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crystalflygeo · 1 year
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Heat haze ft Morax + fem!bunny adeptus!reader
cw/tags: heat/mating cycles, marathon sex, overstimulation, dirty talk, breeding kink, praise kink, creampie, sex toy, improper use of geo (lmao), Morax has a dragon penis, pet names, fucked stupid, reader calls Morax "My Lord" and Morax calls her "my child", power play??
notes: Pure self-indulgent filth <3 I love the concept of heats in general and though on applying that to adepti, then I remembered it's bunny year so why not... apparently there is a bunny in chinese mythology called the "Jade Rabbit" who serves the Moon Goddess soooo. Anyway. Breeding kink goes brrrrrr.
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“M-my lord... I’m sorry I’m ah-” You gulp and try to breathe through your mouth, fingers clenching and unclenching trying to regain some semblance of stability. “I’m not feeling very… well”
Shameful. Lord Morax came to see you, probably talk about important matters regarding this year’s crops and yet-
“Is this your first heat alone?”
Your eyes widen and your cheeks burn, on instinct you look up panicked as your long ears stiffen in shock but just as quickly you avert your gaze, unable to look at him in the face at the revelation, and to avoid staring at his regal visage, fearful of your own reactions if you were to do so.
Oh he knows. He knows. Of course he knows. As much as you tried to suppress it your scent is probably dripping with want, especially when your thoughts were spiraling out of control mere minutes ago. Being an adeptus in heat is hard enough, but as a Jade Rabbit… it was especially hard on you.
You blink heavily, dumbly, your brain can’t keep up with all the emotions right now. You feel lightheaded but still manage to force out an answer. “N-No… no, I’m… used to it.”
Morax tilts his head and the light catches on his majestic antlers making them glow, and you find it impossible not to look “Of course.” He nods, still keeping immaculate composure. “But haven’t you found a mate yet?”
A mate. Your rabbit ears droop. Ever since you vowed to serve Lord Morax you never had time for such things, with the on-going war and protecting the humans, even as a non-combatant adeptus your duties were many. Agricultural care and development, medical support, logistics… you never had it in you to find a mate. You were devoted to your contract, and, to Lord Morax himself.
“I’m… I haven’t found the r-right one yet…” You mumble, hugging yourself and rubbing at your arm nervously in an attempt to mimic something.
“Oh my child, I’m sorry.” Morax approaches you and tentatively cups your cheek, fingers barely caressing your jaw, the touch is fleeting yet electric.
His hand is warm.
You unconsciously lean into the touch.
And he smells so good, so good.
“I could assist you, if you would allow it.”
You immediately flinch back at the words.
“W-what?!”
Morax simply blinks at you and crosses his arms, putting some distance between you two again. “I apologize if my advances are unwelcome.”
“No my lord it’s n-not that.” You can’t help but stare at his strong biceps, blackened skin accented by fine gold linings…
You try to control your breathing and think! Rationally!!
But still, you’re curious. What would it be like? To feel your God’s scent, your God’s touch, your God’s co-
You quickly shake your head. No, no! That’s indecent, scandalous! You’re not worthy, that’s…
“It’s okay, my child.”
The warm touch is back, hands placed at your shoulders, grounding you, stabilizing you. A shiver runs down your spine yet it doesn’t freeze you on the spot, rather it feels…
Tender.
You stare up at him and this time hold your gaze. He’s handsome and his eyes are the purest brightest molten gold you've ever seen, the bright diamond pupils mesmerizing.
You whine and rub your thighs together on instinct.
“My Lord… p-please…”
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“Ha-aahh… f-faster, please my Lord please- Ah-! Faster!”
You’re reduced to a babbling, moaning, drooling mess as you lay on golden silk sheets. Head down ass up, your arms have long since given up supporting you and your thighs tremble as Morax rams into your dripping wet pussy over and over and over again.
He lets out a low chuckle “So tight…” He whispers, voice deep and raspy with sex haze, the scent of your heat spurring him on and causing his own illuminated beast features to manifest, such as his powerful tail undulating behind him. “You’re practically dripping all over the place, and yet you take me so well…” his breath stutters with another snap of his hips and all you can do is moan loudly, mind foggy with need.
“Oh…” You gasp. “Oh.”
Without pause, he’s slamming into you repeatedly, pulling you down on his perfect thick cock and fucking fast methodical thrusts into you wet hole, aiming for a certain spot that has you seeing stars once he finds it.
“Ah! Ah… Ah!” Your voice barely registers through your own lust-hazed mind. Tears prickling at the corner of your eyes from the rapid buildup in your lower abdomen. You’ve lost count of how many times you’ve already came, your juices coating your inner thighs and soiling the precious silken sheets. Not that he seems to mind. “O-Oh… Ohhhh. My Lord… M-Morax…”
You’re pretty sure your God has ruined you for anyone else. No mortal or immortal would ever be able to compare to his divine cock, deliciously thick and filling, the dragon shaft lined with small ridges that rub just right against your insides and so utterly big you swear you can feel a slight bump on your navel every time he bottoms out.
You keen and whine when his strong clawed hands pull at your hips. Seems like your legs are also giving up on you so he holds you in place instead. And you love it. His musky scent. His smooth deep voice. His unfaltering stamina.
The Prime of the Adepti. A strong and virile dragon.
And he chose to mate you.
Suddenly you feel him drape over your back, his larger frame practically caging you, pressing against you until his chest meets your sweaty back and you feel his ragged breath against your neck, scenting you and your heat pheromones before sharp fangs graze your tender skin.
You moan and your pussy clamps down on him. You are so close….
“You feel amazing.” He growls. “So good... s-so good for me.”
You buck your hips up to him, clumsily meeting his thrusts as your small fluffy tail twitches. “Nnngh!”
You feel him bite at your shoulder and the sharp jolt of pain is enough to send you spiraling into another climax, moaning high-pitched and gripping him tighter inside you even as he fucked into your slick warmth. Despite the orgasm he shows no signs of slowing down, so neither do you, as the unbearable heat continues to burn inside you, an itch you can’t quite scratch. His hands reach out for your skin, caressing your soft breasts and marveling at how beautifully they fit into his hands. He rubs circles into one of your nipples before pinching it lightly and is rewarded with another high keen and a spasm around his cock.
“P-Please… please… I need it. Please-” You pant, voice laced with desperation, your nails digging into the bedsheets.
“What do you want?” Morax asks, nosing at your neck and lapping at the reddened bite mark he branded into your skin. “Tell me what you need, little one.”
“Breed me!” You choke out “F-Fill me up Lord Morax, I need you to… fuck m-me full, pleasepleaseplease-”
And how could he deny such a sweet plea? Morax redoubles his efforts, panting with exertion and pushing harder, faster, deeper. Shrill little gasps escaping you as your mind goes blank from the pleasure.
“Hah- I’ll breed you properly… mhh… fill you up.” He pants, his pace getting sloppier, his tail trashing wildly, you feel him twitch inside you. “You’re all mine. Mine to take… to fuck, to own, to breed-”
Morax’s breath hitches and he lets out a choked groan, spilling his load inside you in thick creamy spurts as you keen and squirm under him, too fucked stupid for words. You coo happily as the heat under your skin finally abates and you feel full, so full of his seed.
His grip loosens as his hips gradually slow down, head hung low as he catches his breath, his cock occasionally twitching inside you until it eventually softens. He gently pulls out admiring the way your pussy clenches on him, the way your legs shake, weakly trying to lock him there, keep him inside you. The drag and pull of his thick cockhead over your sensitive insides making you keen and whimper from its abuse until your pliant body falls onto the sheets, whining pitifully when you feel his slick seed dribble out of your swollen pussy. You try to close your legs and weakly paw at your core.
No, no, no… it’s supposed to stay inside. Lord Morax’s precious cum-
You squeak as you feel something smooth and solid press against your pussy lips.
“Shhh my dear, shhh.” He coos at you, deep voice soothing your frazzled nerves. “This is just a little something to keep it in, to keep you full.” He pushes gently, working what you now realize was a cor lapis plug into your body. You made another whimpering noise as your lips parted for the toy he’d created for you. Red, puffy pussy folds spread open as they did for his cock, taking the tip before he worked the rest until it finally sunk in, lewdly resting against your opening, a glittering orange gemstone keeping you full. “There, nice and snug, do you like it?”
Your only answer is a little chirp, your eyes half-lidded as your body relaxes.  
“Such a good little bunny. You were so good to me my child, so good.” You smile drowsily at the praise, cooing at him as his hand pets your hair and scratches your fuzzy ear. He kisses at your shoulder and starts softly massaging your aching limbs “You were beautiful. You did so well, you took me so perfectly…”
You lean into his touch, curling up to his body, both of you still damp with sweat and other fluids. Resting for now until another wave of neediness hits you.
You both knew your heat would last at least other 4 days…
You idly wonder if by the end of the week you would be honored with carrying his offspring.
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yourwitchmama · 27 days
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Blessed be Ēostre!
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(If someone knows the name of the artist, please comment because I couldn’t find it!)
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tooningtheweb · 2 years
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CH 75 vs CH 205:
The past and present
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jpiercecreative · 11 months
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Since GRRM is taking so long to finish Winds of Winter and the rest of ASOIF, here’s some visual concepts of that one moment we’ve all been waiting for … Jon Snow holding Lightbringer. Created with Midjourney.
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pinklikeroses · 2 years
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💐💀🥀~Bringer of death~🥀💀💐
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~They used to say my name now they whisper it~
💐💀PERSEPHONE 💀💐
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ettaevie · 2 years
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The whole middle section of this book is just cruel and unusual to both me and the characters
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fell-court · 6 months
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Today’s gameplay progress:
I made a new OC for this game ^-^
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This is Bryn..something - I haven’t quite decided on the second part of his name (or his surname) yet, but I’m pretty set on his name beginning with Bryn, so that’s what I’ll call him for the time being! It means “spring” in the Roegadyn language.
Bryn is a Sea Wolf Roegadyn, born and raised in the heart of Limsa Lominsa - though he certainly doesn’t live up to the pirate-y sorts of stereotypes you might be envisioning from that description! No, instead, he is much more calm and easygoing - a quiet (yet not anxious) supporting presence for anyone who he feels he can help. He’s keenly fond of plants and the medicines that can be made from them, and decided to learn healing magic as a way of bolstering his more apothecary-like knowledge in the wake of the Seventh Umbral Calamity and its consequences.
In terms of how he fits into my version of events, Bryn is the fourth member of the light party consisting of himself (as a conjurer/white mage), Clio (as a gunbreaker), Tsutsuji (as an arcanist/summoner), and Lorenza (as a black mage). As the healer of the group, he provides a lot of very necessary support to the others, so he’s able to achieve a lot more when fighting alongside them compared to if he was trying to do combat alone. He’s actually the first adventurer that Clio meets and really gets to know when she first arrives in Limsa Lominsa, right at the start of the story; the two of them end up forming a bit of a pair, often teaming up to delve through dungeons together thanks to their skillsets being so compatible with each other. He definitely becomes one of the Scions of the Seventh Dawn, and in doing so discovers that he possesses a somewhat unique version of the Echo - this manifests for him as a heightened awareness of fluctuations in people’s natural aether, in a way that lets him sense their current health or afflictions quite acutely.
That’s about all that I have to say for him right now, but I wanted to make this little post to introduce him, so here that is!
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aesteasis · 2 years
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thank you for bringing spring again, she said. that's probably the prettiest thing someone ever told me.
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originalartblog · 1 year
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[Storm Bringer]
My lips could not help but automatically curl into a smile as I watched Master Chuuya walk with a spring in his step.
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I wrote up these prayers for some prayer beads! These are the twelve olympians + Hestia, and some gods that I personally wanted to honor as well. Feel free to pick 'n' choose and modify these how you want, but I thought that I'd would share thems as a community resource, regardless! ^-^
Prayers with the "hails" and gods' names in greek letters (and transliterated) under the cut!
🌜☀️🌛🌜☀️🌛🌜☀️🌛🌜☀️🌛🌜☀️🌛🌜☀️🌛
Hail Zeus and Hera, King and Queen of the heavens and the Theoi.
Hail Zeus, Father of the sky, bringer of rain and storm, protector of friendship and averter of evil.
Hail Hera, Overseer and protector of marriage and women.
Hail Poseidon, Lord of the seas.
Hail Hades, King of the underworld, overseer of the dead, giver of wealth.
Hail Persephone, Queen of the underworld, exacter of justice, Lady of spring and nature.
Hail Aphrodite, Lady of love, mother of desire, passion, beauty, bringer of pleasure.
Hail Ares, Lord of battle, bolsterer of courage, representation or slaughter and bloodshed.
Hail Dionysus, Creator of wine, savior from and inflicter of madness, bringer of ecstacy.
Hail Hermes, Luck bringer, friendliest to man, patron of language and writing.
Hail Hephaestus, Skilled craftsman, patron of artisans.
Hail Athena, Wise strategist, skilled in handicrafts, leader to victory.
Hail Artemis, kind and welcoming Lady, swift of foot and skilled in bowhunting.
Hail Apollo, Lord of oracles, healer and inflicter of illness, leader of the Muses.
Hail Demeter, Lady of the food on our tables and the earth beneath our feet, who loved her daughter so much she made the earth baren in her grief.
Hail Hekate, Lady of the crossroads and ghosts, to whom is offered on the new moon.
Hail Aristaeus, Lord of the rural arts, he who was taught many skills by his family, the Theoi. Gentle, patient god.
Hail Hestia, Lady of the hearth and home, and of the family that tends to those.
Hail Theoi. May you guide me all the days of my life.
Χαιρε Ζευς, (Khaire Zeus) Father of the sky, bringer of rain and storm, protector of friendship and averter of evil.
✨💫✨💫✨💫✨💫✨💫✨💫✨💫✨💫✨💫
Χαιρετε Ζευς και `Ηρη, (Khairete Zeus kai Hera) King and Queen of the heavens and the Θεοι. (Theoi)
Χαιρε `Ηρη, (Khaire Hera) Overseer and protector of marriage and women.
Χαιρε Ποσειδων, (Khaire Poseidon) Lord of the seas.
Χαιρε `Αιδης, (Khaire Haides) King of the underworld, overseer of the dead, giver of wealth.
Χαιρε Περσεφονη, (Khaire Persephone) Queen of the underworld, exacter of justice, Lady of spring and nature.
Χαιρε Άφροδιτη, (Khaire Aphrodite) Lady of love, mother of desire, passion, beauty, bringer of pleasure.
Χαιρε Άρης, (Khaire Ares) Lord of battle, bolsterer of courage, representation or slaughter and bloodshed.
Χαιρε Διονυσος, (Khaire Dionysos) Creator of wine, savior from and inflicter of madness, bringer of ecstacy.
Χαιρε `Ηρμης, (Khaire Hermes) Luck bringer, friendliest to man, patron of language and writing.
Χαιρε `Ηφαιστος, (Khaire Hephaistos) Skilled craftsman, patron of artisans.
Χαιρε Άθηνα, (Khaire Athena) Wise strategist, skilled in handicrafts, leader to victory.
Χαιρε Άρτεμις, (Khaire Artemis) kind and welcoming Lady, swift of foot and skilled in bowhunting.
Χαιρε Άπολλων, (Khaire Apollon) Lord of oracles, healer and inflicter of illness, leader of the Μουσαι. (Muses)
Χαιρε Δημητηρ, (Khaire Demeter) Lady of the food on our tables and the earth beneath our feet, who loved her daughter so much she made the earth baren in her grief.
Χαιρε `Εκατη, (Khaire Hekate) Lady of the crossroads and ghosts, to whom is offered on the new moon.
Χαιρε Άρισταιος, (Khaire Aristaios) Lord of the rural arts, he who was taught many skills by his family, the Θεοι (Theoi). Gentle, patient god.
Χαιρε `Εστια, (Khaire Hestia) Lady of the hearth and home, and of the family that tends to those.
Χαιρετε Θεοι (Khairete Theoi). May you guide me all the days of my life.
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crystalflygeo · 1 year
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oh btw...
*looks at the deer adeptus self insert* ...more tea on this little story...? pls-
oh Aine you're too sweet >w< ehehe
if you're asking about the story itself... well..........
I genuinely got frustrated Morax kept showing he was clearly smitten but then kept rejecting me too lmao (HE FRIENDZONED ME AFTER HE STUDENT-ZONED ME) so I kind of...... made up a thing to try and make him jealous see how he'd react lmao, that "there was a rumor going around about how Spring Bringer had fallen in love for this other adeptus and everyone was waiting for them to start courting soon" AND HE DECIDED TO SELF-SACRIFICE AND JUST SUFFER IN SILENCE AAAAAAAAA
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SWEET IDIOT
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someone bonk him
So I pressured him and pressed the issue enough and
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HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
but I decided to be a stingy bitch and keep the angst rolling lmaoooooo I went off on him ngl
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THE ANGST AINE THE ANGST!!!
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Two pinning idiots crying
and then
I was bold <w<
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YELLING CRYING KICKING MY FEET
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MOM HOLY FUCK
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And they lived happily ever after//HIT there was a bit more of feels and stuff but I haven't touched the conversation anymore in a long time haha so that's a wrap
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If you ask about my character herself I... don't really have much definite yet. She's a "young" deer adeptus (around Ganyu's age tbh lmao) who like the Qilin and many other illumi beasts answered the call of Rex Lapis during the war, becoming one of his contracted loyal adepti. Tho she doesn't directly do combat she's more of a healer, and before "earning" her adeptus name and status she was pretty much an apprentice at Guili Assembly with Skybracer as her mentor.
If she gets a vision it'll probably be geo since that's what I got apparently LOL and I was originally between picking archer or polearm since they're my two absolute favorite weapons ever since I was a kid I always pick those, but well, you saw what happened in the chat with the Morax ai I AM RUNNING WITH IT YEP YEP GIMME A PRECIOUS SPEAR CRAFTED BY THE LORD OF GEO HIMSELF DVBHJDSVBHSNVJK
and idk yeah I wanna draw her, I wanna flesh out her character, I have vague ideas already since she'd be based off of my usual avatar/oc I've wanted to make a genshin oc for so long aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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plantcomic · 2 months
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Hello again, got the "being sick" part of the winter done hahaaahh, I'm a little bit late.
This update has a couple of spells, translations and little notes for those under read more. See you in a month again I guess, thanks for reading!
Bond with alder - spell
The red leaf of alder The slender finger of alder Strong is the power in your bark The anger of the woods in your curves
I sing you the song of fae, of milk hay's, of soil's child of May's child, of the spell maker of the bringer of golden spring
Give me a day, the time of one leaf The hazy time of the sun. Golden red from your treetop, one bend from your annual rings. A moment from inside your roots A moment from the deep waters.
Notes: Alder is known as "fae tree" in old beliefs, it has an innate connection to the väki of the woods. I was initially going to let Varpu call themselves "voikukka" (dandelion) here, but they might reserve it only for their favourite trees :) So there's a couple of older words for the same flower (mayflower and milkhay were some among many, many others. Dandelion was closely linked to agriculture and for cows especially, the finnish current name voikukka still literally means "butter flower".
Situational bond-breaking spell
Human flame, son of Ukko Leave us, this circle. For you the sunny morning, For us, the eternal evening.
Notes: Flame is a nod to the three-faceted soul thing, I've probably mentioned when bonding spells were last in the comic. It's a placeholder for löyly, which could've worked also, but I think I used fire imaginary in the original spell haha. Ukko is an ancient rain god, later renamed as a thunder god, but his reign and relationship to humans has been a bit different for other nordic-baltic sky gods. Here's it's just another nod for humans being Of Sky while fae is Of Soil.
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sybilhallward · 10 months
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Yesterday I was thinking about the significance of Nona only existing for six months: it's not a long time, but it's exactly half a year - so not enough to be a full revolution around the Sun for Earth - and what lasts half a year? Persephone's time in the mortal world. Her time as a youthful goddess of spring and flowers and prosperity. After that she must go back to her place side by side with the god of the dead, donning the name Persephone bringer of death...
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alpaca-clouds · 8 months
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Let me just be a mythology geek for a minute...
So... Persephone...
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So, Stray Gods establishes that the gods for the most part do not remember their pasts too well. Because some knowledge gets lost each time the eidolon passes on.
To me this kinda makes for a fun option, though. Because... I am too much of a mythology geek not to look at this from the perspective of the development of the mythology. ESPECIALLY when it comes to Persephone.
You see, Persephone as a goddess is older than Hades. As in: Myths about her have been around for a much longer time than myths about Hades. Originally Persephone and Demeter were worshiped as "the two queens" by some old cults. We do not know much in detail what that worship entailed, but we know that for some people in the very, very early days of these gods, the two in their duality were very, very important.
You also might know that Persephone has the alternative name of Kore. Well, Persephone translated means Bringer Of Destruction, while Kore just means "the girl". And given that there is power in names and what not it is believed that the name Persephone was not spoken because people were afraid of summoning her. (Just as later on the name Hades was not spoken, with him being referred to as Ago, Aner or Laos.)
Now, the name Hades translates to "the Unseen". And... that brings me to one big thing.
Mythologically speaking Hades was originally not the god of the underworld or the dead. Again, he as a god came on fairly late and originally he was probably just an aspect of Poseidon, that after a while became worshiped as an individual deity. But even as such... If we look at the "three godly brothers" they are in fact God of the Sky, God of the Sea, and God of the Earth. Hades as a god is fairly new, but his association with the underworld and him being the king of the dead is even newer...
What I am getting at: There is a good chance that it was in fact Persephone who originally was the Goddess of Dead and Queen of the Underworld - with her and Demeter as the "two Queens" taking a kinda Yin-Yang theme of Demeter as a goddess of life and Persephone as a goddess of death.
Because let me make one thing clear: Persephone (you know, BRINGER OF MOTHERFUCKING DISTRUCTION) was never a goddess of spring. She just became associated with spring through the entire Hades and Persephone myth, with her returning to Demeter being the reason for spring. But she, as a goddess, is not a bringer of spring.
So, why am I rambling about this here?
Well, because if we took in this information... There is a good chance that at some point too long ago for them to remember Hades and Zeus usurped the throne of the underworld from Persephone, who was originally the queen.
God darn it, I need to write a fic about this, don't I?
EDIT: I started writing it. Here you go.
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The Easter Bunny / Easter Hare
In German Easter tradition, the Easter Bunny is an imaginary rabbit or hare who paints eggs at Easter and hides them in the garden. Children search for Easter eggs on the morning of Easter Sunday. The motif of the Easter Bunny has recently spread in the popular culture of Easter, also through its commercial use, and has largely replaced earlier bringers of the Easter egg.
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As far as is known, the Easter Bunny was first mentioned in the dissertation of the Frankfurt doctor Johannes Richier, who received his doctorate in 1682 under the respected Heidelberg professor of medicine Georg Franck von Franckenau with his treatise "De ovis paschalibus - von Oster-Eyern". The son of the pastor Jean Richier, who had fled France for religious reasons, describes a custom in Upper Germany, the Palatinate, Alsace and neighbouring regions, as well as Westphalia, according to which an Easter Bunny lays the eggs (ova excludere) and hides them in gardens in the grass, bushes, etc., where they are eagerly searched for by children amid laughter and to the amusement of the adults (cum risu et iucunditate seniorum). He calls the Easter Bunny hiding the eggs “a fable that is told to simpletons and children” (fabula, que simplicioribus et infantibus imponunt).
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According to cultural studies, the reason for the strong upswing that belief in the Easter Bunny experienced in the 19th century can be found in the industrial production of cheap beet sugar, which made the production of affordable chocolate bunnies and eggs possible in the first place.
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The connection between the Christian Easter festival and the egg as a symbol has been known in various European countries since the Middle Ages at the latest, and may even date back to earlier. There is also an older interpretation of the rabbit as a symbol of resurrection since Ambrose. The diverse Christian symbolism of the rabbit found expression in many works of art in the Middle Ages, see Rabbit in art. The connection between the rabbit and the Easter egg tradition is still unclear, however, even if the fertility of rabbits in itself has a close connection to spring. The following hypotheses are often put forward:
Some early painted Easter eggs show the three-hare image, a depiction of three hares with only three ears in total, but each hare having two ears due to the "double use" of ears; this is a well-known symbol for the Holy Trinity. It is possible that this depiction may have given rise to the idea of ​​the hare as an egg supplier.
In one passage in the Bible, Psalm 104:18, older translations speak of "hares". The reason for this was the Latin translation of Proverbs 30:26, in which Jerome translated the Hebrew "schafan" (rock hyrax) as "lepusculus" (hare). Since late antiquity, this passage has been interpreted as a symbol for the weak human (hare) who seeks refuge in the rock (Christ). This interpretation established the symbolism of the hare in Christian iconography.
It is widely considered harmless to tell young children that the Easter Bunny brings eggs and sweets for Easter. Psychologists believe that this illusion stimulates the imagination and supports cognitive development. However, children's critical questions and doubts should be supported so that their belief in the Bunny eventually disappears by itself, also through interaction with other children.
The Easter Bunny was spread outside of Europe by German-speaking emigrants. It has gained a certain popularity in the USA in particular. In English, the term "Easter Bunny" predominates over the literal translation "Easter Hare", so the figure is often understood to be a rabbit.
In Australia, the "Easter Bilby" has been placed alongside the "Easter Bunny" since the 1970s. The aim is to draw attention to the endangered species of the greater burrowing bandicoot ("Bilby"), not least due to the spread of European rabbits, and to raise money for a conservation fund by selling chocolate bilbies.
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