Mythology in today's world, gods among us, allusions and fun facts. This is my Greek-themed account where I present philological views of the world. ✨️Enjoy✨️ she|her Czech
More and more men in my life are growing out their hair and none of them have any fucking idea of what they're doing. And its hilarious. Conditioner? What is that? Brushing immediately after they leave the shower. Leaving the bathroom, hair dripping because why dry them. Hair dryers are unheard of.
I have visited a man's apartment, and it was such an experience I'm thinking about it months later.
A very nice apartment as a structure, next to a beautiful park, but...
When you enetered, shoes had no specific place, but you know what did? Spears.
He placed a type of bascet bacpack (nůše) in the middle of his living room, and placed a spear next to it in a way where you had to step over it any time you went around.
Although he is a craftsman, he had only a flimsy plastic table that shook any time you looked at it wrong.
Anywhere you looked was armor and historical, handsown costumes, lying in piles all around.
He had no soap in the bathroom but he had an industrial hand scrub.
There was no microwave.
And most importantly there was a small lathe, an electrical piece of equipment, right next to the shower where he was washing it a month back. You had to step over it any time you went to the bathroom.
I had no words, this man was allowed to live on his own in this absolute mayhem, it was truly astonishing, I am still in awe.
Originating from the Ancient Greek θάνατος /thanatos/ meaning death and the prefix ευ /eu/ signifying something good. Therefore the literal translation would be good or plesant death.
the following are the 22 major arcana tarot cards and their associated hellenic deities. they are each sorted into two sections: gods associated with the literal interpretation of the card (for example, when the death card actually indicates death), and gods associated with the meaning of the card. I did not include the reversed meanings because there are several ways to interpret reversed cards, and therefore associations should be made on a case by case basis.
0 - THE FOOL
the card: Apollo, Hermes
the meaning: Hermes, Dionysus
I - THE MAGICIAN
the card: Hekate, Circe
the meaning: Hekate, Hephaestus, Athena, Hermes
II - THE HIGH PRIESTESS
the card: Hekate, Hera
the meaning: Hekate, Hera, Demeter, Persephone
III - THE EMPRESS
the card: Hera, Persephone, Aphrodite
the meaning: Hera, Aphrodite, Demeter, Rhea
IV - THE EMPEROR
the card: Zeus, Hades, Kronos, Poseidon
the meaning: Zeus, Ares, Athena
V - THE HIEROPHANT
the card: Hermes
the meaning: Dionysus, Hestia, Hekate
VI - THE LOVERS
the card: Aphrodite & Ares, Eros & Psyche, Hermaphroditus
Writers tip or just a fun fact in general, we know clocks strike at certain times, but can you read the bell strikes?
In Europe bell towers have at least 2 bells, churches at least 3, even after all the wars.
1st bell is an equivalent of the minute hand, it strikes once for every 15 minutes of an hour. Once at 4:15, twice at 4:30, thrice at 4:45 and four times at 5:00.
2nd bell strikes every our on the our depending on what time it is on a 12 hour cycle, therefore once at both 1AM and 1PM, twice at 2 and so on.
Therefore, when Cinderella was leaving the ball she had 16 bell strikes to escape, not just 12.
The 3rd bonus bell is in czech called "umíráček" that literarly translates to "dier" and is rung during funerals.
In Tangeled, both in Czech and English, Flynn Rider's real name is Eugen (Evžen) which comes fron the Ancient Greek ευγενής /eugenés/ that literarly translates to "of good bloodline" used in the meaning as royal. Meaning, the name we all laughted at, because it's horrible is used as a foreshadowing in the movie. And since his character is nowhere near the original prince, it's all Disney's doing.
In 2011, there was actually a popular fan theory that he was of noble blood because "Eugene Fitzherbert" means " Noble-born (Eugene) bastard son of (Fitz) Herbert".
So, yeah, Eugene being secret royalty, or at least directly descended from royalty was a fan theory for a long ol' time before the series was ever a twinkle in anyone's eye.
The second part is something the czech translation missed because his last name is Houžvička, which means something between weak-ass, sissy and scrawny and is straight up an insult.
In Tangeled, both in Czech and English, Flynn Rider's real name is Eugen (Evžen) which comes fron the Ancient Greek ευγενής /eugenés/ that literarly translates to "of good bloodline" used in the meaning as royal. Meaning, the name we all laughted at, because it's horrible is used as a foreshadowing in the movie. And since his character is nowhere near the original prince, it's all Disney's doing.
A je zde další pokračování! Zveřejňujeme to na velmi důležitý den pro lgbt komunitu - den, kdy je Anděl Páně v televizi. Dnes je tu Trans Kategorie!!
1. Popelka (Tři oříšky pro popelku)
GENDERFLUIDNÍ IKONA!!! Popelku princ a jeho kumpáni nepoznali jako myslivce a brali, že je hoch, tomu říkáme passing. Genderová závist prorazila strop.
2. Anička (Tajemství staré bambitky)
Další obrovská ikona, loupežník Karaba a hrnčířka v jedné osobě! A píseň “holka nebo kluk” je trans awakening.
3. Princezna Helena a Princ Václav (Šíleně smutná princezna)
There is so many books whose plot is "books are magical and powerfull and we should honor them" and "look at this awesome book that has all the answers" and "this wise and powerful person has it all from reading" but there are no movies that are like "look how smart and powerful this person is, he got it from movies"
arguing about Cimrman’s realness is actually a glorious way to fuck with many teachers, since almost the whole country is in on the joke that Cimrman was a real person, when you convincingly argue that Cimrman invented/wrote/discovered XY, the teacher is effectively trapped because either they have to accept your bullshit explanation or admit that Cimrman is not real and therefore break the joke and betray the national pride
many of my highschool teachers would preemptively inform us that they will not accept Cimrman as an answer (“we know, we know, he helped invent everything, write about the other people”) just to avoid this
dear friends i am delighted to inform you that some madman devoted likely many hours to translating some of the plays allegedly written by cimrman and they are on youtube, subs included – please do check them out if you have a feeling you might enjoy
the thing about these plays is, they are deemed THE source of info on cimrman – the people acting them out call themselves cimrmanologists and the “perfromance” is always divided into two parts: the seminar and the play itself. the plays span a variety of genres (though all of them are to huge extent comedies) and the seminars always present a sort of background, be it historical context in cimrman’s life or any other relevant information
every time a new play comes out the whole joke is that it’s been “discovered”, many times in very random locations, in various random scenarios.
To add to the gender fuckery of Cimrman. Born male, raised female, discovered the truth at 15 on accident, lived his life presenting male and when everything went to hell after the assassination of archduke Ferdinand, Cimrman disappeared and reappeared in Liptákov, this time assuming the identity of a frail old woman who gave tours of the village and ran his own museum. You gotta respect her will to hustle.
Dont forget about the part that YOU can be Cinrmanologist too! Due to the way his life is presented, you can just go to a place and call it Cimrman’s hill and tell a story about how he lived there, when he was accidentally discovering algebra.
Knew a guy who made a sign “Jára Cimrman probably never had a lunch in this house”
Literally everything about the guy is next level fanfiction
Anyway Cimrman 100% came up with the concept of Tumblr which is supported by records of his “information circus” where he employed 12 professors (read: nerds) who would receive phone calls from people asking questions such as “how heavy is the moon?” “which is the highest mountain of the world?” or “when will my husband return from work?” and would answer them off the top of their head, unsourced, often using unconventional measurements, which in its essence is the same as typical Tumblr asks. That, along with the name “information circus” itself reminiscent of typical Tumblr clownery, clearly tells us that Tumblr is the One true website operating on the original concept of the internet as intended by the Master himself.
It should also be noted that while Tumblr is the most faithful to Cimrman’s original vision, there have been also copycats made by people who liked the idea but lacked the Master’s impeccable sense for what is truly important. These people then went on to create services derived from the “information circus” one of which would later come to be known as Seznam.cz, an internet search engine. From that point onwards even more imitators, now named Yahoo and Bing, would sprout, degrading the idea even further, seemingly intentionally evading some base principles of the “information circus”.
I live next to a house that has a sighn on it that teads "V tomhle domě se nikdy nenarodil, nikdy nebyl a nikdy nežil Jára Cimrman" (Jára Cimrman was never born, never visited or never lived in this house) and honestly, I love it.
arguing about Cimrman’s realness is actually a glorious way to fuck with many teachers, since almost the whole country is in on the joke that Cimrman was a real person, when you convincingly argue that Cimrman invented/wrote/discovered XY, the teacher is effectively trapped because either they have to accept your bullshit explanation or admit that Cimrman is not real and therefore break the joke and betray the national pride
many of my highschool teachers would preemptively inform us that they will not accept Cimrman as an answer (“we know, we know, he helped invent everything, write about the other people”) just to avoid this
dear friends i am delighted to inform you that some madman devoted likely many hours to translating some of the plays allegedly written by cimrman and they are on youtube, subs included – please do check them out if you have a feeling you might enjoy
the thing about these plays is, they are deemed THE source of info on cimrman – the people acting them out call themselves cimrmanologists and the “perfromance” is always divided into two parts: the seminar and the play itself. the plays span a variety of genres (though all of them are to huge extent comedies) and the seminars always present a sort of background, be it historical context in cimrman’s life or any other relevant information
every time a new play comes out the whole joke is that it’s been “discovered”, many times in very random locations, in various random scenarios.
To add to the gender fuckery of Cimrman. Born male, raised female, discovered the truth at 15 on accident, lived his life presenting male and when everything went to hell after the assassination of archduke Ferdinand, Cimrman disappeared and reappeared in Liptákov, this time assuming the identity of a frail old woman who gave tours of the village and ran his own museum. You gotta respect her will to hustle.
Plus all the cimmermanologysts add to this gender noncomformity by playing all the female roles themeselves and there is nothing funier than a 60 year old man with a mustach playing a princess or a young maiden.