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The Beast is calling
Tell him I’m not here. Let’s hide
Where? In garbage. Natch
My bus is in flames
My son is older than me
Please, Zeus, make it stop
A walk through the woods
Voices driving me bonkers
I hate spaghetti
Aquaman driving
Couldn’t possibly be worse
Oh, wait, now it is
Chapter XLIX that's so sweet
Whoever did this,you're amazing🤠
Hermes: Hey, can you teach me to play the trumpet?
Apollo: Why?
Hermes: Because I want to follow Zeus around and annoy him with it.
Dionysus: Technically you don't need to know how to play the trumpet to do that.
Hermes: You're so right-
Apollo: So how depressed have you been feeling?
Dionysus: I don't care anymore if my foot hangs over the bed where a monster can get it.
Apollo: *whispers* Holy shit....
Athena: Whoever took my coffee: admit it, and you'll be forgiven.
Olympus:
Athena: Smart. You knew I wouldn't forgive you.
Demeter: What are you doing?
Hermes: Helping Hephaestus look for his box of corn flakes that I ate an hour ago.
Athena: We’ve been conducting an ongoing study to see what Ares will and will not eat.
Persephone: Grass? Yes!
Athena: Moss? Yes.
Persephone: Leaves? Ohh, yes!
Athena: Shoelaces? Strange, but true.
Persephone: Worms? Sometimes!
Athena: Rocks? Usually no.
Persephone: Twigs? Usually!
Athena: Aphrodite's cooking? Inconclusive!
Apollo: How did you… test this?
Athena: You just hand them stuff and say ‘eat this’ and if they eat it, they eat it.
Apollo: ... I don’t know how to feel about this.
Aphrodite: IS THAT WHERE ALL MY SPARE SHOELACES WENT?
Greek Gods as Cats
Hades:
Apollo:
Aphrodite:
Hermes:
Hera:
Poseidon:
Hephaestus, falling off of mount Olympus:
A fact is what won’t go away, what we cannot not know, as Henry James remarked of the real. Yet when we bring one closer, stare at it, test our loyalty to it, it begins to shimmer with complication. Without becoming less factual, it floats off into myth. Italo Calvino’s Mr Palomar looks at the sky, his lawn, the sea, starlings, tortoises, Roman rooftops, a girl, giraffes and much else. He wants only to observe, to learn a modest lesson from creatures and things. But he can’t. There is too much to see in them, for a start. … And there is too much of himself and his culture in the world he watches anyway: the universe is littered with the signs of our needs, with mythologies.
Michael Wood
he lays there
in that dark embrace
with salt coated lungs
and a rotting tongue
he still sees
the sunlight holding
his body and laying
him down so gently
and when the
cold rushes in and
he can do nothing,
that golden boy
will cradle his
body, crumbling at the
touch, and he’ll laugh
one last time
- because he could never outshine a star
I’m doing a project involving a bunch of illustrations of mythical creatures, and here is the 贔屭 (Bìxì in Mandarin and bei hei in Canto). He’s one of the 9 sons of the Dragon King and is described as a dragon with a tortoise shell. I love him.
We are all heroes struggling to accomplish our adventure. As human beings, we engage in a series of struggles to develop as individuals and to find our place in society. Beyond that, we long for wisdom: we want to understand the nature of the universe and the significance of our role in it.
Dave Whomsley, “Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand faces”, in Eva M. Thury and Margaret K. Devinney (ed.), Introduction to Mythology, third edition, 2013.
A - Z Challenge: @ibuzoo vs @lxcuna
[ D ] uyong: mermaids from Malaysian mythology, their basic shape - the upper body of a human woman paired with a fish tail - comes from the legend of Atargatis, the Assyrian goddess of the moon and fertility. Unlike western mermaids, they tend to be of a mournful nature, a behavioral trait also derived from Atargatis.
How do you kill a God?
Aphrodite laughs, head tossed back with stars in her hair, ‘We are immortal. We are ageless. We will never die.’
How do you kill a God?
Hera sighs, ‘You rob them of love and loyalty. They will be alone and unhappy, and eternity will seem like a punishment, but it is not death.’
How do you kill a God?
Zeus declares, rather confidently, ‘You deny them their power. Poseidon nods his head in agreement. ‘They will be weak and defeated, perhaps even chopped up into pieces, but it is not death.’
How do you kill a God?
Apollo closes his eyes. ‘You strip them of their senses. Their eyes, and they cease to see. Their ears, and they are rendered silent. They will be in the dark, conscious and cut off for millennium, but it is not death.’
How do you kill a God?
Hades whispers, though still his voice carries, ‘With another God. An immortal for an immortal. Era for an Era. A celestial being to strip another’s soul. He pauses, the rest are silent. ‘A God for a God.’
L.H.Z // How do you kill a God?
greek mythology: the olymipian council
the twelve olympians, also known as the dodekatheon, were the principal deities of the Greek pantheon, said to reside atop mount olympus. the olympians gained their supremacy in a war of gods in which zeus led his siblings to victory over the titans.
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Ammit’s icon credits: https://www.deviantart.com/yliade/art/Ammit-Egyptian-Gods-793078403
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