Greek Mythology From A To Z:

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[H] - Hypnos (Ὕπνος) is the personification of sleep.

Ares trying to parent on the battlefield

Ares: PHOBOS, DEIMOS, STOP TRYING TO ROAST YOUR SANDWICHES VIA THE FIRE BREATHING HORSES. I TOLD YOU TO EAT BEFORE BATTLE OR NOT AT ALL.

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[E] - Eostre, according to the stories, is a goddess associated with flowers and springtime.

Eostre first makes her appearance in literature about thirteen hundred years ago in the Venerable Bede’s Temporum Ratione. Bede tells us that April is known as Eostremonath, and is named for a goddess that the Anglo-Saxons honored in the spring.

Interestingly, Eostre doesn’t appear anywhere in Germanic mythology, and despite assertions that she might be a Norse deity, she doesn’t show up in the poetic or prose Eddas either. However, she could certainly have belonged to some tribal group in the Germanic areas, and her stories may have just been passed along through oral tradition.

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How can I explain to you, my happiness, my golden, wonderful happiness, how much I am all yours – with all my memories, poems, outbursts, inner whirlwinds? Or explain that I cannot write a word without hearing how you will pronounce it – and can’t recall a single trifle I’ve lived through without regret – so sharp! – that we haven’t lived through it together – whether it’s the most, the most personal, intransmissible – or only some sunset or other at the bend of a road – you see what I mean, my happiness?

— Vladimir Nabokov, Letters to Véra

*as kids* Chiron: I just found out that my dad isn't really my dad. Chariclo: Your dad... Apollo the god who doesn't have a drop of horse or centaur blood in him? Chiron: [nods] Chariclo: Chariclo: That must have been quite a shock...

Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl - The Souls of Acheron, 1898 (detail), oil on canvas

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…

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[P] - Persephone (Περσεφόνη) was a dual deity, since, in addition to presiding over the dead, as the daughter of Demeter, she was also a goddess of fertility. The myth of her abduction by Hades was frequently used to explain the cycle of the seasons.