#goddess of language

[incorrectpantheon]

Language, about Sanctuary: ahh, that’s why she’s behaved so poorly these last five minutes.

[canisalbus]

✦ Dies Veneris ✦

[solargeist]

i cant get over how perfect Grian's name is for him, like. It means the Sun in Irish, and slang for trolling/pranking in Thai

[maifos]

Since I heard her name I couldn't get the similarities between Galicea (fantasy high) and Galatea (Greek mythology). The myth of Galatea is basically that an incredibly skilled sculptor was incredibly repulsed by the idea that women could speak and express themselves, but he still wanted a girlfriend so he made a marble statue and named her Galatea (Roughly translate to white as milk). But he soon realized that a less comfortable body pillow wasn’t the best option for a fulfilling relationship so he asked Aphrodite for help. The goddess then transformed Galatea into a real woman who, unfortunately, could talk and have emotions and opinions so their whole thing kind of fell apart. All this to say, I think this myth of Galatea where she is only accepted when she follows a very strict set of rules laid out for her by the person who is supposed to love her, has some very intriguing parallels to Galacea the “werewolf moon” goddess, being forced into just “moon” goddess she isn’t by her followers, who only accept her as a restricted version of herself that can’t express the werewolf aspect of her divinity.

I don’t know if this was intentional on Brennan's part, but considering there have been a lot of different parallels with characters with greek myth inspired/adjacent names i wouldnt put it past him. Either way I hope we get to see more interactions between Cassandra and Galicea because I wanna know what their sibling relationship was. Were they on good terms? Was it another Abernant situation? What did Galacea think of Ankarna? How did Galicea react when her sister became the nightmare king? Did she know? I need the rest of the season to drop tomorrow. I swear to god I wanna know everything KNOW!

[two-hands-toward-the-sun]

OKAY so in the comics whenever dream talks to anyone, they hear it in whatever language they speak or are most comfortable with (in dream's words, "you hear what you need to hear"), and now i'm thinking about how when dream comes to calliope at madoc's place...that's the first time calliope has heard greek spoken to her in more than sixty years.

[victoriadallonfan]

Do you think Goddess had Girl Power?

How else did she conquer shin?

[flum3n]

the grief/rage of artemis

Orion Dead - H.D. / Love's Shadow - Anthony Frederick Sandys / Devourer - Aidoneus / Orion Dead / Fallen Angel - Alexander Cabanel / Hippolytos - Euripides, trans. Anne Carson / Diana of Versailles / I'm Your Man - Mitski / Artemis - 5th c. Athenian Red-Figure Bell-crater (Boston Museum of Fine Arts) / Devourer / Artemis and Orion - Anon., Budapest Museum of Fine Arts / Notes on Thought and Vision - H.D. / Orion Dead / Weary Moon - Robert Edward Hughes

[cocofetti]

[mariaseelie]

So what's the difference between Horde Lord Adora and Adora Empress of the Universe?

Now that I see "Adora Empress of the Universe" on my screen I giggle a little hahah, I should have said "Goddess" instead

I think I should go down this Rabbit Hole, I want to explain why they are different and why does it matter in contrast with our beloved protagonist in canon.

Goddess Adora is even more terrifying than mean Horde lord adora

(Disclaimer 1: These hypothetical scenarios are fiction for a reason, because otherwise they could lead to weird and toxic situations. Please do not go seeking Horde Lords or Empresses of Universes IRL)

(Disclaimer 2: Adora as Goddess could be a creepy scenario under some lights)

(It's long but it will make sense I promise)

Adora the Mean Girl

Do you remember when Nate Stevenson tweeted about Adora Being Slythering trying to be a Gyffindor?

I always think about the implications of this.

Adora is a mean girl at core level but chooses to control her inner shadow because she is a Chad. Catra on the other hand goes out of her way to seem like the perfect bad girl because she is a bottom as a way to impress and peacock her mean queen

Most Horde Lord Adora AUs follow an understandable direction for someone in Adora's shoes as an imperfect complex person: she never finds the sword, she is convinced Horde=Good and her demeanor, vision of the world and herself are twisted. This girl becomes a powerful person, but not powerful enought to destroy the fabric of the Universe, so we are ok with her as Adora being a mean girl and lose a little as Horde Lord Adora (Because we all know she would never, she would find a way to redemption eventually)

(One of the many reasons I like adora is because, yes, she is the hero, but she was a mean girl first, so even if she genuinely love her princesses friends, deep down sometimes she laughs at their expense in her mind, specially when her eyes meet the water fountain not-for-showering in the morning. Post season 5 Adora 100% makes some princess jokes and spills tea when nobody but Catra can hear.)

But then this mean girl finds a sword that gives her goddess-like powers.

(To some degree we are ok with Regina writting vile things attached to the names of her clasmates in the Burn Book. Nasty sure but nobody is gonna die because its not a Death Note. But then imagine for a second Regina finding that she is the chosen one in charge of a great responsability she cannot deny or else the world is over.)

The Horde brainwashes these kids to believe princesses are bad, wild, dangerous and unpredictable as Adora once said. The truth is ... they could be actually. Human Beings (Etherians and all Beings with self awareness for that matter) are unpredictable. Princesses are normal folk with supernatural magical powers.

Pre-Season one Adora probably made an (strawman) image of them in her mind, had nightmares with that strawman often. But here is the trick: it takes to be one to know one, (or You have to be a bit evil to recognize evil in others) Poor Adora probably had one or two intrusive thoughts about what could she be capable of if she herself was a princess, sh*tted bricks and then deemed nobody should have those powers.

Thank God this is not the episode of The Boys as the Horde made us believe and princesses here are actually good, the idea of causing harm deliberately using their powers doesnt even occurr to them (well maybe to Glimmer on a bad day, shes also a baddie)

So logically when Adora transformed into Shera for the first time, there was absolute terror in her eyes. One of her nightmares became true.

So she chose to be good. Deliberately. Consistently. Every single time. And that made her a hero. She never claimed something for herself even when in theory she could crown herself as Queen of all of the kindoms. Adora in canon is impresive as a protagonist and really deserves love.

So:

if Adora becomes a horde lord, it means she failed as a hero (or If Adora becomes the empress of the universe in exchange for saving the world, she also failed as a hero).

But if by some hypotetical reason she becomes The Goddess of the Universe, that's different. That's Madoka Territory

The idea of someone being able to do evil without any repercussion but choosing not to is shaking, amusing and eerie to me. We all want to think we are good and incapable of doing evil but Human Beings are weak creatures and power almost always corrupts. unless you are a God

Imagine that, just before Shera could release the magic of the Heart all over Etheria, something weird happens (let's say madokafication) and Adora, born a mortal with imperfections, needs and desires, becomes a God, while still having human (First Ones) nature.

Imagine you are Catra,

God is a lesbian

and she loves you

Imagine the person you love and loves you can control literally everything, she does not just keep the bed warm for you, she makes the whole world and reality a warm place for you if you are cold. She has idk 3 biblically accurate angels as pets and doesn't even bat an eye about it.

That would be insanely cool, but also incredibly bizarre. It would mean trusting a human being to choose to be good at any moment because otherwise things would go south

Can you trust Adora to keep choosing to be good everytime as a goddess just as she was when she was a hero? She has absolute control over you.

It's terrifying yet interesting.

I imagine adora in goddess form as something beautiful but insanely frightening and otherwordly while saying "Be Not Afraid" Lol.

But I would love to hear/read the thoughts of the people here

Good Goddess Adora is even more terrifying than mean Horde lord adora

[incorrectpantheon]

Imagination: which way did Mischief go?

Language: well based on the direction of the wind, the shattered vase in the corner, and the trail of candy wrappers, i’d guess they went *dramatic pause* that way, tripped, then circled back and went left.

Imagination: woah you could really figure all that out from a few candy wrappers??

Language: no you idiot, i saw the whole thing.

[h0bg0blin-meat]

Egyptian versions of the Greekified/Latinized names of Egyptian Gods:

1. Horus - Heru/Hor/Her/Har

2. Thoth - Djehuty

3. Anubis - Anpu/Inpu/Anpw/Inpw

4. Set - Setekh/Sutekh

5. Nephthys - Nebet-Het

6. Osiris - Asar/Usar/Asari/Ausir/Wesir/Ausare/Usire/Ausar

7. Isis - Aset/Auset/Iset

8. Hathor - Hwt-hr/Hwt-hrw/Hut-Hor

9. Apis - Hjpw/Hapi

10. Apophis - Apep

11. Mandulis - Merul/Melul

12. Maahes - Mai-Hesa

13. Mnevis - Mer-Ur

14. Neith - Nit

15. Satis - Satit/Stit/Satet

16. Ophois - Wapwawet/Wepwawet

[sevenzinha]

oi então

e se o q!Tommy for o deus da discórdia e caos e a q!Molly for a deusa da lógica e racionalidade, e eles forem tipo um ying yang

daí o Tommy fraudou um casamento com o q!Tubbo pq ele é o equilíbrio perfeito entre o caos e a razão, e a Molly só fica de olho neles pra não acontecer nenhuma besteira

só isso tchau-

[womenenthusiast2]

Remake of that one drawing of my oc for Obscura, because i love putting my characters on these templates and they needed a little update to match my mental image of them.

They got a real name now but Vesper goes hard so i decided to keep it as their underground name. Also a more defined personality, but not to much because they have to be flexible enough to be with any of the 4 very different men. And that’s about it, cheers.

[missmichellets]

Tumblr is not a place to post your of and porn links gtfo children use this app please leave 😒

Tumblr is not a place for you to spew your instability onto others, sane people use this app. Please sit down and stfu doggie, while I educate you. Minors can (and often do) use literally every app/site available online. So with your reasoning, porn shouldn't exist at all online - because children can use the internet. Which is like saying the sun shouldn't exist because humans can stare themselves blind at it. It is not MY responsibility whether or not minors click my stuff or not. In the same way you can't hold the sun accountable for idiotic parents allowing and/or enabling their kids to stare at it. Many similes btw; me and the sun. I digress! The fact that I'm even typing out "don't click if you're a minor" is me going one step further than I'm required and expected to. And maybe if you were remotely close to being good-parent-material, you'd realize this and stop projecting your blame outwards and start aiming it where it belongs; at your inferior soul. TLDR: puny human has problems with basic reasoning. 🖐🏻🎤

[lionofchaeronea]

An Epiphany of Vesta

Ovid, Fasti 6.249-256 Vesta, favor me; now for you I unseal My lips put to use in holy service, If it is permitted me to approach your sacred objects. I was wholly occupied in prayer: I felt celestial powers, and the joyous earth Shined in answer with a purple light. I myself, goddess (away with poets’ falsehoods) Did not see you, nor were you to be Looked upon by a man; but the things I did not know And about which I was in error’s grip, Were known to me, although no one gave me instruction. Vesta, fave: tibi nunc operata resolvimus ora,      ad tua si nobis sacra venire licet. in prece totus eram: caelestia numina sensi,       laetaque purpurea luce refulsit humus. non equidem vidi (valeant mendacia vatum)      te, dea, nec fueras aspicienda viro; sed quae nescieram quorumque errore tenebar      cognita sunt nullo praecipiente mihi.

Fresco (1st cent. BCE/CE) of Vesta-Hestia, from the lararium of House VII.12.11 at Pompeii.

[succulentsiren]

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