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.
(Imagined dialogue) "Helios! Did you let Phaethon borrow the chariot AGAIN?!?! What have you done?!?! Zeus is not going to be happy about this happening again, and we're going to have to take the chariot back in for repairs!" #PostcardsFromTheAnthropocene#hatwave#greece
In Greek mythology, #Phaethon was the son of #Helios, the sun #god. One day, Phaeton asked his father to drive the chariot of the sun of through the heavens for a single day. Like many a new teenage driver, Phaeton was unable to control the horses of the sun chariot (too much horsepower), which came too near the earth and began to scorch it. As a result, law enforcement (i.e. Zeus) hurled a thunderbolt at Phaethon, and cause him to crash his chariot into the river. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Phaethon-Greek-mythology
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
"We came soon enough to the lovely island of #Helios. Here were the fine broad-browed herds, here were the plentiful fat flocks of Hyperion [Helios]."
Homer, Odyssey 12. 261
🎨 Helios and #Odysseus depicted on an oil lamp, Antikensammlung #Munich
"She [Gaia] prayed to the Titan #Helios with submissive voice: she begged of him one red hot ray, that with its heating fire she might melt the petrified water of Zeus, by pouring his kindred radiance over frozen Typhon."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 2. 543
🎨 Roman silver relief of Sol from Pessinus in Anatolia, dated 3rd century CE. Today in the British Museum.
"Helios (the Sun), who is watchman of both gods and men [...] You [Helios] with your beams look down from the bright upper air (aitheros) over all the earth and sea."
Homeric Hymn 2 to Demeter
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
🪷 28 July is Pythia day, honoring the Oracle of #Delphi which #Antinous saw in 128 AD. He probably looked similar to this #Apollo-#Helios figure by #FredericLeighton. Today is a good day to try scrying and light incense in memory of the women who were #Delphic priestesses. 🪷
"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
Four steeds pull the chariot bearing the sun god #Helios, surrounded by the 12 signs of the zodiac. Helios and the zodiac appear in at least seven synagogues from about 400 to 500 CE.
🎨 Floor #mosaic in the ancient Sepphoris Synagogue, Israel. Photo: Gabi Laron/Courtesy Zeev Weiss.
"And there the children of dark #Nyx (Night) have their dwellings, #Hypnos (Sleep) and #Thanatos (Death), awful gods. Glowing #Helios (the #Sun) never looks upon them with his beams, neither as he goes up into heaven, nor as he comes down from heaven."
Hesiod, Theogony 758
🎨 Detail of Sol Invictus on a Roman marble relief.
"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.