#myths and secrets

[officialurban]

The Women's Encyclopedia of Myths & Secrets - Barbara G. Walker

Table of Contents

Table of Contents organized with links to the various sections and a download link for the full PDF

[shushmal]

Happy turkey day to those that celebrate, I’m thinking about Steve who has absent, borderline neglectful parents but THAT’S ACTUALLY OKAY it’s actually perfect on holidays because Steve’s pretty extroverted and probably has a large group of friends extending from close to “we’re on the same basketball team and Steve will high five your face if you don’t get your hand up fast enough”

so really all he’s gotta do it bat those puppy eyes at some unsuspecting mom and BAM invited to holiday dinner. He probably does rounds, and thankfully he has teenage boy metabolism because he probably manages to fit 7 different moms’ dinner in in one day

And sure, after he graduates he’s not sure if it’s good manners to show up at old teammates’ doorsteps. BUT THEN Mrs. Henderson looks at him mid-November and totally claims him for the day where she’s hosting her brother’s family too. Except Dustin brags to Lucas and Lucas gets jealous so Steve then also has to show up at the Sinclair’s in the evening. Max is already there so Steve drives her home that night with leftovers. (Mike is very secretly butthurt about all of this and is really nasty to Nancy the weeks of thanksgiving and Christmas.)

(Robin’s family doesn’t DO thanksgiving but instead goes camping for the week. Robin hates this, and they wouldn’t let Steve join them even though he had his own tent so she hates it MORE. She tries to mutiny but her mom gives her these sad teary eyes and cries about Robin growing up too fast and robin’s fate is sealed. She and Steve instead have their own tradition of movies and junk food the weekend after, so Robin gets reintroduced real food again. So while Buckley’s aren’t on the thanksgiving rotation, Robin gets special Christmas privileges and Steve stays over on Christmas Eve.)

So by the time Eddie is in the picture, Steve already has standing expectations for his presence that’s not just a drive-by plate cleaning, and he’s kinda sad, he and Wayne don’t usually do much and Wayne has to work usually. But actually how dare he be sad, because Steve’s like “🤨 you’re coming too, stupid” and he Eddie and max go to each house like trick or treaters but for turkey.

Then Steve gets close with Eddie’s friends and they have to start splitting holidays like children of divorce.

One time Steve gets it in his head to hold friends giving the week before. He never does it again.

[shisasan]

Alluring Darkness by Aikurisu

[licenseplatenerd]

i actually love the idea of joel as orpheus and lizzie as eurydice. grian is hades which DOES make scar persephone.

cleo is demeter, and etho is the absent father/manwhore zeus

scar was teamed (take the definition loosely) with grian out of like 3/6 of the different life series ! that half of the series does indeed sound oddly close to hades getting persephone for half of the year ! right after persephone got abducted by hades, she was very much upset, just like scar after getting blown up by grians prank/creeper !!!

demeter is the goddess of fertility and agriculture and such but then decided to make the earth cold and dead and not fertile when her [son] was taken from her !! zombiecleo is cold and dead dare i say ! she is wrathful !

etho being zeus is because he was an absent father !! broseph was teaming up with everybody in wild life and became a father again ! everybody‘s obsessed with etho because he is the king of the gods !!!!!!

i also feel like scott would be poseidon because of mean gills but i dont know scotts lore all that well so correct me on his godliness i beg of you

[enthusiasmize]

I FINALLY FINISHED IT!!!

[rafayelsbelovedbride]

He's insane by the way 😇

[my-name-is-apollo]

Why is Hera so hostile to Leto in a manner that she isn't with the other lovers of Zeus? I can't think of any other woman who was targeted so much by Hera. One could say she didn't want Leto to give birth because her children would be a competition to Hera's children, but why bother her even after she had already given birth? Is it because Leto herself is also a threat to Hera?

Sort of I guess?

I don't think Leto would ever be a threat to Hera's role as the queen of the gods but Hera might see her as a competitor for Zeus' affection, even though I think Zeus would not marry someone else and replace Hera.

The twins are definitely a big reason why Hera begrudged Leto - it is outright stated in the Callimachus Hymn to Delos that the reason Hera especially targeted Leto was because she was told that Apollo would be dearer to Zeus than Ares is. Zeus is very proud of Artemis as well. As he himself puts it, he doesn't mind facing Hera's wrath for children like her.

But the continued hatred even after the birth of the twins (like sending Tityus to rape Leto) could have been for different reasons. This wasn't like one of those affairs Zeus would have with mortal women where he'd leave them behind once the child is conceived. Neither could Hera, despite her many attempts, get rid of Leto like she did with the other lovers. Not only did Leto give Zeus children that he loves dearly, she also stayed on Olympus despite Hera's hatred towards her (which isn't directed to any of Zeus' other divine mistresses, btw). It might have also been because Leto herself is dear to Zeus, if the way she's treated on Olympus is any proof. In the Homeric hymn to Apollo, Leto stands next to Zeus - in the Olympian assembly - to welcome their son. Hera is completely absent from the scene, as if Leto had taken her place even if temporarily. Now you could say this is because Apollo himself is such a powerful and glorious son in a way that no other son of Zeus is, so of course Leto would get such an honor (the hymn itself presents it this way).

But here's another instance - in the Iliad, when Hera goes to seduce Zeus, he is obviously very smitten but before getting into the action, he lists some of his lovers (I believe these were his favorite lovers, as a lot of others are not mentioned):

"for never has such desire for goddess or mortal woman so gripped and overwhelmed my heart, not even when I was seized by love for Ixion’s wife, who gave birth to Peirithous the gods’ rival in wisdom; or for Acrisius’ daughter, slim-ankled Danaë, who bore Perseus, greatest of warriors; or for the far-famed daughter of Phoenix, who gave me Minos and godlike Rhadamanthus; or for Semele mother of Dionysus, who brings men joy; or for Alcmene at Thebes, whose son was lion-hearted Heracles; or for Demeter of the lovely tresses; or for glorious Leto; or even for you yourself, as this love and sweet desire for you grips me now.’ (Book 14, trans. A. T. Murray)

Notice how when talking about most of them, he also mentions the children they bore to him but when Demeter and Leto are mentioned, he doesn't bring up their children at all despite them being some of the most accomplished kids of his. What's more, he takes Leto's name just before Hera's. I mean, this is an interpretation but it looks like not only did Zeus love Leto the most out of all his mistresses - giving her a place second to that of his wife, but also his love for her wasn't necessarily only because she gave him two amazing children.

Nonnus does something similar in the Dionysiaca (but this time Zeus is enamored with Persephone instead of Hera) but more notably, when Typhoeus attacks Olympus and Zeus is discouraged, Nike takes the form of Leto to encourage him and it's pretty telling of what Leto meant to Zeus.

One interesting similarity between Hera and Leto is that they both had a giant try to rape them. Porphyrion tried to violate Hera (Zeus inspired him to do this) and Tityus tried to violate Leto (upon Hera's order). Though both of them were killed, only Tityus got an eternal punishment in Tartarus of having his liver/heart eaten out by vultures so Zeus seems to have taken a greater offense at Tityus trying to assault Leto.

Again, I don't think Zeus would ever take anyone other than Hera as his permanent wife - she is irreplaceable to him. There's an entire myth about Hera leaving him and Zeus winning her back. Their relationship is obviously complex and involves all kinds of emotions including love and hate. But Leto is continually dear to him as well and that's something Hera can't do much about.

[lucilassie]

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[amicus-noctis]

“Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life.” ― Franz Kafka

[ao3-anonymous]

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[bluelizze]

“Could this be… love?”

But make it between my MC and Rafayel

[gingermintpepper]

Someday, eventually, I will get an opportunity to talk about Celtic Apollo.

I see a lot of discussions and content (light-hearted and not) talking about Greek Apollo and Roman Apollo but y'all don't understand; it wasn't just that Greek Apollo had a second Roman Apollo hidden in his pocket, it's that Greek Apollo also has a secret third Celtic Apollo hidden behind his back like a tramp stamp he got in college and refuses to acknowledge or show to anyone.

[rainstormess]

Rex tries to communicate with Zach, and Ben is helping his lost child (bros)

In Rex's mind: Zach has such a beautiful hairstyle, I want to touch his hair... (He screams inside himself) I wish I had your fucking confidence. (Doesn't really listen to Ben)

Ben (Relationship guru in Rex's eyes) Just get Zack's number, ask him out on a date, give him a compliment (Generally insecure when it comes to confessing love, but gives advice)

[miroana]

Torn between being:

- rather upset that the Secret History is viral and therefore not written for solely me to think about and base my personality on, and

- extremely delighted at how enraged the greek class would be upon learning that their gorgeously aesthetic classical tragedy (which depicts how their lives were marred by hubris, illusion, and excess, inevitably leading them down a path to madness and death) has become mainstream

[licenseplatenerd]

guys guys guys what if joel smallishbeans is actually orpheus.

lizzie would be eurydice obviously, and in the myth she gets bitten by a snake and gets dragged into the underworld

the void IS the underworld (sorta) and guess what ! in secret life lizzie‘s final death is by falling into the void

grian would be adjacent to hades, being a watcher and all, and able to make the deals with the life series winners/players

joel was able to make a deal with the watchers so that if he won the next series (wild life) he’d get his wife back from the underworld

still in wild life, grian took lizzies final life. grian and joel were the last two left and joel killed him ! completing the deal and getting to go rescue his wife from the void (VIA HIS CELESTIAL CAR.)

joels lyre would be like his drums irl or his music discs from hermitcraft that hes so obsessed with

this might not sound fully worked out (its not) but i think it works enough

[eirikrjs]

Spoilers for Vengeance (Canon of Vengeance)

Barbara Walker returns...

Actual end-game spoilers below:

This scenario seems like a Strange Journey 2 in the sense that it was ripped from the pages of the Woman's Encyclopedia.

Pointed out by @hmoneytuts