Tag: ancient

Hellenic Crafts for Kids

templeswreathedinlaurel:

sisterofiris:

For those of you interested in Mesopotamia, I highly recommend that you check out the Youtube channel Digital Hammurabi. Created by two Assyriologists, it aims to bring accurate information about Mesopotamian languages, culture and history to the general public in an accessible way. If you’re curious to know

and so much more, go have a listen, it’s absolutely worth it.

If you’re able to, please also consider supporting the authors. I can’t stress how useful and important this kind of work is – not only does it make information available to anyone for free without needing to enroll in a university course, it also gives our field a much-needed platform for people to discover it in an approachable way. Mesopotamia is fascinating and often fun too, and Digital Hammurabi showcase that.

(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

theload:

thecaffeinebookwarrior:

nerdwarningalert:

russiacore:

why the fuck is no one naming their children after greek goddesses? Name your fucking child Persephone?????? Bitch???????!?

If that makes you happy, my name is Demeter

In my experience, people named after Greek goddesses are some of the most ethereal, chaotic forces I have ever encountered.

Our Art Department’s nude model, for example, is a woman named Hera. She’s stunningly beautiful, rides a motorcycle as apparently her only vehicle, grows all her own food, and keeps bees, turtles, and a dog named Argus, who she walks around town with a peacock feather attached to his leash.

I am thoroughly convinced she is not of this realm.

I’m pretty sure you just met Hera.

effulgentpoet:

books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them. (moodboards for my favorite classics)

THE HOMERIC HYMNS (attributed to Homer)

They thought him a prince, a son of god-cherished kings, and sought to bind him fast hand and foot with tight fetters. But bonds would not hold him; from hand and feet the strands fell away and lay scattered about far and wide on the deck, while the god sat, a smile lurking in his dark eyes.

homopower:

khmacleod:

Ancient moon priestesses were called virgins. ‘Virgin’ meant not married, not belonging to a man – a woman who was ‘one-in-herself’. The very word derives from a Latin root meaning strength, force, skill; and was later applied to men: virle. Ishtar, Diana, Astarte, Isis were all all called virgin, which did not refer to sexual chastity, but sexual independence. And all great culture heroes of the past, mythic or historic, were said to be born of virgin mothers: Marduk, Gilgamesh, Buddha, Osiris, Dionysus, Genghis Khan, Jesus – they were all affirmed as sons of the Great Mother, of the Original One, their worldly power deriving from her. When the Hebrews used the word, and in the original Aramaic, it meant ‘maiden’ or ‘young woman’, with no connotations to sexual chastity. But later Christian translators could not conceive of the ‘Virgin Mary’ as a woman of independent sexuality, needless to say; they distorted the meaning into sexually pure, chaste, never touched. —Monica Sjoo

Casual reminder that “virgin” in the modern/Christian sense of the word is literally a complete bullshit, made-up social construct, arbitrarily given a negative connotation.