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Erotic Mythology 🌷Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka Tuesday 🗡️"[<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ares" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ares</a>] took her hand and spoke thus to her: ‘Come, my darling; let us go to bed and take our delight together. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a> is no longer here; by now, I think, he has made his way to Lemnos, to visit the uncouth-spoken Sintians.’ So he spoke, and sleep with him was a welcome thought to her." Homer, Odyssey 8. 267🏛 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mars</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Venus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Venus</a>, 45–79 CE <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fresco" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Fresco</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pompeii" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Pompeii</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfAres" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DayOfAres</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GreekRomanArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mythology</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷Have a courageous Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ares" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ares</a>, god of the golden reins, was no blind watcher. Once he had seen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a> go, he himself approached the great craftman's dwelling, pining for love of Kytherea [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aphrodite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Aphrodite</a>]." Homer, Odyssey 8. 267 ff🏛 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mars</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Venus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Venus</a> fresco from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pompeii" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Pompeii</a>, House of the Citharist<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfAres" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DayOfAres</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GreekRomanArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mythology</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷A late <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MythologyMonday</a> thread on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Disability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Disability</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekMyhology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GreekMyhology</a>. If you would like to learn more about the real life history of disability in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ancientGreece" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ancientGreece</a>, I recommend the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/@phistorians" class="u-url mention">@phistorians</a>'s special podcast episode with Dr Debby Sneed: <a href="https://partialhistorians.com/2021/04/08/special-episode-disability-in-ancient-greece/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://partialhistorians.com/2021/04/08/special-episode-disability-in-ancient-greece/</a>In this thread, I'm introducing characters from Greek mythology who are disabled. First up: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a> 🔥 He was born disabled and thrown from Mount Olympos by his mother Hera as a baby or by his father Zeus...<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mythology</a>

PostSapiens<a href="https://mastodon.cyber-tribal.com/tags/postsapiens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#postsapiens</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cyber-tribal.com/tags/robot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#robot</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cyber-tribal.com/tags/hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hephaistos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cyber-tribal.com/tags/automate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#automate</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cyber-tribal.com/tags/mecatronique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mecatronique</a> <a href="https://mastodon.cyber-tribal.com/tags/ia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ia</a> Les robots, la fabrique du vivant par Héphaïstos – Post-Sapiens, les êtres technologiques <a href="https://www.post-sapiens.com/les-robots-la-fabrique-du-vivant" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.post-sapiens.com/les-robots-la-fabrique-du-vivant</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷Have a beautiful Day of Ares aka Mars' Day aka aka Tuesday 🗡️"<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ares" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ares</a> had offered many gifts to the garlanded divinity and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>." Homer, Odyssey 8.267🏛 Red-figure vase painting of the creation of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pandora" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Pandora</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfAres" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DayOfAres</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GreekRomanArt</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷In both ancient Greek and Latin "Hephaistos' breath" is a poetic way to say fire and often the god's name was used as a synonym for the element. Even iron, "hardest of all things", is softened by fire and melts through the strength of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>.I wrote a whole article on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hestia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hestia</a> and Hephaistos, the gods of fire in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekMythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GreekMythology</a> which is free to read on my website:<a href="https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MythologyMonday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mythology</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷It's the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DayOfHelios</a> / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Sunday</a>! ☀️"When <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sol" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Sol</a> [Helios] reported this [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aphrodite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Aphrodite</a>'s affair with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ares" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ares</a>] to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vulcanus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Vulcanus</a> [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>], he saw them lying there naked, and summoned all the gods who saw [...] To Sol's progeny, however, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Venus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Venus</a> [Aphrodite], because of his disclosure, was always hostile." Pseudo-Hyginus, Fabulae 148🏛️ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Helios</a>-Sol relief with snake, Domitian altar, 87 CE<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DayOfHelios</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GreekRomanArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mythology</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tuesday</a>! 🗡️"Demodokos struck his lyre and began a beguiling song about the loves of Ares and Aphrodite, how first they lay together secretly in the dwelling of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>. Ares had offered many gifts to the garlanded divinity and covered with shame the marriage bed of Lord Hephaistos." Homer, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Odyssey" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Odyssey</a> 8.267🏛 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ares" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ares</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aphrodite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Aphrodite</a>'s courtship with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Erotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Erotes</a>, 3rd century <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Roman" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Roman</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mosaic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mosaic</a><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfAres" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DayOfAres</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MosaicMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MosaicMonday</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷In Germanic <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mythology</a>, Wieland the Smith is a crafty, disabled smith. Similar to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>, the Greek god of smiths, Wieland was lame because of violence directed at him. Wieland had learned smithing from the dwarves. He worked for the Danish king Níðung who, to prevent him from ever leaving, had him crippled by cutting his hamstrings. In revenge, Wieland killed the king's sons and raped the king's daughter Badhild before fleeing in a flying contraption he had built.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MythologyMonday</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷Hephaistos (the personification of fire) arrives on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lemnos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Lemnos</a> from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of Lemnos care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.Read more about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a> in my article on gods of fire:<a href="https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://eroticmythology.com/mythology-monday-gods-of-fire/</a>3/3<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MythologyMonday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaestus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaestus</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷So much so that our word copper derives from aes Cyprium, metal of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Cyprus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Cyprus</a>. Mirrors in antiquity were often made of polished <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/copper" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#copper</a> (alloys). Today, the symbol of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Venus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Venus</a> is still used in biology for the female sex ♀️.Another story about mirrors concerns <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aphrodite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Aphrodite</a>'s husband Hephaistos: According to the Illiad, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a> landed on Lemnos after being thrown from Olympos by his father Zeus. The myth can be read as an intersting allegory:2/3<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MythologyMonday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mythology</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tuesday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Tuesday</a>! 🗡️A humourous oil painting of the love of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mars" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Mars</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Venus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Venus</a> that was created when the artist was only 15 or 16 years old. Mars ist struck by an arrow in his chest but it is a love arrow 😘 🏛️ Mars, Venus and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vulcan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Vulcan</a>, by John Singleton Copley. Oil on canvas, dated 1754 CE. Today in the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, USA.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention">@histodons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfAres" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DayOfAres</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/neoclassical" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#neoclassical</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ares" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ares</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Aphrodite" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Aphrodite</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaestus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaestus</a>

ArgoIts been a long road for the static i joined in July! Pandemonium 8th inner circle savage (P8S) fell yesterday finally to our hands! Now for the upcoming days its reclears on the menu! But for now here is the run in its full! <a href="https://youtu.be/MLTqNt5coRg?si=xy5J_0UzlDGq2sL2" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/MLTqNt5coRg?si=xy5J_0UzlDGq2sL2</a><a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/FFXIV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FFXIV</a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/P8S" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#P8S</a> <a href="https://bark.lgbt/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Hephaistos</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Sunday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Sunday</a>! ☀️"Phaethon [<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Helios" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Helios</a>] laughed, because <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ares" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Ares</a> in the seafight [of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Dionysos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Dionysos</a> against the Indians] had fled again before the fire of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>, as once before he fled from his chains." Nonnus, Dionysiaca 39.403🎨 Helios (possibly Alexander of Macedon) bronze bust, 1st century CE.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DayOfHelios" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#DayOfHelios</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GreekRomanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#GreekRomanArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mythology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#mythology</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷The myth of his fall from Olympos can also be read as an allegory:<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a> (fire) arrives on Lemnos from the sky, as it would through a burning mirror. He is weak, within an inch of his life, but the people of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lemnos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Lemnos</a> care for him and kindle the weak little flame until it grows strong enough to craft the most beautiful things.If you enjoyed this read and are looking for more, you can find all my non-fiction articles and erotic mythology fiction on my website:<a href="https://eroticmythology.com/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no">https://eroticmythology.com/</a>8/8

Erotic Mythology 🌷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.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>, it is said, loves <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lemnos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Lemnos</a> "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 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Zeus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Zeus</a> and it is on Lemnos where he has his forge.7/8

Erotic Mythology 🌷"For then, while invoking chthonian and ineffable gods, they keep pure, I think, the fire that is out on the sea. Whenever the sacred ship sails in and they distribute the fire both to its new abode and to the forges of the artisans, from that source is the beginning of new life."Heroikos by Lucius Flavius Philostratus, 213–214 CE6/8<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/antiquidons" class="u-url mention">@antiquidons</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷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 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Lemnos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Lemnos</a>, the cult centre of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>, has all fires on Lemnos extinguished for nine days until new fire is brought from the island of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Delos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Delos</a>:4/8 <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/pagan" class="u-url mention">@pagan</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/mythology" class="u-url mention">@mythology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ancientRome" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ancientRome</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pompeii" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Pompeii</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ancientGreece" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#ancientGreece</a>

Erotic Mythology 🌷"For without you [Hestia] mortals hold no banquet." Homeric Hymn 24 to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hestia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hestia</a>"Swine with the fat abundant upon them were singed and stretched out across the flame of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>." Homer, Iliad 9.467As the hearth of a house is at the same time the altar on which sacrifices are offered to the domestic gods, Hestia presides over all sacrifices, and, as the goddess of the sacred fire of the altar, she gets a share of every sacrifice to the gods made at home or in their temples.2/8?

Erotic Mythology 🌷This week's <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MythologyMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#MythologyMonday</a> theme is fire and there are two major Greek gods associated with fire: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hestia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hestia</a>, goddess of the hearth, and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hephaistos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Hephaistos</a>, god of smiths. They represent <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#fire</a> 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:1/8?

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