#new pantheon

[wearethewitches]

oh god "a phoenix is just a bird until it burns" KATE. KATE WHY ARE YOU MAKING LIFE AND DEATH META QUOTES. WHO IS DYING

*shaking the bars of my cell* WHO IS DYING, KATE?

[pinacoladamatata]

blink and you'll miss it moments around skyhold....

[airoarts]

sexymen drawing for fun.. or for glory?

[ID: a digital painting of several Tumblr Sexymen. From left to right: Miguel O'Hara and Astarion kissing with tongue, Tony the clock watching them, Wheatley floating in front of them and looking at the viewer, the Once-ler grinning with malicious intent, Sans grinning up at Reigen, who is sweating at Komaeda's malicious expression and his hand on his shoulder, Bill Cipher lounging above Reigen's head, Raymond the cat in front of Komaeda, Spamton showing Ingo the train guy a pipis egg, Alastor grinning nervously at a huge purple eye representing Cecil Gershwin Palmer. end ID]

[sarafangirlart]

For a show that beats you over the head on how the gods suck, Kaos seems surprising hesitant about showing the more disgusting bits of mythology.

The Minotaur isn’t a product of bestiality

Dionysus doesn’t turn anyone mad or orders his followers to tear someone to shreds.

Polyphemus isn’t a cannibalistic cyclops

Zeus doesn’t rape anyone on screen, which is good yet Hera does and it’s portrayed as a girlboss moment.

Caeneus isn’t raped by Poseidon (which would’ve been fine if they didn’t erase everything else about his character)

Eurydice isn’t sexually harassed by Aristaeus, so her beef with the gods in the show is that Hera took her mom, which is something mythology Hera wouldn’t even do.

[3rdeyeblaque]

On September 10th we venerate Elevated Ancestor, Voodoo Queen of Louisiana, & Saint, Marie Catherine Laveau on her 222nd birthday 🎉

[for our Hoodoos of the Vodou Pantheon]

Marie Catherine Laveau was a dedicated Hoodoo, healer, herbalist, & midwife who, "traveled the streets [of New Orleans] like she owned them", as the most infamous Voodoo Queen of New Orleans.

Marie C. Laveau I was born a "Free Mulatto" in today's French Quarter in what was then, New France); to a mother & grandmother who were both born into slavery & later freed via freedom papers. It is believed that she grew up in the St. Ann Street cottage of her maternal grandmother.

She married Jacques Santiago-Paris, a "Quadroon" "Free Man of Color", who fled as a refugee from Saint-Domingue, Haiti from the Haitian Revolution in the former French colony . After his passing, she became known as "The Widow Paris". She then worked as a hairdresser catering to White families & later entered a domestic partnership with a French nobleman his death. She excelled at obtaining inside information on her wealthy patrons by instilling fear in their servants whom she either paid or cured of mysterious ailments. Although she never abandoned her Catholic roots, she became increasingly interested in her mother’s African traditional beliefs. The Widow Paris learned her craft from a ‘Voodoo doctor’ known variously as Doctor John or John Bayou.

Marie C. Laveau I is said to have intiated into Voodoo career sometime in the 1820s. She's believed to be descended from a long line of Voodoo Priestesses, all bearing her same name. She was also a lifelong devout Catholic. It didn’t take long before Marie C. Laveau I dominated New Orleans Voodoo culture & society before claiming title of Queen. She was the 3rd Voodoo Queen of NOLA - after Queen Sanité Dédé & Queen Marie Salopé. During her decades tenure, she was the premier beacon of hope and service to customers seeking private consultations - to aid in matters such as family disputes, health, finances, etc, created/sold gris gris, perforemed exorcisms. While her daughter Marie II was known for her more theatrical displays of public events, Marie C. Laveau I was less flamboyant in her persona. She conducted her work in 3 primary locations throughout the city: her home on St. Ann Street, Congo Square, & at Lake Pontchartrain. Despite one account of a challenge to her authority in 1850, Marie C. Laveau I maintained her leadership & influence.

The Queen died peacefully in her sleep in her ole cottage home on St. Ann Street. Her funeral was conducted according to the rite of the Catholic Church & in the absence of any Voodoo rites. To her Voodoo followers, she's venerated as a Folk Saint. In² addition to her Priesthood in Voodoo and title of Queen, she is also remembered for her community activism; visiting prisoners, providing lessons to women of the community, & doing ritual work for those in need.

She is generally believed to have been buried in plot 347, the Glapion family crypt in Saint Louis Cemetery No. 1, New Orleans. As of March 1st, 2015, there is no longer public access to St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Entry with a tour guide is required due to continued vandalism & tomb raiding.

We pour libations & give her💐 today as we celebrate her for her love for & service to the people, through poverty, misfortune, bondage, & beyond.

Offering suggestions: flowers + libations at her grave, catholic hymns, holy water, gold rings/bracelets, money

‼️Note: offering suggestions are just that & strictly for veneration purposes only. Never attempt to conjure up any spirit or entity without proper divination/Mediumship counsel.‼️

[lokittystuckinatree]

The Doctor, back on his “I’m the Last of the Time Lords. I’m so special. Look at me,” melodrama, sobbing his eyes out while fighting literal gods and saving the world with the power of friendship

Vs.

The Master, still stuck in that tooth, making sock puppets of themself and the Doctor, probably. “Don’t you see? You’ve been blind too long, Doctor! Look at what you’ve made! Look at me!”

“Oh Master, I’ve always seen you and I always will…because you…see me.” (Doctor puppet passionately kisses Master puppet)

“You’re too late.” (Master puppet brutally murders Doctor puppet)

[astarionsilverbough]

i promise i still love them

[snackleggg]

Remember that time the Doctor was brought back to strength and youth by a bunch of people believing in him and saying his name.

Like we've been knowing the Doctor is on some God rules shit. That was legit some "worship gives the gods their strength" shit.

[moony-2001]

With the announcement of two new original stories by Rachel herself, I’ve been oscillating between “let her try cooking again” and “we’ve already seen what she did to the Greek pantheon she should be relegated to lunchables”

[reasonsforhope]

“When it comes to explaining Roman engineering, people looking to demonstrate their genius have a variety of use cases, but the secret to why their concrete has remained when even modern buildings crumble after just a few years of disuse has eluded scientists.

However at MIT, scientists have cracked their concrete code to show that Roman concrete was self-repairing—it could naturally close cracks in as little as 2 weeks...

Indeed, the Romans did things with concrete that modern societies haven’t—just look at the Pantheon in Rome which still has the world’s largest unreinforced concrete dome. Aqueducts built to water the city literally still do, 2,000 years and sometimes more after they were built.

It was once assumed that lime was added to concrete with water to create a paste in a process called slaking, but by using spectroscopic imaging, Masic and his colleagues at MIT, and elsewhere in Switzerland and Italy, have determined that the Romans heated the lime ash to high temperatures to create what is known today as “quicklime.”

“The benefits of hot mixing are twofold,” Masic says. “First, when the overall concrete is heated to high temperatures, it allows chemistries that are not possible if you only used slaked lime, producing high-temperature-associated compounds that would not otherwise form. Second, this increased temperature significantly reduces curing and setting times since all the reactions are accelerated, allowing for much faster construction.”

In such concrete as this, cracks that form allow the easy travel of the lime clasts into open space which, when coming in contact with water, seal and close the cracks. The team mixed their own Roman concrete and it took only 2 weeks for a deliberately inflicted crack to close.

By contrast a contemporary concrete block was made without quicklime and it never repaired itself.

As a result, the team are working to commercialize this as self-healing Roman concrete in order to reduce the 8% of global emissions attributed to the manufacture and laying of concrete in cities.” -via Good News Network, 1/9/23

[soulless-bex]

god!percy who walks into stark tower after the battle of new york only to tell the avengers that they did a good job like you would a five years old who successfully glued two piece of paper together and then disappears with thor and loki because, in their dumbassery, they broke the accord the greeks had made with the norse

[infinitetbr]

[asterias-fallen-star]

Big lady Asteria and little lady Asteria

[sarafangirlart]

I feel like Greek nicknames should be made with like… the Greek language in mind not just shorten the name with no rhyme or reason, for example don’t call Andromeda Andy (bc it comes from Andro which means man) but Meda, which could mean anything from mindful to protective to cunning.

So naming Eurydice fucking Riddy is stupid af, her name means Wide Justice, (Eury=Wide and Dice=Justice) it’s like nicknaming Muhammad as Moh when the actual nickname that’s actually used by Arabs is Hamoud/ Hamoody.

[childhoodcreativity]

(c) The Greatest Showman

Happy anniversary to CCS, and happy 450th MEP!!!

[glitchedgirly]

I noticed the q!tubbo shapeshifting thing going around (absolutely hilarious possibilities btws) but can we stop and think abt how he got the power for a moment? like obvi birth is a common thought, but I think that him being gifted it has far more potential, specifically by q!Tommy. Like it's some level of fanon that q!tommy is the god of fraud/deception/ect. and he and tubbo are married

so...

I'm imagining tubbo going up to tommy one day to ask him to sign the divorce papers (yet again) (these ones are fire-proof) and tommy being like 'aww, why don't you wanna stay married, is it bc i never gave you a wedding gift' then snapping his fingers and Boom shapeshifting powers