I posted a digital altar for Zeus as a test video for a collaborative project. Thoughts? If liked, I plan to make one for many of the gods to allow people to use their phones as digital altars when needing to be discreet. Posted on Tumblr as a test run.
Greek mythology’s major story of Hera and Zeus’ marriage also reflects ancient Greek ideas on marriage, authority, and social roles. Beyond the personal dynamics of the supernatural beings involved, this mythological coupling serves as a symbolic portrayal of the expectations and ideals surrounding marriage in ancient Greek society. It is among the most complex and talked-about relationships in the extensive fabric of Greek mythology. #greekmythology#zeus#herahttps://connectparanormal.net/2024/05/07/the-complex-union-of-hera-and-zeus-reflecting-ancient-greek-views-on-marriage/
Born of Rhea, last of her children
A young god from the womb of an eldeer
Fathered by Kronos, king of the heavens
Of an era long gone now
Destined to be consumed were you
For your father feared the future
Not knowing he was the cause
Of his very own demise
Raised on Crete, that sacred land
Where spirits of the land were tasked with you
Fed the milk of Amaltheia, the goat
And kept hidden by the songs of the Kouretes
Destiny was no match for your mother saved you
A stone she gave your hungry father
Who subsumed it into himself
As he would have done to you
A young and powerful god you were
Told tales of your father’s guilt
And your mothers desperate gamble
You grew to beauteous godhood
Destiny once more exerted her power
You rose to high Olympus
And to your father presented yourself
A cupbearer to serve him as he ruled
A scheming god, wise and patient
A cup you prepared for your father
Herbs and spices in his beloved wine
To induce in him a need to set off your plans
Destiny spun its threads
And into the tapestry of life set your story
As god after god was born anew
From the father’s body expelled
With divine power and righteous anger
The children went to war with their father
From the depths others released
To fight for you in this holy time
Destiny wove your righteous actions into fate
The great mother advised you and yours
Thunder was forged for you
To win this holy war in the heavenly realm
The war won you took a wife
And betrayed the children of Earth
Whose weapons helped your cause
And into the dark pits did you send them
So Destiny once more turned its spindle
The threads once more she wove into life
A new perophecy, a new fate
One we pray will not come to pass
And so you rule, O Heavenly Zeus
God of the mountain peaks
Stirring the clouds to storming
Bearer of the thunder that none yet dare face
“According to the Orphic myths, #Zeus wanted to marry his mother #Rhea. After Rhea refused to marry him, Zeus turned into a snake and raped her. She had #Persephone with Zeus.”
I'm watching yet another iteration of Greek mythology where Zeus is a deadbeat dad who wants to do better and Hera is the vengeful word-I-don't-use, and it's just so sexist.
Does anyone know of any Greek myth retellings from Hera's point of view? I'd love to read a feminist take on all that.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Meet Etruscan #Zeus or #Tinia watch his adult son #Hercle being breastfed by his wife #Uni [Hera] as a sign of adoption. #Aplu [#Apollon] and another god and goddess are present to witness the ritual too.
🏛️ #Hera breastfeeding #Herakles, drawing of an #Etruscan mirror case engraving from Volterra, 4th century BCE, Museo Archeologico Nazionale, #Florence
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This solid bronze statuette of the Roman god #Jupiter (associated with #Zeus) was probably part of the domestic furnishings of a Roman 'domus' or 'villa'. The highest deity in the Roman pantheon, he is the god of international relations and guarantees the observation of treaties.
🏛️ Bronze statuette, #ancientRome, 1st century CE. Today in the Museu d’Art Medieval, #Barcelona.
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A late #DayOfZeus entry today because I didn't manage to post before work:
It's the birth of #Athena: The tiny goddess jumps from #Zeus' head in full armour!
On the left, #Hermes and a rare bearded #Apollon watch the scene. On the right, an unknown goddess and #Ares look on.
🏛️ Black-figure vase painting dated about 540 BCE. Today in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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#Zeus, disguised as a #satyr, seduces Antiope, daughter of the river god Asopos or of Nykteus, the king of Thebes. Antiope fled in fear of her father and was abducted by the hero Epopeus, eventually giving birth to two sons, Amphion by Zeus and Zethus by Epopeus.
#sundaymorningtransport is publishing some innovative #writing.Today's #story by @john_chu is a Skiffy meets Wild West look at the cutthroat milieu of academia. My #shortstory, "The Inventor We May Learn Is More Of A Conceptual Artist In Part Seven" goes live October 8th. I hope you'll read it and say nice things, or horrible things so terrible and interesting I can later use them for blurbs (example in the comments). Sign up for a free 60-day subscription: https://www.sundaymorningtransport.com/81bc1a53
I don't think they meant this as a compliment, but wow, they really get me! It's the perfect #blurb. "#Hera follows #Zeus to a bar, watches him hustle a ditzy blonde, transforms herself into a microscopic mite, mates with other mites, transforms the blonde into a bag of marshmallows and makes up with Zeus. This is a story? — TANGENT"
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Painting of the theft of Fire: #Zeus and his eagle and his lover #Ganymedes are all asleep. Meanwhile, #Prometheus steals fire from the thunderbolt in Zeus' hand.
🏛️ The Theft of Fire by Christian Griepenkerl, dated 1878 CE.
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
Humourous Roman #mosaic of #Ganymedes and #Zeus as a heron with a sponge on a stick, commony used by the Romans to clean the bum after going to the toilet. But if you know that Ganymedes is Zeus' lover, a different reason for sponging his genitals comes to mind 😏
🏛️ Dated 2nd century CE, discovered in Antiochia ad Cragum, Turkey
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Meet the Jupiter of Cumae made of marble from Thassos. Cumae is famous for the Sybel of Cumae whose alleged cave is a tourist attraction. The statue probably used to be housed in the Temple of #Zeus which was turned into a basilica after Christianisation.
🏛️ #Jupiter of Cuma, 1st century CE, today in the National Archaeological Museum, #Naples
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The inspiration for this sculpture of #Jupiter was the monumental gold and ivory statue of #Zeus created by the Greek sculptor Pheidias (active 470-420 BCE) for Zeus's temple at #Olympia. It was renowned in antiquity as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World and numerous sculptors copied it.
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"[Zeus] made Hera his blooming wife: and she was joined in love with the king of gods and men, and brought forth Hebe and Ares and Eileithyia."
Hesiod, Theogony 921
🏛️ #Hera and #Zeus, marble relief from Temple E in #Selinunte, dated ca. 450 BCE. Today in the Museo archeologico regionale di #Palermo.
This week's #MythologyMonday theme is fire and there are two major Greek gods associated with fire: #Hestia, goddess of the hearth, and #Hephaistos, god of smiths.
They represent #fire in two different forms: the sacrificial flame of the hearth as the sacred centre of domestic life and the flame of Hephaistos, source of all arts, and fuel of the funeral pyre. But both could be invoked for the cooking of sacrificial meat or a good meal:
No fire meant a disruption of all normal life for nine days: no regular meals like bread or porridge, no incense to burn for the gods, the hearth and thus the centre of every community and household is dead - until new life arrives from the sea.
#Hephaistos, it is said, loves #Lemnos "more than any place on earth". According to the Illiad, it was on Lemnos where Hephaistos landed after being thrown from Olympos by his father #Zeus and it is on Lemnos where he has his forge.
I'm writing about the intersection between birth and violence in various myths, including the birth of #Athena. Some sources say that Hephaistos or Prometheus used an axe to help her emerge, but many secondary discussions of the story also describe #Zeus having a terrible headache before the birth. I can't find the original sources mentioning the headache. If anyone knows what text or texts this is from, I would love to know! #GreekMyth#Mythology#Classics#AncientGreek#AskMastodon
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There was a beauiful boy named Aëtos ("eagle"), a friend and playmate of #Zeus while he was growing up on Crete. Suspecting that Zeus was in love with him, Hera turned him into an eagle.
The story survives in Sophokles frag 320 & Servius' Commentary on Virgil's Aeneid.
🏛️ Zeus with eagle, tondo from a black-figure cup, ca 560 BCE, Louvre, Paris
It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day / #Thursday! ⚡
"He [#Zeus] made a golden eagle for his war standards and consecrated it to the might of his protection, whereby also among the Romans, standards of this kind are carried."
Fulgentius, Mythologiarum Libri III
🏛️ Roman marble sculpture of Zeus-Iupiter, #AsiaMinor, 2nd - 3rd century CE