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This week's #MythologyMonday theme is overthrow of the old order, a theme that recurs in #GreekMythology. It all starts with Ouranos, the Sky, who first ruled he cosmos. Every night he came to Gaia, the Earth, to make love to her and they had many children, the titans.
Bastet interfering with Set's evil plan of locking his brother Osiris in a box 😸
Stick-gods by Inonibird
https://t.co/D4d09F3KpV
#Caturday #Egyptian
"He [Magnes of Thessalia] had a son of remarkable beauty, Hymenaios. And when Apollon saw the boy, he was seized with love for him, and would not leave the house of Magnes."
Hesiod, The Great Eoiae Fragment 16
#PrideMonth
Art by Xanness:
https://t.co/Wi67lribzp
"When sent by Polydectes, son of Magnes, to the Gorgones, he received from Mercurius [Hermes], who is thought to have loved him, talaria and petasus, and, in addition, a helmet which kept its wearer from being seen by an enemy."
Pseudo-Hyginus, Astronomica 2.12
Art by a-gnosis
"Having kissed Apollon, Branchos received a garland and a wand of laurel and began to prophesy."
Varro, Antiquitates rerum divinarum
#PrideMonth
Nobody knows what the colossus looked like. But the popular image of him straddling the harbour with ships passing underneath is a medieval invention. The bronze statue could not have been built with its legs apart without collapsing under its own weight.
#Solstice