Half Kaiju Fan Half ArchaeologyNerd

[theia-mania-comics]

Queen of the Dead 001

I’m still not sure how I should write this story, but now I at least have a beginning, which makes it a bit easier. This is a flashback to Demeter’s past, obviously.

From what I know, Demeter is not attested in Linear B texts from the Mycenaean period. There is however a mention of a Potnia Sito (Mistress of Grain), si-to-po-ti-ni-ja, that maybe was a predecessor of Demeter.

[neo-kid-funk]

LET ME LIVE MY SAD GAY LIFE WITHOUT FUELING IT (/j please keep us percico fed)

Eat up 🌊☠️

[prindew]

Romeo + Juliet 1996 but make it percico

[renthony]

To a homophobe, even the most chaste kiss on the cheek between gay people is exactly as disgusting and degenerate as a hardcore BDSM orgy hosted in the town square, so you may as well ally with the BDSM orgy enthusiasts to throw bricks at the cops who are going to try and arrest all of you together anyway.

[renthony]

I once held hands with my husband at an event where my wife was also present, and a concerned parent lectured me about how she didn't want us to "influence" her son. Our icky gay polyam hand holding was such a threat to this woman that she made a point to corner me away from my partners and get me on my own to lecture me about being "indecent." If she had been inclined toward violence, I would have been fucked.

Hand holding. That's all it fucking took.

So catch me at Pride in a leather harness and holding a bat, because if hand holding is all it takes, we owe it to each other to stand together.

We're here. We're queer. Get fucking used to it.

[renthony]

The sheer number of LGBT people who have called me a "degenerate" and a "pedophile" and an "abuse apologist" and a "homophobe" and a "woman-beater" over this post, in the less than 24 hours since I have posted it, is proof that it needs to be said.

Call me a degenerate if you want. I don't care. It has always been the degenerates protecting each other when the cops raid our bars and inspect our clothing and haul us away for being cross-dressing, family-destroying, society-polluting, tranny dyke faggot freaks.

I know who I'd rather have on my side, and it's not the self-loathing pieces of shit who would rather destroy their own people than dismantle systems of oppression.

You will never be wholesome and pure enough for the bigots, no matter how much you distance yourself from the kinksters. Once they've killed all us degenerates, they're coming for you next. And we won't be here to fight for you anymore.

[rumov]

he got an A for sure

[a-gnosis]

Are there any reasonably priced books or scholarly articles you would recommend for someone who wants to learn about the chthonic gods and the greek underworld as a whole?

The Greek Way of Death by Robert Garland.About funerary rites and the ancient Greeks’ attitudes toward death and the dead. Includes the chapter “Life in Hades” that gives a short presentation of the underworld and the divinities that were believed to reside there.

Restless Dead: Encounters between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece by Sarah Iles Johnston. This book discusses how Greek ideas about the dead evolved during the archaic and classical periods. It also includes a chapter about the development of Hekate into a mistress of ghosts, and the nature and function of the Erinyes.

“Hades: Cornucopiae, Fertility and Death” by Diana Burton.A small text that discusses how Hades/Plouton appears in ancient Greek art. Can be found here.

These were the ones I could think of that are not so expensive (unfortunately, academic books often are quite expensive). Maybe @coloricioso  or @disbander-of-armies would know some more?

[honorthegods]

If I may, here’s some additions:

theoi.com has an excellent section on the gods of the Underworld (X)

Oxford Classical Mythology Online (the companion website to Classical Mythology by Mark Morford, Robert J. Lenardon, Michael Sham) has material about Demeter and the Eleusinian Mysteries (Chapter 14) and Views of the Afterlife: The Realm of Hades (Chapter 15)

Plato’s The Myth of Er discusses the immortality of the soul and the afterlife. (X)

These articles can be read for free with registration:

Caskey, John L., and Sotiros I.Dakaris. “The Dark Palace of Hades.” Archaeology, vol. 15, no. 2, 1962, pp. 85–93. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41670313. (X)

Fairbanks, Arthur. “The Chthonic Gods of Greek Religion.” The American Journal of Philology, vol. 21, no. 3, 1900, pp. 241–259. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/287716.(X)

Hewitt, Joseph William. “The Propitiation of Zeus.” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, vol. 19, 1908, pp. 61–120. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/310320.(X)

Leventi, Iphigeneia. “The Mondragone Relief Revisited: Eleusinian Cult Iconography in Campania.” Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, vol. 76, no. 1, 2007, pp. 107–141. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25068014.(X)

Puhvel, Jaan. “‘Meadow of the Otherworld’ in Indo-European Tradition.” Zeitschrift Für Vergleichende Sprachforschung, vol. 83, no. 1, 1969, pp. 64–69. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40849412. (X)

Thayer, H. S. “The Myth of Er.” History of Philosophy Quarterly, vol. 5, no. 4, 1988, pp. 369–384. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/27743871.(X)

[a-gnosis]

Great! Thank you!

[vesperkyno]

Show! Baela & Rhaena Targaryen

[katabay]

very loosely, a follow up to this jack comic from last year!

behold! the king. there's no room in his kingdom for heroes, miracles, terrors, or the other-worldly now, his reign is one of order--

--and then word of a giant killer called jack reaches his courts.

[sellieaa]

wooo wee. wips out the wazoo

[iris-of-the-lambs]

what if instead of horses we domesticated porcines... i think that could be cool

[mallalada]

the voice of the devil

[chic-beyond-the-wall]

More medieval dyes for y'all!

[hopefulrunaways]

I think as a fandom we aren't obsessed enough with the secuels Tartarus surely left on this two

[randomslasher]

I know I haven't been super active here lately but I wanted to share a new hobby I picked up. It's painting dots on rocks. I figured Tumblr is the neurodivergent haven that might understand my love of this hobby. So hang on I'll get pictures.

[randomslasher]

[my-midlife-crisis]

[freckled-moss]

Snow Day

[jessebloom]

shooter better have been some white republican who did it for economic reasons or smth bc otherwise.

[jessebloom]