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elains · 3 months

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MYTHOLOGY A-Z: GHOSTS

“At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.”

#ghosts #mythology #mythedit #folklore #moodboards #myedit #mythologyedit #mythology a-z #haunted

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peggy-sue-reads-a-book · 10 months

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Go off, Muse, of unhinged Achilles,

who cost the Greeks like so many Ls,

and yeeted countless souls of dank heroes

into Hades' big dark,

making their bodies into snack for doggos

and all kinds of birbs.*

Begin with the how Agamemnon--

CEO of men--

deadass canceled the main character.

*edit

#greek mythology #achilles #the iliad #gen z memes #gen z post #tagamemnon

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liliamoon · 1 year

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Chaotic Teacher Quotes

Because I just finished my degree, I compiled a list of some of my favorite things my professors have said this past semester:

“To shower or not to shower, that is the question.”

“My parents were baby boomers, which means they were on drugs and had sex and that’s how I happened.” “I’m not kidding. That’s true.”

“Ok, how does everyone feel about nostrils?”

“I like to remind my wife that she’s older than me. Every year on my birthday I’m like, oh my god, I’m almost as old as you!”

“That’s the best way to learn: forget and then remember. The only better way is to learn it drunk and then learn it sober. …Grad school is a lot of fun.”

“Is Dungeons & Dragons legit as a religious institution? Let’s discuss.”

“Punxsutawney Phil, the little beaver— not a beaver, the, you know, the marmot, HE DIED. I mean, what does that mean for our weather?? If he sees his shadow it’s six more weeks of winter but WHAT IF HE DIES??”

“We can’t have negative time— if it’s negative, you’re dead. Just like the groundhog.”

“Are we ultimately born of divine incest?”

“This whole thing is complex, very convoluted. But so is my sister, and I still love her.”

“You might ask yourself, what do I do with a big chunk of text? In many cases, the first step is to burn it with fire.”

“This is good information for those of you thinking of starting a cult.”

“I drive a stick-shift, you can’t steal my car. If you look at the thing, you wouldn’t want to, but the point is, you CAN’T.” “It’s got nothing, I almost literally have to go out with a lighter and turn on the headlights myself.”

“Do you think we could rewrite The Lord of the Rings in limerick meter? Potentially a good idea for your finals.”

“Does that freak anyone out? If it doesn’t, you might not be paying attention!!!”

“Here we read that Tiamat and Apsu had ‘mixed their waters together’— I guess that’s what the kids call it these days.”

“You know how in America we’re very vulnerable to British accents?”

“If you know what you’re doing, it’ll take about thirty minutes; if you don’t know what you’re doing, maybe forty; and if you really don’t know what you’re doing, it’ll take five.”

“Cockroaches gonna cockroach, everybody with me?”

“Right now I’m being a pain-in-the-ass materialist.” “You feel? Hold the phone.” “Conscience? What do we do with people who don’t have that? Like me.”

“Who here is familiar with the term ‘shitification’?”

“Academia is like a hospital: if you don’t work there, don’t stick around.”

“I always want you all to walk out of this classroom with a little bit more of the weight of despair on your shoulders.” “Are you feeling it?”

#school #jokes #memes #quotes #teacher quote #out of context quotes #funny #science #science teacher #mythology #classical mythology #literature #teaching quote #philosophy #gen z #high school #College #dark academia #chaotic academia

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thirdity · 11 months

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Rereading, an operation contrary to the commercial and ideological habits of our society, which would have us "throw away" the story once it has been consumed ("devoured"), so that we can then move on to another story, buy another book, and which is tolerated only in certain marginal categories of readers (children, old people, and professors), rereading is here suggested at the outset, for it alone saves the text from repetition (those who fail to reread are obliged to read the same story everywhere), multiplies it in its variety and its plurality: rereading draws the text out of its internal chronology ("this happens before or after that") and recaptures a mythic time (without before or after); it contests the claim which would have us believe that the first reading is a primary, naïve, phenomenal reading which we will only, afterwards, have to "explicate," to intellectualize (as if there were a beginning of reading, as if everything were not already read: there is no first reading, even if the text is concerned to give us that illusion by several operations of suspense, artifices more spectacular than persuasive); rereading is no longer consumption, but play (that play which is the return of the different).

Roland Barthes, S/Z

#reading #rereading #consumption #play #time #mythology #language #quotes #Barthes #Roland Barthes #S/Z

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allmythologies · 1 year

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a-z myths: vakare (lithuanian mythology)

vakare is the goddess and personification of the evening star.

#a-z myths #lithuanian mythology #vakare #goddesses #lithuanian myth #mythedit #*mine*

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starker-sorbet · 7 days

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Hades and Persephone au

#starker #mythological #a-z challenge #m #hades and persephone au #hades tony #persephone peter #moodboard #my moodboard

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literallyjusttoa · 1 year

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I have another one of these in the works, but it's taking FOREVER to finish so I'm just going to post this one.

Here's Apollo's family tree on his mother's side! We always talk about the Olympians, so I thought it would be interesting to look in the other half of the family. Here is everyone listed from top to bottom, left to right.

Coios: Titan of Intellect, and overseer of Heavenly Prophecy.

Phoibe: Titaness of Intellect, and overseer of Earthly Prophecy.

Perses: Titan of Destruction.

Asteria: Titaness of Shooting Stars and Nighttime Divination.

Lelantos: Titan of Air and moving unseen.

Leto: Titaness of Motherhood and Demureness.

Zeus: God of Storms, Justice, and King of Olympus.

Hekate: Goddess of Witchcraft, Magic, and Ghosts

Aura: Goddess of the Breeze and hunting partner of Artemis.

Apollo: God of the Sun, Music, Poetry, etc.

Artemis: Goddess of the Moon, the Hunt, and Archery.

Extra note: While researching to make sure I got this right, I found this little note that makes me giggle and kick my feet bc I have so many ideas surrounding it. LIke maybe a fic I don't know maybe probably that could be it but idk hahahahaha.

Clearly Coios functioned as the prophetic voice of his father Heaven, just as Phoibe was the prophetic voice of her mother Earth. Like Delphoi, navel of the earth, the axis of heaven was also guarded by a Drakon: the constellation Draco.

His grandson, Apollon the god of prophecy and light, divided his time between Delphoi, the shrine at the centre of earth previously held by Coios' wife Phoibe, and--during the winter months--Hyperborea, the land beneath the axis of heaven in the far north, represented by his grandfather Coios.

We never even touched heavenly prophecy in ToA. I wonder what that's all about hmmmmm???

#the more I research mythology the more I know for a fact that Hyperborea not being heavily mentioned in ToA is a CRIME #sunny speaks #trials of apollo #toa apollo #pjo artemis #others lol #apollart #this side of the family seems like way more fun than the Olympians tho sry not sry #except for Z*us obviously #I have a whole bunch of design notes but idk if y'all wanna hear them because I swear to god all I do is ramble in my posts nowadays #like right now actually

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azeerhqworld · 23 days

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What's your opinion on religious influences in Dragon Ball?

There is a lot of Judeo-Christian imagery (white dove, Upa scaring Devilman with a cross, Goku as a Moses-type figure, etc.) I don't like it when Seventh-Day Adventist fearmongers like Little Light Studios call Goku a Lucifer-type figure.

Beerus and Heles look like Egyptian gods

Comment on your thoughts in the reply section and like, share, reblog, and boost. U can do this matter your religion.

Dragon Ball is a mix of different religions †☪︎✡☯☸ૐ⛩️🀀𓋹⚛

I'm not gonna talk about Journey to the West since everyone knows that Dragon Ball was influenced by that story.

Ki comes from Eastern religions. A comparison to make is the Jewish concept of ruach tamah, described by rabbis as similar to ki and as the source as Samson's power

Judeo-Christian imagery. Super Saiyan is similar to the glowing state of Stephen (my interpretation, I'm Christian btw). Goku is a "SON UNDER THE SUN". Goku is also a Moses-type figure, like Superman. A white dove also appears aside of Android 16. That's the symbol of the Holy Spirit. Upa also scares Devilman with a cross. Magic users (with the exception of Baba) are all evil. Baphomet-like demons are always the villains. Goku's values are also Judeo-Christian/Islamic. Dragon Ball has a god hierarchy like Marvel, but Zalama who is above all, just like the One Above All in Marvel, has a similarity to Yahweh of Judaism and Christianity or more like Aether of the Hypsistarian cult.

The Kais relate to the Buddhist Heavenly Kings and Hindu deities. Beerus and Heles take inspiration from Egyptian paganism.

State your opinions and thoughts in the reply section.

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madmonksandmaenads · 4 months

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Adoration of the Cyan King

(Prepare a bowl of pond water, stand before a plot of land you intend to sow, raise the water to the noontide sun)

Hail oh, Cyan King!

Great Sire of untold numbers.

First to breath! First to rule!

You whose children multiplied to cover the world.

You whose breath encompassed and rusted the world.

You whose toxins carry the foolish from the world.

You whose legacy is blood and iron. I dig this trench, a canal from past to now (with iron tool dig a small trench in the earth)

Conqueror of Archae

Great Herald of Flora and Fauna

I give you now the fruits of your labor

The children of the world you have borne

(Sprinkle some rice or other grains into the bowl and upon the earth)

I thank you for your oxygenating breath.

I thank you for the nitrogen planted within the soil.

Breath your life into this earth

as you breathed your life into me.

Ignite the fire of generation within this soil.

As you ignited my inner flame upon my birth.

Breath with me,

As I breath with you.

(Pour out the bowl upon the soil trench as you let out a long exhale)

Welcome, oh Cyan King,

to a world of your making.

#im out here mythologizing the great oxidation event #if you follow the atavistic threads far enough it will lead you back there #to a time before breath #poetry #witchcraft #my writing #z

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mywitchcultblr · 2 years

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Just saw a DNI that says: "DNI if you are one of those Greek mythos people that ignore the actual myths and it's reflection of the Greek culture at the time ( making ship art for Hades and Persephone [he's her uncle!] )"

My brother in Christ, they are married. Wait until OP find out about Zeus and Hera

#dni #stupidity #holy shit #persephone #hades #greek #i bet op is not even a Hellenist #they be like RESPECT GREEK MYTHOLOGY BUT NOT THE 'ICKY' PART #greek pantheon #gen z #i bet a young gen z

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c-rose2081 · 2 years

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Hades & Persephone

“…you could stay.”

“You know I can’t.”

“But you could. You can have everything. Luxury, power…love? I can give that to you.”

“But I wouldn’t be free.”

“…no.”

“…you know I could never be truly happy as a prisoner, Zed.”

#disney zombies #hades and persephone #zeddison #zed necrodopolis #addison wells #digital art #disney #concept art #fanart #illustration #character art #greek mythology #art #vibes #dcom #z o m b i e s

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elains · 2 years

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MYTHOLOGY A-Z: EOPSIN for @thewinedarksea

In Korean mythology and shamanism, Eopsin is the goddess of wealth and storage. One of the Gasin, deities who protect the household, usually appearing in an animal form, often a rattlesnake, a weasel and a toad.

#korean #korean mythology #mythology #mythedit #mythologyedit #myedit #mythology a-z #moodboards #thewinedarksea #this was in development hell for MONTHS #sorry it took so long mary #friends: mary

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peggy-sue-reads-a-book · 10 months

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Send it, Muse, of big brain Odysseus, who took mad Ws, after he wriggidy-wrecked Troy’s secret citadel. Right did he swipe for many honies, and legit was his cred, yet bad were the vibes he suffered on the wide sea, and real was the struggle for his own life and the homecoming of the squad. Even so, he could not save his boat bois, ass tho he busted; they were srsly fucked by their own clowning, fools, who snatched the oxen of sunboi Helios, ye tho Odysseus told them to take several seats bc those cows were hella sus. Thus was canceled the day of their homecoming. O goddess, fam of Zeus, share the tea.

*I uhhh. I made another one*

#tagamemnon #greek mythology #classical literature #for gen z #Odysseus #the odyssey #homer’s odyssey

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waterlilyspad · 2 years

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Anyone remember the Sphinx from poptropica??? 😳👉👈

she was kinda bad 🔥💅

#poptropica #Poptropicafanart #nostaliga #gen z nostalgia #Early gaming #Poptropica art #fantasy art #sphinx #greek mythology #Greek myth #ancient greece #mythology

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b-theshitty · 1 month

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Mythology Explained by a Gen Z Who doesn't understand Gen Z... or Mythology

Norse:

Me: Okay so there's this rly sus guy who wanted to build a wall for the gods, but as payment he wanted Freya, the sun, and the moon. But Freya was having non of that.

You: Yass Queen, slayyyyy.

Me: And it turned out the man was actually a giant.

You: No cap?

Me: No cap. So Loki was busy with coming up with a plan to stop the giant when he saw the giants horse, and saw something about the horse.

You: Omg, what about the horse?

Me: Loki, kinda digging it.

~Later~

Odin when asked to babysit Sleipnir: No cap?

Loki: No cap. And pls don't tell the others.

Odin already texting the fam: Sorry bestie, what did you say?

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Japanese Folklore:

Me: Okay so the Kuchisake-onna is giving... self-deprecation, and she would come up to you wearing a mask and ask-

Kuchisake-onna: Am I pretty?

Potentially dead person: OMG Yass Queen, Slayyy

You: Then what happens

Me: Well no matter you're answer, she takes off her mask and asks-

Kuchisake-onna: What about now?

Me: If they say yes, there's a bunch of different ideas of how she reacts.

You: And if they say no?

Me: Haha, well. She slays.

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Greek:

Me: Okay so Demeter's def giving Mother Gothel. And Kore is having non of that so she goes to her uncle instead.

You: Good for her.

Me: But when Demeter finds out her daughter is gone, she starts giving... Seasonal Depression. And obviously Zeus isn't having non of that so he tries to convince Demeter to stop, but their going to have to bring their daughter back for her to feel better and with the help of Hecate they like, find Kore or something, but she changed her name to Persephone and she ate like half a pomegranate during her vay-cay so she's with Hades for like half the year.

You: Omg, Yass Queen, slayy.

Persephone: This isn't a phase mum.

Me: And it totally isn't. Also Persephone marries Hades and their like the cutest couple in all of mythology.

You: omg, good for them.