#fyeahmythology

[juliakaze]

@hindumythologyevent Female Goddess

Modern Saraswati

Saraswati (Sanskrit: सरस्वती,Sarasvatī) is the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, speech, wisdom, and learning

She is everywhere in all forms of creativity from a learning app to a manuscript and from a fountain pen to a stylus.

[sorry-cassandra]

they say home is where your heart is set in stone, it’s where you go when you’re alone, it’s where you go to rest your bones (x)

Hestia || Greek goddess of the hearth and the home

[moon-gf]

<< awful persephone, infernal queen // persephone divine, blessed queen >>

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[sorry-cassandra]

san diego mythology meme (1/?):  baird’s sandpiper

they fight one night, throats hoarse from screaming, eyes dry and cheeks wet with streaming tears. she goes to the water, hurls a diamond into the sea, heart clenching with bitterness as the waves bear it away. she sits on the waterline, the tide rising and ebbing around her, skin pickled by the salt. as the sun comes up, she returns home again. he never does. 

and she goes back to the water, contrite. scours the beach, rushing to each glint in the sand, begging the waves to return the gem to her. maybe if it returns, then he will too. 

the sun beats, the waves crash, and she stays at the water. her legs darken under the sun, and grow thinner as she refuses to eat, to rest, to leave the shore. eventually, the sun takes pity on her, and her burned skin is covered in white plumage, and as she crouches closer and closer to the sand, her shadow is smaller than a seagull’s. her tears still darken her cheeks. 

and still she searches.    

[sorry-cassandra]

san diego mythology meme (2/?):  the morning fog

sometime between midnight and dawn, the sea wakes. when campfires have extinguished, when feet no longer trample the sand, the crashing waves bring with them the spirits of the sea. 

they climb from the depths, scales shaping into careful legs, unsteady on land. they dance in the moonlight, limbs free of the weights of water. they sway and twirl in a different kind of gravity. then the sun begins to rise and its light, though soft, burns their skin. so they retreat. 

but sometimes they’re late; sometimes paddleboarders or fishermen or surfers think they see something that isn’t quite mammal, vanishing into the froth of the waves. 

so the sea breathes a cloudy veil over her surface, and the fog billows in. it rolls off the wings of gulls and settles over the sea, waits. covers, hovers, hides. recedes when the sun is too strong, drifts over the coast and into the mainland, dissipates by midday. but it will return tomorrow morning, return to hide the remnants of the dance. 

[sorry-cassandra]

your enemy whispers so you have to scream; I know about whispers (x)

fama || roman goddess of rumors and fame

[moon-gf]

<< artemis of the wild, the lady of wild beasts>>

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[moon-gf]

<< apollo, god of music, sun, light, and knowledge; lover of hyakinthos >>

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