#atthis

[fleurbleedinghearts]

what is your favorite most OBSCURE myth? 🤔 can be relationship, tragedy, ect ect anything, just one you never/rarely hear anything about and there’s very little material on :D

I love listening to your opinions and interpretations of Greek mythology :)

(1.) CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS!!!

my sad mortal blorbos 💔😭

(This myth that makes me want to strangle Eos but I blame Aphrodite most of all because none of that horrible shit would've happened to them or Cephalus's descendants leading up to Adonis if she didn't curse Eos.)

Anyways, I like to think they're both Odysseus's ancestors through Laertes.

(2.) Psamathe

She was a Nereid just minding her own business on a beach because she's the goddess of sand and then this bastard shitbag son of Zeus takes a page out of his daddy's book and assaults her. Even transforming into a seal didn't turn off Achilles's loser grandfather Aeacus (I bet he had some interesting conversations with Minos who's wife banged a bull), and either out of her reclaiming autonomy after her rape or Aeacus being a fucking weirdo who wants to remember that time he screwed a seal, their son is named "the seal" in Greek.

At least they both love their son Phocus I guess but Psamathe's bitchass stepsons kill him out of jealousy but then the gods SET UP her sister Thetis with one of those asshole stepsons of hers and Thetis turns the wolf she sent after Peleus to stone and through her sister's marriage she has to be tied to her son's murderer until Peleus's sorry ass finally dies or for eternity (if Thetis made him immortal).

She's gets a happy ending according to Euripides though by marrying a King of Egypt (a major upgrade from Aegina if you ask me) and has two more kids (with her daughter Eido even being noted to be the apple of her mother's eye 🥹) so a win is a win I guess but the trauma this poor woman must have!

(3.) Poseidon has a baby with a man

Nerites isn't that obscure of a figure anymore, but ultimately, he and Poseidon are the Bi4Bi couple of all time and don't get enough love.

I love the Anteros origin story where he poofs into existence from Neridon's great requited love IT'S SUPERIOR TO AND FUNNIER THAN HIM JUST BEING APHRODITE & ARES'S SON FIGHT ME!!!

(4.) Erichthonius being the son of Hephaestus & Atthis

This isn't because I want erase Hephaestus's wrongdoings (I do like him though and think he deserves another partner who loves him back. And since every younger male Olympian has their tragic doomed love with a mortal let him have one too!)

it's just a plus that he doesn't do anything shitty to Athena in this version.

(5.) Astraea

Her, her prophesied "return", everything!

Non-Hestia/Athena/Artemis virgin goddesses are so underrated. She does sound pure and true to her titles as the Goddess of Innocence, Justice, and Purity despite her being pro-Cronus and a Titan Golden Age believer.

There's also a sweet moment in the Dionysiaca (which I mostly hate but this moment was sweet) where she nurses Aphrodite & Adonis's daughter Beroe.

I'm so interested in her dynamics with her family since her insanely horny mom Eos was cursed by Aphrodite and is sleeping around with everyone but her dad (sorry Astraeus) and her brothers the Anemoi work directly under Zeus and pull his chariot despite her favoring Cronus's rule.

(6.) Zephyrus's son is a more successful gay than him

Zephyrus, famous for pining after and killing the sexy spartan prince Hyacinthus, never actually managed to pull a man.

He tried his luck a second time with Cyparissus, another one of dear ol' Apollo's boyfriends, but the guy died of grief after accidentally killing his pet deer.

He must have better luck with women though since he managed to reproduce with three different ladies. One of these gals was the nymph Chloris, who he did kidnap, but she forgave him once he made her a more powerful goddess by giving her the domain of flowers.

Anyways, they had a son named Carpus/Karpos. Carpus had a swimming contest with his lover Calamus/Kalamos, the son of a river god. Carpus ended up drowning because the Greeks preferred their gays doomed, and Calamus loved his boyfriend so dearly that he downed himself as well out of grief.

(7.) Cronus helps Hera create Typhon

Gaia crashes out about Zeus to Hera of all people, and since Hera is probably pissed at Zeus too, she goes to rant to her crazy daddy.

Daddy Cannibal gives Hera two eggs smeared with semen and tells her to bury it. She does, and out pops Typhon.

...

Thanks for the ask! I had a lot of fun with this one.

[sarafangirlart]

If you are like me and don’t particularly like the story where Hephaestus attempts to assault Athena which then leads to the birth of Ericthonius, there’s another version where Hephaestus has the child with an Athenian princess named Atthis. Which tbh could be very narratively compelling since Erichthonius retakes the throne that was taken from his grandfather Cranaus.

According to Wikipedia Atthis “dies a virgin” tho it doesn’t provide a source (if you know the actual source for that pls let me know), my hc is that Hephaestus and Atthis had a brief affair, then after a while she passed away, she’s buried without anyone knowing she’s pregnant and so Gaia carries the baby to term, when he’s born she gives the baby to Athena bc hey, it’s the son of an Athenian princess so maybe Athena would want to take him in.

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Listen about this fic Idea I have...

So when Ganga takes Devavrat with her away from Shantanu, ahe takes him to Kailash with her

And everyone gets a hell of a time babysitting da Baby...

And I headcanon Ganga, Vasuki and Chandradev to have this chaotic trio kinda friendship... So they can be this disaster uncles.. 👀

Also we already know about all the custody fights related to Ganga... So imagine everyone fighting over who's the grandpa..

And then Devavrat meets Limnaie (Ganges's daughter and a nymph) and they become besties.

After her son Atthis gets killed by Perseus Dev consoles her and becomes her emotional support. Meanwhile Limnaie comes to find out about his aroaceness (my hc) and she's like wooo congratss and he's like yeah this is why my brother can become the king so he can continue the lineage :3

Also we all know they become besties with Ganesh and Kartik as well :3

[laugh-of-the-medusa]

if u wanna read about sapphic yearning written while the author was sleep deprived, depressed, and having a fever dream click here:

http://archiveofourown.org/works/48727063

(even i have no idea how to describe this. and i wrote it. lmao BUT GIVE IT A CHANCE IF YOU WANT AN EXPANDED PYGMALION LORE, A RETELLING OF APHRODITE’S THEOGONY ORIGIN STORY, AND A LOT OF CARSON-SAPPHO REFERENCES, OH AND JUST A MORE FUN AND GAYER WAY OF TALKING ABOUT POST STRUCTURALISM)

[ullathynell]

Some of my old work from 2015–2017.

These too will be featured in my new art book Faraway Dreaming. The book will launch 01 June on Kickstarter! Click "Notify me on launch" to be first to see. ♥

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[time-woods]

posting this littledoodle here too

bill figuresout that bones makenoises

[tbalderdash-art-blog]

Kingfisher for Birbruary, which is in support of Songbird Survival

Reference photo by Shantanu Kuveskar

Happy Arospec Awareness Week!

[hyolks]

salvation

[sugiichi]

Alcedo atthis [カワセミ,Common Kingfisher]

池に登場したカワセミ君。 かっこよく飛び出しました😍

[kyokoito]

2024.06.11 私が隠れていた茂みのすぐ向こう側に降りた幼鳥。 近すぎて、音を立てないようカメラ上げるの必死。

[fleurbleedinghearts]

I'm in desperate need to see more content of Hephaestus with Aglaea, Cabeiro, Aetna, Atthis, Helios, Thetis, Achilles, Eurynome, his sisters in law Euphrosyne & Thalia, any of his sisters through Hera, Erichthonius, Pandora, any of his various immortal children, or even his former stepson Eros (if he's written as Aphrodite's son alone like he was in several myths)

He has so many family members and friends who his relationships with are painfully underexplored

[galusandmalus]

ngl its weird to remember but in the sources that involve this myth outside of hyginus where Erichthonius isnt even human and is just a snake, atthis being his mother actually is brought up first. i think the only source that provides the assault as the only version is nonnus dionysiaca. its kinda weird that the myth is like heavily shown in 200ac (and nonnus) and then straight up disappears and is replaced with... shipping the two gods 😭 i dont like that either.

its def strange cuz you hear alot of Erichthonius and Erechtheus are the same person! and its like just nonnus as a source and its like does nonnus speak for homer???? Euripides ion has them as two totally different people. they exist in the same stories but their names are often interchanged. not that they are the same person. they have different yet both very important stories. the older myths are lost i guess cuz the pottery have the daughters of cerops at his birth despite the entire point being that they cant see the child. or hepheastus also being there??? or Erechtheus being there? dont erase atthis the idea of athenians royale all being snake people is funny i want the snake thing to be genetic lmao also it lets erichthonius to actually continue the cerops dynasty. (also stop erasing moms from stories)

maybe this makes it a bit clearer

Ya know at times I feel like I may be as bad as some people making shit up about mythology cause like I know theres like only one myth about Hephestus and Athena interacting and its him trying to assault her but like....what if they were also nerd pals and built stuff together, have we considered that

At least you are self aware about it no don’t act like your preferred version is the only legitimate one.

plus there are alternative versions of Erichthonius that you can go with if the most popular one makes you uncomfortable. Athena and Hephaestus being friends actually makes sense and is attested in multiple sources, unlike the Medusa was Athena’s priestess and was blessed by being a Gorgon to protect her.

[naturelovetheta]

Common Kingfisher

Alcedo atthis

[kavohh707]

Two kingfishers.

This is the first time I managed to take a picture of two of them together. The reason is quite simple that outside of nesting season they are solitary birds and they only sit beside each other at the beginning of the nesting season when the pair bonding is established. At this time the male will bring fish to the female but that didn't happen here. Instead they both flew of to the river bank and it looked like they were taking samples of the soil to show each other, maybe to discuss to perfect place for the nesting burrow. There already was a burrow a few meters away, which they also visited.

Btw, if you want to know how to distinguish a male from a female kingfisher - it is the beak. The low part of the beak of the female kingfisher is an orange-red with a black tip, while the male beak is completely black. 

[technikki]

luigi adn peasley and what if they loved eachother soooo much and whatif they did things. together

[ullathynell]

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