EOS, goddess of the dawn — cursed by aphrodite with an unquenchable desire for young men

Let’s talk about Lilith’s birth. Both the Zohar and the Treatise of the Left Emanation discuss her origin and list her as a wife/consort of Samael so we’ll focus on those myths. The Treatise of the Left Emanation is a Kabbalistic text attributed to Rabbi Isaac ha-Kohen. In this text, Lilith is not only the wife of Samael, but she and Samael “were born as one, similar to the form of Adam and Eve who were also born as one, reflecting what is above.” What’s meant by this is that Adam and Eve and Samael and Lilith were born with each couple sharing one androgynous form before being separated. Samael and Lilith are then united in unholy matrimony with the help of Tanin'iver (“Blind Serpent”) God, of course, can’t just let these two lovebirds go around reproducing so he castrates Samael. This part appears to draw heavily on the myth of the male and female Leviathans who were kept from reproducing because their offspring would destroy the world. In the Zohar, as in the Treatise of Left Emanation, Lilith is born conjoined with Samael. It’s clear in this text that God was not directly involved with her creation. Instead, she and Samael come either from the ‘Great Supernal Abyss’ or from the “dregs of the wine.” Anthropologist Raphael Patai describes this best. He says the dregs of the wine refers to “Gevura or Din, the “Power” of God, chiefly manifested as the power of stern judgment and punishment, one of the ten Sefiroth or mystical attributes of God. This stern, punitive aspect of God has, at its lowest manifestation, some affinity with the realm of evil which is referred to as “the dregs of the wine,” and it is out of this that Lilith emerged together with Samael.”

Yamata-no-Orochi

The scourge of ancient Nippon.

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SUPERNATURAL BEINGS

@mythonetwork: event 3: favorite locations: the nine worlds

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[A] - the Alfes (Nordic elves)

The Ljósálfar (Light Elves) live in Álfheimr, and the Dökkálfar (Dark Elves) live in Svartalfheim.

POPULATION CONTROL IS HARD BUT FLOOD MYTHS ARE FUN

THE GODS HAVE CREATED MANKIND TO SERVE THEM. PRETTY FUCKING SIMPLE. THE PEOPLE SERVE THE GODS AND EVERYTHING IS FINE. BUT THE HUMANS KEEP HAVING BABIES AND SUDDENLY THERE’S A METRIC FUCKTONNE OF PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE FUCKING LOUD. THEY’RE SO FUCKING LOUD THAT THE GOD ENLIL CAN’T GET ANY FUCKING SLEEP.

HE DECIDES TO GET RID OF SOME OF THESE NOISY FUCKS WITH A BIG-ASS DROUGHT. WHEN THIS DOESN’T STOP THEM, HE SENDS A PLAGUE AND THEN A FAMINE. BUT THESE HUMANS ARE HARDY FUCKS AND KEEP GETTING HELP FROM THE OTHER GODS. TO BE FUCKING FAIR THE FAMINE DID FUCK MOST PEOPLE OVER, THE FEW SURVIVING FAMILIES HAD RESORTED TO DELICIOUS DELICIOUS CANNIBALISM. 

ENLIL IS STILL ANGRY AT HUMANITY AND CONVINCES THE OTHER GODS TO HELP HIM CREATE A MASSIVE FLOOD. JUST BEFORE THE FLOOD, ENKI TAKES PITY ON ONE HUMAN FUCKER, ATRAHASIS, AND DECIDES TO TELL HIM WHAT THE FUCK IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN. 

ENKI TELLS ATRAHASIS TO PULL DOWN HIS FUCKING HOUSE AND BUILD A BIG-ASS BOAT. THEN HE SHOULD CHUCK HIS FAMILY AND A SHIT TONNE OF BIRDS AND ANIMALS INTO THE BOAT (THIS SHIT SOUND FAMILIAR?). THE FLOOD IS REALLY FUCKING INTENSE BUT ONLY LASTS FOR A WEEK WHICH IS KINDA FUCKING DISAPPOINTING. A TONNE OF SHIT DIES AND THE APPROPRIATELY NAMED MOTHER GODDESS MAMI CRIES AND WANTS A BEER. 

EVENTUALLY THE FLOOD FUCKS OFF AND ATRAHASIS AND HIS FAMILY GET OFF THE BOAT AND HAVE AWKWARD CONVERSATIONS ABOUT REPOPULATING THE EARTH. ENLIL IS REALLY FUCKING MAD AT ENKI FOR LETTING SOMEONE SURVIVE, BUT EVENTUALLY THEY AGREE THAT THE GROSS HUMAN POPULATION CAN BE CONTROLLED BY SELECTING SOME WOMEN TO BE PRIESTESSES AND NOT SPAWN. 

Why is this so funny!? Even the tags are in caps

↳ day fourteen: the seven gods who decree fate

fairy tale by Lyubov Shipaeva

Völuspá (The Völva’s Wisdom).

Watercolor, ink wash, and pen on paper.

[ O ] ro: a Polynesian pantheon god, in Tahiti, he was venerated as a god of warfare, and was the Tahitian main deity of worship. He lived with his sisters, Teouri and Oaaoa, on Mount Pahia, on the island of Bora Bora. His wife was Vairaumati, who he later made a goddess. During peacetime, he became the god of fine arts.