Welcome back everyone! This is your host @independentpen and our topic this week is EQUINOX. Toot a tale from world mythology about the changing season (put the story in the body of your toot), tag it #MythologyMonday, and I'll boost all day in Pacific time!
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is trees 🌲
Many stories in #GreekMythology have trees in it, some of which I will be telling in this thread.
The most famous tree-related myth must be the transformation of Daphne. Hit with Eros' fiery arrows, #Apollon was burning with desire for the nymph and pursued her when she fled from his advances. Feeling her strength wane, Daphne prayed for help from either her father or Gaia and was turned into the first laurel tree.
The oak is the favored tree of thunder gods all over the world, such as Zeus, Thor, and Perun. This is due in part to the oak's strength and power, but also because it is more often struck by lightning than other trees due to its height and high moisture content.
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Hi, Myth Lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: #Trees. Which myths feature trees? Write up a story & tag #MythologyMonday with your tree lore tweets. See you Monday! 🌳
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First time participating on this forum 🤞
The Weaver Girl of Chinese mythology was separated from her beloved Cowherd by her Grandmother - who created the Milky Way to keep the star-crossed lovers apart. Eventually the Grandmother relented enough to allow them to meet once a year - when Magpies formed a bridge to reunite them. @mythologymonday#Magpies#MilkyWay
Tell us the #myth in a toot and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts! If you are participating for the first time, best tag us too so we won't miss your toot! 💖
@TarkabarkaHolgy One of my friends is planning a story in which Mestra and Autolykos and friends go on a heist!
I do hope she actually writes it, it would be so cool!
#MythologyMonday: King Cathaír Mór had a dream, in which a woman was pregnant an unduly long time, finally giving birth to a son near a fragrant, singing fruit tree. His #druid explained to Cathaír that the lady was the River Slaney that ran near Tara, her child the harbor at its mouth, and the singing tree the king himself.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and Folklore
The River Slaney, Irish National Heritage Park in Wexford, photocredit 1. NeuKelte
Hello, myth lovers! Join us for Monday's theme: Time Travel. Which myths feature time traveling? Write out a story and use the hashtag #MythologyMonday. See you soon! ⏱️⏱️⏱️
@juergen_hubert@mythologymonday@mythology@folklore not aware of such a scenario either.
While lost in the quicken, it may be a heavily accelerated or slowed (aging not necessarily) passing of time, but yet advancing to the future
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is fire and there are two major Greek gods associated with fire: #Hestia, goddess of the hearth, and #Hephaistos, god of smiths.
They represent #fire in two different forms: the sacrificial flame of the hearth as the sacred centre of domestic life and the flame of Hephaistos, source of all arts, and fuel of the funeral pyre. But both could be invoked for the cooking of sacrificial meat or a good meal:
No fire meant a disruption of all normal life for nine days: no regular meals like bread or porridge, no incense to burn for the gods, the hearth and thus the centre of every community and household is dead - until new life arrives from the sea.
#Hephaistos, it is said, loves #Lemnos "more than any place on earth". According to the Illiad, it was on Lemnos where Hephaistos landed after being thrown from Olympos by his father #Zeus and it is on Lemnos where he has his forge.
The myth of his fall from Olympos can also be read as an allegory:
#Hephaistos (fire) arrives on Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of #Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.
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Welcome back everyone! This week our theme is FIRES. Share a tale from world mythology in the body of your toot, tag it #MythologyMonday, and your host @independentpen will RT all day in Pacific time
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is artworks featuring mythology. There are, of course, countless depictions of mythological scenes from ancient times. Some myths, in fact, are ONLY known through artwork, for example the drinking contest between #Herakles and #Dionysos.
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There are quite a lot of artworks I love that were made in our modern day, especially from independent creators who just love #mythology. It is impossible to pick just one so here are four of my favourite artworks from contemporary artists.
@aurochs No, it was very much not a thing. The Greeks saw it as mutilation since the beauty standard was a long, tapered foreskin. The Romans even put the death penalty on circumcision one time.
The ancient Egyptians, however, did practice a form of circumcision.