Hello, Myth Lovers! To celebrate International #MuseumDay, we'd love to see your posts about #museums! Which museums have great mythological art? Which are your favourite artifacts? Do you have a favourite #museum? Where have you seen an amazing work of art related to mythology? Use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
"But the god changed into a dreadful lion there on the ship and roared loudly: And so the sailors fled into the stern and crowded about the helmsman, until suddenly the lion sprang upon the master and seized him; and when the sailors saw it they leapt overboard into the bright sea."
Homeric Hymn 7
🏛 #Dionysos, Silenos & pirates, #mosaic, 2nd century CE, Bardo National Museum
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#OTD, 15 May, it's the #Mercuralia, a Roman festival in honour of Mercurius in his function as god of commerce. This year it coincides with the birthday of Apollon. #Hermes and #Apollon are half-brothers and love each other dearly:
"And Hermes loved the son of Leto continually, even as he does now."
Homeric Hymn 4 to Hermes
This #MythologyMonday entry on brewing is a folk tale from the Southeast of #Korea about a deeply pious son whose mother was very sick. Told that human liver would cure her, he took a knife into the hills where he ran into a scholar reciting poetry and killed the learned man before removing his liver.
The son then came across a shaman climbing the hill and killed her, too, thinking more would be better, and also took the liver. Then he noticed a mad dog hanging around the area and killed it for safety, before remembering someone saying that dog liver was similar to human liver so he took that, too.
He buried all three bodies on the hillside and took the livers home. His mother made a full recovery on eating them, but the son was consumed by guilt for the murders he had committed. He went regularly to the graves to pull weeds and otherwise maintain the burial site.
One day, noticing strange seeds by the graveside, he brought them home and planted them in his home garden, whereupon a plant with pretty fruits came up. He brewed the fruit into a drink and threw a party to congratulate his mother's recovery. But the villagers who drank the beverage acted strangely--first, they drank quietly like learned scholars, then they danced like shamans, and at last they would fight and shout like dogs. It is said that these spirits are the reason drunk people act like scholars, then shamans, then rabid dogs.
It is said to give the gods their immortality/longevity & our guy Ganymede (of #Aquarius mythology fame) is one of the servers of ambrosia for the gods (after Zeus, you know, kidnapped him...😬 )
#MythologyMonday: The #TuathaDéDanannrefined the art of brewing until the ale of their smith and brewer #Goibniu was strong enough to endow the drinker with immortality. #Irish epics connect ale with the festival of #Samhain, when the boundaries between this world and the #Otherworld were blurred.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
Hello, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: Brews and Potions. Write out a story that talks about brewing beverages or potion making of special liquids and use the tag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
"Note that the ancients used the word phlyein (to luxuriate) of an abundant yield of fruit. So they called #Dionysos Phleon (the luxuriant), Protrygaios (the first at the vintage), Staphylites (the god of the grape), Omphakites (the god of the unripe grape), and various other #epithets."
Aelian, Historical Miscellany 3. 41
🏛 Relief of Dionysos with a thyrsos and grape clusters
According to Northern Finnish folklore, the northern lights are caused by the mythological firefox running around flinging sparks when its tail brushes against the vegetation. The Finnish name for northern lights, revontulet, literally translates to "fox fires". #Mythology
Hey, neat! Thank you! It's an "imagination engine" - the original mod @Arotrios kbin.social wrote a detailed description here.
I never really fully got my head around it but it seems to be a combination of art, poetry, music, cinema, mythology, etc and a lot of the posts in it bounce off other posts in it.
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
"At once he fastened under his feet the immortal sandals of lovely gold that carried him, swift as airy breezes, over ocean and over boundless earth. The strong Radiant One began his flight; over Pieria he passed, then form the upper air dipped down to the sea and sped on over the waves like the seagull."
Homer, Odyssey
🏛 #Hermes engraved on a gold ring, 4th century BCE
In one of the Nahua creation myths, “The giant earth monster Tlaltecuhtli (“Earth Lord”), a crocodile-like creature, swam in the sea searching for flesh to eat. The gods turned themselves into serpents, entered the sea, and tore Tlaltecuhtli in half. The upper part of her body became the land, and the lower part was thrown into the sky to become the stars and heavens.” (Michael E. Smith, The Aztecs (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996)
Chaneques are child-sized beings that act as protectors of the forest in indigenous Mexican mythology. They are known for being mischievous and frequently play tricks on those that enter their domain, such as leading people astray or hiding their belongings. #MythologyMonday
Greetings, myth lovers! To celebrate #CincoDeMayo, today's theme is: #Mexican and Mexican-American myths and legends. Write out a story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts. See you all soon!
I am finishing up my mythology manuscript this week, and it is really hard to let this one go... I had too much fun with the stories. I found a lot of forgotten Greek and Roman myths or myth variants that surprised and delighted me. It was like a huge puzzle to play with.
What some Lemmy communities that are dead or very low number of new posts that you would like to get more active?
My pick is /c/albumartporn