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For the greatest tragedy of them all  Is never to feel the burning light.

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TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN | a mix for the god of light and goddess of wilderness. ( listen )

He was like the sun, glorious with lights.

She was like the forest, brave and wild.

But most importantly, both had the power to send plagues upon mortals.

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mythology meme

(1/5) OTPS ➝ Hero & Leander

Hero, a priestess of Aphrodite who dwelt in a tower in Sestos on the European side of the Dardanelles, and Leander, a young man from Abydos on the opposite side of the strait. Leander fell in love with Hero and would swim every night across the Hellespont to be with her. Hero would light a lamp at the top of her tower to guide his way.

Succumbing to Leander’s soft words and to his argument that Venus, as the goddess of love, would scorn the worship of a virgin, Hero allowed him to make love to her. These trysts lasted through the warm summer. But one stormy winter night, the waves tossed Leander in the sea and the breezes blew out Hero’s light; Leander lost his way and was drowned. When Hero saw his dead body, she threw herself over the edge of the tower to her death to be with him.

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Fairy Tale Meme:

6 Creatures - [Kelpie]

Down in the valley, close to where he lived, there was a large deep loch, and in the loch, so the country folk said, there dwelt a water kelpie. Now water kelpies, as all the world knows, are cruel and malicious spirits, who love nothing better than to lure mortals to destruction. And this is how they set about it:

They take the form of a beautiful horse, and come out of the water, all saddled and bridled, as if ready to be mounted; then they graze quietly by the side of the road, until some luckless creature is tempted to get on their back. Then they plunge with him into the water,and he is no more seen.

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[magic and myth and monsters]

artemis & apollo

brother and sister. sun and moon.

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★. mythological figures // pt. i: christianity;

↳ God (Capital G):

In Christianity, God is the eternal being who created and preserves the world. Christians believe God to be both transcendent (wholly independent of, and removed from, the material universe) and immanent (involved in the world). Christian teachings of the immanence and involvement of God and his love for humanity exclude the belief that God is of the same substance as the created universe but accept that God incarnated as a man.

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MYTHOLOGY MEME - [3/8] LEGENDARY CREATURES: LAMIA

"Shall Lamia in our sight her sons devour,

and give them back alive the self-same hour?”

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Lord of the Rings | Greek Mythology AU (requested by warmcupsofcoffee)

Aragorn | Apollo (God of healing, music, and poetry) Arwen | Artemis (Goddess of the hunt) Boromir | Ares (God of war) Legolas | Aletheia (Spirit of truth and sincerity) Éomer | Poseidon (Tamer of horses) Éowyn | Athena (Goddess of wisdom and warfare) The Hobbits | Hermes (God of travelers and border crossings) Gimli | Hephaestus (God of fire and metalworking) Gandalf | Coeus (Titan of the north, wisdom, and farsight) Faramir | Hyperion (Titan of watchfulness, wisdom, and light)

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★. mythological figures // pt. i: christianity;

↳ Lucifer:

"How you have fallen from heaven, morning star, son of the dawn! You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations! You said in your heart, ‘I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.’ But you are brought down to the realm of the dead, to the depths of the pit. Those who see you stare at you, they ponder your fate: ‘Is this the man who shook the earth and made kingdoms tremble, the man who made the world a wilderness, who overthrew its cities and would not let his captives go home?’"

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Aphrodite & Hephaestus

Enchant what you can—talk to the birds.

They’re hollowed out, like me, ready to take what is, willing to dive enlimed in bright experience. Listen, darling to this: the vultures never dance (x)

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mythology meme: hades & persephone

"I still feel your fingers trembling against the tightness of hungered arms enclosing you— am still flooded by your softness shaking as glacial embrace broke against you— still know each crystal of my skin that splintered in your sun-skyed warmth— still taste each air-igniting shade of you— still freeze in that moment when every pulse of springtime went still, and I hoped it was me and not my ice enfolding you.

It was wrong to pull you under, wasn’t it?”

Deliver by Robbie Blair.

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LAMIA was a beautiful queen of Libya, as well as a mistress of the god Zeus. However one day, his jealous wife Hera found out about their affair, which caused her to kill all of Lamia’s children (except for Scylla, who is herself cursed) and transform her into a monster that hunts and devours the children of others. Another version has Hera merely stealing away all of Lamia’s children and it being Lamia herself, losing her mind from grief and despair, who starts stealing and devouring others’ children out of envy, the repeated monstrosity of which transforms her into a monster on its own.

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The Dark Side of the Goddess→  Artemis as bringer of disease

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greed and disgrace (listen)

shed down a kindly ray from above upon my life, and strength of war, that I may be able to drive away bitter cowardice from my head and crush down the deceitful impulses of my soul. restrain also the keen fury of my heart which provokes me to tread the ways of blood-curdling strife. rather, O blessed one, give you me boldness to abide within the harmless laws of peace, avoiding strife and hatred and the violent fiends of death.

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MYTHOLOGY MEME - [1/∞] || Gaia [Γαια]

She was born from Chaos, the great void of emptiness within the universe. The great mother of all, creator and giver of birth to the Earth and all the Universe. The heavenly gods, the Titans and the Giants were born from her union with Uranus (the sky), the sea-gods from her union with Pontus (the sea).

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Mythology Meme - 2/8 Lengendary creatures

In Slavic mythology, a rusalka (plural: rusalki or rusalky) is a female ghost, water nymph, succubus, or mermaid-like demon that dwelt in a waterway. According to most traditions, the rusalki were fish-women, who lived at the bottom of rivers. In the middle of the night, they would walk out to the bank and dance in meadows. If they saw handsome men, they would fascinate them with songs and dancing, mesmerize them, then lead them away to the river floor to their death.