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hii love your blog
was wondering if you have any book recs for those interested in learning about myths ?!
genuinely 99% of my myth-learning recommendations are gonna be podcasts or youtube videos cause i’m of the weird opinion that we should be preserving the oral tradition its way more fun to listen to myths as stories.
that being said!
my interest is piqued by 1) a pared down stick-to-the-facts version (mythology by scott lewis) 2) cool art (d’aulaires) 3) ‘this is just straight up a well written story’ (norse mythology) 4) people rubbing their dirty SJW paws all over classic myths (women and other monsters).
ofc if you’re looking for the BEST way to learn about mythology, that would be listening to The Unfair Folk Podcast
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Knuckle tats that say D’AULAIRES
#tagamemnon#silliness aside I am going to get a D’Aulaires illustration tattoo in the near-ish future#specifically that one illustration of Artemis on the hunt
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Tell me your only source for Greek mythology is Percy Jackson without telling me your only source for Greek mythology is Percy Jackson
#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#heroes of olympus#rick riordan#the trials of apollo#magnus chase#annabeth pjo#annabeth chase#pjoverse#tartarus#greek myth retellings#greek myths#greek mythology#satyrs#monster#water nymph#naiad#nereid#dryads#d’aulaires’ Book of Greek myths#dont get me wrong#I do love pjo#this is mostly for joke purposes#and to see how people reply
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Even though I know that D’aulaires’ book of Greek myths is a lot of peoples intro to mythology I’ve never actually read it myself. So I bought a copy and
First page in I already have some questions but I’m gonna gloss over this really weirdly designed family tree and move on
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d’aulaires book of greek myths / l’esprit de l’escalier / hadestown / eurydice / d’aulaires book of greek myths
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when i was maybe ten or eleven, i had a crush on loki—not the marvel version; this was before those movies came out. i specifically had a crush on one particular illustration of loki in the d’aulaires’ book of norse myths. it was this gorgeous lithograph portrait of him wreathed in flame, surrounded by the various aspects he was known to shapeshift into. perhaps it was this very fluidity, this ambiguity that appealed to me…anyway i’m transgender now
Believe it or not you are not the only person to send in this exact crush before. Or maybe you're the same person. Congrats on the transgenderism either way
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I will say as someone whose mom read her D’aulaires as a kid, Percy regurgitating every random Greek myth about the gods and not knowing shit about the characterization itself. Checks out
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Arthurian hot takes from before I joined the fandom
Funny story: the way I got into this fandom was a seventh-grade assignment to write an alliterative paragraph using the letter G. Something clicked (or snapped, however you want to look at it) and though I’d never given much thought to the Round Table before, I wrote a paragraph about Gawain, which spiraled into a chapter, which spiraled into an attempt at a novel, which spiraled into a neverending research wormhole and long term fixation. Older and at least a little wiser, I give you ten of my original takes on the characters and how they seem in retrospect.
Guinevere doesn’t really do anything.
In my defense, my knowledge of her mostly came from watching the first half of an amateur production of Camelot, which is bound to give anyone the wrong idea.
Mordred is a socially awkward evil wizard.
In my book, he made a number of cartoonish villain speeches, mostly to his long-suffering familiar, since no one else would listen. No, I have no idea why I thought he had magic… Is it awful that I kind of like him that way?
Arthur is perfect.
Uh…
Gawain is perfect.
Uh….
Lancelot is an absolute monster.
My version of him was a mix of a guy who bullied me and the god Ares as depicted in D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths. Needless to say, he did not have an affair with Guinevere, because she would never cheat on Arthur, because only morally pure characters are good, and she is secretly awesome, even though most people think she doesn’t do anything… Uh… Yeah. I was wrong.
Agravaine is mildly aggravating. Gareth and Gaheris are just sort of there and uninteresting.
This opinion was derived entirely from their names.
Morgause is an evil witch but has great style.
That sounds more like Morgan.
Morgan is a terrible name.
I debated renaming her Marianne or Meredith. Yes, I have seen the error of my ways.
Galahad is a rustic himbo.
That was the vibe I got from the name “Gallahad”.
The Lady of the Lake is awesome.
I stand by this one and always will.
#guinevere#mordred#king arthur#gawain#lancelot#agravain#sir gareth#gaheris#morgause#morgan le fay#galahad#lady of the lake#arthuriana#arthurian legends#arthurian mythology#dubious opinions#I also thought it would be cool if the Pendragons could turn into dragons
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Gaea and starry Uranus, from Ingri & Edgar Parin D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths
#childhood favorite#illustration#read under the covers with a flashlight when I was supposed to be asleep
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Celebrate World Folktales and Fables Week with 10 of Our Favorite Folktale Collections
This week, March 19th to 25th, is World Folktales and Fables Week! Duck Prints Press is celebrating with two blog posts: today’s, which focuses on the folktales, fables, and myths that influenced us as creators, and tomorrow’s, about our favorite folktale-inspired fiction (queer and otherwise).
Love folktales and fables? Join us now and learn about the ones we love – some you may know, some you may not!
D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths by Ingri d’Aulaire & Edgar Parin d’Aulaire (an inspiration for Shadaras)
The first book that comes to mind is D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths (I had to look up the title, but the cover is burned into my memory). While there may be other collections of fairytales and folklore that struck me, this is one of the first ones I read, and it set the stage for my love of mythology in general.
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs! by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith (an inspiration for Veronica Sanders)
I remember being really inspired by the genre of “a well-known story told from a different perspective” after reading the Jon Scieszka/Lane Smith books in 2nd grade, like The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. I always really liked thinking about folktales and fables from the POV of the “villain.”
Folktale-Inspired Disney Films (an inspiration for Adrian Harley)
I was a Disney-loving child of the 90s, so I am still unpacking the ways that shaped my view of folk stories, stories as a whole, and the world—and reconciling the positive ways these stories shaped me vs. the harms of the Disney corporation.
The Onion Girl (and other stories) by Charles de Lint (an inspiration for Anonymous)
He did an amazing job of blending American and European folklore with ordinary life in all its highs and lows. I don’t know if I could point to a specific story that’s retelling any one folktale, but I can absolutely point to the author as a whole for his folkloric style and tender exploration of magic, queerness, and being outcast. He helped invent the Mythic Fiction subgenre. The Onion Girl lives in my head rent-free.
Folktales of the Amur: Stories from the Russian Far East by Dmitri Nagishkin (an inspiration for Nina Waters)
A collection of eastern Russian folktales that really had a huge impact on me. 30+ years on from when I read them, I honestly couldn’t relate a single one of the stories, but they burrowed so deep into my psyche that when I imagine “folktales that really mattered to me” the first image that comes to mind is the cover. The art throughout the book is just absolutely gorgeous.
The Rose-Beauty – a Turkish Fairy Tale (an inspiration for Alessa Riel)
This is a Turkish fairytale that impressed me because it was cruel even for a fairytale. It‘s about a young woman who is blessed from birth to grow roses in her hair, cry pearls and grow grass wherever she walks and the cruel fate she is dealt because people are jealous of her gifts. It has a happy ending but only just.
A Tale Dark and Grimm by Adam Gidwitz (an inspiration for Sebastian Marie)
It had a HUGE influence on me as a kid, for two main reasons. One, the events of a lot of European fairytales are told as happening to the same two kids and their parents, which creates a really interesting story structure. Two, it’s unabashedly mean and gory and cruel and well, dark and grim. It says that sometimes people are terrible and sometimes bad things happen to decent people. It’s one of the things that made me want to write fairy tales, or at least stories that are a bit gruesome and meant to be told to children.
The Swan-Maiden – a fairy tale (an inspiration for Alessa Riel)
This is a variant of the selkie tale as far as I can tell, only that the women don‘t turn into seals but beautiful swans. It was the version of the lore I first encountered and the unfairness of the women being forced to marry their captor and abuser and then also being cursed for abandoning the children these men forced onto them always resonated deeply with me.
The Blue Light by The Brothers Grimm (an inspiration for Alessa Riel)
In this fairytale a veteran soldier is unjustly treated by the king and then a witch sets him three challenges. The third one is getting her a blue light from a deep well. He refuses to give her the light and she drops him into the well along with the light. It turns out the light can fulfill wishes. Up to this part the veteran looks like a sympathetic person, but he uses those wishes to have the princess dragged to his room three nights in a row to do his bidding against her will. He is finally found out and sentenced to death for this transgression but manages to escape that fate by using the blue light and he gets the kingdom and the princess to boot. I always found this supremely unfair.
Egyptian Mythology (an inspiration for Dei Walker)
I think one of the first books of folktales, legends, or fairy tales I can remember reading repeatedly is a copy of Egyptian myths and legends I used to get out of my local public library when I was young. It was already an old edition in the 1980s and its pages were yellowed, but I would borrow it regularly and lose myself in the stories of life and (un)death along the Nile.
What are some folktales and fables that have inspired YOU? We’d love to hear about them, and maybe find some classical stories to add to our To Be Read piles!
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The illustration from D’Aulaire’s Book of Greek Myths featuring Poseidon and Amphitrite.
OOOOHH THE NYMPHS AND THE HORSES. ITS SO BEAUTIFUL I MIGHT JUST READ THIS BOOK. 😍
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There’s a queen reading the d’aulaire book of Greek myths and I commend her for her reading choice in this subway car.
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(Hanahaki AU tag : 1 | 2 | 3 | 4)
Sometimes Eddie thinks stories are alive, somehow. Not in a gateway-to-a-magical-world sense; more like kudzu. Invasive, demanding, immortal. You think you’ve cut them to pieces and salted the earth, but they come back when you’re least expecting them, smothering any bullshit ideas about individuality or making your own way.
Like the story about the Munson boy: bad news, good-for-nothing, stealing and dealing, always in hot water with the law. Eddie’d tried like hell to fight that one, but it just came for him twice as hard. He clings to all the ways he’s not like his old man, but he’s still so shit-scared that when push comes to shove, the ways they’re different don’t matter as much as they ways they’re the same. That story’s got him by the throat.
And now the story about the other Munson boy, the quiet one: born wrong, they said. Wrong enough that they had to cut it out of him.
Eddie loves Wayne, but he’s never wanted to end up like him. Eddie had foolishly—foolishly!—thought that maybe there could be something different, like maybe his life could grow in bright new ways up and out, stretching sunwards. Instead, there’s the mile-a-minute strangling vines, overtaking him and smothering out any hope of light.
It’s like those older stories, the ones about prophecies, right? Eddie used to love those when he was a kid. He’d been obsessed with the library’s battered copy of D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths, checking it out again and again just to pore over the colorful illustrations of golden fleeces and golden apples and children born from eggs. Characters like Oedipus who tried to outrun their destiny could never really win. That’s a story to warn you about stories, for sure. It lays everything out: the futility of trying to run, and the way you’re going to try anyway.
So he should’ve known better, that’s all. Nothing ever really changes for the Munsons; those kudzu stories always come to drag them back into their place.
———
They run across an old-fashioned frozen custard place outside of Milwaukee, all neon and aluminum siding and servers in little paper hats. Steve screws his whole face up into a grimace. “Do we have to? I’m getting flashbacks to when me and Robin worked at Scoops Ahoy.”
“You what? Did I know this about you? Wait, did you wear—”
“Yeah, yeah, laugh it up, Munson. That uniform is the worst thing that ever happened to me.”
It might be the worst thing that’s ever happened to Eddie, jesus. He can’t stop picturing it. Damn his vivid imagination and active fantasy life.
“Well, Harrington, I have the overwhelming need to put some frozen custard in my face immediately, so you’re just gonna have to deal with the trauma.”
Steve gets a frozen custard too, despite all his complaining, and they sit in the back of the van to eat. It’s a pretty day out, and the place is humming. Lots of families around.
“So do you still have that uniform?” Eddie’s a fucking masochist for asking, but he can’t help it.
“Kind of? It’s…wait, did anyone tell you about Starcourt and the Russians?”
“Uh.” Eddie blinks at him. “Starting to think I’ve been left out of a few loops, here.”
It’s a good story. Steve’s not a very good storyteller, he keeps going on tangents and repeating himself, but Eddie likes listening to him anyway. It’s nice to see him waving his hands around, clearly forgetting that he’s still holding a mostly-eaten tub of custard, and telling an objectively absolutely buck-wild tale. Eddie only has to hide a coughing fit once, and he manages to drop the gross ball of brown-and-yellow plant matter under the van without Steve seeing. It’s a pretty decent way to spend an afternoon.
When Steve’s done, Eddie whistles long and low. “Steve fuckin’ Harrington. At this point, I don’t think anything you can tell me is gonna be surprising anymore. Like, if you said you’d traveled back in time to kill JFK? I’d be like sure, sounds about right, bet you had a pretty good reason for doing that.”
Steve snorts. “I think you know everything about me now, dude. All the important stuff, anyway.” He slides a look over at Eddie, suddenly weighty and serious in the way he gets sometimes. “I know there’s stuff you’re—stuff you don’t want to tell me. Part of the whole, uh, Eddie Munson thing, right? But I think—I hope I know you too. Who you are. Even if I don’t know all your stories yet.”
Eddie draws his knees up and rests his folded elbows on them, letting his hair fall forward to shield his face a little. It feels like there are so many important things that he’s trying to carry around under his skin, too many for any one person to hold, and one of these days it’s all gonna come spilling out, infinite and messy, raw and inconvenient, damning.
“Yeah,” he says. “I guess maybe you do know me enough.”
#okay here's the thing! I decided that the last segment in this series was a little abrupt.#so the first part of this flows a little weird bc it's going to be interwoven with the last bit of the previous snippet when it's up on AO3#which might need to be soon just so I can get like. a canonical version set.#this is the downside of posting immediately after I finish writing a thing#y'all are getting front-row seats to my Process which involves a lot of backtracking#hanahaki au#steddie
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what kind of witchcraft do you do? or would you even put yourself into a “category”?
any tips for a beginner?
I consider myself rather eclectic as a witch. I dabble in a lot of different stuff. But the things I return to again and again are divination (I love tarot and Oracle), using crystals, and using sigils.
As for tips for a beginner:
Read read READ all you can but please don’t take everything seriously that people put in books. Some witchcraft books are better than others. I love the book “Witch, Please” by Victoria Maxwell. It’s a great one to start with, and while I don’t do everything she says to do in the book, it’s definitely a very versatile beginner type book that can lead you in some good directions. If you’re interested in a specific type of witchcraft, I suggest these for the different types I practice:
FOR WATER WITCHCRAFT:
“Water Witchcraft” by Annwyn Avalon
FOR CRYSTAL WITCHCRAFT:
“Crystal Wisdom” by Shannon Marie (its not a witchcraft book but it really opened my eyes to the ways of actually utilizing crystals for their metaphysical properties)
FOR NORSE PAGANISM (If the pagan witch path resonates)
“The D’Aulaires Book Of Norse Myths” (very easy read and gets the general concepts of the gods across to newbies.
“The Prose & Poetic Eddas”
FOR DIVINATION:
“Seventy-Eight Degrees Of Wisdom” by Rachel Pollack (for tarot)
FOR ASTROLOGY:
Use an app like TimePassages for finding your chart
And read “The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need” by Joanna Martine Woolfolk
MOST IMPORTANTLY, Try things! And if it doesn’t resonate or feel good to you then don’t do it! And be respectful and ready to admit when you make a mistake! I for instance used to believe in the law of attraction until I realized how toxic it is by talking to others! I used to use chakras til I realized it was cultural appropriation! It’s ok to be wrong! Just learn from your mistakes and change 🩷
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D’aulaires’ book of Greek myths is beautifully illustrated but it’s not great on the content. There’s ways to make mythology more kid friendly. Horrible histories, Rick Riordan, and dozens of others have managed it throughout time. But D’aulaires has no respect for children’s intelligence. And they keep some weird stuff in there and take other things out.
Like they keep in the fact that Orpheus was torn to pieces but for some reason Dionysus’ maenads get turned into gentle nature spirits and don’t tear people to pieces? And Oedipus still gouges out his eyes when he finds out he married his mother and killed his father but for some reason the concept of adultery isn’t allowed to exist? And Selene still has 50 kids with a sleeping man she presumably raped and Persephone is unhappy about being the queen of the dead and being kidnapped but for some reason Aphrodite cheating on her husband or Hermes being a thief or Dionysus being a violent god of madness is too far somehow.
And also why is literally everyone blonde? Are these people Greek or not?
Also,
Big yikes.
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OKAY OKAY you're right that IS how they get you... top 5 greek myths.....
danae. my girl forever
andromeda. also my girl forever
persephone. yet another my girl forever
orpheus and eurydice. if i wasnt predictable enough
eos but specifically the d’aulaires’ iteration of her
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