#kymopoleia greek goddess

[calliopescorner]

What are your plans for Kymopeliea?

-Overanalyzer

KYMOPOLEIA

PARENTING:

Kymopoleia is very controlling of her children. She will give them “gifts” that actually allow her to tell where they are, and she uses her children as demonstrations of her power, allowing them to cause sea-wide conflict when she desires.

She usually has her children live with her in her underwater palace, and trains them herself. This allows her to also control what she tells them and what they learn. However, if any were to escape her grasp, they’d see a very different view of the world than the one she spouts.

She prefers her children to reflect the world that she lives in: the mythical. She gives them clothes from the styles of ancient Greece, and teaches them ancient Greek from when they’re born. If she wants to send them somewhere specifically to be an ambassador, only then will she teach them a different language.

If one of her children is able to escape her grasp, however, she will spend time with her council waging if it’s important enough to hunt them down, or to let them die. More powerful demigods she usually keeps to add to her council as they grow older.

Her rage can be extraordinarily frightening, and when she’s angry usually her servants escort themselves and the children away as she destroys things with fury.

CABIN:

Her cabin incorporates the stormy colors of her own underwater palace. There are dark pebbles pressed into the walls, and waves carved into the sides of the cabin. The cabin also has mirrors on it pointing to the sea, which can reflect the different weather patterns around it. They are blessed to never break, and some campers also use them to check their appearances.

Inside, there is a small fountain for Iris calls, and there are a few beds. The cabin is rather sparse, as she doesn’t send many of her children to Camp Empeiria. The cabin is largely kept neat to make sure Kymopoleia doesn’t see any mess (as she can check up on any of her children easily with an Iris call). There is also a small fish tank for different little sea creatures there, which gives the cabin a blue glow at night.

CABIN CULTURE:

The cabin is always on high alert to expect a call from Kymopoleia. Thus, anyone in the cabin is expected to be on their best behavior at all times. This can lead to the demigods staying in the cabin to isolate themselves in their downtime.

However, if there’s a way to hide it, sometimes the campers stuff various items under their beds. Through being able to see the world outside of their mother, they are able to learn more about what most interests them. While this can have them come off as secretive to other campers, in reality, they may not know what it’s like to live like the other campers. However, this may not be a universal experience.

If any of the demigod children have a vastly different experience to the others, they tend to easily stand out. This can sometimes even put them into a higher position, as they may have important knowledge the others don’t have. However, this can also lead to a fair amount of arguments as they try to slowly wriggle out of their mother’s grasp, which can damage the cabin, especially since the water many of them can control is so close at hand.

SOME POTENTIAL POWERS:

Hydrokinesis

Tempestkinesis

Enhanced strength / size (for creating huge waves)

Manipulation of anger

Proficiency in swimming

Breathe underwater

Sensitivity to wave vibrations (allowing them to tell exactly where things are in water)

Reblog or @/ this blog if it inspires you to make your own child of Kymopoleia! Thank you @overanalyzer for the request!

[marsprincess889]

NAKSHATRAS AS GODDESSES

6/27

💧💎ARDRA🌧

DISCLAIMER: This is based solely on my research and the patterns that I saw. I can't promise that I'm gonna be sure in all the coorelations, but I'm going to attribute each nakshatra a goddess that I think fits it the closest. If you're dissapointed, to make up for it, I'm going to list some other deities in the end that I think also fit the nakshatra. Don't come for me if you think I'm wrong, be respectful in the comments if you think so and have fun 🤍

While researching for this one there were several goddesses that kinda fit ardra and I'm going to talk about them, but the goddess that I chose is definitely a much better fit.

Kymopoleia

Pantheon: Greek

Name meaning: wave walker

Associations: The sea, violent sea storms, waves

Kymopoleia is Greek nymph-goddess, daughter of Poseidon and the mistress of the seas.

She has the ability to generate powerful waves and create and control violent sea storms, hurricanes and typhoons. She can also manipulate air and is immune to the freezing temperatures underwater. Kymopoleia was said to be a beautiful young woman in a green dress(ardra is said to represent "the green one", or "the moist one"). She belonged to a species of sea nymphs that lured sailors to their destruction.

She was said to big and clumsy, some said that whenever she went, destruction followed. Because of this, she was disliked by her father and he gave her away to to be wed to a hundred-handed storm giant Briareus. Despite being unloved by parents, she was said to be a 20 foot tall beauty, with luminous white skin and hair that glowed like jellyfish when underwater.

Her destructive, angsty nature definitely applies to Ardra whose god is Rudra- storm god of righteous violence and destruction. Ardra's symbols famously include a teardrop, a diamond and a human head. With all the information available about Kymopoleia, she definitely suits this nakshatra, but I want to talk about some others that might also fit.

Oya- Yoruban goddess of violent sea storms (like kymopoleia), lightning and the wind. She had a formidable temper that frequently clashed with her husbands and she could create storms by her rage. Rage is also connected to ardra and its god - Rudra.

This next example is excellent- Armenian goddess Tsovinar. She is a goddess of water, the sea and rain. She is a fierce goddess, who could force the rain fall down with her sheer fury. Her name means "daughter of the seas".

Ardra is the point in the wheel were an individual experiences their first fall from grace and a great disillusionment that is remembered well after it's gone. It's even more painful because it's the first time that the pain is felt, when we truly know suffering. "The moist one" could refer to crying, the sea or the rain, or even the cold water you splash on your face after you wake up, to be more ready to face the world. The diamond is what you become after all that pressure, its clarity is what you achieve(achievement is Ardra's power) after crying and witnessing. Ardra is also connected to hunting, but unlike in Mrigashira, this hunting is ruthless, selfish and nessecary. It's the place where we become truly human and cry for ourselves as a human, and by doing that, crying for the whole humanity. At the end of this nakshatra we have a choice_ to stay in the suffering or to return to the light in the next nakshatra- Punarvasu.

Deities that might be coorelated to ardra other than Kymopoleia:

Tsovinar- Armenian water, sea and rain goddess.

Oya- Yoruban goddess of violent sea storms and lightning.

Ran- Norse goddess of the sea, thieving and treasures.

Aegaeus- Greek god of violent sea storms.

Nodens- Celtic god of the sea, hunting and wealth.

This is it for Ardra 💎💧 it was so hard to find a goddess with enough info but my friend @quilpleuve-blog helped me out. Anyways, I hope this was interesting and hope it makes as much sense as I think it does. If you're Ardra, or even if you're not, please tell me what you think, like, comment, reblog, or you can message me. Thanks for reading and take care 🤍🤍🤍

[theamazingmaddyas]

Okay, so for my own fanfictions, most of which take place post-TOA and therefore post-Percy "claim your children" Jackson and Jason "honor minor gods" Grace, I made myself a spreadsheet of all the cabins I believe could plausibly be at Camp Half-Blood, and ended up with a whopping 270, and there's probably more dieties whom I couldn't find any information on, and some dieties whom I don't believe would have a cabin (ex. Kronos) (if you think I should add someone comment) and decided to paste it here, since I don't feel comfortable sharing my original spreadsheet. I did add the water dieties, even though their kids could also plausibly go to the underwater camp, but I've decided to give them the option of what camp they want. I also didn't copy their domains, but I have the list from my research, so you can ask if you'd like, I'll be glad to explain! Most of my research was from Theoi Project - Greek Mythology, and Brittanica, and probably some others I've since forgotten, so if you know any good Greek Mythology resourses and books, please share!

Here's some symbols before we begin:

* - virgin goddess. I added them because Athena and Artemis already have cabins (and Athena kids by magical means)

" - Dieties whom have faded in the series. Their cabins are more memorials to them.

Additionally there are 2 dieties named Thalia, (1) Thalia refers to the muse, the goddess of comedies, and (2) Thalia refers to the goddess of festivities and banquet

Zeus

Hera

Poseidon

Demeter

Ares

Athena*

Apollo

Artemis*

Hephestus

Aphrodite

Hermes

Dionysus

Hades

Iris

Hypnos

Nemesis

Nike

Hebe

Tyche

Hecate

Rhea

Hestia*

Calliope

Clio

Urania

(1) Thalia

Melpomene

Polyhymnia

Erato

Euterpe

Terpsichore

Musica

Persephone

Despoina

Morpheus

Epiales

Thanatos

Aristaeus

Asclepius

Epione

Hygeia

Panaceia

Aegle

Iaso

Aceso

Telesphorus

Eris

Phobos

Deimos

Peitharchia

Alastor

Alce

Hybris

Ioke

Lyssa

Palioxis

Phrice

Phyge

Polemus

Proioxis

Alala

Homodos

Cydoimus

Democracia

Dicaiosyne

Dike

Nomus

Eunomia

Pradaxide

Arete

Homonoia

Adicia

Horcus

Neicea

Poena

Bia

Kratos

Zelos

Phthonus

Agon

Anaideia

Ate

Cacia

Coalemus

Corus

Dolus

Dysnomia

Dyssebia

Oizys

Prophasis

Ptocheia

Thrasus

Soteria

Soter

Paregoros

Sophrosyne

Porus

Ponus

Plutus

Euthenia

Aedos

Aeschyne

Aletheia

Anance

Angelia

Caerus

Calocagathia

Eirene

Ececheiria

Elpis

Epiphron

Eucleia

Eudaemonia

Gelus

Eupheme

Euphrosyne

Eupraxia

Eusebia

Euthymia

Eutychia

Ctesius

Hesychia

Sophia

Techne

Eleus

Penia

Pistis

Phthisis

Pheme

Ossa

Penthus

Ania

Morus

Momus

Apate

Limus

Achos

Aergia

Adephagia

Amechania

Aporia

Geres

Eros

Aglaea

Anteros

Calleis

Charis

Harmonia

Hedone

Himerous

Philia

Philopharosyne

Philotes

Pothussexual

Hedylogus

Peitho

Amphitrite

Triton

Kymopoleia

Rhode

Benthesikyme

Aegaeus

Argyra

Calliste

Capheira

Keto

Kharybdis

Delphin

Proteus

Eidothea

Electra

Thaumas

Eurybia

Glaucus

Helle

Leucothea

Palaemon

Phorcys

Thallasa

Thoosa

Triteia

Tritonis

Tethys

Nereus

Doris

Thetis

Psamathe

Galateia

Eudora

Aeolus

Boreas

Zephryos

Notos

Euros

Khione

Oreithyia

Hesperus

EosphorusVenus

Phainon

Phaethon

Pyroeis

Stilbon

Aether

Arce

Astraeus

Asteria

Eos

Hemera

Nyx

Herse

Helios"

Selene"

Pan"

Aix"

Ganymede

Britomartis*

Oupis*

Loxo*

Hekaerge*

Ariadne

Comus

Thysa

Thyone(formally Semele)

Telete

(2) Thalia

Pompe

Epidotes

Pherespondos

Lykos

Pronomos

Pyrrhichus

Priapus

Phales

Oxylus

Nesi

Methe

Melisseus

Kortymbos

Autonoe

Eileithyia

Carmanor

Carme

Chrysothemus

Daeira

Eleusis

Macaria

Melinoe

Charon

Lethe

Acheron

Gorgyra

Cocyrys

Pyriphlegethon

Styx

Leto

Anchiale

Anytus

Dione

Epimetheus

Eurynome

Aura

Lelantos

Mnemosyne

Melete

Aiode

Perses

Phoebe

Prometheus

Theia

Themes

So that's my list. I don't really have a rhyme or reason for why each number is each, but I did clump together gods with similar domains because that's where they were easiest to find in my research... I honestly think kids of minor gods are very underused in TOA fics, and even in PJO and HOO to an extent. Jillie, my nine year old daughter of Gelus with a contageous laugh? One of my fave OCs.

As for Roman gods and goddess, I'm not as knowledgable, but hopefully I'll make a spreadsheet for plausable godly parents, though unlike CHB it doesn't need to be organized as there's just Cohorts. I don't write Camp Jupiter fics all that often, but it'll be a good resource to have if I choose to.

[hamletshoeratio]

Pride was Theseus' fatal flaw.

He abandons Ariadne, the literal only reason he survived the labyrinth, because he feels he can do better or because he doesn't want to acknowledge that he couldn't defeat the minotaur and survive the labyrinth alone. He gets so caught up in his victory that he forgets to raise white flags so his (mortal) father knows he survived, and said father throws himself into the sea in despair and dies thinking his son is dead. Becoming King of Athens as a result of that, he becomes a tyrannical king because of his pride and because a toxic friend uses his pride to manipulate him. Where once he was brave and cared for other people, only attacking after first being attacked, after meeting Pirithous, he began doing dangerous and cruel things without thinking about the consequences of his actions. He becomes cruel and self-serving. He kidnaps a thirteen year old Helen of Sparta, intent on making her his wife (never mind the wife he already has) because she is a beautiful daughter of Zeus, the most beautiful girl on the Earth, who else would be worthy of her?, he thinks. He tries to help his friend kidnap Persephone, a goddess in her own right, so that they both can be married to daughters of Zeus, who could stand in their way? Hercules saves his ass from Hades' punishment, but even despite all of the above bullshit, the Gods still don't abandon him. Not until he murders his own son do they abandon him. He kills his son out of jealousy and out of pride. Now he's old, and his own people despise him, even the gods have abandoned him, so he decides to try and be a hero again. He fails. He's lost everything because of pride. Eventually, he is either pushed or he himself jumps (depends on the retelling) into the sea and drowns. If he was pushed, he was too proud and thought that he couldn't be tricked. If he jumped, maybe he was too proud to believe that his father had abandoned him, or maybe he realised his fatal flaw, realised the devastion that he left in his wake as a result and couldn't live with it.

Theseus represents the worst aspects of Poseidon. He's possessive, temperamental, violent, selfish, impulsive, and all-consuming. He doesn't take no for an answer. He's too proud. If Poseidon is anything, it's a prideful god. See the Odyssey, where he has a long vendetta against Odysseus for killing his son. See the Illiad where he sides the Greeks because Laomedon, the mortal King of Troy generations before Priam, Hector and Paris, promised a temporarily mortal Poseidon great reward for building the walls that would later protect Troy from the Greeks for over a decade, then when the task was done told him that setting him free is the best reward that Poseidon could hope for. Posedion took every opportunity to attack Trojan ships and even sent a blood thirsty sea serpent to terrorise the city. There's countless stories where Posedion's pride is the driving force behind them.

Pride is not all that Posedion is, but it's one of his faults.

Do you understand how significant his surrender is? Because I do and it's driving me insane. He sets it aside and he surrenders to his brother, a brother who once took his powers and made him mortal, the brother who is the very last person in the universe he would ever want to submit to. He does it to save Percy because Percy matters far more to him than his pride.

Posedion is one of the Gods who have grown the most since ancient times. He's no Saint and he will never be one, but he's calmed, he grown, he can now set his pride aside.

It's probably why Kymopoleia was banished (she deserves better from Rick because she is full of untapped potential and ngl hoo did her dirty and I can and probably will rant about it someday just not in this post), because she reminded Posedion too much of his dark side, a side he isn't indulging in as much because he's not conspiring to steal Zeus' throne, because as far as we know he doesn't have any vendetta currently ongoing (other than doing significant damage to Florida when Hera kidnaps Percy in tlh).

We do see Posedion set his pride aside for Percy in the books, in the last olympian when joins Zeus and Co in the battle, letting his own domain face destruction. Kronos doesn't expect Posedion to join Zeus & co because of his pride and he's both shocked and pissed that Posedion has done so. It wasn't part of his plan, he never considered that happening (which makes Hades showing up too so much sweeter). Percy had to ask him to do that. Seeing Posedion set his pride aside without a single word from Percy, who has closed his eyes and accepted his fate? I'M A FUCKING WRECK

[mermaidenmystic]

Oiolyka by Kaysha Siemens Fine Art 

According to Greek Mythology, Oiolyka (Οίολυκα) was a sea-nymph, the daughter of Briareos the hundred-handed giant. Oiolyke may have been a minor deity of storm-generated wave-surges. While it is not widely accepted, according to some, Herakles was sent to fetch her girdle rather than Hippolyta's as his one of his Twelve Labors." The fact that her name is a combination of two words oios which mean lone and lokos which means wolf perhaps describes the jaws of a large, breaking wave generated by her stormy parents--the storm-giant Briareos and wave-goddess Kymopoleia.  ~ https://greekmythology.fandom.com/wiki/Oiolyka 

[umbran6]

Hogwarts Houses for the Heroes of Olympus, Apollo, and Meg.

I’ve seen a lot of people do this, so I thought I should do this and explain as to why I wanted them there. Spoilers are abound through Heroes of Olympus and Trials of Apollo as I explain my reasoning. 

Percy Jackson: Hufflepuff. Look, I know a lot of people place him in Gryffindor. That’s a reasonable outcome one can reach, considering his feats could be considered immensely brave. However, Percy has often participated in his quests out of a sense of loyalty towards those he loves, whether it’s his mom (The Lightning Thief), Camp Half-Blood (The Sea of Monsters), Annabeth (Both The Titan’s Curse and Battle of The Labyrinth), and in The Last Olympian, all of them. What really pins him in place is when he willingly fallis to Tartarus alongside Annabeth by the ending of The Mark of Athena, which is a remarkable yet insane feat of both love and loyalty. He also has a work ethic, which is revealed during The Tower of Nero. Rather than just go straight to New Rome and live a happy life, he went to a hellish military school just so he could graduate from there with a high school diploma. If that’s not a work ethic, I don’t know what is. Loyalty and work ethic are key Hufflepuff traits, and Percy has shown all of them. 

Annabeth Chase: Slytherin. Annabeth has often shown a lot of intelligence, but also a lot of resourcefulness and cunning during her time in the series. She literally tricked both Arachne and Nyx in what were impossible situations, and her goals are extremely ambitious, with her wanting to become an architect so she could build something that could last a thousand years. She also has a lot of Ravenclaw traits, to the point she repeated Odysseus and listened to the Sirens so she could learn what she desired the most. However, that was only once, and most often she used the knowledge she was given in resourceful and cunning ways, such as during the Last Olympian where she used the statues from Daedalus as a way to defend Manhattan. Needless to say, in my opinion she is a Slytherin first and Ravenclaw second. 

Jason Grace: It’s quite tricky, considering we don’t get to see any key defining traits, but I have decided to put him in Gryffindor. Jason’s shown plenty of bravery, fighting Giants and Titans during his quest, but he also has honor and chivalry, which he shows during Blood of Olympus, and later on, The Burning Maze. Specifically, in the scene where he makes a deal with Kymopoleia, promising to make shrines not only to her, but to all of the hundreds of minor gods of Greek Mythology. As we later see during The Burning Maze, Jason was completely willing to honor such a deal, working on the shrines even while he was living the closest thing to a normal life one could achieve as a demigod. And of course, we can’t ignore the fact that he was brave to fight Caligula just so his friends could escape. 

Piper Mclean: Slytherin. This is because during most of the time we’ve seen her, Piper fights dirty. She doesn’t stab a monster in the dagger, but charmspeaks the monster and stabs him in the back while he’s distracted. When claiming the position as Cabin Counselor in the Aphrodite Cabin during The Lost Hero from Drew, Piper uses the rules against her to get the position, rather than straight-up fighting her at the very beginning. Furthermore, rather than fight Khione upfront during the House of Hades, she bides her time and stalls the goddess until she can find a way to win. Though she has some traits that could go along with the other Houses, Slytherin tends to stand out the best. The only way she isn’t Slytherin in terms of traits is that she lacks ambition — we never see her have a higher goal beyond the quest, or any plans for what she’s going to do after everything’s done. Overall, she’s Slytherin through her actions, not her words, ironically. 

Frank Zhang: Gryffindor. This is because Frank performs a lot of actions that are by any standard, brave, and often selfless and self-sacrificial. Specifically, a lot of the sacrifices he performs throughout the series. In Son of Neptune, he was willing to be the distraction against the Laestrygonians so that Percy and Hazel could start their escape plan. He was literally willing to burn his own life force (his stick) so that Thanatos could break free despite the very large risk it posed to him. He even stood in the way of a Giant, pushing him all the way to the Canadian border. And as we learn in The Tyrant’s Tomb, he was willing to repeat his sacrifice if it meant Caligula and Commodus were killed.  Frank is a Gryffindor through and through, though he does have some minor Ravenclaw traits such as his use of tactics against his opponents, way of making plans, or recalling ancient Roman history. 

Hazel Levesque: Once again, this was another difficult one. Mainly because Hazel is split right down to the middle between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor. On one hand, she was so loyal to her mother that despite the fact that the lady got them into this mess, Hazel willingly sacrificed Elysium so her mom wasn’t punished. On the other hand, she was also willing to sacrifice herself so Alcyoneus couldn’t rise again despite the fact that it would lead to her and her mom’s death. Finally, I decided she deserved to go to Gryffindor, because of the fact that she willingly went towards the quest to rescue Thanatos in The Son of Neptune despite the fact that it was very likely that the god of Death would take her back to the Underworld. That takes immense amounts of bravery, not only because it’s the right thing to do, but she’s also putting herself at immense risk of being dragged down to the Underworld. 

There are some Slytherin traits, such as when she made a plan to trick Sciron during the House of Hades, or the plan to trap Nike. However, Hazel’s a lot more defined by her bravery and empathy, which are more Gryffindor traits. If she had more ambition, a big goal after the quest it could be understood, but overall her Gryffindor traits are more prominent. For example, let’s compare how she got to Praetor and Octavian got to Praetor, and later on, Pontifex Maximus. Octavian often used a lot of word-twisting and dirty tactics to get his position, and only got there because Reyna left her post so she could help Jason. In comparison, the legion willingly raised her on a shield and collectively voted her into the position due to her bravery during the fight against Tarquin in The Tyrant’s Tomb. 

Leo Valdez: There have been arguments over where he should go. All of them want him in one house or the other, but the most convincing ones were either having him in Slytherin, or in Ravenclaw. And I can definitely agree with both — Leo has shown immense amounts of intelligence and cunning throughout the series.  He’s also intelligent in the sense that he created the Argo II, multiple weapons, the Holographic Scrolls, and even Buford. 

However, after looking through his actions, I found that he leans more towards Slytherin. Although his façade of cheerfulness and humor was used to disguise trauma, he also used said humor to make himself appealing towards bullies so they didn’t beat him up. He often used his cunning to morph himself to social situations such as his façade as a jokester to look less threatening in comparison to others. 

During the times we see him fight, he’s also the one to not only play it smart, but also using tactics and dirty tricks, rather than focusing on swordplay or his own fire powers. The only time we see him go ham with his pyrokinesis is when he’s fighting Khione during The Lost Hero. Furthermore, in The Mark of Athena, rather than straight-up fight the nymphs and Narcissus to get the celestial bronze he needed to make repairs, he uses himself as a distraction and has Hazel manipulate the bronze in a place where she can’t be seen, which is a plan that needs a lot of manipulation of the opposing parties.

What finally acted as the nail in the coffin for me was his plan to defeat Gaea during Blood of Olympus. It involved a lot of manipulation of both enemies and allies, and in the ended it succeeded so brilliantly that everybody got what they wanted, with none of them being aware of the plan until Frank and Hazel explained it, and they were the very few people in the know regarding Leo’s sacrifice. Developing such a plan takes immense amounts of cunning and ambition, which are both Slytherin traits. Although he may be chaotic, mischievous, and annoying, Leo is the guy you don’t realize is a Slytherin until it’s too late.

Nico di Angelo: The thing about a guy who was pretty much a loner throughout most of his time in the series is that it’s hard to tell what values he has. Ergo, we should look at his actions rather than his own words. Nico, although mainly dominated by his naïveté during his younger years, has shown himself to be extremely brave. For example, there was him openly defying his father by saving Percy from his imprisonment, and later actively convincing Hades to stop his vow of neutrality and fight alongside the Olympians in The Last Olympian. Finally, there’s his excursion to Tartarus and later his willingness to transport the Athena Parthenos during Blood of Olympus. Nico willingly went there to see if the Doors of Death were over there, and later transported the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood even if it meant he would fade into the shadows forever. All feats are insanely brave, and therefore I argue that he should go to Gryffindor. 

Reyna Avila Ramirez Arellano: Hufflepuff. Most of Reyna’s actions aren’t inspired by bravery, honor, or chivalry, though from a certain point of view they are brave. Reyna often performs most of her actions out of loyalty for those she cares about, almost in a Percy-ish kind of way. Her interrogation and cold nature towards Percy in Son of Neptune? Suspicion that he would be a threat to Camp Jupiter. She metaphorically fought against Octavian’s power advances because she knew his own ambitions wouldn’t help New Rome. Willingness to cooperate with the Greeks before the Eidolons screwed up everything? She believed that it was best for New Rome. Willingness to brave the Mare Nostrum all by herself? Both her loyalty to Jason and that she believed that waging war against Camp Half-Blood was not the best for the legion. Her loyalty and ethic just make her a shoe-in for Hufflepuff. 

Apollo/Lester Papadopoulos: Oh boy, he’s kind of at an in-between when it comes what house he should be in. If we were talking about him pre-Lesterfication, I would honestly say Hufflepuff, but he takes a good chunk of those traits and turned them into a darker way. He defeated Python because the snake monster had chased his mother off of Delphi. He alongside Artemis murdered Niobe’s kids because the goddess insulted Leto by saying she was better than her. When Asclepius is murdered by Zeus, he retaliates by murdering the Cyclopes who made the weapons. And finally, he punishes those who broke their vows He shows loyalty, but in a lot of darker ways that we don’t expect. He’s got Hufflepuff morals, but they’re in a darker, more warped way than we expect. 

If we’re looking at him post-Lesterfication, I would still say Hufflepuff, but now he does it in a brighter way and is also more Gryffindor. He was more willing to sacrifice himself if it meant saving those he cared about, such as when he willingly tried to kill himself during The Burning Maze if it meant Caligula would stop holding his friends hostage. He was also willing to commit more honorable gestures such as bringing Jason’s body to New Rome during The Tyrant’s Tomb. He was even willing to own up to his mistakes right in front of a god who had every right to hate him if it meant Meg and Reyna could be spared. He’s still a Hufflepuff, but he’s a more idealistic and less warped version of the values he had before he became Lester. 

Meg: In a way, she’s pretty much like Apollo. She’s a Hufflepuff, but in all the wrong ways at first. We see this in The Dark Prophecy when its clear that during that time, she was more loyal to Nero of all people rather than her fellow campers, to the point of accepting Nero’s gaslighting if it meant she could see the positive view of him. However, she’s also loyal to Apollo and her father, which we see in The Burning Maze because the main reason she guns for Caligula is because she often compares him to The Beast aspect of Nero, the person who killed her dad. She in the end is also willing to accept and finish her father’s legacy, planting the seeds that eventually become the Meliai. Tower of Nero is when she gains the will to stand up to Nero after support from Apollo and her friends, and is later on seen taking care of the other children Nero abused. In the end, she’s a Hufflepuff despite the fact that she may not look like it. 

Now, before you guys getting up in arms about there being no Ravenclaws, in my opinion the house is a lot more knowledge-focused, whether its discovering more knowledge, but also using it in a more academic and experimental way. Considering we don’t see this attitude or its corresponding values too much during the stories that we see since they’re more save-the-world mission focused. While Slytherin does have an intelligence-centric value such as cunning, its more focused on using such intelligence to manipulate and trick others, while Ravenclaw uses such intelligence in the discovery for knowledge. 

[zazzander]

Jason Grace and Octavian, pt 5 / final

Healing the Gods

Of course, there is another parallel between Jason and Octavian – the rank of Pontifex Maximus. While Reyna is criticising Octavian for taking on the role, Jason is being proclaimed it. Interestingly, once again Octavian looks to gain power and is shamed by the characters around him; once again, Jason is handed this power and it is celebrated as something noble.

First, Octavian

Ignoring the murder part of this plan, one of Octavian's goals in Blood of Olympus (and perhaps long before) was to heal the gods. To fix the break that causes them to be divided, to fight themselves. He wants to restore them to full power. But I've spoken about Octavian's intent at length before. So this post is mostly being to talk about Jason.

And then, Jason

Going all the way back to the Lost Hero, we have Jason’s comment:

“So you believe those gods still exist?”

“Yes,” Jason said immediately. “I mean, I don’t think we should worship them or sacrifice chickens to them or anything, but they’re still around because they’re a powerful part of civilisation. They move from country to country as the centre of power shifted – like they moved from Ancient Greece to Rome.” [Lost Hero 90]

Not example the words of someone who would later become a priest. But Jason changes during Blood of Olympus.

“I can change that,” he promised. “I will personally arrange a shrine for you on Temple Hill in New Rome. Your first ever Roman shrine! I’ll raise one at Camp Half-Blood as well, right on the shore of Long Island Sound. Imagine, being honoured–”

“And feared.”

“– and feared by both Greeks and Romans. You’ll be famous!”

He offers this in the heat of battle, as a means of turning Kymopoleia, the minor goddess, back to their side against the giants.

After the fight, Jason says,

“I will,” Jason said. “When we win this war, I’m going to make sure all the gods get recognised.” […] “Which is why I’m going to finish the job.” Jason didn’t know where these words were coming from, but the idea fight absolutely right. “I’ll make sure none of the gods are forgotten at either camp. Maybe they’ll get temple, or cabins, or at least shrines.”

As they part, Kym says,

“But, if you win, remember your promise, Pontifex.”

Jason took a moment to process her words. “I’m not a priest.”

“No?” Kym’s white eyes gleamed.

And Jason offers his own explanation to Percy,

“Roman used to have a Pontifex Maximus, who oversaw all the proper sacrifices and whatnot, to make sure none of the gods got made. Which I offered to do… I guess it does sound like a pontifex’s job.”

Jason is setting himself up as Octavian’s successor, even if he doesn't fully realise taht.

Octavian was the sole priest of the, seemingly for a long time. And Jason certainly hadn’t considered helping him in the past.

But as Octavian’s death approaches, Jason is prepping to take over.

Again, it’s interesting how their goals align; and so too does their path.

“I heard. The Senate plans to elect you Pontifex Maximus.”

Jason shrugged. “I don’t care about the title so much. I do care about making sure the gods are remembered.”

One thing this entire narrative has been insistent upon is that trying to gain power is wrong. But being handed it on a golden platter? Morally correct. Ambition is wrong, apparently.

But its such a luxury for Jason to be like "yeah I don't care" because anyone else would struggle to fulfil his promises without that title. Hell, even with that title, they might struggle. Octavian certainly did. The moment Reyna returned all bets were off. Everyone switched allegiance.

Jason Drops the Façade

The whole of Long Island Sound spread out to the horizon. They were so far up, and at such an angle that nobody below could possibly see them. The patrol harpies never flew this high. […] “But aren’t you going to get in trouble?”

“Who cares?” Jason asked.

Piper laughed quietly. “Who are you?”

He turned, his glasses place bronze in starlight. “Jason Grace. Please to meet you.”

As we see Jason recreate the memory of their first kiss. In a poetic way, Jason has become the person Hera knew he could be. For all the flack she gets, Hera really did know him best.

Ironically, Jason is now the person that could have been good friends with Octavian. Someone ready to break some rules. Someone who realises the nature of the gods and wants to fix things. Someone who wishes to make Rome a little more Greek.

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5

[littlemoondance]

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[cardiganloser]

The Underworld Squad

Note: I made a few posts about a squad of Underworld kids, and them all finding family with eachother after being cast out of the rest of society. A few people were interested in the story, so I decided that before I start writing the fanfic, which I'll cross-post to ao3 and Wattpad, I'd talk about the characters involved. Namely the ocs, but Nico, Will and Hazel will all be making appearances.

Characters:

Emma Blossom, female, daughter of Persephone

Oliver Mizeria, male, son of Akhlys

Seren Nova, female, daughter of Nyx

Aldrin Nova, male, son of Nyx

Gracelyn Tod, female, daughter of Thanatos

Maia Oneira, non-binary, child of Melinoe

Emma Blossom

After a blissful eleven years spent with her father, botanist Ethan Blossom, her bliss was bought to a grinding and painful halt when a rogue hellhound killed her and her father. A harsh twist of fate let her father into Elysium, as he died defending his daughter, but as she caused his death and the protectiom didn't pay off due to her own death mere minutes later, Emma was sentenced to the Fields Of Punishment.

She would have spent eternity in agony, if not for the intervention of her mother, Queen of the Underworld and Goddess of Spring, Persephone. Emma agreed to slow her aging process and pay off her time in the Fields of Punishment by working for her mother in the Underworld for 500 years. At the end of the years of work, her good deeds for her Mum and subsequently, the Underworld, would be judged for her afterlife.

Due to her slowed aging, when she shows up as part of the Underworld crew, she has the appearance, body and mentality a fourteen year old. Emma has worked under her Mum since 1820, the year of her death.

Before that she grew up in Wales until the age of five, the last six years of her life spent in London. Her accent is audibly Welsh, and she is fluent in the language.

Emma's appearance takes after her father mainly, with brown curls and a smattering of freckles over her nose and cheeks. Her eyes, however, are a green colour reminiscent of a grassy field. She is short and has the slim waist and strong arms of someone who does a lot of work and barely eats enough to keep their stamina up.

Oliver Mizeria

Following three years spent in the US foster system, Oliver Mizeria, son of Akhlys, went to live with his Moms, Rosalie and Jocelyn in the state of Kentucky. He grew up under the care of his Moms until he was twelve and one of his teachers turned out to be an empousa in disguise.

Oliver almost died in the attack, but he was luckily rescued by Lana Corals, a daughter of Kymopoleia. She took him to camp, and he spent every summer there, while school time was spent with his Moms in Kentucky.

Oliver was claimed by Akhlys soon after the Titan War, but stayed in the Hermes cabin as he was the only Akhlys child in memory and so many new cabins were already being built at Camp.

He has bright ginger hair, and his eyes are an icy blue colour. He's pale, but not in any way freckley. He's tall, and fairly gangly. At the time of this story, Oliver is 15.

Seren and Aldrin Nova.

The twin son and daughter of Nyx, Goddess of Night, the Novas grew up with their Dad, former astronomer turned Broadway dance choreographer, Benjamin Nova. The pair and their loving but bust father grew up in the big apple itself, NYC.

After expulsions from multiple schools, they finally landed a supposedly perfect private tutor, who was really a fury in disguise. After the subsequent fight, in which Seren earned a scar across her cheek and nose, and Aldrin lost his arm.

They began attending Camp Half-Blood at the age of Eleven, and are 14 at the time of this story. They were claimed immediately and sleep in the Big House to avoid annoying the Gods with a Nyx cabin and scaring any other campers.

The pair are pale, with dark hair. Aldrin's is a mess of black curls that frame his face and end at the top of his neck. His sister's hair is straight, but only because she straightens it on purpose, and she also had bangs. The two are identical other than hair and gender. This includes their dark black eyes.

Gracelyn Tod

The youngest of the Underworld demigods, at age thirteen, Gracelyn's mother, Amanda Tod was a french woman with German roots. She died giving birth to Gracelyn in an alley, so the baby girl was born with severe lung issues. Interestingly, she did not inherite the usual ADHD, but her dyslexia is more severe than average, to the point that even Greek, which her brain is hard-wired for, can be hard for her to read.

She was placed in the Foster system until an exchange program that was really organised by Hades as a favour to her father, Thanatos, placed her in the care of a couple in Paris. It was ten years later that she discovered that she was adopted, and a demigod. Her family, which now consisted of two siblings, both of which were younger than her, moved to the states and learned English so she could go to Camp if times got hard. She maintains her French accent. She discovered she was a demigod via a satyr who she sometimes sees around Camp.

Gracelyn, who goes by Grace or Gracie for short, is tall, with lanky arms and long, dark red hair. Her eyes are chocolatey brown and large, framed with unusually long eyelashes. Her asthma means she doesn't take part in as much physical activity as other demigods, but she is known for being kind to younger kids and taking care of them.

Maia Oneira

Maia Oneira, the non-binary child of Melinoe never had nightmares as a kid. Their Mom's area in nightmares meant Maia often entered the dreamscape as a kid and explored the dreams of others. They also helped people with mental disorders when they met them, dreamscape or physically, tapping into their mother's control over mentality and insanity.

Despite their help to their community, Maia's father was a neglective alcoholic who never wanted kids. After a satyr fended off a rogue hellhound that tried to kill them, Maia was bought to Camp where they stayed all year as a way of getting away from their father. A few months later, they came out as being non-binary, and camp ceased use of female pronouns, swithcing instead to they/them.

A short kid with a choppy brown pixie cut, Maia highlights their hair with a new colour every year. At the time of the story, their hair is brown with the front dyed with streaks of red. They are a little pudgy, but their size has led to many false assumptions about Maia, a highly skilled fighter.

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Woooo, that's a lot. Honestly, this post took way longer than I thought it would, so please leave critisims, suggestions and the rest in the comments.

-Elle (she/her)

[rubisaurus98]

zura!!!

1. Her color palette, and a bit of her hairstyle and water-related abilities were inspired by Lapis Lazuli from Steven Universe.

2. Zura's claymore is named Kymopoleia (tentative name). The name comes from a Greek goddess of giant storm waves.

3. She was a founding member of the 14th Demon Slayer Squad Gladiolus. Before then, she joined Owen's squad, Fire Crest, out of a debt to him. He's the one that pointed her in Akras' direction when she was at her then-lowest point.

4. Lugina’s personality has been compared to hers before by certain other Summoners. The similarities stop at how well they cooperate with others, especially with younger/less experienced Summoners, at least for about half of BF1, and Zura being the more tolerant one.

5. Voice headcanon: Elizabeth Maxwell as Ymir from Attack on Titan.

6. In Akras Summoners’ Academy, she’s a Combat Instructor who specializes in two-handed weapons, as well as the Instructor for students with an elemental affinity for Water. She became Chief Instructor somewhere post-BF1.

7. Roy was a part of one of her last classes before her mantles were eventually passed on to Seria (Chief Instructor, Two-Handed) and Noah (Water).

8. Her rivalry with Rowena wasn’t one-sided, even though Zura is much more of a general asshole. Rowena took just as much pleasure in fucking with her as Zura does she.

9. Early BF1 is around the time Zura held the opinion of “This current generation is fucking doomed.” She didn’t have much faith in the most talked-about names in Ren’s peer group of Summoners, based on her observations.

10. Zura knows Seria’s mentor, Kate. How, most likely through Owen. And for how long...idk.

[percyjcksn]

in case you ever forget:

percy ripped out the Minotaur’s horn with his bare hands and defeated the monster when he was only 12, with no training and no weapons.

he is able to recover from a hard kick in the chest from the god of war and continue fighting.

he strangled a snake when he was just a toddler.

he can feel the path of a bullet, which on average travels around 1700 mph, and deflect it.

he can fend off a continually resurrecting army of legionnaires while maintaining a hurricane the whole time.

he can cause earthquakes that can create a 50 foot hole in the middle of the Williamsburg bridge and can cause a whole glacier to shake and its entire edge to break.

and in addition to earthquakes, percy can bring the sea to him, releasing his raw power and the inexhaustible power of the sea that caused a volcanic eruption at Mt. St. Helens and woke Typhon, the most deadly creature in greek mythology.

he leaped across a 20 foot wide river while carrying annabeth on his back with his eyes closed.

he was the first to realize what was going on in the lotus casino.

he can control and explode the blood vessels of Tartarus, releasing the Phlegethon (liquid fire), the Styx, the Cocytus, and the Lethe.

percy can harden water into an almost solid shape that allows him to run across the surface and can also create giant hands that mimic his own movements that were able to grab onto the 2 gorgons holding frank.

he can create his own hurricanes, powerful enough to generate lightning and with winds strong enough to extinguish the titan Hyperion’s fires.

he was able to survive being thrown lava at by 4 full-grown telekhines (albeit it gradually got more painful, but he didn’t die immediately on contact).

percy was able to keep the argo ii from capsizing or being smashed to bits in a storm caused by Kymopoleia, the goddess of violent sea storms, simply by pushing his hands in the opposite direction every time the ship tilted.

[i-can-summon-yams]

Camp Half Blood Tour (post TOA)

Cabin 1 (Zeus)

This cabin is empty now

Sometimes it just starts raining inside for no discernable reason

Don’t go inside if you’re afraid of being randomly electrocuted

People still go inside anyways

There’s little memorial shrines for children of Zeus throughout the centuries until now (his children don’t tend to live long and happy lives)

Also people go in on dares to see if they’ll get hit by a randomly manifested bolt of lightning

Cabin 2 (Hera)

It used to be The actual scariest place in camp

Eventually some people did go in to remodel, our former camper Jason drew up some really nice plans (what with Hera being his patron)

Hera is the goddess of marriage and family, the cabin is supposed to be a safe space

There are some demigods she hates who refuse to go in but for the most part the cabin has become more comfortable (blankets and pillows strewn around, books all over)

It’s a nice place to escape crowded cabins (unless Hera personally dislikes you)

Cabin 3 (Poseidon)

Poseidon’s two demigod children, Percy and Tyson, live in California now, but they stay here when they visit

Tyson made it fancier, it has lots of sheild and tridents that he built lining the walls

There’s also a magic Iris message fountain in there and campers are allowed to use it to make calls home when Percy’s gone

Cabin 4 (Demeter)

The plants are taking over

Honestly it’s just as much of a home to assorted nymphs trying to keep out of monster infested woods as it is to Demeter’s children

The campers here are in charge of the strawberry fields and therefore money

There’s lots of ideas for strawberry-related products or new breeds of strawberries strewn around

Also tons of advertizing ideas and financial plans (most of which involve adding more farmland)

There’s always at least one camper arguing that camp should switch it’s cash crop to rhubarbs or something because that’s obviouly the superior plant

The floorboards, bedposts, and doors all have plants growing out of them

Cabin 5 (Ares)

It’s so well defended no one other than the children of Ares have ever gotten in

Oh my gods is that a land mine?!

Let’s move on

Cabin 6 (Athena)

Look, just because Athena’s kids are smart, that doesn’t mean they’re actually organized

They cooperate very well to stow everything away for Cabin checks and they always win, but at any other time the entire cabin is covered in papers and opened books

If there’s no actual battle happening to strategize for, they’ll just make plans for every theoretically possible scenerio

They also read and reread Greek mythology constantly so they can recognize monsters

They’re a very helpful group to talk to before a quest

Cabin 7 (Apollo)

It’s always ready to be converted to a hospital within 30 seconds of notice

Not as flashy as the Ares Cabin, but it’s actually the best foritifued place in camp when it needs to be

Listen, you do NOT want your foes to be able to get into your hospital

They’ve recently also started a therapy wing, a lot of campers really need someone to talk to at times, and they’re allowed to go to the hospital when they need it

The campers also never have any rest, the cabin is constantly expanding because 1) Apollo is a hoe and has way too many demigod children and 2) there’s always someone who was injured because they fell off a pegasus or got burnt by the climbing wall

This is also the music cabin, but they eventually had to build a seperate (soundproof) practice room because the hospital patients did not appreciate being woken up by the bagpipes at 2am

Also the campers all wake at at like 5am and often serenade the entire camp so be prepared for that

Cabin 8 (Artemis)

It’s also usually empty, but the hunters of Artemis stay here when they’re at camp

The walls are painted with trees and wolves, it’s really pretty

But there’s not much that’s actually functional inside because the hunters are so good at bringing their camp with them that there’s not much they would need

There is a huge stock of arrows though, just in case

Cabin 9 (Hephaestus)

You can go in, and it’ll probably be fun, but there’s no guarentee you’ll ever come out

There’s so many projects going on at any given time

At this point, there’s a safety goggles dispenser as you walk in the door, because sparks and scraps of metal are flying constantly

Are they supposed to be keeping their projects in the bunker or workshop? Yes. Does that stop them from “just tinkering on this one project for a second?” No.

If you break a weapon or sacred object, this is the place to go. One of the campers will literaly take it from your hands and start hammering at it before you can even explain what’s wrong.

Cabin 10 (Aphrodite)

Has become the official relationship advice cabin

Do you need help talking to someone you have a crush on? Do you want to know if your crush likes you back? Do you need to eat an unhealthy amount of chocolate? Are you frustrated that your friends won’t realize that they like each other already?

This is the place for you

They also have a collection of retro camp half blood shirts throughout the years if that’s your thing

And they know all the celebrity gossip outside of camp, they’ve replaced the internet

Cabin 11 (Hermes)

You know how the Aphrodite cabin has celebrity gossip? Hermes has the memes.

Honestly if you really want internet access they’d probably be willing to rig something up for you, even if it does attract monsters

It’s become less and less crowded as the additional cabins are built and demigods are claimed

Finally got remodelled to have enough bunks that no one is sleeping on the floor

Except for the people who want to sleep on the floor

You personal items are not safe here, trust no one

Also do not play any games involving dice against the Hermes kids, they will win and you will jot be able to figure out how

Cabin 12 (Dionysus)

Dionysus doesn’t actually have many demigod kids (he’s also very attached to his wife Ariadne) so the cabin is surprisingly unoccupied a lot of the time

That’s not the same thing as empty though

Dionysus is the god of transgendered people, so his cabin has become the official LGBTQ+ center

There are pride flags EVERYWHERE

Also there was a moonshine rig made by some Hermes and Demeter kids a while ago but that’s not important shh

Other cabins

We’ve been over the original twelve cabins, but they’re far from everything

Starting two years ago, we’ve been trying to expand the cabins, and work has gone quickly

Annabeth, the previous Athena head counselor, started drawing up plans first, then the mantle was taken up by Jason, son of Zeus, and now plans are made by a committee of head counselors

There’s not enought time to hit every cabin on our tour, but here’s a few highlights:

Cabin 13 (Hades) - sometimes you’ll see zombies coming out of this cabin, don’t worry, that’s normal, they’re supposed to be here

Cabin 20 (Hecate) - the place to go if you want to learn more about magic or the mist. Just be warned, the campers probably won’t steal your cash, but they’re not against taking eyebrows or toenails

Cabin 23 (Hestia) - the safest and comfiest place in CHB, but it only appears if you really need it. Campers frequently argue sbout whether or not it’s actually real.

Cabin 26 (Kymopoleia) - no demigod children live here, but make sure you stop by to pray for camp to not be destroyed in a hurricane every once in a while. This is also the first cabin that was built based on our past camper Jason Grace’s plans

Cabin 34 (the muses) - our most recently built cabin, although more are planned out every day. This is the place to go for help if you’re in tears because of writers block.

That wraps up the cabins section of our tour, check in next time to see the pavilion and training grounds

[hereticalheraldry]

Greek Gods You’ve Never Heard Of, Part VIII

Aquatic Deities

Amphitrite (f) wife of Poseidon, queen of the sea. Oceanid or Nereid. Roman: Salacia, goddess of saltwater

Berthesikyme (f) “sea depth/wave”, daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, wife of Enalos (a man from Lesbos, who also has another fascinating myth about him)

Brizo (f) “to slumber”, protector of mariners, sailors, and fishermen, worshiped by the women of Delos, who set out food offerings in small boats. also a prophet who specializes in dream interpretation

Calypso (f) a nymph, trapped Odysseus. daughter of Iapetus and Clymene or Asia

Phorcys (m), son of Pontus (sea) and Gaia (earth). fish-tailed merman with crab-claw forelegs and red, spiky skin. husband of Ceto. Children include the Graeae (three crones, Deino/Dino, Enyo, and Pemphredo/Pephredo, who share one eye and one tooth among them); the gorgons (snakes for hair), Echidna (half-woman and half-snake, mother of monsters), and the youngest, “the awful snake” who guards the golden apples of the Hesperides.

Ceto (f) “sea monster”, daughter of Gaia (earth) and Pontus (sea). bore a host of monstrous children to her brother Phorcys.

Glaucus (m) “grey-blue, blue-green, glimmering” a mortal who ate a magical herb and became immortal. prophetic sea god, comes to the rescue of sailors and fishermen in storms, having been a sailor himself.

the ichthyocentaurs (m, plural). upper body human, lower front of horse, tail of fish, lobster-claw horns on the head. the ichyocentaur brothers Aphros and Bythos were set in the sky as the constellation Pisces

Kymopoleia, daughter of Poseidon and Amphitrite, goddess of sea and earthquakes, wife of Briares (one of the hundred-handed giants)

Leucothea (f) “white goddess”, one of the aspects under which an ancient sea goddess was recognized, usually a transformed nymph, sometimes Ino

Melicertes/Melacertes/Palaemon (m) son of prince Athamas and Ino, daughter of Cadmus. He and his mother were turned into sea gods.

Nereus (m) eldest son of Pontus and Gaia: with Oceanid Doris, fathered children with whom he lived in the sea:

the Nereids (f plural), 50 ocean nymphs

Nerites (m) a beautiful boy

Nesoi (f plural) goddesses of islands. Among the Protogenoi

Proteus (m) the Old Man of the Sea, an early god of rivers and seas. can foretell future, but will change his shape to avoid doing so.

Rhodos (f) personification of the island of Rhodes, wife of Helios (the sun god, also the Colossus of Rhodes)

Thaumus (m) son of Pontus (sea) and Gaia (earth). wife Electra, parents of Iris and the Harpies

Thetis (f) sea nymph or a Nereid. in early ages may have been worshiped as creator of the universe. Mother of Achilles.

Triton (m) messenger of the sea. son of Poseidon and Amphitrite, herald for his father. Merman. carries a trident, conch shell trumph to calm or raise the waves. sometimes plural, Tritones, daimones of the sea.

the Oceanids: 3,000 daughters of Oceanus and Tethys, each patroness of a particular spring, river, sea, lake, pond, pasture, flower, breeze, or cloud. there is a long list of them in Wikipedia, including:

Styx, who rushed to help Zeus against the Titans, goddess of the River Styx of the underworld, and whose name became a binding oath for the deities

Metis (f) “wisdom, skill, craft”, Titaness mother of wisdom and deep thought, trickster powers of Prometheus

the Potamoi: Oceanus and Tethys’ 3,000 sons, gods of rivers and streams. long list on Wikipedia. Includes the rivers of the underworld.

the Naiads (f plural): nymphs of fountains, wells, springs, streams, brooks, bodies of fresh water. still freshwater for naiads, moving freshwater for Oceanids (remember that the “sea” was considered a freshwater river that ran around the edge of the world), saltwater Mediterranean for the Nereids, Potamoi for rivers. the edges of these categories tend to be very vague. naiads were very ancient spirits of still waters of marshes, ponds, lagoon-lakes. Greeks believed that all the world’s waters were connected, percolating from the “sea” in deep cavernous spaces within the earth. Long list of naiads on wikipedia.

Some kinds of Naiads:

Eleionomae: marshes

Crinaeae, fountains

Limnades, lakes

Potamides, rivers

Pegaeae, springs (especially the springs that were created by the pounding of the hooves of Pegasus)

(See the rest of the series)

[ivelisseleade]

cymopoleia (Κυμοπόλεια/kymopoleia) – greek goddess of waves & storms https://ift.tt/2ZNRlrn

[ninquetolliel]

mythology moodboards: Amphitrite

Δ Αμφιτριτη, the Greek goddess-queen of the sea, the eldest of the fifty Nereides, the wife of Poseidon, mother of Triton, Rhode, Kymopoleia, Benthesikyme, and seals, dolphins, and fish, the female personification of the sea.

[holisticme-demi-kymo-blog]

The Triad Within Me

Holistic Me_Part Two: The Daughter of the Ocean God

Violence dwells in the beauty of the ocean waters, following the sense of abandonment, fear, & rejection stirring the Rage within the Waters

With the hope to seal off the me that society sees from the me that I regretfully can not hide from, I have chosen a name for this other me, the me that I will keep from my path to success. This name is Demetria Kymopoleia Selene. 

Kymopoleia: From the words of another world, Kymopoleia has a place in Percy Jackson’s Greek Godesses as the harbinger of violent storms. Deep rage boils within after being casted out by her family, a marriage built on hate, and the bitter despise of the suffocating actions of her father Poseidon in an attempt to restrict her powers. A constant need to be feared drives Kymopoleia to lure and decieve those who fall for her false pretenses of beauty; the eye of the storm before the violence and rage is released on the unsuspecting beings.The experiences and feelings that resulted due to these actions have moved me to accept the beast within myself and marking the violent, misunderstod Goddess, as the second corner of the Triad Representation of the power within myself.   

Kymopoleia & My Holistic Journey: A fueled fire lies within the rejected offspring. This fire is the spark that lights the violence within myself, aiming for vengence on those who have not felt the pain of abandonment and lonliness. The false pretense of safety and welcoming thoughts lay the trap that I have fallen for and now strive to create in defense of the pain that has resulted. The grief caused by the wrongful actions of those who are to protect you above all else, the ones who brought you into the cursed world yet aim to stomp out the light that you have within until only the smoke and ashes of torment remain.... it is uncomparable to anything else. Having experienced being locked away for becoming my own person but not the person they wanted me to become, started a rage behind my eyes and a desire to escape the cage that was holding me back from becoming the Holistic Me I aimed to be. 

*I understand that the concepts of the Goddess Kymopoleia I have portrayed is not the true representation of her, but rather my interpretation of how to accept that I am not my best self and to better my actions for the safety of those around me and those I care about most. 

Read more about Kymopoleia here:   https://riordan.fandom.com/wiki/Kymopoleia