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[celestialdnagenome]

The Sumerians: Cradle of Civilization and The Gods

Explore the fascinating world of the Sumerians, who thrived in Mesopotamia. Delve into their significant birth of writing, mathematics, and astronomy, and how these innovations laid the groundwork for future civilizations.

Learn about cuneiform, one of the earliest writing systems, and the crucial role of scribes in recording stories and knowledge. Discover the rise of city-states, their unique architectural achievements like ziggurats, and the rich pantheon of gods and goddesses.

Dive into Sumerian myths, including the Eridu Genesis the oldest creation and flood myth in existence, revealing their intricate beliefs about life, death, and the cosmos.

[hellenismosonline]

Greek Creation Myth According to Hesiod's Theogony, Works and Days: Theognis, Elegies

The Rule of Zeus

Now Zeus, king of the gods, first took to wife

Metis, wisest of all, of gods and men.

But when she was about to bear her child

Grey-eyed Athene, he deceived her mind

With clever words and guile, and thrust her down

Into his belly, as he was advised

By Earth and starry Heaven. In that way

They said, no other god than Zeus would get

The royal power over all the gods

Who live forever. For her fate would be

To bear outstanding children, greatly wise,

First, a girl, Tritogeneia, the grey-eyed,

Equal in spirit and intelligence

To Zeus her father; then she would bear a son

With a haughty heart, a king of gods and men

But Zeus, forestalling danger, put her down

Into his belly, so that the goddess could

Counsel him in both good and evil plans.

And shining Themis was his second wife.

She bore the Horae: Order, blooming Peace,

And Justice, who attend the worlds of men,

And then the Fates, to whom wise Zeus has paid

The greatest honor: Clotho, Atropos

Lachesis, who give men all good and bad.

To daughter of Ocean, fair Eurynome,

Next bore to him three daughters, the fair-cheeked

Graces Aglaia and Euphrosyne,

And lovely Thalia. From their glancing eyes

Flowed love that melts the strength of a man's limbs,

Their gaze, beneath their brows, is beautiful.

Demeter, who feeds all, came to the bed

Of Zeus, and bore white-armed Persephone,

Whom Aidoneus stole away from her,

But Zeus the counseler approved the math.

Again, he loved fair-haired Mnemosyne,

Who bore the Muses, golden crowned, the Nine,

Whose pleasure is in feasting and sweet song.

And Leto joined in love with Zeus who holds

The aegis, and the offspring which she bore

Were lovelier than all the sons of Heaven:

Apollo and the huntress Artemis.

Last he took blooming Hera for his wife;

Uniting with the king of gods and men,

She gave him Hebe and Ares, and she bore

The goddess Eileithuia to her mate.

By Zeus himself produced, from his own head,

Grey-eyed Athene, fearsome queen who brings

The noise of war and, tireless, leads the host,

She who loves shouts and battling and fights.

Then Hera, angry, quarreled with her mate

And bore, without the act of love, a son

Hephaistos, famous for his workmanship

More skilled in crafts than all the sons of Heaven.

Amphitrite and He Who Shakes the Earth,

The crashing god, produced a mighty son,

Wide-ruling Triton, he who holds the deep,

A fearsome god, who lives in a golden house

Beside his mother and the lord

His father. And to Ares, who pierces shields,

Cytherea bore Terror and Fear, dread gods

Who come with Ares, sacker of towns, and spread

Confusion in the close-packed ranks of men

In numbing war; then Cytherea bore

Harmonia, bold-hearted Cadmus' wife.

And Maia, daughter of Atlas, came to Zeus

And to his holy bed, and bore to him

Glorious Hermes, herald of the gods.

Semele, Cadmus' daughter, lay with Zeus

And bore to him a brilliant son, a god

Glad Dionysus, mortal though she was,

And now they both have joined the ranks of gods.

Alcmene, lying in love with Zeus, who drives

The clouds, gave birth to Heracles the strong.

The famous limping god, Hephaistos, made

Aglaia, youngest Grace, his blooming wife.

And golden Dionysus took to wife

The fair-haired Ariadne, Minos' child:

The son of Kronos saved her from death and age.

And then strong Heracles, the glorious son

Of trim-ankled Alcmene, at the end

Of all his painful labors, made his bride

Hebe, the modest child of mighty Zeus

And golden-slippered Hera, on snow-clad

Olympus. Happy god! For he has done

His great work and he lives among the gods

Forever young, forever free from pain.

And now, farewell, Olympians, and you

Islands and continents and salty sea.

[lucacangettathisass]

wip introduction: where the sun don’t set

genre: mystery, historical fiction, romance

status: plotting

pov: first person (jack a.k.a. the nosy journalist)

synopsis:

after making a name for himself back in atlanta, jack decides to try and make his bones up in new york city as a serious investigative journalist. but with each attempt leading to another locked door, jack decides to try his luck out on the streets, which takes him to bacchae, a popular night club, and it’s star attraction, valentina gomez, who in turn leads him to what could possibly be a career defining story. but will it be worth publishing?

excerpt:

“you want a story tiger?” valentina’s voice is a husky purr, low enough that i have to lean in to hear her better, which was probably her objective.

“you got one?”

she smiled, but her eyes were still empty glasses. “girls are turning up dead, at least once a week.”

it took me a few moments for me to realize what she had said. “what?”

she blinked, slow and languid, giving me the same look martha gives me when she’s waiting for me to feed her. “there was another one last night.” her eyes trailed over me, an assessment of sorts. “twenty eight girls in the last three months alone.”

“have you told the cops?”

this time, her smile does reach her eyes. but it’s a harsh smile, sardonic and cynical, the dark smile of a pessimist, and i almost flinched. “i did. but since when do cops care about sex workers?”

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[hellenismosonline]

Greek Creation Myth According to Hesiod's Theogony, Works and Days: Theognis, Elegies

Kronos and Rhea

And Rhea, beingn forced by Kronos, bore

Most brillient offfspring to him: Hestia,

Demeter, golden-slippered Hera, strong

Hades, who has his home beneath the earth,

The god whose heart is pitiless, and him

Who crashes loudly and who shakes the earth,

And thoughtful Zeus, father of gods and men,

Whose thunder makes the wide earth tremble. Then,

As each child issued from the holy womb

And lay upon its mother's knees, each one

Was seized by mighty Kronos, and gulped down.

He had in mind that no proud son of Heaven

Should hold the royal rank among the gods

Except himself. For he had learned from Earth

And starry Heaven, that his destiny

Was to be overcome, great though he was,

By one of his own sons, and through the plans

Of mighty Zeus. Therefore he never dropped

His guard, but lay in wait, and swallowed down

His children. Rhea suffered endless grief;

But when she was about to bring forth Zeus,

Father of gods and men, she begged the Earth

And starry Heaven, her parents, to devise

A plan to hide the birth of her dear son

And bring the Fury down on Kronos, for

His treatment of his father and his sons

Whom mighty, crooked Kronos swallowed down.

They heard their daughter and agreed, and told

Her all that fate would bring upon the king

Kronos, and to his mighty-hearted son.

They sent her to the fertile land of Crete,

To Lyctus, when she was about to bear

Her youngest child, great Zeus. And in broad Crete

Vast Earth received the child from her, to raise

And cherish. And she carried him, with speed,

Through the black night, and came to Lyctus first.

She took him in her arms and hid him, deep

Under the holy earth, in a vast cave,

On thickly-wooded Mount Aegeum. Then,

To the great lord, the son of Heaven, the past

King of all gods, she handed, solemnly,

All wrapped in swaddling-clothes, a giant stone.

He seized it in his hands and thrust it down

Into his belly, fool! He did not know

His son, no stone, was left behind, unhurt

And undefeated, who would conquer him

With violence and force, and drive him out

From all his honors, and would rule the gods.

The strength and glorious limbs of the young lord

Grew quickly and the years went by, and Earth

Entrapped great clever Kronos with shrewd words

Advising him to bring his offspring back

(His son, by craft and power, conquered him.)

And first he vomited the stone, which he

Had swallowed last. At holy Pytho, Zeus

Set firm the stone in broad-pathed earth, beneath

Parnassus, in a cleft, to be a sign

In future days, for men to marvel at.

He freed his uncles from their dreadful bonds,

The sons of Heaven; his father, foolishly,

Had bound them. They remembered gratitude

And gave him thunder and the blazing bolt

And lightning, which, before, vast Earth had hid.

Trusting in them, he rules both men and gods.

[lucacangettathisass]

femme fatale, noun

an attractive and seductive woman, esp. one who will ultimately bring disaster to a man who becomes involved with her

synonyms: seductress, temptress, siren, enchantress

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