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Violet • Adult Hellenic Polytheist 🍐🏛☀️ close to me now as I pray, Lady Hera may your gracious form appear
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Anonymous asked:

Hi could I ask whats in the yellow jar with dots? And what is it for? Thank you.

G’day nonny I just remembered I was going to do that more

You’re talking about this piece on my shrine?

Inside are dried yellow rose petals I offered to Herakles two years ago, and at the bottom are pieces of stuffing my dog “offered” at the shrine (aka tore at his new toy and the stuffing came out) before we “wrestled” for Herakles’ entertainment. The blooms on the outside are of the wattle trees native here, little puffs of gold.

Herakles is a protector and the pinnacle of arete and excellence, and so I have kept this on my main shrine ever since.

#Asks#anon#Herakles#oikothen
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thegrapeandthefig
Heracles, by contrast, did not have a singular canonical text, a singular representative story, nor a single homeland. His mythological life is long and rich. Ranging expansively across the Mediterranean, he left traces everywhere. He was remembered as an avid founder of cities (Stephanos of Byzantium lists twenty-three ‘Heracleia’), institutor of rites and festivals, and builder of monuments; he fathered many, many children with dozens of women. His panhellenic renown is equally a matter of shared cult practice: worshipped as god and hero across the Greek world, he was readily recognized by Greeks in the pantheons of their neighbours, and honoured in these places in syncretic cults. As a travelling figure, Heracles gave far-flung communities their own share in the ‘big tradition’. In literature too, Heracles was not monopolized by any one genre; no single prestigious text offered up the authoritative account of him.

▶ Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the World of Greek Myth

#He was EVERYONES hero#Herakles
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verdantlyviolet

Herakles Alexikakos, averter of evils, hear my prayer:

Immortal, world-wise, boundless and irrepressible, Come, O blessed, bringing all charms against disease; With club in hand, drive evil bane away, And with your poisonous darts ward off cruel death.

Orphic Hymn 11, partial

#Herakles#reblog
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tylermileslockett

Heracles 12: Apotheosis

         In great despair, and unbearable pain, Heracles journeys to the Oracle of Delphi where Apollo tells him to build a pyre and let Zeus decide his fate. Heracles trusty nephew, Ioles, assists, and after building the pyre Heracles ascends, asking his friends to light the funeral pyre ablaze.  None would obey, until the warrior and archer, Philoctetes, agrees and is gifted Heracles bow and arrows. With the pyre burning, lightning shoots down from the heavens, spreading the flames. Heracles ascends to Olympus and no bones can be found amongst the pyre ruins.

         Now an immortal in Olympus, Heracles finds resolution with Hera who adopts him as a son. He is wedded for a fourth time, this time to Hebe, goddess of youth and cupbearer to the Olympians.

         An Apotheosis is when a character becomes deified as a god. Heracles divine spirit ascends to Olympus, while the mortal shell or phantom part of his soul, his shade, is seen by Odysseus wandering in Underworld in the Odyssey; thus there is a duality to his spirit in the afterlife. Heracles was one of a select number of mortals or demigods to be granted a place amongst the Olympians, such as Dionysus or Ariadne, amongst others. A full list can be found in the “Deified Mortals” page on Theoi.com

According to Hesiod, Heracles had 17 children, while Diodorus puts the number at 33. Heracles had descendants which are known as Heraclidae, especially through Hercules son Hyllus, who becomes a Dorian king and conquers the Peloponnese after beheading King Eurystheus. The play “Children of Hercules,” by Euripides focuses on the descendants seeking protection from the wrathful King Eurystheus. While Apollodorus gives a more detailed account of the political intrigue and violent tribulations of the Heraclidae after Heracles’ death. These tales show the importance of descendants to carry on a powerful family legacy. 

I'd you share this image I'll totally light your funeral pyre...you know... if I'm passing by! Xoxo❤️🤟😁🏛

#Herakles#Q#love this apotheosis scene 🤩
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tylermileslockett

Hey folks! I'll be posting a new labor each day for the next 12 days. Please check in each day for a new one! ❤️😁🤟 each will have a limited, but consistent pallete of browns/burnt umber, cream, and pale turquoise to unify them as a set.

Heres what Diodorus suculus, in his book "Library of History" (30-60 B.C ) had to say about Heracles 1st labor:

"The first Labour which he undertook was the slaying of the lion in Nemea. This was a beast of enormous size, which could not be wounded by iron or bronze or stone and required the compulsion of the human hand for his subduing. It passed the larger part of its time between Mycenae and Nemea, in the neighbourhood of a mountain which was called Tretus from a peculiarity which it possessed; for it had a cleft at its base which extended clean through it and in which the beast was accustomed to lurk. Heracles came to the region and attacked the lion, and when the beast retreated into the cleft, after closing up the other opening he followed in after it and grappled with it, and winding his arms about its neck choked it to death. The skin of the lion he put about himself, and since he could cover his whole body with it because of its great size, he had in it a protection against the perils which were to follow."

Thanks for looking and reading! To see more of my work: linktr.ee/tylermileslockett

#Herakles#Nemean lion#beauuuutiful
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verdantlyviolet

🦁 Herakles Playlist

A Hero Is Born

Born Ready | Zayde Wølf

Start me up open my eyes Turn me loose and you'll see why I was born ready

Wrath of Hera

Devil Within | Digital Daggers

You'll never know what hit you, won't see me closing in I'm gonna make you suffer this hell you put me in

Madness of Herakles

Battle Cry | Imagine Dragons

Stars are only visible in the darkness, fear is ever-changing and evolving And I, I've been poisoned inside, but I, I feel so alive

Heroic Son of Zeus

Gladiator | Zayde Wølf

Every single day I feel that gold underneath I see the locked doors but I got the key

Death by Deianeira

What Have You Done Now | Within Temptation

I've been waiting for someone like you, but now you are slipping away What have you done now? Why does fate make us suffer? There's a curse between us, between me and you

Apotheosis

Warriors | Imagine Dragons

Farewell I've gone to take my throne above But don't weep for me 'cause this will be the labour of my love.

Listen on Spotify 🎶

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verdantlyviolet

Herakles the fighter and defender lurking in the lyrics.

I don't believe in no devil 'Cause I done raised this hell I've been the last one standing When all the giants fell 

Start me up, open my eyes Turn me loose and you'll see why

I am the unknown fighter A dark horse coming for you I'm gonna push up higher I'm gonna do what I do

I'll keep quiet You won't even know I'm here You won't suspect a thing You won't see me in the mirror

I'll be here When you think you're all alone Seeping through the cracks I'm the poison in your bones

I had to keep on reaching up, 'cause it was my time To tear down the kingdom, call out the liars

There's a curse between us, between me and you

#Herakles#UPG#lyrics#curses#reblog
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