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@femmefatalenet​’s — gtktm event: day five favorite pantheon 

GREEK

“the mother, the elderly, the beauty, the huntress, the brain and the hearth”

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In Ancient Egyptian, she was known as Anuket, Anaka, or Anqet. Her name meant the "Clasper" or "Embracer". In Greek, this became Anoukis (Ανουκις), sometimes also spelled Anukis. In the interpretatio graeca, she was considered equivalent to Hestia or Vesta. 

↳ Anuket, Goddess of the Nile river

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@femmefatalenet​'s — gtktm event: day one favorite myth

PYRAMUS AND TISBE

In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pyramus and Thisbe are two lovers in the city of Babylon who occupy connected houses/walls, forbidden by their parents to be wed, because of their parents' rivalry. Through a crack in one of the walls, they whisper their love for each other.

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@femmefatalenet​’s — gtktm event: day six favorite non-goddess mythical being

ERINYES (THE FURIES)

Up and lead the dance of Fate! Lift the song that mortals hate! Tell what rights are ours on earth, Over all of human birth. Swift of foot to avenge are we! He whose hands are clean and pure, Naught our wrath to dread hath he; Calm his cloudless days endure. But the man that seeks to hide Like him, his gore-bedewèd hands, Witnesses to them that died, The blood avengers at his side, The Furies' troop forever stands. 

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@femmefatalenet​’s — gtktm event: day two favorite romantic pairing

PSYCHE AND EROS 

“i await thru the dying night your eternal shadow that looms within no light settling to the ivory of your tampered embrace i live with the satisfaction of not seeing but being but feeling.. thru warm breezes that occupy the mind silent steps of invisibility i torment i decline for time i cannot wait and time have consumed this concurrent faith an eon of separation and the distance one could not forbear is this our veto? is this our fate? a reparation through time that no one can dictate? and so i search for your touch through the sleep of death that Olympus had enough they set you free to bestow upon us an awakening celestially combined with an endless beginning that need not any word just the presence, just mere existence, ceasless evolving immortal.”

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2 WEEK MYTH EVENT

day two — favorite greek/roman deity pair/group or myth creature: MEDUSA gorgon with the ability to turn onlookers to stone.

A suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy grew in my mind, which turned the hairs on my head to filthy snakes as though my thoughts hissed and spat on my scalp.

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I stared in the mirror. Love gone bad showed me a Gorgon. I stared at a dragon. Fire spewed from the mouth of a mountain. And here you come with a shield for a heart and a sword for a tongue and your girls, your girls. Wasn’t I beautiful Wasn’t I fragrant and young? Look at me now.

— Carol Ann Duffy

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2 WEEK MYTH EVENT

day three — favorite egyptian deity: BASTET goddess of cats, protection, joy, dance, music, family.

“Mother of felines, Mother of night 

Great Mother of shadows, hunter without light

Teacher of independence 

 Keeper of the Keys 

 The wisdom of focus, the wisdom of peace”

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day eight — favorite chinese deity pair/group or myth creature: JIANGSHI vampire, ghost, or zombie, is a type of reanimated corpse who kills living creatures to absorb their life force.

“The night approaches. And with it, come the Jiang Shi. Malevolent monsters left undecayed by insufficent insects. Rotting bodies brought forth by the dark, seeming to glow with their green-white skin. White hair waving as a flag would to surrender. But the beasts know no fear, in their hunger of yang qi. Fighting for our flesh, feeding on our misery. Peachwood sword that hangs at my side, comforting bumps as I traverse the city. Searching for survivors among the fallen and the frightened.”