The Finnish forest gods and their daughters and son.
They are beautiful, adore compliments, and might make you stay as a visitor in their kingdom for forever.
Tag: mythology
Medusa with the Head of Perseus, Luciano Garbati, 2008
I adore how she carries his head low, at her side, and not aloft in triumph. This is not a self-aggrandizing hero lauding her great deed. This is a woman who wanted to be left the fuck alone.
@modernmythsnet | event four | creatures | moral
↳ fae“trouble will find me.”
artemis & orion: for @helenstroy
The goddess turned on Orion, but when she saw how strong and brave and quick and beautiful he was, she was dazzled. Before long they were hunting together, challenging each other to races and archery contests. At night they sat by a fire and told each other stories, and their laughter filled the forest. Soon they were fast friends.
After Medusa saw the Trailer of Ralph Breaks the Internet~
🐍🐍🐍omg she is so cute.
For some reason I do not understand this made me tear up.
g o r g e o u s
what if
when icarus fell
apollo caught him
before he hit the sea,
arms as warm as the sun,
but safer.what if
when ariadne cast the rope
across a broken branch
aphrodite stepped in
with a reminder that this,
this is not the kind of love
you die for.what if
when achilles
was ready for war
ares appeared with a smile
and said “you win well when you win,
but what are you unwilling
to lose if you lose?”
and achilles knew the answer.if you could
retell the tale wouldn’t you want
to tell it kinder? wouldn’t you
want to give them peace, even love,
where you could?
l.s. | I AM TIRED OF RE-WRITING TRAGEDY WITHOUT CHANGE. LET THEM LIVE. LET THEM LEARN. LET THEM LOVE © 2016
this makes me want to cry
First of all, “…they were surrounded on all sides by echoes and images of themselves, in a world where image and object had not yet torn themselves apart” is one of the most poetic phrasings I’ve ever heard.
Second, here’s the original source, “What the caves are trying to tell us” by Sam Kriss.
Third, the original opens with: “Every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave, and show them something unspeakable.”
I had another point, but it got lost in the artful prose of this article.
I feel like “every so often, I get the urge to drag someone into a cave and show them something unspeakable” is something that’s okay for a paleolithic cave art expert to say, but like, absolutely no one else
WHY have I never heard this theory before, that there were paintings elsewhere and we simply don’t have them anymore? I LOVE this idea! It makes so much sense! Like, we have art out in our streets now on walls and buildings. Why wouldn’t ancient people have done the same?
also, you know. there’s better light outside. just sayin’.
mythology family ♥︎ dirae for @cthod
the dirae are the goddesses of vengeance, the roman counterparts of the greek furies/erinyes. the three sisters are called alecto (punisher of moral crimes), megaera (punisher of infidelity, oath breakers, and theft), and tisiphone (punisher of murderers).
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