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18+ AimeeMaroux , 6 months ago to antiquidons

It's not only phalloi that are auspicious: vulvas are just as lucky and protect from evil. Between women, flashing of the vulva is depicted as light-hearted and funny, such as when Baubo flashes hers to Demeter to cheer her up. But Pliny the Elder writes that a woman can avert storm and hail by exposing her vulva towards Z̶e̶u̶s̶ the lightning.

🏛️ Relief of Baubo exposing her #vulva.

#FannyFriday @antiquidons @phistorians

18+ dance_along_the_edge , 6 months ago to scifi

For the final Finlay Friday for the foreseeable future (okay, this year), there's nothing left to do but strap on your Corinthian helmet, hop on a robot, pop open some bubbly, and watch the world burn. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #Illustration #Pulps #WeirdTales #SF #SFF #ScienceFiction @sciencefiction @scifi

Virginicus , 6 months ago to random

Help me out, #bookstodon. I’m looking for a Bildungsroman in 21st-century American English with a female protagonist. Any suggestions?

18+ AimeeMaroux , 6 months ago to mythology

Have a beautiful Day of Aphrodite aka Venus' Day aka Frigg's Day aka Friday 🌹

"And there, my good Fellows, we'll learn to intwine
The Myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's Vine."
"The Anacreontic Song", from The Vocal magazine, 1778

🏛️ The alliance between #Bacchus and #Venus. Dated 1750 – 1775 CE. Today in the Rijksmuseum #Amsterdam.

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfAphrodite #mythology #NeoclassicalArt #AncMedReception #Dionysos #Aphrodite

18+ AimeeMaroux , 7 months ago to mythology

It's the #DayOfDionysos here at Erotic Mythology! 🍇

"Seilenos (#Silenus), who was his adviser and instructor in the most excellent pursuits and contributed greatly to the high achievements and fame of #Dionysos."
Diodorus Siculus, Library of History 4.4.3

🏛️ Baby Dionysos in the arms of #Silenos, his foster father. From #Myrina, dated 2nd century CE. Today in the Musée du Louvre.

@antiquidons @archaeodons @mythology
#GreekRomanArt #mythology

18+ AimeeMaroux , 8 months ago to mythology

It's the Day of Hermes aka Mercurius Day aka #Wednesday! 🐏

For #AllHallows, have a relief of #Hermes in his role as #psychopomp. Hermes guides the souls of the dead to the underworld. Here, he takes the hand of a dead woman named Myrrhine on the way down to Hades.

🏛 Relief on Myrrhine's lekythos, ca 420-410 BCE, National Archaeological Museum, #Athens

@mythology @antiquidons
#DayOfHermes #Mythology #GreekMythology #ancientGreece #GreekRomanArt #ReliefWednesday

juergen_hubert , 9 months ago to folklore

Only YOU can save faerie women from the Wild Huntsman!

#Germany #folktale #folklore #WildHunt @germany @folklore
https://www.patreon.com/posts/wild-huntsman-44393109

ChrisMayLA6 , 9 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to bookstodon

This week I've been mainly reading, no. 98.

In some ways its hard to believe Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992/2011) was published 30 years ago; with its mix of #cyberpunk & shoot-em-up, allied to a central part of the story being about refugees 'invading' other countries, it all seems rather timely. Of course, its familiar, as its been so influential on subsequent #scifi, but apart from some occasional oddities (no flash drives, some odd gender dynamics) its still sure footed.

@bookstodon

Chigaze , 9 months ago to bookstodon

Apparently I'm the level of Tolkien nerd who can read an entire book of his rough notes obsessing over minutia. Currently reading "The Nature of Middle-Earth" which includes details like what type of pen the notes were written in.

#Tolkien @bookstodon #books

aaronm , 9 months ago to bookhistodons

74 new #Manuscripts from the #Vatican this week
http://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2023/week39.html
Includes a Martyrology, Ramon Llull with diagrams, a very elaborate Fransiscan Antiphonal (well the pictures from it), some Russian pictures of ... something, a book of horse bridal drawings, Sallust, Lucan, and ..... Henry Stevenson, Jr.!
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons

A page of square neumes on 4 red stafflines starting with a large illuminated initial C. It is from Ross.1195 f.1r
A page of small circular diagrams in red and green ink with one larger diagram at bottom right. It is f.1v from Ott.lat.2347

MikeDunnAuthor , 9 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to bookstadon

Today in Writing History September 25, 1930: Shel Silverstein, American author, poet, illustrator, and songwriter was born (d. 1999). He is perhaps most remembered today for his amusing children’s poetry and fiction, like “The Giving Tree.” However, he also wrote many songs like "One's on the Way" and "Hey Loretta" (which were hits for Loretta Lynn), and "25 Minutes to Go," about a man on Death Row, and "A Boy Named Sue," both made famous by Johnny Cash. He also wrote "The Unicorn," which The Irish Rovers made famous. He also wrote many songs about drugs and sex, like “I Got Stoned and I Missed It,” “Quaaludes Again,” “Masochistic Baby,” and “Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN8PfuyowG0

#WorkingClass #LaborHistory #fiction #novel #Music #poetry #poem #writer #author #books #play #ShelSilverstein #drugs @bookstadon

azforeman , 9 months ago to poetry

Me reading "Storm in the Dark" by the Tunisian poet Abu al-Qasim al-Shabbi in Arabic & English. I got sick of translations of Arabic poetry ignoring rhyme & meter. If you want a thing done right, you gotta do it your own self

هذا فيديو أقرأ فيه قصيدة "زوبعة في ظلام" للشاعر التونسي ابو القاسم الشابي بالعربية وبترجمتي الانجليزية. انا سئمت من الترجمات الانجليزية للشعر العربي الحديث التي تُهمِل القافية والوزن. وتبيّن انو اذا بدك اشي ينعمل مظبوط لازم تعمله لحالك.

@poetry

https://youtu.be/KrATBITVKxU

AimeeMaroux , 10 months ago to mythology

This week's #MythologyMonday theme is trees 🌲
Many stories in #GreekMythology have trees in it, some of which I will be telling in this thread.
The most famous tree-related myth must be the transformation of Daphne. Hit with Eros' fiery arrows, #Apollon was burning with desire for the nymph and pursued her when she fled from his advances. Feeling her strength wane, Daphne prayed for help from either her father or Gaia and was turned into the first laurel tree.

@mythology #mythology

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mythologymonday , 11 months ago to mythology

Greetings, myth lovers! For the upcoming #BookLoversDay we are asking: what are your favourite mythology-themed #books?

Tell us about the #myth and the #book with the hashtag #MythologyMonday for boosts!
Let's swap some awesome recs, all right? 😊
Your host @AimeeMaroux is looking forward to all your #book reports! 😚

🎨 Armchair Books, Edinburgh
https://www.armchairbooks.co.uk/

#NationalBookLoversDay @bookstodon #mythology #folklore #folktale #legends #Storytelling @mythology @folklore @folklorethursday @TarkabarkaHolgy @juergen_hubert @curiousordinary @wihtlore @FairytalesFood

AimeeMaroux , 11 months ago to histodons

On #NationalUnderwearDay I want to talk about the ancestor of the bra: the strophion!

In #GreekRomanArt the goddess #Aphrodite can sometimes be seen putting it on or taking it off but mortal women are depicted wearing it too.

It is uncertain what the Greek strophion looked like but the Roman adaptation, the strophium, was a breast band, a strip of cloth wrapped around the upper torso.

It was a normal but optional piece of feminine clothing.

@antiquidons @histodons #herstory #ancientRome

Roman erotic fresco from Pompeii depicting a couple seemingly about to have intercourse with her riding on top of him. She is wearing a strophium around her breasts and an arm band and anklet while he is fully nude, lying on his back in anticipation.