#Laestrygon

[liesmultixxx]

i’m just hoping they’ll incorporate the laestrygones are nicknamed canadians by annabeth and percy joke

istg it’s too funny 😭

[urbestestwindgod]

hahaha!!

rp blog for Epic: The Musical

pfp and bg by gigi :)

im really super annoying im sorry

irl i do crocheted plushies of greek mythos! you can give recommendations here (not a commissions thing, i dont sell anything lol)

ic posts in this color with italics because i like them :3

ic posts would be tagged with aeolus’ discord (very professional sounding word for speach 10/10)

asks can just be aeolus’ asks because i love alliteration!!

i love love love my winions above other things (if you saw that video where i hit one that was a one time thing ok i was angry i don’t do that regularly!!)

name: aeolus :3 (i pronounce it ay-oh-lus but who knows that could be wrong oh well ill be dead one day anyways)

occupation: i would say wind god but zeus doesnt pay me for it like the others bc apparently “its not work” so

age: …3000 or smth? stopped counting

dad: poseidon :3 (and yea i know in the odyssey its just some guy i read the odyssey, but also in the odyssey aeolus is an old man with a wife and 12 kids and polities isnt important and poseidon doesnt confront odysseus directly ever and theres also no wind bag jetpack or god torture soooo….id say we dont have to be 100% accurate? and poseidon as his dad is 10 times more entertaining, and again i will be dead one day so idrgaf)

mom: 🤷‍♀️ you can ask @/unknown-mother-of-wind she seems to know a lot about stuff

favorite siblings: triton, polyphemus, rhode, kymopoleia, laestrygon, charybdis, uhm…the other billion i have—

favorite mortals: eurlochus (opened the wind bag💕), odysseus (entertaining), perimedes (super sharp sword), elpenor (gave me wine with my lotus!!)

favorite family members: uncle zeus, aunt hera, uncle hades, aunt demeter, aunt hestia (my favorite favorite), alll my cousins—hermes, apollo, artemis, hepheastus, ares, dionysus,

favorite songs: mortals make sooo many but i always liked that one like are you gooooing to scarboroigh faaaaiiirrr

ooc stuff:

ooc in plain black (still fun and appreciated)

and ooc posts should be tagged with op’s two cents (NOT godly or professional, slang, super funny phrase to me)

some info abt me out of character is she/he (not they/them pls thats gender neutral and i in fact have a lot of it), my name is ella, bi, professional over sharer but i try and be careful, i am unmedicated but dont be scared of me im the one whose scared of you!! and im so sorry i am the way that i am i cant help it im sorry :(

(dont rlly know what im doing but this is quite fun)

generally would consider myself very chill abt most stuff; cussing/flirting/cringe, so thats all alr just pls dont cuss AT me bc im kinda sensitive sorry

nsfw i would be super LIGHT on. dont go too far pls, i am a minor but im not gonna be all puritan over small jokes or implied jokes or whatnot—but no explicit images, and threats would be not appreciated.

i am annoying as they come so apologies for that! you can always tell me when im exhausting its ok!! just dont interact with me if you cant stand obnoxious people because idn how to fix that with myself sorry sorry im also really dumb and stuff sorry sorry sorry :(

i love you all very much, you are all very special to me, kiss kiss!!

[dagaelizardz]

EPIC: The Musical vs The Odyssey: Ruthlessness, Mercy, Grief, and Transformation (and Bards)

In 2019, a college student started writing. It was a small project, a musical. Years later he would say in a Q&A that, “I knew I wanted to write a musical that was large in scale, had many characters, fight scenes, monsters, spells, ships, and larger than life themes (The Michigan Daily).” 5 years later, and that very project, EPIC: The Musical, has reached the end of its first act. The Odyssey is the perfect myth for EPIC to be based on, being the story of a broken middle-aged man trying desperately to reach his home, yearning for his family. On this quest, he is aided and deterred by gods, monsters, and hosts of other mythical beings. This story of hardship and divine intervention fit in perfectly to the story Jay wanted to tell. However, there are still changes that Jay has been making over the course of the story, walking the fine line between keeping it recognizable while shaping it to the story he wants to tell. Jay has taken the basic plot of the Odyssey, shifting it into a story that explores the grey area between ruthlessness and mercy, and if there is a way to use both. This comes to a head in “The Underworld Saga”, where Odysseus sees exactly what each has caused him to lose. It is important to dissect “The Underworld Saga” to see how Jay has adapted The Odyssey into a story about ruthlessness, hubris, and to question if maybe, sometimes, it’s ok to greet the world with open arms.

One of the more controversial changes in “The Underworld Saga”, as opposed to Book XI of The Odyssey, is Polites replacing Elpenor’s spot in it. However, this can barely be called a replacement, as the characters serve unrelated narrative functions, and differing relations to Odysseus in both sources. In the Odyssey, Elpenor dies by falling off the roof of Circe’s home while intoxicated. His body is left crumpled behind the house as Odysseus and the crew are preoccupied by other matters. When Odysseus traverses to the underworld, he is met with the shade of Elpenor who begs for a proper funeral and burial, with a small monument to honor him. He is angry at Odysseus for not mourning him, angry that he hadn’t even realized he died. The scene is heartbreaking, ending with Odysseus promising to do as he is asked before proceeding on to different shades.This is in stark contrast to EPIC, in which Elpenor is not even mentioned by name. During “The Ocean Saga” Elpenor can be heard singing backup, sometimes being a part of the chorus during said Saga. The only allusion to his death is during the first song of “The Underworld Saga”, aptly named “The Underworld”, in which the line “558 men, who died under your command” is sung by the dead crew. This line is more “easter egg” than a real mention. The reason it is a reference to Elpenor is that previously, in the song “Ruthlessness” at the end of Tthe Ocean Saga”, Poseidon sings, “43 left under your command.” This is after he has killed the majority of Odysseus’ fleet, replacing the Laestrygones plot wise. Many fans asked Jay, having taken notice of this, having previously believe that no one had died during “The Circe Saga”. Jay addressed this in a YouTube Short, explaining that this is in reference to Elpenor, and that Jay thought it would be funny if the character who’s entire significance is that Odysseus forgot about him was seemingly forgotten even by the writer, having been forgot by all but his fellow shades.

Even without the forgot Elpenor, there is still a dead crew member from whom Odysseus gets a personal visit in EPIC. This crew member is Polites. In the original Odyssey, Polites is just another crew member. He is only briefly mentioned, being one of the victims of Zeus’s lightning strike much later in the epic. In EPIC however, Polites becomes a vital character, and is boosted to the rank of Odysseus’ best friend. The theme of EPIC, the big moral idea, is a battle between ruthlessness and mercy. Polites exists firmly as the pinnacle of mercy. Previously, during “The Troy Saga”, Polites sings the song “Open Arms,” in which he tells Odysseus about how he should “greet the world with open arms”, so to speak. Odysseus is hesitant, however takes his advice and does not kill the lotus eaters. While this seems to benefit them in the short term, it leads them to the cyclops Polyphemus’s cave, leading to Polyphemus killing several crew members, including the cyclops himself. Odysseus, trying to honor Polites’ memory, does not kill Polyphemus, only blinding him, telling Athena in “Remember Them”, “What good would killing do? When mercy is a skill more of this world could learn to use.” This has a tragic effect however, as sparing Polyphemus’s life invokes the wrath of Poseidon, the father of all cyclopes. Poseidon proceeds to kill all but 43 of Odysseus’ men in a boss battle style fight that was not in The Odyssey, teaching Odysseus the lesson that ruthlessness is the only way to survive. This is all revisited in “The Underworld”, where Odysseus winds up face to face with Polites’ shade, who sings his line from “Open Arms” one last time, “this life is amazing, when we greet it with open arms. Whatever we face, we’ll be fine if we’re leading from the heart! No matter the place, we can light up the world here’s how to start: greet the world with open arms, greet the world with open arms.” This segment is made more poignant when Jay reveals in a YouTube short that much like shades in the original epic lacking many of their original memories until they drink offered blood, the shades in EPIC repeat the last thing they thought before they died. This means that Polites was still so sure of mercy and peace, even as it killed him. is none other than Odysseus’ mother Anticleia, who died while he was gone to war. In both EPIC and the Odyssey, this scene is heartbreaking. In EPIC, she is voiced by Jay’s own mother, providing a heart wrenching display for the audience. As soon as Polites finishes, his mother begins to sing. She sings about how she has been waiting for Odysseus to return home, and how she loves and longs for her son. The pair have a short duet, as Odysseus laments how he has “took too long” and “ventured too far,” with Anticleia telling him how she has been waiting, and that when he gets home, she will be there. This is, of course, not true, as she died before Odysseus managed to enter the underworld. As was mentioned previously about Polites, the same remains true with Anticleia, meaning that she remained waiting hopefully till the very end.

The Odyssey has a much more tragic twist for Odysseus unfortunately. Odysseus first sees his mother after having spoken to Elpenor but must make sure that Tiresias will have enough blood, so he forces himself to ignore her, weeping as he does. When Tiresias has finally finished his prophesy after having drunken most of the blood, Odysseus lets his mother come forth. He tries to embrace her, but due to her ghostly form fails each time. They converse, with Anticleia asking him why he is in the underworld, leading Odysseus to explain his journey to her. He asks about his family, and she details the mourning that his family is going through. After explaining their suffering, she speaks on her own death, saying, “ heaven did not take me swiftly and painlessly in my own house, nor was I attacked by any illness such as those that generally wear people out and kill them, but my longing to know what you were doing and the force of my affection— this it was that was the death of me.” It is generally accepted that she died by hanging herself from the grief. Odysseus is devastated, both at her death and once more at his inability to embrace her. He blames Persephone for making him suffer, but Anticleia corrects him, explaining that all people are like this when dead. While both are incredibly poignant, the time constraints of EPIC being a two-hour musical (as compared to the Odyssey being a musical performance done over the course of what scholars presume was three days) “The Underworld Saga” shows quite clearly the detriment to storytelling that shorter time frames can pose.

[becdecorbin]

I'm just tickled by how Marquis Snapdragon's Finnish name is Markiisi Leijonankita. (his full name being Isidor Leijonankita, I don't often mention his first name oops) Same meaning, same flower, but the Finnish name for "leijonankita" can be directly translated as "lion's maw". haha

Laistrygon's name would pretty much remain the same... (fun fact back when I first came up with this name for him, I was planning to spell the name "Laestrygone" and honestly I prefer the spelling I went with, ultimately, haha. the "ae" is a pain...)

Antiphates -> Antifates (we use "f" in place of "ph" in loanwords that contain that sound)

Enigma Beast.... that's a tricky one. Arvoituspeto? lol

like, man, being able to translate my characters' names def lends itself more to their fairy tale vibe.

also, because I'm curious, how would you translate their names to your native language? Do you have characters whose names are easily translatable?

[claytoniumcomics]

The Phoenix Bears in: “Volleyball Viciousness!”

Jane has set up a volleyball game against rival team the Laestrygones and when her only team is her closest friends, things are bound to go south.

#thephoenixbears #volleyball #comic #comics #claytoniumcomics #janecolt #charleykirby #surferdavepage #frankjaeger #jakkijaeger #nicholasperry #jbjohnson #rebeccarodriguez #laestrygones

[hazard100]

Alice’s Notes:

So it seems like he’s reaching the border of the Arcadia Zone and is somewhere to the east if the quote about the Laestrygon Zone is to be believed. It still leaves a lot of options up in the air, though…

[specevo-hadesarchive]

The Fortunate Isle's

a vast shallow plateau, the fortunate isles are a diverse and vast ecosystem unlike anything currently on earth.

the land, however, is not an especially peculiar place, with a significant number of animals being well adapted to cross between islands, such as talos, a massive sauropod, and sun-wing dragons, and both have mainland populations. though dragons as a whole are likely most diverse here, none are truly apex predators. even the great-black, the most heavily built dragon of all, outweighing the taller sun-wing by a notable amount, defers to laestrygons, as the great metriacanthosaurs are much denser and wield venomous bites, which let them take even talos and island cyclope, both of which would otherwise be off the menu as adults. this venom focuses on calming prey down, which pairs well with a bone-crushing bite, though even with the addition of humongous, half-a-meter long talons does not leave laestrygon without competition... or predators

the fortunate isle's most plentiful and diverse area lies below the waves, and this is where hades is perhaps at its most divergent, since much of hades most ancient life took shelter in its deep oceans.

others, however, were, and are, so dominant in surface waters that they had no need to dive deep.

an example of this are ichthyosaurs, dominating due to their ability to change color, which, while useful in open water, truly dominates in the shallows. with ichthyosaurs being the most common prey, yet so difficult to see, anything that can track them without sight would flourish in hades. historically, this came in the form of large ghoti, elasmobranchs, and plesiosaurs of varying neck length. other hunter dabbled, notably therocephalians, but none, even these big three, were truly proficient hunters of this difficult quarry.

in the cretaceous, however, a new sort of predator came onto the scene: mosasaurs. er, stem-mosasaurs, which had already developed many adaptation for aquatic life, though this lineage kept their foreclaws for movement on shore. nowadays, these great lizards have produced the true ruler of the fortunate isle's: typhon. as large a humpback, though longer and with less fat and more muscle, these are venomous, with bleeding bites and saw-blade teeth, though their greatest are the ancestral fore-claws, which, like the laestrygon above the waves and cronus to the far south, pierce into the thick hides and poke deep holes within the organs of prey, typically the lungs which is especially dangerous underwater. they prefer meadows and barrens to the reefs and mangroves, and like many of their kin, known as lamia, they are too dense for open waters.

in such ecosystems, it is often a very different clade which dominates, notably cetaceans, at least in the south, and reef centipedes, aquatic descendents of arthropleuroids which, with their thick armor, can withstand the stinging bites of cnidarians and the often much more painful hadebiota, though these generally prefer deeper waters.

Geography

as with all maps, these will focuse on terrestrial ecosystems, and as with all planetary maps, this will not be especially useful for anyone who wishes to live within the maps boders.

still, they should provide a rough overlay of the biota and appearance of the land within their borders, and thus have some use to researchers and settlers.

[roseunspindle]

Percy’s Half Siblings

ATriton - Son of Amphitrite and Poseidon - Poseidon’s messenger and herald

Benthesikyme - “Wave of the Deep” or “Lady of the deep swells” - Goddess of waves - Daughter of Amphitrite and Poseidon

Rhode - goddess and personification of the island of Rhodes. Wife of Helios.  Daughter of Amphitrite and Poseidon

Antaeus - Son of Poseidon and Gaea - Half Giant

(Heracles killing Antaeus)

Charybdis - daughter of Poseidon and Gaea (in some sources) she was a loyal child to Poseidon but since she kept covering land with water for him Zeus got mad and chained her to the sea floor, cursing her and turning her into a “bladder” and made her thirsty for seawater, which when she drank it, caused whirlpools. 

https://www.deviantart.com/c00lfr0g/art/Charybdis-388499917

Laestrygon - Son of Poseidon and Gaea, father of  Telepora (wife of Aeolus) possible parent/creator of the Laitsrygonians. 

Despoina - Daughter of Poseidon and Demeter - Goddess of Arcadian Mysteries/Veiled - born when poseidon went after demeter when both were horses.

Arion - Supernatural Horse (not sure if he’s a deity or just immortal creature) - Son of Demeter and Poseidon  born when poseidon went after demeter when both were horses.

Pegasus - immortal winged-horse, Son of Poseidon and Medusa (or just sprang from Medusa’s blood when Perseus beheaded her)

Chrysaor - Son of Poseidon and Medusa - "he who has a golden sword" - might be the father of Echidna

Herophile -Sea-nymph,  Daughter of Poseidon and Aphrodite, possibly a Delphic Sybil

Ergiscus - son of Poseidon and Aba (a naiad), the city of Ergisce in Istanbul was named after him. 

Aethusa - Daughter of Poseidon and Alcyone (a pleiad) - caught Apollo’s eye and had two kids with him Eleuther and Linus- ancestor of Orpheus.

Hyrieus - Son of Poseidon and Alcyone (a pleiad) - possible father of Orion, most account call him a king of various places. (Boeotia, Thrace or Chios)

Hyperenor - son of Poseidon and Alcyone

Hyperes - son of Poseidon and the Pleiad Alcyone He was the father of Arethusa, mother of Abas by Poseidon. Founded the city of Hyperea.

Anthas - Son of Poseidon and Alcyone, founder of Anthea

Abas - son of Poseidon and Arethusa (yes his own granddaughter).  Abas founded a tribe known as the Abantians or Abantes. He reigned over them as king. Possibly killed by his own grandson. 

Halirrhothius - Son of Poseidon and Euryte or Bathycleia. He was killed by Ares for raping his daughter Alcippe. 

Chrysomallos - Son of  Bisalpis or Bisaltis or Theophane - Golden winged ram, rescued some people, was them sacrificed to Zeus and skinned. 

Minyas - Son of Poseidon and somebody (there was a very long list of potential moms) a city founder. 

Lycus - son of Poseidon and Celaeno, one of the Pleiades. Together with his brother Eurypylus, they ruled over the Isles of the Fortunate which their father blessed.

Nycteus - (possibly a son of Poseidon and Somebody) - King of Thebes

Eurypylus - Son of Poseidon and Celaeno, either ruled over the isles of the blessed with lycus or was a king of cyrene

Asopus - possibly a son of Poseidon, a river deity

Parnassus - unkown

Eumolpus - possibly a son of Poseidon and Chione - King of Thrace

Phaeax - Son of Poseidon and Korkrya - from whom the Phaeacians derived their name.

Eirene - daughter of Poseidon and  Melantheia - gave her name to an island.

Amykos - Son of Poseidon and Melia - a king who would force people to box with them so he could kill them. Challenged the best of the Argonauts Polydueces, who killed him with a blow on the elbow. 

Mygdon - Son of Poseidon and Melia, also a king, killed by Heracles on his way to his ninth labour. 

Aspledon, a son of Poseidon and the nymph Mideia, a city in Boetia was named after him. 

Astacus - son of Poseidon and the nymph Olbia, eponymous founder of Astacus, Bithynia.

Leches  - son of Peirene and Poseidon, who was abducted by Poseidon. (squinty eyes at you mr. no-consent)

Evadne - daughter of Poseidon and Pitane who was raised by Aepytus of Arcadia. She fell in love with Apollo and of course got pregnant, the pregnancy was discovered by Aepytus, he was furious and left to consult the Oracle of Apollo. During the childbirth, Apollo sent Eileithyia and the Moirae to assist his lover and ease her pain. Evadne gave birth in the wilderness and left the child, Iamus, exposed to the elements. Five days later, Aepytus returned from the Delphi, where he had been told by Apollo's Oracle that Evadne's child was indeed the son of Apollo and destined to be a gifted prophet. He demanded that the child be brought to him, and so Evadne retrieved Iamus from the patch of violets where she had left him. Iamus had been nurtured for those five days by the honeybees that were sent by Apollo, or by the Fates. Evadne named the child Iamus (“Boy of the Violets”) He went on to found the Iamidae, a family of priests from Olympia.

Phocus - son of Poseidon and Pronoe

[pitch-and-moan]

Antiphates

A Madeline Miller-esque story about the life of Antiphates, king of the Laestrygonian cannibals, in the Odyssey.

[mythology-facts]

antiphates

“unspeakable”

[[MORE]]

- gigante king of the laestrygones

- antiphates is known as five different figures in greek mythology. most commonly, he’s known as the king of the laestrygones. they were a tribe of gigantic cannibals, that odysseus and his scouting party ran into.

- the second figure (ant��phates) was a trojan warrior who was slain by leonteus

- third (antiphatês), was the son of melampus and iphianeira. he married zeuxippe, the daughter of hippocoon. their children were oecles and amphalces

- another antiphates was one of the greek warriors who hid in the trojan horse

- the last but not least antiphates, was the son of sarpedon. who accompanied aeneas to italy where he was killed by turnus.

[ximerose]

"yes?" it's not supposed to come out like a question, but he's so incredulous that she asked his voice naturally pitches up. the aforementioned wings flap to prove his point. tanner might not exactly be up to date or understand an embarrassing amount of things, but he could comprehend the 'vibes' she was talking about. he knows exactly how he looks. how he holds himself-which is ducked down trying to go unnoticed. like a stray cat or wounded telekhine trying not to be eaten alive by a laestrygone.

he really hates capture the flag. 'it'll be fun' chiron said 'it'll be good for you' chiron said, conveniently forgetting that tanner has no cabin and still no training. the hephaestus cabin had just started nailing down his usage of a projectile shield in flight-which was mostly on him having to coordinate all six limbs and failing miserably. "ares kids are...very dedicated to this game. what's your plan? i only have the potential to be fast, but i also have the potential to level the woods and everyone in it."

“ do your wings actually work? ” the question could be asked with a little more tact, but mikayla doesn't have any— she's good at fighting, but horrific at just about anything else, especially anything involving other people. “ you just, like... give me wounded animal vibes. ” the same could be said for her, with her tendency to snap at any outreached hand, bare her teeth at everyone who gets close. with @ximerose, though, she means it a little more literally.

there's a reason for her questions outside of just morbid curiosity, which she hopes makes it better. “ because it could be useful if they do. we could use it to win the flag. ” mikayla might not be related to athena, but she's good enough in battle to form some sort of plan, one that involves him at the forefront. if he agrees, anyway. she digs the head of her spear into the ground, resting her chin on the handle, her brows raised expectantly. “ apollo cabin's on our side, so you don't have to worry about being used as target practice... as much, anyway. there's still the ares kids to worry about. ”

[thierry-facon]

R E D                   tokyo

« But as for monsters, because they be no news, of them we were nothing inquisitive. For nothing is more easy to be found than be barking Scyllas, ravening Celaenos, and Laestrygons, devourers of people, and suchlike great and incredible monsters. » 

( Thomas More: Utopia )

My portfolio: RED

[wynnwolfe]

‘Intermediary body of an incarnating Avataric influence observed on Exoplanet Laestrygone — a planet of intense learning, 888 LY from Earth’ #art #drawing #exoplanet #space #fun #instagram #digitalart #instagood #universe #galaxy #ipad #iphone https://www.instagram.com/p/BuyTy94DpMf/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=3f33ownnnilj

[ancientgreeksuggestions]

Survive the Trojan war, the Laestrygones, Scylla, Charybdis and numerous others, then get drunk and break your neck falling off a rooftop.

[urbestestwindgod]

uhm…so i have like…a million of em—i only know a few really well, most of em are mortal. my dad is….to be nice, a WHORE. he doesnt even know who my mom was?? but my favorite siblings are polyphemus, antaeus, orion,,,triton didnt send me a birthday card last year so im not on speaking terms with him rn, proteus yaps too much, urea, rhode, herophile, laestrygon, i hate otos and ephialtes, chrysaor thinks hes too cool for us, then a hundred mortal ones with a few heroes or something

woah……….. has anyone told you you’re really pretty…….

- @enarete-of-aeolia

mmm…not that i can remember i dont think

[colorsofthespiral]

Laestrygon