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In every culture there is a being/s relating to death In #GreekMythology it is #Thanatos others believe in the #GrimReaper these #deities are a helping hand to souls leaving the mortal world and their role is to escort This is different in #Japanese Mythology and #Religion 1/2
3. The #SeelieQueen from the @ShadowhunterBks by @cassieclare. She is the cool and collected ancient beauty who rules #Faerie with immense power and she one of my favourite mythological favourite characters from all of the books.
#FolkloreThursday 4/5
2. Gwyn Ap Nudd is a #Welsh #mythological figure, the king of the Tylwyth Teg or "fair folk" and ruler of the Welsh #Otherworld, #Annwn, and whose name means “Gwyn, son of Nudd
#FolkloreThursday 3/5
In #GreekMythology #Astraea was the #goddess of #innocence In the #IronAge she left earth and became the constellstion #Virgo upon witnessing the evils of humanity when #Pandora opened the box Astraea will come back one day bringing with her the return of the utopian #GoldenAge
Helle was a daughter of the cloud nymph Nephele.Her stepmother Ino tricked Athamas into giving the children Helle and Phrixos as a sacrifice to the gods,Nephele sent the flying,golden-fleeced ram to the rescue.Helle grew weary and fell off the beast into the sea
#FairyTaleTuesday
1. #Bastet is the #Egyptian goddess of #Cats, the #home, #domesticity, women's #secrets, #fertility, and #childbirth. She #protected the home from evil spirits and disease, especially diseases associated with women and children.
#InternationalCatDay 2/6
In #Japanese #Mythology one of the most powerful #gods is Amaterasu-Ōmikami often called #Amaterasu, the #goddess of the #sun. Her name means Great Goddess or Great Spirit Who Shines in the Heavens she is also referred to as Ōhiru-menomuchi-no-kami
#KeepingClassicsalive #Folkore
3. In #GreekMythology the 12 Olympians: #Zeus, #Poseidon, #Hera, #Athena, #Aphrodite, #Ares, #Hephaestus, #Demeter, #Apollo, #Dionysus and #Artemis along with other #gods such as #Eris live up and down the #mountain called #Olympus #FairyTaleTuesday 4/4
2. In #RomanMythology the hunter #Actaeon came across the #goddess #Diana/#Artemis bathing naked in the #woods. Knowing he had seen her naked, Diana turned Actaeon into a stag and had his own 50 greyhounds rip him apart. #FairyTaleTuesday 3/4
1. In #GreekMythology, #Poseidon watched as the 50 #Nereids danced by the #sea. He took a liking to #Amphitrite who ran from him to the far ends of the earth. The #god Delphin tracked her down and persuaded her to marry Poseidon and become queen of the sea. #FairyTaleTuesday 2/4