Zeus: Don't You Have Something To Say To Your Sister?

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

Patroclus: *complaining to Automedon* my boyfriend is so fucking corny he asked me if I knew how to whistle so ofc I pursed my lips to whistle and then he kissed me???? Him and his dumb flirt tactics I love him

Zephyrus, the Wind of the West, pursues the goddess Flora, making her drop her flowers onto the Earth below Date circa 1640.

Nestor after returning to his homeland after the Trojan war

Hello, yes. After a year without uploading and in, what I feel, one of the weirdest ‘fandom’ twists, I’ve gone from obsessing over 80s musicals about anthropomorphic cats and trains to being obsessed with ancient books and plays. What can I say, the duality of man. (not that the cats and trains are fully gone, they never will).

Anyways, this low effort meme I made way to late at night is my application form to my fellow mythology and epic cycle girlies.

Nike: *catwalking with fancy Nike shoes* Hermes: *swinging a fancy Hermès handbag* Aphrodite: *flexing fancy Venus jewelry and lingerie* Artemis: What are they doing? Apollo: Olympus Fashion Show.

Achilles: any cute things to call your partner?

Agamemnon: sugar

Menelaus: honey

Diomedes: flour

Odysseus: egg

Nestor: 1/2lb butter

Antilochus: stir

Briseis: pour into a pan

Patroclus: preheat oven to 350 degrees

Antoine Borel - Thetis immerses son Achilles in water of river Styx, 18th Century.

Zeus to the Olympian Council

Zeus: Our sister Hera is pregnant!

The other gods applaud and cheer.

Zeus: I'm gonna be a dad!

Everyone stops

Hades: I was so sure this had something to do with you being unable to keep it in your pants!

Greek mythology from A to Z:

[B] - Bia (Βία) was a Titan goddess and the personification of force.

Norse mythology from A to Z:

[N] - Nótt - is night personified, one of the first giants, grandmother of Thor.