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January 23, 2016
The Tartarus...
Here is a fan art comic of Receiver of Many by @kata-chthonia that I made on 2014 but never colored and now decided to finish :P beware of what is hidden in Tartarus!!
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by Rachel Alexander“Well?”
Aidoneus looked up from a row of Minoan glyphs as Persephone twirled for him.
“What do you think?”
The carefully scrawled syllables were immediately forgotten. Ink from his tipped stylus bled through the papyrus. His lips were dry and he struggled to form a complete sentence. “Is this the latest fashion?”
Persephone shrugged. “So they say.”
Did something productive with my insomnia and...
Did something productive with my insomnia and reformatted/redesigned the blog to be a bit more professional.
Destroyer of Light
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The marriage of Hades and Persephone blossoms and their mysterious grove in the world below thrives…
…while the sunlit world withers.
Demeter holds out in Eleusis, pushing both mankind and the gods to frozen starvation in order to reclaim her daughter. The newly married rulers of the dead must reach an accord with Persephone’s mother to stay her deadly course— and come face to face with sacrifice, responsibility, and the balance of power among the gods.
Destroyer of Light concludes the erotic romance begun in Receiver of Many: a battle of wills among the gods is writ large across the dying earth, a cruel sorcerer-king faces his trial, and the King and Queen of the Underworld realize a destiny that the Fates alone could have foreseen.
January 22, 2016
hellenismo:
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From today’s sunset: tenth day of Gamelion.
On the tenth of Gamelion, sacrifices are prescribed in honor of Demeter, Kore and Zeus Boulaios. (C.I.A Attic 3.272.682)
The Pythagoreans called the number ten: “Cosmos”, “Ouranos” and, among
the Muses, Ourania, “Pan”, “Heimarmene and Aion/Aeternitas”, “Kratos
(Strength/Power) and Pistis (Faith) and Ananke (Necessity)”, “Atlas” and, in a word, “God”, “Phanes” and “Helios” - and “Panteleia” (accomplishment/fulfillment of all things). (cf. Iambl, Theol. Arithm. 80-86)
“The cosmos is, as we have seen, the only one of its kind and unique
(i.e. a Monad); next we discover that it is necessary that there is the
tangible and visible in it (i.e. a Dyad); next that since there is
considerable separation between these things, some third thing is needed
(in order to bring them together); next we find out that the middle
term involves two forms, and thus we arrive at the Tetrad. This was
therefore what the Pythagorean hymn to number said as well: ‘that it
proceeds from the inviolate abyss of the Monad, until it should arrive
at the sacred Tetrad’ and this gives birth to the Decad which is ‘the
Mother of all things’. The father of the Golden Verses also glorifies
the Tetrad calling it ‘the fountain of ever-flowing Nature’. For the
cosmos was ordered (kosmein) by the Tetrad, which proceeded from the
Monad and the Triad, and it is completed at the Decad in as much as this
is inclusive of all things… the decad is the number of the world…the
Pythagoreans consider the decad as adapted to the Demiurgus, and to
Fate.”
(Proklos, commentary to the Timaeus, III, 53; p.109, 420)
(Demeter Ludovisi. Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek model of the 5th—4th centuries BCE. Roma, Palazzo Altemps)
January 21, 2016
MY BOOK CAME IN IM SO EXCITED TO HAVE A PHYSICAL COPY AND IM SO GLAD YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO PUBLISH IT MAKES ME SO SO HAPPY THAT YOU HAVE DONE THIS
Yay!!! Hearing this sort of stuff is the reason I write :D
