Rachel Alexander's Blog, page 39
September 1, 2021
Questions I have to ask Hermes:Does Kharon offer a studen...
Questions I have to ask Hermes:
Does Kharon offer a student discount?Is he affiliated with AARP?Does he have a mailing list we can subscribe to to receive coupons?? Can we put our death on layaway?
liridi:hades & persephone
hades & persephone
August 31, 2021
china-house:Persephone - miniboard
Persephone - miniboard
design-is-fine:
Master of Claude de France, Book of Flowe...
Master of Claude de France, Book of Flower Studies, ca. 1510–1515. The Cloisters Collection, metmuseum.org
“Many of these flowers had long-recognized practical uses in medicine or cooking. Here, though, the artist simply glories in their beauty. He paints their portrait, contriving to show them at once from the front, from the back, from the side, as they bud and bloom and as they fade into senescence.”
He’s jealous. Hades and Persephone now have a powerful cu...
He’s jealous.
Hades and Persephone now have a powerful cultus in Eleusis, and they are rising stars in the pantheon.
And from his perspective, Hades nearly destroyed the world over a girl… over his insistence on keeping her even though Demeter was starving the earth. He, in a way, expected more from him, and expected Aidon to be the rational well reasoned one.
Zeus’s big motivation in life is to keep the peace between around 30 or so dieties who are all powerful enough to wipe humanity off the face of the earth. And while this couple, who are amassing more and more worshipers, they also represent an ideal of marriage that Zeus cannot live up to.
They both threaten to upend the ordered, patriarchal system he has had in place for aeons, they have made seasonal change a constant, which will have bigger ramifications later, and he can’t really forgive them for that.
August 30, 2021
fleur-aesthetic:Daffodil, Cal Anderson Park, Seattle (2008)
Daffodil, Cal Anderson Park, Seattle (2008)
blessed-catchild:
“Persephone doesn’t love Hades! They ar...
“Persephone doesn’t love Hades! They are a toxic couple!!!! You can’t glorify this!!!! This is abuse!!!”
People who know the actual myths and pagans who worship them:
