Λευκό Νήμα

he/him, I attempt to connect with my muse and go on daimon rites | Votary of Zagreus, venerate Anax Hades, Anassa Persephone, Prometheus, Eleos and Ananke Mathetes of Ananke and Three Moirai

[thewhisperofzagreus]

“Bethink thee of the adage, 'Call none blest, till peaceful death have crowned a life of weal.'” Gods are stubborn. So am I.

[last-of-the-romans]

The Painted Garden of the Villa of Livia.  

[flamingartofheart]

Springtime, 1873 - oil on canvas

— Pierre Auguste Cot (France, 1837–1883)

[effulgentpoet]

mythology aesthetics

HESPERUS, PHOSPHORUS, PHAINON, PYROEIS, & STILBON

In Greek mythology, Hesperus is the Evening Star, the planet Venus in the evening. He is the son of the dawn goddess Eos and is the half-brother of her other son, Phosphorus. Hesperus’ Roman equivalent is Vesper. By one account Hesperus’ father was Cephalus, a mortal, while Phosphorus’ was the star god Astraios. Phosphorus is the Morning Star, the planet Venus in its morning appearance. The other Astra Planeta were Phainon (Saturn), Phaethon (Jupiter), Pyroeis (Mars), and Stilbon (Mercury). The three remaining planets - Uranus, Neptune and Pluto - are invisible to the naked eye and were only discovered and named in modern times.

[5ner]

[dionysian-mystery]

Wikipedia / Image from pinterest / Machiavelli / George Santayana / Thucydides / Image from pinterest / Abba - Waterloo / J. M. Barrie - Peter Pan / Fibonacci spiral / Catherynne M. Valente

[quo-usque-tandem]

Statuette of a Snake-Legged Giant - Greece, 180-220 B.C.E.

[nardialrose]

Yes, truly, the day will come when Zeus, although stubborn of soul, shall be humbled, seeing that he plans a marriage that shall hurl him into oblivion from his sovereignty and throne; and then immediately the curse his father Cronus invoked as he fell from his ancient throne, shall be fulfilled to the uttermost. Deliverance from such ruin no one of the gods can show him clearly except me. I know the fact and the means. So let him sit there in his assurance, putting his trust in the crash reverberating on high and brandishing his fire-breathing bolt in his hands. For these shall not protect him from falling in ignominious and unendurable ruin. Such an adversary is he now preparing despite himself, a prodigy irresistible, even one who shall discover a flame mightier than the lightning and a deafening crash to outroar the thunder; a prodigy who shall shiver the trident, Poseidon's spear, that scourge of the sea and shaker of the land. Then, wrecked upon this evil, Zeus shall learn how different it is to be a sovereign and a slave.

-Prometheus in Prometheus Bound, attributed to Aeschylus

[spirit-of-art]

Charles-Amable Lenoir (1860–1926), To the Return of Times Lost (A la Recherche du Temps Perdu)

[wrathful-warhound]

Iapetus please?

Iapetus

[taurzza]

[weepingwidar]

Masayuki Murai (Japanese, 1947) - Eternity (2021)

[red-lipstick]

Steve Adams - Moongazer (A hare staring at the rising moon in Kimberley Nottinghamshire), 2012    Photography

[academic-vampire]

𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔪, 𝔰𝔞𝔩𝔱𝔶 𝔞𝔦𝔯

[lichen-bones]

the exceptional child

[oldpaintings]

Arachne, 1884 by Otto Henry Bacher (American, 1856–1909).

[tridentandtales]

Greek scaraboid with an archer testing his arrow

ca. 500 BCE

Metropolitan Museum of Art 31.11.5