Akalle

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mudwerks:

Wonder Woman Enters the Atom Universe (by paul.malon)

No. 21, January-February 1947; cover by H.G. Peter. Copyright DC Comics.

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lonelyspelltoconjureyou:

Asteria was the Titan goddess of the oracles and prophecies of night, including prophetic dreams, the reading of the stars and necromancy. She was the mother of the goddess Hekate by Perses.

After the fall of the Titanes, Asteria was pursued by the god Zeus. According to the genuine and more general tradition, she was an inhabitant of Olympus, and beloved by Zeus. In order to escape from his embraces, she got metamorphosed into a quail, threw herself into the sea, and was here metamorphosed into the island Asteria (the island which had fallen from heaven like a star), afterwards called Delos.


source: www.theoi.com // www.mythindex.com

fairy-wren:

european kestrel

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omgthatartifact:

Dagger

Dongson Culture, 500 BC- 300 AD

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

meme4u:

http://memeblock.com/

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lonelyspelltoconjureyou:

Orphic Hymn 53 to Amphietus:
Chthonian Dionysos, hear my prayer, rise vigilant with Nymphai of lovely hair: great Bacchus Amphietos, annual God, who laid asleep in Persephone’s abode, her sacred seat, didst lull to drowsy rest the rites triennial and the sacred feast; which roused again by thee, in graceful ring, thy nurses round thee mystic anthems sing; when briskly dancing with rejoicing powers, thou movest in concert with the circling hours. Come blessed, fruitful, horned, and divine, and on this sacred consecration propitious shine; accept the pious incense and the prayer, and make prolific the holy fruits thy care.


source: www.theoi.com
image: Franz von Stuck

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pamandjapan:

杜 (Mori)

A Mori is any place where a kami is believed to be present, like a sacred forest or a shrine.

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revwarheart:

A foray into old, old New York — New Amsterdam. “Posting the notice which located Wall Street.” (Print from 1908.)

From the archives of the New York Public Library.

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