#roman and norse gods

[harestigm]

i'm gonna read more, i miss it. i got some books that I have yet to read and they're all stacked up on the side of my bed (TWO STACKS!! mixed in with other books I've finished but STILL!! TWO!!)

its not overwhelming how much i've collected and haven't feasted my eyes on, more just "I can't believe it's come to this."

and theres only two reason why i let it get like this okay?? well three but still two

okay so one, i can only read one book at a time to get the best experience, and with school and assigned reading, I have no time for guilty pleasures like just reading on my own. if I could I would, but reading two books at the same time just sends a shiver down my spine and makes my shoulders hunch, like yeah a lot of people do it but me?? never.

two, i keep going to bookstores, and my book list keeps mounting, so I go to the bookstores, I take the books, and with the mounting copies of actual books I have yet to read, the new books get piled unto the old ones I still haven't read and so we continue like that, its a vicious cycle!!

three, time is of essence and i seem to just be gradually running out of essence. if I'm lucky I can spend my nights reading, and if I'm not, well whos going to stop me? (apart from the people in my head begging for rest lolll)

four, i reread books!! for the sake of nostalgia and going back to my roots and knowing what got me here!! and I can't just stop in the middle of one book and pick up another, I have to finish the book and when I do there has to be a grace period in between finished books unless its a sequel and even then I feel like I have to process the book before moving on. my current dilemma is that I'm reading a series called 'The Beautiful' and the author has only come out with 2 books of the series, it might just be the last book but I wouldn't know! I haven't finished it!! also I may have misplaced it and don't know where it is.

[useless-denmarkfacts]

Fun fact: Unlike most other ancient pantheons, the Nordic Gods have exactly zero instances of direct familial incest

[acids-and-basses]

To give the gods and deities offerings, do they see us as we see crows bringing them shiny things?

[artemis-potnia-theron]

I love u tumblr pagans I love u polytheists I love u deity devotees I love u all and this niche little community we've created for ourselves

I love that the same love people have been experiencing for their deities for hundreds and hundreds of years moves through us

I love that we are all part of the gods and they are part of us and we are all part of each other

I love all of you and how we love

Love love love u ❤️

[jezzzebel]

I feel like a lot of pagans and witches lack self-discipline. (Rant thingy)

Disclaimer: this is NOT in any way a personal attack on anyone. This is all just my opinion.

So i feel like there is a small lack of discipline in the pagan community especially. But also to non-secular witches and magicians who do deity work. However you wanna call yourself 😅

Let's get this straight...

GODS LOVE YOU

GODS SUPPORT YOU, NO MATTER WHAT YOU ARE: whether you are from the culture they are from, or not, whether you have lighter or darker skin, whether you worship other pantheons or not, whether you are cishet or LGBT+, disabled or neurodivergent

GODS WILL LOVE YOUR EVERY OFFERING, NO MATTER HOW SMALL IT SEEMS TO YOU...

And most importantly, they will adapt to you, and they understand you are a human being and have bad and good days. Days that you are too tired, too sad, and too depressed to worship. They have that in mind.

But gods CAN AND WILL call you out if you are generally disrespectful, call them bad names , too lazy to do anything for them all the time even if you have energy and motivation.

They WILL indeed be... Sad to see you are using their patience, their kindness, to lie to them, and to not give them at least the minimum devotion you can give.

They won't punish you, to say, generally, they won't be angry, generally. But please, don't use their patience and support for you too much.

It's easiest to say "gods will love me regardless". But do YOU love gods regardless? Are you willing to give all you can give even when that is a simple prayer before going to bed?

Thank you for reading and please be respectful in the comments and re-blogs. (I will cry lol)

[mytholots]

Ares: Are oranges named orange because oranges are orange or is orange called orange because oranges are orange?

Tyr: Which came first, the orange or the orange?

Athena: Orange was first used to refer the fruit 1280 years ago but was not used as a color until 1000 years ago.

Neit: What was the color called before then?

Bellona: There was no color, duh! Everything was black and white!

[prismolovesfanfiction]

"wow they have the voice of an angel" my sailor in christ you are being ensnared by a siren

[whereserpentswalk]

Idk if this means anything but I've never seen anyone point out the similarities between Persephone and Baldur. They're both gods who are sent to the underworld in their main myth and retrieved every spring. They also both seem to fit a similar archetype of the untouched youth in their living forms, and both have their main myth surround their mothers' grief and their attempted retrieval. Gender has really distorted the way we see these stories; we end up much more focused on Baldur's personal tragedy and loss then we are Persephone's.

As a pagan it brings up some interesting questions. Though I'm not sure if they're ones I'm experienced enough to answer. A few months before Hel first reached out to me, I tried and failed to do a ritual to Hades, so it would be tempting to see them as masculine and feminine perceptions of one being, and while I wouldn't go that far (especially since I tend to perceive gods are mostly genderless due to being agender) it's certainly pretty obvious they have overlapping aspects. As for practice and experiences with Persephone and Baldur I have no idea how that overlaps, especially with how a lot of the Norse pagan community seems to be kind of unwilling to work with Baldur due to his overlapping aspects with Jesus.

(Wait is Jesus also part of the same mythic cycle as Persephone and Baldur? The myth of his death and resurrection and the way his rituals are associated with the spring seem to fit?)

I have no idea where I'm going with this.

[jinxstrology]

💫Mythical Astrology💫

A collection of gods and goddesses associated with each sign~ Before you say something, yes! I AM aware that some of these deities are the same entity with different names. I wanted to include all names so readers could recognize the ones they knew :) Talk to me niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

Aries

Amun (Egyptian), Anat (Mesopotamian/Ugaritic/Egyptian), Ares (Greek), Badb (Irish), Belenus (Celtic), Cybele (Anatolian), Durga (Hindu), Hecate (Greek), Hestia (Greek), Indra (Hindu), Ishtar (Mesopotamian), Khnum (Egyptian), Macha (Irish), Marduk (Babylonian), Mars (Roman), Minerva (Roman), The Morrigan (Irish Celtic), Nergal (Mesopotamian), Ra (Egyptian), Sekhmet (Egyptian), Tiamat (Babylonian)

Taurus

Aphrodite (Greek), Asherah (Semitic), Astarte (Middle Eastern), Ba'al (Canaanite), Bacchus (Greco-Roman), Bast (Egyptian), Cernunnos (Celtic), Dionysus (Greek), Flora (Roman), Frigg (Norse), Gaia (Greek), Hathor (Egyptian), Horus (Egyptian), Indra (Hindu), Ishtar (Mesopotamian), Isis (Egyptian), Jupiter (Roman), Krishna (Hindu), Lakshmi (Hindu), Maia (Greek), Marduk (Babylonian), Mithra (Iranian), Osiris (Egyptian), Poseidon (Greek), Ptah (Egyptian), Venus (Roman), Zeus (Greek)

Gemini

Apollo (Greek), Artemis (Greek), Dumuzid (Sumerian), Enki (Sumerian), Hermes (Greek), Inanna (Mesopotamian), Janus (Roman), Krishna (Hindu), Mercury (Roman), Odin (Norse), Seshat (Egyptian), Thoth (Egyptian)

Cancer

Artemis (Greek), Ceres (Roman), Demeter (Greek), Diana (Roman), Isis (Egyptian), Juno (Roman), Kuan Yin (Chinese/Buddhist), Luna (Roman), Mercury (Roman)

Leo

Amun (Egyptian), Anat (Mesopotamian/Ugaritic/Egyptian), Bast (Egyptian), Cybele (Anatolian), Devi (Hindu), Diana (Roman), Durga (Hindu), Freyja (Norse), Hathor (Egyptian), Helios (Greek), Hera (Greek), Inanna (Mesopotamian), Ishtar (Mesopotamian), Juno (Roman), Mithra (Iranian), Nanna (Mesopotamian), Nergal (Mesopotamian), Ra (Egyptian), Sekhmet (Egyptian), Vishnu (Hindu)

Virgo

Anat (Mesopotamian/Ugaritic/Egyptian), Artemis (Greek), Demeter (Greek), Diana (Roman), Hestia (Greek), Inanna (Mesopotamian), Iris (Greek), Ishtar (Mesopotamian), Isis (Egyptian), Kore (Greek), Nanna (Mesopotamian), Odin (Norse), Persephone (Greek), Vesta (Roman)

Libra

Aphrodite (Greek), Athena (Greek), Cernunnos (Celtic), Frigg (Norse), Hephaestus (Greek), Isis (Egyptian), Justitia (Roman), Ma'at (Egyptian), Minerva (Roman), Mithra (Iranian), Nemesis (Greek), Njord (Norse), Shiva (Hindu), Thoth (Egyptian), Venus (Roman), Vishnu (Hindu)

Scorpio

Anubis (Egyptian), Ereshkigal (Mesopotamian), Hecate (Greek), Hel (Norse), Isis (Egyptian), Mars (Roman), Njord (Norse), Osiris (Egyptian), Persephone (Greek), Pluto (Roman), Set (Egyptian)

Sagittarius

Anat (Mesopotamian/Ugaritic/Egyptian), Artemis (Greek), Athena (Greek), Diana (Roman), Epona (Gallo-Roman), Hades (Greek), Isis (Egyptian), Jupiter (Roman), Mars (Roman), Nergal (Mesopotamian), Rhiannon (Welsh), Thor (Norse)

Capricorn

Agni (Hindu), Aphrodite (Greek), Ba'al (Canaanite), Dionysus (Greek), Ea (Babylonian), Enki (Sumerian), Faunus (Roman), Freyja (Norse), Freyr (Norse), Gaia (Greek), Hecate (Greek), Juno (Roman), Loki (Norse), Pan (Greek), Perun (Slavic), Saturn (Roman), Thor (Norse)

Aquarius

Astarte (Middle Eastern), Ea (Babylonian), Ishtar (Mesopotamian), Isis (Egyptian), Juno (Roman), Nut (Egyptian)

Pisces

Aegir (Norse), Aphrodite (Greek), Cupid (Roman), Diana (Roman), Ea (Babylonian), Enki (Sumerian), Eros (Greek), Neptune (Roman), Poseidon (Greek), Sedna (Inuit), Venus (Roman), Vishnu (Hindu)

[roses-and-sundries]

on loving gods

picture this: you fall in love with a god.

(some level of hubris and/or insanity must be involved. for if you were a person who was perfectly humble, and perfectly sane, it simply wouldn't be done. gods are notoriously unreliable, unreasonable, and oftentimes, unworthy. it is just in their nature.)

picture this: the god loves you back.

(this is a very rare thing. they are busy, have different emotions than humans, and, worst of all, immortal. they often choose not to love, or to simply have fleeting affairs.)

picture this: there are circumstances that keep you apart.

(there is an endless list of said circumstances. be it other gods, duties, or, sometimes, if you're lucky - although you might say the opposite- the god wants to keep you safe.)

picture this: you are willing to wait for them.

(most humans who truly love a god will wait as long as it takes. this is foolish, as it often results in their demise.)

picture this: the god finally comes back.

(they are injured, or need help. this doesn't happen often, but is a death sentence for you. you love them, and want to help, but there is nothing you can do. either they will loose control and destroy you, or you will sacrifice yourself for them. sometimes, sometimes it is both.)

picture this: you wonder what the hell you were ever thinking, falling in love with a god.

(and the sad truth was, you were never thinking at all.)

[mythicalmuseomine]

I’m taking requests for making aesthetic digital offerings to anyone’s deity! All Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Norse and more deity’s!

[devil-in-the-details-ay]

18

Chapter 17

The conversation continues...and a revelation happens..

“Which is?” Astaroth queried with a touch of hesitancy in his voice, wondering what his wife had in store for him now.  A zoo’s worth of animals on the island? Another island paradise to hideaway in? A mountain one this time?  A baby?  Primus Sator forbid!

Taking a deep breath, since she felt kind of foolish for asking, but that seemed on par for the course of the evening, “Could we try a first date again? Maybe just the two of us? You know, since I ruined this one.” Yara looked away from him, trying to keep the tears from building in her eyes.  The thought of how to ask, or even how to plan it on her own, had been what was keeping her awake.  She wanted to have a romantic time with her husband.  She wanted to show him she wasn’t a lost cause.

If Yara had been trying to hide how nervous she was to ask that question, she failed spectacularly.  Astaroth was impressed she wasn’t physically trembling in his arms when she asked though, as bad as her voice shook and cracked.  That was tempered with pride in her for being able to actually get it out instead of hiding her thoughts like she had a habit of doing. Her looking away didn’t bother him, he’d rather her look away and be able to speak her mind than them keep tripping over one another.

Gently, he used two fingers to tip her chin so that she was once more looking at him in the very low light.  “Do you mind if I change it a little?  Make it so we both have a better time and are more relaxed?”  His fingers gently caressed the edges of her face as he looked at her adoringly.  There were mistakes that he had made that he didn’t intend on making again. He was learning he rather enjoyed having his wife in his arms, and the sound of his name rolling of her tongue. “Whatever you want, but I just…” Yara paused as she nodded, she honestly didn’t care.  It could be a completely different type of night, she just wanted a second chance.  He already meant something to her, and was beginning to mean a whole lot more, she didn’t want to drive him away or to actually look at someone else longingly because she was an emotional mess.  The thought of that was killing her, even with his promise that it would be just the two of them.  “I just want a special time for us, and not to ruin it this time.”  Her head pressed firmly against his chest, her eyes closing.

He tsked her, shaking his head slightly, before kissing her forehead.  “You did not ruin it, Papilio.  You learned that you are cared for, and will never be abandoned or rejected.”  He held her tighter and sighed.  “Life is not an all or nothing, with me, not for you.  We will learn one another, and things will get easier.”  Another kiss was placed on her forehead, as he tried to figure out how to better comfort her, and also wondered why it was that her upset troubled him so deeply.  This whole relationship was a new experience.

“Dinner was amazing, but you know that the rest was not what you had envisioned, or what we could have had.”  There was an undercurrent of sadness and remorse to her voice that displeased him. There was no reason for it.  Yes, she had misunderstood the situation, but she had not done anything to purposely ruin the night. Her sitting there silently was the exact opposite of how he would have expected her to react to seeing someone flirt with him, and assuming he was receptive.

“True, but such is life.  So, we shall have a second date.  I do want to keep my wife happy. I wouldn’t want her eyes or heart to wander to someone else.  After all, she is becoming very important to me.” The seriousness of the conversation gave way to a slight tease in his voice. 

“Asti….” She scoffed and lightly thumped his chest with her hand, looking up at him like he’d just told her that Lucifer was a fluffy bunny. Still, she had not missed his last statement, and it hit her deep.

“I do love it when you say my name….” That wasn't a lie, which the deepening of his voice and the darkening of his eyes gave credence to. There were even times he wished she said it more.  He had to be losing his sanity, but for the moment he didn't care.

“Astaroth…” Yara’s voice lowered and became husky, his name becoming an almost purr that reverberated against his neck before she placed a soft kiss there.  To find out that she had an effect on him emboldened her, and gave her a newfound sense of satisfaction.  The woman at the bar might have been more seductive than she was, but it was clear that she hadn’t affected Astaroth.  If Yara was able to with just his name, well that was definitely a bonus in her favor.  

“Keep doing that and I might keep you in bed all day tomorrow, Papillio.”  His own voice lowered as well, his wife's seduction working fully on him. Even tired after an emotional evening, he would not refuse her.  Not with the new feelings taking root in his heart, and how enjoyable their first encounter was.

“Is that a threat or a promise, love?”

“Both.” Astaroth kissed her lightly, enjoying the tease and seduction of the moment. Fingers sinking into her dark locks, he pulled her closer for a deeper kiss before pulling back to look into her eyes.

“Te amo, Astaroth Anthas, Mortem meam.” (I love you, Astaroth Anthas, my Death.) Yara slipped into Latin as easily as she breathed. For some reason, saying the words in that, instead of Demontongue, was easier. The admission that she had already fallen in love with him, since the moment he had learned all about her past, yet had not pushed her away like the others, terrified her. She had handed him the instrument of her own destruction. 

For a full beat, Astaroth was convinced he'd translated what she'd said wrong in his head.  There was not a possibility that she could feel the same for him. He knew her doubts and fears, her insecurities; but he also knew that after their conversation earlier, she would not say such things lightly or in jest.  His belief, once more, that the Fates were involved in whatever was transpiring, seemed confirmed. 

Yara had felt like she couldn't breathe, maybe her heart didn’t even beat, while she waited for him to say something.  Once she had said it, it was too late to take it back and the expected rejection was causing her to want to run from the bed and the room. Even though she knew he would not be cruel or mean, that almost made it worse. He would be kind in his denial of mutuality.

The last thing Astaroth was going to do was leave Yara wondering his reaction to her admission.  Rolling over so she now was the one on her back, and he was looking down into her soulful eyes that he adored, he gave her his answer. “Te amo, Yara Anthas, amica mea papilio et amator animae meae.” (I love you, Yara Anthas, my darling butterfly and lover of my soul.)

Her eyes searched his for any sign that he was just placating her, her heart trying to escape her rib cage as it thundered inside. If he had not been so close, his eyes capturing hers with their intensity, she would have sworn she hallucinated those words, those words that no one had said to her before in her life; and they came from the only man that would ever matter to her for the rest of her life,

Astaroth truly loved her. Her, the daughter that no one wanted. Death loved. In some way it was poetic, but in every way it was perfect. As they came together once more, sealing their bond and their love, both felt whole for the first time in their existence; like they had truly found the part that was missing.

*****

On Olympus, Clotho sat back from the pool and looked over to Atropos with a smirk. Both Fates had worked hard for this day, this hour, this minute. More was coming, some dark, some light, and a lot bloody. Lachesis came with the wine and goblets and they looked over at the twelve tapestries with threats binding them. It was coming together. Soon the Primus Sator would summon them, and it would begin....

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[paganpillar]

Taking a moment to relax before finals week. I want to create another deity moodboard. I'm open to suggestions! Lmk who you want to see! Send some of their aspects as well!

[deadghost12345]

If you were a god/goddess what would you be the god/goddess of?

It could be anything you want lol

[godsofhumanity]

Mars: While you studied the blade, I studied the blade too we were classmates Horus: Hey bro is there any blade homework due tomorrow? Freyja: Bro you didn't know? The head of the man who killed your father is due by noon. Ares: You think the teacher will accept late work or-

[thevoidstaredback]

One thing in movies/shows/books that always upsets me is when they use the wrong names when in reference to Primordials/Giants/Titans/Gods/Demigods/Legacies.

It's such a specific thing to get upset about, but it upsets me nonetheless.

Like, when they focus on Greek myths and use 'Hercules' instead of 'Heracles' or 'Cupid' instead of 'Eros' or referring to Hades as the God of the Dead. He's the God of the Underworld. Thanatos is the personification/God of Death.

Or when the focus is Roman and people forget that Pluto is not only the God of the Dead, but also the God of Wealth and Agriculture.

Another is when the focus is Norse and suddenly, Loki isn't messing with people. Or Hella is Loki and Thor's sister instead of Loki's daughter. Also, Norse Gods *can* be killed in combat. Other Pantheons cannot.

Lets not forget that all of the Creation Myths are botched in some way or another. Same with Destruction Myths.

Anyway, I do love a lot of media pertaining to the different Pantheons (like Rick Riordan's stuff and Disney's Hercules) but that doesn't mean that the tiny little nitpicks don't get me riled up.

(Another thing that upsets me is when everyone conveniently forgets that pretty much every deity in every Pantheon holds more than one position)