Tag: GODDESS

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Selket, Egyptian Goddess of Scorpions

Scorpion stings lead to paralysis and Selket’s name describes this, as it means (she who) tightens the throat, however, Selket’s name also can be read as meaning (she who) causes the throat to breathe,
and so, as well as being seen as stinging the unrighteous, Selket was
seen as one who could cure scorpion stings and the effects of other
venoms such as snake bites.

philosophium:

Modern Day Greek Gods
↳Mnemosyne

She’s the forgotten girl in the back of the classroom, always quiet, lost in her thoughts, hiding in her memories. The girl who takes an interest in history, obsesses over it, more interested in personal accounts than what can be found in text books. She reads old diaries, finds friends in people buried in the past like her. She presses flowers into her books. She is the girl who protests the society doomed to repeat its terrible history. The girl writing a blog because her voice is in her head, not something that can come through her lips. The girl who listens, who has to think long and hard before being able to lend a response to a conversation. The girl who never seems present when she’s talking to you, always adrift on some other thought in some other time. She’ll bring up things that happened years ago to get someone in trouble or out of trouble. Her mood depends on what she’s thinking about at the time; when she’s remembering a sunny morning, birds calling to each other, she is laughing and smiling. When she is reading the diary of a soldier, she is often distraught and crying. She is the soul that remembers, even if she has been forgotten.

philosophium:

Modern Day Greek Gods
↳Artemis

This is the girl who grew up feeling insignificant in the light of her twin brother’s infinite creativity and curiosity. The girl who found solace in the quiet of the forest, who wished to run among the trees, swift as the deer, ferocious as the wolves. The girl who picked up a bow at the age of six and taught herself to hunt. The girl who walks barefoot through dewy grass, who takes her homework into the woods because she likes the quiet and the simplicity. She swore off boys as a pre-teen, and she fell for a girl only a month later. The science-savvy girl hungry for knowledge. She wants to be a midwife, she wants to document nature, she wants to fight for the conservation of wolves and other wildlife. The wild girl tamed by a gentle silver flame of a girl, who is more than willing to spend hours in the damp autumn woods with her. This is the girl who can’t wait to grow up so that she can make a difference in this world.