#Urania Records

[bobdobalina]

Cover art to Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal: Orchestral highlights vol. II, Franz Konwitschny conducting the Munich State Opera (Bayerische Staatsoper), Urania Records (URLP 7065), 1952.

Artist uncredited, possibly Siegmund Forst, Frank Parisi, or Robert Galster. UPDATE: Jonas as Midcentury Classical dot com attributes it to Sam Norkin.

[tealblood-throwaway]

[+ ccedric if the part i ccensored here gets out im going to repllace your blood with arsenic -]

[commsroom]

Hello. It occurred to me recently that Hera is the only character of the main cast who is not named for an engineer/physicist/mathematician. Do u think this has any significance regarding her role on the team and her character, or not really?

(Also, the wiki says she's probably named for the Greek goddess Hera which has interesting connotations if it's true. There was also a NASA probe called Hera at some point I'm pretty sure, but I don't know which is the more likely namesake. I just enjoy the names in W359 because I am a physics student and it's fun to hear character names in all my classes.)

hi! i think the answer is kind of... yes and no? like, gabriel urbina has said his process of naming characters is first to choose a category to pick surnames from, to narrow down the options (so, in this case, famous scientists), and then to find given names that he thinks sound good with those surnames. so i don't think symbolism is the purpose, and i don't think it needs to be. but hera, obviously... doesn't have a last name. and so the way she was named (both in and out of universe) is different, and i think that does represent something.

first: hera is the mother program of the hephaestus. the hera of greek mythology is the mother of hephaestus and cast him out of the sky. the allusions are obviously intentional. (as are other mythology names in the show, but that's another topic.) second: a lot of real world things relating to space are named for mythology, and clearly cutter agrees that's how it should be done. but also: goddard's AIs share the same naming scheme with their spacecrafts. hera, rhea, eris, enlil, perseus, hyperion vs. hephaestus, hermes, tiamat, urania, valkyrie, sol. in one sense, this marks them as company property, people who are treated as equivalent to technology.

but, third: from a writing perspective, gabriel urbina has also said he only started getting a sense of who hera was when he started writing for michaela swee in the second episode; there's such a difference in how she's written just between those first two scripts. you can even see in the first recording script that her name was stylized HERA, as if it stood for something, like a much more standard AI character might have been named. which goes so far against what her name actually ended up representing that it retroactively becomes an in-universe microaggression.

and so, fourth: despite all of that, the real thing that makes hera's name stand apart is that it's a chosen name. it's offered to her, but not the way a name is given - it's a bribe, with the understanding it can be taken away from her. rachel says she can see what else is available if hera "has a problem with the etymology or any of the allusions," which is kind of interesting. but hera chooses to be hera. i don't think it's a stretch to say she has a deadname and a chosen name: that she has to introduce herself every time in a way that amounts to "i prefer to be called hera" and that her name is treated as optional and conditional, a reward for good behavior. if hera wanted to take a middle or last name, she would be choosing those, too.

i think ultimately names in wolf 359 are less about categorization and/or symbolism and more about identity. names are symbols that represent and contain the people who claim them. how people are referred to, when, and by whom - as well as how people refer to themselves by name as an act of self-determination, a reclamation of identity, or in defiance - is all central to the themes of the show. and, from that perspective, i think how hera is named (and what her name means to her, how she has had to construct and fight for parts of her identity that others are given as a default assumption) is significant, but i don't think it really sets her apart from the others when their names are treated in similar ways thematically.

[partial-bouquet]

On my idk 10th relisten of Wolf 359 and I’m thinking about how like retro the Hephaestus is. The clacking keys, the flicked switches, the fact that the audio recordings seem to be on tape, cause in episode 51 Eiffel is using a tape player.

Like when I picture the interior it’s like the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars and those Earth Colony ships from 70s Doctor Who and the Nostromo from Alien.

I remember seeing a post talking about the differences between the Hephaestus, Urania and Sol, but that was about how lived in they were.

But like The Hephaestus is dark and boxy and has many switches on the interior, 90s/early 00s keyboards, tape recording and such.

If I was good at drawing ships and stuff I would try and draw The Hephaestus.

[03josten]

Some of my favourite terminology for sex, sexuality, and gender that have mostly fell out of use:

Sapphist: Similar to the term Sapphic which is still in use, derived from the woman loving Greek poet Sappho. The -ist has implications of doing rather than being. A Sapphist is a woman who has romantic and sexual relationships with other women. It was commonly used in the 19th and early 20th century, eventually replaced by lesbian in common usage. Some famous historical figures who used this term include Vita Sackville-West, who also used the terms lesbian and homosexual.

Mukhannathun: Translates roughly to "effeminate ones" or "ones who resemble women", typically refers to a feminine male, an intersex person, or one whose sex is indistinct. Modern scholars place the term Mukhannath in correlation with trans feminine. Mukhannathun traditionally took on the social roles of women in Saudi Arabia and feature in Ḥadīth Islamic literature. They were often musicians and entertainers, Abū ʿAbd al-Munʿim ʿĪsā ibn ʿAbd Allāh al-Dhāʾib (or Tuwais) being perhaps the first famous Mukhannath musician. I could not find any depictions of Mukannathun.

Invert: Sexology in the early 20th century believed that same sex desire and cross gender identification were natural in some people. It was coined in German by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833-1890) and translated across Europe and eventually into English as sexual inversion by John Addington Symonds Jr. (1840-1893) in 1883. Inverts were people whose natural sex instinct (heterosexual, cisgender) were "inverted", causing a natural desire for the same sex or to live as the other sex. It was thought that most inverts desired a relationship with a "normal" member of their own sex, for example a masculine presenting woman would desire a feminine presenting "normal" woman, a feminine presenting man would desire a masculine or "normal" man. While most sexologists thought sexual inversion was natural, they worried about corruption of "normal" people by inverts. The writer 'John' Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943) identified as an invert and explored the life of inverts in her 1928 novel The Well of Loneliness.

Uranism: A Uranian was a man who was romantically or sexually interested in other men. One of the earliest records of the term comes from Friedrich Schiller's 'Sixth Letter' in the Aesthetic Education of Man in 1795. It is derived from the ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite Urania, a manifestation of Aphrodite who was free of physical desire and instead was attracted by mind and soul. Ancient Greek literature was very important in the early formations of queer identity and self-recognition. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was known to use the term Uranian.

Tribadism: Derived from the Greek "tribas" which means "to rub", tribadism denotes both a sexual position (now known as tribbing or scissoring) and a woman who seeks to sexual dominate and/or penetrate another woman. This term could also be used to describe an intersex person who lives as female and is the penetrating partner during sex with women. It became the most common word to describe any kind of sexual intimacy between women in English literature from the 16th to 19th centuries. Marie Antoinette, queen of France from 1773 to 1792 was "defamed" in many anti-monarchist newspapers as being a tribade.

Eonism: Eonism was coined by English sexologist Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) to describe cross gender identification and presentation. "Eon" after the French diplomat Charlotte-Geneviève-Louise-Augusta-Andréa-Timothéa d'Éon de Beaumont, who was assigned male at birth but lived as a woman from 1777 until her death in 1810. Eonism was later replaced by transvestism in popular usage in the early to mid 20th century, coined by Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) in 1910.

Eunuch: the term Eunuch has many connotations but the one common factor that almost all definitions share is that a eunuch is an intentionally castrated male. Eunuchs can also be uncastrated, but put into the social role as eunuch due to their 1) feminine presentation 2) inability to procreate 3) attraction to men. Eunuchs were not seen as men in most cultures, they were specifically chosen and castrated in order to fill a specific, separate social role from men and women. It was sometimes punitive, for example under Assyrian law men who were caught in sexual acts with other men were castrated. Eunuchs often had positions in royal households in the Ancient Middle East, their sexlessness was seen to enhance their loyalty to the crown as they were less likely to be distracted by sex or marriage, and it also allowed for jobs to be given on merit, and not inherited since Eunuchs could not reproduce. In Ancient Greece certain sects of male priests were eunuchs. China had Eunuchs who were fully castrated (penis and testicles) and high ranking in imperial service. In Vietnam, many eunuchs were self castrated in order to gain employment in the royal households.

Homophile: coined in 1924 by Karl-Günther Heimsoth (1899-1933) in his dissertation Hetero- und Homophilie. The term was in common use in the 50s and 60s in gay activism groups. It was an alternative to homosexual coined in 1868 by Károly Mária Kertbeny (1824-1882) which was thought to have pathological and sexual implications, whereas homophile prioritised love and appreciation over the sex act or pathology. It is still in use in some parts of northern Europe. The Homophile Action League was founded by lesbian couple Ada Bello (1933-2023) and Carole Friedmann (1944-?) in Pennsylvania, U.S.A. in 1968, a year before the Stonewall Riots.

[dailyadventureprompts]

I was wondering if I could request a diety? If so may I request a goddess that is for the Gith what Moradin is for the Dwarves?

Deity: Urania, The One Who Names The Stars

Hear me, brothers, sisters, my fellow orphans of the vast,

We are lost, but we are not forgotten,

The Bright Maiden has set a Star Burning for us,

And she calls us Home

The wild unknown and the simple laws that govern the universe, the cold embrace of space and the warmth of distant stars, the mystery of the infinite horizon and the knowledge of your course through it: The goddess Urania is a being of contrasts. Patron to astronomers, navigators, and any who find themselves alone with only the stars for guidance, the bright maiden is called upon by many who sail the astral sea to bless their journeys into the vast cosmos and to guide them back home again. 

Legend says it was It was the Gith who found her, aboard a lost and aimless refugee ship too full of desperate souls who’d just escaped from the tyranny of the ilithid. They saw a stranger cast adrift in the void, and though they did not have enough to go around they cast out a line and pulled her from the void because the thought of leaving anyone behind without hope of rescue was too terrible to bear. In rescuing her they rescued themselves, for when the captain gave up his ration of water the goddess awoke with her eyes full of grateful tears, whispering to him of a course towards sanctuary just as a new star flared on the horizon.

Since then it has been tradition among the Gith ( and those who have learned the art of astral navigation from them) to keep a star shaped lantern burning in the goddess’s honour, and to rescue any they find adrift, no matter who they might be.

 Adventure Hooks:

Knowledge of the stars is sacred to those who follow Urania, whether it be in charting new courses through the astral sea or divining the movement and influence of celestial bodies. An acolyte of such an order believes she’s had a star-granted vision of a previously unexplored reach of the astral sea but her superiors won’t let her mount an expedition as much of the nearby territory has a reputation for being dangerous, or downright hostile. To this end she hires the party to help her go delving a long abandoned archive-moon in the hopes of discovering ancient records that her research hints might just contain a means of traversal through this hostile stretch of space.

Much ink has been spilled over the potential connections between the bright maiden and Nyx, matronly goddess of primordial darkness, with most scholars agreeing to disagree as to whether the goddess are enemies, aspects of the same being, or somehow related.  This debate comes to a head when a night-shrouded acolyte of Nyx steals the star lamp from the vessel of a famous spelljammer captain on the eve of an important voyage, darkening the lamp with occult magics to use in some mysterious ritual. Both men are, as the party discovers after being hired to recover the lamp, brothers, and as their pursuit goes on it becomes wildly clear that the two goddess are having some kind of a wager over the outcome of the theft, subtly influencing events in their own favour

Along their travels, the party discover a reinforced capsule containing an ember of celestial fire, a nascent star that some enterprising mage plucked from the sky in an attempt to tap its power. The item is tremendously useful, (acting as a pearl of power that refreshes after short rests), but in moments of channelling the star’s energy the attuned creature is more and more filled with feelings of loneliness and need to return to a home they’ve never seen before. The ember is alive, if not sentient, and longs to be returned to the patch of sky from which it was stolen. Doing so can be quite an undertaking, but will reward the party with the Bright Maiden’s favour in the process. 

Titles: The Bright Maiden, Lady of Far Horizons, The Infinite,

Signs: The appearance of new stars, astronomical lines and diagrams appearing in the sky, a sudden awareness of a heading leading either home or into the unknown

Symbols: A star and sextant or other tool of navigation, lantern with star iconography or burning with celestial fire. 

[msweebyness]

MiracOlympus- Theatre Deities

Here’s the next batch of gods! The theater class! Enjoy! @artzychic27 @imsparky2002

Ayesha:

(Euphrosyne)

Goddess of joy and cheer

Can find a silver lining in any situation, negativity is a foreign concept

Personal cheerleader for any deity who needs it

Impossible not to smile around her

Great at talking people through their problems

Anthony:

(Thanatos)

God of death

Everything he says is morbid in some way, but he’s still a snark king

Only smiles around Jesse, otherwise he’s a dark cloud

Black Hair, black wings, black everything

SCARY when he’s mad

Jesse:

(Melpomene)

Muse of theater, specifically tragedy

Just as dramatic as his twin, Jean

Will start crying at the drop of a hat

Kind of a pessimist, worries a lot

Seeing him smile is a rare gift

Dot:

(Clio)

Muse of history and records

Keeps METICULOUS files of all happenings on Earth and Olympus

Can be a bit OCD about her records

Can recite an unbelievable amount of trivia

Can be persuaded to sing with her siblings

Petra:

(Iapetus)

Deity of Craft and artistic skill

Always working on some new project

Super critical of her own work

Loves visiting earth to find new materials

Can make anything into a fun art project

Roxie:

(Nemesis)

Godex of Retribution

Can be persuaded to forgive, but NEVER forgets

Believes very strongly in fairness and just punishment

Gives the most savage burns

Refuses to lose an argument

Candace:

(Eunomia)

Goddess of order and lawfulness

The Responsible One™️

Huge stickler for the rules of the divine order

Gets stressed when things go off course

Aggie, Alix and Ismael drive her up the wall

Brecken:

(Cybele)

God of wild creatures and nature

VERY protective of all wildlife

Sweet as a kitten with his friends and Evie

Doesn’t like being inside

Has some animal features, i.e. feline eyes, claws, etc.

Eri:

(Hecate)

Goddess of witchcraft and magic

Still gothic and theatrical as heck

Has a potion or spell for everything

Only likes to come out at night

Everyone is at least a little scared of her

Aggie:

(Atë)

Goddess of daring and impulse

Will NEVER turn down a dare

Harbinger of chaos

Giving the other gods heart attacks on the reg

Lacey’s parkour bestie

Margo:

(Eos)

Goddess of the dawn

Wakes up the world with encouragement and affection

Still a romantic, Rose’s matchmaking buddy

Biggest morning person ever

Dresses like the sunrise

Soo-Yeon:

(Eurus)

God of the east wind and fall weather

Quietest and most restrained of the winds

Still a nervous wreck, tbh

Tries to wrangle his fellow winds as best he can

Can be intense when it’s needed

Has wings like a falcon

Parker:

(Kratos)

Goddess of strength and fortitude

Can deadlift just about anything

Always up to fight for a good cause

Can be VERY stubborn

Best workout coach

Staci:

(Erebus)

Goddess of the ether and gloom

Emotions are impossible to read

Likes to hang out in the shadows

Still snarky like no other

Hangs in the Underworld most of the time

Evie:

(Erato)

Muse of song and lyric poetry

Voice so pure it will make you cry

Still very proper, but cuts loose when singing

Master of wrangling her siblings

Writes love songs for Brecken

Mona:

(Morpheus)

Deity of dreams

Half-awake 90% of the time

Things they say are confusing, but also profound

Cannot stop falling asleep

Keeps a dream journal for the whole world, great at interpretation

Eloise:

(Metis)

Goddess of prudence and deliberation

Consistent voice of reason on Olympus

Does complex math problems or puzzles to relax

Not the most versed in emotion, but a good listener

Always has at least three plans

Anais:

(Urania)

Muse of science and space

Spends hours locked in her lab, working on countless experiments

Never goes anywhere without their telescope

Infodumps about the periodic elements

Is very…intense when curious about something

Missy:

(Asclepius)

Goddess of health and medicine

Will punt any of her fellow deities if they’re not taking care of themselves

She cares, it’s just aggressively

Serves as Olympus’ doctor, nurse, physical therapist, nutritionist, etc.

Snarky, but it’s out of love

Leave your thoughts in the comments and reblogs!

[princessmeepa]

I am going to pick the voice actors for my gods, RS’ dream cast for her LO live action is just for points and not even there to play the roles and she only picks her celebrity crush Mads to be Christian blue I know. So I am going to pick the voice actors who can fit my characters perfectly and here they are. So let’s start with the goddesses. Ok let’s gooo!

Note: some of the characters have the same voice actresses and who voiced their characters from the same anime, because I want to fit some of the voices, who can fit my characters.

Alecto: Avalon Penrose, who voiced Megaera from Hades.

Aglaea: Reba Buhr, who voiced Aphrodite from Record of Ragnarok.

Amphitrite: Michelle Rojas, who voiced Wendy from Show by Rock.

Aphrodite: Dorothy Elias-Fahn, who voiced Komi Shuuko from Komi can’t communicate.

Athena: Erika Harlacher, who voiced Kyoko Kirigiri from Danganronpa (the game).

Ariadne: Michelle Ruff, who voiced Katherine McBride from Catherine.

Artemis: Carli Mosier, who voiced Saeko Tanaka from Haikyū!!

Atropos: Mara Junot, who voiced Lisa from Genshin Impact.

Calliope: Natalie Hoover, who voiced Tsukino from Show by Rock.

Calypso: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voices Swim from One Punch Man

Chloris: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voiced Rin from Catherine: Full Body

Cleo: Lauren Landa, who voiced Sailor Neptune / Michiru Kaioh from Sailor Moon: Sailor Stars.

Clotho: Kayli Mills, who voiced Runa Yomozuki from Kakegurui.

Daphne: Ashly Burch, who voiced Sasha Braus from Attack on Titan.

Demeter: Heather Masters, who voiced Circus Baby from FNAF.

Echo: Stephanie Sheh, who voiced Sailor Moon / Usagi Tsukino from Sailor Moon or Luci Christian who voiced Duck/Princess Tutu from Princess Tutu.

Eos: Krystal LePort, who voiced Brooke from HuniePop 2.

Eris: Michelle Ruff, who voiced Kirari Momobami from Kakegurui.

Eurydice: Erica Mendez, who voiced Retsuko from Aggretsuko.

Gaia: Same thing with Demeter, but with a cute and girly Greek accent.

Hebe: Anairis Quinones, who voiced Goll from Record of Ragnarok.

Hecate: Alexis Tipton, who voiced Chuchu from Show by Rock.

Hedone: Laura Bailey, who voiced Catherine from Catherine.

Hera: Erin Fitzgerald, who voiced Eudial from Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal.

Hestia: Jamie Marchi, who voiced Panty from Panty and Stocking.

Iris: Brittney Karbowski, who voiced Ryou Fujibayashi from Clannad.

Lachesis: Erica Lindbeck, who voiced Sayaka Igarashi in Kakegurui.

Leto: Casey Mongillo, who voiced Nene Onemine from Komi Can't Communicate.

Leuce: Dorothy Fahn, who voiced Sumika Warakubami / Kawaru Natari from Kakegurui

Libya: Kira Buckland, who voiced Princess Aurora Sya Lis Goodereste in Sleepy Princess from the Demon Castle.

Maia: Cherami Leigh, who voiced Kaede Otori from Komi Can't Communicate.

Marakria: Monica Rial, who voiced Moa in Show from Rock (if that’s possible)

Medea: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voiced Rumia Uru from Kakegurui.

Megaera: Emi Lo, who voiced Suma in Demon Slayer.

Melinoe: Kira Buckland, who voiced Mary Saotome from Kakegurui Twin and Kakegurui.

Metis: Laura Post, who voiced Brunhilde in Record of Ragnarok.

The other 6 Muses: Bryn Apprill.

Nyx: Hellena Taylor, who voiced Bayonetta from the Bayonetta games, but with sexy a Greek accent.

Pasithea: Bridget Hoffman, who voiced Nia Teppelin from Gurren Lagann.

Peitho: Kayli Mills, who voiced Emilia in Re:ZERO.

Persephone: Maggie Flecknoe, who voiced Yui Komori in Diabolik Lovers.

Perse: Brianna Knickerbocker, who voice Rem in Re:ZERO

Psyche: Erika Harlacher, who voiced Yumeko Jabami from Kakegurui

Rhea: Elizabeth Maxwell, who voiced Rosaria from Genshin Impact.

Selene: Shannon Chan, who voiced Misa Amane from Death Note.

Semele: Brenna Larsen, who voiced Navia from Genshin Impact.

Thetis: Kate Higgins, who voiced Sailor Mercury/ Ami Mizuno from Sailor Moon.

Tisiphone: Sarah Williams, who voiced Midari Ikishima from Kakegurui

Urania: Anairis Quinones, who voiced Hinatsuru in Demon Slayer.

And for the Mortal women:

Andromeda: Bryn Apprill, who voiced Krista Lenz / Historia Reiss from Attack on Titan.

Cassandra: Erica Lindbeck, who voiced Daki from Demon Slayer.

Helen of Troy: Cristina Vee, who voiced Sailor Mars / Rei Hino.

Phaedra: Juliet Simmons, who voiced Inaho Yamato from Kakegurui

Penelope: Abby Trott, who voiced Inui from Aggretsuko.

What do you guys think?

[paganimagevault]

Aphrodite Areia, 1st C. CE copy of 400 BCE statue by the school of Polykleitos, possibly Polykleitos the Younger. National Archaeological Museum in Athens (see NAMA 262).

"The Temple of Aphrodite Kytherea was a sanctuary in ancient Kythira dedicated to the Goddess Aphrodite. It was famous for reportedly being the eldest temple of Aphrodite in Greece. It was dedicated to the Goddess under her name and aspect as Aphrodite Ourania and contained a statue of an Armed Aphrodite. The temple is dated to the 6th century BCE. While considered a significant sanctuary, it was described as a small building.

According to Hesiod, Kythira was the first island that Aphrodite passed as she rose from the sea.

Herodotus (Histories 1.105.3) described it:

"This temple, I discover from making inquiry, is the oldest of all the temples of the Goddess, for the temple in Cyprus was founded from it, as the Cyprians themselves say; and the temple on Cythera was founded by Phoenicians from this same land of Syria."

Pausanias (Description of Greece, 3.23.1 & 1.14.7) also said of it:

"In Kythera [off the coast of Lakedaimonia] is . . . the sanctuary of Aphrodite Ourania (the Heavenly) is most holy, and it is the most ancient of all the sanctuaries of Aphrodite among the Greeks. The Goddess herself is represented by an armed image of wood. This is the only temple I know that has an upper storey built upon it.

...a sanctuary of the Heavenly Aphrodite; the first men to establish her cult were the Assyrians, after the Assyrians the Paphians of Cyprus and the Phoenicians who live at Ascalon in Palestine; the Phoenicians taught her worship to the people of Cythera."

Aphrodite Areia (Ancient Greek: Ἀφροδίτη Ἀρεία) or "Aphrodite the Warlike" was a cult epithet of the Greek Goddess Aphrodite, in which she was depicted in full armor like the war God Ares. This representation was found in Sparta and Taras (modern Taranto). There were other, similarly martial interpretations of the Goddess, such as at her Sanctuary at Kythira, where she was worshiped under the epithet Aphrodite Urania, who was also represented as being armed. The epithet "Areia", meaning "warlike", was applied to other Gods in addition to Aphrodite, such as Athena, Zeus, and possibly Hermes.

The association with warfare contradicts Aphrodite's more popularly known role as the Goddess of desire, fertility, and beauty. In the Iliad, Aphrodite is portrayed as incompetent in battle, being wounded in the wrist by Diomedes under the guidance of Athena, and she is reminded of her role as a love Goddess rather than a war Goddess like Athena by Zeus. It is possible, however, that this representation was deliberate to assert the Ionian interpretation of Aphrodite, which did not portray the Goddess with warlike aspects, as the "correct" version.

It is believed that the warlike depiction of Aphrodite belongs to her very earliest acolytes and cults in Cyprus and Cythera, where there was a strong eastern influence during the Orientalizing Period. This depiction can trace Aphrodite's descent from older Middle Eastern Goddesses such as the Sumerian Inanna, Mesopotamian Ishtar, and Phoenician Astarte. In Cyprus, Aphrodite was also referred to by the epithet "Aphrodite Encheios" (Aphrodite with a spear), and it has been suggested that the cult was brought from Cyprus to Sparta. She was also known by this name on the Areopagus and at Corinth.

There were cults dedicated to the warlike aspect of Aphrodite in Kythira, Cyprus, Argos, Taras and most prominently in Sparta.

Pausanias recorded that three cult statues at Kythira, Sparta, and Corinth depicted Aphrodite as holding weapons and archeological evidence points to this portrayal also occurring in Argos. Pausanias' claim that "Aphrodite Areia" was simply a female version of Ares has some support in the contemporary epigraphy.

In Sparta, Pausanias described two temples dedicated to Aphrodite Areia and archeological evidence supports this claim. Various authors make reference to Sparta worshipping an armoured Aphrodite, such as Plutarch, Nonnos, and Quintilian. Pausanias' claim that "Aphrodite Areia" was simply a female version of Ares has some support in the contemporary epigraphy. A related Spartan epithet, "Armed Aphrodite" (Ἀφροδίτη 'Ενόπλιος) was associated with an etiological myth recorded by Lactanius, who stated that once the Spartan army was away from the city attacking Messene, part of the Messene army launched a counterattack against Sparta that was thwarted by the Spartan women who armed themselves and defended the city. The Spartan army, realizing their city was under siege, returned and assumed that the women were the enemy army until they stripped off their armour to reveal their identities. It is likely that this myth was used to explain the origin of an unknown Spartan festival that functioned similarly to the Argive festival of Hybristica, where women took over the roles of men.

In Argos, Aphrodite Areia appears to be related to Nikephoros ("victory bearer") and in a nearby city of Manteneia, there was a temple devoted to both Aphrodite and Ares."

-taken from wikipedia

[thriftstorerecords]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 3 in D Major, Op. 29 (“Polish”) Vienna State Opera Orchestra Conducted by Hans Swarowsky Urania Records/USA

[chainsawdigestion]

Pisces Season. Inspired by Urania's Mirror; or, a view of the Heavens. C.1824

Stop motion animated card stock puppets on glass multiplane stand. Music by Danielle Heal @musicah0lic

The Pisces constellation contains no prominent stars. The brightest star, Alpha Piscium, is the point where the cords joining the two fish are knotted together. It is one of the earliest zodiac signs on record appearing as far back as c. 2300 BC in Egypt. In Greek mythology, Pisces is associated with Aphrodite. Pisces is the 12th sign of the zodiac.

[todaysdocument]

“ . . . we urgently appeal to our honored President, and hereby PETITION him to URGE the enactment into LAW . . . of either Senator France's or Representative Dyer ANTI-LYNCHING BILL.” Petition from the International Uplift League, 10/15/1922. 

File Unit: 158260 section 3 #1, 1904 - 1974

Series: Straight Numerical Files, 1904 - 1974

Record Group 60: General Records of the Department of Justice, 1790 - 2002

Transcription:

[HEADER]

The International Uplift League

(Organized 1911: Re-Organized and Incorporated, A.D. 1915)

Object:-To Uplift and Develop the Colored Race Everywhere.

Motto:-Justice, Knowledge (Material and Spiritual) Health and Wealth.

President, Rev. Dr. Robert W. S. Thomas, M.A.

Treasurer, Mrs. Ruth M. Collett

Auditor, Charles M. Dorsey, Esq.

Chairman of the Executive Committee, Rev. George L. White, D.D., M.D.

General Secretary, David N.E. Campbell, M.D., M.O.

1369 N. Carey Street,

Baltimore, Md., U. S. A.

New Address,

119 Lefferts Place,

Brooklyn, New York.

ALL MEN UP!

Roosevelt.

Amended Petition.  October 15th 1922.

A PETITION TO THE PRESIDENT

From

THE INTERNATIONAL UPLIFT LEAGUE.

To His Excellency,

The President of

The United States of America,

The White House, Washington, D.C.

Dear Mr. President:

For the GOOD and true HONOR of our beloved country, the United States of America, in the NAME of ALMIGHTY GOD, LYNCHING should be abolished.  Opinion seems unanimous that the United States Government possesses permanently the greater jurisdictional control (about 3/4) over each United States Citizen; and the State in which the citizen resides holds the remaining (1/4) jurisdiction.

Hence the elimination of LYNCHING, our most heinous STIGMA, should be accomplished through the Federal Government, because the respective States, for more than fifty years, have failed to suppress LYNCHING.  Therefore, we urgently appeal to our honored President, and hereby PETITION him to URGE the enactment into LAW, during the Extra Session of Congress, of either Senator France's or Representative Dyer ANTI-LYNCHING BILL.  By such worthy and magnanimous ACT, Mr. President, you will immortalize your NAME like the illustrious Lincoln when we signed the Emancipation Proclamation.  Amen.

For the Women.

(Miss) Emma J. Chrichton

For the Men.

David Newton E. Campbell

Secretary I.U. League

P.S. We hope to secure millions of signatures to this PETITION and forward same duly.

 VIce Presidents,

Rev. Dr. George F. Bragg, Jr.

Hon. Ernest Lyon, D.D., LL.D.

Rev. Dr. Wm. Sampson Brooks, D.D.

Rev. W.W. Allen, D.D.

Rev. Dr. Thomas F. Reed

Hon. George W.F. McMechen

Mrs. Mary F. Bond.

Rev. Junius Gray, D.D.

Rev. L.C. Curtis, D.D.

Rev. N.M. Carroll, D.D.

Charles B Rodgers, Esq.

Mrs. Alric R. Campbell.

Rev. Ananias Brown, D.D.

Rev. James R. Diggs, A.M.

Rev. Dr. J.A. Briscoe.

Rev. Dr. A.B. Callis, Washington, D.C.

Miss Nannie H. Burroughs.

Rev. William H. Dean, D.D.

Rev. J. Harvey Randolph, D.D.

Rev. M.W.D. Norman, D.D.

Rev. C. Harold Stepteau, D.D.

Dr. Charles H. Marshall.

Rev. Walter H. Brooks, D.D.

Directors,

Joseph P. Evans, Esq.

Miss. Mary A.E. Bennett.

Joshua F.G.L. Duvall.

Arthur L. Macbeth, Esq.

Joseph S. Fennell, Esq.

William H. Bates, Esq.

Columbus Gordon, Esq.

Dr. Robert W. Brown.

Dr. Luther E. McNeill.

Rev. T.A. Thomas.

Prof. Howard M. Gross.

Dr. E.C. Morris.

Mrs. Mary F. Handy.

Dr. A.A. Terrell.

Mrs. Fannie Jenkins.

Mrs. Urania M. Ross.

Samuel Carroll, Esq.

Dr. John W. Derry,

Dr. E. Verry Stokes.

Dr. Harry F. Brown.

Dr. J. Edward Fisher.

Rev. William Holt.

Rev. S.A. Virgil.

Rev. J.C. and Mrs. S. Love.

[trevlad-sounds]

The Meld Well #003 on Eternal Fusion Radio. First broadcast 2023-11-02.

Artist track timestamp album label Year 1 Sam Gendel Bird of Paradise 00:00 Fresh Bread LEAVING RECORDS 2021 2 The Animals at Night Alpine Blinds 04:22 Future Colors 2021 3 Yves Malone Black Trucks Fill the Night, Empty Then Full 06:52 Kill the Copy In Your Head 2023 4 Bright & Findlay Fireflies 10:09 Fireflies Athens Of The North 2023 5 Chris Prine The Effort 13:10 Glacier Locked Werra Foxma Records 2022 6 James Holden Four Ways Down The Valley 16:43 Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities Border Community Recordings 2023 7 Metamatics Vocodor Odour 20:04 Midnight Sun Pig Hydrogen Dukebox Records 2023 8 Sophos Other Sunlight 30:28 Tales from Urania Cyclical Dreams 2023 9 Pan-American Quarry A 34:10 In Daylight Dub Foam On A Wave 2023 10 The British Stereo Collective Something Wicked This Way Comes 39:30 Music is Vast: A Tribute to the Music and Legacy of Vangelis Castles In Space 2023 11 Don Melody Club Psychonauten 42:34 Pure Donzin Les Disques Bongo Joe 2021 12 Indian Wells Alcantara 47:03 Pause 2015 13 Puma & The Dolphin Mind & Feelings 52:54 Indoor Routine Invisible, Inc. 2020 14 Jonathan Snipes, William Hutson To Keep from Falling Of 57:49 Room 237 (Rodney Ascher's Original Soundtrack from the Documentary) Death Waltz Recording Company 2013 15 Panamint Manse Saline Sands 1:02:09 Undulating Waters 1-7 Woodford Halse 2022 16 Alan Braxe, Annie Never Coming Back 1:05:43 The Upper Cuts Singles (2023 Edition) 2023 17 Hawke, Bluetech Garden Of Your Mind - Bluetech’s Mountain High Mix 1:08:52 Phoenix Rising (Remastered Bonus Edition) Behind The Sky Music 2021 18 CV Vision Insolita 1:16:26 Insolita Growing Bin Records 2021 19 Aural Design Silver Clouds 1:19:04 The Dead Astronaut Woodford Halse 2023 20 Gravité Reptile 1:20:23 III Höga Nord Rekords 2023 21 Sick Robot Core Level 1:23:55 A Field in Yorkshire 2022 22 Lo Five Complex Entanglements 1:29:37 Persistence of Love Castles In Space 2023 23 Christian Kleine Beyond Repair 1:33:48 Beyond Repair 2021 24 The New Honey Shade Oganesson 1:41:20 Cinq / NEXUS Handstitched* 2022 25 Den Osynliga Manteln LILA SKOG 1:43:05 Under Grön Himmel Castles In Space 2023 26 Milieu Euflorian 1:47:30 Eufloria Milieu Music Digital 2011 29 Thomas Ragsdale & Richard Arnold Rings Of Grain 1:52:34 Elements Frosti 2023

[rubystims]

Hello and Happy New Year! (Okay I'm not too sure if it's already New Year by you but wishing you one just in case)

Anyway if you've doing Genshin Impact requests, can I get a gifset of lochfolks/ Oceanids from Genshin Impact please? Specifically the bosses Rhodeia and Urania/ Hateful Oceanid/ Vagabond Oceanid please? Thank you in advance, and sorry for the late night (?) request!

it's posted !!! honestly this might have been the most challenging request i've done lol, i couldn't find anything of urania in her usual environment (?) that was stable footage and the one i did find (i think) she's labeled as rhodeia and like. she's hacked in to replace her?? idk hard to do words (edit: its still rhodeia but with different attacks) oh and i didn’t want to gif the ones where they’re getting attacked. id imagine thats not what youd want to see in an oceanid gifset i think if i screen recorded my game i'd probably die from trying to get stable footage of rhodeia LOL also idk how to have a high quality screen recording of my game.. i added endora for more oceanid content i hope you like :'D

[classpectanon]

Are you still doing your amazing land analyses? If so can you please describe my land? I'm a Seer of Life, and I love music (namely violin), outer space, history, pop culture, crystal healing, art, the wild west, magic, mythology and the great outdoors. I'm also very curious, creative, friendly, silly, sometimes obsessive over things, struggle with organization and zone out into deep thought sometimes. Thank you so much and your work is absolutely phenomenal!

your land, the land of symphonies and constellations (losac), sprawls with intricate rock formations, each appearing like a beautifully etched crystal violin. these geodes resonate with ethereal tunes, melodies constantly shifting with the celestial bodies overhead, an ever-changing symphony. an array of constellations illuminate the night sky, their starlight shimmering on the vast expanse below.

consorts here are armadillos, talkative, scattered, and perpetually disorganized. they're historians at heart, captivated by tales of the wild west, yet unable to keep track of their countless stories. they rely heavily on the constellations for direction and record-keeping but struggle due to their chaotic nature. the denizen, urania, resides within the heart of a grand observatory. urania whispers her riddles through the cosmos, only decipherable through a mastery of the symphony.

your quest requires you to teach the armadillos the discipline of organization, encouraging them to catalogue their history effectively. through your love of music and art, you will reshape the land's symphony, creating a harmonic resonance to guide the armadillos

[bubblesandgutz]

Every Record I Own - Day 771: Lungfish Indivisible

Though I'd been exposed to Lungfish a few times over '90s and '00s, it wasn't until I took the leap and bought Talking Songs For Walking in the early '10s that I began to develop an appreciation for the band. Not long after, I picked up a copy of Indivisible at Academy Records in Greenpoint, and which point I went from thinking Lungfish was another great band in the Dischord catalog to thinking that Lungfish was one of the greatest bands of my generation. Picking favorites will always feel like an adolescent pursuit, but what can I say... Indivisible will always be a particularly special album for me because it will always feel like the opening of a doorway into a previously unknown room.

I tend to think of Sound In Time, Indivisible, and Artificial Horizon as representing the middle era of the band. They'd transitioned out of the more traditional bombastic early records and seemed to be testing the parameters of what constituted a song. With Sound In Time, the band created a collection of deceptively simple songs that adhered to one or two repeating riffs while still feeling like fully realized songs. On Indivisible, that formula begins to unravel. The full-band approach deteriorates, and as the album progresses, it feels like we're hearing strange transmissions of a band expanding and imploding, with some of the band's strongest songs segueing into fractured instrumentals.

Album opener "Indivisible" is probably my second favorite song in the Lungfish catalog, coming in only behind "The Evidence." It operates on the somewhat common loud-quiet-loud formula of the '90s alt-rock, but employs the band's signature cyclical tactics as the A part / B part structure repeats throughout the course of the song with Higgs repeating the same paradoxical couplets over and over again: "death to / long live / love and hate / forever." Perhaps it's lyrical nonsense, but by the end of the song it feels profound. From there the album goes into "You Did Not Exist," one of the most minimal songs in the band's canon. This song in some ways can be a bit of a deal breaker. I've tried many times to listen to Indivisible while driving on tour, and for whatever reason, "You Did Not Exist" seems designed to thwart any sort of cursory background listening experience. In that environment, Asa Osbourne's metronomic three-note guitar part comes across like Chinese water torture. But listen to the same song at home on the turntable and it feels like it somehow suspends time into a woozy, medicated state of bliss.

Things unravel further with the next two songs---the studio experiment of "e=fu" and the blown out instrumental "Urania." But then side A closes out with "Organ Harvest," a sublime and subdued slab of perfection that recalls the early REM tracks where they leaned into their Velvet Underground obsession. Part electrified folk song. Part droning outsider rock.

Side B continues to fluctuate between Lungfish's refinement of cyclical songwriting and exploratory instrumental vignettes. The guitar work is mostly stripped of distortion, with Osbourne picking out the individual notes of triads in lieu of hammering out chords. "Tick Tock" harkens back to the paradoxical riddle of the title track, but with the exception of the Sound In Time-esque "Fill the Days," side B mostly leans into the austerity and mystery suggested by the album's stark packaging.

And this is ultimately what I enjoy about Indivisible. There is little information, little context, only the bare bones musical information to guide the listener through the black empty canvas, upon which we're invited to paint whatever light and color we can render from their minimalist tactics.