all these stories about how the modern day dionysian ritual is going out and murdering someone in the woods…the true modern day dionysian ritual is drunkenly going to taco bell at 3 am and i dare anyone to tell me otherwise
like. ive never seen dionysus in the woods but i’ve DEFINITELY seen him at taco bell
Fey: Very well. When you return home tonight, your mother will be in pristine health again. It will be like she never fell ill at all. Even the memory of her suffering will fade…
Human: Thank you so much. She means everything to me.
Fey: I know, I know. Let’s hope the price wasn’t too much for you after all… Only time will tell.
There is a difference between a mermaid and a siren.
Sirens are born from violent, watery deaths. Drowning, being murdered at sea, their bodies being thrown in to the water shortly after their deaths, stuff like that. They are the ones that sing to sailors (or anyone) and drag them to their deaths when they get too close. They are born anytime.
Mermaids are born when someone who has a great love for the sea (or any other body of water) dies. These deaths have to be peaceful, though people who commit suicide are sometimes brought back at mermaids. All mermaids are born on either solstices or equinoxes.
“Morpheus is a god associated with sleep and dreams. In Ovid’s Metamorphoses he is the son of Sleep, who appears in dreams in human form. From the medieval period, the name began to stand more generally for the god of dreams, or of sleep.”
“The women of mythology regularly lose their form in monstrosity. Io turns into a heifer, Kallisto becomes a bear, Medusa sprouts snakes from her head and Skylla yelping dogs from her waist. The Sirens and the Sphinx acquire unmatching bestial parts, while Daphne passes into leaf and Pasiphae into a mechanical cow. The Graiai make themselves repellent by sharing one human form amongst them, passing an eye and a tooth back and forth as needed. Salmakis merges her form with that of Hermaphroditos to produce a bisexual monster. The Hydra generates heads as fast as they can be lopped off. And of course the Amazons, as their name (a negative prefix attached to the word for “breast”) implies, owe their fearsomeness to the zeal with which they adapt personal form - their own.”
— Anne Carson, “Putting Her in Her Place: Woman, Dirt, and Desire” (via pinkcupboardwitch)
Inspired by the cycles of nature, the EGYPTIANS saw time in the present as a series of recurring patterns, whereas the earliest periods of time were l i n e a r . Present events repeat the events of myth, and in doing so renew M A A T , the fundamental order of the universe. Amongst the most important episodes from the mythic past are the creation myths, in which the gods form the universe out of primordial c h a o s; the stories of the reign of the sun god Ra upon the earth; and the Osiris myth, concerning the struggles of the gods Osiris, Isis, and Horus against the disruptive god Set.
Amphitrite was the goddess and queen of the sea in Greek mythology. She was said to be one of the fifty Nereids, sea nymphs who were the daughter of Nereus and Doris. She was also the wife of the god of the sea, Poseidon, and mother to his son, Triton and daughters Rhodes and Benthesicyme. Amphitrite was essentially the personification of the sea, as well as the mother of the many beasts that roamed its expanse.
