#Argos Panoptes

[theoihalioistuff]

The Murder Trial of Hermes

"Anticlides, following Xanthos the Lydian, describes the gods' response to the first murder performed by one of their number: "When Hermes had killed Argos, the guardian of Io, at Zeus' behest, he was brought to trial. He was arraigned by Hera and the other gods, because he was the first god ever to be stained with death. Now when the gods were holding this trial, they were afraid of Zeus, for Hermes had acted on his orders. They wanted both to remove this stain from their presence, and to acquit the god of murder: agitated as they were, they threw their voting pebbles at Hermes, so that a pile of stones grew at his feet." (FGH 765 F 29; 140 F 19; Eust. 1809.38-43. The sources note that passers-by are required to throw an additional stone on the pile). Both ancient and modern readers treat the incident as aetiological in design: it can elucidate the term Hermaios lophos, a cairn of stones dedicated to Hermes (Schol ad. Od. 16.471), or might supply a fanciful origin for the practice of voting with pebbles at trials." Stoning and Sight: A Structural Equivalence in Greek Mythology by Deborah T. Steiner

I wonder what Hera felt when she was tossing the stone (and if she was aiming at Hermes' head)

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The Beholding / Eye [TMA] ID Pack

Pt: The Beholding / Eye [TMA] ID Pack /end pt

Name: Alexandria, Arc, Archive, Argos, Argus, Basira, Behold, Beholder, Blackwood, Caecilius, Caecus, Cecille, Elias, Emma, Harvey, Iris, John, Jon, Jonah, Jonathan, Magnus, Martin, Oculus, Opsesthai, Panoptes, Prometheus, Thoth, Watcher

Pronouns: archive/archives, archivist/archivist, behold/beholder, behold/beholds, beholder/beholders, cease/ceases, eye/eyes, insti/institute, institute/institutes, judge/judges, know/knowledge, know/knows, knowledge/knowledges, mirr/mirror, mirror/mirrors, secret/secrets, si/sight, sight/sights, watch/watcher, watch/watchs, watcher/watchers, 👁️/👁️s, 🍺/🍺s, 🍻/🍻s, 📹/📹s, 🎥/🎥s, 🪞/🪞s, 📚/📚s, 🗃️/🗃️s, 🏷️/🏷️s, 🗂️/🗂️s, 📝/📝s

Titles: [the] avatar of the eye / beholding, prn who creates / records statements, prn who holds the mirror / rock eye / manual, prn who knows [secrets], prn who was cursed / blessed by the eye / beholding, prn who works in The Magnus Institute, the archivist / archival assistant, the beholder, the ceaseless watcher, the secret keeper, the watched, the watcher

Genders: Sillyeye, Omnisdoth, TMA0181206sweetartsgender, Ashsweeteyegender, Belieye, Requeye, Coineye, Archieye, Archivoccuterm, Dystgazegender, Eyebait, Archeyeic, Pyreyetin, Tmaeyehunter, Knociment, Spectoculic, Wikipediagender, Eyeangel, Eyefreak, Eyeloser, Eyeweirdo, Occunous

Other ids: Dissoeyeava, Avatar of the Eye Occuden, Eyepsese, Avatar of The Eye, The Eye Aligned, Archivist Occuden, Internet Archivist Occuden, MOGAI Archivist Occuden, Memorykeeper, Archive Emsoul, Dissconnoarchivist, Archivelexstelic, Archivistlexstelic

Text in bold is: Name, Pronouns, Titles, Genders, and Other ids respectively

All term names are links. More terms can be found here and here

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[of-golden-guns]

Titles of the Young Wolf :

The Hivebane, Crotas End, God Slayer, King Slayer, The Slayer of Oryx, Iron Lord and Saladins Young Wolf, Hero of the Red War, Protector of the Last City, The Chosen One, The Shadow of Earth, The Shadow of Calus, Avenger of Cayde 6, Spawn Killer, Rivens Bane, Queens Guard, Champion of Eris Morn, The Wish Keeper. Slayer of the Final Shape and Scourge of the Witness. Also : Neon Nerd, Meatbag, (from immaru) Slayer of: too many to put down on one post

Crippled the House of Devils by killing Riksis, Devil Archon and destroying Sepiks Prime Cleansed the Black Garden of Darkness by destroying the Black Heart Conqueror of the Vault of Glass and destroyer of Atheon, Time's Conflux Slayer of Crota, Son of Oryx in vengeance of the First Crota Fireteam and The Great Disaster Executioner of Skolas, Kell of Kells Usurper and Kingslayer of Oryx, the Taken King Destroyer of SIVA and Aksis, Archon Prime First of a new generation of Iron Lords Savior of the Red War and slayer of Dominus Ghaul Favored champion of Emperor Calus; Defended the Leviathan against Argos, Val Ca'uor, and Gahlran Destroyed Panoptes, Infinite Mind and reconciled the City with the exiled Osiris Slayer of Xol, Will of the Thousands in defense of the Warmind Avenged Cayde-6 by killing Uldren Sov and the Scorned Barons Slayer of Riven of a Thousand Voices and protector of the Dreaming City Reclaimant of the Black Armory Forges Thwarted an invasion of the Sol Divisive Vex and defeated the Consecrated Mind, Sanctified Mind, and Undying Mind Saved Saint-14 from his fated death by the Vex Mastered Stasis and defeated Eramis, Kell of Darkness Conqueror of the Deep Stone Crypt and slayer of Taniks, the Scarred Killed the High Celebrant of Xivu Arath and stopped an army of Wrathborn Chosen Vanguard champion and victor over Ignovun, Chosen of Caiatl Stopped the Endless Night and destroyed Quria, Blade Transform Aided Queen Mara Sov in rescuing the lost Techeuns and exorcising the Witch Queen’s worm Defeated Savathûn, the Witch Queen and the Lucent Brood Disciple Slayer of Rhulk, Calus, and Nezarec Mastered Strand and became savior of Neomuna Briefly tithed to the Hive God of Vengeance Eris Morn and slayed Leviathan-Eater, Bane of the Ammonites Protector of Riven’s lost clutch of Ahamkara whims as Taranis’s Wish-Keeper Became legend by destroying the Witness and ending the war of Light and Darkness eons in the making

[bugwolfsstuff]

Alright i've laid out the rules ive made up for son of god of sleep/dreams Hermes! Cecil

Feel free to give me suggestions :)

He can wander people's dreams freely.

Sleeping drugs dampen or stop his powers depending on the dosage (he only did this during and a while after the Titan War, Lou ellen helped him in getting them)

Since Hermes is referred to as bringer of dreams, he can make and give people dreams but once they're given he cannot alter or control the dreams.

However he can hide things in the dreams (think a delivery man hiding your package behind a plant pot or something) at any time

He can't make people fall asleep unless Hermes gave him a tool like a wand or something for that* but no one would ever trust him with something like that...right?

*Quotes that I got the wand idea from (it likely means the Herald's wand in myth but still) under the cut:

"There were sentries . . . but about these the courier Argeiphontes drifted sleep, on all [with his wand]." —Homer, Illiad

"And he [Hermes] took the rod that lulls men's eyes for him, at his pleasure, or awakens others when they slumber."

"[Hermes] held in his hand the golden rod that he uses to lull men's eyes asleep when he so wills, or again to wake others from their slumber." —both are Homer, Odyssey

"[Hermes] grasped in his fist the wand that charms to sleep, put on his magic cap, and thus arrayed . . . sprang from his father's citadel down to earth [to slay the monster Argos Panoptes]. There he removed his cap, laid by his wings; only his wand he kept . . . Cyllenius [Hermes] saw all Argus' eyelids closed [after soothing him with the music of a shepherd's-pipe] and every eye vanquished in sleep. He stopped and with his wand, his magic wand, soothed the tired resting eyes and sealed their slumber."

"[Hermes] saw that his wand, the wand he wields to bring and banish sleep, shone with a polish."

"Mercurius [Hermes] with his wand that soothes to slumber touched her [Khione] on the lips; touch-tranced she lay and suffered his assault [he lay with her]." —All 3 are *sigh* regretfully from Ovid, Metamorphoses 

[drconstellation]

Giving Wings to Peacocks

GOD: Do you know the rules of the heavens? Did you set the constellations in the sky? Can you send lightning bolts and get them to report back to you? Did you give wings to peacocks, Job, or teach the ostrich to run?

There was a post recently about Jimbriel's glorious ostrich feather coat that he dons to give himself up to the demons during the storming of the book shop, and how this links him to the line about the ostriches. Somebody made a tick list, and the only one left was the line about peacocks. I'm pretty sure that one is about Michael - it's just... it would be the only reference that is not in S2, but in S1. I dunno, perhaps if I explain it, someone else will find the S2 link.

How does Michael connect with peacocks? They are covered in eyes. Eyes everywhere. Eyes on their angel ring, eyes on their sleeves, eyes on their ear rings, eyes on their buttons, they run the surveillance network in Heaven. They are always watching.

The peacock's tail is also covered in "eyes." In Greek mythology Argus Panoptes (Argos the All-seeing) was a giant covered in a hundred eyes and never had to sleep. He could rest some of his eyes but the others would stay open. This made him an effective guard, and Hera set him to guard the nymph Io, who had been transformed into a white heifer to hide her from Zeus. Zeus sent clever Hermes to release Io. He either charmed Argus asleep or slew him, but either way Io escaped and Argus was slain and Io swam across the sea now named after her to the shores of Egypt. Distraught at the fate of her faithful servant, Hera put the eyes of Argus on the tail of her sacred bird, the peacock.

Obviously Michael can already fly - they are an angel, they have wings! So we should consider "getting their wings" in a more metaphorical sense, like getting experience in something, or a promotion, perhaps. And that would have happened in the Great War.

Oh, so how you going to prove that, op? What if I told you you'd already seen it? Back in S1, at Tadfield Manor where we are seeing a re-creation of the Great War in Heaven? Yep, there is an awful lot going on there, and it was an almost blink and miss it kind of moment.

Here's the first time I can definitely identify Michael, the red-headed lass who runs past the duo and asks "who's winning?"

And you know how I know it's Michael? Because she is one who brings down Lucifer/Norman. And traditionally Michael is the angel who throws down Lucifer.

(I can't do gifs at the moment, and no one seems to have made one of the exact moment I need, so I'll try to explain it.)

We've established that the rebelling angels are the yellow side, and Lucifer/Norman has just declared war on Gabriel/Nigel's red side, and donned his tie-halo. He runs out to attack and is struck down.

We are shown the face of manager Gabriel/Nigel first - but he's in shock. He didn't fire the bullet! The camera shot pans to the right and behind to show us !Michael, gun still raised, smiling at the success of their aim.

Lucifer/Norman !Falls to the ground. Is he dead? No, he has miraculously survived, of course.

Because this little "training initiative" was God's way of determining who would be the best new leaders, and there were now vacancies, I see this as !Michael getting promoted and "getting their wings."

And that, folks, is my theory on how Crowley gave wings to peacocks.

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link to gdrive of publically available FHR stories and from malin's mainblog

organised and indexed official FHR blog asks/text posts because tumblr's search function Sucks <3 (direct link to gdrive) designed to work with bookish's search tool here

sidestep physical scar map/guide

charting rebirth/retri events timeline (yet to be transcribed)

other people's fh resources

choiceofgames codediving tutorial

savegame editor (steam/desktop only)

comprehensive retribution walkthrough/guide (seriously, kudos to oldsoul--newmachine)

assorted other fh guides

other stuff

codediving tag

general fh talkings

sidestep autism moments

meta

art tag / my artblog

tip jar if you like my stuff

cohost

pillowfort

my sidesteps

suranga fernando (main) / puppet: juno / villain name: argos / misc: panoptes syndicate / freddie purrcury the lint monster / suramortum (mortumstep) tag

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[cigarettesandinevitablebetrayal]

OC Kiss Week - Day One

Alright, so, it's OC Kiss Week and I've decided to do a few little microfiction pieces, of my Sidesteps stealing kisses from other's Sidesteps. First victim is @autistic-sidestep and their lovely Suranga as menaced by my character Remus! This, ostensibly, take place in the Birds of a Feather AU.

“You work too much, you know.” It’s not a question, but Remus still looks at Argos for a response.

“The Panoptes don’t run themselves.” She sighs, blinking away the bleariness in her eyes as she looks up to see him hop onto the corner of her desk. “And what would you suggest?” It teases, as though it doesn’t know.

Remus leans forward so far it’s a wonder he doesn’t fall off the desk. He’s just inches from Argos’ face. “I can think of a few things.” He shifts, reaching for the arm of Argos’ chair and missing it. His eyes widen, smile falling, as he teeters before toppling into Argos face-first.

Swearing as Remus’ forehead collides hard with his, Argos only just manages to grab Remus to keep him from hitting the floor. Remus’ hands tighten around its lapels and he laughs as he steadies himself. “What would I do without you,” he says a little breathlessly. He leans up quickly, stealing a kiss.

“Make an utter fool out of yourself, probably,” she laughs. Before he can protest, they pull him in for another kiss, feeling him melt instantly into the touch. He can be so easy to distract sometimes.

[perroulisses]

my biggest flex is that i have a stenopeic camera with a drawing of Argos Panoptes on it

[o5-the-daughter]

What sort of monster was he? Is that a specific thing that's covered in eyes?

Our primary guess is that he was a version of Argos Panoptes, but we didn't get to research that theory further.

[eikatsukiyomi]

The Origin of “Argos”

The name “Argos” (almost surely) comes from Greek mythology, specifically, the story of Argus or Argos Panoptes (Ancient Greek: Ἄργος Πανόπτης, All-seeing Argos”).  He was a primordial giant with many eyes all over his body who served the goddess Hera.

To make a long story short, Zeus fell in love with a nymph named Io.  Knowing Hera would be furious if she knew he was cheating on her (as he often did), he turned Io into a cow.  Hera wasn’t fooled, but asked Zeus to give the cow to her as a gift.  Zeus couldn’t say no without revealing his deception, so he agreed.  Hera had Argos stand guard over Io so Zeus couldn’t steal her away again.  Argos was the perfect guard because he could rest his eyes without ever closing all of them at once.  Zeus sent the messenger god, Hermes, to kill Argos and rescue Io.  Disguised as a shepherd, Hermes put all of Argos’s eyes to sleep with spoken charms and then killed him. 

Hera retrieved Argos’s eyes and put them in the tail feathers of her peacocks to memorialize her watchman.

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Btw, I have looked it up because I was wondering why the name Argos.

Turns out a lot of characters in the greek mythology named Argos (or Argus).

Argus Panoptes for instance is a giant with a hundred eyes and servant of the goddess Hera. He got associated with the peacock after his death.

Hera had Argus' hundred eyes preserved forever in a peacock's tail so as to immortalise her faithful watchman. In another version, Hera transformed the whole of Argus into a peacock.