#epaine

[symphonyofmalice]

Epaine

@charmantevamp (liked for a theater-era starter)

The Theatre Des Vampires was putting on a play- an odd, monstrous, macabre adaptation of the abduction of Persephone.

Nicolas, playwright, musician, centerpiece of the theater- was in the titular role of this particular performance. The play began with him in the role of Maiden. His long hair was loose, braided through with wild flowers. His clothing was all flowing pastels. The other vampires danced around him, nymphs and divine companions, as he played the violin. The song was one of pastoral beauty, of peace, joy and springtime.

Some found the casting of Hades odd. Was the Lord of the Underworld usually so small, so slight of frame? But the actor playing the eldest Olympian brought a gravitas to the role nonetheless. Cloaked in darkness, presaged by the beat of earth-shaking drums, attended by ghoulish monsters, he stole Persephone away. The shrill, stabbing notes of the violin as Nicolas was dragged into the darkness sounded remarkably like screams. The vampiric dead tore the flowers from his hair, crushed them under foot, left him in torn rags.

Now the temptation began. And this was the theater of the vampires after all. Hades wooed his stolen bride with a procession of victims- played mostly by vampires. They were dressed in the Greek style, with dripping necklaces of red rubies- the pomegranate seeds of blood. Persephone refused again and again, except for the last- the only true mortal in the line. One more, like so many others, stolen off the street and charmed with mental tricks. Hades and the other vampires feasted on the victim, drinking deeply. And submitting to temptation, Persephone drank just enough for the stain of red around her lips to be visible to the back rows of the audience.

But there was no Demeter in this play. No springtime. No return from the cold, frost, death of Winter. No escape from the Underworld. Instead, it showed why Persephone had epithets like Brimō, the angry. Epainē, the fearful, the dreaded. Dressed now all in black, Persephone stood side by side with her husband. Queen of the Underworld, watching with stone-faced impassivity, waiting for the next doomed mortal, merciless to how their suffering was once her own. The curtains closed on the screams of the next victim being brought in.

[sharry-arry-odd]

Sam's doctor said to him, "The good news is that the pain is in your head." But I am in my head, Sam thought.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin

[liz-and-the-blue-bird]

After all this time, tumblr is still the only website that does "multiple public facing accounts" in the most convenient way.

[delightingintragedy]

Some of Hekate's More Gentle Epithets

Abronoê ‘Gracious-minded’, ‘Providing Grace’, ‘Gracious’ Arêgos ‘Helper’ Atala ‘Tender’, ‘Delicate’ Boôpis ‘Cow-eyed’ Deichteira ‘Teacher’, ‘Revealer’ Ekdotis ‘Bestower’ Epaine ‘Awe-Inspiring’, ‘Glorious’, ‘Sublime’ Eranne ‘Lovely’ Erannos ‘Lovely’ Êrigeneia ‘Daughter of morning’, ‘Early-born’ Erôtotokeia / Erototokos ‘Bearer of love’, ‘Producing Love’, ‘Who Bore Love’ Eukoline ‘Good Tempered’ Indalimos ‘Beautiful’ Kalligeneia ‘Bearing Beautiful Offspring’ Kalliste ‘Fairest’ Kore ‘Maiden’ Kydimos ‘Glorious’ Maera ‘Shining’ Makairapos ‘Blessed-one’ Megiste ‘Greatest’ Melinoe ‘Soothing One’ Ourania ‘Celestial’, ‘Heavenly’ Paggennêteira ‘Mother of All’ Paiônios ‘Healer’ Pammêtôr ‘Mother of All’ Pandôteira ‘All-giver’, ‘One who gives everything’, ‘Bestower of Everything’, Bounteous’ Pantrephô / Pantrophos ‘All-nurturing’, ‘All-sustaining’, ‘who feeds all’ Phaennô ‘Brilliant’ Phaesimbrotos ‘Bringer of light to mortals’ Phaethô ‘Radiant’ Phoebe ‘Bright’ Polyboteira ‘Generous Giver of Nourishment’ Rhododaktylos ‘Rosy-Fingered’ Terpsimbrotos ‘Delighting men’, ‘One who delights mortals’, ‘Gladdens the hearts of men’ Tlêtê / Tletos ‘Patient’ Zootrophos ‘Nourisher of Life’

(Source)

[yanny09]

My personal experience with Persephone

What is persephone like? she firm, just a little bit strict with what she says too but she only means well! shes like that one really strict teacher you had in school that had a soft spot for that one student who she knew had alot of potential and everyone else knew had alot of potential. she really does want the best for her followers but she isnt like her husband hades who might put things a little gentler. dont get me wrong, if you have an issue or if you go crying to her she will show that more gentle side. How do i see persephone? you know those wreaths with the little red fruit things? yes those. for no reason. shes very autumy but give it a tint of red too. she reminds me a lot of the color red!! personally i see her as that cool aunt that you only see at family gatherings but you wished you always seen her a little more because SHES JUST THAT COOL?? What was the biggest shock when working with persephone? ngl just the fact she wanted to work with me in general LMAO? with how i see her and how i view myself its insanely difficult to put two and two together. also, the fact that i always found myself craving her presence in my weakest moments over any other deity. every time i cry it feels like im never alone and i have persephone to thank for that, no matter how strict she is she will never let you hit rock bottom. ALSO HER EPITHETS!! Brimo and epaine specifically!! what was the least shocking thing when working with persephone? ive gotten more protective of others when working with her, sure i was kinda protective over people before but its ramped up a bit more! not saying that working with her directly had an affect but im (trying) to follow in her footsteps a little more! trying to be at least a bit more paitent and thankful of things around me ever since she came into my life!

[nyxshadowhawk]

Hellenic Gods Fact Sheets and Hymns: Hecate

Other Names: Trivia, Brimo

Epithets: Anassa eneroi  (queen of those below), Aidonaia (lady of the Underworld), Amibousa (she who changes), Atalus (tender, delicate), Borborophorba (she who feeds on filth), Brimo (angry, terrifying), Despoina (mistress), Eileithyia (of childbirth), Enodia (of the roads), Epaine (dread), Euplokamos (bright-tressed), Khthonia (of the Underworld), Kleidouchos (keeper of the keys), Kourotrophos (protector of children), Krokopelos (saffron-robed), Liparokredemnos (bright-coiffed), Nycteria (nocturnal; of the night), Nyctipolos (night-wandering), Perseis (destroyer/ daughter of Perses), Phosphoros (light bearer), Propolos (guide), Propylaia (the one before the gate), Scylacagetis (leader of dogs), Soteira (savior), Trikephalos (three-headed/of the crossroads), Trimorphos (three-formed), Trioditis (of the three ways), Trivia (of the three ways).

Domains: Witchcraft, magic, necromancy, ghosts, nightmares, death, initiation, the crossroads, gateways, passage between worlds, and the night.

Appearance: [My UPG] A tall (over 6’) woman, neither young nor old, with waist-length black hair, pale skin, prominent cheekbones, a heavy jaw, and intense green eyes. She is usually dressed in black folds molded into a simple dress or robes. She has a severe expression and an intimidating presence. She speaks with a low voice.

Sacred Days and Festivals: Eleusinia (22 Metageitnion). Nemoralia (August 13th-15th). Deipnon, last day of each (lunar) month.

Symbols/Attributes: Torches, keys, daggers, strophalos (iynx wheel)

Sacred Animals: Dog, polecat, serpent, horse, frog.

Sacred Plants: Yew, cypress, garlic, willow, hazel, black poplar, aconite, belladonna, dittany, mandrake, hemlock, asphodel

Elemental Affinity: Darkness, light, fire

Planet: Moon

Colors: Black, saffron, silver.

Crystals: Black onyx, hematite, obsidian, black tourmaline, moonstone, smoky quartz, agate, amethyst.

Incense: Myrrh, almond, cypress, camphor, saffron, mugwort, pomegranate.

Tarot Cards: The High Priestess, The Moon, Death

Retinue: Empousai, ghosts of the dead, dogs, Lampades (torch-bearing underworld nymphs)

Associated People: Witches (and other magic-users), the dead

Offerings: Bread, eggs, honey, garlic, menstrual blood, graveyard dirt.

Syncretized With: Artemis, Diana, Persephone, Eileithyia, Selene, Nephthys, Ereshkigal, Nicnevin, Heqet

Hymns to Hecate

Orphic Hymn to Hecate

Hekate Enodia, Trivia, lovely dame, Of earthly, watery, and celestial frame, Sepulchral, in a saffron veil arrayed, Pleased with dark ghosts that wander through the shade; Daughter of Perses, solitary goddess, hail! The world’s key-bearer, never doomed to fail; In stags rejoicing, huntress, nightly seen, And drawn by bulls, unconquerable, monstrous queen; Leader, Nymphe, nurse, on mountains wandering, Hear the suppliants who with holy rites thy power revere, And to the herdsman with a favoring mind draw near.

Hecate’s Hymn to Herself

I come, a virgin of varied forms, wandering through the heavens, bull-faced, three-headed, ruthless, with golden arrows; chaste Phoebe bringing light to mortals, Eileithyia; bearing the three synthemata [sacred signs] of a triple nature.  In the Aether I appear in fiery forms and in the air I sit in a silver chariot, Earth reins in my black brood of puppies.

(From Porphyry’s lost commentary on the Chaldean Oracles, preserved by Eusebius of Caesaria in Praeparatio Evangelica. According to Porphyry, this hymn was composed by Hecate herself.)

Magical Invocation to Hecate

Approach, you of the netherworld, of earth, of heaven, Bombo! You by the wayside, at the crossroads, light-bearer, night-wanderer, Enemy of light, friend and companion of night, Rejoicing in the howl of dogs and in crimson gore, Lurking among the corpses and the tombs of lifeless dust, Lusting for blood, bringing terror to mortals, Grim one, Ogress [Mormo], Moon – you of many forms, May you come gracious to our sacrificial rites!

(Preserved in Refutation to All Heresies by Hippolytus)

Invocation to Hecate from PGM IV 2708-84

Come, giant Hecate, Dione’s guard, O Persia [daughter of Perses], Baubo Phroune, dart-shooter, Unconquered Lydian, the one untamed, Sired nobly, torch-bearing, guide, who bends down Proud necks, Kore, hear, you who’ve parted / gates Of steel unbreakable. O Artemis, Who, too, were once protectress, mighty one, Mistress, who burst forth from the earth, dog-leader, All-tamer, crossroad goddess, triple-headed, Bringer of light, august / virgin, I call you Fawn-slayer, crafty, O infernal one, And many-formed. Come, Hekate, goddess Of three ways, who with your fire-breathing phantoms Have been allotted dreaded roads and harsh / Enchantments, Hekate I call you

[…]

O Hekate of many names, O Virgin, Kore, Goddess, come, I ask, O guard and shelter of the threshing floor Persephone, O triple-headed goddess, Who walk on fire, cow-eyed BOUORPHORBE PANPHORBA PHORBARA AKITOPHI ERESHKIGAL / NEBOUTOSOUALETH Beside the doors, PYPYLEDEDEZO And gate-breaker; Come Hekate, of firey Counsel, I call you to my sacred chants.

[deathlessathanasia]

"We can give this enigma the name of Persephone, the silent sovereign of the silent world of the dead. This is how she appears in the Odyssey; and when Odysseus dares to penetrate the dwelling place of Hades, it is not Hades whom he finds there—how can he, a mortal who has lost his way among the dead, see the Invisible?—but the all-pervasive authority of his spouse, Persephone, the Noble {agaue: Homer Od. 11.226, 635), the Terrible {epaine: ibid. 10.491, 11.47; cf. Homer Il. 9.457), the pure {hagne: Homer Od. 11.386). Among these ambiguous titles in which respect barely conceals dread, in which praise speaks the language of terror (how could the Greeks, accustomed to wordplay, ever resist the etymologically reprehensible but tempting desire to associate epaine and epainos, praise?), there is one title above all that speaks of the ambiguity of Persephone. Hagne, in both texts and cult—since she is honored with this name in Messenia (Paus. 4.33.4)—she bears within her the agos, the prohibition that belongs to the divine and that most particularly characterizes the powers of death, untouchable, in themselves utterly pure but fearsome, even loathsome to the mortal who dares to cross over into the forbidden territory. Hagne Persephoneia: Persephone the pure, Persephone the loathsome. The all-powerful daughter of Zeus (Homer Od. 11.217), she rules over a people of pale ghosts, souls without memories, forever deprived of feeling; she alone left wisdom to Tiresias alone—or rather to the shade of the blind prophet (ibid. 10.494-95). She alone raises up and repels the cohorts of the shades (ibid. 10.214, 226, 385), and Odysseus was overcome with "the green horror . . . that the superb Persephone might cast upon him from hell the head of the Gorgon, that frightful monster" (Homer Od. 11.633-35)."

- Death in GREEK Myths, in Y. Bonnefoy (ed), Greek and Egyptian Mythologies

[thefloweredblade]

Hi this is your message inspired by Lady Aphrodite and Queen Persephone!

Go crazy.

Get mad.

Scream.

Tear the establishment apart.

Build the world that you want and need.

Get in their faces.

Bare your teeth.

Don’t back down.

Don’t give up.

Brimo. Areia. Megala Thea. Nikephoros. Despoena. Strateia. Epaine. Skotia. Daeria. Lykaina. Praxidike. Pandemos. Soteria. Praise be to You both.

That’s all, thank you 🩷❤️

[vsroommoved]

ireally gotta get to bed i saw a picutre of agent cooper and hes literaly so beautiful that it gave me the most horribl epainful itch in my throat amd it made me tear up

[the-firebird69]

Spiderbait - Ghost Riders in the sky (Ghost Rider)

a lava drake venom yes mine and  i burn off his flesh and replce it with victams and keep his brain intact.  and torture the queer faggot trump and soon

Zues Hera

andh e laughs at me tgood and i feel all th epain too he says.  this blwos.  we do it you and i says we are a team and i llaugh this blows he uses me im stuck wont move nd wont help so he kills me.  and i see.  this blows need him in.  and will do iit soon. f this i wont go and you wonat have me rigged it and no.  we scan. and yeh ok your stuff made it  possible he says.  this rules no.  and he does it.   says i work for him or nobody at lall and get him stuf or he will continue to penalize...so i wont and i will go 

trump

your in it an this is it  your a dead man you shithead

mac daddy

Olympus we approve to print

and it is a lava drake and we see him. use him right and righteous kills. need it themm in yes.

Thor Freya

[frozenrose13]

we desperately need to get in to talk to dr about how th epain meds are going and went to do mroning admin do adulting book appt and

july

theyre booking into july

cries

[crocslederg]

why is ther epain do you know

[udurghsigil]

OK FIGHTING THRU TH EPAIN. WHERE ARE YOU GUYS WATCHING THE PPV

[afabkaidou]

Hit and Run update, we in hospital and checking checked cuz I got mack pain but so scared msyckairskwldtal pain Aka low grad epain SO FAR

[acewendino]

Top 5 meme:

Top 5 poly ship "tropes"

Oh fuck oh shit uhhhhhhh fuck no thoughts head empty ive lost all knowledge im sorry

[sometimes-now]

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