#pythia

[illustratus]

Delphi by Rene Gross

[teawiththegods]

☕️SIP OF THE DAY☕️

Remember this whenever anyone tries to claim they are the Pythia.

[vonxodd]

PYTHIA // 'international queen of mystery' ball ❥ global all stars 01X03

[t4yce]

PYTHIA • global all stars 1.12 “best drag on earth” runway

[legends-of-drag]

Bonus:

“Grecian goddess, I am irresistable.”

Pythia

Drag Race Canada (S2) | Global All Stars (S1)

[yourdailyqueer]

Pythia (Christos Darlasis)

Gender: Non binary (she/they)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: 4 October 1994

Ethnicity: White - Greek

Nationality: Canadian

Occupation: Drag artist, reality star, costume designer, makeup artist

[tiachristiner]

The Pythia, Oracle of Apollo 🌿

[optimisticmiraclefest]

🐬 Dolphin! Apollo 🐬

From The Prophet of Phoebe(us) by Firealder05 - Apollo the God of Sailors in his full floppy self being a badass

Part 2

[ancientcurator]

Looking for more blogs to follow!

Please like this post if you post about:

Hellenism

Kemeticism

Celtic and Norse

Divination

Shadow work

Apollo, Hades, Persephone, Aphrodite

Anubis, Bastet, Horus, Set, Sobek, Osiris, Thoth

My blog is strictly about spiritually, kindly no fandom blogs will be followed back. (So sorry)

[historypaintings]

Alexander Consulting the Oracle of Apollo

Artist: Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (French, 1725–1805)

Date: 1789

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Description

Alexander the Great (r. 336-323 BCE), after becoming king of the Macedonians, but before launching his famous invasion of the Persian Empire, decided to stop by the Oracle at Delphi for a prophecy about his future. Alexander’s visit to Delphi sparked a curious legend, and the odd story was later recorded by the prolific biographer, Plutarch (c. 50-120). As the story goes, Alexander had the bad luck of arriving at Delphi on a day when the Oracle was closed due to religious law and customs. The young king, the legend tells, was such an impetuous and headstrong person that, rather than wait a day or two for the Oracle site to resume its operations, Alexander instead barged into the complex and forcefully compelled the priestess to deliver a divine message, despite the religious laws forbidding her from carrying out her duties on that day. On this odd episode, Plutarch wrote:

“[Alexander] visited Delphi because he wished to consult the oracle of Apollo about the expedition against the Persians. It so happened that he arrived on one of those days which are called inauspicious, when it is forbidden for the oracle to deliver a reply. In spite of this he first sent for the prophetess, and when she refused to officiate and explained that the law forbade her to do so, he went up himself and tried to drag her by force to the shrine. At last, as if overcome by his persistence, she exclaimed, ‘You are invincible, my son!’ and when Alexander heard this, he declared that he wanted no other prophecy…” (Plutarch, Parallel Lives, Life of Alexander, chapter 13).

Such is the scene that Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée re-creates in his painting, featured above. It shows Alexander the Great dragging a priestess, known as a Pythia, towards a statue of Delphi’s patron god, Apollo. The scene likely is set right around the time when the priestess complained that pushy Alexander was invincible, or perhaps incorrigible. Whatever really occurred at Delphi during Alexander’s visit, the king subsequently invaded the Persian Empire with confidence in 334 BCE, beginning his famous series of campaigns that took him from the Middle East to the borderlands of India.

[delphi-dreamin]

The Gift of Prophecy

I've been toying with this idea for...ages, of drawing Delphi as the Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi. (It's the origin of her name, after all.) And I finally came across Priestess of Delphi (1891) by John Collier, and a lovely podcast special by Unexplained Mysteries, and I decided I had to do it.

So here she is! This was done entirely on my phone in CSP!

Pose by the lovely, wonderful, @adorkastock!

Taglist: @sassykattery @biteable-pink-pixie @yourboyhack @attic-club-sandwich @sparkbeast20 @kyungjoon-do @consolationblog @flemmingbamse @denpa-dere

[my-name-is-apollo]

Phemonoe, the Pythian priestess on why the Delphic oracle has grown silent:

"...or perhaps Apollo, determined to exclude the guilty from his shrine finds none in this age worthy of opening his closed lips."

- Lucan, Pharsalia (Trans. A. S. Kline)

...

Internal screaming

[teawiththegods]

☕️SIP OF THE DAY☕️

Because of this belief, many modern worshipers claim Apollo goes silent or is less active in the winter.

[vonxodd]

PYTHIA // 'color my world' runway ❥ global all stars 01X04

[t4yce]

PYTHIA • global all stars 1.08 “blow me away” runway

[gallifreyanhotfive]

Hey, I'm new to The DWEU, what are the looms?

LOOOOOOOOOOMS

What are the Looms???? The Basics

First, the Great Schism was an important event on early Gallifrey where Rassilon and his supporters and Pythia and her supporters went to war. Pythia was defeated, but she cursed all of Gallifrey with sterility. Accounts differ on whether or not this included all Gallifreyans or if some could still reproduce sexually.

This posed a massive problem for the future of Gallifrey. The Great Houses used devices called Looms to churn out some new Gallifreyans.

Looms had a many chords in them as well as semiotic fluid. Individuals - often soaking wet - are yanked from the Looms by another Gallifreyan. Each chapterhouse has their own Loom. This makes Gallifreyans of the same House related to each other laterally (everyone is a cousin). Many of the loomed Gallifreyans are "born" in a fully grown adult body, but this is not always the case as we have heard about children and teenagers on Gallifrey.

Basically, imagine if a population had suddenly gone sterile. To perpetuate the species, an individual would have to create some sort of device the create the next generation (and the next and the next and the...). This is in essence what a Loom is for Gallifrey! Of course, there are a lot more details in EU lore, but I figured I'd drop some basics (rather then send an overwhelming wall of text).