#myhologies

[alaingiorgetti]

ASSIA

Le soleil n’est pas toujours à sa place. S’amenuisant vers ses extrêmes, il courbe le ciel en forme d’arc primitif et sauvage. Chaque jour passe au travers des corps à la manière d’une flèche, plus ou moins ralentie. Mais seule, la femme de Pharaon subit les traits de deux soleils à la fois, qui ne peut défaire les plis d’une âme inquiète qu’au gré de crépuscules ardents. C’est lorsque Nout, fille de l’air, de la terre et du ciel couvre son ventre nu d’un vacillant espoir, qu’en lieu et place du feu dominateur, par milliers, semblantes aux flammes des torches imbibées de naphte s’installent de minuscules feux. Là, dans le refuge troué de la nuit et de ses yeux débarrassés du parfum lourd des khôls, Assia aux longues tresses défait moralement les troubles de sa royale demeure, hypallage meurtri d’un empire et d’un peuple abaissés. Elle se laisse alors envahir par les eaux de la rêverie secrète et de l’admiration nouvelle. Enfant poisson, enfant crocodile, enfant rejeté par le Nil et véritable don d’Isis comme d’Osiris, elle sait déjà que le nom de Moïse est à lui seul miracle. Les pensées secrètes de l’épouse de Ramsès sont comme des ombres inchâtiées par le soleil, et, lorsqu’aux premières vapeurs de l’aube toute chargée des effluves, des sons et des insectes du Nil, les anges du Dieu unique la quittent enfin, ce n’est pas sans lui offrir la protection d'ailes fraîches et suspendues, à l’ombre desquelles elle pourra respirer jusqu’au soir. La foi rentrée de la reine la fertilise toute entière d’une boue sanguine et sacrée, dont elle façonne patiemment des murs intimes. Abris de fortune, maison intérieure ou palais en paradis, mais un espace inviolable, pour toujours sauvé de son sinistre époux. De ses erreurs, ses injustices et sa couronne désormais faussée.

[bestiarium]

The Eskudáit [Penobscot mythology; Native American mythology]

Will-of-the-wisps, also called swamp lights or ignis fatuus, are small, fast-moving flames that are sometimes seen in swamps. They are magical to behold, so it’s understandable that many civilizations from around the world assumed them to be supernatural creatures. Sometimes they are portrayed as floating lanterns, spirits holding a lantern (like in the first image), sentient balls of fire (as in the second image) or similar interpretations.

If I understand the phenomenon correctly, they are caused by the biological degradation of decaying organic matter. Gases are released that ignite when coming into contact with air, causing sparks. And if those sparks happen to hit a pocket of flammable swamp gas, you get a flame that ‘dances’ in the air for a while before disappearing.

To the Penobscot people of North America, these lights were thought to be the Eskudáit: enigmatic fire spirits. These beings are unwelcome because their appearance always heralds some bad event: if the Eskudáit is sighted floating over a home, that means someone in that household will die in the near future. If the spirit flies in a certain direction, some kind of disaster will happen soon in that location. It is possible to see the floating flame ‘burst’.

It is actually uncertain whether the belief in the Eskudáit might have arisen from will-o’-the-wisps or comets in the night sky, or perhaps something else entirely.

Source: Speck, F. G., 1935, Penobscot Tales and Religious Beliefs, The Journal of American Folklore, 48(187), pp1-107. (image source 1: Brittany Maugeri on Artstation. Image depicts a will-o’-the-wisp, the full version is animated) (image source 2: Hela_unruly on Artstation, image depicts a will-o’-the-wisp.)

[spinooc]

Portrait of a Demon 🐊

[daisy-mooon]

Whumptober Day 19 - Floral bouquet

Art of a cold sun looking at hyacinths, inspired by Apollo and Hyacinthus :)

[caracello]

deimos and ulysses . the guys-named-after-guys-named-after-mythology brothers.

[tzortz-clooney]

Θα σας πω μία ιστορία, που μου 'ρθε στο μυαλό..

[thanatoseyes]

I got super obsessed with 16th century French clergy a couple days ago so I went to the library checked out like 12 books and spent hours reading.

[bunnymellow-art]

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[darlingofthemoon]

hello, void

I just discovered an app that teaches you how to use old germanic runes (by painting one on your wrist each morning and removing it at night) , and I've always been obsessed™ with mythology and magic so I decided to give it a go. (Besides, anything to make me more excited to wake up in the morning and fuel me through the day, even just by granting me a means of gratifying my craving for romance and glamour, is welcome. And it's not like I need to hang upside down from Yggdrasil like Odin for 9 days straight to gain this power either)

Therefore, I will document my journey here, because ~ over-sharing ~ is my generation's lifestyle ✨

[myth-corner]

Ohhh my gods yesssss it does fit I love itt

guess what i found the PERFECT Python & Apollo song

IT FITS SO WELL

also Leto's sacred animal (& the twins') is a WOLF, so it makes even more SENSE (in a Python taunting Apollo way, of course hehe)

[avelera]

Some missed opportunities for Norse Mythology references in the Loki S2 Finale

I want to quickly preface this by saying the Loki show never claimed to be about or even incorporate more than passing nods to Norse mythology, so the following "missed opportunities" are more things that I think could have been cool and were perhaps within reach as references, but that even at my most wildly optimistic I didn't and still don't really expect because the show has been so very clear on this front. It's not fair to say these are flaws because the show never pretended to be about Norse mythology. NEVERTHELESS, because I'm a big nerd:

1) Ragnarok - All respect to Waititi and Thor III, it was a great interpretation of the myth, but I've always longed for something a little closer to the doom and mysticism of the mythology and the Loki S2 finale came tantalizingly close to invoking it, but fell short of actually using the word. Because Ragnarok isn't just about the fall of the gods, it's about the destruction and rebirth of the world. "After [the events of Ragnarok], the world will rise again, cleansed and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors." 

Gee does that sound familiar! Almost like destroying all of the timelines to create them anew! Almost like that's what Sylvie was invoking by telling him it's better to accept destruction rather than accept imprisonment, and to build something new out of the ashes.

That's Ragnarok. That's literally Ragnarok and they invoked it in so many ways there short of actually using the damn word.

Loki, the god destined to bring about Ragnarok, proceeding to directly bring down the current timeline by destroying and then renewing it with a male and female survivor to help rebuild (visualized with Mobius and Sylvie's little chat at the end, even if it's the TVA they helped rebuild not the human population) sure does sound astonishingly close to invoking the story of Ragnarok.

And even though I'm bummed they never called it Ragnarok, I completely understand why! Ragnarok has kinda already happened in the MCU (never mind that Ragnarok itself is cyclical and will come again, but I digress)! I'd even go so far as to guess that earlier drafts probably did make it clearer but the thread, except for its bones and outline, were abandoned or left unnamed explicitly because it would be confusing for those not familiar with the myth or who would conflate Ragnarok with its Thor III invocation. Alas.

2) Loki bound - Already sort of invoked in Thor II with Loki imprisoned, which is why I don't think any more overt reference was made, but Loki was rather famously bound up in mythology. In this case, in a cave with a snake's poison dripping into his mouth. Not saying Loki bound to his throne of time needed to be conflated with how he was imprisoned until Ragnarok in the myhology, but the imprisonment parallel is there.

3) Loki becomes the new Odin, sacrificed upon Yggrasil - "The generally accepted meaning of Old Norse Yggdrasill is "Odin's horse", meaning "gallows". This interpretation comes about because drasill means "horse" and Ygg(r) is one of Odin's many names. The Poetic Edda poem Hávamál describes how Odin sacrificed himself by hanging from a tree, making this tree Odin's gallows. This tree may have been Yggdrasil." (source)

IE, Loki has sacrificed himself upon the world tree for power and knowledge and for the sake of the world. In this, unlike in the mythology where Loki is not Odin's son, Loki ascends to a parallel of his father's throne to follow in his legacy, having finally learned his father's lessons about rulership and self-sacrifice. Perhaps like the mythological Odin, we will learn that in making this self-sacrifice, Loki too has gained phenomenal knowledge and power?

4) Ratatoskr - This is more foward-looking and I don't in a million years think they'll do it but it would be so cool - so cool - if at some later point Loki has a friend or a servant or a squirrel form or idk, something that invokes Ratatoskr, the squirrel that lives in the World Tree and freely travels up and down its branches delivering messages. Please, MCU, give Loki a little squirrel friend??

[longeth-dayv]

greek roach or sumthin

cause age of myhology is good c:

[orloffel]

The next overwatch skin inspired by Norse Myhology. This one is Jörð, the earth godess and mother of Thor. Really pumped I managed to finish another skin but my wrists are flaring up again so I am in quite a bit of pain right now :(

[iiroiiros]

F/GO verse (zhongli)

with all the sources that the master of chaldea can summon from, it's no surprise that one from the land of a fictional story is available to them. the character of "zhongli" from teyvatian myhology is summonable in two forms: a lancer self, which is that of the modern man, zhongli, and a ruler self, himself as the god of commerce, earth, and war, morax.

(artist credit x | x)

for zhongli, he is the more defense and support focused of the two, while morax is much more attack based but still with a significant bulk. the lancer's noble phantasm is planet befall, summoning a massive meteor to rain down upon foes. while his ruler self's noble phantasm is creation of guyun, instead making use of the massive stone spears he'd once created the eponymous rock formation from.

[dizzy-doormouse]

Man, their NO list is fucking hilarious and a great rec list. Most of these are optional. As in YOU HAVE THE OPTION. More options in games are actually great. If there aren't any gay OPTIONS for the player, especially in an RPG, you've lost something along the way. Mind-boggling.

There's so much here, I can't pick the most insane ones. And they disabled copying. Yikes.

SKYRIM: (...) wether the sight of a strong Nord woman offends you. - seems to me like it really does.

HADES: Dusa is asexual. Gay relationships. - imagine not liking Dusa. Also, they are in the fucking Greek Underworld. Having read some of the myhology, gay relationships are the last thing I'd pick to worry about.

FALLOUT NEW VEGAS: Truly a cult classic, an (imperfect, don't you start) example of making an RPG. But, apparently, Veronica scary.

DARK SOULS: That's where you draw the line? At Gwendolin? No other thing in that game bothered you? Also, gender swap coffin scary.

STICKY BUSINESS: Not selling pride stickers is lunacy.

PYRE: Fireballsket is fine, pronouns are not.

And so on. I'd be here all day. Games should be fun first, vehicles for WHATEVER message second. I mean, there are terrible games on that list, but the ones made so by WokeTM are scarce indeed.

EDIT: There are porn games on there. I've nothing against that, but considering some acts you can perform in these titles, drawing the line at WOKE is bonkers.

[romanticallyghosting]

Rose, cherry blossom, carnation, anemone.

Id ask heather but I know the answer :33

fair enough GHGFHJNBVF

rose - describe your crush.

@villainsally/hj

ok but my irl crush(ish, i think i have a crush on them but idk): a bookworm, wears stupid blue + purple sparkly glasses, horrible at basketball, and funny!!

cherry-blossom - do you believe in love at first sight?

id say so!! i think that its rare and not always something you should immediately act upon, but yeah. why not

carnation - does true love exist?

id like to think so. it would make life a whole lot simpler. but idk. i think in reality relationships are so complex and have layers, so even if it does, i think that its different than maybe we expect

anemone - were you ever interested in greek mythology?

OMG I LOVE GREEK MYHOLOGY!! i wish i knew more about it but i think its super neat! it feeds into my hadestown engoyment tbh. btw one of my favorite greek goddesses is artemis :) she is so fun