#double flute

[oldschoolfrp]

"Babysitter" by Robin Wood, Dragon 155, March 1990

[sarafangirlart]

So this is what Euryale’s cries sound like

[zmaragdos]

Happy April and a Joyful Welcome to Spring!

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protinus inflexo berecyntia tibia cornu 

flabit et idaeae festa parentis erant 

Let’s keep going: a foreign flute made of curving horn

will be played, and the Festival of the Trojan Mother will begin

— P. Ovidius Naso, Fastorum Libri Sex, lib. IV, 181-2

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The Megalesia (The Festival of the Trojan/Idean Mother/Parent, i.e. the Phrygian goddess Magna Mater) was a Roman holiday that occurred every year from April 4th to 10th, consisting primarily of a musical and floral procession of the goddess’ image, religious plays performed both in theaters and on the steps of her temple, lavish, rotating dinner parties, and a final day culminating in a chariot race. The holiday was exclusively celebrated and viewed by the patrician (aristocratic) class — so much so that enslaved people were forbidden from viewing the procession and ordinary citizens were not permitted to participate in the rites and festivities.

April 4th is the anniversary of Magna Mater’s arrival in Rome. She was initially brought to the city in 204 BC after the Roman senate, concerned about Rome’s success in the midst of the Second Punic War (218-201 BC), consulted oracles and were informed that they needed to retrieve the “mother goddess.” Roman aristocrats painted themselves as the descendants of the Trojans, so they exported a mother goddess cult from Anatolia (modern-day central Turkey, a far cry from coastal Troy). However, this ended up being slightly more than the Roman elites had bargained for, because with the goddess came her castrated priests (castration was a major taboo during the Roman Republic) and their unusual rites, which included “foreign” music, (such as the aulos flute pictured above and leather drums) and begging for small change. 

The aulos is a double reed wind instrument that produces a piercing tune, not unlike a bagless bagpipe. The aulos is deeply associated with the Greek world (or, more generally “the East”) and would have made the Megalesia procession sound suitably “foreign” for its imported god.

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Interested in learning more?

Read Ovid’s Fasti, book IV. Lines 179-392.

Don’t read Latin? This is my preferred, published translation.

One definition of the Megalesia. And another.

As well as some information about Magna Mater. And her Roman sanctuary. 

[theworldofthedarkcrystal]

In regards to a regently reblogged post, consider: What if Jen is in fact a Spriton and that's why he's a pacifist soft boi?

i am 100% behind this!

i mean, he looks stonewood, and his clothes look stonewood, but

he’s got kylan’s firca don’t he?

hmmmMMMMMmm???

I guess we’ll have to wait for the possible season 2 to find out!!!!

[solbacka]

Wishing you an easy stride towards weekend!

[sunglazer]

Past dream journals

We went to scope out a few mansions partially available as public spaces except the upper floors were caving in. Through a series of selections we settled on a new move in with multiple tiered floors accessible through a central ladderway as in the inside of a hollow pagoda with wraparound porches. I was astounded to be on a trampoline at that height in a suburban area with someone of your frame driving the membrane. A safe path existed to forestall meeting a witch from the north to confront my shadow self in baltimore (temporarily strung up) then through a system of interconnected basements, a stop at a home halfway between us, guidance from someone I met years later in WV, joining friends in a mining operation, neighbor in a magic disciplinary sorting operation/indie market on the hill, finding her recently departed; obviously around in sea caves with hidden doors revealed by bombs. There were things to do at the dominion tower; when I was there more as a consumer it was harder to participate in the room effectively. Cave complexes required a sustained campaign to clear multiple enemies on the way to a safe return.

Additional visits to the south were peak times with company; if only a second key card was inbound at some location along the coast this summer repeatedly.

I went back to school here.

It's really intimidating how often your stories land in the same room from a different door.

There's an impression one of us has been keeping up more deeply with studies.

I am slow to lean on projects that would put us together through mutual interest, slow to develop them as fully as possible before I give them serious consideration in public.

Maybe both of us can solve the invisible floor problem together, maybe it's really just an endless pit.

[aerikarkadian]

Athena, Medusa, and the Birth of the Flute

Many of our modern instruments today have their roots in mythology. Deities can be both virtuosos and inventors! Hermes created the lyre. Pan created the syrinx (or panpipe). But did you know that Athena made the first flute? That’s the story, at least according to the poet Pindar. Let’s check it out and see more about Athena’s legendary instrument. Key Players You’ve probably heard about most…

Athena, Medusa, and the Birth of the Flute

[priest-photographer]

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