Norse mythology from A to Z:
[S] - Sjörå a mythical creature of the lake in Swedish folklore. It was a water spirit, comparable to the nymphs of Greek mythology.
Antoine Borel - Thetis immerses son Achilles in water of river Styx, 18th Century.
Greek mythology from A to Z:
[O] - Oizys (Ὀϊζύς) is the goddess of misery, suffering, depression and anxiety.
Antilochus: I’m going to Taco Bell do you want anything?
Achilles: *crying* I just want Patroclus back
Antilochus: Yeah…I only have like…12 dollars…
Something was in that Spartan water 💀
Telemachus: And then, I went to Sparta and met your best friend-
Odysseus: Diomedes was in Sparta?
Telemachus: No, your other best friend.
Odysseus: Agamemnon’s ghost?
Telemachus: No, his brother-
Odysseus: Castor? That’s Agamemnon’s brother in law silly.
Telemachus: No, the person you went to Troy for.
Odysseus: Aw, Helen said we were best friends? That’s sweet.
Telemachus: No, her husband.
Odysseus: I always knew Paris liked me deep-down.
Greek mythology from A to Z:
[D] - Dionysus (Διόνυσος) was the god of fertility and wine, later considered a patron of the arts. He had a dual nature; on one hand, he brought joy and divine ecstasy; or he would bring brutal and blinding rage, thus reflecting the dual nature of wine.
Illustration from 1913 showing Pythagoras teaching a class of women. Many prominent members of his school were women and some modern scholars think that he may have believed that women should be taught philosophy as well as men. (Source)
Many of his associates were reminded by Pythagoras, by most clear and evident indications, of the former life which their soul had lived before it was bound to their present body, and he demonstrated, by indubitable arguments that he had been Euphorbus, the son of Panthus, who conquered Patroclus. He frequently sang the Homeric verses pertaining to himself, to the music of his lyre.
—Iamblichus, The Life of Pythagoras
It will frequently happen that little characteristic actions of a person, such as the way he moves his fingers, will lead the way to karmic connections far sooner than any outstanding activities he may have undertaken and that are from every other aspect of more consequence.
—Rudolf Steiner, Cosmic Christianity and the Impulse of Michael: Lecture V
“Only that man is ripe for understanding the truth concerning immortality, who could also endure it if the opposite were true; if he could bear that the question regarding immortality was answered with a ‘no.’ If a man is himself to bring down (selber ausmachen will) anything from the spiritual world regarding immortality,“ so said the Pythagoreans, "he must not long for immortality; for while there is longing, what he says regarding it is not objective. Opinions regarding the life beyond birth and death if they are to have any value can only come from those who could lie down peacefully in the grave even if there was no immortality.” This was taught in the olden times in the Pythagorean schools when the teacher wished to make his pupils realize how difficult it was to be sufficiently ripe to accept any truth. To be ripe enough to receive a truth and to state it from oneself requires a very special preparation, and must consist in the person being entirely without interest in the said truth.
—Rudolf Steiner, Excursus on the Gospel According to St. Mark
[Zarathustra] was reborn as Zarathas or Nazarathos, and he became the teacher of Pythagoras, who himself was reincarnated as one of the three Wise Men of the East and became one of the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth.
—Rudolf Steiner, The Principle of Spiritual Economy
Norse mythology from A to Z:
[H] - Huldra is a very elusive and seductive creature of the forest.
The huldra is a stunningly beautiful, sometimes naked woman with long hair; though from behind she is hollow like an old tree trunk and has an animal’s tail. In Norway, she has a cow’s tail and in Sweden she may have that of a cow or a fox.
Ares: I may be thousands of years old, but I have the body of a 20 years old boy.
Aphrodite: Then show me, baby.
Ares: *walks towards the freezer*
Norse mythology from A to Z:
[T] - Thor (Old Norse: Þórr) is the god of thunder, the sky, and agriculture.