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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


Marble sculpture of Hermes atop a roof. His upper body is missing but he can be identified by his winged sandals. A himation is draped around him but it goes underneath his bottom, letting us peek at his shapely buttocks.

«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.

Ilustración representando a una arpía de alas de halcón y cabello negro y rizado, que sostiene un espejo en una de sus garras mientras nos mira gozosa, orgullosa, desmesurada y libre. — Illustration depicting a harpy with falcon wings and curly black hair, holding a mirror in one of her claws while looking at us joyfully, proud, excessive, and free.

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

Neoclassical sculpture goup of Mars and Amor. Ares is in the nude, only wearing his crested helmet and a cloak draped over his left shoulder. Amor has taken his left arm and Mars is looking at him.

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.

Ilustración a línea en blanco y negro representando a una mujer joven casi de cuerpo entero, una amazona guerrera. Tiene cabello corto y liso, viste una túnica griega, sandalias y algunas piezas de armadura, y esgrime una espada. Su pose es grácil, pero llena de fuerza, como si luchase bailando, y extiende su brazo libre en un gesto decidido y urgente, como si estuviera intentando agarrar a alguien de la mano. Su cuerpo está surcado de cicatrices. La expresión de su rostro es fiera y angustiada. — Black and white illustration depicting a young woman, an amazon warrior, almost in full body. She has short straight hair and is wearing a Greek tunic, sandals and some pieces of armour, and she is wielding a sword. Her fighting pose is graceful and full of strength, as if she were dancing, and she reaches out with her free arm, determined and urgent, as if trying to grab somebody’s hand. Lots of scars cover her body. Her expression is fierce and anguished.

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

Selene driving the bull-drawn biga, raising a lit torch that illuminates the sleeping Endymion.

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.

Roger Lancelyn Green's books on mythology
Roger Lancelyn Green

-- 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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A photo of a full bookshelf.

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

Vase painting of Helios, the Sun, rising from the sea in the morning. He is standing in his chariot, holding the reins and a riding crop. His head is surrounded by a shining aureola. A fish and shellfish represent the sea while stars litter the night sky above.

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

Attic red-figure Skyphos depicting Aphrodite with little Eros. She is seated, dressed in a richly folded chiton and a himation around her hips. She tugs at her sleeve with her left hand. Eros, who seems to be winged but the vase painting is damaged, crouches on a small table beside her and reaches for her left hand.

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

Etruscan bronze mirror case depicting the abduction of Ganymede by Zeus in the shape of a giant eagle. The eagle's talons hold on to a naked Ganymedes by the hips. Ganymedes reaches up, one arm holding on to the eagle's neck. Three figures are there to witness the abduction, two male and one female, all of them nude.