Death and the Maiden

aswallow: FAN RP GREEK MYTHOLOGY-CAST mads mikkelsen as hades...

Wed, 22 May 2013 15:30:55 -0700

FAN RP GREEK MYTHOLOGY-CAST

mads mikkelsen as hades

evan rachel wood as persephone

captainkoirk: Hades & Persephone- Gender Swap She’s the...

Tue, 21 May 2013 15:30:37 -0700

Hades & Persephone- Gender Swap

She’s the sort of girl his mother warned him about, but he never hesitates, pomegranate seeds caught between his teeth, juice running down his chin.

pandorasocks: natalie requested: persephone and/or...

Mon, 20 May 2013 15:30:24 -0700

pandorasocks:

natalie requested: persephone and/or persephone/hades

i. armistice patrick wolf | ii. dear darkness pj harvey | iii. the flowers regina spektor | iv. listen (listen, listen) wintersleep | v. angels the xx | vi. lovestain jose gonzalez | vii. sleep alone (909s in the darktimes remix) bat for lashes | viii. bachelorette bjork

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mymyoh-givemelove: greek mythology picspam → hades and...

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:30:36 -0700

mymyoh-givemelove:

greek mythology picspam → hades and persephone

just tell me you weren’t hungry that day. just tell me i’m the reason you stay. (x)

darthvaderlovestealikeme: Persephone.

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:30:30 -0700

darthvaderlovestealikeme:

Persephone.

romanoir: Mythology → Hades + Persephone Live without your...

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:30:28 -0700

romanoir:

Mythology → Hades + Persephone

Live without your sunlight

Love without your heartbeat

I can’t live within you.

bonesarecoralmade: PLUTO, magnanimous, whose realms profoundAre...

Thu, 16 May 2013 15:30:32 -0700

bonesarecoralmade:

PLUTO, magnanimous, whose realms profound
Are fix’d beneath the firm and solid ground,
In the Tartarian plains remote from fight,
And wrapt forever in the depths of night

plubaboo: legit concern

Wed, 15 May 2013 15:30:49 -0700

plubaboo:

legit concern

Photo

Wed, 15 May 2013 10:02:05 -0700

sslytherin: WAY DOWN UNDER THE GROUND (a hades and persephone...

Tue, 14 May 2013 15:30:18 -0700

sslytherin:

WAY DOWN UNDER THE GROUND (a hades and persephone playlist)

can you even imagine yourself in paradise? even the daughter of gods must know loneliness, must sometimes want nothing more than to be trapped in hell of forevers. thank me, you queen. i’ve given you forever.

way down hadestown, anaïs mitchell / beat the devil’s tattoo, black rebel motorcycle club / heavy in your arms, florence and the machine / benjamin, chelsea wolfe / if i had a heart, fever ray / bones, ms mr / rest in the bed, laura marling / extinguish me, soap&skin

(listen)

bemusedlybespectacled: if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:40:53 -0700

bemusedlybespectacled:

if you ever think mythology is boring or serious business or whatever shit

just remember that cerberus, the hell-hound and guard dog of the underworld, comes from the root indo-european word ḱerberos, which evolved into the greek word kerberos, which got changed to cerberus when it went from greek to latin

ḱerberos means “spotted”

that’s right

hades, lord of the dead, literally fucking named his pet dog spot

bonesarecoralmade: Only-begotten, Pluto’s honor’d wife, O...

Mon, 13 May 2013 15:30:19 -0700

bonesarecoralmade:

Only-begotten, Pluto’s honor’d wife,
O venerable Goddess, source of life:
‘Tis thine in earth’s profundities to dwell,
Fast by the wide and dismal gates of hell:
Jove’s holy offspring, of a beauteous mien,
Fatal, with lovely locks, infernal queen

Hades and Persephone

Sun, 12 May 2013 15:30:41 -0700

Hades and Persephone

sallygilmartins: REMIX MEME → persephone for anonymous He...

Sat, 11 May 2013 15:30:34 -0700

sallygilmartins:

REMIX MEME → persephone for anonymous

He wants to say I love you, nothing can hurt you

but he thinks
this is a lie, so he says in the end
you’re dead, nothing can hurt you
which seems to him
a more promising beginning, more true.

- Louise Glück

smaugey: Mythology Meme- 1/5 Mythological Pairings: Hades and...

Fri, 10 May 2013 15:30:21 -0700

smaugey:

Mythology Meme- 1/5 Mythological Pairings: Hades and Persephone

Persephone used to live far away from the other deities, a goddess within Nature herself before the days of planting seeds and nurturing plants. In the Olympian telling, the gods Hermes and Apollo had wooed Persephone; but Demeter rejected all their gifts and hid her daughter away from the company of the Olympian deities. The story of her abduction by Hades against her will, is traditionally referred to as the Rape of Persephone. Zeus, it is said, permitted Hades who was in love with the beautiful Persephone, to carry her off, as her mother Demeter, was not likely to allow her daughter to go down to Hades. Persephone was gathering flowers with the Oceanids along with Artemis and Athena—the Homeric Hymn says—in a field when Hades came to abduct her, bursting through a cleft in the earth. Demeter, when she found her daughter had disappeared, searched for her all over the earth with torches. In most versions she forbids the earth to produce, or she neglects the earth and in the depth of her despair she causes nothing to grow. Helios, the sun, who sees everything, eventually told Demeter what had happened and at length she discovered the place of her abode. Finally, Zeus, pressed by the cries of the hungry people and by the other deities who also heard their anguish, forced Hades to return Persephone. Hades indeed complied with the request, but first he tricked her, giving her some pomegranate seeds to eat. Persephone was released by Hermes, who had been sent to retrieve her, but because she had tasted food in the underworld, she was obliged to spend a third of each year (the winter months) there, and the remaining part of the year with the gods above. With the later writers Ovid and Hyginus, Persephone’s time in the underworld becomes half the year. The myth says Persephone was very unhappy but after much time she came to love the Hades and lived happily with him.

akalle: Greek Coin Showing Persephone 310/307 B.C. silver...

Thu, 09 May 2013 15:30:29 -0700

akalle:

Greek Coin Showing Persephone

310/307 B.C.
silver tetradrachm
view reverse
The Art Institute of Chicago

“Issued by Agathokles, tyrant of Syracuse, reigned 317-289 B.C. This exquisite coin owes its design to political violence and ambition. It was minted to commemorate the victory of the would-be king Agathokles over his political rivals in Syracuse and their dangerous Carthaginian allies in 317 B.C. … It has been suggested that Agathokles, while not wanting to tamper too much with the successful and recognizable coinage of Syracuse, still preferred to abandon the local nymph Arethusa in favor of a pan-Sicilian grain goddess who would advertise the fact that he now ruled nearly the entire, wheat-wealthy island.”

“The obverse of this coin has political overtones. The older coinage of Syracuse had as its obverse type the local spring nymph Arethusa. By the end of the fourth century B.C., she had become somewhat identified with another maiden goddess, Persephone (Kore). With this coin, the merging of these elements is complete: whereas seaweed once wreathed the nymph’s hair, here Kore is crowned with grain in homage to Sicily’s fame as the breadbasket of the Mediterranean (Kore’s mother/double is Demeter, goddess of grain and all the fruits of the earth). To ensure that the metamorphosis is recognized, Kore’s name is spelled out on the coin. On the reverse a winged Victory crowns a trophy of armor advertising Agathokles’ military success.”

- from the Art Museum Image Consortium

renkris: Mythology design - Persephone by *Fluorescence911

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:30:34 -0700

renkris:

Mythology design - Persephone by *Fluorescence911

sherly-sherry: Greek Mythology Persephone

Tue, 07 May 2013 15:30:25 -0700

sherly-sherry:

Greek Mythology

Persephone

katehughesart: Tried drawing the two main characters from...

Mon, 06 May 2013 15:30:38 -0700

katehughesart:

Tried drawing the two main characters from Disney’s 1934 short “The Goddess of Spring” in a more modern, Glen Keane inspired Disney style.

_{Though the Devil {he’s technically supposed to be Pluto/Hades but… yeeeah he’s pretty much just plain ol’ Satan in this short} came out looking like Christian Bale with a beard… I don’t know what that says about me.}

sbaratheon: it is not so dreadful here. [x]

Sun, 05 May 2013 15:30:29 -0700

sbaratheon:

it is not so dreadful here.

[x]