Still she wished for company.

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 #Hades this is #This is not subtle

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edencomplex:

Persephone turning Ascalaphus into an Owl 

Son of Acheron (the river of pain) and Orphne (an underworld nymph), Askalaphos was the orchardist of Hades. He told the other gods that Persephone had eaten a pomegranate in Hades.

He was punished by being changed into an owl. After being transformed into a screech owl, he became the familiar bird of Hades, King of the Underworld.

OMFG I WAS WONDERING WHY THIS WAS GETTING SO MANY NOTES

captainjinglesthecat:

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GIVE. ME. fhfhgdf.

OH MY GAWD BABY CHIMERA

Baby mythological monster blogging

That’s adorable.

Cutie. Pie.

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I dig this for a couple of reasons.

First, it’s got great style.

Perhaps more interestingly though, is that it’s a very different tone as far as the direction of aggression. Most people know the Clash of the Titans version where she’s  on the hunt for him once he shows up. But let’s face it, Medusa really gets the shaft from destiny overall. She starts out as a priestess in a temple who gets raped by Poseidon and gets cursed for it as if it was all her fault. The result is that she’s basically doomed to live without human contact for eternity. Then she’s hunted down specifically for her head by a demigod whose got all sorts of great toys and backing to get the job done and depicted as some sort of horrible monster for defending her turf from folks out to kill her.

There are some really interesting theories about regarding just what the whole ‘gorgon’ thing was really about from a historical perspective. It’s really quite a tragic tale about the rise of patriarchy and the purge of goddess-centric worshipers. There are also parallels to the Apollo versus Typhon story which is part of the same era. Harsh.

See, even the demystified stories from ancient times are fascinating!

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Medusa by *MattRhodes

Reblogging for commentary. 

I wish there were more nuanced portrayals of Medusa than as just a scary, snake lady.

Not to mention all this shit went down while she was pregnant with twins, the Pegasus and the giant Chrysaor, as a result from the rape. Perseus would mount Pegasus, and use him and Medusa’s head to kill a sea monster, thus winning him a wife, Andromeda. Medusa was cursed by the very goddess she served, Athena, who also gave Perseus the mirrored shield he used to slay her. Raped, betrayed by her god, hunted down like a beast in her own home while she was pregnant, her own children stolen from her and used to glorify and aide her killers and betrayers. And she’s supposed to be the monster?

((*reasons Dio doesn’t like ‘heroes’*))

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LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT MY FAVORITE MYTHOLOGICAL MONSTERS. I have many of them, but this one is extra-great.

The Nuckelavee is a vile, blight-bearing sea monster hailing from the Orkney Islands of Scotland. It doesn’t actually have any sea creature parts (like, y’know, gills or fins) because it doesn’t give a shit. You know what it is instead? A goddamn faerie demon centaur. It lives in the sea just because it WANTS TO, that’s why.

It also totally breaks centaur rules by having its torso fused into the back of the horse body. Like, the ENTIRE horse body. It actually has two heads, the humanoid one and the horse one, and they are both terrifying. The Nuckelavee’s horse head has only one huge, burning eye, and those horrible horse teeth (which are pretty terrible on a normal horse, as it is). And also the whole monster is completely bloody and flayed skinless! Just an oozing, pulsing mass of muscles and black veins, oh boy.

BUT WAIT, THERE’S MORE! Did you know:

• The Nuckelavee sends horses into frothing, deadly fits of fever just because it hates them! Sometimes it does this to cows also because close enough.
• It breathes pestilence and decay upon the land!
• It also hates the smell of burning seaweed. Beach bonfires are a sure-fire way to send it on a brutal rampage!
• It’s totally invisible in the water, so you’ll never see it writhing towards you until it’s too late!
• The only things that can stop it are wizards and running water. That’s it.

You can’t tell me these guys aren’t the best. You just can’t!

Horse monsters are the best monsters, clearly.

oh my god i love nuckelavees

Hey, hey. Magpie. Magpie look. The horsies want to love you!

*sound of a shotgun chambering a shell*

snowontheradio:

Seraphim (or simply Seraph) are another one of those bizzare-yet-cool types of angel. They are usually associated with fire, hence the blazing corona. And they have six wings, one pair of which covers their face, another pair their feet, and the last set to fly on.

Which always made me wonder why, exactly, they could only properly use two wings. Were they shy? Is that why their faces had to be hidden? Maybe they had bad hair days.

Fortunately, we now have things called ‘masks’ or, in the latter case, ’hats and detangler’. And maybe they could get a nice pair of boots and not worry about the whole cover-your-feet thing (which my guy here seems to have forgotten about). And then those extra wings could be used for, y’know, flying, like they were intended.