#charis

[henk-heijmans]

Charis, Santa Monica, California, 1936 - by Edward Weston (1886 - 1958), American

[kohappink]

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[sarafangirlart]

“Hephaestus deserves better!”

Aglaia.

“Aphrodite is the goddess of love! She wouldn’t judge Hephaestus by his appearance!”

She would, also Aglaia is a goddess of love who loved him.

“Hephaestus and Aphrodite are like Jessica and Roger Rabbit”

No. Hephaestus and Aglaia are like Jessica and Roger Rabbit, especially if you take Aglaia being described as “buxom” seriously

“Aphrodite and Hephaestus should have an open relationship!”

No, he should have Aglaia, she should have Ares.

“Hephaestus doesn’t care about Aphrodite having affairs”

He did, that’s why he divorced her. Then married Aglaia.

“Hephaestus is asexual and aromantic”

No he isn’t, he’s very specifically shown to be attracted to women, one of them being Aglaia

“But he never had any children Aphrodite so-”

He had 4 daughters with Aglaia.

“What if Hephaestus-“

Aglaia. Stop ignoring Aglaia.

[higherentity]

[theoxenia]

Charis is difficult to translate, because it is (at least) two-sided. On the one hand it expresses the feeling of gratitude felt by humans to the gods for giving them good things, and on the other it means that ‘‘grace’’ or ‘‘bounty’’ which the gods give men. And the word is related to chairō, Greek for ‘‘feel joy or happiness.’’ In worship the Greeks aimed at generating an atmosphere of reciprocal charis; they would express their grateful worship of the splendid gods; the gods, in turn, would – hopefully – grant them their charis, goodwill, which translated into wealth, health, and power. We can see how hymn-singing is part of the human ‘‘charis-drive’’; it is an aesthetic offering to go with other material offerings (animal sacrifice, libations, incense, etc.) designed to secure divine goodwill. Prayer, on the other hand, is a request put to god(s) backed up by references to other acts of worship (sacrifice etc.) which might induce the god(s) to grant the request. The prayer-request itself is not conceived as an offering, either material or aesthetic.

Prayers and Hymns by William D. Furley, in A Companion To Greek Religion edited by Daniel Ogden

[takadasaiko]

Once there was a man whose song captured her heart as easily as a fowler catching a bird in a silken snare.

[theogonyofbeauty]

Hephaestus and Charis receiving Thetis.

In the Iliad, Charis lives with Hephaestus on Mount Olympus, into which she welcomes Thetis so that the latter may ask for Hephaestus to forge armor for her son Achilles.