Coming up with an interesting post on the drakaina (drakainoi?) in Greek mytholgy, especially those surrounding the Python/Delphyne, Ekhinda, and the Nemean Lion. I doubt most people would be interested, but its just really interesting to see the connections between certain gods and myths, and it makes one wonder... what came before the creation ( ( Read more... )

In our modern age, we turn Aphrodite into a whore, a goddess of pure sex and wantonness. That there is nothing beneath the surface of such a superficial goddess. Maybe we do that because we don't want to admit to the power She has over us, the way we bend towards Love and Lust, the way we cannot resist falling for someone as we lie awake in bed, ( Read more... )

I recently downloaded the Alice in Wonderland movie by Disney (yay!!) and I thought this was rather amusing and very Sobek-inspired. :)

How doth the little crocodile
improve his shining tail.
And pour the waters of the Nile,
on every golden scale.

How cheerfully he seems to grin,
how neatly spreads his claws.
And welcomes little fishes in,
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Ah, love is old, love is new
Love is all, love is you

Because the sky is blue
It makes me cry
Because the sky is blue

Today, as well as being Rosh HaShana (Jewish), the Noumenia (Hellenistic), and Talk Like A Pirate Day (..?!?), it is also the first day of a three-day festival known as the Ariadneia, which recalls and commemorates the myth of ( Read more... )

Okay, second and hopefully last post of the night ... er.. morning.

One of the things that really makes me want to scream sometimes.. is why the hell can I not find the original name of the Speos Artemidos? I mean the damn thing dates back to Hatshepsut's reign. It was worked on at least TWICE (by her half-son Thutmose III and later by Seti I), so ( Read more... )

There are quite a few things in life that we dislike happening yet cannot change at all (well, hypothetically speaking). One of these for me is lunar-based calendars.

I mean come on! Hyperboreia and Lampteria fit so nicely with Halloween/Thanateria this year! And then its gotta up and move next year. *pouts*

/end spiritual rant

You know, I totally forgot to right down a triad of dreams I had, the most important being one I had with one, for now, I'll call the "Sun King".

( Crazy dream-land, enter here! :D )

Well, I've gotten back into translating German and Egyptian again while I work on my online Alexandreion.

Right now I'm working on Pakhet, which is coming surprisingly easy. And if I have the jist of it right, Pakhet as Pakhet-Weret, likes green and white things. Well, I think it might be white and green fabric specifically, as 'weiBer und gruner ( Read more... )

No, really, I'm not crazy.

However whenever I hear Clap For the Wolfman and Kickstart My Heart, I really do think of Yinepu and Set respectively.

They're also great songs to boogie to!

*boogie*

< / crazy >

(I am also so totally going to point out that The Guess Who are from Winnipeg, Manitoba! Home town represent! :) )

Personally, I think this statue would make a bitchin' Anhur statue. Too bad I have no idea how tall it is.

Although Anhur is typically a humanoid in representations, there is I believe mention of him being lion-headed.

... It's still a bitchin' statue.