#achaemenides | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

a-d-nox · 9 months

Note

Random question. Which persona charts (or any other Astro placements) highlights a persons strengths, weaknesses, personal development, and path to self improvement?? Thank you.

how to discover your strengths, weaknesses, and how to improve using asteroid persona charts

i smiled when i read "random question" i was like oh boy... they are gonna ask me what my favorite color or type of potato is... NOPE this question is not random at all for this blog. i'm going to work off of what i already have posted (no asteroids discussed after this post will be added after the posted date).

strengths (check the jupiter placement/aspects and sagittarius/pisces ruled houses for the following asteroid persona charts)

abundantia (151): where you are most abundant in life and receive a bunch of gifts while also rewarding others

achaemenides (5126): he had a strong power of will and was capable of perseverance

atalanta (36): strengths/capabilities as a woman - breaking the norms of gender expectations

constantia (315): consistency often breeds success and strengths

hehe (200002): where you have a lot of harmony/positivity in life

heracles (5143): what tasks you completed / will complete because you are strong and determined

hilaritas (996): resilience despite everything around you going poorly

lysistrata (897): leadership qualities and power over a group

themis (24): power and ability to see right from wrong

weakness (check the saturn placement/aspects and capricorn/aquarius ruled houses for the following asteroid persona charts)

achilles (588): a flaw you have that can break you down if not improved upon

cucula (2731): repetition and routine is often a person's greatest weakness (i say this as someone who studied forensic psychology with a lead investigator who works with serial killers)

icarus (1566): a mindset that could lead to your demise

lacrimosa (208): thoughts/experiences that hold you back because you are still upset over them

midas (1981): where your life is set to change from riches to rags because of greed

narcissus (37117): where your selfishness is your weakness/flaw

niobe (71): where you are too cocky and you experience a downfall because of it

tantalus (2102): where your superior mentality holds you back

how to improve (check the jupiter placement/aspects and sagittarius/pisces ruled houses for the following asteroid persona charts)

ambrosia (193): the food of the gods - the more you eat the more immortal you become - the more you act in this area (these areas) the better life gets for you

chiron (2060): he was the wounded healer - if anyone knows about improving it is him

dante (2999): dante journeyed from hell to heaven to be good enough for beatrice - it can show you the improvement(s) you make for others / those you love

eureka (5261): a discovery that can change your life

isis (42): how you can heal

karma (3811): the balancing factor in your life

medusa (149): how you can turn your bad actions around to receive remorse from others

odin (3989) / wodan (2155): what you'd do to learn how to improve

pandora (55): the balance of positives and negatives in your life

like what you read? leave a tip and state what post it is for! please use my "suggest a post topic" button if you want to see a specific post or mythical asteroid next!

click here for the masterlist

want a personal reading? click here to check out my reading options and prices!

136 notes · View notes

illiummmmno · 19 days

Text

Achaemenides actually had the best survival strategy out of all of Odysseus' crew.

I too would spend months crying myself to sleep on an island praying the God's would turn me into a sheep.

Also the bit with Aeneas saving him I guess.

#tagamemnon #the aeneid #virgil's aeneid #Odyssey #odysseus #Achaemenides #Aeneas #the odyssey

25 notes · View notes

zinmf7xk23d · 1 year

Text

Russian teen anal homemade first time Fighting For Affection Spying On Big Tit Autumn Falls Young beauty pussy screwed in the kitchen PINAY TEEN Sobrang tight ni Babe, sarap niya kantutin ng ganito!!!!(ASIAN FUCK) Young gal is crazy about pussy lick and hardcore shagging Kristen Scott In Celebration Sex DigitalPlayground - Bridgette B And Britney Amber Play With Big Pink Dildo Right OnThe Office Desk hot boy hot fuck Disappeared On Arrival: Two Busty Young Lesbian Slave Trained Together Pussy Gape Madness

0 notes

theancientwayoflife · 4 months

Text

~ Man and woman in loving embrace.

Place of origin: Iraq, Nippur

Period: Achaemenid Period

Date: 450 B.C.

Culture: Near Eastern

Medium: Terracotta

945 notes · View notes

memories-of-ancients · 4 months

Text

Gold pectoral inlaid with turquoise, lapis lazuli, glass, and carnelian, Achaemenid Empire, 6th-4th century BC

from The Miho Museum, Kyoto

#history #antiquities #art #ancient history #ancient art #jewelry #jewellery #achaemenid

675 notes · View notes

itswilliamleonard · 2 months

Text

return trip to the Throne Hall at Persepolis

#nanashi mumei #hololive #holocouncil #persepolis #achaemenid persia #needed a good ol hatching exercise to lift my spirits...#comic #wlart #williamleonard

325 notes · View notes

illustratus · 6 months

Text

Alexander covering the body of Darius with his cloak

by Charles Meynier

190 notes · View notes

lionofchaeronea · 4 days

Text

Stater, minted 380/379 BCE at Tarsus in Cilicia, of Pharnabazus II, former satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia under the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia and a major figure in the internecine conflicts of the Greek city-states during the late 5th/early 4th centuries. The coin shows the complex intermingling of Greek and Near Eastern cultures characteristic of Anatolia under Achaemenid rule. On the obverse, Ba'al of Tarsus is shown seated, holding a lotus-tipped scepter and wearing the Greek chlamys. On the reverse, a bearded man wears a helmet in Attic style. Both sides are inscribed in Aramaic, which served as the lingua franca of the Near East under the Achaemenids. Photo credit: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. http://www.cngcoins.com

#history #ancient history #classics #tagamemnon #Persian Empire #Achaemenid #coins #ancient coins #Persian coins #numismatics #ancient numismatics #artifacts #artefacts

72 notes · View notes

nazarjoon · 7 months

Text

achaemenid rug 𓃬

#based on reliefs of shahriar defeating a winged lion/gryphon #persepolis #ancient history #achaemenid #ancient persia

201 notes · View notes

pareefae · 2 months

Text

People wonder how Alexander was such a strategic genius...well I'm sure he had a lot of "brainstorming" sessions ;^)

Drawing these guys is so fun and it's like I'm in my own fandom, making food for only myself. Just a one man fandom ='D

🔶Full image on my paytree0n!

#alexander of macedon #alexander the great #achaemenid #ancient persia #ancient greece #bagoas #persian boy #my art

88 notes · View notes

a-d-nox · 2 years

Text

asteroids i like to check in solar return charts and why (part 1)

abundantia (151): where you have a lot and where you can give a lot.

achaemenides (5126): how to persevere.

achilles (588): where you are most vulnerable AND/OR where you may be forced to do something you do not want to.

agamemnon (911): where you get a lot of hate.

amalthea (113): where you should waste nothing.

ambrosia (193): what activities can extend your life if you pick them up this year.

aphrodite (1388): where you are seen as beautiful and where in your life there is a lot of drama.

arachne (407): where others destroy your reputation, where your ego is fragile, where you receive divine intervention, and/or where you transform.

artemis (105): where your attempts in romance are diminished (we don’t want this in 5h or 7h).

asmodeus (2174): where you may need to reevaluate in terms of logic by separating your personal opinions and emotions from the truth.

kleopatra (216): where you are likely to find a love affair.

frigga (77): where you have the ability to change your fate.

hermes (69230): this year’s travel forecast.

huitzilopochtli (52387): where you have a lot of energy that shouldn’t be wasted.

midas (1981): where your life completely changes in good and bad ways.

odysseus (1143): where you experience a lot of delays.

pan (4450): where to restraint yourself, greatest anxiety of the year, and where you can make the best out of the worst.

paris (3317): where you make a life changing decision that year.

tantalus (2102): where things feel just out of reach.

like what you read? leave a tip and state what post it is for! please use my “suggest a post topic" button if you want to see a specific post or mythical asteroid next!

click here for the masterlist

click here for more return chart posts

want a personal reading? click here to check out my reading options and prices!

302 notes · View notes

thosearentcrimes · 10 months

Text

The Achaemenid/First Persian Empire is kind of wild. At the time of its greatest conquests it was the largest empire the world had ever seen, by a significant amount. Like any good empire it's a triumph of logistics, of course, but what's unusual is the character of the logistics in question. The kinds of empire we're used to are generally either basically maritime (Roman, Spanish, British, American) or basically horselord (Xiongnu, Parthian, Mongol, American) or Chinese (special case, the general tendency for there to exist a Chinese Empire is impressive in its own right but relatively familiar).

The Achaemenid Empire touched a lot of seas and bodies of water (Indus, Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, Tigris and Euphrates, Red Sea, Nile, Mediterranean, Aegean and Bosporus, Black Sea, Caspian Sea) and certainly these would have been used to facilitate logistics to some degree (Persian invasions of Greece relied on naval support, for example), but it certainly seems like the fundamental lifeline of their state was their extensive system of roads. The Romans talk a big game about their road system but ultimately the major logistical corridors of the Roman state were maritime and riverine. The Inca Empire was similarly road-based, likewise a hilly/mountainous region, and is also extremely cool, but didn't last nearly as long and was much smaller.

Herodotus says: "There is nothing mortal that is faster than the system that the Persians have devised for sending messages. Apparently, they have horses and men posted at intervals along the route, the same number in total as the overall length in days of the journey, with a fresh horse and rider for every day of travel. Whatever the conditions—it may be snowing, raining, blazing hot, or dark—they never fail to complete their assigned journey in the fastest possible time. The first man passes his instructions on to the second, the second to the third, and so on." A different translation of a section of this passage is famously associated with the US postal service.

Herodotus may be wrong in the details because the actual intervals between adjacent waystations seem to have been on the order of 16-26km, a distance a rider could reach in an hour (and perhaps most relevantly, a pedestrian or army might reach in a day), and as such it's certainly plausible horses were changed more than daily, as is attested in later relay postal networks, but it's easily possible he was right about their incredible speed. A perhaps somewhat generous estimated speed of government messages along this route is ~230km/day, by analogy of the pirradazish to the Pony Express and barid systems. This would make them faster than Roman communications, though certainly we have to recognize that maritime transport is ultimately faster and more convenient for trade in bulk goods and food. All figures taken from H.P. Colburn, "Connectivity and Communication in the Achaemenid Empire" Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 56 (2013).

That's so cool! It's several hundred BCE and they have a complex permanent relay system with stations every couple dozen km, on a system of roads running throughout an empire thousands of km from center to edge. Just for one road, like the Sardis-Susa section that the Greeks usually talk about, that's over a hundred stations, each with a stock of supplies, backup mounts and riders, accommodations, anything else they might need, and Sardis-Susa was just one possible road stretch among many. That's incredible! I wish we knew what the people who made it and ran it thought. What was the life of a gas station attendant waystation operator in the reign of Artaxerxes I like?

It's kind of tragic that the Achaemenid Empire has been marginalized historiographically for so long. Generally it was treated as significant for its invasions and meddling in Greece, for ending the Babylonian captivity, or for providing a ready-made empire for Alexander to take over. It's not nothing, other places and time periods end up with much less of an imprint on our contemporary understanding of the past. We know a lot of cool stuff. But I wish we had more reflections on Persia from within. Most of what we seem to have is reports from Greeks, fragmentary letters and steles, and precious few excavation sites.

#History #Achaemenid Empire

168 notes · View notes

treasure-of-the-ancients · 1 year

Text