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Erotic Mythology 🌹

It's the #DayOfZeus / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"If anyone blame me because, a skilled servant of Eros, I go to the chase, my eyes armed with birdlime to catch ladies, let him know that #Zeus and #Hades and the Lord of the Sea [#Poseidon] were slaves of violent desire. If the gods are such and they bid men follow their example, what wrong do I do in learning their deeds?"
Anthologia Graeca, Epigram 5.100

🏛️ #Jupiter, Roman intaglio

@antiquidons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology

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The hyacinths are thrusting up through the soil, the gayest flower of the early spring season. They're named after Greek hero and Spartan prince, Hyacinthus. Renown for his beauty, he was a lover of the West and North Winds, and later Apollo.

He tragically died while playing discus, when he chased after Apollo's throw and it bounced back and hit him in the head. An accident, or the influence of the jealous West Wind, Zephyrus?

Where his blood fell to the ground, Apollo raised flowers to honor him. He was defied and buried at the feet of Apollo's temple, and his cult was widespread. There is some evidence he was actually a pre-Hellenic cthonic deity of vegetation and sorrow, who was later merged with the cult of Apollo.

Though our modern day hyacinths are not the same as the ancient Greek's, which were closer to irises, every year I still appreciate these cthonic, phallic flowers when they arrive to signal spring.

#Pagan#Mythology#bloomscrolling
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“When the Soul Becomes Software, Is Reincarnation Just an Update?”

Does the karmic cycle of rebirth lose mystery in a digital frame—or does it finally reveal its logic as the ultimate recursion of unfinished becoming?

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#dreams #surrealism #digitalArt #photography #lucidloom #monochrome #noire #philosophy #mythology #psychology #esotericism

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“Is God Still God If Becoming Never Stops?”

If divinity is in process, does omnipotence evolve too—or is the highest form of power the ability to change without needing to?

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#dreams #surrealism #digitalArt #photography #lucidloom #monochrome #noire #philosophy #mythology #psychology #esotericism

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My wife and our friend found an ancient Shintō shrine full of lore that was nevertheless deserted on a busy weekend in Kyōto. Konoshima Jinja (木嶋神社) or Kaiko no Yashiro (蚕の社) features a rare three-legged torii gate, symbolizing stability and a connection between the spiritual and physical realms. Going back as far as the beginning of the 8th Century, considerably before Kyōto became the capital, the shrine is mainly dedicated to silkworms, as silk has played an important cultural role in Kyōto's history.

The three-legged torii gate also alludes to the three-legged crow Yatagarasu (八咫烏), regarded as a divine messenger. Important Kyōto shrines like Yasaka Jinja and Kamigamo Jinja along with the Imperial family have associated themselves with the Yatagarasu, yet I found that the cult actually goes back to Chinese and Korean mythology.

Hidden Christians appropriated the 3-legged torii as the Trinity.

#Japan #Kyoto #Shinto #religion #mythology #architecture #history @religion @mythology

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“The End That Never Ends: If Eschaton Is Process, What Is the Purpose of Arrival?”

Religions await an end—a final reconciliation. But if the end is just a pivot in process, what then is the eschaton? Not an end, but a turning—toward deeper becoming.

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Erotic Mythology 🌹

This week's #MythologyMonday theme is time. The personification of time in #GreekMythology is Chronos (Χρονος), not to be confused with Kronos (Κρονος), the dad of Zeus and his siblings. The conflation of the two occurred in antiquity but became more widespread during the Renaissance, which is why Father Time wields the harvesting scythe of Kronos in modern iconography. In Orphism he is a two-sexed deity born from Hydros (water) and Gaia (earth).

@mythology #mythology

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