons @histodons @mythology
The Bee Tarot will be out sometime in 2024. I can't wait to see the whole deck.
#SacredSisters #Spirituality #WomensWisdom #Goddess #GoddessStudies #SacredFeminine #
SacredBeekeeping #WheeloftheYear #Mythology #Magick #Folklore #FolkTradition #Beekeeping #Bee
Greetings, myth lovers! Join us this #Monday for #WorldTurtleDay! 🐢
Which myths are about turtles, tortoises or terrapins? Tell us the #story in your toot and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
Your host @aimeemaroux will be delighted to see you come out of your shell and join us by telling a turtle myth 💚
🎨 Aboriginal rock painting of a turtle, Kakadu National Park, Australia
#mythology #folklore #folktale #legends #Storytelling @mythology @folklore @folklorethursday #NorseMythology #GreekMythology #EgyptianMythology #CelticMythology #AztecMythology #HinduMythology
KALEVANIA | Metroidvaniaesque platformer - SNES style! Native Linux! 💥
Relive classic console gaming via this blast of a retro indie platformer spiced up with nordic mythos.
50 enemy types & variations, powers galore, upgrades, and collectibles to discover - no shortage of excitement as you keep kicking butt as Gan... err Väinämöinen. 🧙♂️
=> https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/kalevania
=> https://store.steampowered.com/app/2387950/Kalevania
#gaming #Linux #metroidvania #Kalevania #SNES #retro #Kalevala #nordic #indie #Steam #platformer #action #JukkaMattila #GamesByMichi #adventure #fantasy #mythology
#Hesperis matronalis blooms in May and you'll never forget this #scent of warm spring evenings. The plant has names like Mother-of-the-Evening, #Nachtviole, Matronenblume, #Giroflée des Dames, and more mythic ones.
I'll never forget these #flowers. With them, I found my sense of smell again in that hard spring of 2020. I needed nearly one year to be able to write about the plant. Memories come back with this: ▶️
https://www.cronenburg.net/sweet-lady-violet/ #florespondence #May #mythology #plants #ReconnectWithNature
@Windspeaker Thanks for flagging this compelling read. I read Bad Cree at my cabin yesterday and ahead of Jesse Johns' appearance at the Northwords Writers festival. https://northwordsnwt.com/2023-festival/guest-authors/ An excellent novel with some great messages about relationships of all kinds, @bookstodon
#AmReading #horror #mythology #gender #culture #Indigenous #books
So I am told that the name of Foodora (food delivery service) is a reference to Pandora, and... I am not sure they understood what the story was about 😆
Did you know that the #Roma believe that #pumpkins can turn into #vampires?
Some Romani people believe that keeping a pumpkin for too long will turn it, while others believe that keeping them post-Christmas will do it.
The vampiric Cucurbita will "fight" each other when kept together, they will start moving about, and harm people.
The damage isn't severe, however, so the offending fruit is simply boiled and thrown out.
The turning can be recognised by the "blood" forming on it.
Oh, we do love to be beside the seaside (unlike Skaði)! Join Ether & Ichor Podcast this week for some fun with the mythology of the sea.
Links and more on the blog: https://vcaudley.blogspot.com/2023/05/ether-ichor-3x06-cilla-black-and.html
Narcissus (1599) by Italian Baroque master Caravaggio.
In Greek mythology, Narcissus was a hunter who was known for his beauty. According to Tzetzes, he rejected all romantic advances, eventually falling in love with his own reflection in a pool of water, staring at it for the remainder of his life.
https://stellar-art.pixels.com/featured/narcissus-1599-caravaggio.html
In the 10th century, Persian traveler Buzurg ibn Shahriyar wrote in his book about a jinn market located in Kashmir.
According to local informants the jinn marketplace was located in luscious gardens among running streams. The jinn could be heard around the gardens buying and selling, but no one ever saw them.
Sadly he doesn't record more than that. Even though, it sounds like a fascinating setting for a story. 🧞 🧞♀️
#FolktaleMoment #histodon #folklore #mythology #WyrdWednesday #storytelling
Howdy folks! I just moved servers, so it's like I'm starting from scratch, I should probably do a new #introduction post. I've been a nerd all my life and I use my overactive imagination and love of #Mythology and the #paranormal to write and draw my slice-of-paranormal-life graphic novel Wapsi Square. http://wapsisquare.com/
I also dabble in #fieldrecording, #sounddesign, #animation, and scale model building. Looking forward to seeing you all around. ^_^
📸 Stock photo of an eagle owl by U. Gernhoefer
I also wrote this piece on #birds in #GreekMythology for #NationalBirdDay:
https://eroticmythology.com/birds-of-greek-mythology/
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#Celtic #MythologyMonday: „In #Irish #mythology, #swans are usually depicted as shape-shifters, capable of transforming into human and bird form at will. They could be distinguished from normal swans by the gold or silver chain which hung about their necks.“
Source: Ali Isaac
https://twitter.com/jimfitzpatrick/status/1172579974810886146
A selkie for #MerMay (the mermaid 🧜♀️ celebration month)!
This is a hard-carved and printed lino block print of a selkie shedding her skin, seated on rocks, surrounded by harbour seals.
In Celtic, Norse, Faroese and Icelandic mythology, selkies (also spelled silkies, sylkies, selchies) or selkie folk meaning 'seal folk' can change from seal to human form by shedding their skin.
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#linocut #printmaking #selkie #folklore #harbourSeals #silkies #mermaid #mythology #MastoArt
`In #Scotland cattle were preserved from the influence of witchcraft by placing garlands of rowan and honeysuckle around their necks. Red threads tied in their hair or woven into the wreaths likewise protected dairy cattle from milk-stealing witches, who were especially active on #Beltane.`
Source: P. Monaghan `Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
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RT @AspectTree
In Britain, Rowan was also believed to provide protection from witchcraft and enchantment as faeries were thought to live in the white flowers -…
https://twitter.com/AspectTree/status/1164512811873132546
Daffodils are named after Narcissus, from Ovid's Metamorphoses.
It starts with Echo, a nymph who was cursed by Juno because she stalled the Goddess by chatting while Jupiter and his mistresses escaped her wrath.
"Your tongue, so freely wagged at my expense, shall be of little use."
Echo could now only repeat the last few words she heard.
When she saw Narcissus in the forest, she fell in love with him but could not speak to him. When she finally throws her arms around him, he rejects her.
She then prayed to the gods, "If he should love, deny him what he loves!" Nemesis answers her, and when Narcissus looks into the water and sees his reflection, he falls in love with it. He stays there staring until he dies, “And in his body's place a sweet flower grew, golden and white, the white around the gold.”
Some accounts for learning on #FollowFriday -
@mariapopova - wonderful articles from "The Marginalian" - #literature, #philosophy, and #culture
@whencyclopedia - bot posting articles from World History Encyclopedia - #history #bot
@mythologymonday - posts on #folklore and #mythology from around the world
@fivebooks - list of extensive #book recommendations every few days - #bookstodon
@ProPublica - excellent investigative journalism from the US - #newstodon #journalism
For those of you who have a soft spot for Cassandra in Greek mythology:
There is at least one Classical source that claims that she survived, and that she - along with her twin brother Helenus, her mother Queen Hecuba, and Hector's widow Andromache - started a new life in Chersonesus.
There's your happy ending for today.
Hello everyone! Join us for Monday's theme: Disappearances. Which myths feature a disappearance? Write out a brief story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts.
#mythology #folklore #folktale #legends @mythology @folklore @folklorethursday #AztecMythology #CelticMythology #ChineseMythology #EgyptianMythology #GreekMythology #HinduMythology
#JapaneseMythology #NorseMythology
Photograph: Ceremonial throne of Princess Sitamun Location: Egyptian Museum, Cairo Date: April 2023
Sitamun's throne was found in the burial chambers of her maternal grandparents.
The view of the right arm-rest depicts the goddess Taweret in the center, and two views of the god Bes (one holding two knives, the other a tambourine).
Taweret and Bes were both household protectors.
#Egyptology
#goddess #god #Bes #Taweret
#religion #mythology #polytheism
#ancient #ancientart #woodwork
#et
It's been so nice to drink tea each morning with my red-bellied #woodpecker friend this week. He has so many things to say, I hope I can hear them all.
Perhaps, like in the story of his namesake Picus, he's warning me of the risks involved in scorning the love of witches and goddesses of the woods.
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
Meet this gorgeous blue chalcedony gem depicting goddess #Aphrodite in the nude, checking out her behind in a hand mirror.
Dated ca. 4th century BCE.
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #mythology #GreekRomanArt #ancientGreece @antiquidons @mythology @histodons #BumDayMonday
"If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then mythology has no claim to the appellation. But if that which tends to make us happier and better can be called useful, then we claim that epithet for our subject. For mythology is the handmaid of literature; and literature is one of the best allies of virtue and promoters of happiness." — Thomas Bulfinch ("Bulfinch’s Mythology", 1881) #quotes #reading #mythology
A first century fresco of the Roman spring goddess Flora, found in the ancient city of Stabiae.
#Dionysos, endowed with supernatural abilities by being gestated in the thigh of #Zeus, is on his way to spread his cult to Argos, where another demigod son of Zeus is king: #Perseus:
https://eroticmythology.com/fiction-sons-of-zeus-dionysia/
#fantasy #writing #stories #story #WritersOfMastodon #mythology #GreekMythology @mythology @writing
That wraps up our #MythologyMonday theme on Children. This is your host signing off. Join @AimeeMaroux next week for a new theme! Have a good week!
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Would love to find more folks who share similar interests!
By way of #Introduction (or reintroduction), here's some stuff I'm into: #weightlifting #baking #DoctorWho #StarTrek #Grogu #ThemeParks #writing (love the #WritingCommunity -- I #AmWritingFantasy) #dogs #puppies, all cute #pets #Basketball #Celtics #NBA #piano #guitar...
I also cohost a monthly podcast on the #astronomy and #mythology of the #constellations and toot #space stuff over on @starrytimepod
Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: Children. Which myths feature children, infants, or babies? Write out a #story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts.
#mythology #folklore #folktale #legends @mythology @folklore @folklorethursday
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Hi, I'm the happy leftist :blobS2xenogender: (they/it). I don't exist according to Prager U. Here mostly to laugh, be silly, make friends and spread leftist propaganda. I come bearing gifts. #memes #porn
Also interested in:
#anarchism #socialism #communism #antifa #ACAB #BLM #LGBTQ #queer #bisexual #NonBinary #genderfluid #xenogender #neurodivergent #ADHD #ExMormon #agnostic #pantheism #polytheism #paganism #mythology #occult #spirituality #tarot #poetry #SciFi #horror #language #linguistics #philosophy #absurdism
In Egyptian mythology the ancient god Osiris was killed and dismembered by his brother Seth.
In an inscription at the temple of Edfu a list is preserved with the locations where the relics of Osiris were kept: His head in Abydos, his legs in Thebes.
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#mythology #egyptian #osiris #seth #Edfu #relics #abydos
#Thebes #mythologymonday
Hi, I'm scholar from Germany, part of a team working on a new Middle High German #dictionary. Apart from #German language and literature I studied Comparative #Religion, leading to a PhD thesis on Erich von Däniken and ancient astronaut #mythology.
In my spare time I dig into the #HistoryOfGames and try to catalogue German #roleplaying #fanzines.
Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹
#Aphrodite riding on a #goose. Drawing after the tondo from an Attic white-ground kylix from Kamiros, Rhodes, attributed to the Pistoxenos Painter.
#DayOfAphrodite #GreekMythology #mythology #GreekRomanArt #ancientGreece @antiquidons @mythology @histodons
The Grackles were out squawking their weird machine-language call. They scream with their whole bodies.
Why are they talked about so much less than Crows, Ravens or Blackbirds? Like I can think of mythology or folklore for the others but not Grackles. I didn't even learn their name until I was an adult.
#GothBirds #CommonGrackle #mythology #folklore #archetype #grackle #bird #birdwatching #birdnerd #BirdPhotography #nature #NaturePhotography
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