18+ AimeeMaroux , to mythology group
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social avatar

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / ! 🗡️

Tuesday is the Day of Tyr, not Odin, but is a war god too.

Loki spake:
"They say that with spells
in Samsey once
You worked with charms like witches;
And in witch's guise
among men you went;
Unmanly your soul must seem."
Lokesenna 24

@antiquidons @mythology

18+ AimeeMaroux , to mythology group
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social avatar

It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / ! 🗡️

"The Gargarians, in accordance with an ancient custom, go [...] to have intercourse with them for the sake of begetting children, doing this in secrecy and darkness, any Gargarian at random with any Amazon; and after making them pregnant they send them away; and the females that are born are retained by the Amazons themselves, but the males are taken to the Gargarians to be brought up."
Strabo, Geography, 11.5.1

@antiquidons @mythology

ALT
  • Reply
  • Loading...
  • 18+ AimeeMaroux , to mythology group
    @AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social avatar

    It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / ! 🗡️

    "Amazons [...] all the toil of men do they endure; and therefore evermore the spirit of the War God thrills them through [...] never faint their knees nor tremble."
    Quintus Smyrnaeus, Fall of Troy 1. 618

    @antiquidons @mythology

    18+ AimeeMaroux , to mythology group
    @AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social avatar

    It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / ! 🗡️

    or is the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of love, war & fertility. In one Akkadian hymn, Ishtar transforms men into women. Priests known as gala worked in her temples, where they performed elegies and lamentations. Gala sometimes adopted female names and some Sumerian proverbs seem to suggest that gala had a reputation for engaging in anal sex with men.

    @antiquidons @mythology

    stina_marie , to horror group
    @stina_marie@horrorhub.club avatar
    18+ AimeeMaroux , to mythology group
    @AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social avatar

    It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / ! 🗡️

    "Ares mated with the daughter of [the Sea-God] , this maiden was priestess to Athena, and that Melanippos, the son of Ares and Triteia, founded the city [Triteia, Akhaia] when he grew up, naming it after his mother . . . The people here are accustomed to sacrifice both to and to Triteia."
    Pausanias, Description of Greece 7.22.8

    🏛 bronze

    @antiquidons @mythology

    18+ AimeeMaroux , to mythology group
    @AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social avatar

    It's the Day of Ares / Mars' Day / ! 🗡️

    "And Ares led them, and Pallas Athene. These were gold, both, and golden raiment upon them, and they were beautiful and huge in their armour."
    Homer, Iliad 18.516

    🏛 Roman gem engraved with

    @antiquidons @mythology

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • kbinchat
  • All magazines