moonpetal

I bathed in bleach and plugged my menses with pages from the Holy Book

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Europa’s speech in Aeschylus’ lost play Carians/Europa

- Europa Revisited: An Experiment in Characterisation, by Niall W. Slater

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How Theoi presents the tale of Cura:

How scholars present the tale of Cura:

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Stark difference, clearly. Theoi emends Cura to Kore, and on those grounds assumes that Cura becomes queen of the dead. The academics believe that Cura is simply the personification of the latin word for care and, though they also add emendations, they leave Cura’s ending as it is written in the original.

I’d love for this myth to get more popularity as it is written! Care herself creating humans is super cute, and it’s a rare fully positive Zeus depiction

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“It is said that he [Bellerophon] became cocky because of his accomplishments and wanted to visit the heavens on Pegasos (as we said, the horse had wings on his back). Zeus got angry and sent a horsefly to irritate Pegasos, and because of this Bellerophon fell off and crashed down into the plain of Lycia that was named after him “Aleion,” for he wandered {alaz-} around it, crippled. As for the horse, Eos begged Zeus for it as a gift so that she could make her rounds of the world without getting tired, and he gave it to her. The story is in Asclepiades’ Tragodoumena (fr. 13 Villagra).”

- D scholia to the Iliad

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That one time the Egyptians wrote a beautiful (and surprisingly progressive?) love story about the Amazons

- The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World, by Adrienne Mayor

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howdy fellow atla enjoyers🤠 i really like the designs for the new movie for the most part HOWEVERRR i felt like the face designs stripped away a lot of the unique features of the characters, so i did a little overpaint of a movie still

first is my version, second is the original.

aang - WHERE are his ears bro😭 they‘re my favourite of his facial features and they don‘t even look slightly big or protruding, so i added them back. i also gave him back his wider smile and his nose (i gave everyone back their noses💀) and adjusted his eyes a bit to be close to the friendly look they have in the cartoon. i also made the arrow slightly bigger (hes my goat i don‘t play about his design)

katara - her new face design felt very generic anime girl to me so i made her eyes look a tad bit more determined while still looking friendly. + nose + eyebrows

sokka - made him look a bit less macho and (idek how to describe his facial expression) “provocative”? i guess? also i dont think his eyes have that much of a downward tilt, so i reverted it a bit. made his smile bigger too.

toph - made her face a bit rounder and her eyes more monolidded again. also, like with the others, added her nose back

zuko - not much to complain about his design, but i felt like his hairline was too far down and he was missing a tiny bit of that “fiery” look in his eyes so i tried to give it back

i’m overall super happy we are finally getting this film though and i in no way want to be super nitpicky or sound like a smartass. Everything from the trailer looks GORGEOUS and it is such a damn shame we won’t see it in theatres, my utmost respect to every single artist who worked on this even through all the hurdles that were put in the movies way<3

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one of the many things i like about melanippe as a character is that she presents us with a new and unique cosmology

it’s so cool !!! and it has the added bonus of erasing the mother-son incest

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When you fantasize about your hypothetical future wife so much that you start hating all women

“I may cite Alexander as an instance: I fancy that, when he happened to be enjoying a respite from his herdsman's duties on Mount Ida, the thought and with it the desire came to him, what a fortunate and blissful thing it would be to have the most beautiful woman in the whole world to wife, and that neither a throne was as valuable as this prize, nor wealth, nor the conquest of the whole world in war; next he began to speculate as to who and where this woman of his fancy might be, among what people she lived, and by what means he could compass to splendid an alliance; and so he began to despise the nymphs and maidens of Ilium with a prince's disdain and to think them not worth his winning, and in the same way also he despised the women of Lydia and Phrygia, and those in Lesbos and Mysia. But learning that in Sparta there was a certain reputed daughter of Zeus, living in wedlock with Menelaus, a king in his own right and brother of the king of all Greece, a woman whom the first and foremost of the Greeks had wooed and sought to win by offering many wedding-gifts and presents and, to crown all, that she had, according to report, brave brothers twain, Polydeuces and Castor, true sons of Zeus. So he coveted this woman for his wife.”

- Dio Chrysostom, Discourses (late 1st-early 2nd c., Greco-Roman)

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Ariadne & Aphrodite's friendship/ connections

• Ariadne already worshipped her

"On his voyage from Crete, Theseus put in at Delos, and having sacrificed to the god and dedicated the image of Aphrodite which he had received from Ariadne [...]"- Plutarch, Life of Theseus

• They look the same

"In the meantime Eros [while Ariadne is in Naxos abandoned] mistakenly thought he beheld Aphrodite there, gorgeous weeping resplendent in Naxos where none should feel sadness. Sadness became Ariadne, whose beauty surpassed Aphrodite's, charactered only with joy, Aphrodite's expression was lifeless viewed against lineaments drawn in the chiaroscuro of true grief. - Nonnus, Dionysiaca

• Comfort

"He [Theseus] immediately woke up and did this [abandoned her]. While Ariadne was lamenting, Aphrodite appeared and told her to take heart, for she would become the wife of Dionysos and would be famous."- D scholia to the Iliad

• A precious gift

"[Liber]: I will create a monument of you and your crown, which Volcanus gave Venus and she gave you."- Ovid, Fasti

"When Ariadne wed Liber on the island of Dia, and all the gods gave her wedding gifts, she first received this crown as a gift from Venus and the Horae. But, as the author of the Cretica says, at the time when Liber came to Minos with the hope of lying with Ariadne, he gave her this crown as a present. Delighted with it, she did not refuse the terms."- Hyginus, Astronomica

• They can even be syncretized!

"[...] one of their young men lies down and imitates the cries and gestures of women in travail [because of an alternative myth where Ariadne died in childbirth]; and that they call the grove in which they show her tomb, the grove of Ariadne Aphrodite."- Plutarch, Life of Theseus

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Aaron Ehasz, the head writer of the show, started to give his opinions about the live action on twitter and mentioned Zutara as well

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Django and Marya Maximoff adopt Wanda and Pietro in X-Men: The Animated Series s4e17 ‘Family Ties’

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“It is you who have destroyed me! Yours was the wrongdoing! You are the cause of my affliction! So either, if you have decided to kill me by drowning, go on and kill me—indeed you understand acts of foul murder and the slaughtering of men!—or, if you desire to eat my flesh raw, here it is: don't go short on your banquet!”

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crackship of the day: i think that Melanippe The Amazon and Melanippe The Wise should kiss

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A Christian author preserved this fragment where Neptune has 2 wives 🫪

“On Neptune, Salacia and Venilia.

It is well known that Neptune already had a wife, Salacia, whom they explained as being the lower water of the sea. Then for what end was Venilia also joined to him? Without any reason suggested by the prescribed ritual, surely it was only the lust of a prostituted soul that more and more demons might be invited to be its guests. But let us hear the explanation of their renowned theology, giving its due account to set our fault-finding at rest. "Venilia," says Varro, "is the wave that comes (venit) to the shore, Salacia the one that goes back out to sea (in salum)." But why are there two goddesses, when it is the same water that comes in and goes back? Obviously we have here boiling up the same frenzied lust for many gods.”

- Augustine, City of God (C5th A.D, Christian slander) quoting Varro (116-27 B.C, Roman scholar and polytheist)

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Semele by Aeschylus fragments

It seems to be the usual myth of the birth of Dionysus, with some notable additions:

- Semele was possessed during the pregnancy ?? and everyone who touched her belly also became possessed ???? my guess is that this represents Dionysus’ power over madness already being present since the womb

- Hera, while disguised to fool Semele, delivers a scathing speech that boils down to “I hate sluts.”

- There was a household ritual performed for the newborn Dionysus; by who? Zeus? his aunts and grandparents? nymphs?

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at least 1 (one) ancient guy thought that hera and dione were the same goddess

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Once in a while I get fixated on Demeter’s other daughters: Despoina (Callimachus Frag 652, Pausanias 8.25.5), Artemis (Pausanias 8.37.6, Aeschylus Frag), Hecate (Orphic Frag, Scholiast on Apoll. Rhod. 3.467), an Orphic version of Persephone called Athela that has “two eyes in the natural order, and two in her forehead, and the face of an animal on the back part of her neck, and as having also horns” (Ante-Nicene Fathers Chapter XX), Libera (daughter of Ceres in Roman religion; sometimes she’s equated with Persephone, sometimes not), Enodia (Euripides’ Ion 1048); and hopefully there are more that I don’t know about 🤞🏻

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rick riordan YEW 🫵🏻 are a theoi user! (derogatory)

in case you don’t know, theoi.com has stated multiple times that demeter and karmanor had an affair that produced two children, chrysothemis and eubuleus. now, eubuleus being demeter’s son is correct, as it was attested by diodorus, but chrysothemis is just karmanor’s child, and she cannot also be demeter’s child because (say it with me now) demeter and karmanor don’t know each other!

this is the problem with “official” websites having incorrect information, it snowballs like this.