@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! π
"#Bacchus on hills the fair Adonis saw,
And ravished him, and reaped a wondrous joy."
Plutarch, Quaestiones convivales 4.5.3
π Dionysos Mosaic, Archaeological Museum in Thessalonica, Greece
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialI collected a list of characters who experience sex change in #GreekMythology, usually by divine intervention. One is the story of Siproites, a hunter who saw the goddess #Artemis naked while she was bathing and was then transformed into a woman:
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialSex change happens quite a few time in #GreekMythology, usually by divine intervention. I collected a list of characters whose sex is changed, usually by divine intervention. One is the story of Mestra, who got the ability to shape-shift from her ex lover Poseidon and went on to marry Autolykos, a son of Hermes with the ability to change the look of the things he stole. What a power couplβ¦
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America's UFO Mythology (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/ufo-us-disinformation-45376f7e?st=kEAaJz&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p160#a250606p160
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialJust finished "To a Darker Shore" by Leanne Schwartz. It's a blend of fantasy (a genre I enjoyed a lot when younger but which I now feel is hit-or-miss depending on the politics of the author) and romance (a genre I'm currently a bit obsessed with) and I enjoyed it very much. The element of an #OwnVoices autistic perspective was interesting, and the mythology was pretty cool. Even though I felt as though monstrousness could have been explored from an even better angle, the complexity in this book was comfortable, and it to my mind successfully-enough avoided the veneer of racism that runs through the mainstream fantasy tradition.
#AmReading
@cyrevolt@mastodon.socialBehold, it is Iris, the Greek messenger of the rainbow! π³οΈβπ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_(mythology)
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! π
"Dionysos was loved by Chiron, from whom he learnt the songs and dances, and the Bacchic rites and initiations."
Ptolemaios Chennos
π Illustration of #Chiron by Ezio Anichini, photographed by Alexis Orloff
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialThe Kharites or Graces have the most beautiful tush!
#BumDayMonday
#GreekRomanArt #mythology
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! π
"Beardless Ampelos, they say, a Nymph's and a Satyr's son, was loved by #Bacchus on Ismarian hills [in Thrace]."
#Ovid
@cray_on@ohai.socialThis week instead of a playlist with random rock/metal stuff, I'm working on Progressive Metal playlists. :blobkeyboard:
First one has:
- "Tiara" by "Seventh Wonder"
- "The Waking Hour" by "Age of Artemis"
- "Secret Garden" by "Angra"
- "V: The New Mythology Suite" by "Symphony X"
- "Contingent" by "Pyramaze"
(no Dream Theater, sorry!)
YT Music: β¦
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialThis week's #MythologyMonday theme is #sexwork! Acca Larentia was a mythical woman in Roman mythology. She was a beautiful prostitute (scortum) of roughly the same age as Romulus and Remus. She was awarded to Hercules as a prize in a game of dice by the guardian of his temple, and lockedβ¦
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.socialHave a joyful #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! π
The Campi Flegrei near Naples are a volcanic area that is known for bradyseism, a gradual descent or uplift of the earth's surface due to magma movement. Buildings of the Roman era, complete with intact art, are now submerged in the sea. A fitting conclusion to MerMay π§ββοΈ
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