facinaoris:

CONSTELLATIONS OF GREEK MYTHOLOGY

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branwenchild:

THE MODERN OLYMPIANS (females & males)

There is something dangerous about a teenage goddess. These abnormal, peculiar youths. One possesses a skilled tongue, silky and delicious, yet so dangerous, curled in a pool of poison. Another only wakes at the howling of her huntresses and another could make the world quake, her wit as her only weapon. One is beautiful and indispensable, she feeds the world with lies and burning ashes. Another tie souls to each other, leaving them to rot and decay together until only one survives and another became so sad and overpriced that she became something no one could receive, no one deserved. These girls were queens, rulers amongst men and feral beings that slowly learned, by the centuries, how to tame their darkness.

meridaz:

❧ The Judgment of Paris was a contest between the three most beautiful goddesses of Olympos—Aphrodite, Hera and Athena—for the prize of a golden apple addressed to “the fairest” The story begins at the Wedding of Peleus and Thetis to which all of the gods were invited, all except Eris, the goddess of discord. When she appeared at the festivities, she was turned away, and in her anger cast a golden apple amongst the assembled goddesses addressed “To the Fairest.” Three goddesses laid claim to the apple—Aphrodite, Hera and Athena. Zeus was asked to mediate and he commanded Hermes to lead the three goddesses to Paris of Troy to decide the issue. The three goddesses appearing before the shepherd prince, each offering him gifts for favour. He chose Aphrodite, swayed by her promise to bestow upon him Helene, the most beautiful woman, for wife. The subsequent abduction of Helene led directly to the Trojan War and the fall of the city. 

persephomne:

modern myth aesthetic persephone and hades

kiss me hard before you go
summertime sadness
i just wanted you to know
that baby you’re the best

suammetuit:

suammetuit-deactivated20150628:

ODE TO HADES AND PERSEPHONE
You would turn the wolves on the one you love
If they needed blood and you couldn’t run fast enough
And it’s something that I guessed about you, love
It’s not new, JUST YOU HOW YOU ARE.

darla bakes | adrien sahores | lotte kestner

mythsology:

The goddesses of FATE who personified the inescapable destiny of man

fat-walda:

MYTHOLOGY MEME

: [2/9] non-greek gods/goddesses

WHOPE - In Sioux mythology, Whope is the daugher of the Sun Wi (the all-knowing Dakota spirit of the sun) and the moon. She is a goddess of peace and the wife of the south wind. When Whope visited he earth, she gave the Dakota Indians a pipe as a symbol of peace. Later she became the White Buffalo Calf Woman to the Lakota Indians.

oydsseus:

Greek Mythology Series ⤖ Day One

The Birth Of Athene 

According to the Pelasgians, the goddess Athene was born beside Lake Tritonis in Libya, where she was found and nurtured by the three nymphs of Libya, who dress in goat-skins. As a girl she killed her playmate, Pallas, by accident, while they were engaged in friendly combat with spear and shield and, in token of grief, set Pallas’ name before her own. Coming to Greece by way of Crete, she lived first in the city of Athenae by the Boeotian river Triton. 

asheathes:

♔ M Y T H O L O G Y ♔

PERSE′PHONE (Persephonê), in Latin Proserpina, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. Her name is commonly derived from pherein phonon, “to bring” or “cause death. Persephone was the goddess queen of the Underworld, wife of the god, Hades. She was also the goddess of spring growth, who was worshipped alongside her mother, Demeter. 

rosehathaways:

CALYPSO: THE ATLANTID NYMPH OF THE MYTHICAL ISLAND OF OGYGIA.

Calypso was a daughter of the Titan Atlas. She was a nymph inhabiting the island of Ogygia, on the coast of which Odysseus was thrown when he was shipwrecked. Calypso loved the unfortunate hero, and promised him eternal youth and immortality if he would remain with her. She detained him in her island for seven years, until at length she was obliged by the gods to allow him to continue his journey homewards. 

medsua:

everyone is a woc | a myth series collaborated with and poetry by mythaelogy

The goddess runs free in the woods,
skin the colour of the earth,
she is wild and 
she belongs to herself.

They bind her up in words
like chaste and virginal.

Know that this means
you will never touch her.

(ARTEMIS)

kostromas:

calypso (greek: kαλυψώ, kalypsō) was an oceanid in greek mythology, who lived on the island of ogygia, where she detained odysseus for several years. calypso enchants odysseus with her singing as she strolls to and fro across her weaving loom, with a golden shuttle. during this time they sleep together, although odysseus soon comes to wish for circumstances to change until he cannot be away from his wife penelope any longer and wants to go to calypso to tell her. his patron goddess athena asks zeus to order the release of odysseus from the island, and zeus orders the messenger hermes, to tell calypso to set odysseus free, for it was not his destiny to live with her forever. she angrily comments on how the gods hate for goddesses to have affairs with mortals, but eventually concedes, sending odysseus on his way after providing him with wine, bread, and the provisions to build a small raft.

bctrogues:

_{mythology meme:  [1/5] pairings}

_{↳ orpheus & eurydice}

_{Eurydice was a nymph and the bride of Orpheus, a legendary musician and poet. On their wedding day, she got bit by a viper and died from the poison. The despairing Orpheus played such sad songs on his lyre that even the gods wept and told him to go to the Underworld to bring her back. Orpheus did so and finally played in front of Hades and Persephone, whose cold hearts were thawed by his song. They allowed for Eurydice’s return on one condition: Orpheus must walk in front of her and not look back until they’re out of the Underworld. Along the way, Orpheus began to suspect that he’d been deceived, that Eurydice was not there with him at all. Just as soon as he reached daylight, he looked back, and she disappeared back into the Underworld. However, when Orpheus was later killed by the Maenads, his soul was reunited with hers in the Underworld.}