#mythblr

[olympianbutch]

HELLENIC POLYTHEISTS, I HAVE A QUESTION! You can answer regardless of whether you're a reconstructionist or revivalist:

Let's say you're giving the gods an offering of incense or a libation. What steps do you take when performing the rites? I'm asking because I'm curious, but also because I want to demonstrate the variety of praxis in our community. (:

Personally speaking, I order my rituals like so:

• Prepare incense offering and libation indoors.

• Wash hands.

• Carry ritual tools outside (i.e., bronze tripod, pitcher, phiale, barley groats, lighter, spray bottle. I often find myself going back and forth several times before I have everything😭😭).

• Arrange tools on the table.

• Use spray bottle to cleanse the space. Alternatively, I ring a bronze bell.

• Invoke the deathless gods while sprinkling barley groats over the offerings.

• Light incense after my prayer.

• Pour libation after observing how the smoke moves (In my practice, skyward is auspicious, horizontal or downward is inauspicious; even if I receive a negative sign, I'll pour the libation out of reverence. Occasionally, the libation is preferred to incense, so it sometimes makes the ritual successful).

If the signs are unclear, I use my cleromantic oracle to gauge whether or not the offerings were accepted. :3

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

yknow why DOES Greek Mythology have a fallen angel rainbow superhell goddess

why is that a thing

im not okay

[bingsoo-jung]

an rating of every piece of arthurian media i have consumed

Hi. So I really like Arthurian mythology. To an deeply concerning and obsessive point. This has led me to consume a lot of Arthurian media, and thus I figured I would give you this. Ratings of all the Arthurian media (up until now) that I’ve consumed.

This is going to be a doozy.

Books!

The Mabinogion. 9/10. It’s less Arthurian mythology and more proto-arthurian. But it’s welsh as shit and goes hard.

Historia Regum Britanniae. 6/10. 10/10 for iconicness. 2/10 because it’s geoffrey of fucking monmouth. This mother fucker cannot write and basically is responsible for the englishfication of arthurian mythology and eventually the frenchification of arthurian mythology. So I rightfully hate his ass.

Knight of the Cart. 6.5/10. 10/10 for iconicness. 3/10 because if I could accuse a man of cultural appropriation who’s dead and didn’t really commit cultural appropriation, I would pick Chretien de Troyes. You’re too french and too annoying and can’t even do chivalric romance well because the french are actually terrible at it. Like go read avicenna you illiterate french peasant.

The Vulgate Cycle. 5/10. It’s good. It’s iconic. It’s french.

Bulfinch’s Mythology. 4/10. It gets what the basics of arthurian mythology is, but fails to understand the actual point of Arthurian mythology and what it’s trying to do and it’s function.

The High King. 8/10. Such a good reference book on Arthurian mythology and the history behind the name and the title and how he came to be.

The Mists of Avalon. 5/10 it’s a solid retelling, and I like the arguably feminist stance it takes. I’m knocking 3 points because of quality, and 2 points because it isn’t gay, and I think the author got a little confused about what Celtic is. Like they clearly know it’s wales, but they seem to have gone for the bad folk etymology that Morgan le Fay/Morgana is somehow related to the Morrigain historically. Which she’s not. Also because the author should’ve gone full ass in on the anti-colonialist messaging. And neither of them did.

Grailquest. 3/10. It’s just… not good enough. Also for some odd reason it’s in Ancient Greece because a spell went wrong? So I think the author was just trying to make it enjoyable for youn boys.

Avalon High (the book). 4/10. It’s just not good enough.

Merlin’s Blade. 1/10. Literally the worst. Merlin is Christain and weird as shit in this. I would give it a 0/10, but I’ll give it kudos for having a blind MC. Even though he keeps talking to God about it and it sucks.

Le Morte d’Arthur. 8/10. One of the og’s. Honestly of the better cycles in the Arthurian canon. You can, and will, read worse than this one.

Legendborn Cycle. 10/10. Perfect. Should literally be added to the actual Arthurian canon. I don’t care if this is an unfinished YA book series that started coming out in 2019. Y’all are fools if you haven’t read this and I fucking laugh at for calling yourself an Arthurian Mythology fan if you haven’t. Literally laugh.

The Once and Future King. 8/10. So I love this book. That being said, this was written in the 40s by a british white man. Like… it fails me. And that’s where those two points have gone. A fun fact is that this book wasn’t published during WW2 because the author really hated war.

Magic Tree House. 6/10. Good. Could be better. I deeply appreciate that the entire series is Morgana and Merlin fighting for a fucking tardis treehouse. That alone makes this worth reading.

Idylls of the King. 0/10. Literal colonial propaganda. Fuck you Tennyson.

The Fall of Arthur. Like a 5/10. Unfinished. Not Tolkien’s better work.

The Green Knight (Tolkien Translation). 5/10. LISTEN I LOVE TOLKIEN BUT THSI ISN’T A GOOD TRANSLATION. He uses such estoric language sometimes that it shouldn’t be counted! As a fucking! Translation!

Camelot Rising. 4/10. Idc what you say and if it’s feminist. It’s not good enough for a higher rating. It also should’ve been gay and thus has been docked points

Once and Future. 4/10. I really really really wanted to love this book. It’s a queer arthurian retelling where arthur is sapphic and arabic. But it so deeply reeks of white queer people who make being queer a central part of their identity to avoid talking about queerness. On top of which, for some odd reason, the like… five thousand year old sorcerer seems to struggle with the concept of genderfluid people to me. Which makes no sense. It’s not good. It’s really bad. I’m giving it 4 stars for at least being gay and not outright offensive. It’s also a decent adaptation

Sword Stone Table. 10/10. IT’S AN DIVERSE ARTHURIAN SHORT STORY ANTHOLOGY. IF YOU DON’T LIKE ONE YOU CAN READ THE NEXT ONE. EXCEPT THEY’RE ALL EXCELLENT.

Once and Future (2019 comic). 7/10. YEAHHHH FUCK BREXIT. It’s just a good comic by my favourite comic book writer. Mr kieron gillen (not to be mistaken with karen gillan).

Gails: Quests of the Dawn. 5/10. I love Neil Gaiman but this short story collection reads like a roster of the white men of SFF. Which makes it mediocre compared to Sword Stone Table. Also OSC.

Plays + Operas + Music

Spamalot. 7/10. Not as good as the movie. Two extra points were given for Tim Curry as King Arthur. Yes. Local queer icon Tim Curry gets two points by his lonesome.

Camelot (Philippa Soo Broadway). 5/10. I love Philippa Soo. She does a really good job in this role. But she looses all the camp of the original versions.

Tristain und Isolde (Wagner). 3/10. I’m not a fan of wagner.

High Noon Over Camelot. 1/10. This is a bad retelling and I dislike the Mechanisms music. It’s also obnoxiously white.

Movies + TV Shows

Camelot (the movie). 7/10. It’s camp as fuck and there’s a song called the lusty month of may. Which is just about fucking. And i think that’s actually perfect.

Avalon High (the movie). 7/10. When I tell you that this movie rewired my brain and truly ignited my passion for Arthurian mythology? I mean it. This set me down a hole for years. Sure, is it gay? No. Is Arthur a girl in this though? Yes. And that makes it better than the book

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword. 2/10. I fucking hate this movie so fucking much oh my god. I DON’T CARE WHAT PEOPLE SAY IT’S NOT GOOD. THIS IS A BAD ADAPTATION.

The Green Knight. 9/10. I loved this movie! Weird as shit. But I did really love this movie. And Dev Patel is hot.

The Last Legion. 3/10. It’s a fine movie. But it’s a 3/10 as an arthurian adaptation because while I appreciate the attempt at historicity. It’s actually just bad at that.

The Sword in the Stone. 8/10. It’s less racist than the book which gets it points. It’s also not as *good* as the book.

Shrek 3. Both a 9/10 and a 2/10. Terrible Arthurian adaptation. But Shrek movies are so fun anyways.

Monty Python and the Holy Grail. 9/10. Unironically one of the best Arthurian adaptations ever. It’s so funny and ads and discuss the canon in a fantastic way.

Knightriders. 8/10. It’s a Romero film, who lowkey *invented* the zombie film. But it’s also… anti-capitalist? And gay? Also trying to not be racist? (Trying. It’s the 80s. But p successful). They are also REN FAIRE ACTORS ON MOTORCYCLES.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice (2010). 4/10. I like this movie, but it’s, say it with me, a terrible Arthurian adaptation.

Transformers: the Last Knight. 2/10. I will not speak further on this.

The Kid Who Would Be King. 6/10. Bad movie. Decent adaptation with fun characters who understand their point in this story.

Merlin. 9/10. Honestly a really good Arthurian adaptation that understands it doesn’t need to be source accurate. Also while it doesn’t commit to the gay. It’s still gay-tinged.

Camelot. 3/10. I hate the lighting and everyone in this is weirdly angsty and incestual.

Cursed. 5/10. It’s not good enough to be more. It’s just not good enough. But I do appreciate the diversity and Nimue as the MC.

Stargate SG-1. 0/10. Racism. I hate stargate because it’s just so obnoxiously racist.

The Librarians. 3/10. It’s not a great arthurian adaptation and it drops all the arthurian bits after a while. But it is a 9/10 tv show.

Trollhunters: Tales of Arcadia. 6/10. Solid Arthurian adaptation. I just think it was a bit weak and put them in there to give credence to it’s magic things and system without having to justify them further to the watchers. Which makes this not really arthurian.

Fate/stay night. 8/10. I haven’t watched any of this. But Arthur is a woman who was called a man in this version because of sexism. And she’s kinda fruity. So that gives this an 8/10 in my book.

Hellboy. 4/10. I like Hellboy a lot. It’s just their Arthurian deal is just a single lone sad merlin.

Quest for Camelot. 2/10. It’s really just not worth watching.

A Kid in King Arthur’s Court. 1/10. I don’t even hate this one. It’s just so painfully mediocre it’s amazing.

Legends of Tomorrow. 7/10. It’s a really really good show and I like that it’s implied that King Arthur is Sara Lance who is just here to fuck.

TTRPGs + Video Games

Pendragon. 3/10. I appreciate it’s structure having read this entire game. It’s just… not got a great structure.

Runescape. 5/10. It’s fine. It’s just fine. It’s iconic. And it’s fine.

Sonic and the Black Knight. 1/10. Because I do actually have something against this. I hate the fact that Sonic is King Arthur and thus will be cuckooed. It causes me physical pain to think of this.

And that is literally every Arthurian adaptation I have consumed to date. I plan on reading Spear after I read this indigenous anti-colonial dragon fantasy book. I’m wary of Spear because although it’s gay, the author set it in ireland. And arthurian mythology isn’t fucking irish. Have respect and do what the rest of us do and set your arthurian adaptation on a different fucking continent.

[crayo1acrayons]

[godsofhumanity]

Where do u usually go to read abt mythology/what are ur soyrces i struggle with finding them '_';

genuinely? i just wikipedia that shit. people can hate on wikipedia all they want but to me, there’s two really great things about wikipedia:

1. hyperlinks let u easily fall into a rabbit hole where ur finding out info about one guy after another and so on etc.

2. references at the bottom of the wikipedia article allow u to find out where exactly the information came from so u can have a look for yourself and gather context etc to decide whether that story is real or fake or biased whatever.

for me, i LARGELY use wikipedia for everything. i know people like theoi.com but that’s only useful for greek mythology and honestly i never really got too much from it that i couldn’t find on wikipedia.. so yahh hope that helps u!!!

as a side note— many myths follow an oral tradition and that makes it super difficult to find “accurate” sources but unfortunately that’s just life,, and for those things, i guess u just have to ask someone who knows. i think my blog is fairly visible in the mythblr community so if ur ever looking for something more specific, feel free to shoot me an ask and im sure someone will respond in the replies :)))

[thecosmoscalls]

Mars in Mythology

In ancient Roman religion and myth, Mars (Latin: Mārs, pronounced [maːrs]) was the god of war and also an agricultural guardian, a combination characteristic of early Rome. He was the son of Jupiter and Juno, and he was the most prominent of the military gods in the religion of the Roman army.

Most of his festivals were held in March, the month named for him (Latin Martius), and in October, which began the season for military campaigning and ended the season for farming.

Source

[meruism]

The myth of why we have rain

Bes, the goddess of water, peace and forgiveness, is married to Fri, god of fire and passion and anger. They walk the Earth separately, and cannot meet on Earth, but only in Linya, the living place of the Deus (gods) when they’re not on Earth. While they’re on Earth, as they are fire and water, they cannot mix. 

This saddens Bes, who cries, leading to rain.  This also leads to wildfires, as Fri grows angry at not being able to hold his love on Earth. 

[my-lover]

- september twenty-first, twenty nineteen.

[lydiacreative]

Persephone♥Hades

Spring has had its time, let’s go home ～

[archival-account]

AN INTRODUCTION TO SHIBIRU KIZUNA

So, you’re a newcomer here, eh? Are you surprised by how much of a mess my blog is? Because I’m not, as it reflected who I am in real life. 

But never fear. This introduction will help you navigate through my writeblr/mythblr/animeblr/kpopblr blog. 

WRITEBLR

This blog is essentially a writeblr. Mostly, because, I write stuff. Now, what kind of stuff do I write? Well, it ranges from a lot of things, but mostly, I write anything that has to do with (outright) fluff and romance. However, I also write adventure, action and fantasy.

You might ask, “Do you have any published works?”

My answer would be, “Yes, I do. And all of them are fanfictions.”

(As I am writing this introduction, I don’t have any original stories published since they are undergoing planning. Also, I am yet to publish a big masterlist for all of my creations.)

Now, that fanfiction is in the talk, I would say that is my writing specialty. Romance, action, adventure, and fantasy are the genres I usually mix with said specialty. 

But, rest assured, if time is in favor with me, I would have some original content published. However, right now, I am focusing on anime and 2.5 (Japanese actors) fanfictions.

TAGS I USUALLY ASSOCIATE WITH (MY) WRITEBLR:

writeblr

writeblr character

writeblr location

writeblr scenario

writeblr narrative

writeblr tips

writing tips

writing meme

writer meme

writer problem

TAGS I USUALLY ASSOCIATE WITH (MY) FANFICTION WRITEBLR:

fanfiction

ff

au

au/ff

(name of anime character/2.5 guy)

(name of anime character/2.5 guy) ff

So, basically, my account is mainly a hybrid of fanfiction hub and writeblr. Wow! Amazing!

MYTHBLR

Now, I don’t have any idea if this is a thing, but my blog is also a mythblr since I reblog beautiful aesthetics of mythology edits. That, and partly because I am a huge Rick Riordan fan. 

I also reblog header/icon packs that are integrated with mythology elements. 

TAGS I USUALLY ASSOCIATE WITH (MY) MYTHBLR:

mythblr

(nationality/ethnicity) mythology

pjo

magnus chase

kane chronicles

ANIMEBLR

I am a literal weeb. Period. That’s why this blog is an animeblr as well. I reblog anime aesthetics and gifs, along with header/icon packs. Also, my animeblr/writeblr blog coincide very well because I write anime fanfictions 99.99% of the time. 

TAGS I USUALLY ASSOCIATE WITH (MY) ANIMEBLR:

animeblr

(name of anime)

anime meme

(name of anime) meme

[That’s how simple I could go with this type of post, ISTG.]

KPOPBLR

Last, but not the least, kpopblr. Now, it has been long gone about the idea of making my Tumblr a kpopblr as well because it is already freaking mess of a glob filled with literary pieces, mythology, and anime stuff. Those three are essentially combined as my very own kerfuffle and adding K-Pop to the mix seemed like another trash thrown into the heap. 

But, to be fair, my icon is a personality that is well-known in the K-Pop industry. (If you have no idea who she is, she is Ahn Hyejin, Queen Hwasa.) So, as I am writing this introduction, I decided it’s gonna be okay to add K-Pop into my clutter.  

So, yeah... By the time this introduction is up, my Tumblr would be a kpopblr. Too.

TAGS I USUALLY ASSOCIATE WITH (MY) KPOPBLR:

kpopblr

(name of kpop band)

kpop meme

(name of kpop band) meme

IN CONCLUSION/ENDING

I am introducing you to my messed-up blog and I hope you enjoy navigating through it because I certainly do myself. 

Yes, my Tumblr account is certainly disorganized but I am trying my best to assemble it as neatly and clean as I possibly can since I have way too much content (that were mostly reblogged). 

If you are using a cellphone to navigate through my account, knowing the common tags I use will help you find the content you need. If you’ve read the whole post, you’d know I have tags that associated with a particular type of content in my Tumblr. 

If you are using a laptop, you can easily navigate through my content by finding the label “Tags” on the upper right corner of your screen, right next to “Ask The Writer”. However, it is also deemed useful if you know the tags themselves. Not all of the tags will be listed in “Tags”.

I hope I helped you on how to maneuver in my wonderful Tumblr blog. Just... Don’t get too deep with it. 

Stay happy, stay healthy... Stay loved. 

[catsconflictscopicsandchamomile]

thinking about Arke again...

(source: wikipedia)

edit: oh yeah also, in some tellings, Zeus later gave Arke's wings as a gift at a wedding, and they ended up being sown onto Achille's feet, which is why he's so fast, and "swift-footed" is a REALLY literal epithet.

[lovel-y]

23.03.19

“tell me Atlas,

which is heavier

the world

or it’s people’s hearts”

your mythology obsessed gal strikes again

The Golden Book of Mythologies by Thomas Bulfinch just arrived. I bought it thinking it was all greek myth and had a good suprise to read that he talks about norse and a little celtic in the end 😁💛

Also, look at this beautiful Renoir bookmark that came with the book.

[nb-adhd-itis]

I'm having an existential crisis, so I'm doing a pole thing. Also if @pmseymourva responds, I will either share my most embarrassing secret, or do a hair reveal, as I recently dyed my hair. He choses.

The pole is.....

Would you join Dionysus's cult, or the Hunt (Artemis's followers)?

[navree]

this will not go over well with the tumblr mythology bitches but achilles doesn’t have a lot of ground to stand on in his feud with agamemnon because like agamemnon, he also sucks and is basically The Worst

[incorrectgreekgods]

EMMA PLEASE MAKE NEMO CHANGE THEIR URL OR AT LEAST THEIR LIKE TITLE THING TO "myth daddy" OR "the myth daddy of mythblr" THEY KEEP DELETING MY ASKS I'VE SENT THEM ONE EVERY DAY PLS PLS PLS WE'RE DEPENDING ON YOU

pollos literally on the verge of keeling over with this shit but i think its amusing, so absolutely