Greetings, myth lovers! Join @AimeeMaroux for today's theme: Pumpkins. Which myths feature pumpkins, gourds or squashes? Tell us a the myth & tag #MythologyMonday with your #pumpkin lore. See you #Monday! 🎃
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is work.
Four deities spring to my mind when I think of work: #Demeter, #Hermes, #Hephaistos, and #Athena. #AncientGreece was an agricultural society with 80% of the population being involved in this line of work. In Greek mythology, it was Demeter who invented agriculture but according to Diodorus Siculus she burnt all the grain when her daughter #Persephone vanished out of grief and anger.
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: What is called in other lands the will-o’-the-wisp, a light seen over bogs at night, was said in #Ireland to be a lantern carried by a dead gambler called Tine Ghealáin. Jack-o-Lantern was doomed to wander forever because, although his soul was too stained to enter heaven, he had won his way out of hell by beating the devil at cards. His name was applied to the hollowed-out turnips (in the New World, pumpkins) used at #Samhain, when the veils between the worlds were thin. Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore`
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is healing. The God of Healing is #Apollon but there are other gods who share in a subset of his power. Apollon's son #Asklepios famously brought dead people back to life. Deified after his untimely death by Zeus' thunderbolt, he received a cult of his own, the Temples of Asklepios serving as hospitals. Asklepios had children of his own, among them Panacea (Cure-all), and Hygieia (Health).
But he is not the only healing god associated with Apollon.
There are many famous revenge stories in #GreekMythology but none so impressive to young Aimée as Euripides' version of #Medea. In the Argonautika, #Hera asks #Aphrodite to make Medea fall in love with Iason to ensure her aid to obtain the golden fleece. After betraying her own family, Medea leaves with the Argonauts, helping them not only with the golden fleece but also with Talos, the bronze automaton built by #Hephaistos to protect the island of #Crete.
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:
Red hair was said to be a sign of witchcraft in Christian Europe, and was often enough for a witch finder to pronounce guilt on someone. The Malleus Maleficarum identifies witches as having red hair and green eyes. #MythologyMonday
Greetings, myth lovers! Join us on #Monday for the theme #mirrors in #mythology. Which myths feature mirrors, both crafted and natural? Tell us a story in your toot and tag us, using the hashtag #MythologyMonday. See you tomorrow!
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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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! 😚
#MythologyMonday: While in Judeo-Christian cosmology heaven is usually seen as the abode of the dead and of the divine forces, the #Celts located both in the #Otherworld, which could be found out to sea, under a hill, or in an invisible universe parallel to ours, but never in the sky.
Source: P. Monaghan Encyclopedia of #Celtic #Mythology and #Folklore
RT @lorraineelizab6
Irish mythology Otherworld: Tír na nÓg (Land of the Young), Tír na hÓige (Land of Youth), Tír Tairngire (Land of Promise), Tír fo Thuinn (Land under the Wave), Mag Mell (Plain of Delight), Ildathach (Multicoloured place) & Emain Ablach (Isle of Apple Trees)! 🎨? #MythologyMonday
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: The words of #Niamh of the Golden Hair sparked in Oisin a irresistible craving to live with her in the #Otherworld:
“Delightful is the land beyond all dreams,
Fairer than aught thine eyes have ever seen.
There all the year the fruit is on the tree,
And all the year the bloom is on the flower.
There with wild honey drip the forest trees;
The stores of wine and mead shall never fail.
...“
Source: Dru Magus „#Myths and #legends of the #Celtic race“
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! 💖
I'm a little late to the game but this week's #MythologyMonday theme is beaches. A famous beach from #GreekMythology is #Paphos on the island of #Cyprus. When Ouranos was castrated by his son Kronos, his genitals were cast into the sea where they gave birth to #Aphrodite. Paphos was the place where Aphrodite first set foot from the sea and it became her most important cult centre.
In Ireland, it was believed that women and men with red hair had an affinity or connection with the Sidhe, and they would be treated very suspiciously due to this. #mythologymonday
#Celtic#MythologyMonday: Following the defeat of the Fomorians by the Tuatha Dé Danann in the Second Battle of Mag Tuired, #Badb sings a prophecy celebrating the victory and a time of peace:
„Peace up to heaven.
Heaven down to earth.
Earth beneath heaven,
Strength in each,
A cup very full,
Full of honey;
Mead in abundance.
Summer in winter...“
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badb