Month: February 2013

worldofmythology:

The Abduction of Ganymede

Ganymede was a Trojan Prince and the most beautiful youth in the world. He was so beautiful that he caught the eye of Zeus, king of gods. Filled with lust, Zeus took the form of an eagle and abducted him from Mount Ida. Unlike most of Zeus’s other conquests, Ganymede actually received divine immortal status as Zeus made him his cup bearer in Mount Olympus.

In the Aeneid, Zeus’s ravishing of Ganymede is cited as one of the reasons that the goddess Hera, Zeus’s wife, hates the Trojans and sides against them in the Trojan War.

Image: The Abduction of Ganymede by Peter Paul Rubens (1612)

Notes:

This is part of the Greek Mythology Tumblr Challenge (Day 6 – Abduction Myth). You can join at any time, heres how.

Check out mythologyrules’s recent post on Ganymede for Platonic theories on the Trojan Prince.

Real magic can never be made by offering someone else’s liver. You must tear out your own, and not expect to get it back.

– Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn (via meowbox)

Yes.

I’ve also heard it said that real magic happens just outside of your comfort zone.

And I agree with that, as well, but I think the key qualification for magic is intent. Within intent, it’s just random fluctuations of the chaosphere. It’s intent that really nails it down into place – and even then, it’s a slippery thing.

(via systemofaclown)

wizardofgrand:

musconetcong:

The vévé for Maman Brigitte.

O Bride you friend of Man! From Ancient Eire you sent your influence out from your well and your hearth, the Land rose up to greet your Power. With the coming of the Nazarene you took Him in as aunt and foster-mother, tending still your well and hearth with the name “Holy”. And you, O Maman, wife of Death, brought with your sisters from Eire to the New World- accepted and loved by the Children of the Enslaved, tending the wells of their spirits and the hearths of their hearts now.

Blessed are you, O Bride!