Awash with hopes

find us in your heart, in your mind, and in the very air you breathe

[lucane]

‘the sea calms my restless soul’

percy jackson + soft vibes   (x)

[taitalagi]

six locations [1-2/6]  the camps // percy jackson and the olympians & heroes of olympus

insp

[meiselr]

Favourite Quotes - Greek Gods & Goddesses of the Pantheon

poems (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

[breakbleheavens]

ya lit meme - 2/9 quotes

Percy was eating a huge stack of blue pancakes (what was his deal with blue food?) while Annabeth chided him for pouring on too much syrup.  “You’re drowning them!” she complained.  “Hey, I’m a Poseidon kid,” he said. “I can’t drown. And neither can my pancakes.” 

- Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

[meiselr]

The Twelve Olympians + Calendar

[ghafa]

ya lit meme 10 series/books (8/10)

heroes of olympus

                         Seven half-bloods shall answer the call,                            To storm or fire, the world must fall,                            An oath to keep with a final breath,                      And foes bear arms to the Doors of Death

[mavenbarrow-deactivated20230220]

 Modern Mythology: Grim Reaper

The Grim Reaper is the personification of Death and is a common figure across many cultures. In some cases, the Grim Reaper is said to have caused the death of it’s victim to collect their soul. Her arrival is unexpected and, most often, unwanted, like a thunderstorm. She wears misfortune on her sleeve and walks with a skip in her step. Sometimes on colder days she buries herself in her cloak and lets the thick, black fabric drag behind her on the ground in the dirt, in the rain, in the snow. On slow days it saddens her that the humans cannot see her and she sits in on their conversations and sneaks into movie theaters. Very soon her sense of loneliness turns to boredom and she regrets ever having sat down in the first place. Clumsy as she is, she misplaces her scythe and spends hours retracing her steps until she finds it. It’s too heavy a thing for her fragile arms and she’d prefer not to have it at all. The sound is grating as she carves deep gashes into the concrete behind her.

[scarehoe-blog]

ANUBIS (/əˈnuːbᵻs/ or /əˈnjuːbᵻs/ )  ;  is the Egyptian God associated with mummification.  Though once the foremost god of the underworld, over time he became specifically tasked with the process of embalming and funeral rites.  Being the adoptive son of Osiris, it is he who preforms the act of the weighing of the heart upon one’s entrance into the land of the dead, and thus determining the fate of the deceased.  One of Anubis’s most notable tasks was the guiding of souls into the afterlife, and in this the abandoning of those deemed guilty to Ammit.  His name is derived from the same root as the word for “royal child”, though it can also be determined to be closely related to the term for  “ to  d e c a y .” 

[ghafa]

ya lit meme 7 friendships (4/7)

the lost hero trio

“I can’t,” Piper said. “You can’t ask me—”

“To betray that foolish boy Valdez, who always irritated you and is now hiding secrets from you? To give up a boyfriend you never really had? Is that more important than your own father?”

“I’ll find a way to defeat you,” Piper said. “I’ll save my father and my friends.”

[taitalagi]

diverse lit: [5/7] characters of colour // hazel levesque, heroes of olympus

Hazel screamed at the top of her lungs, but it was a scream of delight. For the first time in her life - in her two lives - she felt absolutely unstoppable.

[ofinfinitum]

Greek Mythology - Selene

“The Titan goddess of the moon. She was depicted as a woman either riding side saddle on a horse or in a chariot drawn by a pair of winged steeds. Her lunar sphere or crescent was represented as either a crown set upon her head or as the fold of a raised, shining cloak. Sometimes she was said to drive a team of oxen and her lunar crescent was likened to the horns of a bull. Selene’s great love was the shepherd prince Endymion. The beautiful boy was granted eternal youth and immortality by Zeus and placed in a state of eternal slumber in a cave near the peak of Lydian Mount Latmos. There his heavenly bride descended to consort with him in the night.A number of other goddesses were also associated with the moon, however, only Selene was represented by the old Greek poets represented as the moon incarnate.”

[bruceswaynes]

Myths: Werewolves - “The legend of the werewolf is one of the most ancient and wide spread. Stories of werewolves can be found as far back as history has been written. Lycaon, in Greek mythology, a legendary king of Arcadia. Traditionally, he was an impious and cruel king who tried to trick Zeus, the king of the gods, into eating human flesh. The god was not deceived and cursed Lycaon, turning into a wolf.”

[oxeyedhera]

kaptan, god of the skies and heavens, first of the visayan pantheon

he can breathe life into beings but destroy their homes the very next day. he doesn’t need to make sense - everyone bows to a king -  let your backs ache, your knees scrape.

[maryshelley]

Favourite goddesses in norse mythology: Freyja

↳ Freyja is the archetype of the völva, a professional or semiprofessional practitioner of seidr, the most organized form of Norse magic. It was she who first brought this art to the gods,and, by extension, to humans as well. Given her expertise in controlling and manipulating the desires, health, and prosperity of others, she’s a being whose knowledge and power are almost without equal.

Freyja presides over the afterlife realm Folkvang, whose inhabitants she selects from among the warriors slain in battle.

[bruceswaynes]

Myths: Ares - The Greek god of war. He is one of the Twelve Olympians, and the son of Zeus and Hera. In Greek literature, he often represents the physical or violent and untamed aspect of war. In appearance, Ares was handsome and cruel. He is often depicted carrying a bloodstained spear.

[lurnos]

In Norse mythology, Hel is the goddess of death and the afterlife who presides over a realm of the same name, located in Niflheim. She is the youngest child of the trickster god Loki and the giantess Angrboða. She is often described as a hag; half alive and half dead, with a gloomy and grim expression. Her face and body are those of a living woman, but her legs are those of a corpse, mottled and moldering. 

Cast into Helheim by Odin, Hel receives a portion of the dead and distributes those who are sent to her; the wicked and those dead of sickness or old age. Her hall is called Éljúðnir, the home of the dead. “Hel” literally means “one who covers up or hides something.”

[bruceswaynes]

Myths: Demons - n. an evil spirit or devil, especially one thought to possess a person or act as a tormentor in hell.