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7. #Anubis is the #Egyptian #god of #mummification and the #afterlife he is the patron god of lost souls. He is one of the oldest gods of #Egypt, who most likely developed from the earlier #jackal god Wepwawet with whom he is confused. #MythologyMonday 8/8
6. #Osiris is the #Egyptian #god of the #Underworld. He also symbolized #death, #resurrection, and the cycle of Nile floods that Egypt relied on for agricultural fertility. #MythologyMonday 7/8
1. #Thanatos the #God of death in #GreekMythology. He is the child of #Nyx and #Erebus and the sibling of #Morpheus. He is similar to the grimm reaper and goes to remove souls from mortals when the Fates/Moirai decide. #MythologyMonday 2/8
Today is #NationalSistersDay so here is a list of my favourite #sisters in #mythology
#Artemis- sister to #Apollo
#Eris- sister to #Ares
#Selene and #Eos- sisters to #Helios
#Helen of #Troy & #Clytemnestra
The #Peliades
The #Moirai/ #Fates
The #Heliades
#keepingClassicsalive
The Odyssey follows the hero Odysseus on his 10 year journey home to #Ithaca from #Troy. He battles the #Cyclopes #Polyphemus and is kept on Islands by the nymphs #Circe and #Calypso as he attempt to return to his wife #Penelope and son #Telemachus. #FolkloreThursday 3/4
She then flies away in a chariot pulled by dragons.
Gives king Aegeus a child.
Is banished from Athens because of Theseus
Flies back home and finds her father was overthrown by Perseis
Fights Perseis and gives her father his Kingdom back
Never mentioned again
#mythologymonday 3/4
#Hades and #Persephone had 4 kids:
Makaria:goddess of blessed death, the more merciful counterpart of #Thanatos
Melinoe:goddess of #spirits and #ghosts,often confused with #Hecate
Zagreus:god of hunting and #rebirth
Plouton:god of #wealth, where the Roman Pluto comes froms
#Khione/Χιονη was a #Thracian #nymph,the daughter of Boreas and Oreithyia and sister of Cleopatra,Zetes,and Calais. Poseidon got her pregenant with Eumolpus, and in order to conceal this,she threw the boy into the sea; he was saved by Poseidon and Khione became #goddess of #snow
There is a #Kitsune #goddess in #JapaneseMythology. Her name was #Inari and she was also the goddess of #food and #rice.
#FolkloreThursday 3/3
There were 3 judges of the dead who decided where #souls would go:
Aeacus, the guardian of the keys of the #Underworld and the judge of the men of Europe.
Rhadamanthus, the judge of the men of Asia and the lord of the #Elysium.
Minos was the judge who made the final vote. 2/7