#mefitis

[yourgodlyparent]

Mefitis: Goddess of Noxious Vapors

Mefitis kids ☣️Loners ☣️Too cool for school ☣️Super underground, niche interests ☣️Deep thinkers

(Roman God; No Greek Equivalent) Link in bio for more Mefitis info ☣️

[parafrazerofhistory]

The Poisonous Goddess

“Poisonous mephitic vapours and hot springs, which abound especially in volcanic regions, have also had their devotees… The ancients were acquainted with such noxious vapours in their own country, and they regarded the vents from which they were discharged as entrances to the infernal regions. The Greeks called them places of Pluto (Plutonia) or places of Charon (Charonia). In Italy the vapours were personified as a goddess, who bore the name of Mefitis and was worshipped in various parts of the peninsula. She had a temple in the famous valley of Amsanctus in the land of the Hirpini, where the exhalations, supposed to be the breath of Pluto himself, were of so deadly a character that all who set foot on the spot died. The place is a glen, partly wooded with chestnut trees, among limestone hills, distant about four miles from the town of Frigento. Here, under a steep shelving bank of decomposed limestone, there is a pool of dark ash-coloured water, which continually bubbles up with an explosion like distant thunder. A rapid stream of the same blackish water rushes into the pool from under the barren rocky hill, but the fall is not more than a few feet. A little higher up are apertures in the ground, through which warm blasts of sulphuretted hydrogen are constantly issuing with more or less noise, according to the size of the holes. These blasts are no doubt what the ancients deemed the breath of Pluto…. The ancient temple of Mefitis has been replaced by a shrine of the martyred Santa Felicita.

A sulfur pool (mefite) in Rocca San Felice, Italy.

(Source: Mentnafunangann, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

“Similar discharges of poisonous vapours took place at various points in the volcanic district of Caria, and were the object of superstitious veneration in antiquity. Thus at the village of Thymbria there was a sacred cave which gave out deadly emanations, and the place was deemed a sanctuary of Charon. A similar cave might be seen at the village of Acharaca near Nysa, in the valley of the Maeander. Here, below the cave, there was a fine grove with a temple dedicated to Pluto and Persephone. The place was sacred to Pluto, yet sick people resorted to it for the restoration of their health. They lived in the neighbouring village, and the priests prescribed for them according to the revelations which they received from the two deities in dreams. Often the priests would take the patients to the cave and leave them there for days without food. Sometimes the sufferers themselves were favoured with revelations in dreams, but they always acted under the spiritual direction of the priests. To all but the sick the place was unapproachable and fatal. Once a year a festival was held in the village, and then afflicted folk came in crowds to be rid of their ailments. About the hour of noon on that day a number of athletic young men, their naked bodies greased with oil, used to carry a bull up to the cave and there let it go. But the beast had not taken a few steps into the cavern before it fell to the ground and expired: so deadly was the vapour.

The Sanctuary of Pluto and Kore at Acharaca.

(Source: Izabela Miszczak, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)

“Another Plutonian sanctuary of the same sort existed at Hierapolis, in the upper valley of the Maeander, on the borders of Lydia and Phrygia. Here under a brow of the hill there was a deep cave with a narrow mouth just large enough to admit the body of a man. A square space in front of the cave was railed off, and within the railing there hung so thick a cloudy vapour that it was hardly possible to see the ground. In calm weather people could step up to the railing with safety, but to pass within it was instant death. Bulls driven into the enclosure fell to the earth and were dragged out lifeless; and sparrows, which spectators by way of experiment allowed to fly into the mist, dropped dead at once. Yet the eunuch priests of the Great Mother Goddess could enter the railed-off area with impunity; nay more, they used to go up to the very mouth of the cave, stoop, and creep into it for a certain distance, holding their breath; but there was a look on their faces as if they were being choked. Some people ascribed the immunity of the priests to the divine protection, others to the use of antidotes.”

—J. G. Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, part 1 (The Golden Bough, vol. V, 1914, pp. 203-206)

The Plutonium, or "Pluto's Gate" at Hierapolis.

(Source: Carole Raddato from FRANKFURT, Germany, CC BY-SA 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons)

[kimkimberhelen]

MEFITIS - The Untwined One

Taken from the album "The Skorian // The Greyleer" out Nov 29, 2024.

[klayzt]

Mefitis

[thatjellywalker]

These are the skunk Pokémon I'm talking about btw!

I based them off of volcanoes partially because skunk spray and volcanic gases both contain sulphur and this entire line has to do heavily with it and because of the minor Roman goddess Mefitis, which is where skunks get their scientific name from AND she was the goddess of poisonous, noxious gases from volcanic vapors and the ground itself

I haven't named them yet! Which is part of why they're a work in progress but ALSO because I'm planning a third evolution leaning more into the goddess

wait a minute

Wait no one's stopping me from making several different skunk Pokémon

Hold on I might be cooking with this

....this implies I already made one which is actually true! They're just still a work in progress

[swallowtail-ageha]

The pain when you try to find like. At least something about italic deities on tumblr but you are bombarded with riordanverse fans roleplaying posts

[haveyouheardmetal]

Pictured: Despair, released in 2019

[aroaceleovaldez]

one of my favorite concepts re: Camp Jupiter Classified is Reyna and Frank just telling the story of what happened to the rest of the Argo II crew, like "Oh yeah so there was this daughter of Mefitis who got exiled like 20 years ago cause she uncontrollably smelt bad due to her powers and nobody could stand her, and so in revenge she tried to destroy camp but we sent the newest legionnaire to go to her trailer in the literal dump (because she is homeless) to beat her up and steal back the thing she stole. yeah they left her there stuck in a net. yeah wild week."

and then its just. Nico standing behind them ominously, eye twitching, looking like he's about to try destroying Camp Jupiter himself on behalf of this rogue he's never met just purely out of "uncontrollable aura that makes people uncomfortable" solidarity

[triple-danger-withnocommonsense]

OPEN RP STARTER.

You walk into the Dyonisus cabin and see, Chase reading, Finn playing guitar, and Aiden arguing with one of his siblings.

Tags :

@braydons-world

@demigod-jack-hearth

@superbstarlightsheep

@pink-koi-lovejoy

@demigod-son-of-mefitis

@/anyone

[discover-underground-bands]

Mefitis

spotify / youtube / bandcamp

[least-favorite-hades-kid]

☣️] H-hi! I’m Monoxide.

-@demigod-son-of-mefitis

"Hello... I'm Alex."

[love-vs-sleep]

(To Jax)

☣️] Hi there, I’m Monoxide.

-@demigod-son-of-mefitis

he blinks like the poison gas?

[im-probably-sleeping-rn]

☣️] Hello there!

-@demigod-son-of-mefitis

oh! hello there!

[toxicmetalzine]

Mefitis

MEFITIS – Announce New Album “The Skorian // The Greyleer” Get the album details right here: https://toxicmetalzine.com/post/mefitis-a

[belltaleheart]

I’m reading through the Riordanverse wiki rn and I love Mimi sm. She’s only mentioned in Camp Jupiter Classified: A Probatio's Journal but I’m obsessed with her. She’s the daughter of Mefitis, goddess of foul odors, lives in a landfill, got kicked out of camp Jupiter for smelling too bad, and tried to get them back for this back like 2 decades later only to be defeated by a 12 year old.