Land of the gods

"You only have to look at the Medusa straight on to see her. And she’s not deadly. She’s beautiful and she’s laughing.” hi im lena and this is my mythology blog l

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yeah i think im gonna unofficially close down this blog

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mythology meme- two/three locations.

TAMOANCHAN.  is a mythical location of origin known to the Mesoamerican cultures of the central Mexican region in the Late Postclassic period. The toponymic glyph used for Tamoanchan in the codices depicts a cleft tree, flowering and emitting blood; the significance of these motifs is uncertain. (x in spanish)

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’But from Ouranos and Gaia came the Titans, children born with untested ichor and power…’

titans part I

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whoever made this deserves an award

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This is so funny

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MYTHICAL: 

The son of sky god Svarog, brother to fire god Svarozhich, Dazhbog is god of the sun, happiness, destiny, and justice. He gradually superseded his father as the supreme deity in the Russian pantheon.The giver of warmth and light, he was much revered by the early Russians because much of Russia is covered by snow and ice most of the year and the winter nights are unendurably long.The disappearance of Dazhbog was always greeted with dismay, and occurrences such as eclipses, when Dazhbog was said to have been devoured by wolves,were taken as forewarnings of terrible times to come—of plague, famine, or war.

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mythology moodboards: draupadi/bheem

requested by @chaanv

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the encyclopedia of celtic mythology and folklore:   ↳ Da Derga 

The identity - indeed even the name - of Da Derga is unclear. Some texts give him as Ûa Dergae, “the nephew of the red goddess,” while others call him Da Derga, “the red god.” If the former is correct, he could be related to MEDB or Flaith, goddess of SOVEREIGNTY, a reasionable enugh connection given that [Da Derga’s] story’s main point is the punishment of [Conaire] for not maintaining his sacred vows as the earth goddess demanded. If the latter, he may have been a god of the OTHERWORLD, for the color RED is comonly linked to that realm. Da Derga has virtually no personality and little role in the story named for him. 

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seven deadly sins: sloth

the scope of sloth is wide. spiritually, acedia first referred to an affliction attending religious persons, especially monks, wherein they became indifferent to their duties and obligations to god. mentally, sloth has a number of distinctive components of which the most important is affectlessness, a lack of any feeling about self or other, a mind-state that gives rise to boredom, rancor, apathy, and a passive inert or sluggish mentation. physically, acedia is fundamentally associated with a cessation of motion and an indifference to work; it finds expression in laziness, idleness, and indolence.

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mythology family ♥︎ parvati for @lookingoodeomma

parvati is the hindu goddess of fertility, love and devotion; as well as of divine strength and power. known by many other names, she is the gentle and nurturing aspect of the hindu goddess shakti and one of the central deities of the goddess-oriented shakta sect. she is the mother goddess in hinduism, and has many attributes and aspects. each of her aspects is expressed with a different name, giving her over 100 names in regional hindu stories of india. along with lakshmi (goddess of wealth and prosperity) and saraswati (goddess of knowledge and learning), she forms the trinity of hindu goddesses (tridevi).

want to join?

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@femmefatalenet | event thirteen: one year celebration | gefjun

Goddess of ploughing and fertility in Norse mythology

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Mythology Meme [7/∞]: Orpheus, a legendary poet in Greek mythology

Orpheus was the son of Thracian King Oeagrus and the Muse Calliope, and was known as the father of songs for his talent with music. So beautiful was his music that it could drown out the hypnotic songs of sirens and could charm even stones. He fell in love with the nymph, Eurydice, who died when she was chased by a Satyr. In an attempt to bring her back to life, Orpheus traveled to the Underworld, where his songs mesmerized even Hades, the King of the Dead. He promised that he would allow Eurydice to return to life, but only if he could travel out of the Underworld without looking back at her. Orpheus did this, but forgot that both he and Eurodyce had to be out; so the moment they stepped out, he looked back at her, and she disappeared, this time forever. At the end of his life, Orpheus disdained worship of all gods except for the sun - Apollo - and was ripped to shred by the Thracian Maenads for not honoring his patron god.

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greek mythology characters :       A R I A D N E

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Selkies are said to live as seals in the sea but shed their skin to become human on land.

make me choose: Kelpies or Selkies (requested by @brooklynboos​)

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@thewinedarksea Mythology Meme ↳ 8a. Demigods | Mwindo

The Mwindo Epic is an oral epic story told by the Nyanga people from the Congo. Mwindo is the son of the evil chief Shemwindo and his seventh wife, Nyamwindo. He is born from his mother’s middle finger and he wields a conga-scepter, an azde-axe, and a bag belonging to the fortune goddess, Kahonbo, that contains a long rope. Fleeing his father’s attempts to kill him, Mwindo hides inside a drum and begins his epic journeys across rivers, villages and to the Underworld. After his return to the place of his birth, Tubondo, he helps rebuild the city, and rules as a wise and powerful king.

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Haliya!🌕🐉🗡️ The masked goddess of moonlight, the archenemy of the Bakunawa dragon. In some legends she was the sole survivor of the dragon consuming her siblings, the other six moons. In some, she was one out of three survivors. In another, she was the protector of her brother Bulan, from the wrath of a romantically rejected Bakunawa. After the death of her siblings, she forged a golden mask to hide her beauty and mourning, and swore to be the archenemy of Bakunawa.

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The Aswang.

The Filipino vampire, able to shift into a bat, a wild pig, a rabid dog, a black cat, and who knows what else? They hunt at night, for pregnant women and children, searching to quench their bloodlust. They are strongest at night. They say if you see your reflection upside-down in someone’s eyes, they’re an aswang.

One can turn into an aswang if they tie a chicken egg on their stomach, and wait for it to hatch. Once the chick crawls into the stomach, the human becomes an aswang.

A dying aswang can also turn someone else. If they put their mouth close to another, the young chick will hop from their mouth to the other. A lil kiss

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EAST ASIAN MYTHOLOGY MEME:

[7/7] KOREAN GODS AND GODDESSES | JACHEONGBI

Jacheongbi (자청비) is a Korean earth goddess who is also the goddess of love.

Jacheongbi’s story begins when she disguises herself as a young man in order to pursue higher education in the company of a young god for whom she has an attraction. For three years she maintains her masculine appearance, studying at an academy in Seoul and sharing a room – but not her true identity – with this son of the Emperor of Heaven, with whom she has fallen in love. The implication is that her desire for education and opportunity is equal to that for her young god, and she will simply do whatever is needed to achieve her goals.

Only when their three-year term of study is over does she reveal her true nature to and feelings for the young god. He is inclined toward love with her, and they secretly marry. However, he is called to return to the Garden of Heaven where his father lives, and where he had been committed to marry another. The father puts the two would-be brides to a test of walking on knives in the fire; the other woman refuses and instead starves herself to death, allowing Jacheongbi to become his goddess.