Tag: mythology
Hello,
I did some random gorgons because I’m fond of the idea of hairstyles but snakes. And now also hats but snakes.
I JUST HEARD THE BEST THING
So I’m watching a Sir David Attenborough (Natural Curiousities on Netflix), to cope withe the crushing lonliness of solo housesitting, and he’s on about Really Weird animals and talks about the origins of the pheonix- a bird that people travelling though Africa only rarely saw shrouded in the streamy mists of volcanic soda lakes (which are literally boiling hot and also extremely caustic).
And all they’d see is the occasional bit of bright red plumage and see these things bobbing in and out of the horrible death clouds coming off the lake, and naturally came up with the myth of a firebird what the fuck ELSE would be living IN A GODDAMN VOLCANO??
The Central Africans told this to the Egyptians who told the Greeks* about this mysterious animal, and they ran hog-wild with it to create the now-famous Pheonix, but-
The bird they were seeing in those volcanic lakes?
FLAMINGOES.
FLAMINGOES ARE THE ORIGIN OF THE PHEONIX MYTH.
MAJESTIC
(Image Source: Chris Kotze)
*There is significant academic debate about who told who what when (esp as the firebird myth has cropped up multiple times and been culturally exchanged many, MANY times) but the Flamingo>Egyptian Bennu>Greek Pheonix>European Pheonix chain is fairly well agreed upon.
Harry, the core of your wand is from this majestic creature; meet Fawkes, my Phoenix
I made a Baubo =)
Prints are available: http://society6.com/product/baubo_print#1=45
After Medusa saw the Trailer of Ralph Breaks the Internet~
🐍🐍🐍omg she is so cute.
The suitors when Penelope says she’s still not finished Odysseus’ funeral shroud even though she’s been working on it for three years straight
Greek Terracotta figurines of Baubo.
In his Greek Myths (1996), Robert Graves writes that Demeter (in disguise) was the guest of King Celeus in Eleusis. Iambe, the lame maid of the king:
“… tried to console Demeter with comically lascivious verses, and a dry nurse, old Baubo, persuaded her to drink barley-water by a jest: she groaned as if in great travail and, unexpectedly, produced from beneath her skirt Demeter’s own son Iacchus, who leapt into his mother’s arms and kissed her.”
Gewoon meisjes onder elkaar.
If the devil has a pitchfork and the grim reaper has a scythe, is agriculture a major industry in the underworld?
Thanks to Persephone it is
in all RPG games, the final boss is either your dad, God, or some sort of furry Abomination that everyone draws explicit fan art of
in Greek Mythology™ they are all the same person