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Hwæt

People who can go take a jump: Neos, AfD, -phobes of all flavours, TERFs, racists, classists, antisemites, and the like. Stay off my blog. Go away. Don’t make me yell at you in German.

If I reblog from someone questionable, let me know. I don’t background check everyone I reblog from, and if the latest receipts are from e.g., 2015, and the person has since changed their ways, I do not care. People grow. If they haven’t, of course, it’s a different story. Same goes for people who comment.

I’m an adult! I try not to post NSFW content, but everyone is squicked by different things and what I may consider okay, you may not. You are responsible for creating your own online experience. I am not responsible for your squicks. You can block me, ask me to block you, or both if my being an adult makes you uncomfy. I don’t mind. I won’t get offended.

I’m an English-German bilingual historical linguist who lives in Germany. German words will occasionally pop up when I write; this is not because I am affiliated with Neos, but because I speak German and live in Germany. “Germanic” refers to languages in the Indoeuropean family tree which have Protogermanic as a common ancestor; “Germanist” (which may or may not be an actual word in English) refers to someone like me who has spent way too much time studying Germanic languages. I use these terms here and elsewhere as a linguist. Please do not come after me.

Be nice, y’all.

EDIT (15.07.2021)

I can’t believe I have to say this.

If your response to BLM is to say ‘all lives matter’ you are missing the point and I do not want you on my blog or liking my posts. Go away.

I may have once been Catholic, but I am in no way, shape, form, or fashion conservative in the USAmerican sense. If you are and think you have found an ally in me, you are wrong. Go away.

If your response to criticism is to say ‘not all...’, you are missing the point. I don’t hate on any particular group, but I don’t universally love them either. Go away. And, as always

Be nice, y’all.

EDIT (21.10.2021)

I do not follow orphic beliefs. I do not have words to describe how little I care if someone else is, but please do not come on my posts assuming that I am.

Please do not reblog any of my posts with tags about being a godspouse or a consort of a deity. I’m not even sure I experience romantic attraction and it makes me incredibly uncomfortable when my posts, my words, are taken to be of that nature.

Unless I am asking for an opinion, do not make unsolicited comment on my posts about the true nature of the gods. Please take you and your hubris elsewhere.

Do not come on my posts telling me how much my gods and the Xtian god would get along. That gives comfort to some people. It does not give comfort to me. Take your comfort where you may, but don’t cause me discomfort in the process.

Be nice, y’all.

#shut up dyllan #housekeeping #organisatorisches #'hwaet' is Old English #it literally means 'what' but was also an interjection used to get attention #kind of like saying 'so!'#it's the first word in Beowulf

toyastales

René Lalique Serpent Pectoral Pendant designed around 1899.

Okay but what if I'm trying to be a good guest but the host is bad what would be the most gods honouring thing to do here

#dyllan speaks #aside from leaving asap

cunningqueer

Btw it's okay to believe magic is real. You don't need to try to logic your way through or obscure science and "spicy psychology" the magic into "rational" things.

I'm 30 years old, I believe in magic and I believe it is **magical**

templeofmercury

This is also true of religion. You don't have to justify it in materialist terms, an ardent materialist won't respect what you're doing no matter how you frame it. It's perfectly fine to have beliefs based in subjective experience that you can't prove to anyone else.

yesornopolls

Do you believe in Greek mythology???

Yes

Voting ended onMay 12

honorthegods

May, fragment of a mosaic with the months of the year. First half third century CE. Discovered in the city of Thysdrus, Roman province of Byzacena, (modern El Djem, Tunisia). Archaeological Museum of Sousse. Photograph © Ad Meskens, 2012 via Wikimedia Commons (X) License: CC BY-SA 3.0

This panel shows a man making an offering at an altar before a statue of Mercurius, likely in observation of the Mercuralia festival on 15 May, which commemorated the dedication of the Temple of Mercury on the Aventine Hill in 495 BCE. According to Ovid in Fasti, Book 5, merchants on this day drew water from the well near this temple to bless themselves and their wares for success.

medusaspeach

Homer, Iliad 5. 385 ff (trans. Lattimore) (Greek epic C8th B.C.) "[Zeus speaks :] ‘Many of us who have our homes on Olympos endure things from men, when ourselves we inflict hard pain on each other. Ares had to endure it when strong Ephialtes and Otos, sons of Aloeus, chained him in bonds that were too strong for him, and three months and ten he lay chained in the brazen cauldron; had not Eeriboia, their stepmother, the surpassingly lovely, brought word to Hermes, who stole Ares away out of it, as he was growing faint and the hard bondage was breaking him.’"

#hermes #ares

morphic-mythos

The Greek for “divine possession” is enthusiasmos—enthusiasm. To be enthused or enthusiastic is to be “engodded,” to be divinely inspired.

—Stephen Fry, Mythos

mothermara

remember to bury the dead with a phone, everyone. these days the ferry terminal at the river styx wants you to download a fucking app

#xvjsfuafjariqfjqtjqriqriqr #there's a technical issue and we all have to wait for hephaistos to come fix it

temperamentalgreen

⚖️⛈️Zeus Pater🪶🏺

He has been a lot on my mind with the April rains here

It's also my birthday today!!

#zeus

lasmishen

The Bacchae

One more art for the 24h city Dionysia thing on lofter but bro got banned for nude so I put it here.

#dionysos

salomi

Tiber Apollo

The Tiber Apollo is an over lifesize marble sculpture of Apollo, a Hadrianic or Antonine Roman marble copy after a bronze Greek original of about 450 BCE.

The statue, 204 cm high, was found in the Tiber River and was reconstructed from numerous fragments. The hair is thick and the curls, tight with a thin band, protrude on the forehead and temples.

The pensive reserve of such Apollos provided the iconographical type for Hadrianic portrait heads of Antinous in the following century.

(Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo.)

#Apollon