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In Dahomey mythology, Mawu is the creator goddess associated with the moon. She is the goddess of the night and of fertility. She created the first humans out of clay, so she is worshipped as a mother goddess. Mawu is the sister-wife of the sun god, Lisa, but they may also be seen as one androgynous deity, Mawulisa, both representing the sun and the moon.

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In this story, Clytemnestra learns of her husband’s plan.

She sees the altar and knows it’s not for marriage. She breaks free, saves her daughter, steals the dagger. She screams “the gods want a sacrifice? I’ll give them one!” as she slices Agamemnon’s throat open. The wind ruffles her hair as his blood, and not the blood of Iphigenia, soaks into the ground.

She doesn’t care what happens next, as long as her daughter is safe.

The Greeks don’t care, as long as the wind is at their backs and they can sail for war.

Instead, Agamemnon lives. He kills and steals and takes women as war prizes. Clytemnestra looks out the window of her murdered daughter’s bedroom to the sea and rages any time a breeze picks up. She is all rage, these days, all rage and revenge and regret. She knows time doesn’t soothe wounds like hers.

So she waits, hones her grief like a weapon, and swears to the gods she will have her retribution.

The Greater Grief; Clytemnestra

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make me choose: @primordialnyx asked persephone or nyx

Nyx was an ancient deity usually envisaged as the very substance of the night--a veil of dark mists drawn across the sky to obscure the light of Aither, the shining blue of the heavens. Her opposite number was Hemera (Day) who scattered the mists of night at dawn.

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