Tag: ancient

poetry prompt: clytemnestra

boykeats:

though the sea outside
the palace is now empty
like a blind man’s gaze,

the auguries tell me
you will be back soon.
you and your tarnished

armor. you and your chimerical
mouth. the man sleeping
in bed beside me has hands

that were never
as rough or as sharp
upon me as yours

always were. can you hear
how the temples echo
with the sound of blood

yet to be spilt? this night
treads the surface
of its own dark griefs

while i drown in mine.

lostreach:

A friend’s cat just passed away, and since I haven’t seen her to say anything in person, my best effort is drawing something. So here’s her sweetie baby Midnight getting belly pets from the head cat herself, Bast. I’m sure that’s where she is right now, resting happily. She will be missed.

mythos-theos:

“Here are the women with ancient
anger in their veins and the cruelty
of a goddess in their hearts. You will beg before her, you will scream; but Hera never flinched
from the words of a mortal, so why should she? Do not stand in her way. She will burn down your kingdoms,
herself with it, if it meant
your ruin.”

— Medea /// (d.s)

wAIT hold up tell me this story about how hades almost started the apocalypse because a dude fell through the ceiling?????

swaglexander-the-great:

Alright kids, y’all better sit down and listen to this long and kind of hilarious but sad tale:

This war started between Thebes and the Argives (or the Seven heroes who all pretty much died) because Zeus wanted a war and because somebody killed Dionysus’ tigers.  Amphiaraus, or Ceiling Dude, as we know him, knew he was going to die in this stupid-ass war. However, his wife got bribed with a blinged-out necklace to talk him into going. This didn’t end well for either party, because Amphiaraus, being a troll, told his son to kill the lady if he didn’t come back. He obviously didn’t come back, so his son killed her and then was plagued by Furies for the rest of his miserable life because he killed his mother. So is Ancient Greek life. ANYWAY. So, they were fighting all heroically and everything when Amphiaraus kinda notices Apollo on his chariot and is like, ‘dude, gtfo my chariot, I’m not going to die while you’re sitting on it.’ because he wants to die(?) Apollo cries, then leaves. Then the ground shakes and opens up and scares the bejeeezus out of everybody, but Amphiaraus just rides his chariot in all casual like, like ‘goodbye friends’ and vanishes. 

Meanwhile, Hades is sitting happily in the Underworld, doin his job, minding his business when this dude falls through his ceiling and leaves a giant-ass hole to the sky in it. Understandably, Hades is like ‘what?? wtf dude??? why??’ He then thinks it’s one of his brothers sending him a little challenge so he goes off and says “YOU WANT A CHALLENGE HUH?? HUH?? I’ll start the dAMN APOCALYPSE yeeeah boi you didn’T SEE thaT COMING! I’ll set all the giants free, I’ll set yo dad Kronos free, I’ll fcuking set all the shit free, I’ll turn the sky black and you can haVE SOME ZOMBIES TOO DO YOU WANT THAT ZEUSY PIE??” Then he kinda notices Amphiaraus and starts very reasonably grumping about heroes, about the two dudes who tried to kidnap his wife, Herakles beating up his dog and then stabbing Hades for trying to save his dog, and Orpheus (but he kinda liked Orpheus). He like ‘I don’t go into YOUR fckuing kingdom and mess up YOUR shit!?! The ONE time I did was to get me a wife and I even asked permission!! Like, zero percent of gods do that!’

After Hades realizes that this was not an attack on his kingdom after all, he keeps the dude who broke his ceiling in the Underworld (I’d like to think his penance in the Underworld would be to fix Hades’ ceiling) and sends up a Fury to fuck shit up. He’s then also decides to teach the annoying heroes a lesson and curses one of them to go forth and eat brains (which he does, much to Athena’s disgust; she was going to make him immortal, but the brain-eating grossed her out too much so she noped outta that one). He’s also like ‘Hey Zeus, bro, do you like the look of rotting corpses when you peer down from on high? cause guess what thERe’S gONNA be a shiT TON of theM HAHHAHA.’ And true to his word, a load of the dead don’t get buried, and Zeus probably looked down and was like ew wtf Hades. Lesson learned: Don’t fuck with Hades.

So that’s the wonderful Greek story about Hades almost starting the apocalypse because a dude fell through his ceiling, a man who ate brains and grossed out Athena and a stupid war because Zeus was like lol, let’s have a war. Ancient Greeks. I love em.

hey, I’m trying to find a name for one of my OC’s in a mmo I’m playing, and I’m wondering if you know any good mythological figures (females if possible) who represent war/destruction etc…? Not the “famous” ones like Athena or Enyo if I can call them like that? :)

mythaelogy:

I definitely do, often “not famous” mythological figures come from lesser known mythologies & war goddesses from lesser known mythologies are my specialty

  • Ishtar, Mesopotamian goddess of love, war and sexuality (the same goddess is worshipped as Astarte in Assyria & Innana in Sumeria if you like those names better) 
  • Sekhmet, Egyptian lion-headed goddess of war 
  • Bastet, Egyptian goddess of warfare in Lower Egypt
  • Eris, Greek goddess of chaos, strife & discord
  • The Hysminai were the descendants of Eris, personifications of battle
  • Nike, Greek goddess of victory 
  • Bia, Greek personification of force & energy
  • Ixtab, Mayan goddess of suicide
  • Kali, Hindu goddess off all-destroying time 

  • Tlazoltéotl, Aztec goddess of filth, sin & purification

  • Dzovinar, Armenian goddess of sea, water & rain; her fury was known to cause extreme storms or drought & she was likely the mother of the war god Vahagn