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from let July be July by Morgan Harper Nichols

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Raven Steals the Sun a glass collaboration sculpture by Tlingit artist Preston Singletary and David Franklin.

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Nightcrow aka Nightcrowing aka Nightcrow Nightingale (based GuangZhou, China) - The Long Night, 2022, Paintings: Digital Art

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thank the gods! everlasting and forever eternal. protectors of mankind, healers of woe, governors of the earth, sea, and sky. we rejoice in your blessings!

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Still in love with pintersts' collage feature, so here's two more for Apollo 💛☀️

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I will tell of Dionysus, the son of glorious Semele, how he appeared on a jutting headland by the shore of the fruitless sea, seeming like a stripling in the first flush of manhood: his rich, dark hair was waving about him, and on his strong shoulders he wore a purple robe.

Homeric hymn to Dionysus.

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Parking Lot Raven 3230 Historic Painted Desert Inn, AZ, USA

Estacionamiento Raven 3230, Inn Pintado del Desierto Histórico, AZ, EE.UU.

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~ Grape Hyacinth ~

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Rainer Maria Rilke in a letter to Lou Andreas-Salomé, published in Rilke and Andreas-Salomé: A Love Story in Letters

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some cooked culinary mushroom offerings for June. happy pride month ! 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵 Khaire Dionysos !

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~I am the eye with which the Universe Beholds itself, and knows it is divine; All harmony of instrument or verse, All prophecy, all medicine, is mine, All light of art or nature; - to my song Victory and praise in its own right belong.~ Hymn of Apollo by Percy Bysshe Shelley Apollo Citharoedus from the Palazzo Altemps.

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Apollo. 19th.century. follower of Charles Meynier French 1768-1832. oil/canvas. http://hadrian6.tumblr.com

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"When fair Apollo leaves Delphi's shrine and visits the altars of the north, Castalia's waters differ in no wise from those of any common stream, nor the laurel from any common tree; sad and silent is the cave and the shrine without a worshipper. But if Phoebus is there, Phoebus returned from Scythian climes to his Delphic tripod, guiding thither his yoked griffins, the woods, the caves regain their voice, the streams their life"

– Claudian, On the Sixth Consulship of the Emperor Honorius (trans. Maurice Platnauer)

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throwback thursday: ‘forge ahead’

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Hellenic Witchcraft and Magic Reading List

Apollonius of Rhodes. Voyage of the Argo. Trans. Emile Victor Rieu. 2nd ed. N.p.: Penguin Classics, 1959. Print.

Bracke, Evelien. “Of Metis and Magic: The Conceptual Transformations of Circe and Medea in Ancient Greek Poetry.” Doctoral thesis. Maynooth, 2009. Print.

Clark, Brian. “The Witches of Thessaly.” N.d. MS.

Collins, Derek. Magic in the Ancient Greek World. N.p.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. Print.

D'Este, Sorita. Hekate: Liminal Rites. N.p.: Avalonia, 2009. Print.

Euripides. Medea. Trans. Rex Warner. Rep Una ed. N.p.: Dover, 1993. Print. Dover Thrift Editions.

Faraone, Christopher A. Ancient Greek Love Magic. N.p.: Harvard University, 2001. Print.

Flint, Valerie, et al. Ancient Greece and Rome. Ed. Bengt Ankarloo and Stuart Clark. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania, 1999. Print. Vol. 2 of Witchcraft and Magic in Europe. 6 vols.

Gager, John G. Curse Tablets and Binding Spells from the Ancient World. N.p.: Oxford University, 1999. Print.

Griffiths, Emma. Medea. N.p.: Routledge, 2006. Print. Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World.

Johnston, Sarah Iles. Ancient Greek Divination. N.p.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. Print.

- - -. Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate’s Roles in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature. N.p.: Oxford University, 1990. Print.

- - -. Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece. Reprint ed. N.p.: U of California, 2013. Print.

Lucan. Civil War. Trans. Matthew Fox. N.p.: Penguin Classics, 2012. Print.

Luck, Georg. Arcana Mundi. N.p.: John Hopkins University, 2006. Print.

Ogden, Daniel. Greek and Roman Necromancy. N.p.: Princeton University, 2004. Print.

- - -. Magic, Witchcraft, and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds. 2nd ed. N.p.: Oxford University, 2009. Print.

- - -. Night’s Black Agents: Witches, Wizards, and the Dead in the Ancient World. N.p.: Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. Print.

Ovid. Metamorphoses. Trans. David Raeburn. Reprint ed. N.p.: Penguin Classics, 2004. Print.

Penman, Elicia Ann. “Toil and Trouble: Changes of Imagery to Hekate and Medea in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.” Doctoral thesis. Queensland, 2014. Print.

Rabinowitz, Jacob. The Rotting Goddess: The Origin of the Witch in Classical Antiquity. N.p.: Autonomedia, 1998. Print.

Seneca. Medea. Trans. Frederick Ahl. N.p.: Cornell University, 1986. Print. Masters of Latin Literature.

Spaeth, Barbette Stanley. “From Goddess to Hag: The Greek and Roman Witch in Classical Literature.” 2014. Daughters of Hecate: Women and Magic in the Ancient World. Ed. Dayna Kalleres and Kimberly Stratton. N.p.: Oxford University, 2014. 41-70. Print.

Turkilsen, Debbie. “Magic in the Ancient World.” N.d. MS.