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So in light of recent events the new Olympian lore regarding the three kings is:
Zeus rules over the land of the living
Hades rules over the land of the dead
And according to the USA Congress briefing, Poseidon rules over the place where the aliens have been living for the last few decades.
Why does 2024 make me feel like someone opened the Jumanji game again?...
hera’s son
According to the ancient Greeks, the only way you can have miasma is if you murdered someone, so if you think your actions have caused miasma, no they didn't unless you are literally running from the law because the only kind of murder that is legal in this world is a group of crows hanging out, hope this helps!
(Sidenote: The pic below is an attempted murder)
The guy known for this math formula?
Well people in the ancient world thought he was either the son of Apollo or Apollo himself. He had a massive cult following and a golden thigh!
He's also named after Apollo under his Python epithet because just like how the oracle of Delphi is known as the Pythia, Pythagoras himself also had python in his name in reference to Apollo slaying the Python.
-Apollo interviewing his next Pythia...
(Fun fact: traditionally only women over the age of 50 were eligible to be the oracle of Delphi)
"But Nathan, did you see what the gods did to that human from that famous Greek myth?"
Unless specifically stated in the original myth, every human in mythology is royalty! They are the 1%! They live lives closer to that of Donald Trump and Bill Gates than the average person!
Finally re-did my altar!
As the god of Philosophy and Knowledge, Apollo has become my patron deity because he rules over my career and therefore I made a pact with him to work together.
Sidenote: I bought him little crochet flowers!
ALTAR TRAIN
Old pic, but this is mostly still my current setup.
A temple thing I decorated from scratch for deity statues, their candles (scent and/or color associated) and a round temple thing I still must find out how to use.
And next to them, as a little mundane side note, a statue representing myself and a crystal owl for my grandpa.
Yes!!!! Altar 🚂 let's go!!!!!
@lady-pandora-heinstein OMG I LOVE THE LITTLE TEMPLE THAT THE GODS ARE INSIDE OF!
Finally re-did my altar!
As the god of Philosophy and Knowledge, Apollo has become my patron deity because he rules over my career and therefore I made a pact with him to work together.
Sidenote: I bought him little crochet flowers!
do you know of any deities related to reproductive rights? i apologize if this is a silly question 😅
Hi, this isn't a silly question at all!
Unfortunately since women were not considered "people" in the ancient world (they were often seen as baby incubators with the sole purpose of having children which is why they were married off as soon as they got their periods and, unless they were from Sparta, without an education since education for young girls was seen as useless, unlike their brothers who would often receive an education, and sometimes if no other male relative was alive, their younger brother could be in charge of his older sister's life and marriage fate. Could you imagine having your annoying little brother in charge of your life? HELL NO!)
There are no Greek gods officially assigned to reproductive rights because reproductive rights were not a thing for women back then because they didn't have a say in their own life (there may be exceptions but those are super rare) but I believe that as time changes so do the gods which is why I believe any fertility god back then is also a god of reproductive rights, today:
You are free to look into the list of fertility deities in case you prefer someone else but I highly suggest Artemis for a number of reasons:
1) Artemis is one of the oldest fertility gods in the pantheon: She has an older Mycenaean version where she was already a fertility goddess since her older version, A-te-mi-to was a part of an ancient Arcadian tree cult in Greece that had orgies for reproductive purposes so she was firmly a fertility goddess but when they decided to change her from the non-virgin, non-twin Mycenaean version to her post Bronze Age collapse virgin, twin of Apollo version they re-invented her myth to include her helping her mother give birth to her brother Apollo, so she could keep her original title as a fertility goddess.
2) Artemis jealously guarded her own virginity throughout her myths: As the goddess who refuses to be the wife of any man or god she was openly hostile to anyone who challenged her virginity. In some versions, instead of Apollo tricking her into killing Orion who secretly was planning to rape her, she kills Orion herself as a show of self-defense. While bathing naked she turned a peeping Tom into a deer and had his own hunting dogs kill him. She's also aware of her virginity being a desirable target because she uses it to distract the two giants who had imprisoned Ares.
3) She's the unofficial god-mother of the Amazons and she's the head patron goddess of the strong women of Spartan: Her and Ares, the father of the Amazons, are really close so she is often with the Amazons herself. This is probably the closest to children Artemis will ever have since she has no children of her own. She is also the main patron goddess of Sparta (with her brother Apollo), and Spartan women were the exception, they didn't get married until 18, often with combat training and an education, and since they often inherited their dead husband's wealth and kept getting re-married, the two kings in Sparta would often petition the women in Sparta for money to fund whatever war Sparta was involved in since the women of Sparta were often richer than the sitting kings.
So I'm officially a Greco-Roman scholar right? (I finally graduated, yay!) And I also worship the Greek gods so I wanted to share the funniest thing I found while doing research for papers I had to turn in:
Hymenaios is the god of wedding hymns and he's also one of the Erotes that run around with Aphrodite:
And naturally the Erotes are often the offspring of Aphrodite, since they are often portrayed as babies so them being her children makes perfect sense... Right?
EXCEPT HYMENAIOS IS NOT HER BABY!
He is often the child of Apollo (sometimes he's the son of someone else but most popularly, he's a child of Apollo because wedding hymns are often wedding songs and Apollo is the god of music) but he's never related to Aphrodite in any capacity so I just imagine the following conversation happened between them:
Time passes
God of travel
God of communication
God of languages
God of athletics
God of cunning
God of merchants
God of trade
God of MONEY!!!!
He's also a god who can help you with fertility issues, help you communicate with your gods, help you with your magic, sleep, help you communicate with the dead and will help you cross over when you die 'cus he's a psychopomp!
Plus he's a god I often pray to about my dysphoria because his child is Hermaphroditus (Hermes' name is there combined with Aphrodite's which is super cute!)
I can't believe the amount of people who, over the course of my life have been like, "yeah he's funny but, like, what else?"
WHAT ELSE?! He's the father of LUCK!!! In some versions his daughter is Tyche (Fortuna)!
Plus in some versions of his myths (because myths are regional and depend on their cultural context and time period) he invented the Lyre and gave it to Apollo as a peace offering and in some versions even made the pan pipes! Which makes him a god of music!
HERMES IS A JACK OF ALL TRADES AND IN THIS EVER CHANGING WORLD YOU NEED A JACK OF ALL TRADES BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT'S COMING!
Hermes is a fucking Olympian for a reason! Sorry for the foul language but I love him so much!
He is an amazing god to work with and he's a damn good storyteller! He works for both Zeus and Hades and is known to favor humans even in ancient times where the gods were seen as crueler, Hermes has always been a comforting break from the storm.
They are also related to the Chimera and the Hydra, and their half sister is the Sphinx. Their parents are Echidna and Typhon. Have a nice day! 🤗
So a few days ago I was talking to @teawiththegods about a book he had read that was a feminist re-telling of Medea. The author seemed to have lacked a very fundamental understanding of Medea's character because Hecate wasn't mentioned in the book at all, which is wild since Hecate is Medea's go-to goddess for every spell she does!
But as we talked further it was clear the author also lacked a very fundamental understanding of Medea and Jason's relationship towards the end of their separation but it's one of my favorite parts of Medea's story which, in my opinion, makes it feminist by itself but not many people understand that because they lack the ancient context for which it was written that drives the point that:
Hylas and the Water Nymphs by Henrietta Rae (1909)
This art piece always breaks my heart because this is Hylas, the male lover of Hercules who was drinking water by the spring when the water nymphs pulled him down into a nearby river and drowned him.
Hylas and Hercules were aboard the Argos with Jason and the Argonauts before this happened. They stopped mid travel for a travel break and Hylas died calling out to Hercules who couldn't find him.
In the end Hercules desperately searched for him for so long that he didn't realize the Argos had left without them.
The Roman poet Propertius wrote a beautiful poem warning his friend Gallus about having a beautiful male lover who will eventually leave him for women due to Roman societal expectations thus he'd be symbolically taken away from him by nymphs in the same way Hylas was taken away from Hercules by the water nymphs.
Here is a small snippet of the poem:
When you click on the link, look for: Book I:20:1-52: The story of Hylas: a warning to Gallus
Drawing Artemis and a few of her sacred animals and sketching extra bits including the Python version of her brother Apollo while listening to Bambi Thug's Doomsday Blue because it reminds me of Artemis doing a hex in her witchy aspect (Artemis also rules over witchcraft and has A LOT in common with Hecate including the theory that they might have been the same goddess at some point) is not the devotional act I was expecting to be doing right now but here I am so:
