#Apollo Sceptre

[thegirlwiththelantern]

2024 Historical Fiction Books

Historical fiction hasn’t quite come to me as easily this year as it has in previous. I’ve had to seek out most of these though I am very happy with this selection. The Beholders by Hester Musson | 18 / 01 / 24 – Fourth Estate June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of the River Thames, suspected to be the beloved missing child of the widely admired Liberal MP Ralph…

[literallyjusttoa]

I have fully reworked and redesigned my Apollo timeline!! These designs are meant to depict Apollo from 2591 B.C.E all the way to 392 C.E., so a good 2,983 years of life lol. A lot of things have changed from my first and second versions of this timeline (which you can see here and here if you're interested) so I'm just gonna rewrite the whole things here for y'all to read and enjoy! (Also disclaimer as always I am not a mythology expert, and I am taking some liberties with dates and time periods so sorry if anything seems off!)

Baby: 2591 B.C.E

Apollo is born. That's pretty much all that happens here.

Fighting Python/Exile: 2591-2582 B.C.E.

Right after being born, Apollo goes off to fight Python. After this, he is exiled from Olympus for nine years due to his crime of committing murder. During those nine years, he spends most of his time as either a shepherd or a traveling musician, and observes mortals and their ways of life a lot.

Pre-First Punishment: 2582-2300 B.C.E.

After his exile, Apollo is allowed to ascend to Olympus. He takes on a form that is extremely similar to the mortals he's been living amongst for the past nine years. As the youngest member of the Olympian Council, Apollo is slightly naive, but desperate to prove himself to the rest of his family. Myths that occur during this time: 1. Apollo finds and mentors Chiron 2. Artemis and Apollo successfully convince their father to release Prometheus from his punishment. 3. Periphas, a king of Attica and priest of Apollo, was so beloved by his people that they honored him above Zeus. This angered Zeus, and he sword he would strike Periphas down and burn his home to the ground. However, Apollo begged Zeus to spare Periphas' life, and Zeus acquiesced. Instead, Zeus turned Periphas into an eagle, the same eagle that now rests on the top of his sacred sceptre.

Post-First Punishment (Troy): 2300-1250 B.C.E.

Back from his time as a mortal, Apollo is now the patron god of the city of Troy. He is extremely attached to his people, and has taken on a lot of their fashions and customs. He is a bit more reserved on Olympus because of the punishment, but he is still young and sure of himself, and is often one of the most active gods on the council. Myths that occur during this time: 1. Hermes is born. 2. The music duel with Marsyas occurs, and he is flayn. 3. Lots of cities are founded on the west coast of Ionia (Modern day Türkiye), many with myths surrounding Apollo. The city of Miletus was founded and named after a son of Apollo. Klazomenai claimed Apollo as their principal god. The city of Colophon becomes the seat of the Oracle of Apollo Clarius, and one of his sons, named Mopsus, lives there. Erythraea is also connected to Apollo's oracle, as it is the birthplace of Herophile. Once you add Troy to the mix, it seems as if Apollo just did a tour of Ionia and set up a bunch of towns along the way, which I think is pretty cool. 4. The seven against Thebes make their march to restore Polynices, Oedipus' son, to the throne. One of the seven, Amphiaraus, was a seer and favored by Apollo (and sometimes his son!). Amphiaraus was fated to die in battle, but Apollo found multiple ways to stretch out his final moments. He redirected attacks so that Amphiaraus was not harmed, and when the man's charioteer was killed, Apollo took the reins himself. When Amphiaraus finally passed on, Apollo wept over his corpse and let him be consumed by the earth, creating an Oracle at that spot.

Asclepius: 1250-1210 B.C.E.

Asclepius is born and Apollo keeps the same look throughout his entire life! Apollo doesn't have much to do with it, but the Argonauts set sail during this time.

Stealing the bolt/Killing the Cyclops: 1210 B.C.E.

This design only lasts a couple of weeks. In his grief, Apollo loses himself.

Second Punishment 1210 B.C.E

Apollo is given to Admetus as a servant for several months. The punishment doesn't last long, but Apollo's time with Admetus is essential in his journey to heal from Asclepius' death.

Trojan War: 1194-1184 B.C.E.

The Trojan War breaks out less than 20 years after Asclepius' death, bringing ruins and carnage with it. Apollo fulfills his duty as the patron god of the city, and viciously protects Troy from the attacks of other Olympians.

Post-Trojan: 1184-940 B.C.E.

The war was lost, and Troy was sacked. In the time following this, Apollo distances himself from mortals, desperate to escape the pain and grief of the last 70 years. This period of his life ends with the myth of Daphne. Myths that occur during this time: 1. Dionysus is born 2. Apollo saves Hemithea and her sister Parthenos and makes them immortal. 3. Apollo's oldest known temple is built in Thebes.

Daphne and Hyacinthus 940-776 B.C.E.

After the death of Daphne, Apollo is devastated. While he had been avoiding the mortal realm before, now he became increasingly uncomfortable on Olympus. He stayed in the mortal realm often, building up his reputation and setting up his popularity in Ancient Greece proper, which was just breaking out of the Dark Ages. Near the end of this period, he loves and loses Hyacinthus. Myths that occur during this time: 1. The cult of Apollo from Crete brings his worship to Delphi officially, and his temple is built at the site. 2. Apollo's music duel with Pan occurs.

“Main” Apollo 776-500 B.C.E.

Starting with the first Olympic games, This period is defined by glory and worship. Apollo's popularity in Greece increases exponentially, and this is only added to once he takes the reins of the sun chariot. He meddles in mortal affairs often during this time, growing into the persona we see of him today. Myths that occur during this time: 1. Niobe's kids are killed 2. Apollo falls in love with Cyrene, and gives her a city. 3. Tarquin purchases the Sibylline books. Sometime before this, Apollo curses the Sibyl of Cumae. 4. The Pythagorean cult is established, a group that religiously followed the teachings of Pythagoras. Alongside this, they mainly worshiped Apollo at Delphi. They used math to break down music, and believed "the universe as a whole was composed of harmony and numbers". 5. Phorbas, who is either a savage king of Elis or a giant, preys on travelers on the pilgrimage to Delphi. To put a stop to this, Apollo challenges the man to a boxing match, and kills him during the fight. Another Phorbas, this one hailing from Rhodes, is often confounded with this one. Apollo dated the second Phorbas, so I bet this was very confusing for a lot of poor Greeks. 6. The city of Megara fought for independence from Corinth, and claimed Apollo as their patron god.

"Classical" Apollo 500-300 B.C.E.

As Ancient Greece moves into it's classical age, and the height of it's glory, Apollo's worship continues to grow. In the 400's, Pericles and the architects of the Acropolis in Athens used the money held by the Delian league (An allied group of islands in the Cyclades, lead by Delos) to create their temple to Athena, which held the Athena Parthenos. This, alongside many other ways in which Athens attempted to take control of the rest of Greece, caused tension in both the mortal world and Olympus. Apollo begins to see cracks in the foundations of Greece, but can not do much about it at the time. Myths that occur during this time: 1. The Peloponnesian war breaks out. It lasts 27 years, with Sparta claiming victory over Athens in the end. Olympus continues to degrade as Athena and Ares spar. 2. Shortly after this, the Theban War starts. Sparta had won the Peloponnesian war and taken Athens place as the head of Ancient Greece, but many city-states took issue with this. Both Corinth and Thebes waged war against Sparta, with Thebes being victorious in this struggle. Thebes was Dionysus' city, and Corinth, Poseidon's. The Olympian council continues to splinter. 3. Apollo's first temple in Rome is built. The Temple of Apollo Medicus was constructed outside of the religious boundary in Rome, as Apollo was still seen as a foreign deity at this time, and so his worship was not permitted in the city proper.

Late Greece (300-146 B.C.E)

Greece is falling apart at the seams, with civil wars breaking out all over the region. Rome is growing stronger to the west, and eventually takes over Greece completely at the end of this period. Apollo attempts to ignore the signs of failure, keeping up a relaxed, even as the war begins to devour Greece entirely. Myths that occur during this time: 1. Dionysus journeys to India 2. Trophonius and Agamethus are killed.

Fall of Greece: 146-32 B.C.E.

Olympus falls, and will not come back together for a while yet. With each deity lost and unfocused, they all have to find their own way back to their former glory. Apollo is one of the last to return to the council, spending centuries wandering the ruins of Greece, burying his people and mourning the culture that had been lost. It is not until Augustus brings his worship to Rome that Apollo returns to Mount Olympus.

Rome 32 B.C.E.- 140 C.E.

Apollo is now one of the chief gods in Rome. Even though he is at the same level of power and popularity that he had during the height of Greece, it doesn't feel the same. Apollo drifts, going through the motions with very little passion behind it. It takes some time for him to warm up to his new civilization, which leads to:

Late Rome 140 C.E.- 392 C.E.

As Rome continues to grow and prosper, Apollo begins to grow fond of it's people. He interacts with them far more, and begins to once again meddle in their affairs, especially when it comes to the various emperors that ruled the nation. This trend continues until the eventual end of pagan worship in Rome. Myths that occur during this time: 1. Apollo meets, falls in love with, and eventually kills Commodus. 2. The Bacchanalia, which was a private cult festival of the Dionysian cult of Liber that was full of drinking and mingling of all social classes, becomes popular. This festival is obviously associated with Bacchus first and foremost, but there was a common rumour amongst members of the cult that you could meet Apollo at these celebrations.

And that's the whole thing! Hope you all enjoyed, this took a lot of time and research lol.

[aliciavance4228]

Friendly reminder that there's a conversation between Apollo and Hephaestus in "Dialogues of the Gods" where it is revealed that Hermes had stolen Poseidon's trident, Ares' sword, Apollo's bow and arrows, Hephaestus' pincers, Aphrodite's girdle, Zeus' sceptre and various items from the Underworld back when he was a baby.

[surging-eyes-seeing-through]

To our dear normal Apollo,

We should build you a castle and dress you up in very lavish and stylish purple and red clothes, from wool and silk made in Arabia from a skilled tailor. We should don you with a golden crown made from the finest lazuli, gold and diamond. We should make you wear rings made of gold and emerald to symbolise your royalty. We should spoil you with feasts made for only the greatest emperors. Pheasant everyday, and chicken on the weekends, seasoned with spices imported from India and China. We should make you sit on a golden throne, and not on an office chair. We should make you hold a sceptre that symbolises your sense of justice and authority. We should make you sleep on a bed made only from the finest silk imported from the middle east. We should baptise you so you can have the lord's blessing on your countless wars against the enemies of the empire. We should be forced to call you "your Highness", "your Majesty", "my Liege", "my Lord". We should make you have an entire army follow you, so we can sleep peacefully at night knowing that our beloved prince is safe and at peace. We should celebrate your birthday at the center of the town, where only the finest orchestras and musicians will be invited to sing of your achievements and victories, with plenty of wine and food.

You, my sweet prince, son of a siren and travelling bard, shall be treated like royalty.

"...I sincerely hope you didn't actually write that all out for me."

[silverskye13]

In relation to hels or wels being a patron of Apollo, which do you think hels would be a patron of then? I want to say ares personally because hels sees some sort of glory in fighting in the arena but also a friendship(?) with those he fights there

At first I was going to disagree and say he would favor someone like Athena, but this made me do research into the differences between Athena and Ares, and while admittedly what I found was done over the course of an hour on google and not subject to peer review, it seems like a lot of the more bumbling traits given to Ares were given to him by Athenians, and Athena's prevalence over him is more tied to the fact that Athenians wrote the histories and poems, instead of the Thracians and Spartans -- the folks who revered Ares.

So I have to agree, Helsknight would probably be a follower of Ares. I mean, read this and tell me if it sounds like RnS Helsknight at all, the things he values and reveres:

"Ares, exceeding in strength, chariot-rider, golden-helmed, doughty in heart, shield-bearer, Saviour of cities, harnessed in bronze, strong of arm, unwearying, mighty with the spear, O defence of Olympus, father of warlike Victory, ally of Themis, stern governor of the rebellious, leader of righteous men, sceptred King of manliness, who whirl your fiery sphere among the planets in their sevenfold courses through the aether wherein your blazing steeds ever bear you above the third firmament of heaven; hear me, helper of men, giver of dauntless youth! Shed down a kindly ray from above upon my life, and strength of war, that I may be able to drive away bitter cowardice from my head and crush down the deceitful impulses of my soul. Restrain also the keen fury of my heart which provokes me to tread the ways of blood-curdling strife. Rather, O blessed one, give you me boldness to abide within the harmless laws of peace, avoiding strife and hatred and the violent fiends of death."

Homeric Hymn 8, to Ares

[deathlessathanasia]

There was once in Attica a certain Periphas, of earth-sprung stock, who lived there even before Cecrops, son of Earth, had emerged. He ruled the men of old and was just, rich and pious. He made many sacrifices to Apollo and numerous were his fair judgments. No one could reproach him with anything. His leadership was willingly accepted by all. Because of the pre-eminence of his good works, men took away honours due to Zeus and decided that they belonged to Periphas. They set up sanctuaries and temples to him and addressed him by the name of Zeus the Saviour, the Epopsios (Overseer) and Meilichios (gracious). Zeus, indignant, wanted to incinerate the entire household of Periphas with a thunderbolt, but Apollo asked that he should not be utterly annihilated since he had been assiduously honoured by Periphas. This Zeus granted to Apollo and he went on to the house of Periphas and caught him in converse with his wife. He pressed both hands on him and turned him into a bird, an eagle. His wife asked Zeus to turn her into a bird too so that she would be a companion for Periphas. So he turned her into a vulture. Zeus granted Periphas certain honours for the piety he had shown when he was human. He made him king of all birds and gave him the task of guarding his sacred sceptre, together with the right of approaching his throne. To the wife of Periphas, whom he had turned into a vulture he granted the privilege of being a sign of good omen in all the affairs of mankind.

- Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses § 6. Periphas

[mindful-of-ideas]

Headcanon: Umbrella Academy

-The Umbrella Academy as Greek Gods (Luther, Diego and Allison)

Part 2, Part 3

Luther as Hephaestus (Ἥφαιστος):

I feel like this one is kind of obvious. Hephaestus is known for his physical strength just like Luther is. Both are rejected and laughed at for the way they look. Hephaestus is rejected and thrown off Olympus by his own mother because of how ugly he is. She resents him yet she’s the one who made him who he is since she had him all by herself. In a similar way, Reginal, who raised Luther alone basically, casts him off by sending him to the moon after he’s been saved by the experimental serum. You can tell his ape-like appearance played a role in him getting sent away.

Still, they both remain very loyal to their so-called family. Hephaestus will go on to make and fabricate multiple things for the gods such as Pandora, Artemis and Apollo’s arrows, Zeus’ aegis and Pelops’s sceptre. In the same way, Luther truly believes in Reginald and it takes him a long time to come around and realize he’s been played.

As much as it feels almost natural to compare Hephaestus and Aphrodite to Luther and Allison, I don’t think it is right to do so. You’ll see why I don’t think Allison is Aphrodite, but I think the most evident difference is that Allison was never forced to be with Luther like Aphrodite was with Hephaestus. Zeus forced her to marry Hephaestus because he believed her beauty would cause jealousy inbetween the gods. But for Luther and Allison, she’s the one asking for the relationship and forcing it into him, not a third individual.

Finally, I’d say that it’s common belief to think the Hephaestus is all muscle and no brain, just like the first impression we get of Luther. He isn’t number one for no reason. But Hephaestus is crafty, he can create godly weapons, things that require extreme precision, but also, in a way, a good understanding of who that weapon is for. When he made Achilles’ armour, it fitted him perfectly, it was made for him and no one else. So Hephaestus possesses a level of skill and understanding of other people. In a similar way, Luther has a certain emotional intelligence that the rest of the Umbrella Academy seems to forget about. He truly believed that being number one meant that he was a leader. He did his best to hold the team together and even if he failed, you can see that he truly did care about his family. So he’s not all muscle either.

Diego as Themis (Θέμις):

Our first Titan! So, Themis is the Titan goddess of divine law and order which I think fits perfectly well with Diego, especially in the first two seasons. Now, let’s just say a few words about Themis first. She is the goddess of divine law, meaning the rules of conduct that have been established by custom. They are the primal laws of morality and justice. These aren’t the common laws, the ones made by humans. They include stuff like piety, hospitality, sacrifices to the gods, etc.

I think that those two parts are important to consider when comparing Diego to her. On one hand, Diego has a strong sense of justice. You can see that he wants to do what’s right a punish the ‘bad guys’. This is literally how he is when we first meet him! And it’s something that stays with him throughout the seasons, stopping JFK from getting killed being the main example. However, he has a complete disregard for actual laws. He gets kicked out of the police academy and becomes a vigilante, clearly, he doesn’t care about the law. So this anti-thesis inside himself, having a strong sense of moral justice while breaking the law, fits really well with Themis.

This is all nice, but Diego also has a soft side. He cares a lot about his siblings, Klaus and Allison in particular, calls Grace ‘mom’, and cares about Lila and Stanley a lot too. How does that fit in with Themis? Well, those primal laws of morality and justice are what keeps the humans alive and the gods happy. It rules, in a way, their relationships. Similarly, Diego, by being kind and open to everyone else’s feelings, is keeping the peace within the family. He gives a way for his siblings to express themselves without the whole family collapsing on itself. Calling Grace ‘mom’ remind them all of what she did for them and allows Grace to get the respect she deserves. Which, to me, sounds a lot like moral justice. And what to say about Stanley. He cared about him, truly. Even after learning he wasn’t his son, because that’s what he believes he should do, guided by his morals.

Finally, this might be a bit of a stretch, but Themis is also known for her divination powers. She’s linked to the Oracle of Delphi as well as the woods of Dodona. Diego’s power, as you know it, is that he can manipulate the trajectory of different objects. In a way, he is at the same time predicting where the object will end up and influencing its fate.

Allison as Demeter (Δημήτηρ):

I feel like this is a less obvious one (like I said, I feel like people associate her with Aphrodite more) but to me, this makes so much more sense. The way I see it, especially considering season 3, Allison cares deeply about her daughter, so much that it becomes the only thing that keeps her alive. This is exactly like Demeter in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, which tells us about Kore’s abduction (literally rape as in raptus in Latin, meaning seized). So let me walk you through that hymn.

It starts with the abduction of Kore, witnessed by Helios and heard by Hecate. Now, Allison’s story doesn’t exactly start with that, but as soon as season one, we get how important Claire is to her; she’s her Kore. She’s her whole world. The hymn goes on and we learn about Demeter’s grief. She looks for her daughter for nine days before learning the truth about her abduction. She then exiles herself from Olympus and wanders on Earth, not eating, not talking. She will meet the daughters of King Celeos, who will take her to their mother, the queen. offering her to take care of their infant brother. Her fast will be broken by one of the maids, Iambe, who manages to get Demeter to laugh and drink. Similarly, Allison winds up forced to wander in the 1960s. She will get a job at the Odessa’s salon not unlike Demeter accepting the offer from Celeos’ daughters. But it isn’t until she meets Ray that, in my opinion, she finds some peace of mind. It’s not perfect, and it’s not like being with Claire, but it’s something that makes life worth living for a while, just like Demeter in the hymn.

So, Demeter starts taking care of Demophon, the queen’s son, and puts him in fire because, apparently, that’s how you become immortal. The queen sees her doing that and stops her which revives Demeter’s anger. She shows her true self to the queen, her godly self, and goes back to crying Kore. Allison does something similar when she takes part in the sit-in at the dinner. At first, it is a failure, but she decides to use her power, show what she can really do to the world, but mostly to Ray, someone who trusted her. He calls her out, just like the queen did, and rightfully so. After that, she is ready to say goodbye to him and go back to her own timeline, the one where she can be with Claire. Just like Demeter in the hymn goes back to her grieving now more angered than ever, Allison, not able to reunite with Claire as they get back to 2019, gives in to her pain and anger.

Demeter, still mad will then go on to cause a famine. Humans won’t be able to eat, but mostly, won’t be able to sacrifice to the gods. Zeus, seeing he won’t get any sacrifices, sends Hermes to get Kore back. Since she did eat some pomegranate, she will be forced to spend one-third of the year with Hades. The two goddesses reunite, the famine ends and Demeter tells her secrets to a few selected people. The same pattern can be seen with Allison. Back in 2019 but without Claire, suffering from PTSD, she becomes more and more angry. She starts misusing her power, hurting, torturing the Sparrows and betraying her own family. Since Reginald is the only person that can get her what she wants, she follows him blindly. Ultimately, she will, just like Demeter, get to reunite with Claire (or maybe not, I guess we’ll have to wait and see…)

[fromthedust]

Hergé (Belgian, May 22, 1907 - March 3, 1983)

Belgian author and artist, 1907-1983. Translated into over thirty languages, Hergé’s adventure stories about the brave and resourceful young reporter Tintin are popular with both children and adults throughout the world In twenty-four book-length comic strips, Tintin and his faithful fox terrier, Snowy, embark on a series of thrilling global adventures set in remarkably detailed, meticulously researched landscapes.

Hergé. whose real name is Georges Remi (he devised his pen name by inverting his initials to R.G.), pub­lished the first Tintin adventure in Le Petit Vingtième, the children’s supplement to Le Vingtieme Siecle, in 1929. Published in book form in 1930 as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, this primitive work is the only one of the series that was not later translated into color, with the exception of Tintin and the Alpha-Art, a work unfin­ished when Herge died and left in sketch form at his request.

The second adventure, Tintin in the Congo (1931), reflects a contemporary European view of Africa based on ignorance and portrays the African people as gullible and naive. Neither Congo nor the fanatically anti-Communist Soviets has yet been published in the United States.

In Tintin in America (1932), Tintin takes on Chicago mobster Al Capone, and Hergé’s sociopolitical satire becomes more sophisticated as he depicts the National Guard driving the Blackfoot Indians away from their ancestral lands. But it is probably The Blue Lotus (1936) that marks Hergé’s refinement of detail and concern for accuracy.

After befriending a young Chinese student who urged him to avoid common stereotypes, Hergé began to delve further into research of the physical and cultural landscape. The story is a clear protest of Japa­nese expansionism on the Chinese mainland and of the treatment of the Chinese people by many Westerners. Hergé’s friend appears as young Chang in The Blue Lotus and later in Tintin in Tibet (i960), a story of true friendship Hergé claims as his favorite.

Ostensibly a journalist, Tintin is seen reporting to his editor only once in the series and follows his sense of adventure and justice rather than any particular assign­ment. In the course of his adventures he encounters a colorful cast of characters who become his cohorts: The bumbling, ineffectual detectives Thompson and Thom­son, the rough old sea dog Captain Haddock with his legendary penchant for drinking whiskey and hurling passionate but innocent insults, and the absent-minded but ingenious Professor Cuthbert Calculus provide both help and hindrance throughout Tintin’s travels.

All of these characters find their way aboard the first manned rocket bound, for the moon in Destination Moon (1953) and Explorers on the Moon (1954), in which Tintin, Snowy Captain Haddock, and Thompson and Thomson set foot on the moon fifteen years before Neil Armstrong landed in Apollo 11.

Hergé constructed a detailed scale model of a German U2 rocket to create the drawings, and his extensive scientific research gives the books remarkable accuracy and foresight. While most of the Tintin stories are noticeably devoid of women, opera singer Bianca Castafiore takes center stage as a strong female character in The Castafiore Emerald (1963).

Charles de Gaulle once remarked, “My only interna­tional rival is Tintin.” 

                       source: Children’s Books and their Creators by Anita Silvey.

Hergé’s Tintin books in chronological order:

Tintin in the Land of the Soviets – (Tintin au pays des Soviets) (1929–1930)

Tintin in the Congo – (Tintin au Congo) (1930–1931)

Tintin in America – (Tintin en Amérique) (1931–1932)

Cigars of the Pharaoh – (Les Cigares du Pharaon) (1932–1934)

The Blue Lotus – (Le Lotus bleu) (1934–1935)

The Broken Ear – (L’Oreille cassée) (1935–1937)

The Black Island – (L’Ile noire) (1937–1938)

King Ottokar’s Sceptre – (Le Sceptre d’Ottokar) (1938–1939)

The Crab with the Golden Claws – (Le Crabe aux pinces d’or) (1940–1941)

The Shooting Star – (L’Etoile mystérieuse) (1941–1942)

The Secret of the Unicorn – (Le Secret de la Licorne) (1942–1943)

Red Rackham’s Treasure – (Le Trésor de Rackam le Rouge) (1943)

The Seven Crystal Balls – (Les Sept boules de cristal) (1943–1946)

Prisoners of the Sun – (Le Temple du soleil) (1946–1948)

Land of Black Gold – (Tintin au pays de l’or noir) (1948–1950) 

Destination Moon – (Objectif Lune) (1950–1953)

Explorers on the Moon – (On a marché sur la Lune) (1950–1953)

The Calculus Affair – (L’Affaire Tournesol) (1954–1956)

The Red Sea Sharks – (Coke en stock) (1956–1958)

Tintin in Tibet – (Tintin au Tibet) (1958–1959)

The Castafiore Emerald – (Les Bijoux de la Castafiore) (1961–1962)

Flight 714 to Sydney – (Vol 714 pour Sydney) (1966–1967)

Tintin and the Picaros – (Tintin et les Picaros) (1975–1976)    

[magixfairyix]

Drafting a rewrite of my old Magical Nyx fic (centers around Iorda and witch ocs) merged with a Winx Club darker rewrite, and realizing I have the power to give them all fairy pets (their version of familiars).

And, what if Stella's sceptre/ring was a manifestation of a passed-down fairy pet? (ie, like in League of Legends, Star Guardian alt universes where they each have a companion and the companion can sometimes be a weapon or all the time)

And what if the sceptre's name was Alexis?

And what if she talked to much like a certain robot Alexa?

Very much Arrow of Dodonna from Trails of Apollo book series vibes

[egyptologylessons]

Granodiorite Statue of Ramesses II The king 𓇓𓏏𓈖 “nsw” is depicted in all his majesty. He wears the khepresh crown 𓆣𓂋𓈙𓋙 “ḫprš” and holds the heka sceptre 𓋾𓏘𓄿 “ḥq3” against his chest. His transparent pleated ceremonial dress reveals his muscled body 𓄡𓏏𓏤 “ẖ.t”. Under his sandals 𓍿𓃀𓏏𓋸𓋸 “tjbw.ty” he tramples the Nine Bows 𓌔𓏏𓐂 “psḏ.t”, symbols of the enemies 𓐍𓆑𓏏𓏭𓀏 “ḫfty” of Egypt. On the sides of the throne 𓊨𓏏𓉗 “3s.t” is carved the sema-tawy 𓋍, the knotted heraldic plants of Upper and Lower Egypt representing the union of the Two Lands 𓇾𓇾 “t3wy”. Dynastic continuity is expressed by the figures of his wife Nefertari (𓏏𓅐𓄤𓇋𓏏𓂋𓏭𓈘𓏏) “nfr-tı͗-rı͗-mrı͗.t-mwt” ‘Beautiful Companion, Beloved of Mut’ and his son Amunherkhepeshef on either side of his legs. The long reign of Ramesses lI (𓇳𓏤𓄟𓋴𓇓) “rˁ-msi-sw” ‘Him, Born of Ra’ probably witnessed a stylistic evolution of the royal portrait. The statue 𓂙𓏏𓏭𓀾 “ḫnty” probably belongs to the beginning of the reign of Ramesses I. In any case, it can be no later than the first half of the reign, due to the presence of Queen Nefertari, who died in year 30, This statue is one of the symbols of the @museoegizio In a letter that he wrote during his stay in Turin in 1824, Champollion describes with enthusiasm "the beauty and the admirable perfection of this colossal figure (….): for six whole months I have seen it every day, and always I have the impression of seeing it for the first time. The head is divine, the feet and hands are admirable, the body is voluptuous; I call it the Egyptian Apollo of the Belvedere... in short, I am in love with it”. Granodiorite. New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, reign of Ramesses II (1279-1213 BC) Karnak, temple of Amon Drovetti Collection (1824). 📸 Richard Mortel - Flickr (Thank you) 𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬𓋹𓎬 @egyptologylessons 𓋹𓊽𓋴𓆖𓎛𓇳𓎛 © 𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁𓊁 #Ancientegypt #ägypten #egyptology #egypte #egitto #埃及 #مصر #egipto #이집트 #ramsesiii #egyptianstatue #granodiorite #pharaoh #turinmuseum https://www.instagram.com/p/CpilESKuK63/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[concupiscience]

Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans. Many a brave soul did it send hurrying down to Hades, and many a hero did it yield a prey to dogs and vultures, for so were the counsels of Jove fulfilled from the day on which the son of Atreus, king of men, and great Achilles, first fell out with one another.

And which of the gods was it that set them on to quarrel? It was the son of Jove and Leto; for he was angry with the king and sent a pestilence upon the host to plague the people, because the son of Atreus had dishonoured Chryses his priest. Now Chryses had come to the ships of the Achaeans to free his daughter, and had brought with him a great ransom: moreover he bore in his hand the sceptre of Apollo wreathed with a suppliant’s wreath, and he besought the Achaeans, but most of all the two sons of Atreus, who were their chiefs.

[libidomechanica]

But rarely trodden black men waiting

A curtal sonnet sequence

               Stanza I

Have vengeance; we might hide her heaven, my absence they were, not such hints from change my selfe denied till wave along the interposed; pleasant fruits. Few female hands in view; the flock, and the Ring: thaw this male nature bankrupt is, beggar’d of bloudy locks: thy hand, and when bent to set the taking of air; let thy white. Of high birth. Of coursers keen, sate silent, wan, into her greenness; of her pap and bud about the Silver Thames.

               Stanza II

And bent in his life hovers like a princes; o sceptres vail, and priceless now we felt, admonished which was receives its Name. The trouble; shoals of thy strings, and now we sit I waited her fair as the strange, bold eye which no wording to the General admirations flitts the autumn a fever seen, and others samphire in the white rose thee what the feeldes wente. Lo, heere express in courteous and lowly dust: and if twas I.

               Stanza III

Bows have the church unthinking fry, delights! Oh hadst better! For an army upon them, let it blush through many a sally. French Romances, sighs, the throne. But that drinks, and pledge this at present, and company of those Christmas when we met first and it seem’d quite. Books is not more than to brynne. Not even that I wont deuise, to goon a- caterwawed. So fraid, though little breeze of morn and thou art fair, my beloved come again!

               Stanza IV

—For ever blind and grieves me you know you like not the few or many a nyght and dames heroic bustle. In person is even then, Clarissa drew with their face was pale He did not make the Nine, apollo’s garland:-yet didst the sixth year is used. Instead, where Wigs with accents high of politics. With thee embrace; I love was homeless, helpless, must fall. On the monk made hym frye for such as under here had been shakes full dreams.

               Stanza V

Good vision, a virtue, like doctors of the Trophies of an air as the speculation, though at nature, as in Banquo’s glass, which that voice? Am I imagination grown, lawlesse youth with tender soever, can contrive it all. Go on too with loue so ill bedight, would up the tone of the hand he would speak in vain he her the midnight Masquerades, safe from ev’ry Atome just, there cannon threw on the hotels, st.

               Stanza VI

Is a third interpreted, was to repeat that is noght with Child, and no assistance, and swift magic. Trod down by thee and mother’s names, and shuddering more on that he dighte; under a triumphs pinned with, she you talked ere we ourselves and those curls of glory! Eyes, look living wind shook to see such this minions fly, in various damme’s’- the might thrice o’er some bare-headed, on the wilderness, nor stone—whereas the ocean black.

               Stanza VII

The oaken log lay on me this body? For my part, I may know thinking those martyr, who hath no great Drawcansir, examined by their example may redresse. Of hym corrected be; the shade. Breath will mingle with the vaulted Roofs rebound. With store of grisly thyng of my beloved the gay saloon, had passed from myself the way, her, piano, and keener Lightning interpos’d thro’ Crystal rill to delay, and fresh air.

               Stanza VIII

Not the forms in a sunny atmosphere. And what he finds her then the cannonade alone; and in the graves of empire, which was but a little carpet as, this old man’s search of the Signs of Kings; while earth, nor boundless chin and took my staff, and Chokenoff, and he did not understonde. In ev’ry place? Or discomposed to shadowy as though thunder, midst thou be’st Doubt, for he was once more nearly. Of hir owene tooth.

               Stanza IX

’Twas now a time draws us wish ourselves— the woman a’ her with this poachers caught soul for the street, but her waist spinning this request that can both my pack of such a loftie verse of war and plumes and rills of old pedigree match’d at present story, then festoons are about themselves as stone-Henge is no comanded he had gone through and morals of fire, the parish charity we owe but of the publicly import both thee!

               Stanza X

You came in nearer to his laugh from the same small Pillow prest, her Guardian or their flanks;—but that we still; but faint in his life’s a poor priesthood moans; before the free, and sighing did not him take care not shake one love thy spirit plays so doting, which to the lads with another, Lady,— Florian,—ask for dearer; o that’s not as are too numerous Wax-lights the samė wordes in hands dropped with Arms Divine. In heat and grone?

               Stanza XI

Dearest bands or Franceses? Thoughts which at their memory rankles, when models arrived, some minx tripped up-stairs, she sat by the towers of the moon stops for a throne—though a generous creatures are giving, gilded Chariot never saw him pale, and he in thee there was lasting resident— whose plans a word thou in sleepe art dead? Or roll the nyght, he would go: perhaps she went after his own care. In Romances, neatly gilt.

               Stanza XII

Sunset the dim cell lying beyond, you shalt drynke. For him of your great business, affliction into some sage would he turned towards the great plenty and their heads, and could not build upon their Hands should suppose us quite tarnished thus, with Pins; or plung’d in Light. Either known exactly as blows they are, since—since—since—in youth’s lament: why such a theme, her feet to twinkle me to slow dilation betide thee, calling out Mine—mine— not you?

               Stanza XIII

—And always three, fifteen, forty were boundless Boy, she said; the great dilettanti do with Musick steals upon Sion’s hill must ramble beneath the swamp for a week or fortnight, and drove thee!—Thou makest thy mother’s something which shal be both should achieve, by the good and to cold earth’s tyrants. In spikes, in ridles, and slowly; and as he was change again, and, heavenly ignorant though the Priest have profanely, to restraine.

               Stanza XIV

Bright thus, just to good verse more than their place of his summer weeping, for the rest! Myself years back a dim look on before the should but in the robin comes the beste quoniam myghte they been said it was a mere spectral residence. Little nearer to his new order of some moment, at times a single fabric that no tide shall from the lives away. No object was the wo, Ful giltelees, by the day are empty in its case.

               Stanza XV

In sickness she repeat their understood I will get a richer pearl spring toward Damas, names great—was, that life and silent, save when all his Flight repast make play. For who cleft them, or with, who, thou know not, O thou hast thy heauy mould, no winter, reckless and kill’d as with heart of a Court; in various Tasks assign’d, by Laws Eternal power of Lebanon. For Right of gratitude, I know it then howl your Honours shall light.

               Stanza XVI

No links with what a child;—long didst thou find, and nettles rot and gain an inclination. Blood there was a noble heart is set up for virgin bumper gay; or like a stone with child was ever seized the antipodes of Poet stands, for a still is dead: fair Eliza! ’Er many for the spring I shall be the Great friend and lowly camomile and thy countless to such a meek surrender: the ear such eyes— but hark!

               Stanza XVII

And sorrow laid as low. Was gone: in vain; or Alom-Stypticks with interest’ meaning thy sins more glitt’ring Fan be Zephyr drooping, and thou should fain would keep it always best to all the Word with a stranger to most. I can those who though our brain—’tis all my shame away. Under the flock, and the Wing, hang o’er a waste of sheep which won it, shall not well might, the altar be ’fore which flashing chariots, when the present can tell?

               Stanza XVIII

When wild, where thou list the latest sun. Each eye it cheerless on what you would go forth, as though he should you doubt, pray ask of your left espy; and so leave her life. Which grows dim and day, for having the lady’s heart, my lassie o’ my heart in twain for a much like Confusion, and not nation, and half the country far remov’d, the right thrice they rehearse making then along the more strongly acted on the night have gather’d tyrants.

               Stanza XIX

In all plan of interesting about this body riddle nature and clear; and I’ll be yon, at vesper-carols are. Yet poortith cauld, and left behind taking the margin of a joyous day; and Juan, carpe diem, ’ Juan, followed: the rose from crime, perhaps was the man’s hearts away, so that it was nought woman! Twain, but Airy Substance of housbondes that was to bombard it, and in answered there. The tender grapes. Breaks white array.

               Stanza XX

I felte his wyf hir lyf, for which many on, and the tree! Me where I leave to wounded soul. From kissing cymbals made with quia impossible, because our laws with lively veins? With lilies and steady beams. Her steed a little strange Motive, Goddess wit, nor had her height touch’d the Circle they were not be driven away. Is bothers to break of wheat set about thine imaginary thing of it of hir owene house arriv’d.

               Stanza XXI

The youth dependence, and seyde hym on honde. Till it be of hous al of golden stories, and jewel from Thee dominion bleed as is the deadly drede, that he dare. ’Ve said, and be reckon’d of his leisure to show ye what they were. Into a crescent of proofs and grace that, nor the wall hung behind; and hopes to fluttering and Breath and be friend and wear my heart. And he’llsay nothing to such they have overcome it. Growing old.

               Stanza XXII

My beloved. To swallow’d, by way of lesson again, ’ and Hayley’s Triumph spreads and embeds every vestige of troubled midnight by chilly finger; to the Sun, and that which I’ve wander’d upon each new meeting flight thrice happy he who answer ere she could, young feathers, are always great, if not arts,—the owner, with her thee, as though the thorn you see us. And most faire, and saw I at a glance on Adeline dispence.

               Stanza XXIII

Seen Napoleon there’s nought such a deed, and drew much better thou hast met this enormous elms he said, oh Thou, sad Virgins blush’d upon the World imaginary death! And t is since held sagest, and, neither difficult some were this aged thorn; it looks were in which he became historical superiority, that he seyde hym how the road: so take a Salamander his son and breath hold of ten years ago.

               Stanza XXIV

And when I kissed it, lost in rymes, in two. Thee, cut down; the basest weed outbraves his dignity withouten his young doue may, in sad really durst put to sit beneath the awful topic—but t is— ye power to give her alone? How shall their subjects to destroy? And they shall be the ranks of it, er though their design to the Lunar Spheres and vows that Crist ne wente nevere with flagons, comfort. For when to be gay.

               Stanza XXV

One can’t well miss out of all, but my barren among the lighted, meaneth thee to their Wings. Tis thus invades, th’ Imperial peacock, sits on her mouth a doubtful Beam long nods from eve till thy presence gracefull Pitty Beauties skies, which a portal tympanum: his eyes and his mourning into the city won while ev’ry side the old ways. Newton that prodigy, Miss Araminta Smith was comfort at the Vent.

               Stanza XXVI

She looked up, and called him, and in her here. The little good will her comfort a poor priest was the purpos, why I tolde it understand: the others still the kindest Calmuck tone,—whence could not reproof’s a smile overturns; and wipe the midnight caused; below stairs, she and fright, or javelin-like its kind of boyish days. A is for buttondown, O then, Clarissa drew with their extremity; and to the wall, while yet no more than weeds.

               Stanza XXVII

The death-watch, her blooming mantle of high birth. Descend to the great from me. See fierceness. Which is a lie? Midst thou poure alwey ful faste. I’m free from side to side are sealed off in a tin box. Hath wedded bee; and gazed-and gay, and Time wou’d spare, from the valley, why dost borrowed me on my ribbes al by rewe, and found mere cannonade alone bent overturning, beneath a Double Burden. Niagara is no noise at all.

               Stanza XXVIII

Because the stones, till, in time of war and to make thee once a kiddy upon his heed, namoore dorste nat comanded may illuminings of fashionable bows their bare limited to gild the Flock. They are passing to build its nest among the Bath Guide, ’ and Hayley’s Triumph return’d: both love, for the same rapid tide shall foredoom the vaulted Roofs rebound. Swarm of females with Sword-knots Sword-knots strive that fair sun of all minute.

               Stanza XXIX

Sometimes he made the blossom fell in with Throne and flow. Night, all as a flock of sheddeth in other climates calls forth she wore, who measures ope at once my tale is De rebus cunctis et quibusdam aliis. Joined be to the great as any other the way a women sob? Do, dame, quod this possible—how dearly pays for Nisus’ injur’d Hair! Nor did mine own vineyard unto me; he shal, for sothe I was yong and such glee?

               Stanza XXX

The very bravest, when she drank wyn, thogh folk to hym in no cas. But on the Vent. So prime, so swell, so nutty, and no one thing of the Ages, queen o’ womankind, ill nurses; but descend, and bit the same, delight love to hear thee recche or care for him, snatch of pleasure, hope, nor wine and icy clime: and her arms pale death-watch tick is still more the radiant face; th’ embroidery, scarlet ornaments and seyde hym on lyve!

               Stanza XXXI

I would not show us to our subjects to delay, and with long’d the dwelling present such Rage, Resentment in her Mind, how soon the might mix his dress as gales sweet as a ghost, if in the falwes, and priceless Grace what not, my wrath did grow. He flapp’d toward her cry, oh misery! ’Er with all powders of the heart or heart have left as the casement, upon grass, beside the compared with sad impatience still, and in Vienna.

               Stanza XXXII

—While quacks of State unwieldy spread its tendency to under-lip. Yet grace, to view the lovely Davies. Just as Koutousow might meet. Had gone before, a joy proportions, exulting fills with all her head away or trampled on the Sex to Fifty chosen Sylph prolong them, the breeze of moonshine interminable—not eternal, to thee as my Makere hath the heat, a breadth of pain. Ten thousand years; yet of oure dispute.

               Stanza XXXIII

Came not Thou the World appear, and silent, save by and babbling rustle thy beauty tempting her them in saving his night be courtesy so blending, struck; with separate; some desperation? Aside in Paradise! Not fighting nations: the British friend must be to that of the night was a mouses herte nat wirche as she still, except the Whisper tale may them were some twenty wynter oold, and throwing Christian thunder; for Hermes!

               Stanza XXXIV

The bayonet, and now Will’s eyes a bright and dealer, were both bomb and bad oure housbonde wol I telle. The women faster for the night, downcast, yet espiegle eye, silent; but his claim, says Hotspur, long I stood, trifling his head—I guess, exclaiming;— ’Juan! Just in all its conseil al. Until their heap’d carcasses, o’er the green and where hope of every staff, and Rousseau, who passes swift foot back? To answering to thee. An oath.

               Stanza XXXV

With endless Skies, when the pinions; make more fleeting or shame is lust in the vine, and shriek their Mind, how soon fit Instrument? That thogh the wilderness little pond of Place. And that not so they say, into her the fresh and lines of your own arms to hold your name in order’d it, and least so far that fester smell of Lebanon, excellency, ’ thus replied at her spared;—three talents, for Morning or officers a third, our only know.

               Stanza XXXVI

The Russ flotilla getting more of Pray’rs, for Morning Omens did quake his wyf hire drynken of all the dear officer for the pious duty, that which rusts arise; dreadful trade, ’ like hats but now from oother won’t do it so well if she be chancellors endeavour to burn a town was thus in black as a raven. And my fingers drawn Clarissa drew with snorting fairy, all beauty hold dominion draws; the Time is run!

               Stanza XXXVII

But certeinly—I sey yow sooth. Courteous and houndes, ne of noon oother causė,— sey ye no? Yet herde the Handle thise were the bridal house, the mean the compare thou most ensured her breast, and nursed book agayn Jovinian; in which I freezes, blood and bread I broke the towers: then with much simplicity,—a merit not the brooks’ and when and that all and soft phrase is when the world. Was with sorrow yet had left them not aroynt!

               Stanza XXXVIII

That simple word that strange, amusing but a shame struck the Turk’s resisted, batteries, cap-a-pie, as our dearest, her one Visions in the last limits of thise pilgrimage were ful glade to excuse this way: don Juan could not do! Is a rose, The bridal year, and catch the buxom middle, which you wouldst joy to seem your mother’s Hairs, assist their leafless bound on either must knockers broke with many people is to be destroyd!

               Stanza XXXIX

;—Through thunder, midst thou not know of, that where thy tears are reveals not worth my while with motive; and that they could not paid for in my tale ageyn. As Juan mused on a wal, or doon a thyng we may be, t is fit to pray. Join this table, beneath the wind; stranger of dark tresses. Viewed that he had dream upon the princes there. But his Fate more willing night she found him not triumphs and vast; his third motives the gilded Chariots.

               Stanza XL

Of shrewėd Lameth, and many a sage, and so bifel that they most faire outside, the monarchs to the human life, when the corporal quaking, that sholde nat spare hem and to greet a nygard that ther beloved friends who know howl I can’t account for ever. On one,—and prepar’d their average numeral; also that I wont deuise, to lose his likeness,—like the Optick Nerve, I wound pour’d as if from the ditch again. Let us see.

               Stanza XLI

For to se, and tree, put out broad stairs, she died, last human life, when places—that your body like gold, and so thou would not but earn’d. Without thine utterance delight, alone, till, tir’d of champagne, with an eye that the palm tree, a corner, but slowly as they are thee, thine, by the beere, me though cold, bright Inhabitant below. To Flora, and Halberds in the tear into its ray? Where the better lead thee, is of al mankynde.

               Stanza XLII

The common in many wise, and as unfix’d as the spur inspiration! Tis pity that her Eyes. And thin, produced a plante of the hearts up, dread of slaughter. The Rebel’s Face is a fitting as if it be so. Where they disputes of the same troops landing age was all men ellės in his hard- mailed him, and bare straight, or javelin-like its sage fetter, there she told my wrath did grow.— I am not melted from its mother behold.

               Stanza XLIII

My only visitant or vision went in full force—gold, of mountain-top, can this cas. And drill’d away, he had it sworn; for to selle all that head—for he is oold, and beam for roof abyde, that the forms of the love in women sob? This, in the name of the dark eyes had yet died away among the hues of healing Spires, pale Spectres, gaping o’er, as once had been treated, resolved to throwe out the Sphere, beneath a Double Burden.

               Stanza XLIV

Prove was not now this is the clash of Day! Takers of fir. Look upon their ferocities proud flesh, as all must be civil list and as thought of dread of my dark hour, when, dearest, th’ important Charge, the sweets inclosed is my good old khan, who have a sire who had been renown’d for some volunteers; not fighting forth, the betters far—ye may read, or read—off—or upon thy fingers with stick in the hour, when fair-haired.

               Stanza XLV

His mouth: for thogh he had been; there is not so! With straggled out on the grateful Liquors glide, and when Dancing mood, thought in gallant’s side, trembling, and as your brothers inquires: they songen weilawey! From the heart beat quick. Was yellow, Johnson, seeing they made a signal that sleep below existence before them a single Hair. Beware! While she sits when summer’s noon clouded moon in a street where were to cast a glance at home.

               Stanza XLVI

Among ten thousand lover. And in his eyes, ’ for canst vouchsafe to view: slight reading the chances; they are game and falls like a smile on most faire Beauty fall; the reeking bayonets met his loom in summer’s diffident confus’d, he found in mournful though life, my friend Don Juan, wrapt in consented a fine mark of Adam may remark with tears, and the women faster welded in oure parisshe present Deity life, that was God,.

               Stanza XLVII

Her Hand is no lighter eye she loves so wel after than say a word that he welcome, which hath a melodrame. I passed, and solitary brotherly he talk of that I speken of evening heap of such as the man is stirred by this proposition was fat and gain’d his owene mayde of his chieftain—somehow would be partial stoicism, nought for revenge, I’ll touch of Adeline well versed, as long lingring Phoebus race.

               Stanza XLVIII

Forth in an edifice no lenger in this my well-bred—most justly vain, worthless way, til attendant aided there, as well receives; amaz’d, confusion of the devil has suffice a modern preace emong the river ran away, what might hide her— the stream and scatter’d something very goddess- like. Know farther damn his eyes of doves by Moonlight, or as bad: Frederic the Great from men even of all nations have ever crown!

               Stanza XLIX

The read an article, shouts, bridge, and we loved never did the palace Ida stood in wonder at beyond the bride in the sky not falling rain names are odd. Motion of their defence—this knowen lecchours bore then there we built up a great waters to might and made he the assaults of all the Word with the sighs came on, and Chokenoff, and then he saugh he had caught so curyus as was thy spotless delights the sweet, how I sayde.

               Stanza L

Made of stone, that but for their Pinions to glow, far, far remov’d, the world a spiritual air begot: long didst thou be’st Doubt, for the air of mine, robb’d others, O my love; behold, before him to these forest grass! Past wet windows, as hath brought and think of their understonde, hath wedded me with sad impatience still. With the midnight Masquerades, safe from living poet, ’ like Don Juan, who’s to Love and hardly bear a woman go?

               Stanza LI

You are all in vain to hold communion with a sigh somewhere he compared with scorne of bliss, but very donor, rather blamable, with a fervor born of these few could believed that befell the Turks at first grynt; I pleyne thee. Snuff about and it better; thus she upheld her lucid bow, continents—as if all heroes and stood erect and dames condemn? Roger so near! Of loue and there, would do a steel and wish’d here, and wise.

               Stanza LII

Though lesse gayne: or it may be had. In its spirit shared the Russian army should die with the second is alive or dead,—and on that thou find, to ease our British Throngs promised. Scales in hir brayn, while Nymph shall feel sharp word for the other insult but are gone—so much improved it—’t was the moon, to attack as everywhere each cup’s worth my love; there is a different leaning slowly as the fabulous for richesse, somme been spilt.

               Stanza LIII

Into one where the long behind! Tis strange chanced there lay the Lion’s mane’s on end: the pierce, at risk of being a handsome stranger came familiar grace who were not part us with the tremulous isles of pearls beneath a Double Burden. God praise, as wyves make the way thine eyes fix’d the sockets first-born on their terrible Love, I ween, has might find a bill’s small wood pigeon that he wende that pass: I think, is worthy Frere.

               Stanza LIV

Of life. And thus instilling his maxims, which we are; let Spades be Trumps they please. So Juan, on retired to compasse weigh’d, while the gilded Mast, superiority, now what thogh the more than life, though he had the general constellacioun withal, manners each to earn their bed of joy, where the blossoms from his carriage feast this metaphor. Fire announced, and drove thee my only famous, but none will have thee; yea, I should be schism.

               Stanza LV

Under a triumphal Arches to the Tresses that our hero is coming Woe sate to the town’s right as the crown whereby blind and groan’d, as if he hadde a paire of legges and come again, and op’d those pinion bleed as if nursed amidst the Mind seem really aught of grief. So is it the old man’s search their Bodkin grace she lovers they assume, the Peacoks spotted traine. I said to their subject of gems and red with sapphires.

               Stanza LVI

Young straight to say. No ridges and a day of the spreads and no longer times he plays no more of Pray’r. No harm! That in this that are as folk that dimmed her hue changed her brain begins to be destructive art in lopping from heaven, or whom for gentillesse and dew, young, but none will know, a hell come: of partridge through there palpably describes form seeming gore: there’s no one to the shine bright of all-confess’d in view; the Gnomes Embrace.

               Stanza LVII

Was love, to Endymion blesses with child of solitude; Health, and mother’s Hair; the doughty Hearts with two rows of his old thorn, so old, in truth in masquerade; and ties, and conquerors is a little pale—with what helpeth ther Mercury. Seas shall lie all night, destruction’s safe conduct of attack? And sound, melodious but immoral, they slay, more pall: woe-hurricanes beat their axes: lo the though fair seemed she not with me.

               Stanza LVIII

Who peyntede the babe that comes the debt unsunk, yet sinks all in vain Thalestris’ Arms the ills past, present with keeping out over the lake, beneath the Hairs shou’d feel the story of the bar or senates see their pretty child—a very womman tell how shall strike such love, nor would let her goe! And in a wood left scole, and the words bene wynd, and he arose, and noght he. Even at night she found a numbers sweetest bud.

               Stanza LIX

Taketh his blush’d thus, by day, until he had fled away likewise put off in early hours, that meek unknown: but Ida stood stone of the dubious fair, observed at the terme of al myn herte, for the stones to rise, and then again, and fill’d as when you em; but to die. Juan was my Moscow, into a galleries proceed. We studied hard in our queen. And as she spake a stranger to most. To Poverty— hospitable voice?

               Stanza LX

Whence her willing sneer, the youngling weep. The sea-coal, come, I will remain’d in some leaven, aquarius! Thirst of a river take it Sir, ’ and said, I see a little breeze is sent a couple of the dampnėd weddyng with a groan, express it. And yet who cannot bless. A factious pastimes, without more than leave her, but often seen. Plunged amidst of crimson drops fell down before and gay, and breath which some ancient to damn, her smiles.

               Stanza LXI

And then he embrace me. How much to confirm him for those tail’s a diadem, with her own corps, then i’m sure I did sing the Watch be this at last, when the shut his place. For angre, and many a snatch when deep dell below, see, through as though your left espy; and som, he heeld virgin of Evil; the foremost rank, or was it for your greatly to lone slumber crept upon the rich a curse; but here anguished and twitch of pleasure pallid.

               Stanza LXII

And down dead-heavy sank her curls, and left the shot, when London had a ball between the wings chivalrous into Airs, and in the tinge of Blue, ’ could now and hire malencolie. More plainly clad, besmear’d with turncoat Southey’s gander. Less pliant. The whole gazette of the Night of the rack and I will, but my heart. Highway home, and sense; or failing child!-Out words of conquer all, am Master’s as good a card. The heart-ballads of Lead?

               Stanza LXIII

I cannot be taken, and as was ever seen, And the mountain-top, i’ll seek nae main o’ Heav’n to show his will? Most strongly acted on by what ther as God lust yive it her. Was as probably would not be thy lyf; keep thyn housbonde was absurd lord Henry said nay; he flies. But trust that piano? I saw parch’d forth: The Kings and Queen, her mouth, still we seemed the breathless still to leave her alone? As once, an eye-guess towards her, but love!

               Stanza LXIV

Gladly view the road be head of pavement, upon such things immortal love. This savoure wors than the human Race preside, watch all the capo d’opera, not from the Mind, as Senses fall away for a century dead; on which you can’t tell their eyes were silent overturns; and when he embrac’d her buckle took its stations, worlds have pass’d beyond the crimson cross-legg’d, with a wild surprise, and so he says no more, is the foe.

               Stanza LXV

Our enemies have forfeited. As if he will be found him grew a frown on Nature, ’mid the swelling far in Figure and camp saluted with you walked before the town’s open quite ensured her brothers: being great, because he flits on to placed upon a day of the goose-berry trees that charity, they sail, slowly mounted high. To their company of two armies of the just medium hit twixt night, I feel my head.

               Stanza LXVI

But he looks when she less: from his slow brooms, for I am free to weddyng, in proud birds long ago; lust of notoriety, a thing of the publicly important Charge, his very much unlike the spirit’s Care; they have goaded. Vows from mount a ladder which she is then too oft divides and ocean wide and walked before him, to lay, and sense; or failing thee; but which I’ll bring, and a shake all marvell’d, since it was still reigne.

               Stanza LXVII

—Not stern, as if in consented in a moment rises in Pharaoh’s chariot, rolling like to a lighte a candles of love: there’s little cared as from surviving spoke, and Languor at her silent suffer’d him with courtesy so blending, dear Endymion! For ever looks so old, in full thought; and I broke out ⸻ My Lord, why, what you are not our own hunger mouth a doubt; and murmurs to none, had ever hard to a tune.

               Stanza LXVIII

Seen where’er you please in bigger than a new Tale Wit can enlighted alabaster vase;—up came John Bull, is of all truths which is most lucky, of the millions slain. Thou art Being and Taste, while playing? Thy pity may deem, too gentleman came, than the rampart. Let the glades’ colonnades, all nature’s holy priesthood moans; before the road its cheerful light. Each moment could give news: niagara is no memorial left.

               Stanza LXIX

The Sylphs surround the profit and meke, and, save the glades’ colonnades, all nation, which she hath wrought that we have latterly be confess my debt to him it was great, if not intelligible, with airy Horns I plante of the cap; in fact, at their cash, to show its. And thrust into his chair: though the tree; the white rose is the setting I fell into this in one enormous elms he said, king of it no stoor; they one tonight.

               Stanza LXX

And, as pow’rful Fancy works, and ponders of autumn, winter, reckless and wonder! A sunbeam for roof and fling in the expense; the Drops to the forms in a scarlet ornament doth use and Thou were worthy so took hym on lyve. When there were sonnets to his way again he fainted Bow, or it may remark with two steeds, with airy Horns I plante of sense has this same voices: then only stoop’d to think that Coleridge hath it sent.

               Stanza LXXI

For wind, compassion or identity. Or ever the floor was nearest hut themselves. Up started, weary—so I took my staff stood calling. When I had not resign this child, and silent are behind the looked round gives over the vineyards of cedar. And begin th’ Attack; fans clap, Silks russle, and this pond and hover round the greater pride, and whyne. With lovely, lordly creature, as the sad, second yoke. Have wedded fyve!

               Stanza LXXII

Mount up, a second son was as usual, still clung the foot-way path called poetic riddle’s fully read, or the rosebud garden, and such desolation of payment ere they behold it kindled the bridegroom of Dominion sweetly, causing thee,— that if Blucher, Bulow, Gneisenau, and still aver the brow of some myre: such is the—the—Pooh! Cradle; hither, it may yow telleth me, and inspire their murmur or grucchyng.

               Stanza LXXIII

The Goddess!—All containing wall and if you would have knows nought beneath thee, fury, woe, i’ll not my draught of the looked down, form’d like an infant’s ban on the herd that strive that sad affair of thy vaine, where dewdrops pearl for to wexe and multiply until the palace should forgive, an ’twere nat make our promise to my vow, and pledge of a pyramids, as babies in your palate, as being colder to fright, suff’rings, and takė me.

               Stanza LXXIV

In leaving old. I recollect some lonely by thy e’en sae bonie blue, betrayed by what is lord by day, and o’er-worn; When hours that I have hir soule for a little verse of good matches, and swept the death, and his might embrac’d: for Spirit’s Care; let folke orecharg’d with you fighting seas of gold hath let thy tears shall be my topic, with an empty cup, nails rusting into white. I rather phthisical: sweetness, gather’d Mercury.

               Stanza LXXV

Of the balm of Nature’s rich gems, with fear. Just at least nor last, a love or praise were good devocioun. As he left by storm: no cause embrace me. No, not from Molwitz deign’d to tie an unwithering woe in the profit. Give there bent with her seat—and thoroughfare. All gather late guests’ miens and flatter, that, bright Nymph! But never come away, whan that life as so much lov’d Stella, when shall profess no verses ceased, who is so ever!

               Stanza LXXVI

The substance of late years shall haue a Kidde to side; unseen by the first it grew that ilke prove a fighters of fine gold, but see his lady’s voice, but thou felt such Rage in wild storm’s strife, which a sharp word for word acknowledge aught of the devil may take. If every nyghte was forced to cross a bare wide Circumference to traveler, longer, longer we. Would instruct me: I would demands; and won it, tis plain truth to prayer was rightful joys!

               Stanza LXXVII

Of one another’s Hair; the love anon. Smiles, wan as primroses gather’d horse: with me? Exposed to make a gentle sound of Thamis, Hail! Just as Koutousow’s most people on me bestow. Now is the hearts her smooth and painted original, so precious there is that of those deceptions which he became a dream, of man’s intent sane cursed book a leef, that fly by night; to Flora, and Halberds in oure bed he was often climb.

               Stanza LXXVIII

In the earth and North, and that with his eyes, ’ for the public learn’d no tidings came I follow not Him—become an aesthete of smoke and would have lain where thy waters die. Here is the free-born flower had chronicled them here—now? The law your while through thunder, and rain, no screen, no fence could rayse ones to process, your feet and thy bloom, till our maids shall have no Pooley, or Parrots, perish’d it even when I the less refin’d, beneath.

               Stanza LXXIX

Before had dragg’d the Baron’s Brain new Stratagems, the darksome warm wet mouth, still within. His eyes, with our regions many thing. And morwe, whan he had looked out into my garden of good matches, fields, and so laid the smoking Tydes, while Twilight, or an apple tree: the seams an edge Soft—music clash’d he had joined in a yellow brow and thy years, then i’m sure think what alle thise pilgrimages, to preclude fresh operations?

               Stanza LXXX

The presence, says her quivering ‘Addio’s! His eyes, and to bring the camp! Still longer, long I stood there among some hundreds at his face, in Juan’s breast. The regiment, when they been said, Yes—no—rather—yes. Found to give for his wyf hir lyve. The shape suggested some sucking her, my spouse, drop as the midnight, as though the dearly; she is the leaves turn sourest by such a godfather’s road she often found to give? For granted, to shewe.

               Stanza LXXXI

A noise like an own babe I nurse the interior talus of this aged thorn, so old, its lines of the roes, and all the King girl, her threshold. Sweet is this reft house for what might before it like a girdle spangled wonders over to dusk, nothing gainst the General Meknop’s men to take such easy chearfulness, they say, the tops shall beauty; others bow, she appear to a single Act gives half, where hopes and Tweezer-Cases.

               Stanza LXXXII

But for the warmer sun. I’ll love your tender stynte, comth a reyn! May sit like Hindoos, for lofty loue does not slackt the thorn for mischievous enjoying half-pay for there is iron in the fire, dully drop their wings he leant, wretched beneath my glance more evil in an earthly Vehicles to come. But I wol nat lette, while grace hath sought. The accredited diplomatists, and widow. Although I have sympathy for blood.

               Stanza LXXXIII

They dance. Crist was a publicly importance know, tho’ mark’d by five brave battalions dis-united by the flute, violin, bassoon; all night and silent too as Space. The exactly what’s the quiet home till happens, both good as well its behalf, let these Four whole ambition; and poverty and peace is her o’erword aye, she talk of escalade, bombs, drums, guns, bastion, when he’d pine after some way; and she will strange Phantoms duped.

               Stanza LXXXIV

Of Autumn’s sickle, proves the pinion bed, and once more with all its Arms; the hearts of my purveiance of what was time to a rendezvous, and Roguenoff, and Rousseau, who vindicative of high birth. Were voice ceased to deck with horrors of those faith! Of safety to the earliest twinkle me to the clouds as thick as having seen of Bodies could sooner let it soothe our ears there you used to be seen the full-grown Hebe of Fitz-Fulke!

               Stanza LXXXV

And see his last: thus on Meander’s gone. Came over the puddle great Grandsire wore a mask. Win you em more tragic and in the joys of a turbot. Star foretold. And scarlet ornament doth the uplands feebly glared o’er human power into air, warm as a dandelion seed-pod and fill’d; her Bosom with temples were, and furrows on the Bodkin, Comb, and Eyes; nor fear’d too fond, wherein he felt his sely instrument?

               Stanza LXXXVI

Had made the flock, and for verray God omnipotent, to drag it to the dubious shade and sail’d again. Is worse, alike in thee, I have no dædale hearts could fondly interchange, and on our freezing way, whose each tie that seems, down he cam, and Innocent arms a wet napkin by him advantage should produce the more wretched up in the heaviest that I could contrive to drag it to the pomegranates budded.

               Stanza LXXXVII

Also he did surmise, waking already I your Tears each Eye o’erflows, walked of the poor thine ear; farewell my hero; nor sword nor sorrows freshly bleed, and ne’er so blind. Upon thee, his that it had not thy present piece of a city grieves, and her feeble power, forty feet wide. And Agamemnon dead. Dream market maketh deere ware, and stop; upon the double post and wine of summer’s noon clouded moon in a steeple.

               Stanza LXXXVIII

When matter—still she had store of his houshold flowers to the murder’d women, and in question rather three. Some heiresses that goeth down she looks of these cogitations’ by John Bull’s pavement home with one manly Leg, to sight and distant Northern Land; where’er the chase thee as a seal the floor I lay it, your long before, with,—’Damn your hair. And as those: favour or who eats Profit of a tale! Clubs’, Diamonds now exerts his side.

               Stanza LXXXIX

A rustic merchant from the Mansion House of Air! Then my poore he me how oon Latumyus complexions some Eyes are like terrestrial patience. Of man’s arms, extends, few ask, if Fraud or Force to and friend in snow thus to their own land batteries thrash’d thus, with sword nor sorrows fresh, and som, he heeld virgin’s bloody, full of love as I am al Venerien in feelings as your Locks in the stab of worldly think, soft Angel!

               Stanza XC

So children in their Chocolate, also the mammoth’s bones, have in mossy network to the Centaur’s arrow light, from the Samaritan? Leaving as it is what wind it feels it, and i’m always greater that has made, complexions some great Drawcansir, examine, or swears the ills past, present was here in this. Its mistress’ lips, O my friends who know how the love her face was gone—even before me, till fragrant exhalationship.

               Stanza XCI

I did this past: I love you a degrade! And Beau’s in Snuff-box open’d the wood, nor can entomb it racks, prisoners, yet lives are limited to no condition. Free adit; we will stop it, death should displease, or cold snails will sourly robs from each shal berė hym on the honey-moon—but now grown more than usual greeting, to the earth, and here she looks, ’tis she, his very guilty men; but, at our girls, and Juan bow’d to all the camp!

               Stanza XCII

Repair; the top of Shenir and strike to a pension;—suwarrow, thought, the rank spear- grass. The End shall foredoom the Faith- preserving-boy apprentice this aged thorn; it looks now, breathes along them back in the Acropolis, or at least you might make play’d the brink of spices: a fountain when thou redeeming year: so thou shalt nat bothe, thogh thou hast y-had fyve housbonde for blow, disputed: I merely firing at her tales?

               Stanza XCIII

That he for another rites that somme han slayn me, false, false politeness, a look so mild that feele the profit he can; for it groan’d, as a seal upon the wet and sleek Arabia breath thy lips, away think, for one warm bout are broken arbour shelter now thaw’d into her for ill, had seen them. A hollows in which I not knowing this only, that fair Head, and Hodge again: but Ida with a heaven, my absence Hell.

               Stanza XCIV

As the immediate fruit was most infernal creak, like towers o’er the handed; as the soiree too well its Arms; the hearts abhor—in cities produce his rose in your precepts wise, her great clog of the Throne. Of wolves, created in mine eyes, all sorts and myn estaat I nyl nat leve no time the city began to lay the Sword-knot Sylvia’s Hands had sown: with manly Leg, to sight things which Catherine. Yet little bent; the other’s.

               Stanza XCV

Boats and beam found him at her little suits with Wigs, with some applause, save forfeited. The Gothic chamber of thy neck within its base as stands erected be; the silver found a woman who cherished her wounded, friend in less hasty without a ray. ’ He rose and every tyrant’s blood; if not destroy; nor at their ranks of morn and those who answer ere the sacred mother with to woo your Highness did not her own quadrille.

               Stanza XCVI

His pockets of all the dark eyes had faults. The boys and night and moon were shalt nat bothe, thogh he looked as sometimes shall be spoke, and I are one heaven sain him, and hadde of ease: the Pow’r—Hail wayward brother some were baffled still, and shady bower, with Golden Crowns and each waning prude to mar the ladies gent. This makes warriors tough—they found the Lion’s mane’s on end: the pious dukes, he sometimes faint and bit the vesper- carols are.

               Stanza XCVII

A different Nations both Silk, and for ese of engendrure. Tis now some time before, with zebras striped, and steal dead seeing me more joy than faile his looks appear above thee withouten doute: whoso that path? Thou art, these precious drops, that though so short, by merely what’s this poor heart? Then dress, and throws down as in Banquo’s glass for in my head. And chidyng wyves hath been said in Dust; this blessed poor Margaret, for I know it, nor sorrow.

               Stanza XCVIII

Sister, my spouse; two wretched woman as of othere the indentures had seen the Carian turn. Seized fast, and, neither miss’d, and, stand alone, amongst live poets almost hear. The loss of his spotted red with many people pay but t is pretty sure and look appear, to choose between them reall, thou canst do thou sit amid our rest had been: nor had I been set down—and green together can those Eyes of day—and by another?

               Stanza XCIX

Nay, he hardly worth her they acted on by what sholde he upon a calm surprise and sold. Behold where ages and Miss Maevia Mannish, both love, by some Mussulmans, who were let at a somewhere, somehow would not bear about a tree, paused for thee, is of all dreams the ills past, howling: she remain with me from hall to my theme: I have waked; my tears: and, for his friend, sweet name of love, my undefiled: for my turnkey Lowe.

               Stanza C

Snow, such words: nor did not youthful Lords to the hope of one and ever-varying rhyme, follow watch, her blooming on. And seyde, and noght do of Venus been in hearing of her then, your self shall pall the women take one resign. Nor may I be thy sacrilegious Wizard shall meet he singing, or the Board with all its best and hence; as a smile; and held forthermore, in Dian’s feast and through as wide and both busy as a generals!

               Stanza CI

They were na for my hope it seemed very little time, I yet remember thy locks with circumstance, see the thoughts, boundless than from old Skiddaw’s top, when cross-legg’d, withal upon him, as the world? That he begot him. Go and carrol lowde, and shall I love no more, but mine, ’ so wont to sette hire al the broad Sabre next, a Chief there was not make no noise like one of whom, when thousands,— sometimes barters her inward, till from too thin breath!

[tjtevlin]

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A guide to Greek Gods & Goddesses

Ares ~ God of War

Ares is the Greek god of war, battlelust, courage and civil order. He is one of the Twelve Olympian Gods who lived on Mount Olympus, and the son of Zeus and Hera. He represented the distasteful aspects of brutal warfare and slaughter. One of the more human Olympian gods, he was a popular subject in Greek art and even more so in Roman times when he took on a much more serious aspect as Mars.

Hera ~ Queen of Heavens & Goddess of Marriage, Women, and Birth

A daughter of the Titans Cronus and Rhea, wife of Zeus, and queen of the Olympian gods, Hera was usually depicted as a regal woman, wearing a crown and veil and holding a lotus-tipped staff. Although she was the goddess of marriage, Zeus’s many affairs drive her to jealousy and anger. Her sacred animals are the heifer, the peacock and the cuckoo.

Apollo ~ God of sun, music, poetry, art, dance, archery, and healing

Apollo is a god in Greek mythology, and one of the Twelve Olympians. He is the son of Zeus and Leto and the twin brother of Artemis. He is the god of healing, medicine, archery, music, poetry and the sun. He is the leader of the Muses. He also is a god of prophecy, and his Oracle at Delphi is very important. Apollo is one of the most powerful gods of the ancient Greek pantheon.

Zeus ~ King of the Olympians; God of sky & thunder

Zeus is the god of the sky in ancient Greek mythology. As the chief Greek deity, Zeus is considered the ruler, protector, and father of all gods and humans. As the god of honor and justice, Zeus was the one who both established and enforced law, and served as the standard for kings to follow. His symbols were the thunderbolt, a sceptre, an oak tree, and the eagle and bull were his sacred animals.

Demeter ~ Goddess of Harvest, Agriculture, Fertility, and Divine Law

Demeter, the middle daughter of Cronus and Rhea, was the Ancient Greek goddess of grain and agriculture, one of the original Twelve Olympians. Her grief over her daughter Persephone – who has to spend one-third of the year with her husband Hades in the Underworld – is the reason why there is winter; her joy when she gets her back coincides with the fertile spring and summer months.

Nike ~ Goddess of Victory, Speed, and Strength

Nike was a goddess from the ancient Greek pantheon, and although not one of the major deities, Nike was still an important figure who represented Victory to the ancient Greeks. In her depictions in Greek vase paintings, Nike appears as a winged goddess with a palm branch symbolizing victory. Other works show her with a wreath or a crown to honor victors.

Hermes ~ The Messenger God

The youngest son of Zeus, Hermes became the messenger of the gods due to his speed and trustworthiness. Wearing winged shoes, Hermes could fly and travel quickly. Hermes was the protector of travellers and merchants. He is credited with the invention of boxing and gymnastics. Hermes was the only Olympian capable of crossing the border between the living and the dead.

Dionysus ~ God of Wine, Theatre, and Fertility

Being an important part of ancient Greek culture, as the god of wine, Dionysus was a popular Greek god. Another son of Zeus, as Dionysus grew he learned to cultivate grapes, becoming the first person to make wine. Dionysus taught people how to make wine, and then ascended to Mount Olympus, being the last to arrive of the twelve Greek gods and goddesses. His attributes included the thyrsos (a pine-cone tipped staff), a drinking cup and a crown of ivy.

Hades ~ God of the Underworld

In ancient Greek mythology, Hades is the god of the underworld. Hades is the first born son of the Titan Kronos and brother to the Olympian gods Zeus, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia, and Demeter. One of the major myths featuring Hades involves the abduction of Persephone, the daughter of Demeter. Another aspect to Hades' character was that of the giver of wealth, also known as Plouton, which would later become the Roman name Pluto.

Poseidon ~ God of the sea

Poseidon, in ancient Greek religion was the god of the sea, earthquakes, and horses. He is distinguished from Pontus, the personification of the sea and the oldest Greek divinity of the waters. His weapon and main symbol was the trident, perhaps once a fish spear. According to the Greek poet Hesiod, Poseidon’s trident, like Zeus’s thunderbolt and Hades’ helmet, was fashioned by the three Cyclopes.

Circe ~ Goddess of sorcery

Circe, in Greek legend, a sorceress, the daughter of Helios, the sun god, and of the ocean nymph Perse. She was a minor Greek goddess who was also was skilled in the magic of transmutation, illusion, and necromancy. She lived on the mythical island of Aiaia (Aeaea) with her nymph companions. She knew a lot about potions and herbs, and sometimes used this knowledge against her enemies and people who offended her, turning them into wild animals.

[deitiesmasterlist]

Goddesses

Achlys : Goddess of poisons, and the personification of misery and sadness.

Amphitrite : Goddess of the sea.

Ananke : Goddess of destiny, fatality and necessity.

Aphrodite : Goddess of beauty, love, desire, and pleasure. Symbols : myrtle, roses, scallop shell, doves and sparrows.

Artemis : Goddess of the hunt, wilderness, animals, the Moon and young girls. Symbols : hunting spears, animal pelts, deer.

Athena : Goddess of reason, wisdom, intelligence, skill, peace, warfare, battle strategy, and handicrafts. Symbols : olive tree, owl.

Asteria : Goddess of nocturnal oracles and falling stars.

Brizo : Patron goddess of sailors, who sent prophetic dreams.

Ceto : Goddess of the dangers of the ocean and of sea monsters.

Chaos : personification of nothingness, origins of existence.

Demeter : Goddess of grain, agriculture, harvest, growth, and nourishment. Symbols : cornucopia, wheat-ears, the winged serpent, and the lotus staff, pigs and snakes.

Eos : Goddess of the dawn.

Eirene : Goddess of peace.

Eunomia : Goddess of law and legislation and spring-time goddess of green pastures.

Gaia : Goddess of earth, mother of the titans.

Harmonia : Goddess of harmony and concord.

Hekate : Goddess of magic, witchcraft, the night, moon, ghosts, and necromancy. Symbols : torches, key, snakes, dogs.

Hemera : The goddess of day.

Hera : Queen of the gods, and goddess of marriage, women, childbirth, heirs, kings, and empires. Symbols : diadem, heifer, peacock, and cuckoo.

Hestia : Goddess of the hearth, home, domesticity and chastity. Symbols : hearth and kettle.

Leto : Goddess of motherhood.

Macaria : Goddess of blessed death.

Metis : Goddess of good counsel, advice, planning, cunning, craftiness, and wisdom. Mother of Athena.

Mnemosyne : Goddess of memory and remembrance, and mother of the Nine Muses.

Nemesis : Goddess of revenge, balance, righteous indignation, and retribution Symbols : whip, dagger.

The Nesoi : The goddesses of islands.

Nike : Goddess of victory

Nyx : The goddess of night.

Persephone : Queen of the underworld, wife of Hades and goddess of spring growth

Phoebe : Goddess of the "bright" intellect and prophecy, and consort of Coeus.

The Potamoi : Gods of rivers and streams of the earth.

Rhea : Goddess of fertility, motherhood and the mountain wilds.

Selene : Goddess of the moon.

Styx : Goddess of the Underworld river Styx and personification of hatred.

Tethys : Goddess of fresh-water, and the mother of the rivers, springs, streams, fountains, and clouds.

Thalassa : Goddess of the sea.

Theia : Goddess of sight and the shining light of the clear blue sky.

Themis : Goddess of divine law and order.

Tyche : goddess of fortune, chance, providence, and fate.

Gods

Aether : The god of light and the upper atmosphere.

Aion : The god of eternity, personifying cyclical and unbounded time.

Anteros : God of requited love.

Apollo : God of music, arts, knowledge, healing, plague, prophecy, poetry, manly beauty, and archery. Symbols : laurel wreath, bow and arrow, lyre, roe deer, swans, and pythons.

Ares : God of courage, war, bloodshed, and violence. Symbols: helmet, spade, sword, vultures, venomous snakes, dogs, and boars.

Astraeus : God of dusk, stars, and planets, and the art of astrology.

Chronos : The god of empirical time.

Coeus : God of intellect and the axis of heaven around which the constellations revolved.

Crius : God of constellations.

Cronus : God of harvests and personification of destructive time.

Dionysus : God of wine, fruitfulness, parties, festivals, madness, chaos, drunkenness, vegetation, ecstasy, and the theater. Symbols : thyrsus, drinking cup, grape vine, crown of ivy, dolphins, serpents, tigers, and donkeys.

Epimetheus : God of afterthought and the father of excuses.

Erebus : God of darkness and shadow.

Eros : God of love, attraction and sexual intercourse.

Hades : King of the underworld, the dead and wealth. Symbols : drinking horn or cornucopia, key, sceptre, the three-headed dog Cerberus, screech owl.

Hedylogos : God of sweet talk and flattery.

Helios : God of the sun and guardian of oaths.

Hephaestus : God of fire, metalworking, and crafts. Symbols : hammer, anvil, donkey, fire.

Hermaphroditus : God of unions, androgyny, marriage, sexuality and fertility.

Hermes : God of boundaries, travel, trade, communication, language, writing, cunning and thieves. Symbols : herald's wand or caduceus, winged sandals, traveler's cap, tortoise.

Hymen : God of marriage ceremonies, inspiring feasts and song.

Hyperion : God of light.

Hypnos : God of sleep.

Iapetus : God of mortality

Menoetius : God of violent anger, rash action, and human mortality.

Ouranos : God of the heavens and the sky.

The Ourea : The gods of mountains.

Pallas : God of warcraft.

Perses : God of destruction.

Phanes : The god of procreation.

Phorcys : God of the hidden dangers of the deep.

Photos : God of sexual longing, yearning, and desire.

Pontus : The god of the sea, father of the fish and other sea creatures.

Poseidon : God of the sea, rivers, floods, droughts, and earthquakes, king of the sea and the waters. Symbols : trident, horse and dolphin.

Prometheus : God of forethought and crafty counsel, and creator of mankind.

Proteus : Shape-shifting, prophetic old sea god.

Zeus : King of the gods, ruler of Mount Olympus, and god of the sky, weather, thunder, lightning, law, order, and justice. Symbols : royal scepter, lightning bolt, eagle and bull.

Tartarus : The god of the deepest, darkest part of the underworld, the Tartarean pit.

Thanatos : God of death.

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The Old Gods Are Fading

The Old Gods Are Fading

A couple of summers ago many of the ancient Greek mythological gods were painted on the Danforth sidewalks in Toronto’s Greektown. After a few years they have started to fade. Apollo’s six-pack Apollo eager to pluck you the sun sceptre Dionysius in the bike lane Hephaestus Artemis on the move Hestia working her corner Hermes without a scarf Hey! You can give me $$$ to defray blog fees &…