#Mykene

[twof]

Build by Cyclops

Greece, 2023

Photo: Roland Helbig

[wankelmuth]

Greece, 2023

Photo: Roland Helbig

[coffeenewstom]

Bücher zum Kaffee: Nikos Kazantzakis - "Im Zauber der griechischen Landschaft"

Bücher zum Kaffee: Nikos Kazantzakis – “Im Zauber der griechischen Landschaft”

“´Was die Berge, die Dörfer, die Erde Griechenlands schwerelos und durchsichtig erscheinen lässt, ist das Licht. Das Licht in Italien ist weich, weiblich; das Licht Ioniens ist sehr lieblich, von orientalischer Sehnsucht, in Ägypten ist es dickflüssig und wollüstig; das Licht in Griechenland ist voller Geist; solches Licht half dem Menschen, klar zu sehen, Ordnung in das Chaos zu bringen, es zum…

[ash-and-starlight]

my “if something bad happened to them i’d kill everyone in the room and then myself” gang from the masquerade series (…..yeah i’m still in denial over [redacted] shut up)

[lamentablesbian]

what if i died. what if this killed me.

[onlysoftly]

vision board

[itwouldbeajoytobringyoutea]

23 and 45 for spotify wrapped!!

23. And Then You, Greg Laswell

45. Son of Nyx, Hozier

[whiskymoro]

Myken «Værfast» #16/024+17/017 Dr. Jekyll’s Nordic Series 2023 (53,8 %)

Bartenderne på Klingenberggatas stolthet, Dr. Jekyll, Oslos og antagelig landets beste whiskybar, har besøkt diverse nordiske destillerier og valgt ut noen fat som nå, så lenge det varer, er tilgjengelig for almuen via vårt kjære vinmonopol. Tanken har vært å velge fat som er litt uvanlige i forhold til det destilleriene vanligvis kommer med. Myken på Helgelandskysten er Norges ettertrykkelig furete og værbitte representant, og her har man ikke gått for en enkeltfattapning, men en blanding av to fat: dette er en single malt bestående av 1/5 (50 l) 5 år og 10 måneder gammel whisky fra eks-sherryfat og 4/5 (200 l) nesten 7 år gammel whisky fra et eks-Pineau des Charantes-fat (sterkvin fra Cognac bestående av nypresset druemost og konjakk). Jekyll-banden ble værfast på øya under besøket, derav navnet.

På nesen fikk jeg vanilje, litt grønne epler, malt, krydder, toffee, hint av lavendel og gummi, moden ananas, sedertre. Smaksmessig: Eiketre, litt chili, råsprit; søt, så gradvis tørrere, epler igjen. Avslutningen var middels lang, med malt, vanilje, krydder, trebitterhet og litt konvoluttlim. Med vann fikk jeg litt mer råsprit på nesen, treflis, kvae, litt nøtter, sitrus, epler. Smak: Vanilje, litt salt, trebitterhet, hint av melkesjokolade, nøtter. Litt kirsebær. Råsprit og sitrus. Avslutningen med vann hadde stadig en del epler og vanilje; litt tørrere og fruktigere. Sitrus. En anelse kortere.

Helt grei, først litt anonym kanskje, men med vann blir den noe mer kompleks – men også litt bitrere, mer tre- og råspritaktig. Alt i alt en positiv opplevelse, dette.

Karakter: 80/100

Denne omtalen er basert på en smaksprøve som ble mottatt gratis fra Dr. Jekyll. Ingen har betalt meg for å skrive denne omtalen, og heller ikke lagt noen føringer for hva jeg skriver eller stilt krav om at jeg skal skrive noe i det hele tatt.

[bodoposten]

LESERINNLEGG: Er demokratiet opphørt hos fylkesrådet i Nordland?

Fylkesrådet i Nordland gjør ikke jobben sin når de lager en ny reiselivsstrategi for Nordland som krasjer totalt med fremtidige sommerruter for hurtigbåter. Av: Beate Bø Nilsen, Gruppeleder for Høyres fylkestingsgruppe Nordland. Dette gjøres uten noe form for involvering av berørte parter eller politikere. Dette er en form for demokrati som man finner øst for oss. Opprøret langs…

[littlesparklight]

Some headcanon thoughts/considerations on (some, lol) deities and their favourite cities in myth:

Hera Argos (the area, and then the city in particular, founded by Phoroneus) is, after Samos, Hera's first favourite city, stemming from Inachos judging her the goddess of the land against Poseidon.

Lakedaimon founds Sparta in honour of his new wife, but they dedicate the city to Hera. First because of Sparta's mother having been fostered by Hera*, and Sparta is her local nymph priestess in the area. Second because Lakedaimon, as a son of Zeus and now marrying a nymph that is important to Hera, wants to honour her. Hera takes surprisingly well to this, and wholeheartedly claims the city Sparta as her own, becoming one of Lakeidamon's main deities. *Sparta's mother being Kleta/Klete, one of a set of two Lakedaimonian Charites/Graces. For myself, I made her and her sister(s)' parents Helios and Aigle, but Hera and Zeus fostered them.

Perseus makes Mycenae into a proper city and fortifies it (it was mostly a village with a palace-like building on the rise for Mykene and Arestor earlier), dedicating it to Hera in the name of his marriage with Andromeda, and much like with Lakedaimon and Sparta, she takes to the dedication very well; the city becomes one of her three favourites.

Apollo We all know how/why Delos and Delphi is one of Apollo's favoured cities, so there's no need to touch on that. But I do think it's interesting how in one version of Meleager's death, Apollo is said to kill him during the war between the Kuretes/Pleuronians and the Kalydonians (sparked from the dispute over the hide of the Kalydonian boar), having come to the defense of the Kuretes. How come? Vaguely wondering if it's because of a connection of this region to Acarnania and Actium/Aktion, which was a major center of worship for Apollo. Otherwise we're left with little to make any connection, so in this case Apollo apparently just. Decided he liked them and the city of Pleuron.

Troy is an interesting case, I think. Because while Poseidon clearly takes complete and total umbrage at Laomedon and feels no further connection to or affection for Troy and its inhabitants, Apollo does. He apparently was imagined as having built more than just the wall, and we have his connections to the royal family through Hektor, Kassandra, Helenos and Hecuba, and Troilus. Hektor was among quite a few authors (Stesichorus, for example, so this was an early idea) thought of as Apollo's son, so perhaps no wonder that he would in that case be defending Hektor so intently. For my own headcanon I imagine that Leto, later being associated with especially Lycia and such, preferred to stay on the coast here when the twins were young, and so met Xanthos - and this led to especially Apollo, but all three becoming focus of worship for the population of the Troad forward.

Zeus His special connection to Dodona I headcanon springs from back when he was presented to Kronos before the war, pretending to be something he wasn't. Zeus makes himself out to be a local water divinity of the place, and he keeps that connection, it being one of the few places he directly (instead of through Apollo's oracles, later) expresses his oracular knowledge.

Troy again, and of course you've got his plain statement of how he's been/being honoured in Troy and by Hektor. We also have the comment that Dardanos was one of his most loved mortal sons, so a continuing fondness for the city and the ruling family would make sense. Too, though, we have Xanthos/Skamander. This river god is the one of only three river gods who are said to be born of Zeus instead of Okeanos and Tethys (and the other two in rather later sources, Xanthos is in the Iliad). While I did decide to go with the Okeanos+Tethys parentage, what I did to lean into the Iliad stating Xanthos is a son of Zeus is to have had Zeus being Xanthos' foster father. And Xanthos is the father of the first (mortal) king of the area in myth, who's daughter is married to Dardanos and Xanthos then marrying a number of naiad daughters into the royal line.

[cirilee]

Although I don't exactly feel bad for Poppy, it is a shame to see the casual prison brutality :(

Also. Man what did Tef and Muskat actually, like, do? Or is that a spoiler? Did I miss it?

yeah, jerry is not the hero here. and prison (and prison brutality) just made poppy worse than she was before :c

and oh its a spoiler, but since i dont have the time or resources to make a 100page comic, i'm just throwing out the ideas as i get them.

so technically, you would only find out what tef and kat did after a few chapters. we follow Tink trying to dig up more backstory on them. (during this first part, she still wants to go back to the orphanage and tries to get them arrested. since she's been told her biological parents were criminals who didn't want her, she fears knows these two old weirdos will be the same)

Myron from Mykene, now known as Muskat, was an assassin (more like a human wrecking ball, assassin is too classy a word for it X'D). Part of an elite group owned by rich assholes, who wanted to get some revenge killings get done. he was really good at it and enjoyed doing what he did. he knows way too many ways to kill someone with his bare hands. Then the job became worse and worse with every year, every day, and he got beaten down and blown up and almost killed and sliced open waaaaaay too often.

Thiago Royka, now known as Teflon, did spywork. but he always worked for three or four different sides at the same time. it always depended on who paid more money or was more likely to ensure his safety. which means thiago comitted highest treason against almost every big faction fighting in that big epic war. constant stress and paranoia for this man, and an intense fear of getting sent to the frontline, if he doesn't prove his worth via information. tried climbing up some ranks and failed miserably at that.

and also, of course: they met because myron was tasked with killing thiago. and they instantly fell in love. and tried to flee. which is the biggest crime of all for the faction you're aligned with. lots of high status people who survived the war and became "peace deliverers" ensured that Muskat and Thiago would be sent to the worst labour camps they had available, and for as long as possible.

[twof]

Greece, 2023

Photo: Roland Helbig

[douglasfur365]

No. 1 Myken, 2022 Tucson is Hot AF

I’ve done this every year and it’s always a great way to revisit all the work I made throughout the year. 2022 was kinda weird, it wasn’t as limited as 2020 or as clustered as 2021, it was my most inspired year in a long while. Recently I was self-reflecting on what I love photographing most, outside of people I have long had a passion for architecture and interior design, but always my first thought when I see an interesting structure or interior is “This would be more interesting with someone naked in front of it.” Shooting in Tucson’s Barrio Viejo neighborhood with @gracemotel brings together this incredible adobe architecture and nudity.

[nordseehexe]

Ate (altgriechisch Ἄτη Átē, deutsch ‚Verblendung‘) verkörpert in der griechischen Mythologie die Verblendung. Nach Hesiod sind Ate und deren Schwester Dysnomia (deutsch: Ungesetzlichkeit) Töchter der Eris, Göttin der Zwietracht, und Enkelinnen der Nyx, Göttin der Nacht.

Bei Homer ist Ate die Tochter des Zeus. Sie stürzt Menschen und Götter ins Verderben; indem sie die Opfer betört und verblendet, werden diese zu unüberlegten, leidenschaftlichen Handlungen verleitet. Ate ähnelt in ihrer tragischen Rolle (z. B. bei Aeschylos) der Nemesis.

Agamemnon beklagt, dass er sich habe verleiten lassen, Achilleus zu beleidigen. Es sei aber Ate gewesen, die ihn so habe handeln lassen. Das aber sei nicht unehrenhaft, da selbst Zeus einmal zum Opfer der Ate geworden sei, als er vor der Gattin Hera mit dem zukünftigen Schicksal des Herakles prahlte, der an jenem Tag von der Geliebten Alkmene, Enkelin des einstigen mykenischen Herrschers Perseus, geboren werden sollte: das Kind solle einst (als Urenkel Perseus’) Herrscher Mykenes werden, so beschwor er, von Ate verleitet, mit einem mächtigen Eid. Rachsüchtig verzögerte die eifersüchtige Hera Herakles’ Geburt, wodurch er nach Eurystheus, dem Vetter der Alkmene und Enkel Perseus’, geboren und somit dessen Untertan wurde. Voller Zorn und Gram über den nicht erfüllten Eid und das Schicksal des Sohnes, verbannte Zeus Ate für immer aus dem Olymp.

An anderer Stelle der Ilias wird Ate den Litai gegenübergestellt. Die Litai, Töchter des Zeus, verkörpern die Abbitte und die Gebete des reuigen Sünders. Zwar kann fromme Buße den Sinn der Götter ändern, jedoch folgen die Litai nur langsam und zögernd den Spuren der Sünde, während Ate leichtfüßig über die Köpfe der Menschen voranspringt.

[ash-and-starlight]

exorcising some of the she who became the sun brainworms 😵‍💫

[lamentablesbian]

i’m gonna fucking lose it. Ylfa taking a moment to nuzzle noses with the Big Bad Wolf like… she met Death and Death wanted her to live and now she’s saving Death’s life and letting him know that he’s not alone