#Aušrinė

[madam-of-lithuania]

Here's my another drawing from my art school 🏫 ✨️ 💖 💕

I drawn my original character her name is Aušrinė she is a Lithuanian Witch of the night, drawn and moon

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Aušrinė Armonaitė pakišinėja Gabrielių Landsbergį ir Ingridą Šimonytę

Ministrei Aušrinei Armonaitei teigiant, kad ji neprivalėjo rūpintis jai pavaldaus „Litexpo“ pirkimo sandoriais ruošiantis NATO susitikimui, “sąžiningiausia” partija Lietuvoje socialdemokratai atkreipia dėmesį, kad Viešųjų pirkimų tarnybos (VPT) išvados adresuotos būtent „laisvietės“ A. Armonaitės vadovaujamai Ekonomikos ir inovacijų ministerijai. VPT išvadose pirkimai pripažįstami…

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Upcoming Opera Video Streams: Late August-Early September 2024

Aug 23rd: Le Comte Ory from Rossini in Wildbad. Starring Patrick Kabongo, Sophia Mchedlishvili, and Diana Haller. Free!

Aug 23rd: The Idiot from the Salzburg Festival. Starring Bogdan Volkov, Aušrinė Stundytė, Clive Bayley, and Pavol Breslik. Free while live, subscription subsequently.

Aug 24th: Les Contes d'Hoffmann from the Salzburg Festival. Starring Benjamin Bernheim, Katherine Lewek, Christian Van Horn, and Kate Lindsey. Subscription.

Aug 24th: The Gambler from the Salzburg Festival. Starring Sean Panikkar, Asmik Grigorian, and Peixin Chen. Subscription (Medici & Mezzo, Medici stream may be free while transmitting live).

Aug 30th: Il Barbiere di Siviglia from the Royal Swedish Opera. Starring Konu Kim, Luthando Qave, and Dara Savinova. Free!

Sep 6th: La Vestale from Opéra National de Paris. Starring Elza van den Heever, Michael Spyres, Ève-Maud Hubeaux and Julien Behr. Free!

Sep 15th: Un Ballo in Maschera from San Francisco Opera. Starring Michael Fabiano, Lianna Haroutounian, and Amartuvshin Enkhbat. Single purchase.

[looking-at-the-deiwos]

Áusōs

Or as I write it, Áusos. Also found as Háusos, Héusos (with a hard h as in the ch in loch) or H₂éwsōs. Her name means "the Dawn" or "Rising"

Aúsos is the goddess of the dawn. She also reigns over light, youth and spring. She is characterized as a beautiful maiden who dances freely through the heavens. She is a bringer of light as she brings the day with her and paves the path of the sun. She seems to have been the most important goddess to the Proto Indo-Europeans

Áusos is also related to sexuality and love, sometimes ill-fated. She has a myth in which she falls in love with a mortal, Ausiwendhós, of whom she procures eternal life. Yet he forgot to ask eternal youth for him, so he ends up withering into old age as the dawn goddess takes her leave, broken-hearted.

Áusos is also a goddess of love and sexuality. There is however a Proto Indo-European love goddess, so love isn't Áusos' main domain, even tho she has a big role in it.

The archetype of the maiden fits her well

She is sometimes said to dwell in an western land at the edge of the world, a paradise called Usés Mág̑hās

She is also called Diwós Dhugətḗr, "Daughter of Dyéus" and Bhṛg̑héntī, "Exalted"

Offerings

Taken from here

Flowers, especially pink ones

vase of roses in various shades of pink

birch wood

birch bark

half-circle of birch wood with ribbons

Devotional acts

Dancing

Watching the sun rise

Depiction or imagery related to the dawn

Waking up early (there are myths of Áusos struggling with this, so she feels you!)

Sleeping in (if it's safe to do so)

Paint your nails or put on make up

Listen to your favorite feel good music and dance away

Picking flowers

Have a flower garden

Spend time with a loved one

Listen to love songs/watch romance movies

Self-care and self-love

Wear pink or another of her colours

Respect your own place and limits in your relationships

Associations

Pink

Yellow, Gold, Red and Saffron

Feminity

Birch (as a tree of spring)

the feast of Ostara

Friday

March

Descendants in later pantheons

Eos (Greek)

Aphrodite in some aspects (Greek)

Aurora (Roman)

Aušrinė (Lithuanian)

Ushas (Vedic)

Usha (Iranian)

Eostre/Ostara (Germanic)

Brigid (Celtic)

Finally, here's her wikipedia article

Also, fun fact! It is speculated that Aphrodite absorbed some of the aspects of Áusos (especially those related to love and sexuality), so she's also a descendant of her in a way. These aspects then got lost from her direct descendant in greek mythology, Eos.

[hildathesaint]

Perkūnas

The Lithuanian god of Thunder

Attributes: lighting, storms, the sky, an axe or sledgehammer

Animals: goat

Plants: oak

Colours: black, white, grey

The sky deity of the Baltic religion, Perkūnas, is regarded as a fertility god and the guardian of law and order apart from being the god of thunder and lightning. Perkūnas is the most important Lithuanian god, and is the central figure in the Pantheon. The oak, which is the tree most frequently struck by lightning, is regarded as sacred to him.

Perkunas is usually depicted as a middle-aged man riding a two-wheeled cart with goats. In some accounts, the thunder god is seen driving a flaming horse or a cart of white and red horses through the skies. He would be identified by the constellation of Ursa Major.

On his heavenly chariot, Perkunas is holding a goat with one hand while he uses an axe or horn on the other.

Mythology

Folklore usually emphasises that Perkūnas is a patron of weather, he lives between the heaven and the earth in the clouds, he commands the thunder and lightning. Thus Perkūnas occupies the centre of the structure of the universe, becomes the master of the atmosphere (Perkūnas is correspondingly associated with the heaven and the devil - Velnias with the earth, underground, water). Perkūnas possesses a two-wheeled cart harnessed by two goats or horses , and rides through the sky , the sound of the wheels often causes thunder. Perkūnas strikes and chases the devil or devils, though often it is said that this animosity is based on personal grounds because of a certain act the devil committed (theft, insult, abduction of Vaiva, as mentioned below).

An important function of Perkūnas is to fight Velnias. He is sometimes considered the antithesis of Perkūnas and is the god of the underworld and death. Christianity considers "Velnias" akin to their "devil", though this is not in line with ancient beliefs.

Perkūnas pursues his opponent, Velnias, for picaroon or theft of fertility and cattle. Velnias hides in trees, under stones, or turns into various animals: a black cat, dog, pig, goat, lamb, pike, cow or a person to avoid Perkūnas.

Perkūnas pursues an opponent in the sky on a chariot, made from stone and fire (Lithuanian ugnies ratai). Sometimes the chariot is made from red iron.

Perkūnas possesses many weapons. They include an axe or sledgehammer, stones, a sword, lightning bolts, a bow and arrows, a club, and an iron or fiery knife. Perkūnas is the creator of the weapons (Akmeninis kalvis, "the stone smith") or he is helped by the heavenly smith Televelis (Kalvelis).

Perkūnas simultaneously is given the function of the patron of fertility, when he rolls his thunder for the first time in spring the grass starts growing, the processes of vegetation begin, Perkūnas also appears in the wedding symbolism. One other function of Perkūnas is keeping justice. He chases devils but he also punishes bad people, fights evil spirits and keeps the order of the universe.

According to ancient tradition, people who were struck by lightning were protected from devils. The objects that were struck by lightning were also used to cure various ailments, such as fever, toothache, and anxiety. Perkūnas is thus seen as a god of healing as well as destruction.

In some songs Perkūnas, on the way to the wedding of Aušrinė (dawn; the daughter of the Sun), strikes a golden oak. The oak is a tree of the thunder god in the Baltic mythology. Lithuanian Perkūno ąžuolas or Latvian Pērkona ozols ("oak of Perkūnas") is mentioned in a source dated to the first half of the 19th century.

Perkūnas is also connected to Thursday. Thursday is the day of the Thunderer in many traditions: compare Polabian Peräune-dǻn ("day of Perun"), Lithuanian Perkūno diena. Perkūnas is associated with the Roman god Jupiter in early sources. Thursday is a day of thunder-storms and rains, and also of weddings.

Family

In most myths, Perkūnas’s wife is Žemyna, the goddess of the earth. In some myths, Perkūnas would expel his wife and children and then remain in the sky by himself. The reason for this is that Perkūnas was given the responsibility of the stones in the sky whose rumbling and rubbing against each other tend to generate thunder and lightning during storms.

In songs about a "heavenly wedding" Saulė is married to Perkūnas amd cheats on Perkūnas with Mėnulis (the Moon); Perkūnas splits Mėnulis in half with a sword, which accounts for the moon phases we see today.

According to another, more popular version, Mėnulis cheats on the Sun with Aušrinė (the morning star) just after the wedding, and Perkūnas punishes him. However, he does not learn and repeats the adultery and is punished again every month. Other explanations say it is why the Sun shines during the day and the Moon at night. Though divorced, both want to see their daughter Žemyna (the Earth).

Some stories claim that Perkūnas and a woman known as Vaiva or the rainbow were supposed to get married but the bride was kidnapped by Velnias, the god of the underworld. Since then, Perkūnas has been hunting Velnias. Some stories also claim that there are four sons of Perkunas who are representative of the four seasons or the four cardinal directions. Sometimes there are seven or nine Perkūnai referred to as brothers. It is said in Lithuanian "Perkūnų yra daug" ("there are many thunders").

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Aušrinė Armonaitė, Ministro da Economia e Inovação da Lituânia, assina os Acordos Artemis na presença da Embaixadora dos Estados Unidos Kara C. McDonald numa cerimónia em conjunto com o Vilnius Space Days. Crédito: Agência de Inovação da Lituânia

[ancestorsalive]

Lithuania : Birute Hill near Palanga, Lithuania, was once home to paleo astronomical observatories. Restored in 1998, the Samogitian Sanctuary is a recreation of a Pagan observatory from the Middle Ages. This northern Lithuanian group of statues is based on artifacts found at the site of a prehistoric astronomical observatory and shrine that stood til the 16th century.

During the key calendar holidays, Lithuanian people would carve wooden poles that correlate to the Balts' gods and goddesses. These Gods and Goddesses are Perkūnas, Aušrinė, Žemyna, Austėja, Ondenis, Patrimpas, Patulas, Velnias, Leda, Saulė and Mėnulis.

[primordialness]

I am *certain* that this has been discussed by people better qualified than myself; I've barely started this research. If anyone knows of articles or essays that talk about this better, please share them with me! But I wanted to talk a bit about the Proto Indo European Dawn Goddess [1]:

PIE H₂éwsōs, Goddess of the Dawn

Vedic Ushas, Goddess of the Dawn

Greek Eos, Goddess and Personification of the Dawn

Roman Aurōra, Goddess of the Dawn

Slavic Zorya, Personification of the Dawn

Lithuanian Aušrinė, Goddess of the Dawn or the Morning Star (Venus): "goddess of beauty, love and youth, linked with health, re-birth and new beginnings" [2]

Albanian Prende/Premte, "goddess of dawn, love, beauty, fertility, health and protector of women" [3]

But then also...

West Germanic Ēostre, Goddess of Spring and namesake of Easter [4]

And maybe even the Greek Persephone, Goddess of Spring and the Underworld, whose name might relate to the Albanian Prende [3]

The key to tying together the Goddesses of Dawn and the Goddesses of Spring lies, I think, in that Lithuanian definition: "linked with health, re-birth and new beginnings." We can think of Dawn, Day, Twilight, Night as equivalent to Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter... and even the Waxing, Full, Waning, and New Moon. These are all cycles of beginnings and endings--arguably all a way for us to cope with our understanding of life and death.

In a journal entry several months ago, I noted that I'm not that fond of the dawn; I'm not a morning person (sorry, H₂éwsōs). But I *am* a fond of fresh starts, rebirth, and new beginnings. I know all the best albums for breaking up and moving on. I have endless Playlists for it. I know how to restart far better than I know how to stay. I know the Waxing Spring Dawn, Waning Fall Twilight, and New Winter Night far better than I know the Full Summer Day.

I've joked recently that Persephone is mad at me because the weather hasn't been good to me since I've moved. But perhaps I simply haven't been honoring her enough--recognizing that as I have been experiencing a rebirth these past two years, she's been the one in charge of that. Maybe she's been my intuition giving me warnings that I've ignored.

In any case... though it's a full moon tonight (and a supermoon at that!), I would like to take a moment to toast to the power and energy of a fresh start--a new day, a new month, a new season, a new love. I am becoming brand new, and if there is a higher power behind that, I thank them.

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LICEU 2023-2024: LA NOVA TEMPORADA I UNA NOVA DECEPCIÓ

Jonas Kaufmann, Lise Davidsen, Aušrinė Stundytė, Eleonora Buratto, Anita Rachvelisvili, Freddie De Tomasso, Javier Camarena, Tamara Wilson, Julia Lezhneva, Michael Volle, Adriana Gonzalez, Varduhi Abrahamyan, Magdalena Kožená, Elena Pankratova, Nadine Sierra, Maria Agresta, Gerald Finley, Elizabeth DeShong, Noms, noms, noms, alguns dels més valorats i esperats per a mi, altres que no esmento…

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Aušra, Aušrinė

[mitologismo]

Aušrinė and Vakarinė (Aušrinė, the Morning Star, comes from the word Aušra, meaning Dawn, while Vakarinė, the Evening Star, comes from the word Vakaras, meaning Evening) Interpreted both as sisters, or as two different sides of one Goddess, Aušrinė and Vakarinė represent beauty, youth, and health. The two were beautiful maidens who helped Saulė with her daily work - Aušrinė would light up Saulė’s home in the morning, while Vakarinė made her bed at night. This too, became the same for their people - they greeted Aušrinė at daybreak, and said goodnight to Vakarinė when she began to shine in the sky. Even after Mėnulis fell in love with Aušrinė and separated himself from Saulė, Aušrinė continued to stay faithful to her mistress.

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Varškės sūrelių kovos: A. Armonaitė prieš Ž. Savicką

Socialiniuose tinkluose buvo pasklidusi informacija, kad neva “UAB Uriga” gaminamuose sūreliuose yra priedų iš vabzdžių. Pasirodo, kad “Urigos” varškės sūreliuose nėra priedų iš vabzdžių, apie kuriuos buvo paskelbusi “Maximos” internetinė parduotuvė “Barbora”, o nuo jos nusikopijavo “E-Gulbelė”. Po paskelbtų naujienų apie svirplių miltus, žmonės pasidarė atidesni ir pradėjo skaityti maisto prekių…

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Women in Mythology - Hausos the Dawn Goddess

Has anyone thought about how weird it is to have a deity for the dawn. The dawn isn’t like the sun or the moon, you can’t really see it. It’s not an important everyday function like caring for the hearth. It’s not a job like blacksmiths. It happens and it’s beautiful but it’s not physical. I googled “dawn definition” and the first thing that comes up is “the first appearance of light in the sky before sunrise.” (The Google Dictionary). It’s weird to deify a small period of time. It’s probably why there are so little dawn deities. There are only two mythologies with dawn deity/spirits (maybe three but Tefnut is the goddess of the morning dew and moisture, that’s not really the dawn) which are not from Indo-European cultures. These deities are the Shinto’s Ame-no-Uzume-no-mikoto and the Sioux’s Anpao (which btw has two faces and I love that fact, it makes a lot of sense to me). All other deities are from Indo-European countries. Which is why “Dawn goddesses are crucial in Indo-European comparative mythology…” (Source 1 to an article about Eostre and Bede.) Dawn goddesses, lunar and solar chariots and Sky Fathers are the backbone of comparative Indo-European mythology studies. (I seriously considered doing something comparing Indra and Zeus but I was already looking up dawn goddesses for funsies. This whole thing was written for funsies tbh).  

What is Indo-European Mythology? Short of it, so I can get to the comparing of deities, is that Indo-Europeans are a theorized people that that originated the Indo-European languages (English, French, Spanish, Sanskrit, Hindi, Hittite, Persian, Greek, etc.). There are also a few similarities between the mythologies. Which, you can explain as surrounding cultures influencing each other or if you a psychoanalyst you believe that the similarities between all of them is because of a deep shared self conscious or that they all originated from one original deity. Indo-European mythology exist because of the last mindset.        

Using comparative mythology, we can assume some of the Indo-European Pantheon. It’s a bottom down perspective. And I want to do this exercise, so let’s compare some Dawn Deities. 

Was the original Indo-European Dawn Goddess really named Hausos? I can say with 99.9% certainty no. Hausos is scholar’s best educated guess

1. Auseklis - Latvian Mythology

Sadly, I can’t find to much about him (or her, Auseklis is either one). Yeah, this is the god of the dawn and morning star (aka Venus). He is subordinate to the moon but also serves the sun. He is associated with marriages, bath-houses and birth.

2. Aušrinė - Lithuanian Mythology

I can find more about her then I can about her Latvian counterpart. She had an affair with the Moon God, which caused Sun Goddess and the Moon God to basically divorce. Aušrinė lived on sea-girt island where she takes cares of magical apples that will bring love to people who eats them. Also she had cows that made boiling milk (ummm) that will make you beautiful (sure). Also, she’s connected to maidens, weaving, love, weddings and baptism (she’s later connected with the Virgin Mary when Lithuania was Christinized). And there is a myth of a man falling in love with her after finding her golden hair in the water of a lagoon. She also makes the sun’s fire every morning (that makes a lot of sense). 

3. Aurora - Roman Mythology

Sadly we don’t have much from just Aurora and most stories with Aurora are actually stories about Eos. She gave sight to Orion.

She is the mother of the morning star, Lucifer. It’s cool that the dawn and the morning star are separated. 

4. Brigid - Irish Mythology

Every list of dawn goddesses has her or some articles will say that she comes from the original Indo-European dawn goddess. But they never explain why. In her list of what she is the goddess of, they never mention the dawn. She’s the blacksmith goddess, the goddess of the spring, the fertility goddess, the healing goddess, the poetry goddess.

My favourite quote from my research is “About Brigid there has been scant evident. (...) questions need to be asked about her origins, her functions, in early Irish society, and existing tradition (...)” (Mother Worship:There and Variations, source below)

Sure, spring and beautiful things are often associated with the dawn but that is not enough to convince me that she is a dawn goddess. Also, her name doesn’t fit well, unlike Ēostre.

5. Eos - Greek Mythology

She’s properly the goddess who’ve heard the most about, she’s Greek. She’s the daughter of Hyperion (titan of light) and Theia (she was a titaness and probably had something to do with light, being also called wide-shining). Eos is the sister of Helios (the sun) and Selene (the moon). She is also married to Astraeus (dusk), but if you didn’t know that, I don’t blame you. Eos was well known for getting around a lot. She loved Orion, Tithonus, Cephalus, Cleitus and Ares. Tithonus is a pretty famous story, Eos asks Zeus for Tithonus to become immortal which Zeus does, but as the asshole he is, he didn’t make Tithonus eternally youthful and Tithonus becomes dust. (Zeus it was in the subtext to make him eternally youthful.) When she has an affair with Ares, Aphrodite curses Eos to be constantly falling in love or just to have an unsatisfied sexual desire. Eos also had some children in the Trojan war, when he died, she cried which created the morning dew. And she was the mother of the anemoi (aka the winds).

She had the classic job of announcing the coming of her brother Helios. She seems like his assistant. She also rides her own chariot of Pegasi.

I love how she is constantly being called the rose finger goddess. I find that pretty.  

6. Ēostre/Ostara - Germanic Mythology

She’s more of a spring goddess then anything. But I keep seeing her on list (not just Wikipedia), so I have to add her. Though, I’m more confident in adding her because she linguistically looks like she belongs. And I can see how the dawn goddess becomes a spring goddess (still very iffy on Brigid mainly due to linguistics). Spring announces summer, like dawn announces day (I have no proof of this, it’s just logically I can see how this can happen). Though, there are some scholars who believes that Ēostre might have been an invention from Bede, because that’s the first time they hear about her.

So, Ēostre is associated with spring and fertility. Then there are tons of theories of how she very probably connected with Easter celebration, rabbits how she might just be a spring goddess and not a dawn goddess. She can’t be both? She couldn’t have started out as dawn goddess then became a spring goddess? Bede is writing in the 8th century, at the very least over a thousand of years after the Indo-Europeans migrated. Things change in a thousand years, especially without writing. Hell, Eos and Ushas changed even with writing.

7. Thesan - Etruscan Mythology

She was the dawn goddess and evoked in childbirth. All I could find about her.

8. Ushas - Vedic Hindu Mythology

For brevity sake, there are many different sects of Hinduism. Anyway, Ushas is found in the Rigveda which is one of the oldest texts written in an Indo-European language. In this text the three most important gods are Agni (fire), Soma (moon and plants) and Indra (the king of gods and the weather god). The most important goddess is Ushas, she’s found in many hymns. Her sister is Ratri (night) and her brother is Chandra/Soma (moon) and sometimes she is married to Surya (sun). In her Vedic hymns she is considered the most beautiful of the goddess. She rides a chariot of either horses or cows so she could make way for Surya. She chases away demons and the dark. Interestingly, she is renewed or made young again everyday (reminding me of Ra’s journey). She also breaths all life. I’m very interested in the fact that in that she’s all seeing much like Helios is in Greek Mythology. And, she is sometimes the sister of the twin horse gods Ashvins (and health and medicine gods too), which also are theorized to be originally Indo-European.

9. Zorya - Slavic Mythology

Hahahaha, who decided they would also be known as the Auroras. I have a feeling it was some Western European with classical knowledge decided that. Anyway, one is the dawn and the other is the dusk and one is midnight. The dawn Zorya, named Utrennyaya, has been described as Perun’s wife (Perun is the law and weather god) or both her sister and her were the wives of Jarylo, the god of springtime (interesting). Utrennyaya’s job is to open the gates for the sun every morning. She was the goddess of horses, protection, exorcism, and the planet Venus. I like how there job was guard a chained dog who wants to eat Ursa Minor, because if that happens the end of the world would start. Zoryas are also protectors of warriors where they would show up like maidens with veils and shields of their favourite battles.  They also lived on a paradise island, much like Aušrinė (though the two cultures are neighbours).

So, what educated guesses can we make about the Hausos? The dawn goddesses is beautiful (who would have guessed? It’s not like sunrise is stereotypically the most beautiful time of the day? Sarcasm btw). Dawn goddesses usually have a story involving immortally and aging (see I didn’t just mention Tithonus because it was famous). Many are either springtime goddesses or somehow connected to the deity of the spring. Hausos might have also been a love goddess, since the other dawn goddesses will either be love goddesses or have many lovers (of course there were the apples that made you fall in love too). I don’t know where Wikipedia gets that she might be a weaving goddess. I get it. She weaves the the cloth like she weaves the day but I didn’t see weaving as a theme in enough goddesses (only one) to be confident in making an educated guess that the Indo-European dawn goddess would have anything to do with weaving.

Women in Mythology Series: Previous Morgiana  

Links to sources because I got lost in research a lot: 

1.  The Goddess Eostre: Bede’s Text and Contemporary Pagan Tradition(s)

2.  Indo-European Deities and the Rgveda

3. Wikipedia 

4.  The Routledge Dictionary of Gods and Goddesses, Devils and Demons

5.  SIGNS OF MORNING STAR AUŠRINĖ IN THE BALTIC TRADITION: REGIONAL AND INTERCULTURAL FEATURES 

6.  Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines 

7.  Sun Myths in Lithuanian Folksongs

8.  Mother Worship: Theme and Variations 

9. Theoi 

10.  Greek and Roman Mythology, A to Z 

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stunning skin - super astra superficiem

== amit friedman == madison stubbington == gemma arterton == zoe barnard == alina kovalenko == vinette robinson == alexandra madar == aušrinė marija abramaitytė == chloe melton == berit heitmann ==

[euphorictruths]

Aušrinė Daugėlaitė/Aniko

http://www.anikoarts.com

[ngno-closed]

this is your comeuppance, your hamartia was believing that you could escape it at all in hidden cafes with their liquid courage. you kneel on the docks on the edge of the city, eyes wide as they take in the beautiful, horrifying sites of the radiant city, buildings arching and curving and elegant and indifferent. tears stream down your face, your spittle iridescent yellow from your earlier dalliance in stock you should not have touched. you beg, and are met with ancient eyes upon a cold face. “I take no pleasure from this,’ he says with a sigh, his cybernetic hand whirring as it morphs into a hammer. you try to speak, but are met with all consuming black.

NAME Tyr

ALIAS UTP

APPEARS 35-45

PRONOUNS He/him

PANTHEON Norse

OCCUPATION Hitman

THE GOD HIMSELF

Justice in the face of all adversity. For a long time, that was what Tyr stood for. He sacrificed his right arm to Fenrir for the gods’ deceit and while the other gods rejoiced, Tyr was silent. For while Fenrir was bound the onslaught of Ragnarok was not stopped, just stalled. The great wolf would one day devour Odin, no matter how many limbs he took in the process.

His time on earth has always been brief and disappointing. Human justice is hardly ever true, or uncorrupt. Power has always been slated to the powerful, and when war comes along to try and even the tide, that old inbalance creeps back in again. It exhausted him; why bother fighting for justice when justice was not just? For the past millenia Tyr rarely stepped foot onto earth, happy to stay in Asgard. That was, until Odin began calling on the Norse gods to prepare for Ragnarok.

Odin became obsessed that the end was near, beat the wardrums in the middle of the night to test the gods’ defenses. Valkyries were sent to hunt for more souls for Valhalla, gods descended to walk amongst the mortals, building their own strength and causing strife for humans to test themselves. Tyr did not want to go, but Odin forced him, casting him from Asgard like a petulant child for refusing to help a helpless cause.

The indignity of it, the uselessness of it all struck Tyr. Odin and Asgard would fall when the time would come, and Tyr was supposed to inspire justice, self-sacrifice in the humans? Bitter and disenchanted, Tyr listened when Tezcatlipoca found him. She offered no glory, no fortune. She did not wish to prevent the unpreventable, in fact she embraced change in all its forms. Her words like boas constricted around his heart, and they whispered sense as they squeezed. They spoke not of loyalty, or the glory of the gods, but a simple truth. Do what Tezcalipoca wished, do not think of the consequences, the end-game, and be happy. There was a beautiful simplicity in it and Tyr found himself taking to the work well. He hasn’t found cause enough to leave, or to return to his godly purpose. He is a god of war as well as justice, and has always been prone to violence.

DID HE MURDER A GOD?

Tyr hangs around Tezcatlipoca because she’s his boss. Pan hanged around her because he was her number one ambassador, which gave him Tezcatlipoca’s latest creations at a steep discount. Tyr knew Alekto spent her spare time with Pan, but Tyr was never tempted to tag along with them.

WHO DOES HE LOVE, HATE AND DESIRE?

Alekto They have an understanding, these two beings of violence and justice, now working together for a criminal. While they don’t consider the other confidants, they get along well enough together to call each other friends. They each have their own secrets and darkness that they are happy enough to forget over a couple of drinks.

Aušrinė Vamp is home to the lonely, and it is hard not to be taken away by its main star. Tyr isn’t sure when visits to Vamp became somewhat regular, or why Aušrinė would ever bother lowering themself to talk to Tyr. It feels good to have someone who believes the best in you, when you are your worst.

Brynhildr Brynhildr was always more eager to please Odin than Tyr. She sees his current employment as treason against their king. Tyr wished her bitter words didn’t hurt so much.

Tisiphone Tyr has been an annoying anomaly on Tisiphone’s radar for years. She would love to sink her teeth onto him, but for some reason no witnesses are alive or willing to say what they have seen Tyr do.

See also: Tsuku & Tezcatlipoca.

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Resources

https://norse-mythology.org/gods-and-creatures/the-aesir-gods-and-goddesses/tyr/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%BDr

Extra notes: 

Tyr’s right arm is Volcan-x tech, and comes with a variety of functions. It can perform basic hacks on security systems, turn into a gun or a hammer. Unfortunately the neural connection is a little hindered by the tech; occasionally his arm aches.