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@obsess__possess Zoinks! Looks suspiciously like the Pink Phantom to me 👻

It’s the solstice! Please enjoy some of my favourite derpy suns of the Middle Ages 🌞
1 Uncool and the gang
2 Just another manic sun day
3 No thoughts head empty
4 Had enough of the moon’s shit

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Clytie was a water nymph who loved the sun god. When he rejected her she pined for 9 days until she turned into a flower – originally this was the heliotrope, until the sunflower arrived in European gardens from the Americas in 1510 and changed the story 🌻 #FolkloreThursday

In the Sumerian version of the Flood myth, the god Enlil sends the waters against humans for their sins, drowning all but Ut-napishtim & the passengers on his ark. Angry with Enlil, the goddess Ishtar creates the rainbow as a pledge the gods won’t cause another #FolkloreThursday

Pics by the incomparable Errol Le Cain from his glorious 1978 edition of the tale

Belet-Seri, also known as ‘Queen of the Desert’ and ‘Scribe of the Earth’, served the Mesopotamian queen of the underworld, Ereshkigal. She recorded the deeds of mortals so that they could be judged. Be careful: she’s making a list, and checking it twice… #FolkloreThursday

No wonder the Wild Hunt makes so much noise. Depending on where you ask it includes the fae, the undead, King Arthur, Gwyn ap Nudd, the Yell Hounds, King Herod, the Angel Gabriel, Herodias the witch queen, Odin, and a lawyer called Jan Tregeagle. What a racket #FolkloreThursday

Manticores are supposed to be terrifying man-eating creatures that only a lion can defeat, according to ancient sources quoting Persian, Indian & Greek myth, but according to Aelian, “The sound of their voice is as near as possible that of a trumpet”. Toot toot #FolkloreThursday

In Chinese folklore, pearls are raindrops swallowed by oysters, while in Vedic texts they are created from water & lightning. Swallow a pearl to become a dragon; throw one on a rubbish heap to gain wealth. They are the daughters of the Moon & sacred to Venus #FolkloreThursday

In a Bulgarian tale, the sun, moon & stars were once much closer to the Earth; people used to pick stars as easily as daisies, to use as candles. Once a traveller reached out for the moon herself, but the sun took her in his arms & withdrew into the heavens #FolkloreThursday