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[ex-stellae]

“Even 𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 has a heart.”

[bacchusariadne]

Make me choose for @ninaxzeniks >>> freya or artemis

Artemis: Greek Goddess of the hunt, virginity, moon, wild animals and childbirth; daughter of Zeus and Leto; twin of Apollo.

Come celebrate 100 with me

[cavarage]

mythology meme: fairies

❝ Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand. ❞ ―      William Butler Yeats

[haldi-archived]

make me choose: @cinderllas asked Demeter or Poseidon & @athenaswrath asked: Zeus or Poseidon?

“The sea does not like to be restrained.”

[oldnorseisa]

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

[anakin-solo]

Mythological Creatures: Fairies

[athenaswrath-deactivated2022082]

PERSEPHONE — goddess of the underworld and goddess of spring in Greek mythology ↳ requested by @sondo-be-do

[wildlingcorner]

Slavic Mythos  [XX/?] >> Szczodre Gody/Koliada  >>  ancient Slavic festival of winter solstice celebrating the victory of light over darkness, bringing hope and happiness to the people. Many festivities were devoted to Weles - god of earth, waters, cattle, the underworld, magic and knowledge. During Szczore Gody bread was shared between families and fortunes were told to predict crops and weather for each month of the upcoming year. Winter solstice time was also devoted to spirits of ancestors. Fires were lit on cemeteries for the ancestors to warm themselves and great feasts were organised. Didukh - first sheaf of wheat of a year, was put in the corner of the room.

[ex-stellae]

[arseneserpentine]

Poseidon — God of the sea, storms, earthquakes, and horses.

[mahhtans]

aphrodite:  ❝ we’re in a beautiful and sad relationship we make each other shine like the moon and the river and we hug again ❞

[likeicarusundone]

Ariadne

Her grief did make her glorious. (x)

[primordialnyx]

@modernmythsnet | Event Thirty-Two | Horror | Natural ↳ The Headless Horseman

Before you can kill the monster you have to say its name. | Terry Pratchett

[kreachers-1]

Nyx, Goddess of Night.

↳ The Fates circled around her shadow and her womb bore Death and Pain. She was a mystical mistress to none but Darkness and mothered the elements of the forgotten past.

[virginiadre]

frightful fall:              Γοργών

[nioquoi-deactivated20220908]

✦ Gift -  url edit for @pclyxena. 

“ Tragic, broken soul, dearest Polyxena. “

Polyxena was the youngest daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen, Hecuba.  An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated if Polyxena’s brother, Prince Troilus, reached the age of twenty. During the Trojan War, Polyxena and Troilus were ambushed when they were attempting to fetch water from a fountain, and Troilus was killed by the Greek warrior Achilles, who soon became interested in the quiet sagacity of Polyxena.   

Achilles, still recovering from Patroclus’ death, found Polyxena’s words a comfort and was later told to go to the temple of Apollo to meet her after her devotions. Achilles seemed to trust Polyxena—he told her of his only vulnerability: his vulnerable heel. It was later in the temple of Apollo that Polyxena’s brothers, Paris and Deiphobus, ambushed Achilles and shot him in the heel with an arrow, supposedly guided by the hand of Apollo himself, steeped in poison.

Achilles’ ghost had come back to the Greeks to demand the human sacrifice of Polyxena so as to appease the wind needed to set sail back to Hellas. She was to be killed at the foot of Achilles’ grave. Hecuba, Polyxena’s mother, expressed despair at the death of another of her daughters.

However, Polyxena was eager to die as a sacrifice to Achilles rather than live as a slave. She reassured her mother, and refused to beg before Odysseus or be treated in any way other than a princess. She asked that Odysseus reassure her mother as she is led away. Polyxena’s virginity was critical to the honor of her character, and she was described as dying bravely as the son of Achilles, Neoptolemus, slit her throat: she arranged her clothing around her carefully so that she was fully covered when she died.

[lasbrumas-archived]

@modernmythsnet | event thirty-two | horror | natural ↳ la llorona

Si porque te quiero, quieres, Llorona, que yo la muerte reciba, Que se haga tu voluntad, Llorona, que muera por que otro viva. ((La Llorona)) ~~~ I was a heavy heart to carry My beloved was weighed down My arms around his neck My fingers laced to crown ((Heavy In Your Arms))