Susan C Wilson 📚 Clytemnestra’s Bind - out now!さんのイラストまとめ

1) Jealous of her beauty, Venus told Cupid to make Psyche fall in love with someone ugly. Instead Cupid fell in love with Psyche. He warned her not to light a lamp during his nightly visits. But, curious to see what he looked like, she disobeyed and he left her.
#MythologyMonday

In Greek myth, Atreus and Thyestes fought bitterly over the Mycenaean throne. Sometimes one brother triumphed, sometimes the other. At one point, Thyestes said Atreus could have it if the sun rose in the west and set in the east - which by divine aid happened. #MythologyMonday

Medea flying from Corinth in a dragon chariot sent by Helios, god of the sun. #MythologyMonday

Bats flying playfully or before twilight are considered a sign of good weather to come. #FolkloreThursday

Odysseus took 10 years to reach home after the 10-year Trojan war, suffering shipwrecks and such monsters as the man-eating Cyclops. Meantime, his wife Penelope held off suitors by refusing to remarry till she‘d woven a shroud, which she partly undid each night. #MythologyMonday

Taliesin (‘radiant brow’) is the earliest known historical Welsh bard (6th c). Legend has it, he gained his gift when he put his scalding thumb to his mouth after 3 drops splashed on it from the Cauldron of Inspiration. #FolkloreThursday

🎨 The Bard by Thomas Jones

When Zeus took fire away from humans, the Titan Prometheus carried it back from Zeus’ hearth in a fennel stalk. He was punished by being chained to a rock on a mountaintop. Every day an eagle tore out his liver, and by night it grew back. #MythologyMonday

The term ‘a murder of crows’ may originate from the folk belief that crows sat in judgment of those accused of crimes from among their flock. If a ‘defendant’ was found guilty, the flock would kill it. #FolkloreThursday
Art: The Twa Corbies by Arthur Rackham

Georgius Agricola wrote that miners considered forked twigs from hazel trees best for dowsing. ‘The moment they place their feet on a vein the twig turns and twists, and discloses the vein; when they move their feet again the twig becomes once more immobile.”
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#MythologyMonday Mount Killaraus, (sometimes identified with Uisnech, sacred centre of Ireland), was said to be the source of Stonehenge. Geoffrey of Monmouth says Merlin magically exported a stone circle, the Giant’s Round, from there to Mount Ambrius to honour slain warriors.