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It's the / Sol's Day / ! ☀️

"Golden Titan [Helios the Sun], whose eternal eye with matchless sight illuminates all the sky. Native, unwearied in diffusing light, and to all eyes the object of delight."
Orphic Hymn 8 to Helios

🏛️ Roman silver and gold finger ring, circa 2nd century CE

It's the / Jupiter's Day / Thorsday! ⚡

"And Zeus, when Prometheus had taken fire and given it to men, put him in chains."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.15.2

🏛️ Zeus and Ganymedes in The Theft of Fire by Christian Griepenkerl, 1878 CE

A late Day of Hermes and post 🐏

"Hear me, Hermes, messenger of Zeus, son of Maia.
Almighty is your heart, O lord of the deceased and judge of contests.
Gentle and clever, O Argeiphontes, you are a guide whose sandals fly,
And a man-loving prophet to mortals.
You are vigorous and you delight in exercise and in deceit."
Orphic Hymn 28

🏛 on a roof in Chalkis, Euboea, Greece
📸 Herbert List, 1937


«Quiero el rostro de doncella y el cuerpo de ave, como escribió Virgilio sobre las arpías, con "manos que se hacen garras". Quiero la lujuria y la repulsión. Quiero tener una carcasa de porcelana y ser un amasijo de carne. Quiero ser temida y admirada, conjurar la muerte en mi pecho y la vida en mi vientre.»

Extracto de "Me dibujaron así: Por qué el mundo odia la feminidad", de @nlopeztrujillo.

Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️

"You cruel child of guileful Aphrodite, whom she bore to Ares."
Stesichorus, Fragment 575

🏛 restrained by Cupid by John Gibson, 1786-1866, Chatsworth House, Derybshire