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#MythologyMonday "It is vowed that the birds are psychopomps lying in wait for the souls of the dying, and that they time their eerie cries in unison with the sufferer's struggling breath" - H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
🎨Frej Agelii, Psychopomp's Song
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Irish myth tells of Étaín loved by the fairy king Midir. Fúamnach, his wife turns her into a pool of water, a worm, & butterfly. She falls into the wine goblet of Étar’s wife who drinks it & becomes pregnant. Étaín is reborn, 1012 years after her first birth.
THE OWL SERVICE was born when Alan Garner found plates the design of which could be seen as either owls or flowers. It draws on the MABINOGION; Celtic wizard Gwydion creates a woman out of flowers, Blodeuedd, who becomes a flower-faced owl #MythologyMonday #OwlishMonday
Darklings!
A new week beckons, lights are still on, blue bird is still... alive and #MythologyMonday should open your lore & books week tomorrow, while #ofdarkandmacabre flutters through the November gloom, quotes sombrely (for #bookchatweekly, too) and RTs your dark gems!
#MythologyMonday - People in Iceland build amazing little houses for the race of the Hidden People, known as the Huldofolk. It is believed these tiny beings have magical powers and protect the island. https://t.co/rq6KHIe4tO
Torii gates are the boundary between the regular, human world and holy ground. Usually they are at the entrance of Japanese Shrines which are sanctuaries for spirits or deities.
🖼️ Chuan Shin (Insta: shindesigns1) #MythologyMonday #Japan
In #JapaneseFolklore, chochin obake (lantern ghost) is a paper or silk lantern that has transformed into a #yokai after many years of service. It has one or two eyes and a long tongue protruding from a split in the lantern that forms a mouth.
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🌿🌗🌿Ancient hollow Yews - living doorways between the present, the past and a #DeeperOlderDarker mythic reality, where longbows and silver-tipped arrows are your only defence...
#SuperstitionSat #FolkloreSunday #MythologyMonday
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#MythologyMonday Hekate is goddess of the crossroads. Hekate means ‘worker from afar-’ as in spellwork. Only she & Hermes could visit the Underworld at will, but her story goes back way before the Greeks, to Anatolia and the Sumerians who knew her as Innana, Queen of The Heavens
Through the River Styx 🦇
(Art by Sanskarans)
#MythologyMonday #Halloween
Traditionally at #Halloween benign ancestors were honoured & invited into the home. Special food was prepared in their honour & a place set at the table, while apples were often buried near the front door as an offering to the dead as they came through the veil. #MythologyMonday
Narcissus is a beautiful young man who rejects all admirers,
until one day, he sees his own reflection in a pool and instantly
falls in love. Narcissus dies gazing at his own reflection,
heartbroken that his love cannot be returned.
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Waterhouse
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The classic vampire is quite different from most modern vampires; they were mindless beasts who ran on all fours and turned into swarms of moths. They do have some modern vampires traits though, like sucking blood and being weak to silver and holy symbols.
In human eyes (and most mammals’ & birds’) the iris controls the size of the pupil & the amount of light reaching the retina. Eye colour is defined by the iris. It is named thus after the Greek goddess of the rainbow, who served as a messenger of the gods.
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September's mythological coloring page was Wolpertinger! I cannot resist a bunny shaped monster lol. Took inspiration on their coloration from the black grouse which have really epic plumage
#Wolpertinger #Mythology #Rabbit #Folklore #MythologyMonday
Athena turning Arachne into a spider was done out of pity: she had not meant for Arachne to hang herself after the goddess destroyed her flawless tapestry and loom, better than her own. Many, however, take this as a curse. #MythologyMonday
🖼: G. Dore
@MythologyMonday @AimeeMaroux Anansi Stories became the Old Brer Rabbit Stories. #MythologyMonday
In #JapaneseFolklore Tsuchigumo (earth spider) is a gigantic spider #yokai. It is believed that long-lived spiders can gain supernatural powers and become yokai whereupon they grow to enormous sizes. They live in forests or mountain caves...
#MythologyMonday #ayokaiaday
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Uttu, the Mesopotamian goddess of weaving, taught mortal women to weave, ushering in a new era in which humans less often froze to death or burned in the sun. Her name means woven in Sumerian & resembles the Akkadian word for spider, ettūtu. #MythologyMonday
