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In Greek myth, Tantalus, a rich, tyrannical king, of Sipylus, was exiled to Hades by Zeus for plotting to serve his own son at a great feast with the gods. He was sentenced to be thirsty and hungry for eternity despite standing in water and close to fruit trees.

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2022-12-27

If you're going to be involved in a Stag situation, best it be a jam session than the Hunt - because in every version of that myth, the result is doom.


by Pauhami

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2022-12-20

Draw the magic dolphins of Queen Amphitrite. The Ancient Greek Activity Book

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2022-12-20

Melinoë was probably an Orphic title for the goddess Hekate who was also a leader of ghosts and sometimes described as the daughter of Persephone.

It makes sense Hekate is Melinoe's mentor in

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2022-12-20

In some endings to the King Arthur legend, after the battle of Camlann/Salisbury Plain, nine fairy queens appear to take Arthur to Avalon where he will sleep until his homeland needs him again.

🖼️Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone
📔Lancelot of the Lake, 1966

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2022-12-12

In the private cabin of his flagship, Llefelys, Prince Consort of Gaul, considers the problem brought to him by his brother, Lludd, High King of Britain.

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2022-12-06

Looks like dear scores high in the Butter and Pretty Dresses department..

https://t.co/7ZoP52iXfC

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2022-12-06


As people of 4 counties in could not agree with their limits, an old woman appeared, pointed to a place with her stick and proposed to put a cross there as a boundary stone. It is called "Cruz do Pau da Vella", and she is believed to be buried under it.

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2022-12-05


Fusang désigne dans l’ancienne mythologie chinoise un arbre situé au-delà de la mer orientale. Les dix « corbeaux d’or » , fils de la déesse Xihe y résident. Chaque jour un soleil s’élève, traverse le ciel et va se reposer sur un autre arbre situé à l’ouest.

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2022-11-22

"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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2022-11-21


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.

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2022-11-21

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

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2022-11-21

Darklings!

A new week beckons, lights are still on, blue bird is still... alive and should open your lore & books week tomorrow, while flutters through the November gloom, quotes sombrely (for too) and RTs your dark gems!

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2022-11-21

- 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

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2022-11-14

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)

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2022-11-14

In chochin obake (lantern ghost) is a paper or silk lantern that has transformed into a 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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2022-11-07

🌿🌗🌿Ancient hollow Yews - living doorways between the present, the past and a mythic reality, where longbows and silver-tipped arrows are your only defence...

📚Books back in stock!
https://t.co/aXWYbm57Vf

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2022-11-06

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

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2022-11-01

Traditionally at 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.

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