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@femmefatalenet | event thirteen | one year celebration | death ↳ hel + late autumn

“Listen … With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break from the trees And fall.” ~ Adelaide Crapsey

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modern mythology: the faerie 

her wings beat against the buttery leather of her jacket and it’s uncomfortable and it’s stifling, but her smile still stretches wide and knowing round the stick of her popsicle. passers-by might cross the street to avoid the girl trailing glitter from bright purple hair but she’s got branches in her bones and a forest fire in her eyes that no dull sidewalk side-look can put out 

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mythology family posters → @thewinedarksea → freyja

freyja rules over her heavenly field and receives half of those that die in battle. freyja assists deities by allowing them to use her feathered cloak and is invoked in matters of love. freyja’s husband, Óðr, is frequently absent. In his absence, she cries tears of red gold for him. 

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@classicnet​ 800 follower celebration (13/30)     → hera

I sing of golden-throned Hera whom Rhea bare. Queen of the Immortals is she, surpassing all in beauty: she is the sister and wife of loud-thundering Zeus,–the glorious one whom all the blessed throughout high Olympos reverence and honour even as Zeus who delights in thunder.

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Color Palette Challenge #55 - Hera

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MYTH POSTERS: NYX, GODDESS OF THE NIGHT

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The name “SIGYN” is probably formed from the Old Norsewords sigr, “victory,” and vina, “female friend.” Her name therefore apparently means “Friend of Victory.”  (requested by @helenstroy)

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mythology moodboards - sigyn

Sigyn was the norse goddess of fidelity. She was the wife of the trickster god Loki and the mother to Narfi and Váli. Her name means victorious and she is often depicted holding a bowl over Loki in his punishment, to catch the venom of a serpent to prevent it from burning him.

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myth meme | pantheons

norse mythology (1/1)

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Favourite goddesses in norse mythology: Freyja

↳ Freyja is the archetype of the völva, a professional or semiprofessional practitioner of seidr, the most organized form of Norse magic. It was she who first brought this art to the gods,and, by extension, to humans as well. Given her expertise in controlling and manipulating the desires, health, and prosperity of others, she’s a being whose knowledge and power are almost without equal.

Freyja presides over the afterlife realm Folkvang, whose inhabitants she selects from among the warriors slain in battle.

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mythology family ♥︎ idunn for @merflk

idunn, in norse mythology, was the goddess of spring or rejuvenation and the wife of bragi, the god of poetry. she was the keeper of the magic apples of immortality, which the gods must eat to preserve their youth. when, through the cunning of loki, the trickster god, she and her apples were seized by the giant thiassi and taken to the realm of the giants, the gods quickly began to grow old. they then forced loki to rescue idunn, which he did by taking the form of a falcon, changing idunn into a nut (in some sources, a sparrow), and flying off with her in his claws.

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@femmefatalenet | event eleven | rán in the golden age of piracy | death

“we’re all made out of shipwrecks.”

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mythology family ♥︎ sif for @history-greek101

in norse mythology, sif is a goddess associated with earth. in the prose edda, sif is named as the mother of the goddess þrúðr by thor and of ullr with a father whose name is not recorded. the prose edda also recounts that sif once had her hair shorn by loki, and that thor forced Loki to have a golden headpiece made for sif, resulting in not only sif’s golden tresses but also five other objects for other gods.

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mermaid

noun | mer·maid | \ˈmər-ˌmād\  a fabled marine creature with the head and upper body of a woman and the tail of a fish

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@classicnet​ 800 follower celebration (5/50)     → norse mythology

Norse mythology is the body of myths of the North Germanic peoples stemming from Norse paganism and continuing after the Christianization of Scandinavia and into the Scandinavian folklore of the modern period.

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@booksociety’s myths event  →  circe by madeline miller 

i will not be like a bird bred in a cage, i thought, too dull to fly even when the door stands open.

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selene

goddess of the moon