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#MythologyMonday In Greek Mythology, Apollo, seeking to win love of Cassandra gave her the power of prophecy on condition she bestowed her favors upon him. However, after receiving the gift she went back on her word and he laid a curse on her. https://t.co/AxVXZujRxE
Yacatecuhtli is the Aztec god of commerce & business travelers. His symbol is a bundle of sticks. To honor him, merchants would travel with sticks. At night they'd tie them together & sprinkle them with blood from their ears. This guaranteed success in sales. #MythologyMonday
#MythologyMonday The Cŵn Annwn are a pack of otherworldy white hounds with red-ears from Welsh myth who can be heard running in the sky. Their growling is loudest when they are at a distance, and grows softer as they draw closer. To hear them is often seen as a death portent.
In lieu of multiple posts today I'm going to do one on today's theme. When I've mentioned this story before, people have always asked how it ends, and I'm not sure I've ever said, so today, I'm going to tell that tale: 耳なし芳一
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The Coraniaid were a species of dwarves in Welsh mythology whose ears could hear any sound on the wind. When the Coraniaid invaded Britain, the only way the British King Llud could speak without them overhearing was through a long horn that muffled conversation.
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The spectral #CwnAnnwn - Hounds of Hell - prowl during the hours of darkness collecting the souls of the damned ...... their eerie howls are loud in the distance, but get ever quieter the closer they get to their prey ...
Occultist & self-declared spirit medium, Edward Kelley was rumoured to have been pilloried in Lancaster for forgery or counterfeiting & both ears were supposedly cropped. He notedly wore a cap to hide this disfigurement, though his hair/beard seems to do the job. #MythologyMonday
15/ Iunmutef priest was chief priest of Pharaoh's cult. he wore side-lock of youth & leopard skin #Egyptology #Archaeology #History #ancienthistory #MythologyMonday #Egypt #Egipto #Egypte #Египет #Égypte #Ägypten #Egitto #Αίγυπτος #エジプト #मिस्र #埃及 #埃及 #이집트 #مصر
One of the Pleiades, Taygete, chose to be alone in the mountains. Artemis turned her into a doe to save her from the clutches of Zeus. Solitude by choice for #MythologyMonday
🖼 The Pleiades, Elihu Vedder, 1885.
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In Greek legend, Medusa Ancient "guardian, protectress", was one of the 3 monstrous Gorgons, generally described as winged human females with living venomous snakes in place of hair. She lived a lonely life.Medusa's stare could turn men into stone.
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In “The Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks” a Maasai (Kenya, Tanzania) story, a lonely, cubless lioness claims ostrich’s chicks as her children. No bird or animal in the forest is willing to risk denouncing the lioness…except for mongoose.
🎨: Ib Ohlsson
ELFLAND or Alfheim 'elf-home' is associated with the lonely land of the dead in mythology; no sun, only perpetual twilight. Mortals who enter are only released if they are able to perform some task of value to the fae (Henderson, 1897)🎨 Gustave Doré, 1870 #MythologyMonday
In Greek mythology, Circe was a goddess and enchantress who lived alone on the remote island of Aeaea. She was the daughter of the sun god Helios and nymph Perse. She was banished to live alone after she poisoned the nymph Scylla in a jealous rage...
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This woman seems to be shapeshifting into five creatures all at once. I can't help thinking she's Loki's unknown daughter... There is a haunted look in her eye that makes her seem #lonely... I'd be lonely if I was Loki's daughter...
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#art by Jana Heidersdorf
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An English "Boggart" is a type of Hobgoblin.
Boggarts are mischievous and items may disappear or turn bad such as milk sours,the dog becomes lame or children disappear.
English folklore 1851
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In Welsh folklore mysterious lights known as Canwll Corfe or Corpse Candles were said to hover in the air & were considered to be an omen of death.
The lights would disappear if approached
more detail here: https://t.co/oafdVy7dIR
🖼️: I.Ulyanov
#MythologyMonday - For the gods, Idun's disappearance became fatal. She and her apples kept them young forever, but they quickly became old and powerless without them. https://t.co/JnWibXN4fI
Ovid tells us that the cursed Nymph Echo wasted away for love, disappearing in everything but sound. According to an author from Lesbos, however, it was the god Pan who drove mad a group of men in the fields and had her shredded as he envied her voice and virtue.
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Mermaid (1879) by Konstantin Makovsky (Russian artist, 1839-1915). #Mermaids #MythologyMonday