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🐚 seashells pngs!!

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Antiquing with Hermes!

The top photo is an inkwell with Hermes himself as the centerpiece! It was pretty expensive so while I was deciding if I should buy it (spoiler alert: I did!) I ended up finding those two wall plaques in the second photo & took that as a sign to go ahead with the purchase!

The inkwell was a pretty penny so I couldn’t afford much more than that, but I am so excited to get it set up on his altar! <3

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Come on founder/king of Athens, aren’t u gonna slay the Bull of Minos or not?

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The consensual ‘abduction’ of Persephone in Lokri

Pinakes of Persephone driving the chariot or embracing Hades as he abducts her

A fun fact that I love about Persephone and Hades is that in the city of Lokri (Modern Italy), they were seen as the ideal marriage. Women who were about to get married re-interpreted the myth of the abduction of Persephone so it would reflect their current situation, e.g: Women who were happy with their future husband made a pinake (a tablet of painted wood or terracotta) where Persephone was driving the chariot and participating in her own ‘abduction’; On the contrary, women who were forced into their marriage would make a pinake where Persephone was fighting against her captor.

“The pinakes were most likely dedications made by young girls in the lead-up to their weddings. In this sense, it is understandable that the chosen god does not completely undergo the transition process. The dedications served the function of seeking Persephone's blessing and protection for their marriages, and they were dedicated before the marriage had taken place. So the image of the goddess that was being invoked and imitated in the abduction scenes was the goddess in the same state as the dedicating girls: the state immediately before marriage. […]

The most common pinax types are the 'divine' and 'imitation' scenes. In both cases, these range from unambiguous abductions where the maiden clearly struggles against her captor to images in which it appears the girl is complicit in her own kidnapping sometimes even taking charge of the chariot herself. The range can be accounted for because, as James Redfield points out, "no doubt some brides felt more abducted than others".”

- Mackin, Ellie. “Girls Playing Persephone (in Marriage and Death).” Mnemosyne 71, no. 2 (2018): 209–28.

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love this egyptian figurine of a woman baking bread in the brooklyn museum. she looks exactly like me while i'm waiting for my food to be done in the microwave. truly an eternal experience

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Dionysus,

Liberator,

God of wine and ecstasy,

Divine protector of the trans community,

Please hear my prayer!

Please protect my boyfriend Jules while he is getting his top surgery 💜💜💜

Please protect him from negativity and hate! 🧿

Please help him get amazing results!!

Please help keep him safe while under anesthesia and help his healing be quick and safe

Please help his surgeon do a good job!!

Thank you for your protection!! 🍇

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Burning incense and a candle on a spell jar on my boyfriends altar for my his top surgery 🧿

He’s in surgery right now! Please pray for him that it goes well, that he gets amazing results, and heals up quickly and safely!!! ^_^ 💕💕💕

🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

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It’s really heartening how much people on this site came together to help Ahmed @90-ghost. He’s in Egypt now with his younger brother waiting on his mom and older brother to join them. The issue now is living expenses. Life is extremely difficult for displaced people, and the future is uncertain. If you’ve ever wondered how you can help a Palestinian displaced by the genocide, here’s one way to do so.

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“And the story is that, when Poseidon was beaten, in his grief he cursed the city and said that the Athenians would always decide on stupid things. But Athene heard him and added that they would always decide on stupid things, and be successful.”

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Scholiast to Aristophanes’ Assembly-Women 473; my translation

καί φασιν ἡττηθέντα Ποσειδῶνα καὶ λυπηθέντα καταρᾶσθαι τῇ πόλει καὶ λέγειν αὐτὸν ὅτι γένοιτο τοὺς Ἀθηναίους ἀεὶ κακῶς βουλεύεσθαι· ἀκούσασαν δὲ τὴν Ἀθηνᾶν προσθεῖναι ὅτι κακῶς βουλεύεσθαι καὶ ἐπιτυγχάνειν.

(via somepoorsod)

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I LOVE MUSIC

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Aphrodite from Hades series

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they need to invent drinking that's good for you and a way to fuck music

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More fauns

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Lord Apollo for an art class assignment

Shoutout to @transsexualutopia for the help ^_^

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📍Belvedere Palace, Vienna, Austria 🇦🇹

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🌾 XVI River Spirit 🌊