#aeëtes

[cdgriff7]

Is Hecate, Helios baby mama?

Ok I’ve been reading up about Circe and her siblings (Pasiphae and Aeetes? I don’t think I spelled that right) anyways I thought it was cool how they’re the children of Helios BUT at the same time all of them and their children (Medea) are these super cool powerful witches and then I read that their mama is an oceanid named Perse which made me immediately make me think of Hecate who’s dad is literally named Perses and Hecate has the epithet Perseis / persea because she is the daughter of Perses !!!

At the end of the day this was just a fun thought especially with the sun and moon imagery that would imply idk.

[dreamgirlneutral]

— the other nymphs were not children of helios, raised on stories about breaking the world

[thereadingcellar]

You can teach a viper to eat from your hands, but you cannot take away how much it likes to bite. —Madeline Miller

[fieriframes]

[Seemed like something Aeëtes would do, setting my will over his.]

[rosesforhekate101]

Hekate and Her Consorts

Hekate and Her Consorts

Hekate is a Goddess with many aspects and roles in mythology and some of these are so overpowering that others can get lost in the glare of belief that ancient culture was an homogenous whole. One example of this is her role as a Goddess alone, virgin and (by extension) unwed and unfettered by attachment to any male be they God or Mortal but on closer inspection this is not actually the case.…

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[mariasdumblifeblog]

"'What have you been doing all this while? You took forever. I was beginning to think maybe you weren't a pharmakis after all.' It was not a word I knew. It was not a word anyone knew, then. 'Pharmakis,' I said. Witch."

Madeline Miller, Circe (68)

[mariasdumblifeblog]

"I had stood beside my father's light. I had held Aeëtes in my arms, and my bed was heaped with thick-wooled blankets woven by immortal hands. But it was not until that moment that I think I had ever been warm."

Madeline Miller, Circe (38)

[crumbledraws]

Aeëtes and Circe – Son and Daughter of the Sun