A journey of the Soul in an ancient Greek ritual manual:
"Draw in breath from the rays and you will see yourself being lifted up and ascending to the height so that you seem to be in midair:
And you will see all immortal things."
From the "Mysteries of Helios-Mithras" in a 4th century magical papyrus
Eine auf Medienrecht spezialisierte Anwaltskanzlei versucht seit Jahren, dieses Foto aus dem Internet zu bekommen. Aus den Google-Suchergebnissen ist es bereits weitestgehend verschwunden.
"Grant, oh, grant that I ride through the air in my father's car; give me the reins, O sire, give me the right to guide your fire-bearing steeds with the flaming reins; then let Corinth [...] be consumed by flames and bring the two seas together."
Seneca, Medea 28
🏛 Helios-Sol, Roman marble decoration, 3rd century CE, Terme di Diocleziano, #Rome
King Minos of #Crete was married to Pasiphaë, daughter of #Helios, the Sun. After he had been unfaithful several times, she cursed #Minos so he couldn't have sex with mortal women because he would ejaculate snakes, scorpions, and millipedes. As a goddess, #Pasiphaë herself remained unbothered when she slept with her husband. The Athenian girl Prokris overcame the spell by essentially inventing the #condom in the form of a goat's bladder.
Meet this Roman gold and silver finger ring depicting the sun god Sol-Helios!
The relief shows the face of Helios in silver on a golden background. His seven-spiked sun-ray crown is also golden.
Meet this spectacular statue of #Helios that was part of the ancient marine cargo of a merchant ship that sank during the Late Roman period (400 CE): the statues look as though they were cast yesterday rather than 1,600 years ago!
🏛 Figurine of the sun god #Sol-Helios, found in the port of Caesarea, Israel.
A walk is always improved by knowing that there is a cat that will be waiting for you to pass by.
This pretty thing sits in her drive (sometimes under the back of the car if it's parked there) waiting for me (?) to pass by on my way home from my walk. She never moves towards me, nor did she back away as I approached her with my camera.
#Selene driving her moon chariot, here shown as a team of four horses. She has a shining aureola around her head and the reins and her riding crop in hand. She is followed by her brother #Helios, the fish around them suggesting that one is descending and the other rising.
🏛️ Canosa, Italy, ca. 330 – 310 BCE; now at Munich, Antikensammlung
Bilety 🎫 do kin w całej Polsce będą kosztować tylko 1️⃣2️⃣ PLN.
To idealny czas, aby dołączyć do magicznego świata #film.u. W repertuarze znajdą się najnowsze premiery jak:
Piła X,
Doppelganger. Sobowtór,
Twórca,
Moje wielkie greckie wesele 3. oraz filmy z bieżącego repertuaru:
Zielona granica,
Duchy w Wenecji,
Kosmici w mojej szkole, - Niezniszczalni 4,
Strzępy,
Teściowie 2,
After 5. Na zawsze.
To już 8 edycja Święta Kina, przy okazji którego środowisko kinowe (sieci kinowe: #CinemaCity, #Helios oraz #Multikino we współpracy ze Stowarzyszeniem Kin Studyjnych oraz Stowarzyszeniem „Kina Polskie”) łączy siły i wspólnie tworzy to wyjątkowe wydarzenie pod patronatem Polskiego Instytutu Sztuki Filmowej. #Promocja
Engraved Stone Ball (Magic Sphere?) with #Helios and magical symbols. Discovered in 1866 at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, near the remains of the Theatre of Dionysos.
🎨 Marble sphere, dated 2nd-3rd centuries CE. Today in the #Athens Acropolis Museum.
So, wieder voll aus dem Urlaub in #Italien zurück. Jetzt gilt es erstmal die ganzen #52WochenFotoChallenge nachzuholen. Habe Fotos zu den Mottos gemacht, konnte sie aber nicht bearbeiten und hochladen.
Mosaic of #Helios, #Selene and the 12 labours of the months. The Sun and the Moon are in the centre with the 12 labours arranged around them. Each of the labourers is labelled at the feet with the number of days as well as the Latin name of the month in Greek letters.
🏛️ Roman era #mosaic dated 6th century CE, Beit She'an, Israel
"Phaethon [#Helios] laughed, because #Ares in the seafight of [#Dionysos against the Indians] had fled again before the fire of #Hephaistos, as once before he fled from his chains."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 39.403
🎨 Helios (possibly Alexander of Macedon) bronze bust, 1st century CE.
That Lobsters post about Ares is absolutely awful. Based on knowing nothing of the project whatsoever the response is an immediate dismissal and an expression of "disappointment" at the fact that such a project even has the audacity to exist in a language other than Rust and/or is written by the big bad witch himself.
I've been using Rust for @ 5yrs, but have started seeing flaws. Pointing them out got me the pitchfork and torches routine on HN and Lobse.rs.
At the same time, I've been exploring simpler tools. I've gotten reacquainted with C, and I'm loving it. And I'm also loving Hare. You made a lot of really smart tradeoffs in it's design. In fact I'm idling in the #hare and #helios IRC channels most days just out of curiosity.