être dans la lune
to be lost in one’s thoughts, to be absent-minded; lit. to be on the moon
(Source: moonandwomb)
names that have specific meanings
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sorry this is late! classes have been kicking my fucking ass. so i’ll break this list into four sections (greek, norse, celtic, and mesoamerican) and i’m so sorry if this isn’t as organized as you’d like.
greek mythology
Early Greek Myth - 2 Volumes by Timothy Gantz
Structure and History in Greek Mythology and Ritual by Walter Burket
Did the Greeks Believe Their Myths? by Paul Veyne
Women in Greek Myth by Mary Lefkowitz
The Homeric Hymns
The Bacchae translated by Reginald Gibbons
Medea translated by Eleanor Wilner
Metamorphoses by Ovid
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone translated by Robert Fagles
Heroides translated by Harold Isbell
The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles
The Odyssey translated by Robert Faglesnorse mythology
Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by H.R. Ellis Davidson
The Saga of the Volsungs translated by Jesse L. Byock
The Prose Edda translated by Jesse L. Byock
The Poetic Edda translated by Lee M. Hollander
Norse Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs by John Lindow
Dictionary of Northern Mythology by Rudolf Simekceltic mythology
Celtic Myths and Legends by Peter Berresford Ellis
Early Irish Myths and Sagas by Jeffery Gantz
Celtic Myths & Legends by Thomas Rolleston
Celtic Gods and Heroes by Marie-Louise Sjoestedt
Complete Irish Mythology (3 Book Set) by Lady Gregorymesoamerican mythology
Mesoamerican Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Heroes, Rituals, and Beliefs of Mexico and Central America by Kay Almere Read
Aztec and Maya Myths (Legendary Past Series) by Karl Taube
Popol Vuh: The Definitive Edition of The Mayan Book of The Dawn of Life and The Glories of Gods and Kings by Dennis Tedlock (translation)
An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya by Mary Ellen Miller
Gods of Sun and Sacrifice: Aztec & Maya Myth (Myth and Mankind) by Tony Allan (part of a series about all mythologies)this list is short but i’ll further expand on this one day. maybe. good luck with your descent into mythology. try to pace yourself so that you really enjoy the stories!
1. We were in tune like synchronised swimmers.
Now I learn to navigate the oceans on my own.
[delete]
2. I sobbed on public transport yesterday.
I wanted to call you but then remembered
I’m not allowed to.
[delete]
3. The truth is: I know I’m better off
without you, but these memories
keep tricking me.
[delete]
4. You make me feel like a walking cliché.
I need to stop romanticising leaving,
stop comparing your collar bones to
valleys and your freckles to constellations.
[delete]
5. Can you jumpstart my heartbeat again?
I’m running so low on fuel.
[delete]
6. God knows I need to delete your number.
[delete]
7. Please don’t ever contact me again.
[delete]
8. Perhaps we were destined to falter
from the start,
just as Venice is doomed to sink.
[delete]
9. Speaking of Venice,
you should visit while there
is still time.
[delete]
10. You made the words
feel just right. Now they spin
off kilter.
[delete]
11. You had little nicknames for me.
I secretly miss being called moon shell,
tiger, fairy nymph.
[delete]
12. Maybe we were just a collection
of dead ends and false starts.
We should have been disqualified
from the beginning.
[delete]
13. Grief is the same in any language.
I mourn you. I collect flowers and place them
on your grave in the cemetery.
[delete]
14. You are so much more than human.
[delete]
15. Despite all of this, there is some
beautiful solitude in sleeping with
only my heartbeat
for company.
[delete]
this is my
skeleton,
buried in
the grave
of my body.
these
are my bones
are my bones
are my
bones.
please,
i do not want
to see them.
do not dig up
my coffin.
it’s enough
to know
they are
in there,
isn’t it?
explain then:
why am i
always trying
to look
inside?
(Source: adavidajane)
Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock ‘n’ roll records were “pressed” on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter. “They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole,” says author Anya von Bremzen. “You’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan — forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.”
revelation: amen, amen, amen
you repeat to yourself as his body
joins with the Spirit of Christ; no
matter how much you love him, it’s
useless, he’s just a messenger now
congregation: amen, amen, amen
you repeat to yourself as you hear
another one of his sermons; you see
him and yet you barely recognize him,
he’s changed you see, no longer a man
but a toy for the gods to play with
salvation: amen amen amen
you repeat to yourself as you pull
his body from the rubble; he’s dead
and that means his curse is now over,
hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah
“Nico talked to me. He was the first in many years.”
these comics are supposed to be funny wtf(i like to think that this happened sometime during titan’s curse while the protagonist was off doing heroic deeds))
