#ancient mythology

[allseeingmurph]

Ariadne, the Minotaur, and Phaedra—probably didn’t have the best sibling relationship, all things considered.

[nicheguides]

What to Bring to a Hedonist’s Funeral

dont be *that* guy! know your decorum when honoring the passing of a legend who dedicated their life to the pursuit of pleasure

[visit-ba-sing-se]

Could you hold those for me for a sec? Yeah I just need to strech my muscIes a bit I will take them back in a second haha

[daughterofchaos]

The Three Fates, tapestry, early 16th century, Netherlands, woven in wool and silk +

The three fates, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos, represent Death in this tapestry, as they triumph over the fallen body of Chastity. In mythology the Fates controlled the span of human life; Clotho was the spinner, Lachesis was the drawer of lots, and Atropos represented the inevitable end to life. This is a fragment from a larger tapestry, from a series based on the poem I Trionfi (The Triumphs), written by the Italian poet Petrach between 1352 and 1374. The poem described a series of allegorical visions. Victoria and Albert Museum

[amoexii]

I haven't post art in forever cuz graduation is coming 😭 but here's some ror oc doodle dump from my insta 😤❤

Lanjar redesign & her Olympus dress

That one MLP meme & Nyi Blorong 🐍

My Blood of Zeus oc!!! Since season 2 is coming thought I'd bring her back 💕💖

[haley-harrison]

more Epic: the musical memes cuz it lives in my head rent-free:

[actualmagus]

I learned recently that the male (mlm) equivalent of sapphic is ACHILLEAN and gods it just feels Right, imma start calling myself achillean

Gay? Not quite. I am gay in the same way Achilles was gay: disastrous, twink-y, dramatic, loyal, doomed by the narrative but so full of rage the gods had to stop him unless he'd fell troy before it was supposed to fall, therefore almost breaking fate, and so fucking gay

Im achillean, i dont care, this motherfucked deserved having homosexuality named after him, he truly did, all he did was bitch, pout and slay and love patroclus, he deserves this

[floejlskaersild]

Franz von Stuck.

[kittenscookie]

For some reason I think it would be hilarious if Persephone didn't even stay with Demeter when she's up on earth. Like she visits ONCE at the beginning of spring, the interaction is at MOST a minute and thirty seconds, and she's gone before her mother can even get a word in. Basically "Sup. I'm alive, I'm up here—like you wanted—bye". Then she spends the rest of the spring and summer at her sister Despina's place where the two of them catch up and bitch about their mother.

[evilios]

H E R M E S - Divine shepherd, pastor of herdsmen and heralds, quick-witted assistant of men. God of chance and lucky draw, he who oversees rustic divination and pastoral music of the countrymen.

Hermes is a lot of things, ever caught in-between the world of the living and the land of the dead. A friend, a guide, a companion on the windy roads. A hero of many stories, a messenger within many myths, a bringer of friendly havoc and a disobedient child.

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P. S. Gif overlay/editing by me. I have posted it before.

[h0bg0blin-meat]

When you say that the final composition of epics (that contained several diverse stories passed down through generations orally, some of which didn't even make it to the final compilation) are the only canon ones, you kinda disregard other versions from other regions which probably existed way before the epic was actually fully compiled.

Something to keep in mind.

[joelchaimholtzman]

Happy to share this mythological entity I painted for Isfet, a miniature boardgame set in ancient Egypt.

This is Kherty, an underworld deity. He was said to be the one to carry the spirits of the deceased to the afterlife and protect them from evil spirits, similar to the Greek ferryman Charon. It may be plausible to say Kherty was the original underworld deity before Osiris attained divine status.

Please let me know what you think!

All the best,

JCH

[daughterofchaos]

Tête de Méduse by Fernand Khnopff, ca. 1900

Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium

Photo credit: Caroline Léna Becker

[amoexii]

I got a new glasses so the meow meow is gonna have 2 suffer too 🥰

[red-moon-at-night]

Etruscan mirrors are so bloody interesting like... What do you mean Hermes carried the egg with Helen in it from the underworld to Castor/Pollux/Leda/Tyndareus/all of them??

What do you mean sometimes they're pointing down to the ground and sometimes the ground is actually depicted as the ocean??? You're saying that the egg was LAID in the underworld and not up here???? The implication being yet again that Nemesis is the mother in these scenarios.

Carpino, Alexandra (1996) "The Delivery of Helen's Egg: An Examination of an Etruscan Relief Mirror," Etruscan Studies: Vol. 3 , Article 2.

Literally knowing of death before her life has begun.