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@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-08 11:25:58

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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡
"Then did Thrym say,
Thurses' ruler:
'To gain the bride,
bear in the hammer.
Lay now Miolnir
in the maiden's lap.
Make us husband and wife
by the hand of Var.'"
Þryms…

Bronze figurine of a seated figure, about 6.7 cm, from about AD 1000 that was recovered at the Eyrarland farm in the area of Akureyri, Iceland. The artwork was made around 1000 CE and may depict the Norse god Thor. If the figure is correctly identified as Thor, Thor is holding his hammer, Mjölnir, sculpted in a typically Icelandic cross-like shape. It has been suggested that the statue is related to a scene from the Poetic Edda poem Thrymskvida (Þrymskviða) where Thor recovers his hammer while …

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-01 19:42:53

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It's the first #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday of the year! ⚡
"They [the Hyades] had played the nurses for the babe that Zeus had so happily brought forth, Bakkhos, while he still had a breath of the sewn-up birth-pocket."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 14.143
🏛️ Birth of #Dionysos

Red-figure vase painting of Zeus, seated naked on a rock. The head of baby Dionysos is emerging from his left thigh. Beside him, in winged boots and a traveller's cloak, Hermes holds his father's sceptre along with his own kerykeion staff as he watches the miraculous birth.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-11-20 20:16:47

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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"Ganymedes, who excelled all men in beauty, was snatched up by the gods to serve as the cupbearer of Zeus."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.75.3
🏛️ #Zeus and

Red figure vase painting of Zeus pursuing Ganymede. Zeus is depicted as a mature, bearded man with a wreath in his hair and a himation draped over one shoulder. He holds his thunderbolt in his left and his sceptre in his right. Ganymede is turning back to look at Zeus, a large hoop in his right, his left hand raised. He is depicted as a young man with shoulder-length hair and a fillet. Both are nude.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2025-12-18 09:10:16

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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡
"And now the day was spent, the hour stole on when one would doubt if it were light or dark, some lingering light at night's vague borderlands. Suddenly the whole house began to shake, the lamps flared up, and all the rooms were bright with flashing crimson fires, and phantom forms of savage beasts of prey howled all arou…

Zeus, wearing himation and chiton, seats on a diphros holding a thunderbolt in his right hand. The goddess Hera (named) attends the mythical birth. The wine god holds in his hands two torches, connecting, in this way, his divine nature to the fire and the light. Indeed, according to the myth, his mother Semele was burnt by Zeus' thunderbolt, and Dionysos was referred with the appellative of “Pyrigonos”, the one that was created by the fire.

@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social
2026-01-15 19:17:48

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It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thorsday! ⚡
"As the last act on expulsion and departure, they used formerly
to make sacrifices in veneration of their god Thor.
[...]
After that, and in accordance with their custom, they would smear their own and their comr…