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It's true, they told me themselves 😌

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Assassin's Creed: Odyssey Goddess of the Hunt

Mykonos is definitely my favorite island. And you're my favorite misthios.

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So, I really like Bacchus/Dionysus. I don't work with him or anything, I just like his queerness and feminist agenda. But there is something that has been annoying me... His staff is not a pine cone.

Here are some examples of said staff(held by him, some maenads, and his wife):

The staff is described as a pine cone with oak leaves around it, he is also said to be wearing an oak leaf crown.

Here's the thing, why would the god of wine and drunken parties have a pine cone with oak leaves?

The answer is that he wouldn't.

So what is this plant? You may ask, well as a gardener and plant enthusiast as well as a study of Greek art and myth, I give you:

HOPS!!!!!!!!!

This is literally what they make beer with, wheat and hops.... And Dionysus is the god of alcohol. So the reasonable assumption should be that this is the plant that he is holding!!!

But I can't find a single article about this! Not even any speculation!! Why!! It's driving me crazy so I thought I'd share it with you all.

(Now I can understand a little why no one has ever realized this, hops are like two inches long a piece so it is a giant hop, but he's a god!!! He could totally create giant hops!!)

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Wine dark sea

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Watching this for the millionth time and realized that I've never looked at the other dancers around him. Not once. He is electric and I can't take my eyes off him.

Tom Holland does Rihanna’s “Umbrella” on Lip Sync Battle

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Sunrise from an elementary school parking lot

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KATY O'BRIAN as Elia Kane THE MANDALORIAN Chapter 19: The Convert

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𝐇𝐎𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐈𝐀

The homeromanteion, or the homeric oracle, is a form of dice divination using fragments of homeric verses to get oracular answers by lot. According to the oxyrhynchus papyrus, it could be also called ‘the scimitar’.

To perform the homeromanteion, first, you need to check that the days and hours (see below) are favourable for divination.

Once the timing is favourable, you then recite a set prayer to Apollo (see below) while thinking of the question you want answered. The prayer is made of five lines from homeric verses. The first three are consecutive lines from the Iliad (Il. XVI 514-516), then two seperate lines from the Odyssey (Od. I 147; Od. XVIII 173).

Then, a dice has to be rolled thrice (or three die once); the three digit number obtained will correspond to a homeric verse, which will be the oracular answer. Below is a list of the possible results and their corresponding fragment. (Excuse the text size, for a list the clearer, see: this pdf – you have to scroll a lot though soz.)

For an online homeromanteion, see: here.

Sources:

PGM VII 1-148

P. Oxy. LVI 3831

The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. 56 (1989)

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O' Muses of Parnassus heights, come and help me Help me find the words to sing to her of dawns' light, She that came forth to me to me on manifestation first before all other Olympians and Chthonic gods combined.

O' rosy-cheeked Eos, mother, glorious one, my goddess, To you I send my heart and prayer to you. You who rise on the eastern horizon at the break of light With Aether and Hemera before and Helios following behind.

O' Eos, winged pastel daughter of Hyperion and Theia, You whom without, the day could never truly begin. For you change the sky for darkness to hopeful hues, And with your krater and ladle you dampen the grass.

So often I stand at my window with palm up and prayer to thee, Thanking you for your return and blessing my awaken state. Summoning forth the beginning of a new day with the flute And streaking the sky with hues of pinks, rose and blues.

For your blessing that you bestowed on me when first we met, And for all that you have given and blessed me with since, to you I give my heart, my love, my devoting, my everything. Be with me everything in live and in death sweet Eos.

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They have the right color bows!

Twins 🏹

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After receiving the news of Sherlock season 5 and Destiel it is only fair to assume that David Tennant will be reprising his role as the tenth doctor soon in this essay I will-

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What you can’t see is me with the controller panicking and yelling

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Centauri (I sec.), dalla Casa di Cicerone - Pompei, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli.

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AC Odyssey (3/?)

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“To Make a Long Story Short”

Stephen Andrade’s wonderful pulp-style tribute to Clue (1985)

Prints and original artwork available at nineteeneightyeight.com or through @galleries1988 on Instagram :)