#cult of alcaeus

[toxicmetalzine]

Cult Of Alcaeus and Necro Algorithm

Cult Of Alcaeus and Necro Algorithm joined forces to release their split album, Doomed Algorithms. Get the album details right here: https://toxicmetalzine.com/post/cult-of-alcaeus-and-necro-algorithm-joined-forces-to-release-their-split-album-doomed-algorithms

[olympianbutch]

Hi! I really like your blog, and I'm curious if you just worship deities, or do you worship heroes, spirits, etc. as well? Would you be interested in worshiping Sappho, for example? 

 I'm new to the Tumblr pagan/polytheist-sphere, and I was inspired by my research on Sappho and Aphrodite (I'm slowly working on defining modern Sapphic rhetoric and modern Sapphic online spaces) for my MA thesis to look into polytheism. I' also identify as a sapphic woman so this topic is in general very fun for me to learn about. Also, would it be okay if I included your answer in my project? If not, totally cool! ☺️ and if so, thats great too. (I can def give you more info about what I'm doing if you'd like as well.)

I’ve honored the dead here and there throughout my years of practicing. :) It’s been nothing fancy, though, since I honestly haven’t delved into the specifics of hero worship.

My understanding is that cults of the dead centered around a hero’s remains/possessions. I live in the American west, which is far as fuck from any of the tombs that received worship in Greek antiquity. 😵‍💫 I’ve had a relatively easy time petitioning deified heroes (as opposed to niche local Greek ones since their bigger, multilocational cults suggest they weren’t confined to a single location).

When it comes to my ancestor veneration, I do pray to my immediate and very distant relatives! Mainly because I feel a deep sense of reverence towards my maternal ancestors, and we have heirlooms from that side that make it easy to connect with them. :)

I don’t worship Sappho or any of the poets, and it may sound goofy, but I don’t really feel any sort of way about Sappho. I haven’t read her works, either. 😵‍💫 I know the very basics about what little [we think] we know about her life, and I have a Loeb (Greek Lyric, Volume I: Sappho and Alcaeus) that includes her works, but I haven’t gotten to reading it...

Y’know what? I’ll reblog this answer in a little bit after I read a few poems. Then y’all can see my Live Lesbian Reaction‼️

[literalliterature]

🎯 🍀 🍩 for the oc thing, and all of them bcus i love your ocs lmao

Hiiiiii Opal sorry for the wait on this!!!

🎯 -What do they do best?

Keet: She would like the answer to be "fighting," because she feels that that is her only real utility, but given that once again she was kicked (temporarily) out of officer training she can't really make that claim yet. She is actually excellent at singing and doing shit like, fucking, memorizing entire epics and learning languages on the fly, but these skills come so naturally to her that she almost doesn't feel like they count.

Yonder: Answered!

Aisling: Connecting with animals. She gravitates toward them, they gravitate toward her, she has a lot of practice reading them and is naturally empathetic toward them. If she only ever had animals (and Cassius) to interact with for the rest of her life, she'd be more than happy. She's also a very good dancer, albeit out of practice and without the stamina she used to have.

Onyx: Oh......probably screaming like an absolute madman to intimidate anyone and anything around them lol.

🍀 What originally inspired the OC?

Keet: So, the current version of Keet is actually not the first one to exist. She was originally created for a different game, specifically using the Dungeon World system, and was not a selkie but a different kind of merfolk shapeshifter at the time--specifically a Scottish creature called a ceasg. Long story short, my GM at the time (hi Gray!) and I made a homebrew race that was effectively immortal, with the caveat that coming back from the dead cost the individual their memories. Everything else rose from there.

Yonder: I'm gonna keep it real with you, at the time I really wanted to make a character based on the song "Rainmaker" by Bruce Springsteen vksdjbdljvbslb. Also, yk, religious trauma and eco-anxiety, as ever.

Aisling: Listen. Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) rocked my shit when I was 8 years old and I have not gotten over it since. I will not elaborate (except in DMs if you want lmao).

Onyx: Another character originally from a Dungeon World oneshot! In DW, druids have powers based on the specific type of biome to which they are connected (a bit like non-revised rangers in D&D), and one of the biome options that you can pick is the Stinking Mire. I interpreted this to be a tar pit, gave them as much fossil theming as my heart desired (a lot), and off I went.

🍩 Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

Keet: I'm not sure she has any specific individual that she considers to be like, a personal enemy, with the exception of one of the members of the cult the gang has been fighting. This is because said cult member murdered her friend Alcaeus quite gruesomely and in a way that was pretty traumatic for her. (They Raised Dead on him though he's fine now lmao.) She does have a friendly rivalry with someone back home as well.

Yonder: They are going to rip the Raven Queen a new asshole if it's quite literally the last thing they ever do.

Aisling: I haven't quite fleshed out who this person is yet but one of the wardens in particular.

Onyx: There was a faction of people who betrayed them and framed them for regicide, many of whom were fellow nights whom they trusted or admired previously, and they all had their shit wrecked when Onyx fulfilled their insane vengeance quest.

Thank youuuuuuuuu ily

oc ask meme

[sisterofiris]

Achilles is married to Helen and lives in Ukraine

No, that isn’t fanfiction, a joke, or even an exaggeration. Let’s talk about this surprising and little-known Greek myth.

Most people familiar with Ancient Greece have heard about Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. What they may not know is that those texts were part of a wider Epic Cycle, which told the story of the Trojan War from Thetis and Peleus’ wedding to Odysseus’ death. The Epic Cycle is now lost, and known only from summaries and fragments quoted by other authors. One of those is Proclus. In his summary of the Aethiopis, an epic that tells of Achilles’ fighting against Penthesilea and Memnon and later his death, Proclus writes about Achilles’ funeral:

Καὶ Θέτις ἀφικομένη σὺν Μούσαις καὶ ταῖς ἀδελφαῖς θρηνεῖ τὸν παῖδα· καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα ἐκ τῆς πυρᾶς ἡ Θέτις ἀναρπάσασα τὸν παῖδα εἰς τὴν Λευκὴν νῆσον διακομίζει.

And Thetis, having come with the Muses and her sisters, laments her son; and after this, snatching her son up and away from the pyre, Thetis carries him to the White Island.**

Pausanias, an author from the 2nd century AD, gives us more details about this White Island (Description of Greece 3.19.11):

Ἔστιν ἐν τῷ Εὐξείνῳ νῆσος κατὰ τοῦ Ἴστρου τὰς ἐκβολὰς Ἀχιλλέως ἱερά· ὄνομα μὲν τῇ νήσῳ Λευκή, περίπλους δὲ αὐτῇ σταδίων εἴκοσι, δασεῖα δὲ ὕλῃ πᾶσα καὶ πλήρης ζῴων ἀγρίων καὶ ἡμέρων, καὶ ναὸς Ἀχιλλέως καὶ ἄγαλμα ἐν αὐτῇ.

There is an island in the Euxine Sea, at the mouth of the Ister, that is sacred to Achilles; its name is the White Island, its circumference is twenty stadia, it is entirely wooded and full of wild and tame animals, and on it there is a temple and a statue of Achilles.

Istros, or Ister, is the Ancient Greek name for the Danube. This allows us to locate the White Island: it is what is now known as Snake Island, Ostriv Zmiyinyy (Острів Зміїний) in Ukrainian, or Fidonisi (Φιδονήσι) in Greek. It belonged to the territory of Romania until 1948 (more or less), after which it became part of the USSR. Since 1991, it is officially a territory of Ukraine.

Achilles’ link to the area was already established by the 7th/6th century BC, as evidenced by the poet Alcaeus, who calls him “ruler of the Scythians” (Ἀχίλλευς ὀ τὰς Σκυθίκας μέδεις, fr. 354). He seems to have been the object of a cult on the island for several hundred years, traces of which may have been found in 1823 (but which were later destroyed by the construction of a lighthouse). More than that, Pausanias gives us some interesting details about what, exactly, this divinised Achilles was doing on the island (Description of Greece 3.19.12-13):

Ἐλθόντα δὲ ἡ Πυθία Λεώνυμον ἀπέστελλεν ἐς νῆσον τὴν Λευκήν, ἐνταῦθα εἰποῦσα αὐτῷ φανήσεσθαι τὸν Αἴαντα καὶ ἀκέσεσθαι τὸ τραῦμα. Χρόνῳ δὲ ὡς ὑγιάνας ἐπανῆλθεν ἐκ τῆς Λευκῆς, ἰδεῖν μὲν ἔφασκεν Ἀχιλλέα, ἰδεῖν δὲ τὸν Ὀιλέως καὶ τὸν Τελαμῶνος Αἴαντα, συνεῖναι δὲ καὶ Πάτροκλόν σφισι καὶ Ἀντίλοχον· Ἑλένην δὲ Ἀχιλλεῖ μὲν συνοικεῖν, προστάξαι δέ οἱ πλεύσαντι ἐς Ἱμέραν πρὸς Στησίχορον ἀγγέλλειν ὡς ἡ διαφθορὰ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἐξ Ἑλένης γένοιτο αὐτῷ μηνίματος.

The Pythia sent Leonymus (a general from Crotona), who had come to her, to the White Island, saying that Ajax would appear to him there and heal his wound. In time, he healed and returned from the White Island, where he asserted he had seen Achilles, and he had seen Ajax son of Oileus and Ajax son of Telamon, and with them were Patroclus and Antilochus. Helen was married to Achilles, and she had ordered Leonymus to sail to Stesichorus in Himera, to bring him the message that the loss of his sight was due to Helen’s anger.

So if you ever wondered what happened to Achilles, now you have your answer: he lives on a Ukrainian island along with four other heroes from the Trojan War, as well as Helen, who is married to him and so mad at Stesichorus, a poet who criticised her, that she made him blind.

And in case you’re curious, this is what the White Island looks like nowadays:

**All translations are my own.

[thors-daughtersthoughts]

Heracles (based on the Farnese Hercules)

Aka Hercules, Alcaeus, Hercle

God of the Gymnasium, protector of mankind

Son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon. He had a twin(sort of) named Iphicles. He was married to Megara, Omphale, Deianira, and Hebe. (Not at the same time. He also had male lovers like Hylas. Heracles had many children including Alexiares, Anicetus, Telephus, and Hyllus.

In modern times Heracles is best known for his 12 labors. These tasks were an attempt by him to atone for accidentally killing Megara and thier sons. (Whose names very based on source) The children where honored in the Thebean cult of Heracles. They where known as the Chalkoarai. Megara and the children where killed when Hera caused Heracles to go violently insane.

The labors where

🦁kill the Nemean lion

🐍kill the Lernaean hydra

🦌capture Artemis' golden hind

🐗capture the Erymanthian boar

🐂clean the Augean stables in a day

🦅Kill the Stymphalian birds

🐂capture the Cretan bull

🐴steal the mares of Diomedes

👑steal Hyppolyta's girdle

🐂get Geryon's cattle

🍎steal the apples of Hesperides

🐕capture Cerberus

He want on a lot more adventures until he was accidentally killed by his then wife Deianira. After his death he married the goddess Hebe.

Sources

Wikipedia Heracles

[ramanan50]

Krishna was Hercules, Megasthanes

“Heracles (/ˈhɛrəkliːz/ herr-ə-kleez; Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς, Hēraklēs, from Hēra, “Hera“, and kleos, “glory”[1]), born Alcaeus[2] (Ἀλκαῖος, Alkaios) or Alcides[3] (Ἀλκείδης, Alkeidēs), was a divine hero in Greek mythology, the son of Zeus and Alcmene, foster son of Amphitryon[4] and great-grandson (and half-brother) of Perseus. He was the greatest of the Greek heroes, a paragon of masculinity, the ancestor of royal clans who claimed to be Heracleidae (Ἡρακλεῖδαι) and a champion of the Olympian order against chthonic monsters. In Rome and the modern West, he is known as Hercules, with whom the later Roman Emperors, in particular Commodus and Maximian, often identified themselves. The Romans adopted the Greek version of his life and works essentially unchanged, but added anecdotal detail of their own, some of it linking the hero with the geography of the Central MeMegasthanediterranean. Details of his cult were adapted to Rome as well’

Megasthanes took the legend of Krishna to Greece and had it incorporated  in Greek Legends.

See the excerpts towards the close of the Post.

Similarities between Krishna and Hercules.

Krishna’s Killing of Kalinga is similar to Hercules with Hydra. More @

https://ramanisblog.in/2014/03/05/lord-krishna-was-also-a-greek-god-hercules/