In some Welsh folklore, the fairies treat corgis as their version of horses - riding them, having them pull carts, putting them to work on the fairy farms. The greatest corgis are the ones who carry the fairy knights into battle.
🎨 Sandara #FolkloreSunday#Superstitiology#mythology#folklore#fairy#Celtic#Wales
A magnificent marble bust of #Helios, the ancient Greek sun god, that was unearthed at the ancient Agora of Athens in 1970. The holes were used for the attachment of a sun ray crown.
🎨 2nd century CE, Ancient Agora Museum. #Athens, Greece
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
#Mercurius and #Hermes are not only the messengers of the gods, but the gods of merchants and thieves as well. Here, Mercurius is depicted with his winged hat holding a purse to signify his connection with wealth & success in business.
🏛️ Hermes-Mercurius, Roman bronze figurine, dated 1st-3rd century CE, private collection
To the right, the #elemental figures of Ignis (fire) and Aer (air) - the other two #elements are on the following page.
From the #16thCentury#pageantbook showing the 8 #pageants held for the Christening of Princess Elisabeth of Hesse in 1596.
Bavarian State Library: Cod.icon. 340.
"And there grew up from the watery wave this island, and great Helios who begets the fierce rays of the sun, holds her in his dominion, that ruler of the horses breathing fire.
There long ago he lay with Rhodes and begot seven sons, endowed beyond all men of old with genius of thoughtful mind."
Pindar, Olympian Ode 7
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"He [#Zeus] made a golden eagle for his war standards and consecrated it to the might of his protection, whereby also among the Romans, standards of this kind are carried."
Fulgentius, Mythologiarum Libri III
🏛️ Roman marble sculpture of Zeus-Iupiter, #AsiaMinor, 2nd - 3rd century CE
Greetings, myth lovers! Join us next #Monday on #WorldEmojiDay and tell us a #myth using only emojis 😯 ☺️ 💖 and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
Put the full story in the reply and let's have fun guessing each other's myths, all right? 🤩
Your host @AimeeMaroux is looking forward try and guess your myths! 😚
It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏
Marble sculpture of #Hermes. After rediscovery in 1771 near #Rome, he was displayed at Lansdowne House in London. The sculpture's right leg and the palm tree originally came from a different ancient statue.
🏛️ Lansdowne Hermes, 2nd century CE Roman copy of a 4th century BCE Greek original, today in the Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Fun #astronomy fact I just noticed: the constellation #Ophiuchus, the "snake bearer", is named al-Hawwa (حواء) in Arabic, which is derived from (and the Arabic form of) the Hebrew proper name Heva (חוה), i.e. Eve, who, well, has a certain connection to snakes.
This appears to be a case where a loanword was adopted specifically to take advantage of a metonymic semantic shift. #mythology#language
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