#mythology related

[ilikebooksmoviesseriesandanime]

Yes

[orkazh-arts]

Bonding with the half-brother 🐮🧶✨

Or, Ariadne and Asterion (the Minotaur) spend some quality time together because f*ck Theseus 💅😌✨

[thewarmthofequallyreturnedlove]

“If there’s one thing the gods love, it’s tragedy. With wings that burn and boys who fall.”

[timetravelingtoamess]

I relate to odysseus because i, too, take ten years to complete something that should be done in 8 months as well as weep every single night

[slaymate]

entering my barely sfw era

[reniadeb]

🦢@reniadeb🦢

[holdingachilles]

listen, if your theatre production is comprised of a cast of like maybe a dozen people total and the singular set is like, entirely boxes/piles of literal garbage/scaffolding that never moves and maybe some chairs and a couple of props that will be recycled 20 times over in different ways throughout the show, it slaps! it simply just is an incredible production. I think this is a law of the universe or something.

[zeherili-ankhein]

The fact that most desi kids will agree that bua is the worst relative of all. I don't think this is a this era problem.

We can trace it back to the Satya Yug see... Even Pralhad had same issues. His bua tried to set him on fire.

[hellishgayliath]

a bit in love with @cokowiii 's spirits reborn au *v* (cali belongs to them, he's so cute n smol)

[extraaa-30]

Y'ALL LITERALLY STFU PERCY IS REPRESENTATION FOR THE GREEK MYTHOLOGY GIRLIES

are you telling me at 12 years old you, greek mythology gay on tumblr, would NOT have clocked every monster??? are you REALLY DEFINITELY SURE ABOUT THAT???

bc bestie I'm sorry but 12yo me was WAITING for opportunities like percys. i'd be like hmm who wants the bolt if it's not hades EXCESSIVE & UNNECESSARY KNOWLEDGE IT'S YOUR TIME TO SHINE dw y'all I've been training for this

Except literally Sally was training Percy for this.

[aroaceleovaldez]

Not to get pedantic (oh who am i kidding that’s most of this blog) but I am genuinely fascinated by the potential applications of the established canon in HoO and TOA that the gods canonically have both historic and regional forms, and can appear as specific versions of those forms and have kids of those specific forms, which influence what powers the kid has/what pantheon they fall under/etc etc (and also the implication that demigods can be born under multiple forms of a singular deity). This is somewhat backed up even earlier in the first series when we’re told that Percy has earthquake powers because of his father being Poseidon “The Earthshaker” (which is Mycenaean Poseidon) - which could also tie into why Percy generally takes leadership roles, is hopping in and out of the Underworld a lot, and is apparently particularly powerful for even just a Big 3 kid, since all that would line up with Mycenaean Poseidon being generally put at the head of the pantheon and also being a chthonic deity.

Now this gets really interesting when we start looking at deities being combined and conflated, because a.) the Romans weren’t the only ones doing that and b.) the Romans had their own gods originally, they didn’t just take the Greek ones and slap a new name on them. They merged a lot with their own preexisting deities alongside adopting worship of deities from other cultures as the Romans spread (and the Greeks also did this), and c.) the ancient Greeks and Romans did exist at the same time.

Like, we know in terms of the Greeks and Romans that if their godly parents are “equivalent” then their demigod children are siblings, just like if Greek demigods have the “same” godly parent then they are also siblings. However, very few Greco-Roman gods are one-to-one, and a lot are like three gods in a trench coat, and then if you want to get into historical forms then you can start running into weird things like “Well, if you go back far enough, these two Greek gods may have originated from the same thing-” and also if we’re talking historical forms, again, the Greeks and Romans existed at the same time! Which means there would be historic forms of godly parents that are both Greek and Roman! So like, where do we go from there? Would Hazel be equally siblings to a child of Plutus as she is to Nico because both Hades and Plutus were conflated into Pluto? Orcus was also conflated with Pluto - does that mean when Nico killed Bryce Lawrence, he was killing his half-brother? (cause then that parallels just a couple chapters later when Will faces off against Octavian-) Are there demigods who, depending on their godly parents’ form(s), are technically both a Greek and Roman demigod? If Hermes and Pan possibly originated from the same god, does that mean all the satyrs are siblings with the Hermes kids? If we want to get into all the nonsense of Dionysus’ origins and Zagreus and Hades, does that mean Nico is technically siblings with Dionysus kids? Does Dionysus joke about this during their therapy sessions? Are some demigods in certain cabins siblings with kids in other cabins but each others’ siblings aren’t siblings depending on what form their godly parents were in?

I have a headache now.

[literallyjusttoa]

Had the thought that Apollo could've turned into a deertaur while raising Chiron and immediately had to draw it.

[puppyeared]

fuck it. plaguesona

[godofsmallthings]

as somebody who initially became a swiftie because i felt so isolated from girls my age and desperately wanted to be 'normal' by relating to their interests and still doesn't really relate to taylor swift's experience of womanhood (despite loving and valuing her art/perspective about it) i despise the current trend of generalizing one monolithic piece of art or culture to be about the entire experience of 'girlhood'

[dumblr]

Have you ever heard about the story of Pygmalion? It’s a greek myth about a sculptor who fell in love with a sculpture he made. It sounds crazy right? What if I told you that most of us have been a Pygmalion at least once in our lives. We fell in love with some images we create of people in our heads. Images that sometimes are never true.

I remember the first time we talked. I remember how I felt; The butterflies in my stomach when I talked to you, the goofy smiles upon thinking of you. This is it, you are the one; I remember it all. But what I remember the most is my mind telling me: If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t. But I think I was too (Pygmalioned) to see. I made you everything I loved about you and I fell desperately in love with this idea I made up in my mind of you. I don’t have to get over you, I have to get over myself, I have to get over how I thought of you

[nikoisme]

so glad my professors already know me as "the one who is into mythology"