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[bfire92]

The real reason Hermes isn't properly curly. He is judging you for judging him. He had a rough week, okay. It's only Wednesday.

[chainslobber]

Since you're down, here's a luggage tag I sneakily snapped a picture of last time I was travelling.

Do they have that in size XL because if so, I need one to slap on my ass ASAP.

[mythologymadness]

Demeter/Hecate - You're a fan of a-gnosis and just want your body type and sexuality represenfed in media. Also you believe in the inherit homoeroticism that is two MILFs getting it on with each other

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Demeter/Hecate - You're a fan of a-gnosis and just want your body type and sexuality represenfed in media. Also you believe in the inherit homoeroticism that is two MILFs getting it on with each other

[my-name-is-apollo]

There is still a meter of snow outside. It makes me think- what is Hyperborea like? What do we know about it? When did Apollo return?

Apollo has mostly likely returned from Hyperborea already! The Theophania at Delphi was celebrated in the month of Bysios - which roughly extends till mid - March. So sunny boy is back, though he might be taking his sweet time to make it warm enough for the snow to melt.

We know quite a bit about Hyperborea actually. You will be amazed by the amount of details we have about the people, the land, the lifestyle - all from canon sources. You ready?

The topography

Hyperborea is a mystical relam of eternal spring, where wars, diseases and deaths never occured. It's sort of a continent, surrounded on the North by Oceanus (the earth-encircling water), and on the south by the peaks of the Rhipaion mountains, which are said to be bitterly cold and impassable. These peaks are guarded by the Griffins (this why they're sacred to Apollo), and in the valleys live a tribe of one eyed men called the Armisapi. And beneath the slopes of Rhipaion, there is another realm called Pterophoros, the land of eternal winter, which is the home of Boreas. It is said that Atlas stands holding the world in or somewhere near Hyperborea, and the garden of Hesperides (sacred to Hera) was also situated there. The distance to moon was significantly less from Hyperborea.

The main river of Hyperborea is the Eridanos. You know, the same river which was formed when Apollo cried his eyes out after Aslcepius died. The river contains ambers, because Apollo’s tears are ambers, and also because the riverside is lined with amber crying poplar trees (remember Phaeton, the son of Helios who died? Yeah, those trees are his grieving sisters, the Heliadae). These trees give out shirll cries during the night time. Hyperborean swans lived in this river. Into Eridanos flows another river called Rhodanos, which rises from the ends of the earth where mansions of Nyx stand. One end of Rhodanos joins Oceanus, and another end of it flows to the mortal world, into the Ionian sea and the Sardinian sea.

The people and their lifestyle

The Hyperboreans are the children of Gaia and hence immortal, unless they wish to die. They have their own language, which was unknown to the greeks. And even though they're described as "brutish beasts", they are said to be quite friendly. Most of them are singers and musicians, and the maidens there are dancers too. Even though 2 harvest crops are cultivated every year, most of the countryside is filled with beautiful, dense forests that are called the "gardens of Apollo". The inhabitants mostly live in woods and groves as well. Games are also conducted regularly. It might be the Pythian games or the Olympic games. Or both. The land is ruled by 3 priests of Apollo - the gigantic Boreades (children of Boreas), who live in the Riphaion peaks and come down only when it is time to make sacrifices for Apollo. Shamans also lived in Hyperborea, and were followers of Apollo.

Apollo in Hyperborea

Apollo is said to visit Hyperborea every winter and stay there for 3 months. He came to the place riding on swans or griffins. The capital of Hyperborea had a very beautiful circular temple dedicated to Apollo where sacrifices to him were offered. Music was played using flutes and lyres and different kinds of instruments, and it is said that songs and dances praising Apollo were performed almost all the time there. The swans would join the people during the recitation of the hymns and sing melodiously along with them. Hecatombs of assess were sacrificed to Apollo, and Apollo is said to have enjoyed the "rampant lewdness" of these beasts. (one translation says "arousal" instead of lewdness so take it however you want.) And every 19 years (year of Meton), when the stars return to their original position in the heavens (whatever that means), Apollo himself is said to give a special performance by playing on his cithara and dancing for a few hours, starting from spring equinox till the rising of the Pleiades (which most probably means heliacal rising of the stars).

And that's the basics of Hyperborea! It was considered by many as an actual place rather than a mystical realm, but historians have failed to locate it accurately. It's such a well detailed realm, shame that people are sleeping on it. Anyway, there's more about myths related to Hyperborea on theoi.com page, where you'll also find all the details which I collected from the various passages written by various authors.

[deadangelos]

Leo has his *a-plan-is-unfolding*-face on. Should we evacuate just in case?

[raccoonwarlock]

Just what is the Mythomagic series going to be about, exactly?

Seeing as the Mythomagic game doesn’t really have a plot (according to my knowledge), I’m planning on creating an anthology series based on each mythology & try to incorporate aspects based on the game tournaments in Austin, Texas into the story, such as moves & damaging power. The first 2-3 seasons will be based on Greco-Roman mythos & will hopefully be about the creation of Patrocles & Achilles’s relationship because yes they will be gay, & bleed into the Iliad, seeing as it features nearly all the gods

[bfire92]

Hyacinthus, once he has levelled up enough from godling to god. This took me forever. I can't draw as much as I used to, and the past moth I've been relapsing with my injuries. So its slow healing. We are closing in on the second year anniversary of my many injuries XD

[bfire92]

I mean, she is dressed, that's SFW enough for this site now that we have community labels, right? A late kinktober with Ariadne.