#mythos

[mythosaursarecool]

Can’t do just epic shots all the time when the galaxy is vast and beautiful

Spot the tiny Grogu on the rock lol

[apollomes-supremacy]

Pretty sure its called an Aphrodite Knot!

I havent found much info on it but it was apparently a very popular hairstyle for women in antiquity. Im guessing in Rome to be exact, since I havent seen any greek art with anything similar, only roman and neo classical sculptures/paintings. As people mentioned in the notes, could also have been a style for young boys or archers, but I honestly don't know.

While its named after Aphrodite, I think most people associate the style more with Apollo bacause hes depicted wearing it so much! It's by far not exclusive to Apollo Belvedere! Allow me to show my personal collection of Apollo rockin' it ☝️

If my line of thinking is correct, then Apollo is probably depicted with this hair so often because he's a youthfull god and the protector of young boys, and we know that in ancient times there was this association of  youthfulness with a kind of femininity, which has been present in Apollo since ancient Greece. Apollo has always been a feminine god!

I have also found this video of an archeologist recreating this hairstyle. It was apparently better done in long, curly and... dirty hair... (side eyeing Apollo on that last one). The examples she shows in the video seem a little different to the ones seen here, but I believe its the same hairstyle still.

What is this bow-looking hairstyle on the Apollo Belvedere? Is there some sort of historical context or did they just think “this fucks” and move on?

[constanzarte]

John William Waterhouse - The Siren, 1900

[erithel]

My contribution to the @klmythologyzine

Available here!

[loverofpiggies]

Some colored sketches done on the stream! I was trying to figure out the coloring style I wanted for The Vulture, turns out using heavy blacks is DEFINITELY the right way to go with this particular story.

Enjoy!

[apollomes-supremacy]

Posting this sketch of Dionysos and Ariadne now because I have a feeling I wont finish it

[azttore]

shed design for my personal roblox verse. the owletsky

[elijahs--wood]

Princess Tutu (2002) Episode 04

[omnifuneral]

[medusaesque]

The death of Orpheus- Metamorphoses, Ovid (trans. David Raeburn)

[odyssiaca]

odysseus is generally seen as 'morally ambiguous' due to his not always being seen as the best of people- but this is a very modern and feminist take, and whilst nothing is inherently wrong with the idea of feminist takes and retellings, it skews what we have and already know of the myths, and this can be seen most predominantly in the character of odysseus. odysseus is two things:

- not meant to a hero

- not meant to be good

he is written as a man faced with impossible odds, and who loses some- if not all- of his morality in doing so. BUT where does the idea of him being 'bad' come from? the penelopiad by margaret atwood, a woman known for being quite vitriolic towards men of any kind. in recent years, people have picked up on three major things from the odyssey:

- the hanging of the maids

- odysseus cheating on his wife

- odysseus going mad at the end

NOW, to break it into points:

the hanging of the maids is so often seen in a feminist light due to margaret atwood, where odysseus is painted as some cruel, vile, disgusting predator who loathes women. this isn't true to the odyssey AT ALL. in the odyssey it is explicitly stated by the nurse that raised telemachus: 'i shall single out those who betrayed you, my lord' and by one of the maids herself- melantho: 'if we sleep with the suitors, when they become king we will be in favour with him.' and THIS is why he killed the maids. not because he was insane, not because he was bad, but because they had betrayed not just him- but his wife. not all the maids were killed, only those who slept with the suitors. the argument most often used for this is that the women couldn't say no, but this goes against what the maids themselves say in the odyssey when they believe no one to be watching.

odysseus cheating on his wife HE DIDN'T. but he is a man, and as a man, he cannot be raped. he is a terrible man for sleeping with circe and calypso when he could have- as epic decides to say- say no. which is untrue!! these are goddesses. titanesses. circe is the daughter of helios, and calypso is daughter of atlas. they could overpower him simply by looking at him. circe turned his men to pigs, even with the moly she could have easily done the same- or worse- to him. the idea of him choosing to and being unfaithful stems from madeline miller's, Circe which whilst not inherently bad, goes out of its way to put all men in a terrible light, because the heroes deserves no rights in feminist retellings. odysseus wanted to say no, but could not as hermes explicitly told him he couldn't. on the flip side, calypso threatens, ensnares him and only releases him when told to by hermes and the council of the gods. in the odyssey it is literally stated: 'and odysseus stayed on the shores weeping for home before joining the nymph in her bed.' he did not WANT to sleep with calypso, but was left with no other choice but to do so. this is a recurring theme for calypso.

but he is blamed due to his gender, and the idea of 'feminism' and 'patriarchy'.

and now, the real reason for odysseus being seen badly:

the telegony the telegony is a myth written after the odyssey with telegonus- son of circe and odysseus- as the main character. in this he travels to find his father and meet him, but accidentally kills him on the shore. (peneleope marries telegonus, and circe marries telemachus) but this is where the idea of odysseus' insanity comes from. in the telegony, it is stated he went mad after the war, and couldn't survive without bloodshed, and so he went out seeking war, and women, and battle, and went mad in this.

the statement: 'generous to odysseus' is wholly unfair, because he is a man forced to lose everything, assaulted, violated, tortured and imprisoned with no hope of survival. he goes to war knowing he won't return for 20 years, won't see his wife, and won't watch his son grow. he is a man not a god, or a demigod. he's just some dude doing his best.

[mythosaursarecool]

Taking shelter from a sudden downpour

Grogu is having fun playing in the mud (:

[pelideswhore]

i support clytemnestra killing agamemnon and i also support orestes/electra killing clytemnestra. yes those things can and do coexist.

[uncle-cucky]

Girlypop Cthulhu

She's waiting for her melatonin to kick in, she's not ready to end the world.

[loverofpiggies]

After brainstorming a while, I realized the main 3 characters, Vulture, Mirror, and Sage, needed ONE more to complete the set of the main cast, to help flesh out the world. I realized despite the world of the story having active gods, and the story revolving around them, that not a single one of the main characters were very devout. Having a more devout character would feel very in-line with the universe, but also be a useful one to talk about the complexities of the belief structure in the world.

So, the fourth and final main character, Mythos! He's quite faithful to the God of Hypocrisy, and calls himself The Sword Of The Hypocrite.

He's also huge into reading books, at least, what few he can find before the world ends. That's okay though, he's hyped for the apocalypse too.

Enjoy!