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“The two of them settled inside the deep ever expanding trunk of the oak tree - nymph magic - and just for a moment sat there in silence, staring at one another.” #omegaverse #greekmythologyretellings #greekmythology #greekmyths #writingcommunity #writing
“Eros stood up from whence he had fallen, picking out the stray twigs and leaves that had become tangled within his mighty feathers.” #omegaverse #greekmyths #greekmythologyretellings #greekmythology
“Aphrodite sat, wrapped in one of the Hestia’s cloaks and watched the Goddess as she tended her fire.” #greekmythologyretellings #greekmyths #greekmythology #omegaverse
“And as she had never done before in front of any other living creature, Aphrodite began to weep.” #greekmythologyretellings #greekmyths #greekmythology #omegaverse
“He was having the dream again.” #greekmythology #greekmythologyretellings #greekmyths #omegaverse
“The two Gods were frog marched out of that forest not by the Goddess of the Hunt, or even the archers of Artemis but two blind men.” #greekmythologyretellings #greekmythology #greekmyths #omegaverse
“The forest was frozen, of this fact no poet or play-write, could have lain out a plainer truth for the place that Eros and Hermes strode through now.” #greekmyths #greekmythology #greekmythologyretellings #greekgods
“Her son had vanished from her sight - and not even the most powerful of her trinkets, and crystal balls could find him now.” #Aphrodite #Eros #greekgods #greekmythologyretellings #greekmyths #greekmythology
“Aphrodite’s garden was smaller and less tended than the places of the Gods of Nature and Growth would have been, but it was still beautiful in its own way.” #omegaverse #greekmythology #greekmyths #greekmythologyretellings #greekgods
#Aphrodite #WIP #fiction
“Before Aphrodite there had been the Ocean, cool waves against the nothingness that would soon become her flesh.” #omegaverse #greekmythologyretellings #greekmythology #greekmythology #greekmyths #Aphrodite #WIP #fiction
“Aphrodite, I’d say I’ve been expecting you - but nobody really expects you, do they?” Said the Goddess of the Hearth. #greekmythologyretellings #greekmythology #greekmyths #aphrodite #tuesdayfeeling
stolen from tumblr, i lmao #classics #GreekMyths
Tiresias was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years.
"Of ten parts a man enjoys one only; but a woman enjoys the full ten parts
in her heart."
(quoted by Tzetzes, Scholiast on Lycophron 68, from a poem Melampodia; they are cited also by the Scholiast on Hom. Od. 10.494.)
Zero to Hero????
Find out what we think in our most recent #podcast episode on the #myths of #Hercules
🔗 : https://starrytimepodcast.com/episodes
#GreekMythology #GreekMyths #mythology #storytelling #StarStories #heroes
