mythology is really cool

This is a blog dedicated to any and all types of mythology. Feel free to ask questions, request something, or send a link to something you find interesting

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selkieˈ/sɛlki/

noun

SCOTTISH

a mythical creature that resembles a seal in the water but assumes human form on land.

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Apollo and Daphne

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Update

I’m sorry for the lack of content on here, guys. The mythology tag hasn’t had a lot of stuff worth reblogging recently and I’m at a loss of for things to research and write about.

If you want to give me a suggestion, or submit some stuff, it would be much appreciated.

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The Az-I-Wu-Gum-Ki-Mukh-’Ti is also known as the walrus-dog and is very feared in Inuit culture. It resembles a larger than normal walrus, with the legs of a dog, black scales and a powerful tail. More often than not, it also is said to have the head of a whale. Its strong tail has been said to be able to sink ships with just one blow. 

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Castor & Pollux | it is a knife buried deep into my chest (x)

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The War Goddesses

Sekhmet  egyptian goddess of fire, war, dance, love and medicine.

She collects gas station lighters and cheap costume jewelry. She likes to set things on fire and take pictures as they burn. She prints out the photographs and she burns those too. She beats out melodies on the skin of her thighs while she waits for the bus, but she never writes the notes down. She’s forgotten them all by the end of the day.

Ishtar sumerian goddess of war, love, fertility and lust.

She sits in the handicapped stall during class and shreds the knees of her jeans. She draws guns on both her middle fingers in permanent marker. She always has red lipstick, and she always has brass knuckles, the rhinestoned ones that she found online. She has a new boyfriend every week, sometimes more than one, and she smokes hash with the cheer squad after pep rallies.

Bellona roman goddess of war and protecting the homeland.

She’s an insomniac, sometimes going days without sleep just to lay down where she stands. She’s slept through storms, hurricanes, earthquakes, her own apartment catching on fire due to faulty electricity. But when she’s awake, she is the storm, and there is no weathering her. She fights in car garages and outside bars for quick cash and cigarettes. She likes to do the crossword as the sun rises, but she’s never finished a whole puzzle.

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Goddes Hara Ke

"Hara Ke's themes are spring, weather, providence, harvest and growth. Her symbols are seeds, soil, rain, water and dragon images. An African Goddess of sweet water.

An African Goddess of sweet water (which also equates with the gentle spring rains) Hara Ke comes into our lives and spring with gentle, growth-inspiring refreshment. According to legend She lives under the river Niger with two dragons in attendance, caring for the souls who await rebirth, just as earth awaits its reawakening with spring.

People in Namibia pull out all their garden tools and seeds and bless them today before the sowing season starts. This ensures a good harvest and plentiful rains, the water of Hara Ke’s spirit. If you garden or tinker with window pots, this tradition holds merit. Just sprinkle your tools and seeds with a little spring water or rainwater, when visualize the seeds being filled with pale green light (like new sprouts).

Alternatively, sprinkle your own aura, first going counter clockwise to was away residual sickness or tension, then going clockwise to invoke Hara Ke. As you sprinkle the water, say:

‘Hara Ke, renew in me a sense of refreshed ability To my spirit, growth impart Make your home my heart.’

If you’re pressed for time, you can recite this in your morning shower or while doing the laundry (during the rinse cycle). The latter allows you to figuratively don Hara Ke’s attributes with your clothing whenever you need them.”

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Baltic mythology: Pergubrė

Pergubrė – goddess of spring, blossoms and vegetation, sometimes called Grubytė. It is thought that her name comes from the word pergubrijimas which is an old way of plowing the soil using a Neolithic axe and a wooden maul. Flower and fruit-tree gardens created specially for Pergubrė are called gruba. To honor the goddess women take care of these gardens and it is believed that the plants growing there can protect from deceases, malign spirits, thunderstorms, etc. 

Her main tasks are producing the plants and unfolding the blossoms. Pergubrė is portrayed as a young pretty girl with long hair and wearing a flower crown.

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(Louis Hector Leroux, Adoration of the Goddess Athena)

Statius’ Thebaid 2.715 - 740

‘diua ferox, magni decus ingeniumque parentis,              bellipotens cui torua genis horrore decoro cassis, et asperso crudescit sanguine Gorgon, nec magis ardentes Mauors hastataque pugnae impulerit Bellona tubas! huic adnue sacro, seu Pandionio nostras inuisere caedes                monte uenis, siue Aonia deuertis Itone laeta choris, seu tu Libyco Tritone repexas lota comas qua te biiugo temone frementem intemeratarum uolucer rapit axis equarum -  nunc tibi fracta uirum spolia informesque dicamus                exuuias. at si patriis Porthaonis aruis inferar et reduci pateat mihi Martia Pleuron, aurea tunc mediis urbis tibi templa dicabo collibus, Ionias qua despectare procellas dulce sit, et flauo tollens ubi uertice pontum                turbidus obiectas Achelous Echinadas exit. hic ego maiorum pugnas uultusque tremendos magnanimum effingam regum, figamque superbis arma tholis, quaeque ipse meo quaesita reuexi sanguine, quaeque dabis captis, Tritonia, Thebis.                centum ibi uirgineis uotae Calydonides aris Actaeas tibi rite faces et ab arbore casta nectent purpureas niueo discrimine uittas, peruigilemque focis ignem longaeua sacerdos nutriet, arcanum numquam spretura pudorem.’

‘Bitter lady! Unbeatable in battle, worthily devised by your great father, on your cruel helm in horrific glory the Gorgon rages all spattered with blood! Never more fiercely could Mars or spear-bearing Bellona send forth the blazing trumpets of war. Look upon my offering, I pray - whether you come to view my bloody triumph from the Acropolis among Pandion’s hills, whether you turn aside from the dances of Itone in Booetia, or comb your hair in the waters of Lake Triton in Libya, where the twin flawless horses of your swift chariot bears you at your whim - look now, I pray, upon the spoils of war, at the broken bodies and shapeless remains I dedicate to you. 

If ever I return home to the fields of Calydonia, and the city of Pleuron welcomes me once again, then shall I decree that a great temple of gold be consecrated to you high in the hills, and thence at your leisure you may look down upon the stormy seas, where Achelous, wildest of rivers, breaks past the Echinades and riles up the ocean with his golden waves. 

There, indeed, shall I build the battles of our ancestors, and vast likenesses of greathearted kings. On a lofty pedastal shall I fix whatever armour I win through bloodshed - whatever weapons you, Tritonia, will grant when Thebes has fallen. There one hundred young attendants, our own Calydonian daughters, will serve your altar, and will drape your virgin olive-trees with ribbons all woven with purple and with white. A wise old priestess will tend your sacred and undying flame, and never shall your chaste mysteries be violated.’

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Swing by the Perelman Building and check out “Mythography: Sources for Classical Myth,” on view in the Museum Library now through February 19. With a selection of classically-inspired works from the 1300s to the 1800s, the installation explores changing perspectives on the work of Homer and his peers.

“Homer, His Iliads,” translated by John Ogilby in 1660, engraving by Cornelis van Caukercken after Abraham van Diepenbeeck

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HEROES OF OLYMPUS NETWORK

Camp Jupiter / Daughter of Minerva

Challenge #3: The Godly Challenge - Minerva

“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”  – Stephen Hawking

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┃ gods & goddess  ‧  kore, goddess of spring & persephone, queen of underworld.  She loved her power, he Queen of the Dead, to forever reign in the fires of hell.

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The Bake-Kurija (”ghost whale”) is a mythical Japanese apparition in the form of the skeleton of a giant whale, often accompanied by a flock of odd birds and fish. It is said that the harpoons of fishermen attempting to catch the whale would pass right through the creature.

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Robert Flores with major SHOTS FIRED on ESPN this morning

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mythology aesthetics: hesperides.

the hesperides, also known as the nymphs of the evening or the golden lights of the sunset, guard the garden of hesperides. they were also mentioned in the labors of heracles, and they played a big part in renaissance art.

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MYTHOLOGY MEME  | {1/10} deities.

SELENE [selɛ̌ːnɛː] was the goddess of the moon, or the moon personified into a divine being. She is called a daughter of Hyperion and Theia, and accordingly a sister of Helios and Eos. Selene is described as a very beautiful goddess, with long wings and a golden diadem, and Aeschylus calls her the eye of night. She rode, like her brother Helios, across the heavens in a chariot drawn by two white horses, cows, or mules. She was represented on the pedestal of the throne of Zeus at Olympia, riding on a horse or a mule; and at Elis there was a statue of her with two horns.

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favourite faces for favourite mythic ladies: Juturna with Jorgelina Airaldi

The sister of King Turnus of the Rutuli, Juturna supported her brother when he went to battle against Aeneas, returning his lost sword as well as taking him far from the fighting when it seemed he would be killed.  

Jupiter fell madly in love with the princess and made her into the sacred goddess nymph of fountains, wells, and springs.