Aeneas worst nightmare

Sapo// Huge astronomy nerd and greek mythology enjoyer // Adonis stan

[sapocipo]

I know my cat loves me but sometimes she looks at me so evily lol

[sapocipo]

Baby baby baby

[sapocipo]

I think it does align with Adonis mythology that he is gender and sexually queer, Adonis having male lovers is not really that niche of a knowledge [although I've seen some posts saying that Ganymede appeals to men while Adonis appeals to women... don't believe those guys. Adonis was attractive to Hercules, Apollo, Zeus, Dionysus and the boar that killed him (which could have been Ares)] but there is also the Orphic hymns that describe Adonis as 'Aliment divine Female and Male'. Many articles and texts that I've read about Adonis describes him as being effeminate and having almost like a reverse of roles with his relationship with Aphrodite (i.e in many vases Aphrodite is the one who is depicted courting him with gifts). I have a bit of a theory that Adonis died because he wanted to prove his masculinity / make a heroic name for himself by hunting a boar (a ritual that was seen in Mycenae Greece as a rite of passage). I am trying to see how I can incorporate that on my story, there are vases where Aphrodite gifts him a perfume (alabastron) which if I am not wrong is more feminine aligned (curious enough it is also related to wedding/funeral which is also a recurring theme on his myth) so maybe I can play around with his feelings towards that gift

[gigizetz]

So... I really need art with your Eros and Aphrodite. Eros is definitely a mama's boy

[sapocipo]

There are many ways to analyze Psyche and Cupid's myth but I think that people who see it as a myth where Eros/Cupid is finally being freed from Aphrodite/Venus' tyrannical rule is just wrong

[sapocipo]

Like sure, Aphrodite does hold power over Eros because she is his mom/boss, but lets not kid ourselves, that guy often shotted and disobeyed her so it's not like she is holding him under in any tight leash (if anything I think she needs to keep him under control more)

[sapocipo]

There are many ways to analyze Psyche and Cupid's myth but I think that people who see it as a myth where Eros/Cupid is finally being freed from Aphrodite/Venus' tyrannical rule is just wrong

[sapocipo]

So she [Venus] speaks these words to winged Cupid: 'My son, you who alone are my great strength, my power, a son who scorns mighty Jupiter's Typhoean thunderbolts, I ask your help, and humbly call on your divine will. It's known to you how Aeneas, your brother, is driven over the sea, round all the shores, by bitter Juno's hatred, and you have often grieved with my grief.

-Virgil Aeneid

Eros wanted to know all about it; for all young people, when they hear only the beginning of a story, are eager to hear the end. So he rattled out with that unbridled tongue of his--‘Who has hurt my dear Paphia? Let me take arms in hand and fight all the world! If my mother is in distress, let me stretch my allvanquishing bowstring against even Kronion [Zeus] ...'

-Nonnus Dionysiaca

They are very special to me okay

[sapocipo]

If there is anything unhealthy about Aphrodite and Eros dynamic it is because they are both mutually codependent and not because Aphrodite is an overbearing and controlling mother btw

[nardialrose]

Just because he's not a primordial god doesn't mean he lost his aura

[kebriones]

reminding you all of one of my most favourite sculptures of all time. "Satyr playing with Eros" by yannoulis chalepas

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I can't believe i never reposted this after I accidentally deleted my old account. Anyway, I still stand with this point

[chelathy]

Another Inanna thank you

[moonstruckdraws]

When the Girl Returned from Leaving the Boat

To Her Beloved

Hymenaios looking badass for her future wife

She’s having so many confused thoughts while stuck in the deck of a ship with her friends

[apothiarrow]

“Venus, 1852” by Henry Courtney Selous. oil painting on canvas

[moonstruckdraws]

Phlogyria

Full body sketch

(Look I’ll get back into patterns at some point just not anytime soon because they’re hard lol)

Close-ups of her youth and going to middle-aged

FUN FACT: SHES GOT A TOOTH GAP CUZ I C A N

And she’s so PRETTTTYYYYYYY I LOVE HER DEARLY

(Also gave her those stronger brows)

She doesn’t smile often but when she does, it’s BIG

Her smile brings me joy

[sapocipo]

Hymenaios:

[homericnerd]

Figurine of Aphrodite playing with baby Eros (Tanagra, late 4th BC, Hermitage.)

[sapocipo]

In "The Contendings of Horus and Set", a New Kingdom short story about the dispute between those two gods, Ra is upset after being insulted by another god, Babi, and lies on his back alone. After some time, Hathor exposes her genitals to Ra, making him laugh and get up again to perform his duties as ruler of the gods.

-Hathor's wikipedia

In the Orphic tradition, while she was searching for her daughter, a mortal woman named Baubo received Demeter as her guest and offered her a meal and wine. Demeter declined them both because she mourned the loss of Persephone. Baubo then, thinking she had displeased the goddess, lifted her skirt and showed her genitalia to the goddess, simultaneously revealing Iacchus, Demeter's son. Demeter was most pleased with the sight and delighted she accepted the food and wine.

-Demeter's wikipedia

If I had a penny-