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:
If it did go out, only sacred fire produced by friction, or by bronze burning mirrors drawing fire from the sun, might be used to rekindle it.
A ritual from #Lemnos, the cult centre of #Hephaistos, has all fires on Lemnos extinguished for nine days until new fire is brought from the island of #Delos:
"And the island of #Lemnos is purified every year for the deed once done to the men on Lemnos by their wives at #Aphrodite's instigation. The fire on Lemnos is extinguished for nine days. A sacred ship from #Delos, however, carries the fire, and if it arrives before the offerings for the dead, it puts in nowhere on Lemnos, but rides at anchor off the headlands out at sea until sailing into the harbor is permitted by divine law."
Heroikos by Lucius Flavius Philostratus, 213–214 CE
Alright I'm liking Baldur's Gate 3 so far. The facial animations are very expressive, but does anyone notice the characters in a conversation kinda teleport around a lot? Is that just me?
My name is Ahmed, I graduated in Literature, and I'm currently working as a copywriter. Above all, I'll love reading novels.
My recent fav novel is The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolano. Currently I'm reading Lucy by Jamica Kincaid. If you're a #literature enthusiast, I'd love to connect with you. Also, I'm always open to get book recommendations from others. So, do drop your favs.
I recently found a poster on why you should choose Open Educational Practices. I have made a Canva version of the poster if you'd like to remix a copy for yourself.
The 16th C composer Thomas Whythorne wrote that maids go for looks, but widows have...um...other priorities. To court an experienced woman, he said, you "must not carry quick eels in your codpiece, but show some proof of being stiff." #eels#history#medieval#datingadvice
Ik meen me te herinneren dat iemand hier laatst een hashtag opperde voor gelezen boeken.
Nu postenik gisteren zelf een (heel goed) boek en wil daar eigenlijk nog wel die hashtag aan toevoegen.
Ook leuk om zo tips van anderen te bekijken.
Maar welke was dat ook weer?
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We are cOAlition S, an international consortium of research funding & performing organisations, aiming to make full and immediate Open Access to research publications a reality by implementing #Plan_S
Okay, here we go! Giving social media another try with #Mastodon since I started to miss the academic community that social media used to provide for me.
I'm Nele, a #linguistics postdoc at the University of Oslo, working on the language of fake news in English. I'm also affiliated with Lund University through my work on the London–Lund Corpus 2 and spoken language.
That's (mainly) what I'll be posting about. Here we go again!
Selfhosted coturn server Rocket chat Configuration.
I spun up a coturn VPS server and configured the turn server in rocket chat WEBRTC configuration. However, when I try a call button to have a private audio call, it still starts up jitsi instead of doing a direct call using my turn server. Can someone tell me the right configuration to make it work like a regular voice or video chat/call?
Thanks.
This one felt very timely - Surviving financially as an artist / surviving as the world slips into war. How the rise of fascism affected different people differently. People not recognising their own privilege. All put across in a story that feels very light - Really clever! @bookstodon
Still trying to get a feel for this platform. I came looking for the historians (and other cool kids) I lost with the demise of that other platform.
I am a recovered academic who now enjoys life working in a museum. Still a historian. One who now often thinks about the weird gaps between academic and public history.
Skulle gjerne ha økt andelen av folk som ikke jobber med IT i feeden. Skal ikke avfølge noen, men trenger tips om folk med anna kompetanse og interesser for å skjønne mer av feeden min rett og slett. Så håper jeg at #ITdadsonbikes ikke blir fornærmet. #Norsktut