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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

This world was not designed for us
And I've been punished, I've been blessed

[Chelsea Wolfe - “Whispers in the Echo Chamber”]

Ilustración de Asteria para las guardas de la edición especial limitada y en tapa dura de "Rojo y Oro", completamente revisada y reescrita por sus autoras Iria G. Parente y Selene M. Pascual, que saldrá a la venta de la mano de la editorial Molino el día 20 de octubre.

It's the Day of Selene / Luna's Day / ! 🌛

"Instead of the wedding torch, Selene (the Moon) sent her beams to attend the wedding."
Nonnus, Dionysiaca 38.135

🏛️ Selene and Endymion , circa 3th century CE

Roger Lancelyn Green wrote children's adaptations of numerous myth cycles, including Greek, Norse, King Arthur, and Robin Hood. He liked to draw on obscure sources, such as Danish medieval histories and Faroe Islands legends for the Norse or minor ballads and plays for Robin Hood.

-- I have so many favorite mythology-themed books!

Here are 2 that share the theme of what "heroes" leave behind and who they are to the people around them:

🗡️ The Shadow of Perseus by Claire Heywood (https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/709004/the-shadow-of-perseus-by-claire-heywood/)

💪 Herc by Phoenicia Rogerson (https://www.harpercollins.com/products/herc-phoenicia-rogerson?variant=43759714598946)

Greetings, Myth Lovers! This Monday we're asking: What is your favourite mythology-themed book? Which adaptations, translations, or transcriptions of myths do you love? Tell us why it's your fave and share a link using the hashtags and for boosts. If joining from : follow @ap.brid.gy so we can interact with your posts. See you on Monday! 📚

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It's the / Sol's Day / ! ☀️

"And Hyperionides [Helios] answered her: 'Queen Demeter, daughter of rich-haired Rheia, I will tell you the truth; for I greatly reverence and pity you in your grief for your trim-ankled daughter. None other of the deathless gods is to blame, but only cloud-gathering Zeus who gave her to Hades.""
Homeric Hymn to Demeter

🏛️ Helios in his quadrige, 320 BCE, Musée du Louvre

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"At the command of Kypris [Aphrodite], Eros once again pours sweetly down and warms my heart."
Alcman, Fragment 59

🏛 Aphrodite with little Eros figure (possibly), Attic red-figure Skyphos attributed to the Shouvalov Painter, Musée du Louvre

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

"Because of his beauty, Zeus kidnapped Ganymedes by means of an eagle, and set him as cupbearer in the sky."
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 3.141

🏛️ Bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus, Late art from Palestrina, Italy