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"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
It's the Day of Kronos / #SaturnsDay / #Saturday!
Engraving showing a statue of Saturnus standing naked on a socle, holding a scythe in his right hand and a child in his left hand.
After Jacques Jonghelinck, 1586
#DayOfKronos #Kronos #Saturnus #neoclassicism
I have exciting news: I'm only 3 patrons away from the 50 patron reward: sexy postcards!
1x MF: my version of Hades and Persephone by @LindaSejic
1x MMM: Apollon, Dionysos & Hermes by @TheLastBacchae
1x FF: patrons get to vote on who it's gonna be...
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Apollon, Frigg, Tezcatlipoca, and Wadjet 😊
Frigg by Sam Flegal
https://t.co/kCIMHUgyEW
Tezcatlipoca by Manwe Varda
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Wadjet by SillyJelly
https://t.co/zwbD9wAZH8
#MythologyMonday #Mythology
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday!
Zeus-Jupiter on a 62–79 CE fresco from Pompeii
Today in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli
#DayOfZeus #Zeus #Jupiter
As Ouranos embraced Gaia, Kronos took his mother's great sickle and swiftly lopped off his father's genitals and threw them away to fall into the sea.
After his castration, Ouranos came no more to cover Gaia at night, but held his place above her, and their mating came to an end.