#mythtober2024

[firinnie]

MYTH-TOBER 2024 17. Persephone Persephone is one of my favorite goddesses because we have few sources about her but on the other she is very well known and you can infer a lot about her. For me she is a very sassy queen who when she wants to can be scarier than death. Tho, she has a warm heart and absolutely will not resist sighing for true love. In general I could not find her canonical sacred animal, I saw entries that it was a deer, a bat or a rooster but nothing is certain. On the one hand I liked the symbolism of the bat - sooo she get fangs. I think they fit her. On the other hand due to the fact that she is very well known for being the daughter of Demeter I gave her pig ears, the same as her mother had. And the color of pomegranate, of course. Other than her abduction, her known myths include the one with Adonis (bleh) and the one where she gets pregnant by force from Zeus and gives birth to Zagreus (BLEH). Warmer myths include when she supposedly played with the nymph Hercyna who had a goose, the goose ran away to a cave and hid under a rock, and when Persephone picked it up, a river leaked out of it, which was named after the nymph - Hercyna. There's also a really cool myth about how she deals with Hades' howling lover, Minthe, and turns her into a mint bush. Persephone doesn't have a chill about her relationship. I also drew asphodel flowers on her clothes because they represented the underworld, death, and mourning. She also has some wheat here in honor of her former self, Kore. Inctober by @/arkhaos.art (on ig)

[firinnie]

MYTH-TOBER 2024 16. Hades I gave it the brown color because it's on Pluto, the planet it represents! Also, I read that besides the obvious snake, dog, and owl (woooo?) there's a black ram. I absolutely love that! Hedes, absolutely wronged by any modern media. It's really hard to find a true representation of him because a lot of people think that the Underworld is like Hell so he must be evil. And he's not at all, he's a really chill dude who loves his dog, keeps the place he rules tidy and surprisingly has one of the healthiest relationships in all of Greek mythology. Yes, in most versions he kidnaps Perseofne but it was with her father's consent and most marriages of those times started that way. He treated her well and she loved him. The origin of his name is unclear and in general older texts often treat it as "You Know Who" typo of thing. People were afraid that writing or saying "Hades" could bring death to them, so it's sometimes hard to find out if it's something really about him. Besides, his name probably means "unseen", which is interesting because one of his attributes is a helmet that provided invisibility. Another interesting thing, did you know that Hades rules the Underworld because he drew lots? He, Poseidon, and Zeus drew lots to decide and it wouldn't surprise you if I said I saw sources that said Zeus cheated, right? So... I just like a guy, the end. Inctober by @/arkhaos.art (on ig)

[firinnie]

MYTH-TOBER 2024 15. Demeter Demeter is definitely a better topic for me than Poseidon. Her name literally means "mother earth" and that's basically what she is. It's up to her to grow crops and she influences the seasons, which depend on whether she has her daughter - Persephone (born of Zeus) with her on not. Of her better known children, she also had Arion and Despoina from a forced intimacy with Poseidon (hate that guy tho), and Plutus, the god of wealth, with Iasion. This guy was killed by Zeus out of jealousy, after he and Demeter had sex during the wedding of Harmonia, Zeus' granddaughter. Demeter's sacred animal is a pig, that's why I gave her those ears. I've also seen versions with serpent, turtledove, crane or my fav gecko. I really like this one because not only is it very original, but there is actually a myth in which Demeter turns a boy named Ascalabus into this animal when he laughed at her. That's why I gave her these marks on her body. Inctober by @/arkhaos.art (on ig)

[firinnie]

MYTH-TOBER 2024 15. Poseidon

So Poseidon is equal to Zeus in being horrible, he generally has a lot of stories involving women who don't want him but he doesn't understand the word no, although his participation in the Iliad is very interesting to me. On the one hand he has a constant argument with Athena (the cursed olive tree) and on the other hand he took the same side as her in the Battle of Troy. So if they want they can actually get their act together, wow. His sacred animal is a horse because according to myths he gave people the first animal of this type, and a dolphin. Why? Because he seduced his wife with the help of a talking dolphin (and for that he was supposed to create the dolphin constellation!). So... does anyone even know anything about Poseidon's wife? Everyone knows Persephone and Here but Amphitrite is rather on the dark side. Good for her tho?

I think his appearance will change over time, he looks like Vaporeon lol.

Inctober by @/arkhaos.art (on ig)